River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-01-26
A REVOLUTION
STIRS RUSSIA.
A QUIET SUNDAY MORNING rs
TURNED INTO a SCENE
OF CARNAGE.
Worknen Trying to Present Petit
ton to the Gear are Moved Down
by Troops. The Strike Extends
to the City of Moscow.

St Petersburg, January pa Sun
day was dav of unspealIa bic horror
in st. Petersburg.
a.. The strikers, goaded to desperation
by day of violence, fury and blood
shed, are in state of open insurrec-
ton against the government.
A condition almost bordering on civil
tai of Russia.
The city is under martial law, with
Prince Vasilchikoff as commander of
over $4,000 of the emperor's crack
guards.
An invitation to meet the working
men was presented to the ear but he
refused to meet them in front of the
palace.
The figures of the total number
killed or wounded here, at the Mos
cow gate, at various bridges and at the
winter palace vary.
The lowest estimate is 500, although
there are exaggerated figures placing
the number as high as 5000
Many men were accompanied by
their wives and children and in the
confusion which left no time for dis
elimination, the latter shared the fate
of the men.
The troops, with the exception of a
single regiment, which is reported to
have thrown down its arms, remained
loyal and obeyed orders.
st. Petersburg, Jan 24.-The troops
are firing on the crowds in the Nevsky
Prospelzt.
The report that a portion of the track
of the Warsaw & Baltic railroad had
been torn up is confirmed. The North
ern express has not left the station.
The vast admiralty works at Sevas-
| topol are on fire.
Emperor Nicholas is completely
Frustrated by grief. He is represented
to be almost in a state of collapse over
the situation. In the meantime every
thing awaits his decision. All of the
schools are closed.
Every window in Grand Duke Ser
gius' st. Petersburg palace was broken
by mob during the night.
The police have closed all the gun
smiths shops, and firearms and other
weapons have been removed from the
windows and locked up in the cellars.
The city is filed with sensational ru-
mors, among them being one that
Grand Dukes Alexis and Sergius are
already on their way to the frontier.
St Petersburg, Jan. 24.-The most
startling feature in the situation now
is the news that several factories in
Moscow have closed and that the work
men in the old capital of Russia are
repeating the tactics of their fellow
worl1men of the new capital, marching
from shop to shop and mill to mill, de-
handing that the establishing nts be
shut down. The whole city is reported
to be in a state excitement over the
news of the bloodshed Sunday which
has precipitated the strike that has
been planned for Wednesday.
| Moscow has more workmen and less
troops than st. Petersburg and besides
is Just now the heart of the liberal
movement and the danger of bloodier
occurrences there than have been wit
messed here are proportionatelY grea-
| ter.
There are extremely significant re-
ports that Emperor Mich olas, in MAX
| ing the decision at the extraordinary
meeting of the council of the empire at
Tsarlxoe Belo to declare ST. Petersburg
in state of siege, announced that he
had resolved to issue a manifesto to
this people with a view to calming
theL., promising to create a mixed
commission of worlxmen and officials
to investig & tie and decide the questions
of the demands of the strikers, es-
peciaIly the one affecting hours of la
Dor, which Russian law fixes at eleven.
The estimates of the number of dead
and wounded Sunday continue to vary
g realty as at least a majority of the
killed and wounded were carried off
by their comrades.
Few of those taken to the hospita Is
have been reported.
From careful investigation of the
Associated Press it appears hat the
estimate of 500 cabled Sunday night
seems liberal.
Philadelphia, Jan. "a STORED in va
rious parts of Germany are large num-
bers of cannon intended to be rushed
into Russia and used by the revolu-
tionists in their struggle with the Rus
sian dynasty as soon as the signal shall
be given.
Secret plans were perfected at the
congress of the Russian revolutionist
leaders in Switzerland last December,
by which the Poles, Firms, Armenians
and others engaged in the uprising
should strike together at the same sig
nal