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Washington County News Wednesday, January 18. Is s u e d B a c h W e e k The house today adopte<l the 12 arti cles of impeachment against Judge FOREST GROVE.......... OREGON Charles Swayne. The speaker was au thorized to appoint members to present the case to the senate and conduct the iuqiearhiiient proceedings before that body. Senator Stone occupied considerable time with his spetih asking an investi gation of the campaigns of 1895 and 1904. Clay spoke in opposition to the statehood bill. He had no objection to the consolidation of Oklahoma A Resume o f the Less Important but and Indian Territory. Not Less Interesting Events Thursday, January 19. o f the Past Week. NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. The Russian strike has spread to nearly every town of importance in the empire. The Rogers Locomotive works, at Paterson, N. J., have l>een sold to the American Locomotive company. Meetings throughout Germany de nounced the coal mine owners, hut they refuse to yield to the strikers. Father lio|s)ii, leader of the St. Petersburg strikers, has issued a proc lamation absolving soldiers from oaths of allegiance to the czar. The hills providing dental surgeons for the navy and to increase the effi ciency of the navy hospital corps will lie reported favorably to the house. The house of representatives today «■ompieted consideration of the army appropriation bill and w ill vote on it tomorrow. A vigorous attack was made on the army transport service by Humphrey and offered an amend ment alxdisliing it. The house fixed Friday, February 17, as the date for holding appropriate exercises in Stat uary hall accepting the statue of Fran ces E. W illard. A bill was passed ex tending the extradition laws of the United States to the Philippines. Consideration of the statehoo«l hill was continued in the senate tixlay and Stone spoke for two hours in opposition to it. The hill for the remuneration of American fur sealers who sufferd losses lH*cause of their suppresssion, was also debated at some length, hut no action was taken. 1?. J. Yoakum, a director of the Rock Island road, has Isnight the Colorado Friday, Jan. 20. Springs A Cripple Creek district rail The stutehiKHl hill and the fur seal road, which runs between Colorado indemnity hill again divided the atten Springs and Cripple Creek. tion of the senate tixlay, and both went A . (i. Chapslin, fireman, was killed, over without action. Fulton spoke in and several passengers were injured in support of the indemnity hill, and Mc a wreck of an Illinois Terminal railroad Creary and Bate in opposition to the train near Aslton, 111. A car contain statehood measure. ing HO passengers turned over. Immetliately after the senate was The supreme courts of Hawaii has called to older President Pro Tem Frye decided that six miles of the trans laid before it a telegram from the gov pacific cable, which lies within the ernor of New Mexico, transmitting a three-mile lim it lielow low water mark, memorial adopted by the legislature of that territory protesting against the is taxable, and values it at $10,000. union of New Mexico and Arizona in A new French cabinet has lieen one state, and urging the admission of formed by Rouvier. New Mexico as a state according to A ll printing works in St. Petersburg present boundaries. The house passed the army appro are closed and no newspa|>ers are being priation b ill. The Indian appropria issued. tion hill was considered for the re Experts examining the Denver bal mainder of the day, hut was not con- lots ! declare one-tliird of them are cludcd when the house ailjourne«! until fraudulent. tomorrow. T . J. O'Brien, of Grand Rapids, Mich., has accpeted an offer to become Monday, January 23. minister to Denmark. The session of the house today was The senate w ill confirm the nomina devoted entirely to the consideration of tion of T. C. Powell, of Portland, to be hills relating to the District of Colum marshal at Nome, Alaska. bia. Severval efforts were made to take The Oregon delegation is confident official notiee of the rioting in St. of a small appropriation with which to Petersburg, but they were all turned down. begin work on the Celilo canal. Beveridge made another ineffectual A Russian admiral who was in Port effort in the senate to have a time fixed Arthur when it surrendered denounces for voting on the statehood bill. The f ieneral Htoessel as incapable and the fortifications appropriations hill was surrender as a disgrace. passed. A joint resolution appropiat- Four publishers of large St. Peters ing $7,000 to pay the necessary ex- burg pa|MTS declare their intention to peii8«*s of the inatigual ceremonies was issue their pa(K?rs so soon as men can passed. be secured, in defiance of the censor s Tuesday, January 24. orders. The senate today organized as a high The California legislator has appro