Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-02-04

Wires MObs PflinRing Stores-Geu-
eraI Strike on Three Hundred
Dead.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2.-The lat
est reports from Warsaw depict the sit
uation throughout Poland as increas-
ingly serious.
A condition of civil war exists in the
Polish capital. The rebels have erected
barricades. Hundreds of shops have
been plundered. The rebels wrecked
the telephone exchange. poured tons of
petroleum in the streets and have set
fire to it, and 1t is said complete an
archy prevails
A woman posted ON the balcony of
her house picked off the Cossacks who
were trying to drive the strikers from
the streets. A Cossack finally shot the
woman. but his own life paid the pen
atty. The mob fell upon him, dragged
him from his horse and beat and
kicked him to death. Fighting around
the barbados continued during the
eight.
Ia one section the rebels are masters
of the situation. The police have fed
Huge placards have been posted an
nouncing the establishment of revo-
lutionary municipal regime.
At st. Petersburg last night the po-
lice surprised a meeting of strikers In u
tavern and fired, killing u girl and
wounding four persons.
1t is said that the responsibility for
the insertion of grape in front of the
saluting charge, when grapeshots were
cred at the ear, has been fixed upon
Bogdanoff, private of the Seventeenth
battery of the First horse artillery of
the guards, who was serving the gun
Bogdanoff, 1t is said, Is former stu
dent and a member of revolutionary
association.
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 effect
Those who are not willing to walk out
are compelled to join the strike by
threats. Mr.. Fouchas saw no improve
ment in the situation and reported the
receipt of bad news from LODI and Ra-
dom.
1t is conservatively estimated that
the number of killed or wounded at
Warsaw is about 300.
A small group of mobiles of the Insti-
tute of Moscow have prepared a petit
ton asking the emperor to invoke a
national assembly.
Prince Gurielly, an officer of the po-
lice guard. while driving past the iron
works yesterday at Batoum was shot
and killed by an unknown man. No ar
rests have been made,
Maxim Gorky has been brought here
from Riga, where he was arrested at
the bedside of his sick wife. He has
been imprisoned In the fortress of st.
Petersburg by General Trepoff's orders,
and it is feared he will be dealt with
summarily.
About 100000 persons have struck
sat LODI. Telephone communication
with that city has been interrupted by
the strikers.
AT st. Petersburg Sir Charles Har-
tlinge, the British ambassador, has
asked the Russian government to make
inquiry into the outrages ON the Brit
ish consul general and vice consul at
Warsaw.
Assurances of his intention to ameii-
crate the conditions and remove the
causes, insofar as they are economic,
which led to the recent strike, were
delivered by Emperor Nicholas to n
delegation of work ingmen representing
all the leading factories of st. Peters
burg, including representatives of thfr-
ty-two of the largest industrial estab-
iishments and the Baltic and Franco
Russian shipyards, the Putilon Iron
works and the Russo-Amerlcan Rubber
works, who at his invitation iourneyed
TO Tsarskoe Selo and were received In
audience in the hall Of the Alexander
palace. where he has his winter resi-
dence.
The emperor entered the han, accom-
panied by Grand Duke George Mix.
hailovitch, General Hesse, the minister
of the imperial court and the com
mandant of the palace.
The workmen bowed deeply to bis
majesty, who said:
Good day, my children"
The workmen replied
1--WE wish your majesty good health"
The emperor then said:
81 have summoned you in order thai
you may hear my words from myself
and communicate them to your com
panions. The recent lamentable events
with such sad but inevitable results
have occurred because you allowed
yourselves to be led astray by traitors
and enemies to our country.
81 know that the lot OF the workman
is not easy. Many things require i'm
provement, but have patience.
"You will understand that IL "a uecea