Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-01-28
COSSACKS FIRED ON PEOPLE
FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN MARCH
ED TO ST. PETERSBURG.
Cars Soldiers Fired Three volleys Of
Blank Shots and Then Charged on
Crowd With Horsewhips and Dis
persed it-Letter to Gar Read
Father Gopson accommodated.

st. Petersburg, Jan. 22.-About 10
o., lock this morning is, 900 men start
ed from the Neva works toward st.
Petersburg, but an hour later were
stopped by two companies of Cossacks
drawn mp in five rows, who barred
the way.
The Cossacks fired three volleys of
blank shots and some of the strikers
fled across the Neva, but others held
their ground and the Cossaoks loaded
with ball cartridges and charged the
crowd with heavy whips and dispersed
it.
1t is not yet known how many per-
sons were killed or wounded Mounted
troops are now passing around the pal
ace.
In the meantime the strikers are
carrying out their original plan. The
few mills and factories remaining act
i've in the city were closed Saturday,
one of the last of them being the gov
eminent powder mill. Strike leaders
visited every shop in the city, and all
of them, even those of butchers and
bakers and laundries, were closed.
Traffic was stopped on the street car
lines, the men having joined the strik-
ers.
Active preparations for a big demon
stration at the winter palace square at
2 o'clock today have not been suspend
ed, although the leaders nave been
warned that it must not take place,
and that the emperor will not be there.
The workmen all are convinced that
his majesty will appear and listen to
the grievances set forth in the petition.
The deputation which on Friday
took the invitation to EmperorNicholas
to attend the meeting having failed to
gain access to his majesty, Father Go
pom today sent it by his secretary to
Interior Minister Sivatolpk- Mirsky.
The text of the letter follows: Your
Excellency: Workmen of all classes
in st. Petersburg wish to see the en-
peror at O'Clock p. IN. January ~ at
the winter palace square in order to
personally express to him the need of
all the Russian people. l am assured
by all workmen, my colaborers and
comrades, and even by alleged revolu-
tionaries, that his majesty has nothing
to fear. His personal safety is assured.
Let him come as the true emperor,
with courageous heart, to his people to
receive the petition from our hands
that is demanded by regard for his own
welfare, as well as for that of the in
habitants of ST. Petersburg and of Rus
STA. Otherwise the moral bond hither-
to existing between the emperor and
the people may be broken.
cit is your excellency's high duty to
the emperor and the entire people of
Russia to present the foregoing to his
majesty, the emperor, today, without
delay, and also the contents of our Pc
tition attached hereto. Say to the en-
peror that I, togther with many work
man and thousands of people of Russia,
am irrevocably resolved with my faith
in him to proceed to the winter palace
in order that he may show his faith by
deeds and not by manifestos.
The document is signed by Father
Gopon and II representatives of Sec
tions of the work mems union.
Father Gopon had long interview
with Minister of Justice Muravieff to.
day, and the minister took formal cog.
nizance of the demands of the strikers.
He said that everyone must do his
duty and act according to his convic'
lions.
( During the day Antonius. metropolis
tan of st. Petersburg, formally excom
unicated Father Gopon on the GROUND
T that he was causing the people to ris'
against the emperor, the head of the
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