Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-01-25
THE KN0UT
AND SIBERIA
Depended Upon to Smother
Every Desire for freedom
and Equality in Russia.
WOMEN WEEPFORW0RK
Red Handed Tyrant Trepoff in Command
at st. Petersburg.-.Red Flag
UnfurIed in Finland.

st. Petersburg, JAM 25.-Private
advices from all the big cities and
towns Of Russia indicate excitement
everywhere. Red flag demonstrations
at Helsingfors, Finland, last night
were disquieting but there is no evi.
dence yet of general movement. The
eyes of all Russia today are fixed on
Moscow. The Associated Press has
been privately advised that Maxim
Gorky, author and reform party leader,
has been arrested at Riga whittier he
has been summoned by the illness of
his wife, A notice was posted today
at all the works giving the strikers
twenty-four hours to resume their en-
ployment and intimating that those
who did not comply would be knouted
and depofted to villages, and in case
of further resistance, exiled to Siberia.
Hundreds of Arrests Made.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 25.-Governor
General Trepoff is in supreme COM
mand of the city today. Although
state of siege has not been proclaimed
it partially exists, the Car having
conferred upon Trepoff almost abso-
lutte power, authorizing him to use the
military, gendarmerie and every other
agency of the government to preserve
order, placing under his control the
government works and schools and
even empowering him to exile persons
inimical to peace. During the night
hundreds of arrests were made
Weeping Women Beg for Work.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 25.-Lack of
money and food is operating against
the strike. Weeping women are re-
turning to their garret factories plead
ing to be allowed to resume work but
the managers are afraid to reopen in
consequence of the threats of the
strikers to sack their establishments.
More Trouble for the Czar.
New York, Jan. 25.-The infant
czarevitch is seriously ill with pneu-
monia at Tsarskoe-Selo, according to
a dispatch from st. Petersburg.
A Message From the Emperor.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 25.-It is ex-
pected that a message from the EN-
peror will tomorrow be delivered to
the Workmen through the minister OF
finance.
Almost Two Hundred Buried in One
Cemetery.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 25.-The funer-
ais of many victims of Sundays TRACE
dy were held today. No demonstration
occurred but the workmen and others
stood uncovered in the streets as the
little groups passed. In Volkoff Gene
terry, 1877 bodies were lowered to their
last resting place.
Lawyers sympathize With Strikers. i
Moscow, Jan. 25.-The industrial dis
trict on the other side of the Miskava
River was patrolled by troops all
night and paraded by bodies of work |
men but no encounters occurred. The
barristers at a meeting today decided
not to appear in the court for the pres
ent.
Cossacks Fire on Mob.
Moscow Jan. 25.-The Cossacks
this afternoon fired on three thousand /
demonstrators in the Pianitskaya dis
trict. Many persons were wounded.
The Strike Is Spreading.
Mscow, Jan. 25.-All printing works
are now closed. The strike is spread
ing. Additional police have been
placed on all streets.
Railroad Strike Spreading.
Saratoff, Russia, Jan. 25.-The men
in the railroad shops and in other es-
tablishments have gone out on strike.
Soft Words and the Big Stick.
Kovno, Russia, Jan. 25.-The gov
ernor Of this province issued q proc
lamation today calling on the strikers
to return to work, promising to exam
inc their demands and as far as pos
sible to grant them, but also threaten.
ing the use of armed force in the event
of disturbances.
A General Strike.
Reval, Russia, Jan. 24.-A general
strike was declared here today. Ali |
works are closed.
John Bull 10 Pesslmistlc.
London, Jan. 25.-The British for
eign office and the press take gloomy |
view Of the situation in Russia. The
exaggerated reports printed here re-
veal the poorly disguised hostility of
England to the Russian government
DISTINGUISHED DEAD.
Rome, Jan. 25.-Principe Ceschi,
grandmother of the Knights Of Malta.
Is dead.
Colonel Duke Goodwin.