Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1906 — JEWS ARE IN A PANIC [ARTICLE]

JEWS ARE IN A PANIC

They Fear Another Bialystok at a City Only Sixty Miles from That Place. SIGNIFICANCE IN SIMILARITY Outbreak Has Occurred and Is Laid to Hebrews—Will the Long Reign of Terror Follow? St. Petersburg, Aug. 24. —The Russian government has definitely decided to proceed with its original plan of settling the agrarian question by the distribution of land, regardless of parliament, and to go to the country upon the issue at the coming elections. St. Petersburg, Aug. 24. —There is great alarm in Jewish circles in Russia over developments at Siedlce, Poland, where events seem to be shaping up for the outbreak of a “pogrom” similar to that at Bialystok. The developments parallele almost exactly the preliminaries) of the Bialystok massacre. A long series of revolutionary •nd terroristic signs has been attributed by the police to the Jews, culminating—as was the case of Bialystok in the assassination of the chief of police, Goltseff. The funeral of Goltseff yesterday was the occasion of a great demonstration by the Russian population. The condition of feeling is shown by the refusal of Goltseff’s widow to receive a wreath sent by a Jewish society as a mark of its disapproval of the assassination. Very Much Like Bialystok. A similar incident occurred at Bialystok. It now develops that after the explosion of a bomb in a street of 'the Hebrew quarter, which, according to the official explanation, was accompanied by revolver firing from fqur Jewish houses, the troops opened a general fusillade in which seven Jews and one Christian were killed and many wounded. Thirty-three Jews were arrested on the spot on suspicion of com u plicity in the bomb throwing and firing. The Jews in a panic are now fleeing from the city. Siedloe is In the province of the same name, which adjoins the province of Grodno, in which Bialystok is located, and the two cities are about sixty miles apart. Peasantry Goes on the Rampage. Aside from the province of Stavropol the northern Caucasus agrarian situation is now more serious in the provinces of Poltava and Vladimir, where the peasantry is indulging in the customary pillaging and destruction of estates and Incendiarism, employing for the latter purpose phosphorous, with which they have been supplied by the revolutionary organizations. Premier Stolypin has sent a circular to all governors ordering them to employ the most energetic measures to prevent the peasantry from taking possession of private estates, to which they are being incited by the revolutionists. “Red” One Has Nerve. The manager of the Odessa branch of the New York Life Insurance company has received a letter demanding a contribution of SIO,OOO to the revolutionary cause and threatening him with death if he refuses. Instead of paying the money the manager notified tbepoiieeand informed Governor Kaulbars that be demanded protection, • which was furnished.