The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-31

st. Petersburg. October 2s.-ll:20 a.
ma condition bordering upon panic
prevails here today. Business is COM
pletely suspended Soldiers are every
where in the streets and bloodshed on
a large scale is feared. The govern
ment is trying to appease the iniiained
populaee, but the revolutionaries seem
determined to force an armed conflict.
Telegraphic communication with
Moscow is now interrupted. The ca
BILE service is still operating although
the postoffice is closed and the only pa
pers to appear this morning were the
Official Messenger and the army or
gans, which printed directions for The
military. The former contained a let
ter from General Trepoff who is n
command of the st. Petersburg garri-
son and addressed to the provincial
governors instructing them to allow
public meetings for the discussion OF
political questions and to interpret the
law literally, under Count Whites d.
rection. The government realizes that
repression by arms in the tremendous
ly excited state of the country woulo
be fatal and meetings are allowed rs
safety valves. Further meetings q tno
university here have been prohibited
but three buildings have been set aside
for meetings In st. Petersburg and
General Trepoff has instructed the gov
ernors to select buildings In all the cit
les
Much alarm is shown at some OF The
embassies for the safety of foreign sub
jects and the situation is being grayaiy
discussed.
Beyond preliminary arrangements
for the dispatch OF embassy mails on
boat, no steps. however, have yet been
taken.
Telegraphic communication with the
interior is open, but the dispatches ie-
ceived are meagre.
Communication with some places is
entirely interrupted. From all over the
empire the story is the same-wo-k
stopped, no newspapers printed schools
closed and the business life of the peo-
pie suspended. The cry of the masses
Is always the sane political liberty.
The military everywhere are In pos
session, the inhabitants are terror
stricken, many cities are in darkness.
and at Reval a mob began work last
night. The rioters sacked the shops
and this morning the city Is on fire
The theatre and spirit shops are burn
ing.
Kharkefi is under martial law.
The most startling news, however.
comes from Moscow, where all the po-
litical parties have joined in a resolu-
tion to set up the provincial govern
| ment. Details are lacking and the ex-
act progress OF lnis attempt at formal
tnsurrection Is not known.
A meeting of strikers called to taae
place In the Ass.ze courts at noon to-
| day turned out TO be a fizzle The po-
lice succeeded in preventing except q
hundred persons from entering Strik.
| srs broke number of store windows.
The strike committee, which Is d.
| recting the movement here, Il well Or
ganized and is sitting constantly. Its
directions are oheyed unhesitatingtIy
by the workers. One of the members
today advocated attacking the arsenal.
but his comrades opposed violence.
The committee consists of represen-
| fatives of the social democrats, the two
factions Of which have settled their
differences, and are working in harmo-
ny. Outsiders are not admitted TO .he
sessions of the committee which up 10
| the present time have been held In the
technoiogical institute, the director or
| which has received warning from Gen
| eral Trepoff not TO permit them any
| longer.
A prominent member OF the commit
| tee informed the Associated Press to-
/ day that there was little probability
o fan armed uprising in ST. Petersburg.
| He said: I'VE have arms but not
enough TO give any hope OF success 30
long as the army il loyal. There are
| six or eight thousand rifles In St Pet
| ersburg as well as revolvers.'
| As the day advanced the military pa
| trolls we're multiplied. but no violence
was reported, the streets being almost