Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-26
sT. PETERSBURG BECOMES MORE
QUIT Bur THE STRIKE
CONTINUES 70
SPREAD.
FUNERALS OF VICTIMS

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FUNERALS OF VICTIMS
Bodies Of Many Who Were Killed OF
Sunday Are Buried at st. Petersburg
Today-EmpIoyers Order Men to Re
sumo Work Within Twenty-fou
Hours or Leave St. Petersburg.
Moscow, Jan. 25.-(s p. MD
All the printing works here are
closed and the strike Is spreading.
Additional police have been sta
toned In all the streets.
Moscow, Jan. 25.-The cossacks
this afternoon fired on 5000 dem
onstrators In PIanitzkaya district.
Many persons were wounded.
saratoff, Russia, Jan. 25.-The
men in the railroad shops and
,ther establishments here struck
today.
a Reval, Russia, Jan. PA gen.
eral strike was declared here to-
day and all the works were closed.
London, Jan, 25.-The foreign
office views the situation In Russia
with alarm. 1t believes that while
the rlslngs will be put down the
affair OF Sunday at ST. Petersburg
Is certain to bring about a change
In the form of government.
y Fears are entertained of revoIu-
tIon which might result in inter-
national complications.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 25. - The
only decision Of the government
thus far is TO preserve order at all
costs. B
Troops are marching through the
streets Of Riga and Revel but the
eyes Of all Russia today are fixed
oh Moscow. The appearance Of
ST. Petersburg is more normal, but
no more men have returned to
work.
The funerals Of many of the VIC
tins Of Sundays tragedy were
held this morning. Pitiful sights
were witnessed but no demonstra-
tlon occurred.
Notice was posted today at all
works giving the strikers twenty
four hours to resume employment
and intimating that those who did
not comply would be deported to
the villages.
The Associated Press has been
privately advised that Maxim
+ Gorky,the author and reform party
leader, has been arrested at Riga,
whittier he had been summoned
by the illness of his wife.
ST. Petersburg, Jan. 25.-It is ex-
pected that message from the
emperor will tomorrow be deIiv-
cred to the workmen through the
minister Of finance
The report of the illness of En-
peror Nicholas and Of the heir to
Z the throne is officis " declared to
be unfounded.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 25.-Lack {
money and food are already operatin
against the continuance of the strik,
Weeping women are returning to C
garette factories, pleading to be a
lowed to resume work, but the mai
agers are afraid to open in cons,
quence of the threats of the striker
TO sack their establishments.
Emperor Thanks Authorities.
An official note this morning al
pounces that Emperor Nicholas he
Expressed his thanks to General Tr
poff: now governor general of st. P,
tersburg. for his distinguished an
jealous services as chief of police {
Moscow.
Soldiers Rule st. Petersburg.
] Governor General Trepoff is in s,
preme command of the city toda,
Although the state Of siege has M
been actually proclaimed it PRACTICAL
exists, the emperor having conferre
upon him almost absolute power, a,
thorizing him to use the militar,
gendarmie and every other agency {
the government to preserve orde
During last night hundreds of arrest
were made.
The koIoino Affair.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 5.-Thousand
Of workmen were again shot down an
killed or wounded yesterday while O
their way to Tsarkoe Selo in anothe
effort to induce the czar to receiv
their petition.
The number of slain is not known. a
the officials are making every effol
to keep the details of The battle secre
and thousands of soldiers line the roa
from here to Tsarkoe Selo. But, in th
words of an officer who was presen
1T was a Bath of Blood"
twenty-five thousand workmen le
Kolpino, q manufacturing village fl
teen miles from here, early yesterda
their objective point being the czar
palace at Tsarskoe Selo. Since Su,
day many of these Kolpino workme
had armed themselves, and while the
intentions were entirely peaceful. the