The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-12-23
RUSSIAN
WORKMEN
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MOSCOW, Dcc. bs--lfdllc hdS DS'h oPNh-
ed here with the assistance OF the troops
and tire railway battalion. The lines to
Nizhn. Novgora. Yaroslavl Kazan and
the Nicholas road to st. Petersburg are
working normally. Incoming trains only
are mnning on the windau and Voron-
ezh Zines. The tie-up is complete on the
Ural and Kursk lines.
THE PINCH OF HUNGER.
St. Petersburg. Dec %, 100 T. M.-Tel-
ephbne messages from Moscow say that
$50 300 men are on strike there; that the
city Is already feeling the pinch OF hum
ger that many bakeries have been sacked
and that all business Is suspended. Even
the banks are closed, tho Imperial bank,
after standing a run till o'clock yester-
day afternoon shutting It's doors on ac-
count OF lack OF lighting.
Only the st. Petersburg and Kien and
Veronezh lines are open. There have been
some attacks upon strikers, especially on
student laborers by the police, and two
girls were stripped naked and turned
| loose I'm the cold I'm the vicinity OF the
Jewish market. Considerable street light
! ing has occurred at Moscow, as the re-
suit OF attempts OF the troops and police
| to break up PROFESSIONS.
The revoiutionlsts resisted at several
| places and erected barricades which the
| Dragons and infantry carried by storm.
| At some places only blank shots were
| fred. but at one barricade which was
not carried until midnight there was a
scene OF slaughter.
| Several volleys were fred by the troops
and II men were killed and eighty were
wounded Altogether the casualties at
| Moscow yesterday are estimated at 159.
In addition wholesale arrests were made.
RAILROAD MEN ATTACKED.
From the small towns along the rail-
roads come reports OF attacks on railroad
men. At Elnia seven families were butca.
cred and two delegates were lynched
near Kursk
The crgan OF the Moscow workmen has
appealed 20 the men TO avoid assuming
| an aggressive attitude saying that even If
| the troops fire await the signal for arm
ed resistance"
Here I'm 81. Petersburg thero ls littlo
| change I'm the situation Several collisions
| between workmen and the troops have
| occurred I'm which several of the former
| were killed or wounded and many agita-
! tors we're arrested at their lodging during
the night. With the exception Of the Of
fetal organs, only the Novoe Cremya and
= Slovo appear
NJ Nemoioholer. the minister OF COM
municstions has received telegram
from the employees OF his old road: the
Southwestern. saying they will keep the
road open
| TELEGRAPH LINES CUT
Riga, Livonia, Thursday, by Messenger
| to Eydikohnen. East Prussia, Dec. 23,-
! Although more than 100 post and tele-
Errpn employees have resumed woTI- %
day all the telegraph lines running out
| OF Riga, have been cut presumably Nv
the Insurgents The Russian cavalry
have found the approaches TO places held
| by the insurgents set with entanglements
made OF telegraph wires
| Trains are running today. but the oyde.
to strike Ia expected at any hour.
All Germans and Austro- Hungary resi-
dents I'm Courland and IAvonia. havo been
roi!hed by the consulates that steamers
are arriving here TO take them 10 their
/ respective countries Tha consuls urge
/ them TO leave the country before he
! Duna river freezes A german warship
will cruise off the mouth OF Duna so
| Iona as II is free OF ice. II is understood
tnut all tho Baltic garrisons are being
largely reinforced.
AUToNoMIsTS IN CONTROL.
Quite half the Baltic provinces are APP
parently In control OF the automonisis,
| whose committees, which include I'm each
| locality some OF the most influential per-
| sons arc establishing provisional admins
trations and preparing for the election OF
ASSEMBLIES to arrange the taxes and legiti-
| ment lsnds.
The Russian garrisons occupy the larger
towns and detachmants Of troops are
operating energetically against the smaller
| oenters OF the insurrection. The aims OF
| the insurgents are TO establish an autona-
nous state under Russian sovereignty.
KieT, Russia. Dec. 23.--All tho en-
ployes of the SOUTHEASTERN railway are ex-
pected TO strike today.
ployes OF all the factories here have
struck.
! SOME RAILWAY MEN WORKING.
wilma, Russia, Dec. 23.-The railway
men OF the Wilma Baranovitchi and the
Baranovitohi- Byelostok lines are working.
but the I.uninez- Romney and Luninez-
| Pinsk lines have struck
Rostofr- -on Don. Russia, Dec. "a
Work has stopped on all the railroads
and street railways here, ana the print
ers and the employees OF several factories
| have tofrcd I'm tho strike
saratofr. Russia, Dec. 2s.--operations IN
the workshops OF the Riazan-Ural rail-
way are at a standstill.
| Byelostok, Russia, via Warsaw, Dec. %.
| "A strike was started this afternoon on
the wilma -Baranovitchi and Rovona Ia
brinski and Brnnsk railroads.
MAY SEIZE RAILWAY.
St Petersburg. Dec. 23.-several thous-
and Lthuanians who have invaded the
province OF Vltebak, express according
| To the Vovoe Nremya the intention of
seizing the ST. Petersburg the st. Peters
burg Warsaw railway and annexing the
districts OF Rleshltsa and Lieutzin TO the
Republic OF Lithuania."
walters strike has begun in st.
Petersburg Many OF the restaurants
are closed.
BOMB EXPLODED AT MOSCOW
Paris. Dec. %, $50 p. MA dispatch TO
the Temps from ST. Petersburg says that
the prefecture OF police at Moscow has
been demolished by the explosion OF
bombs Several persons were killed but
the prefect who was at the Kremlln, es-
capped.
The dispatch adds that affrays have oc-
CURED at the neighborlng barricades in
which the soldiers were victorious and Is
reVolutionists were wounded.
ELEVEN MEN KILLED
60 patarghrrC Dec ql Eleven mon