priated $70,000 for the lew is and Clark court to try tin* impeachment charges fair. Already $20,000 has been given against Judge Swayne. Platt, of Con ami with this last sum that state is necticut, was electe«l to preside at the Further proceedings sure of a fine show ing at Portland this trial sessions. were post|xmed until Friday, when year. Judge Swayne is expected to appear be It is now regarded as certain that fore the bar of the senate. The P h il there w ill I k * no strike of the employes ippine railroad hill was passed. Much of the Pennsylvania railroad. time was consumed in discussion of various measure pending. One senator Four Americans and one Mexican wanted to admit each of the four terri were ambushed and killed by Yaqui tories included in the joint statehood Indians 35 miles east of l.u Colorado, hill as a state. state of Honors, Mexico. Mexican cav The District of Columbia appropria alry has I k *»* ii ordered to the scene to tion hill again occupied the attention capture the Indians. of the house today. An amendment to It is claimed that the government increase the salaries of all school offi officials investigating the Oregon land cials and teachers precipitated a long frauds have unearthed a deal in which debate. It was finally rul«*d ont of Mitchell, Hermann and Mays were im oilier and other amendments taken up. plicate«! by which the government At 4:15, when the house ndjoumt*d, would have l>oon robbed of 300,000 nothing had I k - c ii accomplished. acres in Southwestern Oregon through M AN Y L O S T IN FLO O D . Middle Oregon. The profits of the deal would have been $500,000. Report* From Arizona Deluge Only The principal cause of the outbreak Begin to Come In. of Russian workingmen is the ruinous monetary burdens borne by the p»*ople. The main items are: National debt, $3,500,000,000; annual interest on debt, $80,000,000; expanded on SilK*ri- an ami Manchurian roads, $1,500,000,- 000; taxes paid by peasants in 1000, 00,000,000; loss by industrial ileprea- sion in three years, $300,000,000; war loss to date, $400,000,000. There are 100,000,000 Russian p«*asants and the average daily earnings of each is H to 0 cents. The City Savings Fund A Trust com pany's liank, of latncaster, Pa., has dosed down with <te|>oaita of about $!,- 000 , 000 . Williams, of Mississippi, may resign as IVmocrntic leailer in the hotiBe. The Baltic th*et is not expected to reach the seat of war for three months. Senator Mitchell, it is said, will come home and demand a speedy trial. The United Htat«*a may use force against Venetuela in the asphalt dis pute. The Japanese talk of pumping out Port Arthur harbor to reach the sunken •hips. Father Gopon, the priest who is lead ing the St. Petersburg strikers, has been arrested. A Pueblo grand jury says a great ma jority of ballots in the November elec- tion were illegal. Despite the efforts of the police and m ilitary many incendiary tires are re ported throughout Russia. P U T IN CHARGE. DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Kl Paso, Tex., Jan. 20.— Information eoiiies from Clifton, Ariz., that five Ixxlies have been recovered since the fiixxl there last week, and that others are still entangled with the drift. But two of the five l«xli«*s already ri'cnvered have Ix'cn identified They are John Hunt and Jesus Romeo. Persons are hourly ladiig r«*|x>rte«l missing ami it is im|x>ssihle to deter mine how many have jierisluxl in the ffixxl. Three Train* in a W reck. I »niton, Jan. 21.— An alarming col lision in which three trains were in volved, including two Scotch expresses, occurred on the Midland railway near Barnsley today. Four passengers and two railway men were killed, and a score w ere injured, of which seven were seriously hurt. The aivident ix-onrreil in a fog. the thin! train crashing into the wreckage resulting from the first collision. The cars of one of the Scotch express«-* hurst into Haines, and soon was ablaze from end to end. T o Include Swamp Land. Washington, Jan. 21. — Representa tive Bell, of California, tixlav intro- dncixl a hill authorizing the secretary of the interior to inclmle swamp ami overflowed land in any irrigation pro ject that may he undertaken umler the national irrigatmn law, wherever it may he deemeil practicable and ailvisa- hie to do so. Such land, when retaim- ed, shall be <liapoae<l of in the same manner as other lamls lying under the government irrigation projects. