The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-28
Telegraph Switchboard Burned
Out at st. Petersburg.
ReyoIutfonists Are Suspected OF
Being Responsible.
HE STRIKES A SNAG.
Premier StOlypin Has Trouble
in Securing a Cabinet.
PObedonostsef Has Dominant
Influence Over the Car.

St. Petersburg, July zs.-The switch
board of the Central telegraph station
in st. Petersburg. was burned out To-
day destroying all communication with
the provinces. While there Is sus-
piolon that the accident vas arrans-
ed by revolutionists, no evidence to sup
port Is can be found and the Telegraph
department authorities are apparently
Aaatished with the explanation Of the
employees However, the public is cut
on from telegraph communication with
The interior for some time. but the gov
eminent retains the possibility of com
xnunicating with the provincial authori-
ties over the railroad wires.
Gable communication is not affected
New obstacles have been encountered
by Premier Stolypin in his efforts to
secure the services in a reOrganized cab
met Of men Of standing in Russia out
side Of official life The conditions laid
down by NJ. Guchkoff and Prince LYON
are understood to have been rejected
and they have definitely refused to en-
ter the ministry. This presages the
practical shipWFeck of the entire scheme
since without the participation ne
nOnbursaucracy elements it would be
difficult to convince even the cOnserVa-
tives and the liberals Of the sincerity Of
the governments promises.
Meanwhile. NJ. Stolypin is energeti-
cally and continually trying to persuade
the country that his policy of strong
handed reform" does not involve reac
tiOn. He has announced in the pro-
Ninces that the pale" win be granted
to zemstVo institutions and denied that
the government intends to interfere
with the legal electoral campaigns or
the various parties, in virtue of which
he has authorized the holding of a ma
tiOnal congress of constitutional Demo-
Gratis at Moscow. He has instructed the
police of St Petersburg not to interfere
with the Jewish members of the outlaw
ed parliament who. under the law,
when they ceased to enjoy the immuni-
ty entailed by their membership of par
lament forfeited the right to remain in
the capital more than "A hours.
such half way deeds of liberalism,
however. are scorned BY the Reich
which today says that the situation is
not different from what it was under
Count Witte when the latter as premier /
was "flliug the world with liberal de- (
clarauons, while his wicked partner !
Durnovo, was putting on the screws
again
The Reich adds:
we hear the voice Of Jacob but we
feel the hand of Esau."
Five additional members of the coun-
Gil of the empire. NM. ShishOff. Yer
kowslSy. Lappodaniievsky, Berelishfne
and Vernadsky, have formally resign
ed They have signed an open letter
setting forth that the retention of their
mandates would be equivalent to &C
quiescing i'm the dissolution of parlia-
crat regime. enabling it to pass the
budget Of 1907, without the approval of
the representatives of the people.
The Reich says that in spite Of his
advanced age, NJ. Pobedonostseff for
merly procurator general of the holy
synod. has the dominant influence over
the emperor.
Fight With scythes.
Proskuroff. Russia July 2S.-Near
the village of Chernipoff a detachment
tators were met by crowd Of peas
ants armed with scythes. rakes and
pitchforks. In the fighting which fol-
lowed five peasants were killed and
twelve DRAGONS were wounded, three
OF them fatally
Houses Marked With Crosses.
Aazan Russia, July 2s=The Black
Hundreds here are terrorizing the in
teiligenta and Jews with threats Of
an uprising. Many houses have been
marked with crosses and the Jews are
seeking safety in flight
Fined for Carrying a Gun
ST. Petersburg July 2S-M Sede1-
nixon. the radical Cossack fren1be Of
the outlawed lower house Of Darlfa-
lnent. VINO was arrested and heater
while III the hands Of the police T1Iv
which caused a stormy scene in, ~
house the next day was TODAY fned
sou Tor carrying revolver which
was found on him when arrested.
Passenger Train Attacked.
Warsaw July 2S=sA passenger
train carrying government money
which was guarded by detachment
Of soldiers and gendarmes vas 81
ttacked today between Zzenstocb,1s,
and Herhy by q numerous we'll a,r,e5
body Lively firing ensued. dl,ring
when Two gendarmes four soldiers
ahp Two civil employees We're killed
and others of the guards were v-o,rd
ed The attacking party carried ofr
$4,000 and the arms Of the defenders
OF the traln- It probably was the ss,,a
band which captured train on
Lnursaay announcing that the revo-
The countryside is said to he in a
1erment and sympathizing with The
guerrilla bands. The small force 90
troops operating in the district viii he
reinforced.
encouragement From Rome.
Rome, July 2S-Tba noen,he,...
the chamber of deputies BELONGING In
the extreme left party today drafted
vigorous address to the members If
me ulssoiNed RUSSIAN parliament. en-
couraging them in their noble f7ebt
for the holy cause of liberty ana 3i,s
redemption of their countrvv ana go
ing that as they are backed ~ ~.
sympathy and solidarity of the 1,bois
SiNlil1eq w0fie tnelr eventual triumph
is absolutely assured -
Ukase VIII BE Read to TrooDs
St Petersburg, July 2S.-The ukass
providing Tor the dissolution of ,li-
ment has been ordered to be rAad ~
fore the troops Of all the garrisons in
Russia. go
Yesterdays Improvement on the
bourse here was not sustained TODAY.
food Of offerings on the advance -
suited in reaction in the whole list
but prices at the close were firm. I'M
perial tours closed at 1913 and fves
It SAX.