New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-03-27
REIGN OF TERROR
rules ROUhANA
TOWNS OF vERPoLE AND PUDEs.
II DEVASTATED BY ENRAGED
PEASANTS.
MANY ARE KILLED IN
CLASHES WITH TROOPS

Rioters Formed Into Regiments, Plum.
dering Small Villages Govern
rnent Calls Uprising Anarchistic
and Not Anti-Semitic.
Vienna, March 25.-According to a |
telegram received here from Czerno.
witt, on the Roumanian border, YER
pole and Pudesti have been captured
by peasants, who took the places by
assault and pillaged. and devastated
them. The attack on Misaileni con.
tinues, the peasants persistently as,
saulting the town. The troops have
thus far been unable to drive back the
peasants and many have been killed
or wounded on both sides.
Attack Jewish Women and Children.
a letter has reached the Israelite
alliance from Poduilaeli, Roumania,
stating that every Jewish building
there has been destroyed and that a
great many Jews and their wives and
children have been injured. The peas.
ants who attacked the place were in
cited by speeches delivered by teach
:er-, belonging to one ! of the public
schools, who. urged the expulsion of
all Jews from the farms and resi-.
dences occupied by Jewish tenants.
Cacona, Bosia and Paprikani, Rou-
mania, are reported to have been com
pletely destroyed by band Of 2 900
peasants. Only buildings where the
inhabitants placed crucifxes between
lighted candles in the windows were
spared.
.s. Rioters Form in Regiments.
Bucharest, March 25.-The Rou-
manian government asserts that the
agrarian disturbances have been
quelled in the districts into which it
has been able to get sufficient troops.
A regiment of cavalry left here Satur-
day for the Bacau and Vaslui districts.
In the @Bacau, Vaslui and Roman dis
'tricts the peasants are we'll organized.
Most of them have served in the army
and they have formed themselves into
companies and, regiments under Off
GERS and are plundering small towns
and villages; wherever there are insult
f1ciency of troops to overawe them,
without distinction as to nationality.
In several instances the farmers and
landowners have, yielded to- the de-
mands' Of the peasants and the raids
have ceased.
In the attack made by the peasants
on troops at Blegesti in the Bacau dis
trict, which resulted in IA of the at
tackers being killed, the peasants
seized Col. Potter, who was in com
mand of the troops, and locked him up
in the house of the public prosecutor,
which they were preparing to burn
when the troops dispersed them.
Many Killed at MisaiIeni.
A serious encounter between troops
and peasants has occurred at the small
town of Misaileni, 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
ouncement made by the government
that bill against farming trusts will
be submitted to parliament during the
present session.
According to the latest advices re-
ceived here the movement is spread
ing southwark. Bands of peasants in
the Brahilov and Bureau districts,
mostly armed with cudgels, are ma
rauding over the farms, threatening
the proprietors with death unless they
ameliorate the conditions of work
Calls Movement Anarchistic.
In the opinion of the government
the rising Of the peasants in Moldavia
is more of an anarchistic character
than anti-Semitic. In reply to requests
for statement on the subject Finance
Minister Ionescu wrote the following
note:
THE present regrettable movement
is not only of an anti-Semitic, but also
of an agrarian and anarchistic charac-
ter. The houses of Christians, both
owners and tenants, have been de-
stroyed. The government has taken
all the possible measures to cope with
the movement, which must now be re
5dluOu 1AO1O uS OIL dudlCulSI lC CALL
|paign than anything else
King Charles Saturday refused to re-
ceive in audience delegation of stu
dents from Jassys university, who de-
sired to urge him to support the peas
ants in the present movement. The
delegates, sincensed at his majesty's re-
Efusal, issued several pamphlets, incit-
ing the population to assist the revolt
ed peasantry. These are now being
widely distributed in Bucharest.
Peasants Ferment in Bessarabia.
Kishinev, Russia, March 25.-The
agrarian disorders in Roumania have
melted a sympathetic movement on
the Bessarabian side of the Pruth.
The peasantry are in a ferment every
where and the villagers of Mindger
have taken possession of priyatej
estate A detachment of Coccanlve hos