Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-18
PREPARING. FOR
MAY DAY REVOLT
RUSSIAN PEASANTS AND WORK.
MEN ARE AROUSED.
REIGN OF BLOOD is FEARED
A Crisis Is Apparently Approaching
and Many People Are Leav-
ing the Threatened
Districts.

st. Petersburg, April Is. = Develop
ments all point to crisis in the present
agitation among the workmen of the
cities and the peasants in the country
on May day, and appeals are pouring in
from all quarters of Russia for military
protection. The st. Petersburg work
men are preparing great demonstra-
ton. Arms and bombs in large guam
titles have been struggled in and blood
shed on large scale is feared. Wealthy
persons, who ordinarily go to villas on
the islands of the Neva or to neighbor-
ing country places, this year are going
abroad. The government has taken few
special measures to meet the situation,
evidently relying on the troops and po-
lice to guard the catital. The latter are
extremely active. All the prominent
agitators are being arrested or have al
ready been sent back to the villages
from which they originally came. The
prisons are filled to overfiowing.
Fresh Labor Disputes.
There have been fresh disputes be-
tween the workmen and the managers
of the Putiloff, Baltic and Nevski works
and between the employees and the man
agement of the government cartridge
factory. At the latter place the men
refuse to continue to donate any portion
of their pay to assist in the support of
families of the soldiers at the front,
claiming that the money is used to pros
ecute the war, to which they are OPP
posed.
The news received from the interior
is alarming, especially from the Baltic
! provinces, where the entire population
is in a state of intense excitement. The
cities are being flooded with revolu-
tionary proclamations, calling on the
| people to rise on May day. The Grim
inal classes are taking advantage of the
situation to pillage and plumber, while
| in the country the landlords are pow
erless to cope with the peasants and de-
mand the stationing Of troops at every
| station.
Jews in State of Panic.
From Dunaburg, government of VI.
| tebsk, come reports that the Jews arr
Ill n SIdlS VI pduAC ONSA SAS IA S0AoSAO'l
of proclamations similar to those which
preceded the outbreaks at Kishineff and
Gomel. At Ekaterinoslav three revolu.
tionists who were surrounded by pc.
lice fought their way to liberty, killing
or wounding several of the latter. A
dispatch from Kars says that the en-
ployes of the Transcaucasian railroad
/! are on strike and that 100 miles Of the
| track have been damaged.
Many Leaving Warsaw.
Warsaw, Russian Poland, April TO-
Disturbances here are feared during
the Easter holidays. Many people are
leaving Warsaw and accommodation in
the sleeping cars to Berlin and Vienna
has been engaged several days ahead.
Fresh strikes are reported at Lodz,
Russian Poland, where the. situation is
causing much uneasiness. The trials
of the persons arrested in connection
with the January disturbances are now
proceeding in the citadel behind closed
doors and under martial law. 1t is I'M
derstood that several of the prisoners
have already received the most severe
penal servitude sentences.