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST IN THE LEG ISLATU RE. Salem, Jan. 18. — The right of the people to exercise the referendum pow er is to he protected by Governor Chamberlain and notice to this effect was today served upon the two houses of the legislature. In a special mes sage the governor told the meinliers in plain language that they are attaching emergency clauses to many measures which are not designed to meet real emergencies and that he w ill feel Ixiuml to disapprove such hills if passe«l in that form. Seventeen bills were passed by the senate, all of minor importance except ing to the localities directly interested, being mostly changes in city charters. Among the new measures introduce«! were» To raise the salary of the assist ant warden of the penitetiary from $900 to $1,200; to amend general road lawB; to make it unlawful to shoot from or ii[xm any public road; to de fine rights of riparian owners fronting on the Columbia river; to provide for forming of dyking districts. The senate defeated the house joint resolution asking congress to call a constitutional convention for the pur- )x>se of adopting an amendment provid ing for election of United States sen ators by direct vote of the people. Three hills pass«*«! the house t«*day, as follows; To extend the Bancroft bonding act for sewer ami str«*et im provements to all incorporated towns; to empower corporations to act as a«l- ministrators, executors, receivers, guardians and trustees; to authorize county courts to appropriate lands for road purpses. Twenty-seven new bills were read for the first time in the house. The first large appropriation b ill ap peared in the house today carrying $133,147.42, of which $47,000 is to cover deficiencies, $50,000 the ex|>enses of the present legislative session anil $35,881.31 for meeting unpaiil scalp bounties. as its county seat, and Hot I-ake, with Union as its county seat. A ll three propos«?«! counties bail lobbies working all week and were opposed by counter- lobbies from Wasco, Crook and Union. Five hills were passetl by the house. One proviiied for an appropriation of $15,000 for salmon hatcheries and an other fixed the time for the Ia*wis and Clark fair from June 1 to October 15, 1905. Nine hills have l»een passe«! by both houses, 33 by the senate only ami six by the house only. In the senate 143 hills have lieen intixxlueed ami in the house 227. Both lioures a«ljuorne«l until Monday. United States to Manage Finances o f Santo Domingo Government. Santo Domingo, Republic of Santo Domingo, Jan. 25.— A protocol between the Dominican government anil the American minister, Mr. Dawson, and Commamier A. C. Dillingham, C S., N., in behalf of the American govern ment, was signed yesterday. The prin cipal conditions are that the American government guarantees the complete integrity of the Dominican territory, agrees to umlertake the adjustment of all obligations of the Dominican gov ernment, foreign and domestic, and the conditions of payments; to adjust unreasonable claims and to determine the validity and amount of pending claims. In the case of the appointment of one or more commissions to reach an adjustment the Dominican govern ment shall lie represented in or«ler to protect its responsibility. The American government will take charge of the existing customs houses and those hereafter to be created, and will name the employes necessary to their management, the duties they will exercise and their rights. These will he considered Dominicans and subject to the laws of the republic. The Do minican government will have at each custom house inspectors in behalf of its interests, anti from and after the date the contract tak«*s effect. The present employes are to l«e considered as acting under its provisions. Out of the revenues collected at the custom house of the republic, the American government w ill deliver to the Dominicans 45 per cent of the total gross amount for the purpose of attend ing to the necessities of the budget. Out of the 55 [x*r cent, the American government w ill pay the employes of the custom house, and the interest on the amortization of the foreign an<l do mestic debts. The whole surplus may remain and each fis«'a! year will I k ? de livered to the Dominican government and devoted to the payment of its debts. Salem, Jan. 23. — Three charter amenitment hills were passed by the senate tixlay and a hill protecting wild fow l. Thirteen new measures were intro- duceil. One of them was to provide for the publication of special laws and an other to provide a state board of con- .trol. It seems unlikely that any of the normal sdnxils will lie disc-ontinued. The appropriations asked for these in stitutions ‘ w ill aggregate $221,000. This would I k * an enormous increase over the appropriations of 1903, when the total appropriations were hut $88,- 000 Five bills passeil the house tixlay— one to regulate tin* sale of fertilizers, one to provide a penalty for casting sawdust and other waste lumber into streams, one to require sheriffs to keep a record of adilresses of taxpayers on the stub of tax receipts, one to cure defects in deeds and judicial sal«*s of executors ami one to provide that title shall not descend to the heirs of a de- ceaseil trustee or executor. A ll file bills were passeil without opposition. Among the 18 new bills was one to amend c<xle on child labor, one to create hoard of internal commerce com missioners and making appropriation O P P O S E D BY M ONDELL. of $25,000 for improvement of W illam Salem, Jan. 19. — Thirteen senate ette river, and one to provide tx*tter He Will Prevent Passage o f Klamath hills and two house bills were passe«! method of collecting poll tax. Irrigation Bill if Possible. by the house hxlay, among them were: A To establish a Third Eastern Oregon Salem, Jan. 24. — Of the 24 hills Washington, Jan. 25.