The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-21

III tue IHOAA GbHihthh i1aANt2 " NtA'
dominant reactionist party
Face Terrible Crisis.
Facing this terrible crisis none Of
the czar's officials will speak cf the
future. Court and ministry seem
stunned at the lowering perils.
Not even the miraculous ESCAPE Of
the ear and royal family from death
is given public attention by the court
or authorities.
Thousands of strikers met all over
the city yesterday early and late
marching through the streets. The mil
itary and mounted police allowed
them more latitude than in decades.
1t was announced that the car per
sonally ordered that the strikers be
dealt with just as leniently as possl
BILE.
The socialists are loudly declaring
that the war. the strike and the
shooting at the car make the time
ripe for a stand against the govern
ment and are urging a general up
rising.
Government officials are most af-
frighted by their recent awakening
through the strike 10 what they re-
gard as the dangerous capacity Of the
working people for organization and
concerted action
Conservative thinkers declare the
crisis at hand and a few days may
see the empire in the throes Of a rev
olution
They say repression viii mean rev
olutien and that even concession by
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prevent it.
Missed Death by Inches.
There is no longer any doubt that
the car and the whole Romanoff fam
ny missed death yesterday by only
inches.
Nor is there doubt that the charge
of grape shot that riddled the little
chapel during he festival Of the Epiph.
any. in which the emperor and his
family stood aud the winter palace.
containing American Ambassador
Robert Mccormick and the diplomat
ia corps. was fired from one Of the
cannon of the Bourse battery. in ans
wer to the royal salute from the fort
ress of st. Peter and ST. Paul, from
the point of land 500 yards from the
palace across the frozen Neya.
Was 1t Result of Plot?
Amid the exciteman extending
from the royal family TO the peasan-
try ali interest hinhes In the deter.
minaaon whether the deadly cannon
blast which all but wiped out the Ro-
manoff dynasty was .e result Of a
plot SO terrible that it has extended
even to the trusted soldiers Of these
royal regimens or whether one Of the
loaded shells used as safeguard
against the threatening strikers was
put into the saluting gun by mistake
The entire battery Of artillery is
under arrest and a vigorous secret
/ investigation IS being prosecuted IN.
der direction Of Grand Duke Sergius
Michaeloyitch Inspector general Of
artillery and Lieutenant General Full.
Ion, chief OF police of ST. Petersburg.
Gar Remains Cool.
The ear was perfectly cool and
collected as the grape shot whizzed
/ by his head crashing through the
walls of the little open chapel shat
tering windows. killing Policeman
Romanon outright ten feet from the
sovereign and wounding an officer
and three marines close by
AS the royal guardsmen closed in
/ alarmed and formed a double Gordon
The emperor without any sign Of ex
element, walked away from the place
where the policeman was killed and
out into the surrounding pavilion.
Followed by the metropolitan and
clergy he proceeded to circle the pa
/ yllion and bless the banners and col
ors OF the royal regiments as if moth
ing had happened
Later the ear received the guests
with his usual cordiaiity. gentlcnes-
and calmness in Marshails hall in
stead of ia Nicholas hall. the later
being the scene OF the fright of dip
lcmats and women. bullets having
broken windows and knocked down
decorations
Throng is Stunned.
The bombardment of the frail, open
chapel and the winter palace witt
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