Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-24
PALACE PRISONERS
RUSSIA'S ROYAL FAMILIES Are
KEPT In SAFETY WALLS.
Gar and Grand Dukes Fear to Move
About in the open-Trepoff Is Ter
rorized-Cities and Towns in State
of Ferment-Minor Officials Assas-
sinated- Strike Hourly Increasing

! st. Petersburg, Feb. 21.-The car
and his immediate family for the time
being are prisoners in their own pal
aces, dread of awful death by hand
of an assassin holding them close to
their official homes. Even General
Trepoff, who was selected to rule St
Petersburg with iron hand, fears to
venture into the streets.
1t has now been definitely decided
that the remains of Grand Duke Ser
gius will not be brought to St. Peters
burg for the present, but will be placed
in temporary receiving vault of the
clolster of the Chauff monastery to
await the completion of alterations
now in progress in the Romanoff
mausoleum in the fortress of Saint
Peter and Paul. On account of lack
OF space in the mausoleum it was de-
cided last year to henceforth bury
only rulers of the dynasty in the old
mausoleum and new sepulcher in
the new wing of the cathedral is now
being built for other members of the
imperial family.
This, however, is not the only rea-
son for the decision to bring the re-
mains to the capital. Even Governor
General Trepoff has recognized the
fact that no precautions can furnish
an absolute guarantee of immunity
against an act of terror at a great
state funeral, where ancient custom
requires that the emperor and all of
the Romanoff family assemble and
follow the coffin on foot, and single
bomb might wipe out the dynasty. Re-
gard for the personal safety of the
sovereign also has led to the decision
that the emperor shall not go to Mos
cow to attend the funeral. 1t is pos
sible that no members of the imperial
amily will be present except those
'ho are now within the walls of the
/, Kremlin.
Grand Dukes Do Not Stir Out.
So grave is the danger of a repeti-
ton of the Moscow tragedy that sew
eral of the grand dukes have not
stirred out of their palaces since the
murder, and instead of going to
Tsarskoe-Selo to attend the requiem
there, they have participated in spe-
cia1 services held in the chapels of
their own palaces. This was the case
as regards Grand Dukes Vladimir and
Alexis
The closing of the Franco-Russo and
| the Putiloff works is a serious embar-
rassment to the government, as the
former is engaged exclusively on navy
work and the latter in manufacturing
guns and munitions of war for the
army. Over 100000 projectiles and
shrapnel are being prepared at the
Putiloff works, and the government
has been compelled within the last 10
days to place orders in France and
Germany for $125,O00,OOO worth of mu-
nitions. AS the government owned
Nevsky works the minister of finance
has been able to hold the men only
by conceding everything they have de-
manded, including the eight hour day.
The employers, in a letter to the
finance minister, squarely disclaim all
responsibility for settling the labor
troubles, declaring that the strike is
not of economic origin, and that the
nature of the mems grievances can
only be adjusted by political reforms.
They claim that the conditions of in
dustry in Russia renders yielding to
the demands of the men utterly i'm
possible.