The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-01
CAR YIELDS.
lie Receives a DeputatiOn Of
WOrkIngmen at Palace.
Quiet Has Been Partially Re-
stored at Warsaw.
BUSINESS RESUMED.
Some Stores and Offices Have
Been ReOpened.
Strike Extends to Sugar Re-
flmeries and Other Factories.
MTRSKY HAS GIVEN UP.
Recently Appointed Minister of
the Interior Resigns.
Portfolio is Said to Have Been
Offered to Witte.
Some Stores and Offices Have
Been ReOpened.
Strike Extends to Sugar Re-
ameries and Other Factories.
MIRSKY HAS GIVEN UP.
Recently Appointed Minister OF
the Interior Resigns.
Portfolio Is Said to Have Been
Offered TO Witte.

st. Petersburg, Feb. Emperor
Nicholas received this afternoon al
Tsarskoe-Selo a deputation of thirty
four workingmen representing the en-
ployes of the factories and workshops
of St Petersburg. The deputation was
accompanied by Minister of Finance
Kokovoskoff and Governor General
Trepon and rode to Tsarskoe- Selo,
where carriages were awaiting them
and they were driven to a point near
the imperial pavilion On arriving
there the workmen We're admitted to
one of the halls of the palace The
emperor entered the hall accompanied
by Grand Duke George NIichaelovitch,
General Hesse, the minister of the i'm
perial court, and the commandant of
the palace. The workmen bowed
deeply to the emperor, who said:
Good day my children"
The workmen replied: I'VE wish
your majesty good health
The emperor then said: Il have
summoned you in order that you may
hear my words from myself and COM
municate them to your companions
The recent lamentable events with
such said but inevitable results have
occurred because you allowed your
selves to be led astray by traitors and
enemies to our country. When they
induced you to address a petition to
me on your needs they desired to see
you revolt against me and my govern
menC They forced you to leave your
honest work at a period when all
Russian WOrkmen should be laboring
increasingly in order that we might
Nanquish our obstinate enemy Strike es
and disgraceful demonstrations led
the crowds to disorders which obliged
and always viii oblige the authorities
10 call out troops AS a result inno-
cent people were victims. I know
that the lot of the workman is not
easy Many things require improve
ment, but have patience. You will
understand that it is necessary to be
just towards your employers and to
consider the condition OF our indus
tries But to come to me as a. rebel
liOus mob in order to declare your
wants is a crime In my solicitude
measures which will assure that
everything possible will be done to
improve their lot and secure an ad-
justment of their demands through
legal channels. I am convinced of the
honesty of the workmen and their de-
VOtiOn to myself and I pardon their
transgressiOn- Return to your work
with your comrades and carry out the
tasks allotted to you. May God assist
you"
At the conclusion of his speech the
emperor told the members of the
deputation to communicate his words
supply them with printed copies of his
address After leaving the palace the
deputatiOn proceeded to a neighbor-
ing church where they prayed and
after kissing ikons placed lighted
candles before the shrines. Suisse
quently they We're given dinner in a.
building which formerly was the high
school of Tsarskoe- One of the
members of the deputation proposed
the health of the emperor which was
drunk with cheers.
At 4:SO the delegates drove to the
imperial pavilion whence they took a
train for St. Petersburg
Warsaw Is Quiet.
Warsaw, Feb. THE citv is o1,iat
although great tension still prevails
Some stores and offices have been re-
opened, but only two newspap pers were
published this morning The strike
has extended to the sugar refneries
and other factories IN the districts
around Warsaw.
Mirsl1y Gives 1t Up.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 1.-The retire
ment OF Interior Minister Sviatopolk-
Mlrsky was officially announced TODAY
III health being assigned as the reason
M DurnovO, former minister of posts
and telegraphs, becomes acting min
lister of the interior NJ. Bouligan, for
mer governor general of Moscow,
seems most likely to be Prince Sviato-
polk-A1irsky's successor.
The gossips are saying that Emper-
to NJ Witte, president of the commit
tee of ministers Prince SviatopoIk-
Mirsky's desire to retire had been
known for weeks, but the manner in
which it was announced was unusual
the retirement of a minister being
generally accompanied by an imperial
rescript For this reason the form of
the announcement is popularity accept
ed as a reDrimand. Among the ex-
treme reacuOnarieS and even among
some of the more moderate conserva-
tives Prince Sviatopolk- -AIirsky has
been blamed for having from the verv
outset of his career ENCOURAGED all
sorts of liberal aspirations which he
ing impossible of immediate realiza-
tion brought the present storm about
the head of the government
Responsibility Fixed
St. Petersburg, Feb. IA sensational
hut unconfirmed report was current last
night that the commission investigating
the incident of January 10 (when. dur
ing the annual ceremony of the bless
ing of the waters of the Neva, the i'm
perial family narrowly escaped death1
has discovered that it was a deliberate
attempt at terrorism and that the re-
sponsjbility for the insertion of grape
in front OF a saluting charge has been
fixed upon Bogdanoff. a private of th,.
Seventeenth battery of the First Horse
artillery OF the guards, who was serv-
INK the gun. BoSdanoff. it is said is a