The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-25
LACK OF rood.
Destitution Is Having Its Effect on S
Petersburg Strikers.

LACK OF FOOD
Destitution Is Having Its Effect on st.
Petersburg Strikers.
ST. Petersburg, Jan. 25.-The lack
Of money and food is already operat-
ing against continuance OF the
strike. Weeping women are returning
to their garnet factories pleading to be
allowed to resume work, but the man
ayers are afraid to reopen in conse-
quence of the threats of the strikers
to sack their establishment An Of
hctal note this morning announced
that Emperor Nicholas has expressed
his thanks to General Trepoff, the
new governor general of St Peters,
burg, for his distinguished and Jealous
services as chief of police of Moscow.
St Petersburg Jan. 25--General
Trepof, until recently chief of police
of Moscow, has been appointed gov
has taken up quarters in the Winter
palace Strangely enough, the only
precedent is the case of General
Trepofs father during the reign of
nihflistic terrorism under Alexander II
and it is also strange coincidence
that unsuccessful attempts were made
on the lives of both. General Trepoff
is a man of great energy but the meas
ure he adopted at Moscow for sup
pressing the student demonstrations in
December last provoked much resent
ment and the revolutiOniStS recently
condemned him to death. The aspect
OF II1e 16uSS1dn CdplIdl is QGClQeQlV
more calm. Business which had been
at complete standstill has been re-
sumed upon q. limited scale. The en-
ployes in a few of the smaller fac
tories went back to work, and the
crowds of strikers in the streets were
diminished. The troops in evidence
were not so numerous as on Monday
and more confident feeling exists in
ures which have been inaugUrated
Will insure the safety and quiet of the
city.
Beneath the surface. however. the
ferinent continues and the public nerv-
BUSINESS and apprehension as to future
development is still unallayed. Secret
meetings of different classes In opposi-
ton to the existing order OF things were
held in various places during the after
noon and evening, but the divergent ell
eTnents which We're suddenly brought
together by the tragic events of last
Sunday are advancing on divergent
plans and no common ground of action
has been found. In the meantime the
police are actively searching out the
leaders. Three well known Russian
authorities and a prominent editor have
ed with agitatOrs. revOlutiOnists and
student orators. Such measure may re-
suit in bomb throwing and terrorizing,
but the consensus of opinion is that the
immediate future action of the agita-
tors depends upon what occurs in Mos
COW and other large cities Of Russia
where the workmen are beginning to
strike over 100, 900 men are out in the
old capital of the empire. A telephone
message from Moscow to the Associated
Press at midnight reported that there
will be a big demonstration in Moscow
today and it is feared that it will be
accompanied by bloodshed.
The situation confronting the military
authorities at Moscow is much more
serious than that in st. Petersburg. Out
of over one million inhabitants of Mos
COW over two-thirds are workmen, in
Guiding an exceedingly rough and tur-
bulent element. The troops there are
fewer, and the city does not lend itself,
like St Petersburg, to natural barriers
to prevent the congregation of men.
The center of the town has no bridges
and no canals and hills and narrow
streets make it difficult for troops to
act. Only the gates piercing the walls
of the old Chinese town which sur
rounds the Kremlin would afford the
military place to bar demonstrators.
At Kovno and Wilma, where strikes
also have been begun, the workmen are
following the ST. Petersburg plan Of
marching about the city and inducing
or forcing other worknen to leave their
The windows and doors of practically
every shop and residence in ST. Peters
burg are boarded up and at midnight
the streets as on Monday night were
completely deserted except for troops.
1t is not known definitely whether
Father Gopon, the leader of the work.
men, is in Moscow or in st. Peters,
burg. A proclamation. said to ema-
nate from him has been distributed
indicating that he has gone over body
and soul to the Social Democrats.
The proclamation declares that
since the emperor and the emperOrs
ministers have refused to listen to the
peoples grievances and fired on them,
the government has outlawed itself SO
that every mans hand should be
raised against it, and calls upon the
people to slay the outlaws and destroy
the government root and branch. It
authorizes the men to use bombs,
dynamite and other weapons, invites
students to join. and absolves the sol
dfers from their oath of fealty. The
destruction of government property is
recommended, but the proclamation
requests the followers of Father Co
pom to spare private property and
ransack only shops containing victuals
and arms, and urges all to continue
the fight until they succeed in obtain
ing a national assembly.
KeIIum Goes to st. Louis.
Cincinnati, Jan. 25.=Pitcher Win
KeIlurn, of the Cincinnati National
league baseball club, has been re-