Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-12-23
THE GOVERNMENT
MAKES ARRESTS
Leaders of the WOrkmen Are Now
In Custody.
TO POPULACE
At Que Place the Chief of Police
and His Assistants We're Taken
Into Custody by Rerolu-
ti0nists and Executed.

St Petersburg. Dec. 23.-Since noon.
Thursday the streets have been filled
with troops. and especially the indus
trial sections. The railroad stations
are in possession of the military.
Wholesale arrests of the leaders Of
the workmen wore made. II is reported
that the police include in their cap
lures the members of the second work
mems council. who were placed in tn,
fortress OF st. Peter and st. Paul with
the members of the select council. who
were arrested Saturday night. A third
council. however, took the place of the
second.
The League of Leagues has issued 3<
appeal TO the public asking for liberal
support Of the proletariat which IS
bearing the runt of the struggle for
the emancipation of the nation" The
appeal says there Is bound to be much
privation. starvation and even death
from cold. and not only asks for ma
terial aid. but proposes the inaugural
ton of. free dining rooms for woriSm'
in all parts of the city.
According % the latest Information
the Lithuanian instruction has ex
tended into the province of Vitebs...
across the borders of Livonia
At Kokunhusen the chief OF police
and his assistants were tried by a rev.
dictionary tribunal and executed. The
insurrect onists had fortified the town
by throwing up entertainments by
which they dug pits. They also IN I
in position the machine guns recently
captured by them. The trenches were
taken by storm. both sides losing heav-
lily.
The latest information from Khar-
koff says that 10000 revolutionaries
are under arms. and more troops are
being concentrated for the purpose Of
reolpturing the city.
The strike started here at noon tame-
ly. In the center OF the city the shops
were not closed. the proprietors having
received guarantees that II they re-
manned open they would be given am
pie protection. and that any deputa-
ton of strikers seeking by threats 20
compel the closing Of the shops would
be instantly arrested. There was. how
fNfl. al W.
the Industrial section Tie main in
terest of the strike Of the railroad
men conferred I'm the Warsaw station.
where the government was to make n
test OF It's ability by moving trairye9
The depot VAS PACKED with troops
Promptly at noon there was a wild
hurrah accompanied by the roar of es-
Gaping steam. and a few minutes later
the railroad men walked out OF tn
yards in a body.
The authorities. however, were pre-
pared. and after delay Of ten minutes
a locomotive. manned by soldiers. was
backed into the station and was con-
nected with the waiting train. which |
VS. crowded with people seeking To
depart from the unhappy country. |
Lines Of soldiers with fixed bayonets |
thanked the train. and an official with |
four soldiers entered the carriages and |
thoroughly searched them in order to |
ascertain II suspicious persons were on |
board.
AS the official and his escort left |
the train a signal was given and twenty |
soldiers entered the cars. while another |
detachment was sent through the car
riages. The train then pulled out
An extra car. loaded with wrecking |
apparatus. was attached 70 the train |
10 be used In case Of accident between |
stations TIE Usual mail car was miss
ing. At other stations similar precau-
iions will be taken
In the manufacturing districts be-
yond Warsaw and Narva Gates. in the
Schulsselburg district. and In the Sec
lions on both sides of the Neva. the
workmen generally obeyed the sum-
mons 20 strike. and promptly at ~
o'clock thousands Of them emerged 20
he streets.