— An effort will District Agricultural society; to estab passed hv the host!«* tixlay only one en he made, w hen the opportunity presents lish county and city boards of health; countered opposition— that for the cre itself, to secure passage through the to require teachers in public schools ation of a state library commission. house of a hill recently passeil by the to give 30 days’ notice of intention to The secretary of this commission is to senate |K*rinitting the s«*«-retary of the quit; to fix the fees to lie cliargeil by receive $1,200 a year and traveling ex interior to utilize Lower Klamath, Tuie county recorders. penses. The hill creating the Eighth anil Goose lakes anil all tributary waters A hill was introduce«! to take the ( Baker county) and Tenth (Union and in connne«*tion with the Klamath or appointment of fish warden from the Wallowa) judicial «listricts were among other irrigation works undertaken uniler hoanl composed of the governor, secre those passed. the national irrigation law. There tary of state and state teasurer and give The senate helil only a very short w ill be opposition to this hill in the it to the governor. A similar bill w ill session hxlay, adjourning at 11:15 until house, however, which may I k ? able to he introduced in the house tomorrow. tomorrow at 10. Besides disposing of prevent its passage. This was shown by Among the other new measures were: all the senate business on hurnl, the an adverse report made on the hill by To amend the code so as to change the senate received a few house bills and Chairman Mondell, of the irrigation name of the State Reform school; for referred from that branch to till* vari committee. state conventions of county school su- ous committees. The senators sj>ent The entire committee, with the ex jierintendents; to comi>el attendance the afternoon on committee work. ception of Mondell, is in favor of the of children at school: requiring all en II¿ If a dozen bills have been intro- passage of the bill and concur in a fav trances t«l salixms to lie in the front or duced at this session for the creation of orable report inaile by Representative most conspicuous place; to abolish all a mining bureau, hut it is doubtful Williamson. In his report Williamson state normal schools except one; to- whether anf of them will become laws. quotes from a letter of the director of provide for creation of bureau of mines; The creation ol a la*wis and Clark the geologii'al survey, urging the pas to protect railroad companies from county is a new proposal before the sage of the bill. Among other things ticket scalping and requiring railroad legislature. The new county is to he the director says: companies to m ieem unused tickets. the northern half of Grant, except a “ The feasibility of the Klamath irri Twelve hills passed the house today, narrow strip along the eastern siiie, gation project, from an engineering four of them municipal charters. and make Long Creek tin* county seat. standpoint, is beyoml question, and it Sevent«*en new hills were introduced, The intention is t«i eventually take in is also one of the cli«*ai«est projects that among them being: Amending law as a strip of Baker also. has tx*en found by the reclamation to support of poor; to exempt certain service. mining corporations from Eildy license “ The hill is intende«l to authorize Wasco Farm Sells for $8,000. tax; for holding agricultural institutes the secretary of the interior tóso utilize and appropriating money therefore. The Dalles— Thomas Leabo has these lakes as may I k * necessary for the The hill raising the age of consent bought the Ed. Harrimau farm of 520 best development of the country under from lfi to 18 years was brought up in acres on Eight Mile creek, south of The the reclamation act. This would not the senate toilay and maile a special Dalles, for $8,000. The tract contains he possible without specific authority onler for 11 o’chx'k tomorrow. Many about 150 acres of tillable land, the re- from «•<ingress, on account of their navi The sale is gable capacity, which, while insignifi- senators anil representatives favor the mainiler la-ing pasture. mt*asure and it is believe«! it w ill pass eonsiilered one of the liest that lias lieen «•ant in value, is such as t«i bring them both houses. ma«le in the county for some time, and technically within the direct jurisdic- is an evidence of the atlvance in the tion of congress. Salem, Jan. 20.