Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-02
ANOTHER MANIFESTO.
Emperor Abolishes Martial
 Law Tn Poland.
RUSSIAN FINANCES AT LOWEST EBB
St. Petersburg DemoraIized = Postal Deliveries Stopped-FinIand Wires IdIe-Government to Mobi-
 Ike Cossack Army.

Idle-GOvernment 10 moDh-
 Iixe a Cossack Army.
 ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 2. = The czar has signed manifesto abolishing martial law in Poland.
 At Lodz, Poland, many foreign own CTS of factories have paid of their workmen. shut up the factories and de parted from the country, leaving their property to the care of the authorities.
 The delivery of all mail matter in St. Petersburg has ceased.
 The girl telegraph operators were driven from their posts by strikers with chemical fumes. Troops now oc- cupy the telegraph offices.
 Great excitement has been caused by an unconfrmed rumor that a grand duke shot at the czar, wounding him in the right hand.
 All the telegraphers of Finland have struck. The railroad telegraphers have refused to transmit messages to the czar.
 Fear is expressed at the capital that the garrison of Cronstadt may mu- tiny. The Witte government seems utterly unable to find weapon to fight the passive revolution and is hesitating, hoping that the tide will somewhat subside and permit the re alization of the reforms in an orderly way. In the meanwhile the country is threatened with a counter revolution with all the horrors of jacquerie Gn- surrection of peasantsJ, and it becomes more and more apparent than there are only two modes of egress-the govern ment must put the whole country un- der a dictatorship and martial law or proclaim readymade constitution. Premier Witte refuses to consent to the former, although the court officers hd the imperial guard are clamoring
 V it.
 An official statement is made that none of the Seyastopol mutineers will be executed.
 The crisis continues. The telegraph tie-up throughout Russia is practically complete, and the government does not know what is happening in the interior of the empire.
 There are many indications that financial disaster will overtake Russia shortly. There are no buyers on the St. Petersburg bourse, and it is abso- lutely impossible to sell Russian bonds.
 It is reported that the government intends to mobilize all the Cossacks in the empire, who number 450.0OO.
 General Baron Meller Gakomelskie, commander of the Seventh army corps at Sevastopol, telegraphs:
 Armed revolt has ceased. All the troops behaved brilliantly and perform ed their difficult duty devotedly.
 ''The number of prisoners exceeds 2,O00.
 ''The tempest of war has ceased, but not that of revolution. The Russian people are being led uncomprehending- ly into civil war and self destruction"
 A dispatch from Eydtkuhnen. on the eastern frontier of east Prussia. says that the Eighth regiment of Russian dragons in the adjacent town of Well koweszk. Russian Poland, is in a state of mutiny. threatening death to the of ficers unless the pay of the men is raised. Troops have been requested from Kovno. A dispatch from Warsaw says that the Fourteenth regiment of dragons at Ostroleka, Russian Poland, has mutinied.
 The guards arrested at Tsarskoe- Selo numbered 250, including twenty off, cers.