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Show e ( Xu1' 1907. Jay, July 23, THE LODZ, THE STAINED Town Ter by Assassina. Nufactuuring Polish foriied (Special Correspondence.) 10. Ix,dz, Poland, July so often called eity of Lodz, This the of Poland, has Winchester thanged within the last 12months from a prosperous manufacturing is not an Wnter to a shambles. It exaggeration io say that no man be die. Russian, Jew, j, gife here, (joesack, workman or government The official. streets are more dang- erous than were those of Paris during the Reign of Terror.' So regardless, in fact, have habitants become of the the in- value of of most the great human life that nuU owners, cotton spinners and manufacturers have fled, leaving their splendid residences, a prey to the mob, who take savage delight in destroying the work of a lifet- ime. T time, moreover, This it not a employers and suffering the consequences, nor of brutal Cossacks persecuting peaceful citizens. The responsibility for Lodz lies with the Polish workmen themselves, who keep up a continued bloody feud, murdering all who do not think with them, torturing women and children because they refuse to tell their husbands and fathers secrets and lynching those who dare to speak against (he present terrible state of things Every day and many times a day funerals are to be seen wending their way toward the cemeteries funerals of victims who have been shot for nothing worse than ' their political opinions. , Even the mourners run the risk of being fired upon by the dead nans enemies; so his friends his coffin, loaded revolvers In hand, ready to shoot at any who attempt to rush it. If they did not take these precautions, so terrible has the hatred between the Socialists and the (patroits) become, that the dead mans political enetheir men sur-roun- ts would seize the coffin, break and drag away the corpse Wore the eyes of the bereaved relatives. Shots are fired on the processions in the churchyard while the priests t&re saying the mies ft open prayers for the dead: the ambulance is as well known at Lodz funerals as the hearse. The things which happen here read more like tales of the fierce middle than the annals of a Europ- ideous ges ean city in the twentieth ' cen-tnrSo chronic have scenes .of butchery become that the Polish polish newspapers have set Jside a separate column for from Sports this unhappy tovrnn headed permanetntly Bloody Lodz, Bloodstain ed Lodz and The Reign of Terror in Lodz, according to the kste of their respective editors. The world at large on hearing f all this naturally will ask how eucb a state of terrorism and nrder came about. It may be d, then, that the first fault lay the Socialists, who began ,flBng their compatriots a year or so ago. During y. non-Socialit- ic the ffi0?th of January, 1906, they etermined to organize a general be on w the the same lines as that preceding autumn. . be workmen ffiembering the horrors of the st strike, were determined at no repetition should take Pace and refused to leave their 0rk. So the strike failed. There T6 8ma ones ere and there, h ttany factories even in Lodz, .e!? kept at full work. The So- swore they never would rV their opponents and pass- ic sentences em; of death against they have been passing ever since, with the addition i t the murdered Alices, too. . PAGE THREE r-- awful feud is anti-Socialist- s, well-know- n anti-Sociali- st - . s, is of ease JOURNAL, LOGAN, UTAH. Y with a new ex- WALLPAPER AS TROUT BAIT victim died before the ambulance slrongly charged chiefly confined to Lodz; where reached them and of course the plosive, easy enough to get at the the Socialistic element always has George ,TiIsell of Sparrowbush, other ruffians escaped. Grobels chemical factory where the disbeen strong, and where the popuBut missed brother worked. N. boys Y., returned from trout fishing body was seized by the police and lation is almost entirely industrial a taken to the mortuary which was space forbids giving more than Friday with a basket filled with otherwiso the state of the kingbeauties weighing atached to the military hospital. mere sketch of the horrors to speckled dom of Poland would be unbear, Lodz of half a pound each. His friends who have which the population But the able for any but hardened assaslearned to avenge their comrades have grown callous and of scenes quizzed him as to where he caught ' sins. and follow their enemies examp- which daily disgrace this Pol- the fish, so even in size, and how, 'When a Well, you see, last summer I le, entered the building in some ish Manchester. a man who has waged war was at the brook during huckleYOLKHOVSKY. SERGIUS mysterious way and snatched it the night before the funeral was against the assassins goes out, he' berry time and was- carelessly