Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-02-16
GRAVE POSSIBILITY OF RE,EN
AcTMENT OF TRAGEDY OF
JANUARY %.
SLAUGHTER STILL GOES ON
TWENTY-ElGHT KILLED AT SOS.
NOVICE AND TWENTY.FouR
AT skARzYsko.

st. Petersburg, Feb. list. Peters,
burg. is again face to face with re.
newal of the labor upheayal. the i'm.
mediate Indictment being the failure
of the worlSmen to secure payment for
the time they were out on strike
added to the fact that there has been
no adjustment of the demands which
led to the strike last month. The
Putiloff Iron works, where the former
strike originated, is playing the prin.
cipal role. There are 10000 workmen
already out within the metropolis and
the workmen at the torpedo factory in
Kolpino, eighteen miles distant, have
also Joined the strikers. There is a
strong prospect of the movement ex-
tending Only
Energetic Measures
by the troops and police prevented the
resumption yesterday of the former
tactics of the strikers, marching from
factory to factory and inducing or
compelling the employees to lay down
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no disorder in ST. Petersburg and the
authorities appear to have the situa-
ton well in hand in this respect Cir
cumstantial reports that the revolu-
tionary element is about to Join with
the strikers and resort to bomb throw
apprehensions.
The workmen yesterday held num-
Der of orderly meetings in open fields
and big assemblages are scheduled for
to-day. Sunday will be
The Crucial Time.
Reports from many factories show
that the hands are ripe for trouble
and liable to strike.
Father Gopon's organization is rep
resented to have appointed thirty
three delegates who were to ask Gov.
Gen. Trepoff to permit the workmen
to send another representative delega-
ton to see Emperor Nicholas and pre-
sent program of labor reforms, and
in case of refusal of this request to
repeat the attempt to march to the
palace square, but there is no con-
firmation Of this report, and it is ex-
tremely doubtful if the men can be in
duced to re-enact their part of the
tragedy of Jan. %.
Many Are Killed.
Sosnovice, Feb IA mob invaded
the yard of the Katherinen works yes
terday, demanding that the workmen
in charge of the electrical machinery
there join the strike. A company of
soldiers interviewed and a Polish Of
ficer repeatedly called upon the peo-
pie to dispense. They refused to leave
unless they were accompanied by the
workmen. 1t is said that a rioter
menaced the officer with a knife,
whereupon he gave the order to fire.
with the result that tWenty-eight per-
sons fell dead and thirty-six were seri
ously wounded. These latter were re-
moved to a hospital, where five of
them have since died. A number of
others were slightly wounded Many
were wounded in the back and evil
IDENTIFY they We're trying to escape.
Twenty-Four Strikers Killed.
Berlin, Feb. 12.According to press
dispatches from Kattowitz, Russian
Poland, a collision occurred between
$4,000 strikers and the military at the
Russian station of Skarzysko, in which
twenty four strikers were killed and
forty wounded. The military, it is
also reported, fred on strikers at Os-
trowicz, but the casualties in that case
are not known.
Search Whites Residence.
4 London, Feb. IL. The correspond
ent at st. Petersburg Of the Daily
News sends to that paper the extra
ordinary report that the first act Of the
new minister Of the interior, M. Bell
gan, on arriving in ST. Petersburg on
Friday, was to have the residence Of
M. Witte, president of the council Of
the empire, searched by the police,
who removed mass Of documents for
examination. M. Witte was at home
at the time and the police made
thorough and systematic examiaatioD
OF all the private papers in Vie house.
The correspondent adds that when
Minister Won Plehve was assassinated
he was carrying an order to the en-
speror for his signature autherizing
Just such q perquisition for II. Whites
papers. It looks. therefore. the cores
pendent adds. that the new ninister Is.
beginning just where Won Pialye left
Oh.
Fire Causes SIC, eco LDss.
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