The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-02-11
RIOTERS SHOT DOWN
Russian Troops Fired Volleys
Into Crowd at Sosnovice.
EXPECTA GENERAL RAILROAD STRIKE
Twenty-eight Dead, Thirty-six seri-
OusIy Hurt AT Katherinen Works.
Cznr Working ON IA ParIia-
mcntnry scheme.

mcntnry scheme.
ST. PETERSBURG Feb. ia spe-
clal dispatch from Sosnovice says:
"Whcn mob here invaded the yard of
the Katherincn works demanding that
the workmen in charge of the electric
al machinery there join in the strike a
company of soldiers interviewed and a
Polish officer repeatedly called upon
the people to disperse. They refused to
leave unless they were accompanied by
the worllmen. 1t Is said that rloter
menaccd the officer with knife,
whereupon he gave the order to his
company 10 fire, with the result that
twenty eight persons. including high
school pupil who happened to be pass
Ing, fell dead and thlrty-slx were serl-
ousy wounded These latter were re-
moved to hospital, where five Of them
have since died number Of others
were slightly wounded. Many were
wounded in the back. and evidently
they were trying to escape.
"A large quantity of dynamite has
been stolen from the explosive stores
of the Casmir mines, 1t Is supposed. by
strikers"
a LODI dispatch says that four per-
sons were killed ana siXty-eight wound
ed in riot at the Cheibler factory
and that seven were killed and fifty
wounded at the Marcus Kohn factory,
in that city.
The chief conflict occurred at Louis
Geyer's factory. where troops were
lined up to prevent the men from en-
tering TO demand their pay.
The strikers generally are enraged
at the refusal of other manufacturers
to give them their pay. and several 9th
err encounters between mObs and troops
are reported from different directions.
In these number of people are said
10 have been wounded.
The greatest alarm prevails here. The
shops are closed and windows boarded
up.
4 general railroad strike Is expected
10 commence on Feb. II throughout
Poland.
The students OF the archaeological in
stitute met last night and resolved in
fuvor of constitutional reforms and
stopping the war and agreed to resume
their studies provided there were no
repressive measures against the pro-
fessors or students.
The students Of the seminary. to
which are sent grand dukes who are
destined for the highest offices of the
church. recently adopted resolution
condemning the bloodshed Of Jan. -,
censurlng the holy synod's manifesto
attributing the labor movement to for
elgn instIgation and demanding con-
stitution The rector Of the seminary
has not been dismissed.
According TO dispatches from katto-
WITT, Russian Poland, collision &C.
cured between $1,000 strikers and the
military mt the Russian station of
Skarzysko, in which twenty-four strik-
ers were killed and forty wounded.
The military also fired on strikers at
Ostrowicz but the casualties in that
case are not known.
A strike is expected to break out on
the Warsaw Vienna railway.
A dispatch from Sosnovice says: a
procession of strikers from Zagorge GO
ing TO Siedlce, where a demonstration
had been planned, was dispersed by the
military, who freely used their swords
and whips. Troops continue TO arrive
in large numbers. The strikers have
called great meeting for tomorrow,
which, it is feared, will cause more
trouble
Emperor Nicholas has received In
audience Count Tolstoi's son, Count
Leo Deonyitch, who brought his IA
TIERS draft of a scheme for ''peo-
pies assembly" The emperor told
Deonvitch that he himself had been
working on similar scheme. which
would shortly be put into execution