The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-25
IN STATE OF SIEGE.
Government Today Will Be Vested in
 Hands Of TrepOR,

Hands Of TrepOR.
 St. Petersburg, Jan. 24.-St. Peters burg will be declared in a state of siege tomorrow.
 General Trepoff, until recently chief of police of Moscow, has been appoint ed Governor General of St. Peters burg and has taken up quarters in the Winter Palace. Strangely enough the only precident is the case of General Trepoff's father during the reign of Nihilistic terrorism under Alexander II and 1t Is also strange coincidence that unsuccessful. attempts were. made on the lives of both.
 General Trepoff is a man of great energy and the measures he adopted at Moscow for suppressing the students demonstrations in December last pre- voked much resentment and the revo- 1utionists recently condemned him to death.
 The aspect of the Russian capital is decidely more calm. Business which had been at a complete standstill, has been resumed upon a limited scale The employees in few of the smaller fac- tories went back to work today, and the crowds of strikers in the streets were diminished. The troops were not so numerous as on Monday and a more confidence was felt in official circles that the energetic measures which IdS DeeH ndS the safety of the city.
 Beneath the surface, however. the ferment continues and the public nervousness and apprehension as to future events is still unallayed. Secret meetings are being held fin opposition to the existing order of things, but the divergent elements which were sud- denly brought together by the tragic events of last Sunday arc advancing on dfVGrPanf pl nd of action has yet been found.
 In the meantime the police are actively searching out the leaders. Three well known Russian authors and prominent editor were arrested today and the prisons are filled with agita- tors, revolutionists and student orators. Such measures may result in bomb throwing and terrorizing tomorrow, but the consensus of opinion is that the immediate future actions Of the agita- tors depends on what occurs in Moscow and other large cities of Russia, where the workmen are beginning to strike.
 Over 100000 men arc out in the old capital ot the empire tonight. A tele- phone message from Moscow to the Associated Press at midnight reported that there had been no disorder there as yet. There will be a big demon- stration in Moscow tomorrow and 1t is feared that it will be accompanied by bloodshed.
 The situation confronting the mill tary authorities at Moscow is much more serious than that in St. Peters burg. Out of 1000. 900 inhabitants of Moscow, over two-thirds are workmen, Including an exceedingly rough and turbulent element. The troops there are fewer. and the city does not lend itself, like St. Petersburg, to natural barriers to prevent the congregat ton of men. The centre of the town has no bridges and no canals. Only the gates piercing the walls of the old Chinese town which surrounds the KremlIn. would afford the military natural places to bar demonstrations.
 At Kovona and Wilma, where the strikes have begun the workmen are following the St. Petersburg plan of marching about the city and are indue- ing or forcing other workmen to leave their employment. The windows and doors of practically every shop and res idence in St. Petersburg are boarded up. and at midnight the streets as on Monday night. were completely desert- cd except for troops,
 During the day there was a great crop of sensational rumors. including stories of strikers marching across