The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-10-31
REVOLUTION GAINS IN POW
Err AND REBEL GOVERN.
MENT SET UP.
Great Cities of Russia Lighted On.
ly by Soldiers Fires-battles
on Streets-Moscow Defes
..Authority-Other News.

AOuuuu, OCts AOs-h Ot. ctoIs.
burg dispatch to- the Sunday OBJ
server says it is rumored that Ad-
I.miral Birilof,. minister of Marine,
and Admiral Chucaine have been
killed by bombs.
| The bulk of the population be-
lieves that the imperial family fed
after the czar bad invested Count
iWltts with full power.
/ Meanwhile the situation is pass
ling from bad to worse, with mat
tiers at the moment in state Of un-
stable equilibrium. The chiefs of
state are at loss how to act, and
| the revolutionists, encouraged by
the inactivity Of tie government,
are growing bolder and more Insist.
ent in the demands made in their
Ispeeches.
4 As before Friday nights giant
i meeting at the university, it was
again announced today that fur
l ther meetings there would not be
! permitted, but the college portals
4 wers again open tonight and the
/ hospitality Of the university was
| extended 10 a group of lawyers and
other professional men,one of whose
orators, referring to the old Rus.
| sian folk-legend that the world is
supported on the backs of three
i whales, said that the autocracy
rested on three cetacea-money,
the army and the loyalty of the
/ people-but that Russia is now
bankrupt and the moral sympathy
i of the people alienated, and that
4 the army alone remains true, and
this, he predicted, would not be
/ long.
d Another speaker openly preached
terrorism and advocated making an
example of a number of high per-
sonages.
Count Witte's ally in the stu
Ipendous task. he is about to take
will be General Treepofi, who,
though all of his life has been
spent as an instrument of oppres-
sion and though he twice has es-
capped attempts by the terrorists' in.
struments of death, has come to re.
,alize that the old order Of things is
changing ard giving pace to new,
and is now genuine convert to the
} policy of giving the people share
in the government.
The best opinion that nothing
will cave the present government
4 from complete ruin. Many shrewd
ed observers believe that Wltte
comes too late.
The condition 10 S.. Petersburg
is that of ons fairly under siege and
one with surprises threatened from
within, almost completely isolated
and its scanty store cf provisions
being rapidly exhausted. The
campfres of the soldiers who are
bivouacking in the streets, light up
the thoroughfaras where electricity
has been extinguished.
The situation at Moscow paral.
: lels that In S.. Petersburg. The
same paralysis has seized Russian s
second city. The strike is general
The people aTe defing all pohibi-
tions and are swarming to 4 3 uni.
v-rsities and other nesting places.
provisional government has al
ready been organized and is wait
ing to exercise its powers. The
university Is barrieaded against
the troops.
! One hundred persons wounded is
therecord of the fighting in Moscow
that has occurred tonight. Of these
many will die. Frequent collisions
between strikers and the troops
have occurred and blool has been
spilled freely by the soldiers in dis
persing the bands of citizens.
II Lexington, KY, Oct. 27.-spesd
ing at the rate of so miles an hour