Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-23
ARMED REBELLION.
Czar's Cabinet Resolves Not
 to Grant Suffrage.
MOSCOW HELD BY REBEL MOBS.
Proclamation of the RevoIutionista Threatens the Life of Emperor Nicholas-AII Poland Un-
 der Martial Law.

| l LONDON, Dec. 23.-A dispatch from St. Petersburg says it has been finally
 decided not to grant the Russian people
 universal suffrage.
 This was determined at a session of the cabinet, presided over by Emperor Nicholas.
 The czar's decision has caused un- bounded wrath in the capital. Re , markable scenes took place in all pub | lie places. The citizens had been led to believe that universal suffrage would
 be granted, and they were furious in
 their disappointment. In many cafes
 pictures of the emperor and other mem
 bers of the royal family were plucked
 from the wall and trampled under foot.
 There were bitter cries against the
 czar, against Witte and against all
 enemies of reform.
 Kharkov's police chief has been shot
 by schoolboy.
 The boldest of all the bold pronuncia-
 mentos of the revolutionists is mys- terious handbill with which Tsarskoe-
 Selo is flooded. Protesting to allude to a terrorist plot against the emperor, the handbill says:
 There will be little puff of smoke Pay no heed to it, as the result will be the best thing possible for everybody"
 The police have been baffied in their efforts to find the printers and dis seminators of these bills.
 A cache of arms and hand bombs have been seized on the Schlusselburg avenue and 1000 strikers of the New sky works charged and dispersed by Cossacks, who used the flats of their swords and whips on the men.
 Martial law is impotent in Moscow. The revolutionaries are virtually in possession of the city. The gunsmiths' shops have been pillaged, and disor- Gers, accompanied with loss of life, are occurring in the streets.
 The 12,000 persons who were besieg- ed in the aquarium at Moscow forced the iron railings surrounding the build ing and effected their escape through an adjacent schoolhouse. A few were wounded in their attempts to escape the military cordon.
 At St. Petersburg the revolutionaries have issued manifesto declaring that the general strike will continue till a constituent assembly has been sum- moned and all other demands have been granted. The other demands ifi- clude an eight hour workday, distribu- ton of lands among the peasantry and | the election of the chiefs of the army | and navy by the army and navy them selves. The revolutionaries announce that promises made in imperial mani festoes will not be accepted. All au- thority must be transferred to a pro- yisional government, including the di- rection of the treasury, the military, the arsenals and the police Other wise the proletariat will obtain their rights by armed force. .. .... .a
 General Trepoff, governor of the pal ace of Tsarskoe-Selo, is posting can non and machine guns at the entrances and windows of the palace.
 The insurrection in the Baltic prov Inces has now been extended to Estho- nia, where the population of the prov nce is driving out the Russian officials and electing new local administrators.
 At Kiev NJ. Skupensky, assistant chief of the Southwestern railroad sys- tenn and vice president of the railroad congress, has been arrested charged with conspiracy.
 A proclamation of the government Is gazetted establishing martial law in all the ten provinces of Russian Po- and and appointing ten temporary military governors general.
 The landlords throughout the country are empowered by an imperial ukase to organize guards for the protection of their property.