— Two hills designe«) prme of Wasco county lands. “ The devlopment of this projei't for to he in the interests of laborers were the irrigation of 300,000 acres of land, defeat«*«! in the senate tixlay by indefi alMiut one-half of w hich is public lap«! Briggs Find is Under Mortgage. nite postponement. One of these pro- or at the disposition of the public, pre Grants Pass— A mortgage for $140,- ixiseil extending to all oecupattions the sents no physical ilifliculties of any im 000 has lieen given on the famous Briggs provisions of the employers’ liability portance. It may lie stated further act, applying only to railroads. The claims, of Upper Sucker creek, the that connected with this possible ilevel- other was to raise from $5,000 to $10,- scene of the $40,000 strike last sum opment is an opportunity to externl the 000 the maximum lim it of damages mer. The mortgage is given by David The system to include some 90,000 ««-res of that may lie recovered for injuries caus Briggs, (ow ner fo the claims. mortgage is taken by E. F. Staples, of irrigable land in the Kla>nath Indian ing the «leath of any persons. Eight reservation at some future time, when bills were pass«*«! by the senate and Ashland. The two claims designat«*«! these lands may lie thrown open to set seven new on**s ¡ntr<xlu«-<*il. One of the in the mortgage are the “ Wounded The tlement.” new measures appropriates $25,000 for Buck” and the “ Pay Streak.” claims are locatetl side by side, and the «qx*ration of the portage roail and Tiflis in State o f Siege, another is for the employment of con range directly on the contact of por phyry and granite on which the rich Victoria, B. C., Jan. 25.— Captain vict labor on public roads. Grlan Cullen, representative of the Im The fiereest fights in the legislature surface strike was maile. perial Marine association of Tokio, re- will be wax«*«! over the propos«*«! cre Material for System. ceiveil a cablegram from Constantinople ation of three new counties in Eastern Union — Clarence Crawford, repre tonight to the effect that 1,500 Circas Oregon. The new counties propos«*«! are Cascade, with Ihxxl River ns its sentative of the Grand Romle Kleetri- sians had revolted and kille«l the Rus county seat; Nesmith, with Antelope cal company, who was here a few days sian guar«!, numliering 200 at Slavini, ago, sai«i all the material, excepting in the Caucasus, ami that Russians and p«des and wires, had been ordere«! for Turks in large numbers were crossing Willamette's Display at Fair. the el«*ctric system that is to extend the frontier into the Caucasus to spread W illam ette University, Salem— Dean from Cove to Union, Hot l-ake, 1 » revolution in Tiflis province. Tifiis W. C. Hawley has !x*en given charge of Grande and other valley points, and City is practically in a state of siege, the arrang**ments for an exhibit of that arrangements for construction were he sai«f, and communication is had W illam ette university at the lew is ami well umler wav. Contracts are to lie only by dispatch liearers. Clark fair ami is arranging one along let this w«*ek f«ir poles ami wires. The novel lines, the iilea lieing graphically main line poles are to be of cedar. Women Trampled in Rush. to illustrate the pioneer history of the Chicago, Jan. 25.— Several women school. W illam ette is the oldest e«lu- P O R T L A N D M A R K E TS . were injured here tonight in a stam- cational institution west of the Mis |K*de of thousamls of excit«?«l Russian souri river. Professor Hawley visite«! St. I»u is this summer and ma«ie a spe Wheat — W alla Walla, 83c; blue- subjei'ts who claniore«! for ailmittance to the W«*st Side auditorium to hear cial study of the e«lucational exhibit at stem. 88c; valley, 87c. the I»nisiana Purchase exposition in Oat»— No. 1 white, $1.32 H <92.36, the news from St. Petersburg and to listen to an address by Mine. Katherine order to get ¡«leas. gray, $1.35(41 .40 per cental. Hav—Timothy, $14(3115 per ton; Breshkowsky, the Socialist worker. Improving Eugene Yard*. clover, $11 < 9 1 2 ; grain, $11(912; cheat, Before the doors of the aiulitorium were require«! a detail of policemen to Eugene — Extensive improvement* $120113. Potatoes — Oregi m fancy, 85(9 95c; keep the crowd from stampeding and have been coninieni-e«l U|xm the South pushing those who struggled. ern Pacific company's «fepot yards in coir, in on, 80(9 75c. Apple»— Baldwins. 11.25; Spitzen- Eugene. Uar|K*nters are n«>w «instruct Cuban City Shaken Up. ing new stockyanls. twice as large as bergs. $1.75(92 per box. Santiago, Cuba. Jan. 25.— There F.ggs— iOregon ranch, 27 (928c. the old «*nes, and as soon as they are have been three distinct slioeks of Butter— Fancy creamery, 250)30c. complete«! a turn table will he put in and one of the main sidetracks w ill he | Hops— Choice, 28<a29c; prime, 27<* earthquake of increasing force within th last 24 hours, causing mnch excite lengthene«! 