The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-07-23

decided on account of the possibility
Of the meeting being broken up and
the members arrested that they 90 i'm
medlately to Finland and decide upon
the future course 10 be- pursued, and
small groups left Oh the afternoon
and evening trains. Whether word
was given them 10 meet ut Niborg or
Hesingfors is unknown. but II seems
probable that Finland in future Rus
sian history will become synonymous
with the tennis court" OF the French
revolution Even Count Heyden, the
leader. and other members of the
Right are understood to have departed
The parliament building was closed
yesterday and guarded by police, who
refused admission except to the presi-
dent and the vice president
The government is not blind TO the
fact that an order TO disband parla-
ment will he accompanied by tremen
dous excitement riots and bloodshed.
Troops are being massed here. at Mos
COW and other centers. and in addition
to the guard regiments. which hurried
~ entered the capital on Thursday
night, the entire army is under special
orders.
The government officials are instruct
ed to enforce martial law in Moscow
and throughout the province of Kiev,
where armed rlsings are looked for be-
cause OF the dissolution OF parliament
The cars ukase was not generally
known at midnight. Most Of St Pc
tersburg was In bed Not one member
OF fifty OF the dOuma was aware OF II,
and so II is impossible TO say what
view OF the cars work will be taken
by the people. The city is patrolled by
Cossacks. The police are at every point.
The government does not mean TO per-
nit any disorder at this time without
following 1t with speedy punishment.
The guard regiments are In camp mt
Krasnoye Selo, and the horse artillery
of the St Petersburg garrison is in the
public squares The city Is in fact an
armed camp Dispatches from Moscow
and other disaffected centers say that
soldiers have been slipping In all day.
The government has done Its work well
so fur and clearly hopes to awe the
people.
BY these pithy, momentous orders,
which We're promulgated at 3 o'clock
in the morning, Emperor Nicholas by
stroke Of the pen set Russia back
to where she stood two years agO-in
the full grip of autocracy and ire
sponsibe government, wiplng out for
six months at least the whole struc-
ture of parliament erected at such
cost
There Is little doubt that the new
assembly will not meet on the date set
unless the new body promises to be
more amenable than the present The
delay In fixing the time for the new
elections seems to indicate a decision
to change the present basis of suffrage
to a basis of general suffrage, with
which the advisers of the emperor
hope to swamp the educated Liberals,
the Socialists and the workmen with
the vast mass of the peasuntry.
An old Murder Unearthed.
MANCHESTER, n. H., July PA
report by Medical Referee Davis I'M
earthed what is believed TO be MUIR
der mystery more than Il score Of years
old. The skeleton of woman was
found on the highway between this city
and Nashua near the Lltchfeld town
line. Or Davis made an investigation
and reported that the woman had been
put TO death in violent manner. He
said the skull showed puncture which
might have been made by IS caliber
bullet. He believes that the woman
was murdered She was about thirty
years old whem>she met her death.