Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1905 — SITUATION [?] RUSSIA [ARTICLE]

SITUATION [?] RUSSIA

game Old Story of ta ,ng i’casants and Generul Disorder—Mutiny on a Battleship. London. Dec. 15. —The only Russian news tLat Is later than Wednesday comes from Colombo, Ceylon, where 100 Russians aboard the battleship Czarevitch mutinied and were arrested by troops sent from shore. The news from the Baltic provinces, and from Bt. Petersburg, is all of Dec. 13, and tells of general uprising of the peasants in the vicinity of Riga and Venden, and all over Courland. It is reported that the sailors on board the .commercial vessels In harbor 1 at Riga have also joined the strike. The situation at Riga Is that of a reign of terror, with continued attacks by the peasants and murder of landlords. At St. Petersburg tbetelegraph strikers control. They cut telegraph lines as fast as they are repaired from the last cutting. The emperor stands stanchly by de Witte, and a wellknown writer, M. Menshlkoff, is urging an aggressive campaign against the malcontents. The latest class at St. Petersburg to organize Is tire chimney sweeps. They have decided that It will be Impossible for them to work without the promulgation of a constitution, A constant stream of reports is coming in to the effect that the military, principally the sapper and engineer battalions and the fortress'artlllery are formulating demands for better food and clothing and more humane treatment at the hands of their officers. Read The Democrat for news.