The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-20
B0MBPROOFS ARE
REFUGE OF DUKES
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the attitude of the men many Of the
masters are convinced that they have
received financial assistance from some
source.
The closing of the Franco Russian
and the Putiloff Iron works is a serious
embarrassment to the government, as
the former is engaged exclusively on
navy work and the latter in manufac-
turing guns and munitions for the
army. over 25,o00,000 projectiles and
shrapnel are being prepared at the
Putiloff works and the government has
been compelled within the last few
days to place orders in France and
Germany for $125,000,000 worth of
munitions. At 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-ho day.
Shift Responsibility
The employers in letter to Finance
Minister Kokevsoff squareiy disclaim
all responsibility for settling the labor
ferment, 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 condition of in
dustry in Russia renders yielding to
the demands of the men utterly i'm
possible.
The suspension for three months of
the newspapers Our Life and Our
Days, following a second warning, is
probably equivalent to the final ex-
-tinction of the offending journals. The
decree of suspension was on account
of "a dangerous tendency of the pub
lications," but the publishers of the
papers believe that the true rea-
son is that no expression of SYM
pathy with the death of Grand
Duke Sergius was printed in their
Moscow dispatches and no word of
comment made in their editorial pages.
Fears of suspension of other papers
that circulate widely among the work.
ing people have created feeling of
deeper hostility toward the govern
ment.
Snow Covers Blood Stains
MOSCOW, Feb. ia thin layer of
snow today has dimmed the blood
stains in the Senate square. The win
dows in the palace of justice have
been reglazed and other hasty efforts
have been made to obliterate traces of
Fridays tragedy. Evidence, however,
is being found in most unexpected
places. Soldiers this afternoon dis.
covered many pieces of the carriage
in which Grand Duke Sergius was rid
ing when he met his death, and frag-
ments of flesh were found on the top
of the twelve-foot parapet of the arse
nal, among the Napoleonfc guns.
Until the funeral, which has been
fixed for Thursday, Feb. %, the re-
mains of Grand Duke Sergius will rest
in the ancient dining room of the
Chaudoff monastery, to which through
out the day the people of Moscow have
been admitted to pay their last re-
spects in parties of 100. This precau-
ton was taken because ii was thought
necessary TO avoid the possibility of
demonstrations. The body of the
grand duke, dressed in the uniform of
the Fifth (Kieff) grenadiers, of which
he was the honorary colonel, rests in
an oaken coffin. Only the breast of the
uniform, upon which is an ikon of the
Savior and the orders of the grand
duke, is visible. The bible beside the
head of the coffin bears the orthodox
cross in silver and the imperial eagles.
Assassin Is Calm
The assassin remains persistently si-
lent. His identity has not yet been
established, and although the police
have been investigating diligently, they
have been unable to gather up the
threads of the plot or find any clews
to any possible accomplice. The as
sassin's papers and clothes offer no
means of Identification and his pass
evidently was forged, and appears
never to have been vised. Photographs
have been taken to be dispatched to
all the universities; but if the assassin
is actually a workman and not a stu
dent the police may find themselves
utterly at sea.
Grand Duke Sergius coachman, who
was thought to be dying at the time
of the affair, is still alive and better,
but is not yet out of danger.
The city presented an aspect of deep
gloom today. There was no music in
the restaurants and there were no per-
formances at the theaters. The i'm
perial manifesto voicing the grief Of
the emperor is posted at street cor
ners throughout the city, and the crime
still forms the only topic of discus
sion.
Many mourning wreaths from royal
personages and prominent officials have
arrived and have been placed in the
monastery around the coffin.