100 feet. The work is the per ponrnl. W« k > 1 — Valley, 190120c; Ea»tern ment. No serious damage was done, beginning of the general rearrangement of the yards which has he«*n in con Oregon, 10<917c; moha.r, 250128c per hut there i* feared that there w ill fie more shocke. pound. templation for three or four year*. . HIS POWER IS GONE Czar Has Been Forced to Yield to Grand Dukes. VLADIMIR AND SERGIUS RULE Rioting and Bloodshed Spread to All Parts o f Empire — Revolution Under Full Headway. Libau, Russia, Jan. 24.— The imper ial yacht Stain far« 1 is expecte«! here to convey the czar and his family to Co penhagen. Reports from St. Petersburg say that the actual government is no longer in the hands of the czar. This statement is made with deliberation anil with a full knowledge of the day's doings. The grand ducal coterie, always power ful, hut until very recently held in check by the people's pathetic faith in the power of the “ Little W hite Father,” is in absolute command. Grand Duke Vladim ir commands the troops, ami every oriler, whether it I k ? one of leniency or stern repression, is issue«! by him. Grand Duke Sergius is state«) to be in control of the internal situation. The utmost secrecy is maintained as to the czar's j resent whereabouts. Some have him atTsarskoe-Selo, others at Peterhoff, still others insist that he has' been at the w inter palace right along. A ll «piestions put to men in authority on that score are met w ith the very courteous reply that they know as little as the interrogator. M O S C O W IN T U R M O IL . Workmen Force Closing o f All the Large Factories. St. Petersburg, Jan. 24.— The most startling feature in the situation to night is the news that several factories in Moscow have closed and that the workmen in the old capital of Russia are repeating the tactics of their fellow workmen of the new «'apital, marching from shop to shop and m ill to m ill, de manding that the establishment shut down. The whole city is reported to he in a state of great excitement over the news of the bloodshed which has precipitateil immediately the strike that hail b«?en scheduled for Wednes day. The tension, which was somewhat relaxed during the morning, continued to increase during the day. Conditions ap|>eareil to be omnious, when, shortly after dark, the workmen in two ele«'tric light plants walked out, refusing triple pay to remain, and plunging half the city into utter «larkness, including the Nevsky Prospect. The water supply was also cut off, and a veritable panic ensueil. IT IS R E V O L U T IO N . Sailors at Sevastopol Mutiny in Mass and Destroy Buildings. Kieff, Jan. 24.— Details of the burn ing of the admiralty yarils at. Sevasto pol have arriveif here, showing that it was the result of a mutiny of 8,000 sailors, such as never la-fore ix-curre<l in Russia. All Saturday there bail been consid erable talk all over the city that the sailors in the Sevastopol barracks ha«l grown restive and that numerous in stances of insubordination had oc curred. Shortly after the noon hour Monday the doors of the barracks were thrown open and several thousand sail ors for«?«?d their way out into the street. One squa«I of mutineers rush«*d to the rooms of a captain, who is saidtto have lieen particularly disliked. The officer was seize«! and thrown to the floor. They beat in his skull, and his face was mangled beyond recognition, and then they wrecked his rooms and took every weapon they could find. Meanwhile, those on the outside had set fire to the building, which, lieing old an«l mainly I’onstructed of wood, was burned to the ground. From there the mutineers rush«vl w ildly through the streets, setting up the cry of: “ The revolution has be gun.” One o f the H orror* o f Revolt. St. Petersburg, Jan. 24.— Among the authenticat«*«! horrors of yesterday is the case of an aged general, whose sleilge was stopjied by the infuriated people as he was driving in the direc tion of the troops. “ Are you going to order them t«i fire on us?” yelleil the crowd. The general orilered his coach man to drive on, when he was instantly struck on the head by a well dress«*«! imliviilual in a sable fur i*oat. The general was then thrown out of the sledge, brutally beaten and finally rampled to «leath. Ready to Take Charge. Lomion, Jan. 24. — The Daily Tele graph's St. Petersburg correspondent reports that, as the outcome of the meeting of the Refotm party of Gorky, Annensky, Arsenieff and others and their ailherents Saturday night anil Sunday, a body of men has lieen consti- tnteil who reganl themselves as the fu ture provisional government o f Russia. As yet. the correspondent says, they are political ciphers: but they hope to overturn the existing regime. T o Loot fo r Provision*. St. Petersburg, Jan. 24. — A report has gain«*d currency that the strikers intend to storm the market in Vassili Osrtoff an«l seize the provisions there.