The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17

pecially true of the tax on railroad tickets. which have proved a great dis appointment. The railroad budget alone shows deficit of more than for ty million marks.
 It is almost certain that heavy tax will be put upon alcohol and cigars. It is even considered to make the produc- tion of alcohol government monopo- ly which would give increase of gov ernment revenues Of at least seventy ave million marks year.
 The Emperor's Dentist.
 Although the Supreme Court of the German Empire has decided that no American d&htist is to be allowed to practice his profession in Germany un- less he has passed the regular German examination for dentists after attend ing German dental college. for two years. the Kaisor has taken no steps to change his dentist, whose po- sition for years has been filled by an American. who does not fulfilI the con- ditions Imposed by. the court.
 Curiously enough the American dent list was called to the Kaiser and spent more than an hour chattlpg with il,ru on the very day the decision had esau rendered.
 A Russfan-Turkish War.
 4 rumor comes from St. Petersburg that 6 party of reactionartes at court are trying to bring about war with Turkey, in the hope that victories abroad might put an end to the unrest at home and make the present regiius popular.
 Whether this rumor be true or not. ft Is fact that there is considera ble friction between the Czar's Ambassasa pr a Con a mt n nl Ffy,.w wss srnment.
 For weeks the Russian Ambassador Sinowjen has made certain proposals concerning the Persian question to thr Turkish Grand vfzier but no attention has been paid him beyond the rather undiplomatic reply given him the other day. that Turkey was better informed as to what is going on in Persia than is Russia.
 The Czar seems to think that the frie- tion is due to a less important post, but the will of the 'autocrat" does not car. ry much weight in Russia nowadays.
 Convicts Slaughtered.
 While on their way to exile between Tobolsk and Tiumen in Siberia. twen. ty-two convicts were last month slaughtered by their guards. Details of this massacre have only just reach ed St. Petersburg.
 The convicts. led by a man named Neu. plotted to attack their guards by night at a village named Kutarbitka, shoot them with the captured rifles, and flee into the forest.
 On the night of the attack. half the soldiers were drunk. Only one was left to guard the door of the big room where the convicts were supposed to be asleep. Neu knocked him insensible with the chains on his wrists. His room, seized four rifles, and began a fusilade. Six soldiers were wounded. Those who remained whole returned the convicts fire, felling three. The con- victs were about to fee when one Of the drunken soldiers came suf1iciently to his senses to lock the ward gate
 The surviving attackers were imme- diately seized. The soldiers beat and them to death. and threat ened to kill their own sergeant who tried to dissaude them.
 The convicts who were not in the plat had remained quietly in their room nearing the shooting eleven took to their heels and got away safely. Thei remaining nine. too exhausted to -aee.4 passive. The infuriated sol. diers, having disposed of the attackers, burst into the room. and massacred eight.
 The last victim. a boy of thirteen. went on his knees and prayed for mer- ry, but the soldiers, after promising to spare him. dragged him through the blood of his comrades to the upper long on a spiked fence.