Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26
CHIEF THoRouGHFARE OF RUS
SIAN CITY is SCENE OF
BLOODY FIGHTING
DYNAMITE USED TO
WRECK BUILDING

Prefecture of Police Is Blown UP ana
a Number of Deaths Result But the
Project Escapes Injury-Many Are
Killed in Fights = Agtators Are
Killed at NoroI.
Moscow, Dec. 23.- Traffic has
been opened here with the assist
ance of railroad battalion. Three
lines are working normally but the
tie-up is complete on the Ural
and kursk lines.
London, Dec. pa news agency 81.
Petersburg dispatch says: Barrlcades
have been erected on Tverskaia street,
the chief thoroughfare of Moscow, and
the revolutionists are holding them
bravely and are making repeated at
tacks on the police, Cossacks and dra-
soons when ever tie latter attempt to
convey prisoners to the jail. Patrols
of troops are accompanied by machine
guns which are unhesitatingly used
against the revolutionists.
Artillery Scatters Workmen.
Moscow, Dec. 23.-Troops surround
ed the school house where the work
men were meeting here yesterday
: evening and summoned the men to
surrender. Blank shots were fired to
jintimidate the workmen, who replied
with revolver shots and bombs. The
artillery was then brought up and the
school house was bombarded Until the
survivors of the workmen surrend-
cred.
Prefecture of Police Wrecked.
Paris, Dec. ga st. Petersburg
dispatch says the prefecture police at
Moscow has been demolished by ex-
plosion bombs and several persons
have been killed, but that the project,
who was at the Kremlin escaped.
ARRAYS occurred attneigh ooring bar
ricades in which the soldiers were VIC
torors. fifteen revolutionists were
wounded.
stiles $50 in a Day.
'Hrg. Dec. 23.-Eleven
f'ad and eighty wounded
We III by troops at the work
zen { 4g' the barricade on Tver.
skaia str"rt in Moscow, today. The
total casualties at Moscow yesterday
are estimated at $50.
10000 Strikers at Moscow.
st. Petersburg, Dec. 2s.-Telephone
messages from Moscow say 10000
men are on strike there. The city is
already feeling the pinch of hunger
Many bakeries have been sacked and
all business, including banking, has
been suspended. Only the st. Peters.
burg and Kieff and Voronazh lines are
open and there have been some attacks
upon strikers. especially on student
leaders, by the people. Two girls
were stripped naked and turned loose
in the cold in the vicinity of the Jew.
ish market.
Bloody Fights In Streets.
Considerable street fighting has oc.
CURED. The revolutionists resisted at
several places and erected barricades
which the dragons and infantry car.
ried by storm. At some places only
blank shots were fired, but at the
Tvreskaia street barricade, which was
not carried until midnight, there was
a scene OF slaughter and wholesale ar.
rests were made.
From small towns along the rail
roads come reports of attacks on rail
road men, At Elnia seven families
were butchered. Two delegates were
lynched near Kursku.
Little Change at Capital.
In st. Petersburg there is little
change in the situation Several col
lisions between workmen and troops
have occurred in which several of the
former have been killed or wounded
Many agitators have been arrested.
Agitators Are Murdered.
Vladimir, Dec 23.-Owing to the
hostile attitude of the people here who
attacked the houses OF the railroad
men the strike leaders would have
been torn to pieces had not troops in
terposed. The railroad strike here is
ineffective. Most of the employees are
vainly to save an agitator in the vii
lage Of Norol were themselves torn to
pieces.
Gear Hopes for Cold.
ST. Petersburg, Dec. 23.-As in the
days when Napoleon's troops held Mos
COW, the hope of the Russian empire
is reposed in winter
The government decided yesterday
contrary to the first reports, that uni
yersal suffrage should not be granted
The grim determination to use only
the iron hand in dealing with the
elancriog millions of Russians was
reached at a session of the cabinet
is~c"i6ei over by the emperor.
The SUCCESS or failure of the general
strike which is now in progress is be-
lieyed to depend on the storms as colo
and hunger are better fighters anG
even more merciless than even the
cossacks, and on the strike hangs the
perpetuity OF the monarchy, it is be
lieyed, even in the imperial palace.
The meager news which reaches the
fro,,, nfbnr no rtc Of tho ay,1 ire