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EMPEROR BOWS TO
Will OF PEOPLE
CAR OF RUSSIA SAID TO HAVE
GRANTED UNIVERSAL
SUFFRAGE.
ALL POLAND is NOW
UNDER MARTIAL LAW

ONDEK WAX IHl LAW
Moscow Held by Revolutionists-In-
surgents Masters of Former Capital
of Empire and Many Other Cities
New Plot Against Gear.
London, Dec. 23.-A dispatch to a
news agency from st. Petersburg says
1t has been finally decided to grant the
Russian people universal suffrage.
All Poland Under Martial Law.
Warsaw Russian Poland, Dec. 3D.
"A proclamation of the governor general
was gazetted here Friday, establishing
martial law in all the ten governments
of Russian Poland, and appointing ten
temporary military governors general.
Moscow Held by Rebels.
Moscow, Dec 23.-The declaration of
martial law has had no effect on the
strikers. The revolutionists are prac-
tically in possession of the city, and
number Of fatal clashes have oc-
Cured in the streets between the mill
tary and strikers. Many gunsmith
shops have been pillaged AS the re-
suit of the strike nearly all the rail-
way lines have ceased operation at st.
Petersburg. The workingmen are
showing evidences of being wonder
fully organized by the manner in
which they have obeyed the strike call.
Troops occupy some of the railway sta
tons. The strikers in st. Petersburg
now number 200 900 men
Handbills Threaten Cars Life.
st. Petersburg, Dec. 23.-The bold
est of all the bold pronunciamentos of
the 1evolutionists is a mysterious hand
bill with which Tsarskoe- Selo palace
was flooded Friday. Abiding to a
terrorist plot against the emperor, the
handful says:
There will be little puff of smoke.
Pay no heed to it, as the result will
be The best thing possible for every
body"
The police have been baffled in their
efforts to find the printers and dis
: seminators of these bills.
Peasants Riot in Bloodshed.
The situation is more desperate than
ever, and not ray of hope glimmers
in any part of the empire. Troops are
helpless and peasants riot and loot
at will In the Baltic provinces the
French revolution has been outdone.
On the snowy reaches around Riga
mobiles have been slain in scores, their
bodies thrown to the vultures, and
their ancient castles made scenes Of
orgies of drunken peasants. The pal
aces of the nobility are blazing from
st. Petersburg to Odessa, and the md
tilated bodies of the partisans Of the
emperor fill the bitches of country
roads and the cutters of the streets of
the rebellious cities. Mobiles who have
been able to escape the vengeance Of
the peasants in the country and the
proletariat in the town are fleeing to
the frontiers, leaving immortal halls
and wide estates as loot for the now
fully aroused people.
Rebels Seize Many Towns.
Insurgents in Courland have seized
Windau, Friedrichstadt, Pratzenburg
Holdingen and other places, and a
popular tribunal at Kopenbouzak has
executed several officials. All the trains
with troops which enter the Baltic
provinces are being stopped by the
insurgents.
In st. Petersburg the general strike
Is in full effect, and the city may be
again cut off from the outside world
Wholesale arrests of the leaders OF
the workmen have been made. 1t is
reported that the police include in their
captures the members of the Second
Workmen's council, who were placed
in the fortress of St. Peter and st.
Paul with the members of the first
council, who were arrested Saturday
night A third council, however,
promptly took the place of the second.
At Moscow $4,000 persons are hold
ing meeting in the aquarium Po-
lice and military surround the build
ing, and conflict is momentarily ex-
pected. Factories are closed and
stores boarded up. Railroad service
has ceased and the city is in darkness.
Railroad trains Of Warsaw are being
operated by soldiers, and wrecking
car is attached to each train sent out.
At Kharkoff 10000 revolutionists are
under arms, and troops are being gath
cred for the purpose of retaking the
city.
Railroad Strike Spreading.
The railroad strike is spreading
throughout the country. At Voronezh
South Central Russia, the employees Of
the Southwestern railroad struck in
obedience to the directions of their
union. The crews of passenger trains
haula1 the trains to large towns be-
fore abandoning them, in order that
the passengers should not suffer- At
Kostroma all traffic has ceased. The
general strike order has reached Minsk,
in western Russia, and all stores are
closed
Warsaw Banking House Fails.
Warsaw. Dec. 23-The failure of the
important banking house of Maurice
Nelken has been announced The diff
fculties Of the concern are attributed
to the political situation.
Thousands Near Starvation.
Toxic, Dec. 23-An eyewitness of
the extent of the famine in the north
east provinces, who has just returned.
reports the condition of the people to
be really deplorable. The advent of
winter has found thousands on the
verge of starvation, and speedy relief
alone will save them Measures of
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