Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-11
WITTE TAKES
A FIRM HOLD
OF AFFAIRS.
Russian Government Throws
Down the Gautlet to Labor
Leaders Arrested.
MUTINY is SPREADING.
BIOOdShed in ST. Petersburg
Strikers Fatally Wound
Carriers.

ST. PETERSBURG Dec. ia cri-
sis is at hand here involving the indef-
mite prolongation of the strike, the
probable immediate precipitation of a
general strike throughout Russia and a
possible final struggle between the gov
ernment and the proletarat.
This sudden change for the worse is
the result of the shedding of the first
blood in the telegraph strike almost
simultaneously with the action of NJ.
Durnovo, minister of the interior, i'll
throwing down the gantlet to the la Dor
organizations by arresting NJ. Krus-
taleff, president of the executive com
mittee of the workmen's council, with
out warning.
Several companies of Cossacks clat-
tered through the streets leading to the
headquarters Of the council in largo
via street and having barred the APP
proaches force of troops and police
surrounded the building, after which
secret service men rushed In and seized
Krustaleff. The latter made no resist
ance, and the affair was conducted
quickly. 1t was impossible for Krus-
taleff to conceal the papers of the or
ganization, in which the police evident
ly expect to find evidence proving the
ultimate object to be an armed upris-
ing against the government
Troops ordered to fire on men of an
other regiment paradlng Warsaw
streets singing rebel songs refused to
do so, and their commander fed. The
The whole garrison of the Warsaw
citadel has mutinied.
Captain Bronitzky, chief of the fourth
department of the Russian navy at the
capital, and 250 electrical students were
arrested for conspiring against very
high parsonage.
1t is said that the peasants every
where are willing to join the reyolu-
tionaries. They are the principal suf-
ferers from oppression and excessive
taxation and have lost confidence in
the emperor The revolutionaries have
their own postal and telegraph services,
through which they are able to keep in
touch with their organizers through
out the empire.
Strikes have started on the following
railroad lines: Kursk, Moscow and
Sevastopol; Riga and Erloff, Kharkov
and Nicolaieff, Southwestern, South
eastern, Samara and Slatoust, Sizran
and Viasemsk.
1t is reported that the garrison of
Schlusselburg fortress has practically
mutinied and is joining in the demand
for the liberation of all political prison
ers.
The leaders of the striking teleg-
raphers at the capital have taken
new grip of the situation, and the tie
up continues practically complete.
Cases of attacks on strike breakers are
reported, and at Smolensk, middle Rus
sia, the strikers fired into a passing
mail car.
Spencer +. Eddy, secretary of the
American embassy, will depart from
St Petersburg Immediately on leave Of
absence. He is much run down as the
result of the strain which has fallen
on his shoulders here and Is in need of
rest and recuperation. After receiving
treatment in Germany he will proceed
to the United States.
A disturbance in which two strike
breakers were killed and policeman
and several others wounded occurred
Immediately in front of the general
postoffice. The strikers for two days
have been seeking TO persuade the vol
unteer and regular carriers to refuse to
work. At the door of the building the
strikers, enraged by the refusal of the
volunteers to quit, drew knives, where
upon a carrier attempted to defend
himself with revolver. Both the car
rier and companion were fatally stab
bed and sank dead on the spot.
Krustaleff, as he is called, though
that is not his right name, is regarded
as the brains of the revolutionary
movement He has displayed genius
in organizing both the industrial and
political strikes which have terrorized
the government. His offer Of financial
support to the telegraphers prevented
collapse of their strike.