is escorted by a bodyguard of to have taken place. It was found HARD DOSE FOR TRAINER. throwing some of the berries in Kid Hannon, a bicycle train- the water and was surprised to friends, who hold their revolvers terribly mutilated on a rubbish in their hands. He dare not enheap not far from the scene of er who started a hough house see trout rise and eat them. ter a car alone, for the chances I ran across a piece of wall Grajnerts murder. Thus one act at Gleenwood Park, Ogden, and are ten to one that the passengers of savagery is followed by anoth- refused to desist when so. ordered, paper the other day having he finds in it are in the pay of his er, till both sides have become in- but instead resisted the police un- huckleberries printed on it. I enemies and ready to murder him human in their cruelty, and seem til clubbed into submission, was went to the brook and pasted the at the first opportunity. A man to vie with each other in finding given ninety-nin- e days or a fine piece of wall paper on a rock who dares to put an end to a out some new revenge. Grajnerts of $99. just above a pool. Soon the pool strike by arranging conditions'of case is common enough; though was full ot fish. They eyed the work or pay with the foreman Abraham Lincoln beautiful clusters of huckleberries generally the murderers get off and managers is sure to be shot soott free, so afr.aid are the police with mouths Watering. was a man all odds who, against and the wonder is that men are of being killed by order of the at, It didnt take long for the attained the highest honor a man to be found who will risk their Black Band. to begin athletic stunts to trout could get in the United States lives at such dangerous work. of these recital The mere the berries, and as fast as they daily has get Ballards Ilorehound Syrup The Socialists method is very for the lucious clusters hhrrors ivould fill volumes. One attained a place, never equalled jumped orhave a their committee stunned by contact with Socialists were the week and simple. They possess other like remedy. It is by any known as the Black Band, the rock. I picked them up and gies of blood, killing and wound- sure cure for' Coughs, Colds,Bron-chitiwhose whole duty is to pass and the them in my basket until it ing wholesale; nextjhe Influenza and allPulmorary put execute death sentences upon was filled. enjoy their revenge, diseases. mother should Every their political enemies. They have or if wounding, possible, killing keep supplied with this wondertheir spies in all the factories and All kinds of job printing done the same number of victims' as ful medicine. Sold by Riter cough their enemies. Some of the scenes Bros. workshops; they also receive letb Drug Co. at this office. ters of denunciation, , which are which have disgraced Lodz are alleft at a certain low most incredible, the The Black Band meets at varihad an active leader, Koperek ous other low two or by name, who had been on the three times a week. The place of for some Killing -- eommittee months. A few workmen betraymeeting always is being changed, and so well is the secret kept that ed him and he was shadowed. the police, in spite of several But he always had a strong guard, 13 and ib was sometime before they raids, have not been able to catch the leaders redhanded. could get him with only one friend. That day came, however, Suppose that A, a mill hand, and his enemies followed them is not of the same terroristic opinfrom the mill to within a short ions as the other men in his shed ; distance of his house. that he is against murders and Koperek to nervous and and began refuses'to slipped the get strikers, join to a into house, hoping Socialists.. One of his comrades escape by the roof. His pursuers saw his denounces him to the Black trick, let him get on to the roof, Band. His case is not considwhich he did by means of a chimered bad enough for death, so a ney and followed him. delegation or perhaps a letter is sent to the foreman demanding lets go to ward No. 7 and polish A wild chase followed, Koperthat he be dismissed at once and off that rogue Miehta? Happily ek crawling over the slanting replaced by a Socialist, whose they did riot recognize him in his roofs as well as he could and the name is given. Suppose the fore- bandages and dressing-gown- , and others pursuing. But they were man refuses to comply with the ran off to his ward, while he hid six to .one, and surrounded him. reqqggt either because A, is a under his dead friends bed till By this time a large crowd had good workman or because the the hospital was rid of his would-b- e collected in the street below. Kop foreman objects to interference. murderers. They expressed erek, knowing that death awaited Theu A 8 days are numbered. great surprise at not finding