The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-23
TAKE TWO TOWNS
MOldavian Peasants Win Vic.
tories Over the Troops.
Places Are Captured by Assault
and PilIaged.
NJ ANY CASUALTIES
CASUALTIES
Fierce Attack Is Being Made on
Another City.
Three Other VilIages. Reported
Completely Destroyed.

Vienna, March 23.--According to a
telegram received here TODAY from
Czserowitz, on the Roumanian border.
VerpoIe and Pudesti have been cap
| tured by peasants who took the places
py assault and pillaged and devastated
then. The attack on Misaileni Rou-
mania, continues, the peasants persist
entity assaulting the town. The troons
nave thus far been unable to drive back
, me peasants and many have been
kll!eo or wounded on both sides
A letter has reached the Israelite
Aluance from Poduilaeli. Roumania,
sLatlng that every Jewish building
mere mas been destroyed and that a
sreaI many Jews and their wives and
children have been injured. The peas
anus VINO attacked the place were incit
ed oy speeches delivered by teacher
belonging to one of the public schools.
Mno urged the expulsion of all Jews
from the farms and residences -occrI-
pied by Jewish tenants
Cacona, Bosia and Paprikanf. Rou-
mama, are reported to have been com
pleteIy destroyed by band of two
where the inhabitants placed crucifixes
between lighted candles in the win
doWs We're spared.
Rising Is Anarchistic.
Bucharest, Roumania. March "a
IN me opinion of the Roumanian gov
lr-
MoIdavia is more of an ar1archistfc
character than anti-semitic In replv
70 requests for a statement on the sub
Jece eooay FINANCE Minister Ionescu
wrote the following note:
The present regrettable movement
IS not only of an anti-semitic but also
or an agrarian and anarchistic char
aeler: me houses of christians. both
stFoyed. The government has taken all
the possible measures to cope with the
movement. which must now. be regard
81 more as an anarchistic campaign
According to the latest advicesa re-
celVed mere the movement is spread.
ing southwark. Bands. of peasants i'm z
the BrahilOv and Buzu districts most
ly armed with cudgels. are naraudina
over the farms, threatening the pro
prtetors with death unless they amek
lerate7 thel conditions of workmen.
Ihe government claims that the dis
turbances have been quelled in the dis
tFicts into which it has been able to
get sufhc1ent troops. regiment of
cavalry left here today for the Backau
and Vaslu districts
In the Backau; .vaslu and Roman
ganized.
Most Of them have served in the
army and they have formed them.
selves into companies and regiments
under officers and are plundering small
towns and villages, wherever there is
an insufficient number of troops to
overawe them, without distinction as
to nationality. In several instances
the farmers and land owners have
yielded to the demands of the peas
ants and the raids have ceased.
In the attack made by the peasants
on troops at Blegesti, in the Backau
district which resulted in IA of the
attackers being killed, the peasants
seized Colonel Poltzer. who was in
command of the troops and locked
him UP in the house of the public
which they were preparing
to burn when the troops dispersed
them serious encounter between
troops and peasants has occurred at
the small town of Mizaleni near the
Bukovina frontier in the district of
Dorohoi. Many peasants were killed
during the fighting.
The disturbed sections of the coun-
Try have been placarded with an an
nouncement made by the government
that bill against farming trusts will
be submitted to parliament during the
present session.
King Wouldn't Listen.
Bucharest. March 23.-Kins
Charles today refused to receive in
audience a delegation of students
rom Jassy university who desired to
urge him to support the peasants in
he present movement. The delegates
ncensed at his majesty's refusal, is
sued several pamphlets melting the
population to assist the revolted peas
lntry. These are now being widely
distributed in Bucharest.
"A sympathetic Movement. -
Nizhniy. Russia, March 23.-The
grarian disorders in Roumania have
melted a sympathetic movement on
he BesSarabian side of the Pruth. The
oeasantry are in a ferment everywhere
and the villagers of Mindger have
aiken possession of private estate.
\ detachment of cossacks has been
;ent there.