Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-04-05
GRAPE SHOT ROUT
SCYTHE HORDES.
FIELD GUNS OF RoUMANIA TURNED
ON PEASANT MEN AND WON
EN- IN BATTLE.
WHOLE FAMILIES WIPED OUT,
Insurgents in Several Instances Surren-
der and Cause Arrest of "Gener-
ais" Teachers and Priests.

BUCHAREST, March 2O.-FiaId
guns loaded with grape shot, according
to official reports, are winning against
the revolutionary peasanty, whose arms
are mostly hay forks and scythe blades.
The insurgents were able to hold their
own against the troops at close quar-
ters and even withstood cavalry charges,
dong terrible execution with long
pronged forks and scythe blades strapped
/ to long poles, but the slaughter since the
troops used artillery appears to be terri
lying them into submission.
Turn on Their Generals"
In the district of VIashica. where the
outbreak was particularly serious. large
numbers OF Insurgents have surrendered
and have denounced their leaders to the
authorities, so that many of the latter
have been arrested. The government
hopes that with the leaders in jail the
undlSciplined bands will soon abandon
the field.
The self-styled generals" usually turn
out 10 be country school masters and vii
lage priests. Many women are fighting
IN the lnsurgent ranks and some of them
have been found among the killed. side
by side with their husbands, sons and
brothers.
Details of the attack made by the peas
ants on Galatz show that pitched bat
tie was fought The Insurgents, who
were several thousand strong, com
menced the assault at midnight carried
the outer earth works by storm and cap
tured a suburb. which they set on fire.
after pillaging it.
Three battaliOns of infantry attempted
to stem the peasants entry into the city
itself; but the fork and scythc armed
rushCs fought desperately hand to hand,
and had almost routed the troops, when
the governor ordered field guns, loaded
with grape shot, to be fired. The insur-
gents wavered and then fled. The fire of
the guns wrought great havoc on the
rGtTeatlng masses.
Many Other Conflicts.
a number of conflicts between troops
and maraudeTs continue to be reported.
Two thousand insurgents at Corr are
said to have been quoted by the assur-
ances of the authorities without force;
$50 more rioters have been wounded at
Baileschtchi and several of them killed
and many arrested; artillery was used
atCucuesti, Naloetete, and elsewhere, and
in some instances whole villages are said
to have been utterly destroyed by the
fire of 9-inch shells
Although the disorders are dying down
in some districts the agitation is spread
ing in the provinces adjacent to the
Carpathian mountains which hitherto
had been quiet Much plundcring and
incendiarism has taken :pace. Troops
are pursuing the maraudcrs.
With the object Of preventing so far
as possible the determination of troops
and peasants belonging to the same dis
tricts, and also the possibility of fight
ing between relatives belonging to the
opposing forces in the revolutionary dis
tricts. the AIoldavian troops belonging to
the Fourth army corps, have been trans
ferred to Little WallaChia, While the
Wallachian troops attached to the First
army corps have been detailed for duty
in MOldavia.
U. S. Can't Help Jews.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March so
Secretary of State Root has received Il
number of appeals from Jewish 0rgani-
cations in this country for the exercise
of god offices by this government for
the protection Of the Jews in Roumania.
So far the secretary has been unable
to see how he could make any repre-
sensations on the subject with benefit 10
the distressed people, in view Of the fact
that the uprising of the pCasantry APP
pears to be political and directed against
the throne, which is doing everything
possible to stop the disorders.