him in any case and choosing the His name comes once more before Mitcha in ward No. 7, and looked less horrible, jumped from the loves the committee and he is sentenced under all the beds in the room. roof. But the fell onto the crowd to death for daring to rebel Then they left, promising to come below, who, without base a can exactly him not did to tear Black And time. the aBnd. another against knowing why, began they liis The Black. Band is worked, in fail to crack a few jokes with the limb from limb. When his purconnection with a kantor, or other patients, as if they had come suers called from the roof to stone office, where those who know the on a natural, and praiseworthy him, they were obeyed, and by the time the military and the ambulropes can hire ruffians to murder errand. . their enemies, at prices ranging f Their conduct was the more ance had arrived all that remainfrom $2 to $10, according to the daring because the hospital stands ed of the victim was a mangled, social status of.the citims and the between the Cossacks barracks bleeding mass which could not be time it takes to entrap them at a and a prison, which is guarded by recognized as Koperek even by pay suitable spot t for murder. This a strong patrol. Miehta was im- his own family, and it was not kantor supplies the men to kill mediately removed to the prison until the passport had been taken poor A. Being a workmen, h4 hospital and begs to be allowed from his pocket that they knew 1908, ho is easy to get at, He must walk to stay there, as he says he is sure who it was. i t to and from his work every .day to be shot as soon as he goes out. Often the wrong man is the vicand the locks of his wretched lodg IBs family are trying to get him tim. An old man named Pilathw ing are none too secure. It is an over the frontier, and thence to .ski was shot instead of his son, open secret that the murder of America ; hut his wife and family though there was about 30 years 1908, such a man does not cost more will have to be left behind for difference in their ages, and the than a couple of dollars, while a want of funds. Very often the father had a white beard, while free. doctor or a lawyer can be 're- terrorists try(a man offhand and the son wears a black mustache. moved for $10. shoot him then and there, the fol- The next day a young fellow namIf "A, has armed friends to lowing incident being characteris- ed Jan Kraczewskl was killed instead of his brother, who had guard him on his way to and fron; tic. work the ruffians will jgo to his Edward Grajnert, a board passed the scene of the murder lodgings. - He is at his dinner or school teacher had done all he half an hour sooner than usual. Both Socialists and supper, surrounded by his wife could to put down Socialism make these mistakes. They and family; a loud knock is heard among his pupils. The Socialists i i Vv Vn I t -' at the door. He asks who is there. warned him once or twice, but often publish the names of their sf) S 'h i local victims in the givpapers, A voice cries in Russian: Open he dared them to do their worst. Its the police lie obeys. Two One night, as he was going home ing details of the murder and the or three hirelings of the Black from his betrothed several youths reason for passing the death senBand fall upon him, shoot at him fell upon him, dragged him to a tences. Even bombs are resorted though till they are satisfied that he is lonely spot near a disused mill, to by the enemies have not yet followheir confederates were of rest the their where after and firing dead, their bullets into the walls, make awaiting them.They went through ed their exantple in this respect; One man, a butcher by trade, I a mock trial, in Which some witoff again. declared that he had dismissed a referactory boy. Next Nobody in the building dares go nesses morning when his son was sweepthe cause to see why such screams are com- worked against he picked up a room, for the and he was sentenced to death-Hi- s ing out the shop, ing from As cries brought a patrol, to the queer looking . piece of piping fear of terrorists exceeds any feelwhich lay just inside the door. He ings . of humanity .Theruffiana walk spot; but not before ofae of the down the common staircase, in Judges iiac( mortally wounded was about to throw it away, when i broad daylight and coolly disper- lam. - The patrol ' fird $ volley his father called to him to leave was alone. The timely, warning it laone and killed wtow&i recog se in the street, to meet again cue Grcbcl, a notorious for when the police came past the ter in the day and get their blood sized butcher showed ib to them and I money from the Black Band bandit, with more than one mur-V case is that of hundreds ol der to his record. 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