The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-21

LiduS HIS appearance H0df I6QZd. ana
already his followers number $4,000.
This is the startling report received
this afternoon in a dispatch from Sim
brisk. PenZa is in the heart of the
vast region extending westward from
the Nolga, where agrarian uprising,
on a scale have been occurring, and
il h report turns out to be true that
the pretender to the throne has placed
himself at the head of the peasantry,
the government will 500 face besides
its other troubles a formidable agra
rian rebellion. 1t required a year to
suppress the famous rebellion led by
P~ugatcheff who impersonated the de-
throned and murdered Peter III in the
time of Catherine II. That uprising
was started in the same region, on the
banks of Volga.
st. Petersburg, November 17.-2:20
a. m.-Though the industrial tie up in
st. Petersburg yesterday was even
more complete than it was Wednes-
day, and though no break has been
manifested in the ranks of the work
men and strikes have broken out at
Moscow and Reyal, the most important
feature of yesterdays developments
was the failure of the walk Out TO
spread generally outside the capital.
The movement apparently lacks the
spontaneity and contagiousness of The
last great strike which broke out at
Moscow and dispatches received from
the Industrial centers of Russia up to
this hour show little inclination on
the part of the workmen to take up
cudgels in behalf of Poland.
The factory strike at Moscow, which
has assumed considerable proportions,
probably 5000 men being out has no
direct connection with the st. Peters
walkout and dispatches from the old
capital say that the railroad men re-
ceived the request of the ST. Peters
burg walkout and dispatches from the
whole great network of railroads cen
tering at Moscow, except the st. Pet
erSburg line is still in operation. At
Reval the employees of the railroad
shop struck but the reason for the
strike IS not stated.
In st Petersburg the day passed with
in all the Industrial quarters and Cos
SdSho "C1O IIoIIAAS ny o1u ho"h III
Nevsky prospect, among the swiftly
dashine carriages and sleighs, but the
workmen, in obedience to the orders
of the strike committee, kept indoors
and did not attempt demonstrations
SO that there WAS nc occasion for a re.
sort to force to avert trouble.
The strikers forced the closing of the
Moscow railroad station early yester-
day afternoon, stopping outgoing traf-
fc for Moscow and at 10 o'clock last
night they finally succeeded in closing
the electric stations and in cutting Off
light from the city. Committees Were
sent to all the theatres and succeeded
in stopping the performances in sew
eral of them and in the outlying dis
tricts they went f~romdrugstore to drug
store ordering the pharmacists to close
and threatening them with the destruc-
ton of their stocks if they refused
Other stores were not interfered with.
At a meeting of the strike commit
tee las night the question of the ter
mination of the strike was o brought
up. The Associated Press noticed an ex-
p~ectation on the part of many of the
delegates that the strike would enc
Saturday night. The principal ques-
ton under discussion at the meeting
was the formation of a strike treasury
by gathering funds to be used in flu
ture walkouts and after long consider
alton it was decided to ask the work.
men to contribute one per cent. of their
wages for this purpose.
There is no betterment of the agra
rian conditions. Dispatches from Kursk
| Polrava, Riazan, Samara and other
provinces continue to report the sprea:
of disorders which in Poltavia are tax
ing In anti-Jewish urn. However, the
imperial manifesto regarding the dis
tribution of the crown domains wnic1
by strenuous work was finished last
night will be issued early this morning
and the Emperor and Count White hooe
it will tend to pacify the peasants and
have an important tactical effect on
, the coming struggle with the socialists
/ and its anti-government forces in the
elections for the douma.
Ti1is, Caucasus November 16.-Tht
viceroy has ordered the liberation OF
all persons arrested by administrative
order and has issued a proclamation
appealing to the population TO utilize