The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1905-12-30
BICSTRIKE BEGUN
RUSSIA APPARENTLY IN 1HROEs
OF BLOODY REVOLUTION.
FIERCE FIGHTS REPORTED
Moscow Center Of Disturbance-Ts-
KUN Captured and Recaptured in
Pitched Battie-Nne Hundred Mu-
tinous Soldiers Burned to Death by
Cossacks.

Cossscks.
ST Petersburg While IN. great
strike opened rather tamcly in the cap
iyal, it has apparently made a success
full beginning in Moscow and the pro
yincial towns. Several cities are re
ported as being in the hands Of the
royolutiouisls. who in one instance
tried and executed a police chief and
several Of his assistants.
In Courland the red fame of rebel
lion is sweeping away IN. manor
houses OF the Russian and German
nobility, leaving smoking ruins and
mangled bodies In its wake. Details OF
The capture of Takum by the rcvolu-
tionists and its rccapture by the gov
crnment troops class it as a pitched
battle in which neither side gave quar-
ter. After subjecting the unhappy city
TO a terrific artillery fire the troops
stormcd the intrenchments erected by
the townspeople and put their defend
crs to the sword The soldiers SUI
iered heavy losses.
Strikers captured a factory near
Moscow in which fourteen Englishmcn
We're employed, The manager, also a
Briton, was locked up, and the eight
members of his family were dcported
by the rebels. The government has
sent troops TO their rescue, but it is
feared their appearance VIII mean the
murder of the prisoners.
Dispatches from Tomsk are TO the
effect Jhat Cossacks SET fire to bar
racks in which 900 mutinuus soldiers
were confined and that they were all
burned TO death
Since noon the streets have been
filled with troops, and especially those
in the industrial sections The rail-
road stations are in possession OF the
military.
Wholesale arrests Of the leaders OF
the workmcn were made last night. II
is reported the police include in their
captures members of the second work
mems council, who were placed in the
fortress of St Peter and ST. Paul with
the members Of the first council, who
were arrested Saturday night. \ third
council, however. promptly took the
place of th" second
The League of Leagues has issued
an appeal to the public asking for lib
cral support OF the prolctariar. which
is bearing the brunt Of the struggle for
the emancipation OF th" nation" The
appeal says there is bound 10 be much
Drivation. starvation and even death
from cold. ana not only asks for mate
rial aid, but proposes the Inauguration
of free diniuC rooms for workmeu in
all parts of The city.
Moscow is already cut off from 81.
Petersburg. and all the provinces are
likewise cut off
Latest advices from Moscow state
that crowds of strikers at Moscow are
marching through the streets endeaN-
oring TO close up the postoftice and
other places.
Advices from Ryezhitsa, the govern
ment of Nitshak. announce that a ris-
ing has occurred in that vicinity smi.
lar to the insurrection at Livonia.
The report that KharlIof lis in the
hands of the rcsolutionists is con
firmed Two hundred and nifty men of
the Starobyelsk and Lobedinsk regi-
ments have Joined m" reyoiutionists
and thet, comrades have ilatiy refused
10 fire o1 them.
At Nlkulaief the revolted re2i-
ments have been captured. Two hun
dred and fifty prisoners were sent 10
Otchakoff fortress, The capture of the
mutineers was effected by General
.Stnpin, who on the arrival of reinforce
ments from Odessa, Unexpectedly at
tackled the barracks where the muffin
GERS had assembled. The latter soon
surrendered
The Narshadney. formerly the Syn
Ontechesva, and other secretly pub
rlished papers which are being distrib
uted by the thousands to the work
men, are filled with the most inflamma
tory appeals. melting the people to an
are especially directed to the army.
which is implored not 70 shed the blood
Of the nation. One writer addressing
the soldiers. said
JOIN us Rise with MS. No power
can stapd against the people and army
united
The strike call, in addition to making
the regular demands for a constituent
assembly. universal suffrage the aboli-
tion Of MARTA. law. immunity OF the
person and the other features OF the
proletariat's program. insists on the
release Of the imprisoned members of
the woTkmen's council. the discontinu-
ance Of all political suits. acquiescence
with the petitions Of the army and
navy, and of the railroad and postal
telegraph employees for an increase of
pay the transfer of the land to the peo-
pie an eight.hour day. and the aboli
tion of all restrictions regarding ma
tionalities and religion.