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Show WED WITH -T INCITING RIOT Bercman, Who Threw " Vitriol in Commis-; Commis-; sery's face Be Tried. EKATERINOSLAV, Russia. May 6. Considerable interest has been aroused here by the approaching trial of Berg-man, Berg-man, a provocative agent of the Government, Gov-ernment, who will be tried May 10 on the charge of inciting anti-Jewish excesses ex-cesses in several cities. Last year- Bergman provoked the v massacres At Ekaterinoslav by throw-w-'jig a bottle of vitriol in the face of the '-Commissary of Polire. After : he had been arrested, he confessed to the prosecutor pros-ecutor that his real name was Alexleft. and that he was an agent of the secret police, and that for some time he had acted under the direction of Gen. Tre- puflf. Before coming to Ekaterinoslav liergman had .fired -at tne Prefect at . Mlnck In trying to provoke disorders in that city. - - i .. A general strike bas been caused by the arrest and subsequenC banishment cf the director and the Instructors of the polytechnic school here and by the (fismlssal of the students. |