Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-12-28
bTR|KERs ARE
IN CONTROL
Workmen Launch Their Rev.
oution in Moscow Sue
cessfulIy.
ST. PETERSBURG is The NEXT
Martial Law Will be Proclaimed
Great Stretches Of Country Laid
Waste and Intense Suffering is An
ticipated.

st. Petersburg, Dec. 21.-The strike
promises to be on far more extern
siye scale than any previous move.
ment OF the kind. 1t was ascer-
tanned last night that many of the
largest works, including the Putiloff
and Nobel concerns, will cease opera.
tions today. 1t is said that the in
surSents have seized the state treas.
ury at Tukum, province of Courland.
st. Petersburg, Dec. 20-Reports
received here from Moscow this after
noon Indicate tat the strike was
successfully inaugurated and is
spreading rapidly. Even the cleo
Iric light plants are dead. The TWEEN
tyytwo railways have suspended traf-
fic.
Governor General Doubasoff has de-
clared the city to be in a partial
state of siege, which gives the civil
authorities exceptional powers of ar.
rest, etc. The next move will be to
declare state of siege in which the
military supersedes civil power. 1t is
expected that the Inauguration of the
strike here tomorrow will be followed
by similar measure, but IL the situa.
ton becomes worse, as anticipated,
martial law will be declared
The provincial authorities already
been empowered, in anticipation of
the contingency of their cut off from
the capital, to act on their own re-
sponsibility even to the extent of the
proclamation of martial law.
The railroad stations at st. Peters.
burg were occupied by troops this
afternoon and the government made
hn attempt with the aid Of the rail-
road battalicns to maintain some sort
bf train service, especially to the Ger
man frontier, and also to keep open
gable communication with points
sbroad.
The moderate counsel of Professor
MilukcS', leader of the constitutional
party, was not needed by the hot
headed revolutionists who are ue-
ermined to try conclusions with the
kovernment, under the conviction
hat they can overthrow the mon
krchy.
The government enters upon the
hew struggle greatly crippled. The
ituation from the Baltic provinces is
growing steadily worse and in the
caucasus the renewal Of the outbreak
pf the Tartars and the Armenians
las produced another reign of terror.
The residents of Tiflis and sther
titles are begging the authorities to
urnish them arms to organize a
Militia for self-protection. At Sepas-
opol new mutinies have occurred
nd LOGO soldiers have been disarmed
nd are under guard The troops
t Kharoff have revolted and the in
abitants are still administering the
ity affairs.
st. Petersburg, Dec. 21.-The con-
III of continental power who ar.
lived here from Riga yesterday morn.
pg on a train heavily guarded by
roops, says that throughout the
istrict extending 120 miles on this
ide of Riga the land has been laid
vaste, all the buildings belonging to
he landlords having been burned to
he ground. The situation in Cour-
and, the consul says, is even worse.
t Riga the garrison is too small to
ttempt to wrest the power from the
ands of the workmen, who have or
anized police force and are adj
pinistering the affairs of the city.
he workmen have sent a deputation
Governor Reginsk notifying him
hat he had been deposed. The city
terror-stricken, but comparatively
Iiet Killings take place in the
reefs daily, but the workmen's mi
tia is successfully preventing pillage,
howing no mercy to rowdies, several
whom have been shot or hanged.