Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1906 — SITUATION IN RUSSIA [ARTICLE]

SITUATION IN RUSSIA

Government Confident and Reds Quiescent for the Time—Deeds of Blood Done. St. Petersburg, Jan. 10.—The success wjileh thus far has attended the campaign against the violent revolutionists has plainly encouraged the government to believe that the worst is over for the winter, except in the Baltic provinces. the Caucasus and the Don region, where the prevailing anarchy is likely to continue indefinitely. The socialists and revolutionists stoutly maintain that the present lull is only a truce over the holidays, and from mysterious hiding places the leaders continue issuing orders to refuse all compromise with Imperialism, to boycott the national assembly and to prepare for a great armed insurrection. Some of the things that are occurring are as follows: In towns and villages near Mitau the # reds have set up governments, in which preaching damnation is forbidden and only civil marriages are legal. Martial law lias been declared all over south Russia on the Black sea and Sea of Azov. At Novominsk, Poland, Prefect luanutskevlch was assassinated while he was driving in a sleigh from the railroad station. Ills little daughter who was sitting by his side was wounded. At Opatoff. Poland, a lieutenant or poliee was killed and two policemen wounded. Tlie situation in the Caucasus la reported worse than ever.