Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-27
PANIC IN ST. PETERSBURG
Alarming Runners Cause shOpkssperI to
olSSs Doors and People Stay in Houses.
DAY PASSES WITHOUT SERIOUS DISORDER
Few Trains Are Running and strike
Has Had Eject of Causing Gov
ernment 20 Push Reform
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ST. PETERSBURG, oct. 26.-St. Peters |
burg was in a panic today, but to a large |
extent apparently without reason. The |
most alarming rumors were in circulation !
and the shopkeepcrs on all except a few |
OF the principal streets closed their stores |
ana boarded up the doors and windows, |
while peaceful-minded inhabitants kept |
within doors. Anxiety was evidenced in the |
whole atmosphere OF the city but so far |
nothing has occurred to justify these |
fears. There were no disorders.
General Trepoff. who has been placed in |
command of the St Petersburg garrison
and given additional division Of rein
! forcements declares that he is amply able
to maintain order and the police are al
lowing the strikers TO vent their enthus-
iasm so as to avoid a conflict General
Trepoff instructed the police not to inter-
fere with the parades so long as they we're
orderly. but he gave notice tonight that he
was prepared TO cope firmly with any dis
order He had printed in all the evening
papers a notification that the troops would
tomorrow be ordered to use ball cartridges
in case there should be any outbreak
| Few Trains Moving.
| BY the greatest exertions the government
succeeded IN moving trains manned by
military operatives on a few railroads.
] Traffic was resumed irregularly on the
! Moscow-St. Petersburg line. and on lines
| to Prest and Kazan. The first efforts were
directed to the moving OF cattle trains so
as to meet the pinch of approaching famine
| in the two capitals. and one train load of
cattle arrived at st. Petersburg and an
other at Moscow. A scanty supply of
: milk. butter and eggs is arriving in St
! Petersburg over the Finland railroad, the
! employees Of which refuse TO strike. The
situation cannot be regarded as much i'm
proved. The strikers at their meetings to-
day were as determined as ever to continue
! the strike and the full force Of the rail-
! road battalions is almost helpless in the
face Of the general strike on the railroads
! The most encouraging feature OF the stu-
| alton is the absence Of any widespread dis
order.
Picturesque details have been received Of
the uprising at Kharkoff. where students
and strikers took possession Of the locality
in the center of the city containing the uni
versity, the cathedral and other buildings.
threw up barricades, constructed a regular
fortress and elected a provisional govern
ment but cool heads on either side effected
an arrangement. which made It unneces-
sary for the troops to storm the revolution
airy citadel, the defenders of which marched
out with full honors Of war.
Minor tumults are reported from other
cities, but in general the strikers are ad-
herring 70 their determination to make tho
4 protest In orderly faslion,, in order to show
themselves to be ft for self government
Forces Governmeht to Act.
The strike has proved most effective in
forcing the government to speedy action
en- measures which have been slumberine
In commission for many weeks. Wednesday
night the ministers after a FIVE hour
session finished the final draft Of a law
creating a responsible council of ministers
and today completed the revision of the
statute granting freedom OF assembly. both
OF which will be taken to Emperor Nicholas
for signature. Tonight the members held
another meeting nominally as solsky
meeting. but in reality as Count Whites
, cabinet, to discuss the election regulations
of the Douma. II was a short session and
mainly concerned the elections I'm Siberia.
II is reported that NJ Witte simuItane-
ouslY with the PRONUNCIATION OF the cabinet
statute will issue a proclamation defining
his policy and asking the nation to give a
fair trial to the new governmental system,
and resist the efforts of the revolutionaries
| 10 hHIOW tue country INTO d state OF
anarchy
, strikers Have Plenty of Funds.
/ The source of the fnuds at the command
of the revolutionists is a mystery. In
Moscow the revolutionary committee is
D paying strikers Is cents daily and has in
: vested large sums in arms and ammunition.
\ The rifles and cartridges taken in Finland
= and Poland were part of those purchased
. by the committee. II is conjectured that
4 financial aid is being received from Social
n lists and revolutonists abroad, and that
A some OF It may come from America in re-
Z sponse to appeal published recently in
Z New York newspapers on behalf of the
. Jewish band. The tactics of the revolu-
: tionists in st, Petersburg are apparently
8 to create a reign of terror. Warnings have
: been sent to merchants on the Nevsky
Morskaia, Ascension and other fashionable
e thoroughfares to close I'm order to avoid
pillage and the torch. The doctors are re-
. ceiving notifications, ordering them to dis
= continue visits to the sick on penalty OF
death. Word has been passed among ser
: wants mysteriously that a mob was pre-
pairing 10 sack the residences OF the better
class. Apprehension apparently prevails in
Z imperial circles.
II is reported that the imperial yacht
\ Polar Star is lying OF Cronstadt. constantly
under steam, and that the smaller yacht
Strella is held IN waiting at the wharf a
PeterhOf for any emergency.
Mutiny in Russian Navy.
Il LONDON, Oct ga dispatch TO IN,
k Evening Standard from Odessa says It /,
l. reported there from Sebastopol that IN,
d Russian battleship Pateleimon (formerly
70 the Kniaz Potemkine) has been destroyed
l. by incendiaries.
A dispatch TO the news agency from st
Petersburg says that two squadrons u
"A Cossacks today attacked 1000 workmen. VIII,
~ were holding meeting at the Nevsk
~ works. About hundred workmen, IT 1
"A reported. we're wounded and seven Cossacl
!. were injured by stones,
The railroad bridge across the Obvodn!
in canal at ST. Petersburg has been destroyed
% Agitation at warsaw.
~ WARSAW. Russian Poland. Oct &c
Agitators are organising revolutionarl
meetings in the factory districts ana
v general strike is anticipated October q
The prices OF food are rapidly increasing
d. Telephone communication with LODI is in
terruDted.
News at washington.
WASHINGTON, Oct. &-The State de
nartment has lust received navva from 81