The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-15
Strike Is On.


Moscow, June 15.-The agitation
among the Workmen here is general
and the strike is in full progress
Largely attended meetings of a revolu-
tionary character are held nightly IN
the industrial sections and big demon
strations are made in front of prisons
In the resolutions adopted support IS
pledged to parliament only so long as
it persists in its fight against the
bureaucracy.
Thirty Peasants Acquitted.
Kursk. Russia, June 15--ThiTty
peasants who were charged with de-
vastating the estate near here OF M
StichiuslIv minister of agriculture,
have been acquitted by the jury owing
to the testimony furnished regafalhg
the extreme harshness OF the superlh-
tendent of the estate
Peasants Selling Land.
Tver. Russia, June 15.-Cossacks
and dragons have been dispatched to
two districts near here. where the
peasants, losing patience at the mac
ton of parliament, are taking posses
sion of lands.
Near Breaking Point.
St Petersburg. June 15.-The press
is unanimous in its profound pesslin-
ism over Yesterdays events in the low
er house of parliament. The SITUATION
is strained to the breaking point me
attempt of the military procurator
General Pavloff, in behalf of War Min
lister Rudfger to shift the responsible
itv for the military executions to the
minister of the interior, is palpaDle
evasion of the issue raised by the
house and has echoed throughout the
country. The result is that a storm OF
indjenation has been aroused and is
being augmented by the cool attempt
Of the government to invade the IN
violability of the members OF parlia-
ment and it's demand for the expulsion
of NJ. U1ianoff. Whether the government I
dare follow up legally the refusaI OF
the house to expel NJ. UianOf and its
haunting of Procurator Pavloff Is now
the question Unless the government
is definitely resolved to give battle, the
Goremykin ministry must fall into the
chasm between it and parliament
which is now unbridgeable.
NJ Alladin, leader Of the peasant
workmen group, openly boasted from
the rOstTum yesterday that the deatn
of the ministers would be the country $
reioinder to the government s refusal
to abolish the death penalty. Some OF
the papers believe that yesterday s
events definitely fOreshadow the gov
ernment's intention to dissolve parma
nnent and they emphasize the military
conspiracy of the officers Of the guard
regiments, which is progressing un-
checked before everybody's eyes, at
the capitol.
It is significant that the Novoe
Vryen1a h1tnertO tnlck ana tuIH sup
porter of the government is silent to-
day The Reich and the Strana, which
Of the liberal papers best keep their
heads in times of stress, sadly com
ment on rapidly waning chances OF an
understanding being arrived at between
the emperor and parliament. They con-
slider that the only hope now lies in the
emperor's discarding his evil advisers
Immediately and trying the experiment
of surrounding himself with represen-
tatives of the people.
The agitation among the workmen
here is Increasing and several strikes
are in operation At a meeting Of 5000
social Democratic workmen last night
it was declared that parliament had en-
gagged in futile talk for a month and
had done nothing and that the work
men must have recourse to general
strike Representatives of the bakers
announced that the bakeries would be
closed a few days and that the city
rrnl1ld be Without bread.