New-York tribune., 1905-12-23
THE STRIKE SPREADS
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.hs government has been dispatching trains
under military guards over all the hnes' al
though regular schedules have not been main
ta,ned. Soldiers with aaSs on their bayonets
have been doing duty switchmen.
THE strikers are enraged over their failure to
susnend traffic They stopped train from ber-
liz last night outside of st. Petersburg ana
ao-ad the engineer out, but the soldier guard
drove off the strikers.
The engineer of Kursk train was shot dead
IN the cab while entering st. Petersburg.
NJ Nernechaieff, Minister of Communications
has issued an order that all employees Ialiihs 10
renort for duty to-day will be dismissed. Agl-
+a+ors will be prosecuted TO the full extent OF
the law Throughout the city notices slgheo pS
tho prafect of Police have been posted. announc-
ing that in accordance with the strike law. agi-
+a+o~s who incite the people to strike by using
threats will be arrested. and are subject to
ens of $3.50 and imprisonment for three months.
The landlords throughout the country were
empowered by an imperial ukase MADE puohc
TODAY TO organize guards for the protection OF
their property.
Tho C1rcum-Bafkal Railroad has been de-
stroved for a. considerable distance by falllns
rocks. It is suspected that this destructon Is
the work of the rebels who are interested III
stonning the return of troops from the Ear East
at this time.
- is renortad here that the disorders at Pskoff.
162 miles southwest of st. Petersburg nave as
sumed great proportions, and at Vhorsk. on the
Warsaw line, squadron or orasoolls HaS N
besieged for three days
Tho ,AD-s from the Baltic provinces continues
bad Fredericksstad has been taken by the IN
surgents and Kreutzburg is surrounded ana
standing siege.
"The Novoe vremya" to-day printed rather
provocative article against the Jews, pointing
out that for the first time yesterday a reVolu-
tforary manifesto signed by jewish or
ganization. The paper says that, altnough Ihe
socialist and revolutionary organizations nave
always contained many Jews, they have never
before dared to put their names to document
1.-THE Novoe Vrer1ya'' also says that the rich
Jews are taking advantage Of the situation
which they have helped to create and are puylna
up abandoned estates.
The authorities last night succeeded In get
ting sufficient number of sailors from Crol-
stadt to operate all except one Of the electrlc
lighting plants The Inhabitants OF the places
where the electric lights were out were COM
PEELED to fall back on candles and kerosene ana
the searchlight mounted on the spire of the Ao-
rniraltv Building again illuminated the Nevsky
Cavalry and infantry patrols guarded every
block. and machine guns were stationed at sew
eral points
A store of arms and bombs was seized on the
schusselburg- yesterday and crowd OF a
thousand strikers Of the Nevsky works was
charged and dispersed by Cossacks. who useo
the flats of their swords and whips.
A correspondent who visited the various quar-
ters yesterday saw dozens Of workmen between
soldiers with fixed bayonets being marched on
to prison In the industrial districts many OF
the strikers seemed to have only the vaguest
ideas of what they were striking for. replying
Because we are ordered to do So to questions
on the subject.
| To shake the workmen's faith in their leaders
the government has distributed thousands Of
COPIES of a circular signed by The Union of
Russian Workmen,' setting forth the arrest OF
the committeeman of the Moscow telegraphers
| while carousng at a restaurant as an example
of how the workmens money is spent
| Iyhe city pharmacies generally remain open,
the drug clerks. who have just emerged from
protracted struggle disregarding the sum
mons of their union to strike. The stores are
! open as usual and the street running.
| The boldest of all the bold pronuncamentos
of the revolutionists is a handbill with which
Tsarkoe-Selo was flooded to-day. Processing to
allude to a terrorist plot against The Emperor.
! the handbill says:
! There will be a little puff Of smoke. Pay no
heed to it, the result will be the best thing
possible for everybody.
The, police have been baf1ed in their efforts to
find the printers and distributors of these bills.