New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-26
MINISTER'S SEEK RELIEF.
Count Witte Pres;des at Long Ses-
si0rs-.Strike Complete.

ST Petersburg Oct 26, a m--Confronted by
q situation more crucial than any since the be-
ginning of the political and social upheaval of
leadership of Count Witte spent yesterday in
conferences in the hope of finding way
out of the crisis into which the Revolutionists
and Socialists have cast the country.
The general strike on the railroads is COM
plete except in a few border provinces and st.
Petersburg Moscow and other large cities are
almost as closely beleaguered as if they were
invested by besieging armies. At the same time
the industrial strike has assumed large dimen-
sions and the turbulent elements in several To-
calities are offering open resistance to the
troops
The Minister'S who had been in session during
the day resumed their meeting after short in
terval for dinner and continued their delibera-
tions until long after midnight The selection
of Count Wftte to preside over the Council, of
which County Solsky is chairman, shows that a
Cabinet is an accomplished fact. It is under
stood that an edict establishing a Ministerial
Cabinet. which will bear the old name of Sovyet
or Council, will be published in THE Official
Messenger on Saturday next. well as i'm
perial rescript addressed to Count Witte, in
trusting to him the post of premier.
The Finland Railroad to Helsingfors and the
steamers constitute St. Petersburg's only means
of communication with the outer world this
morning.
The strike is complete in the great factory
gion on both banks of the Neva above the city
and in several other industrial quarters Forty
thousand out. but they conducting
themselves in an orderly manner. The Store
Clerks Union tonight proclaimed two weeks
sympathetic strike for political reasons Pru-
dent inhabitants buying stocks of provisions.
Prices have risen sharply
Large meetings. mainly of workmen, were
held last night at the university and the higher
schools The sentiment was unanimous for con-
tinuing the strike the railroads to the bitter
end. The proceedings at several of the meet
ings We're of strongly revolutionary character,
the orators calling their auditors to rise and
slay all "chinovniks'' and the police, and to
meet the troops with armed force. Such
speeches were received with hearty cheers The
police were powerless to interfere. the precincts
of the university being forbidden ground to
them under an imperial ukase.
new drama by Maxim Gorky, entitled The
Children of the Sum dealing with revolution
I'm Russia which a few months ago would prob
ably have landed its author in prison, was pre-
scented here for the first time last night. Seats
for If were sold out several weeks in advance
The play satirzes the Russian higher classes,
and for the first time scene is allowed to be
presented on the Russian stage in which the
neople rise in revolt against the doctors who
are endeavoring to save them from cholera.
This scene shows the superstition ana brutality
of the Russian moutik when aroused The au-
dience madly applauded every alluson of a
political character
MAXIM Gorky was not present. His health
has again collapsed under the trying climate
of ~ Petersburg and he has been forced to go
20 the Crirr1ea in order 10 save his life