The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-12-26
Casualties During The Day are EST
mated at $50
SITUATION AT ST. PETERSBURG
Several Collisions Between the Work
men and Troops Have Occurred
Reported That the Prefecture OF 70
lice at Moscow Has Been Demolished
by the Explosion of Bombs.

st. Petersburg, December 23.--5 ."5
p. m. Trains have continued to run on
all the lines out of st. Petersburg to-
day. Meetings Of every description
even those of the LAW and order par
ty'' are being prevented
For the present the imperial bank
at Riga has been forced to cease gold
payments owing to the impossibility or
shipping gold coin there.
ReveI. Esthonia, December 20
Martial law has been proclaimed in the
province Of ESthonia
St Petersburg, December 23.-1:Zl
D. m. Telephone messages from MOS
COW says that 10000 men are on
strike there, that the city is already
feeling the pinch of hunger, that many
bakeries have been sacked and that
all business is suspended. Even the
banks are closed. the Imperial Bank
after standing a ruin till o'clock yes
terday afternoon shutting its doors on
account of lack of light.
Only the st. Petersburg and kleff
. and Foronezh lines are open. Ihefe
have been some attacks upon strikers
especially on student leaders, by the
people and two girls were stripped
naked and turned loose in the cold In
the vicinity of the Jewish market.
Considerable street fighting has oc-
Cured at Moscow as the result of at
tempts of the troops and police to
break uD professions.
The revolutionists resisted at several
places and erected barr1cadeS which
the dragons and infantry carried by
storm. At some places only blank
shots were fired but at the TVerSl1a
street barricade which was not carried
until midnight there was scene of
slaughter. Several Volleys were fired
by the troops and eleven men were
killed and eighty were wounded. AL
together the casualties at Moscow yes
terdaV are estimated at $50. In addl-
ton wholesale arrests were made.
From the small towns along the rail-
roads come reports of attacks on rail
road men. At Elnia seven families
were butchered and two delegates were
lynched near kursk.
The organ of the Moscow Workmen
has appealed to the men to avoid as
Stunning an aggressive attitude saying
that even if the troops fire await the
signal for armed resistance
Here in st. Petersburg there is lit
tie change in the situation. Several
collisions between Workmen and the
of the former were killed or wounded
and many agitators were arrested at
their lodgings during the night. With
the exception of the official organs
only the Novoe Vremyia and Slovo
appear. The former continues its pro-
voeative attitude toward the Jews.
Sarcastically referring to the second
day of the revolution so solemnly and
stupidity proclaimed by the Russian
Jewish agitatOrs.
Moscow, December 23.-Troops sur
rounded a school house where work
men were meeting here yesterday even
ing and summoned the men to surren-
der. Blank shots were fired to in
timidate the Workmen who replied
Z with revolver Shots and bombs. Ar
tillery was then brought UP and the
school house was bombarded until the
survivors of the workmen surrendered.
Paris, December 23.-5:20 p. m A
dispatch to the semi-official Temps
from st. Petersburg says that the pre-
lecture of police at Moscow has been
demolished by the explosion of bombs.
Several persons We're killed but the pre-
feet who was at the Kremln escaped
The dispatch adds that affrays have
occurred at the neighboring barricades
in which the soldiers were victorious
and fifteen revOlutiOnistS were wound
ed