New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-11-08
.EDICT FAILS TO
END REVOLUTION
CAR GRANTS RUSSIA A CONSTI-
TUTIoNAL FORM OF
GOVERNMENT.

| Action Comes Too Late, However, and
Is Followed by Terrible Scenes of
Bloodshed Throughout Empire
| Thousands Killed and Wounded.
ST. Petersburg, Oct. 31.-Monday
night the autocracy of the Romanofs
and the old order of things ceased to
exist in Russia. Emperor Nicholas
has surrendered. and Count Witte
comes into power as minister president
| with an imperial mandate which will
enable him to convert the farcical ma
tional assembly into real legislative
body elected by greatly extended SUI
frage and to confer upon the people
fundamental civil liberties, including
free speech.
The Manifesto.
The following is the text of the i'm
perial manifesto:
"We, Nicholas the Second by the
grace of God emperor and autocrat of all
the Russias, grand duke of Finland,
ETC., declare to all our faithful subjects
that ihe troubles and agitation in our
capitals and in numerous other places
fill Ar heart with excessive pain and
sorrow. The happiness of the Russian
sovereign is indissolubly bound up
with the happiness of our people, and
the.sorrOw of our people is the sorrow
of the sovereign, From the present dis
orders may arise great national disrup-
. ton. They menace the integrity and
unity of our empire.
''The supreme duty imposed upon us
/ by our sovereign Office requires us to
efface ourselves and to use all the force
, and reason at our command to hasten
in securing the unity and coordination
of the power Of the central government
: and to assure the Success of measures
for paciicatlon in all circles of public
: life, which are essential to the we'll
t being of our people.
e 'We> therefore, direct our govern
a ment to carry out our inhexible will
] in the following manner:
! "First-To extend to the population
y the immutable foundations of civic
q q liberty based on the real inviolability
OF person, freedom of conscience,
e speech, union and association
''Second-Without suspending the al
/ ready ordered elections to the state
douma, to invite the participation In
u the douma, so far as the limited time be.
> fore the convocation of the douma will
. permit, those classes of the population
# now completely deprived of electoral
rights, leaving the ultimate develop
ment of the principle of the electoral
right in general to the newly estab.
lished legislative order of things.
[. '"Third-To establish as an unchange
able rule that no law shall be enforce
able without the approval of the state
), douma and that it shall be possible TO
y the elected of the people to exercise rea
/ participation in the supervision OF The
o legality of the acts of the authorities ap
/ pointed by us.
I'VE appeal to all faithful sons O.
Russia to remember their duty to-
c: wards the fatherland, to aid in termi
mating these unprecedented troubles
and ito apply their forces, in cooperation
with us. to the restoration of cain
i, and peace upon our natal soil.
It "'Given at Peterhof. October 80, in tn
n eleventh year of our reign
NICHOLAS"
$. Mob Rule Rampant.
st. Petersburg, Nov. 2.-Althougl
=. "Wednesday passed in comparatiy
n quiet in St. Petersburg and Moscow
- flood of dispatches from all parts O
- the empire report disorders in. man
cities. with a heavy total of dead an
8 wounded. The people while celebrat
Ing their new found freedom were i
many instances set upon by Cossack
and police, while sometimes the spiri
of mob violence broke forth and tn
re lower elements of the population CAV
of themselves to pillage and destruction
le The most serious disorders apparent
occurred at Odessa. where hundreds Q
ID persons are reported to have bee
as killed or wounded and where the rio
ne ing is momentarily expected to far
n out into a repetition of the slaughte
be of last July, and at Kazan, where
n three days reign of terror was ende
a. only by the retirement of all Cossack
in to their barracks.
m - Martial Law Declared.
I'd London, Nov. "a dispatch to
- NEWS agency from OQeSSa says tina
of martial law was declared there Thur:
I'd day afternoon. The whole garrison ha
ch turned out and now occupies the sit.
he Police control has also been reestat
in lished All citizens are forbidden
leave their houses after nine O'Clock
- the evening, at which hour all light
must be out. Maxim guns have bee
10 placed on positions commanding hui
. dred streets. Under these condition
the dispatch says, a repetition Of til
fearful scenes is practically impossible
Awful Slaughter.
London, Nov. "a dispatch to tn
II Evening Standard from Odessa says
THE casualties Wednesday are b.
D lieyed to have amounted to 5000 kille
n and wounded. In the Jewish quarter
III 80 ~+f