The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-22

Russian people universal suffrage.
Threat at Life Of Gar.
St. Petersburg. Dee. 22-To shake
the workmens faith i'm their leaders
the government has distributed thous-
ands OF copies OF a circular signed by
the union of Russian workmen, ex-
patiaung on the arrest of the commit
teemen of the Moscow telegraphers.
while carOusing at a restaurant, as an
example of how the workmen's money
IS spent.
Outside of the industrial regions
there is little evidence of a strike. The
city pharmacies generally remain open.
The drug clerks who have just
emerged from a prolonged struggle,
disregard the summons of their union
60 strike. The stores are open as usual
- and the street cars are running.
The b0ldest of all the bold pro-
nunciamentOes of the revOlutiOnists is
q mysterious hand bill with which
TsarkOe-Selo was flooded today. Pro
Tossing to allude to a terrOrists plot
against the emperor the hand bill says:
There will be a little puff of smoke.
Pay no heed to it as the result viii be
the best thing possible for everybody" "
The police have been baffled in their
efforts to find the printers and dis
seminators of these bills.
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st. Petersburg, Dec. 22.-The work
men of two of the three electric light
plants struck yesterday evening and
consequently the streets in the major
portion of the city were in darkness
throughout the night the Inhabitants
being compelled to fan back on candles
and kerosene. The searchlight mount
ed ON the sphere of the admiralty
building wildly illuminated the Nevsky
as it did during the October strike, cav
airy and infantry patrols guarded every
block and machine guns We're stationed
at several points.
During a tour of the city, a CORE
spOndent saw dozens of WOrkmen be-
tween soldiers with fixed bayOnets be-
ing marched off to prison. A cache of
arms and hand bombs was seized on
the SchlusselbOrg avenue yesterday
and a crowd of a thousand strikers of
the Nevsky works was charged and
dispersed by cOssacks, who used the
fiat of their swords and whips, but no
one was seriously injured.
Tie Up Is Incomplete.
St. Petersburg, Dec 22.-3:40 a. M
The failure of many of the railroad men
of st. Petersburg to obey the strike or
der and the ability of NJ. Nemchaff,
minister of communications, to move
trains on all the roads except the Baltic
roads are thOTns In the sides of the
strike leaders. The fiat went forth at
last nights meeting r+ the WOrknen' S
council that traffic must be interrupt
ed at all cost thoueh this admittedly
VIII be difficult on the Nicholas road to
Moscow. Trains are running with their
ordinary crews on this line but all the
train are heavily guarded The dele
gates VIII try moral suasiOn with the
faithful employees, but it is feared they
viii also resort to destroying the bridges
along the road. The government has
succeeded in arresting practically all of
the members of the strike and railroad
committees
Leave 1t to RevolutiOnists.
Riga Livonia, Thursday. Dec. 22.-
Officials, owners of estates, priests. doc
tors and others of the better class are
arriving here under the escort of the
garrisons of their respective localities
leaving all government and private
properties in the hands of the revolu-
tiOnists.
Martial Law Proclaimed.
Warsaw. Russian Poland Dec. "a
proclamation of the governor gem
eral was gazetted here today estab-
fishing martial law iG all of the ten
governments of Russian Poland and
appointing ten temporary military
governor generals