The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-27
PEOPLE WARNED.
Cars Soldiers Will Shoot in
Case of Disorder.
st. Petersburg Is Calmer Under
Stern Measures Adopted.
DISQUIETING REPORTS
Continue to Come in From All
Over the Empire.
In Some Quarters Troops Side
With the Strikers.

St Petersburg, Oct. 27.-12:23 P. NJ
Warnings to the people that in case of
disorder the soldiers viii fire ball cart
ridges are posted on every street corner
today. The city is calmer on the sur
face under the rigorous measures adopt
ed. General Trepoff. in order to re-
store confidence, directed all shop keep
ers to take down the boards from shop
windows during the night and this
morning the city awoke to find the
shops reopened-
Little squads of soldiers are scatter
ed along the streets and in the mar
kets to preserve order. Even detach-
ments of the crack guard regiments
like the Precbrajensky, Senionovsky
and horse guards are doing patrol duty.
Nevertheless beneath the surface there
Is much excitement. The revolutionists
have spread the tidings that a revolu
with the widest rumors. For example
a story is afioat that a provisional gov
ernment has been established.
Though the task of continuing the
general strike more than a few days
Seemed utterly hopeless to the practical
minded, it is significant at the deep
rooted craving for liberty that the agi-
tatorS have experienced little difficulty
in inducing all classes of Workmen to
join in the anti-government demonstra-
4 ton.
At a meeting of delegates from the
professional unions, comprising doctors,
strike from October %, until a constitu-
ent assembly is summoned.
Advices Are Disquieting.
The late advices from Minsk, Keiff
and SanatOff are disquieting. With a
single exception the newspapers Of the
Keiff have declared in favor of a
strike All the drug stores in Baratoff
are closed and the towns are without
artificial light and no newspapers are
published. The Saratoff town council
has organized a committee for the pro-
lection of the citizens.
The stores in st. Petersburg have
4 ceased running and the employees of the
bureau Of ways and communications
and even the bank and office employees
have agreed to affiliate themselves with
the movement The printers have re-
solved upon an unique demonstration tC
voice their demand for a free press
They have decided not to print a single
regular newspaper tomorrow, but in
stead to publish clandestinely an uncen.
sored paper for distribution by the
workmen containing the details of the
proletariat for a constituent assembly
Just where reports were abroad thai
freedom of assembly would be grant
ed a bad impression has been created
by the publication in the official mes
Senger of belated set of tempo
rary' regulations, three columns il
length, dealing with the right of as
sembIy which will require three tC
seven days notice to the police of the
object of the meeting with the names
of the spea kerS etc Then if permits.
sion is granted the police are empow-
cred to close the meetings if opinions
are uttered which are supposed tC
threaten public order. The news
from the interior is meager. The sit
uation has not improved.
According to report the troops a
Karkoff sided with the students ant
strikers. In many places the schools
are closed The high school girls OF
Pslxoff walked out this morning.
The Russ, now the leading organ OF
the constitutional party, declares tina
Count Whites accession to power vii
not satisfy the people until he come:
forward with a programme which
meets the wants of the nation. ONLY
a resolutely solid guarantee of tht
future, the paper declares, can nov
avail to reassure the people that tn,
past viii not repeat itself.
Warsaw OH Fire.
Thorne, Prussia, Oct 27.-A mes
sage from a reliable source in War
saw received here says that an in
cendiary fire that started there las
night has not been extinguished ant
that one part of the city is in flames.
Verging on Revolution.
Paris, Oct. 27.-Of1eial dispatches con
tinUe to arrive uninterruptedly from st
condition of the agitation, leading tn
authorities here to regard the situation
as alarming. Unofficial quarters and tn
1 newspapers discuss the Russian situa
: ton as verging on a revolution.
Street Car Men Strike.
LODI, Russian Poland, Oct. 27.-Th
, employees of all the local factories
street car lines and the suburban rail
I ways have struck
!, TeIegraphic Communication Cut on.
Warsaw. Russian Poland, Oct. IL
Telegraphic communication betweei
1 Warsaw and st. Petersburg, Moscoy
and Berlin was severed today in conse
quence of a fire in the telegraph ofHc
caused by the fusing of electric wires
The strike is in full swing at the fac
tories here and the agitators are urgin
. the employees of the banks and insur
ance and commercial houses to leav
their work. The shops are still opeT
e The worlSrnen are holding big meeting
without interference on the part of tn
police.