Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-02-03
Death list At
WARSAW GROWS
SEVERAL PERSONS SLAIN BY
TROOPS AND SITUATION
MORE SERIOUS.
MODS PlLLAGE STORES;
ALL FACTORIES CLOSED
Economic Situation Greatly Affected
by Rioting Conservative Estimate
Places Number of Dead at 100
Gorky Not to Hang.

encounters with the troops and police
in various parts OF this city Monday.
Telephone communication is inter-
rupted and the conditions throughout
Warsaw are such that it has been i'm
possible thus far to ascertain the num-
Der of victims.
BY order of the chief of police the
doors Of houses are kept closed and
are only opened to admit people living
on the premises Two additional regl-
ments of infantry and two regiments
of dragons have arrived here.
Declare Situation Serious.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 1.-The latest
reports from Warsaw depict the stu
alton throughout Poland as increasing
ly serious. Minor collisions between
the troops and police and the populace
continue to swell the number of dead.
Trade and industry are completely at
q standstill and the presence of thou
sands of idle workmen who have been
out of employment for months and are
starving and desperate adds a factor
of the greatest danger which is not
present to the same extent in st.
Petersburg, where the government or
ders for war purposes have kept the'
factories busy.
1t is estimated that the number OF
killed or wounded at Warsaw is about
100, which is a conservative estimate.
Stores Pillaged by Mobs.
The American vice consul at War
saw, Witold Fouchas, telegraphs that
many stores, chiefly Russian. have
been pillaged by mobs and that the
shops and factories without exception
are closed. A general strike is in eff
feet Those who are not willing to
walk out are compelled to join the
strike by threats. Mr.. Fouchas saw
no improvement in the situation up to
Monday night and reported the re-
ceipt Of bad news from LODI and
Radon.
Economic Situation Affected.
The rioting in Poland will largely af-
feet the economic situation. The fac
tories at Warsaw, LODI, Petrokoff
and other industrial centers in Poland,
have been compelled to gradually re-
duce their output and decrease their
working forces since the outbreak of
the war, which has almost entirely
closed the Siberian and Manchurian
markets. The result has been that
thousands of workmen have been
thrown out of employment for many
months, furnishing a horde of hungry
dissatisfied, desperate men, among
whom the news from st. Petersburg
81 ~
incendiary spirit. It is feared that a
large proportion of these thousands
may be utilized by the revolutionary
organizations in Poland, which is the
hotbed of socialism, and the, movement
may develop purely poAlka charac-
ter, though there is no, indication sc
far of any cooperation on the part OF
the intelligent classes of the Polish
population, which are averse to a revo-
lutionary movement.
The Nashazhizn, liberal newspa-
per of st. Petersburg, which has re.
ceived second warning from Gov
Gen. Trepoff in moderate tone, raises
the legal point in connection with the
firing of January % that the law re-
Auires the police to exhaust all means
20 preserve order before calling in the
troops and the Nashazhizn claims that
this was not done before the military
began firing.
Gorky Will Not Hang.
The report that Maxim Gorky ma,
be hanged for high treason is withou
the slightest foundation. Even hi.
friends declare the rumor absurd. TIL,
expectation is that he will be released
in a few weeks. He was a member O
the deputation of editors and literar,
men who called on M. White, presiden
of the committee Of ministers, Janu
airy 81, all Of whom were arrested bu
several of whom have already beer
released. The only other charge
against Gorky is that he was mem.
Der of the committee of three which
was appointed to collect funds for til,
strikers Sir Charles Hardinge tn
British ambassador, has been ofiiciall,
informed that the Warsaw authorize
have been directed to afford Col
Napier. the British military attache
every facility to investigate the attacl
on British Consul General Murray an,
Pro Consul Mucukain. No details O
the affair have yet reached the British
embassy.
Immigration Statistics.
Washington. Feb L. = For the last 81.
months ended December 81 last, 400, 06
Immigrants were admitted to tn
Irnifed States apainct 900 eA1 for ~,