Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1905 — DOZENS DIE IN WARSAW. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DOZENS DIE IN WARSAW.

Many Alio Wounded ia Clashes Between Troops and Workmen. Thirty-one persons -were killed and many were wounded in a conflict at Warsaw. Russian Poland, between troops and workmen at Zelazna and Jeroschinska streets. A procession of workmen carrying red flags was stopped by cavalry and infantry. The cavalry charged and the infantry fired a volley. Fifteen of the wounded were removed to the hospital, but many others were taken to their homes. Another collision between soldiers and workmen is reported to hare taken place at the corner of Zlote and Sosnowa streets. A military patrol fired on a crowd and killed or wounded twenty persons. According to the custom in Russia Easter Sunday and the days immediately succeeding are given up to feasting and rejoicing. The use of liquor is freely indulged in. especially among the lower classes, and drunkenness is common everywhere. Agitators afid anarchists take advantage of this condition of affairs to inflame the minds of the people, to incite disorder and to cause uprisings. Even in ordinary times the police and military have difficulty in maintaining the peace. On account of the intense feeling aroused by the massacres attendant upon the strikes in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw and the other industrial centers in Russia in January last and the sending of conscripts to the war in the far East the Easter holidays this year were looked forward to with great apprehension by the authorities and extensive preparations made to quell disturbances. According to the Russian calendar Easter Sunday fell on April 30 this year. Easter Sunday in Russia brought a rescript from the Emperor of far greater importance than the absence of disorder, a rescript granting religious freedom throughout the empire. The ukase will benefit 30,000,000 believers in the old faith, 12,000,000 non-conformists, and

about 40,000,000 of alien faith, including Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Protestants, Mohammedans and Buddhists. Logically the ukase involves a complete reversal of Russian policy of seeking national unity in conquered provinces by compelling religious unity.

VIEW OF KANGRA VALLEY, WHERE THE EARTH QUAKED.