Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1905 — PANIC BULES RUSSIA, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PANIC BULES RUSSIA,

GENERAL STRIKE LAUNCHED AND WORST IS EXPECTED. Traffic Is Paralyzed and Armed Revolt Spreads—Burning Palaces Light Shores of Baltic for Forty Miles—Mutineers Burned. The gloom which has settled over Russia is the deepest the country has ever known, and the outlook the most desperate. The palaces of the nobility .are blazing from St. Petersburg to Odessa, and the mutilated bodies of the partisans of the Emperor fill the ditches of country roads and the gutters of the streets of the rebellious cities. Nobles who have been able to escape the vengeance of the peasants in the country and the proletariat in the town are fleeing to the frontiers, leaving memorial halls and wide estates as loot for the now fully aroused people. The memory of centuries of oppression seems to stir the masses to massacres of the most revolting cruelty. Believing that each blow struck the nobility reaches the despotic government, the peasants are striking deep and sure. On all the snowy reaches around Riga nobles have been slain by scores, their bodies thrown to the vultures, and their ancient castles made scenes of orgies of drunken peasants. The lands of the richest estates are divided among the men who drive away or kill the former owner.

Sailors on the Baltic Sea declare that the coast of Livonia for forty miles north of Riga is lit with the flames of burning estates. In Riga hotels down to the meanest lodginghouses are crowded with persons who bear the highest names in Russia, who have been glad to escape from the infuriated mobs with their lives, leaving all their property in the hands of the revolutionists. From all other portions of the unhappy empire come reports as awful. Wherever the flag of revolution is reared even the soldiers sworn to serve the Czar flock around it. In Vladivostok the most terrible cruelties are being perpetrated alternately by the loyalists and the mutineers, whichever has the upper hand at the time. Three times has the city of Takum, in Courland, changed hands, each time after a desperately fought battle between the troops and the newly formed provisional government. St. PeferHburgr Strike Starts. The general strike started in St. Petersburg very tamely. In the center of the citj- the shops were not closed, the proprietors having received guarantees that if they remained open they would be given ample protection and that any deputation of strikers

Keeking by threats or force to compel the closing of the shops would be Instantly arrested. There was, however, an impressive demonstration in the industrial sections. The main Interest in the strike of the railroad men centered In the Warsaw station, where the government was to make a test of its ability by inojing u train fdr Berlin. The depot was packed with troops. There was a wild hurrah, accompanied by a rdnr of escaping steam, and a few minutes later the railroad men walked Out of the yards lu a body; . The authorities, however, were prepared and after a delay of ten minutes a locomotive manned by soldiers of a railroad bat niton backed into the station and was coupled to the waiting train, which was crowded with people seeking to depart from the unhappy country. Lines of soldiers with fixed bayonets flunked the and an official with four soldiers entered the carriages and thoroughly searched them in order to ascertain if suspi* clous persons were on board.

In the manufacturing districts beyond the Warsaw and Narva gates, in the Schlusselburg district, and in the sections on both sides of the Neva the workmen generally obeyed the summons to strike and thousands of them emerged to the streets. Blow Up a Train. Twenty-four railway cars were demolished and all the soldiers in them were killed or badly injured when rebels blew up a train with troops sent to quell the rebellion in Livonia, near Stockmannskof, a railway station. The rebels also wrecked with dynamite one or two trains sent to give assistance. General Andronikoff and many soldiers were killed. A rumor is in circulation that the insurgents in Courtland have seized Windau, Friedrichstadt, Pratzenburg, Holdingen and other places, and that a popular tribunal at Kopenhouzak has executed several officials. Burn 900 to Death. Nine hundred mutineers have been roasted to death in a barracks at

Tomsk. Mutiny and rioting are spreading in the Manchurian army, and terrible scenes are being witnessed daily. A reward of $5,000 has been offered for the capture of the burglars who shot and killed Michael Brew, n night watchman in the employ of merchants in Beaver Falls, Pa. Watchman’Brew endeavored to intercept four men who were robbing a drug store and was killed. The two divisions of the imperial Chinese commissions appointed to study the governments of the world powers will arrive in America in February. Chicago’s municipal government will be studied. Henry Labouchere, the well-known London editor and liberal member of parliament for Northampton, will not be a candidate for re-election to parliament at the coming elections on account of advancing age. He first entered parliament forty years ago. By an explosion of dynamite in .the thawing house of the War Eagle and Center Star mines at Rossland, B. C., John S. Ingrain was killed and several others were seriously hurt. A substation of the electric light plant wag wrecked and the town was In darkness.

RUSSIAN STRIKERS HOLDING UP A TRAIN.

Map Showing Russian Districts in Revolt and Cities Where Clashes with Loyal Troops Resulted in Bloodshed.