The Jersey City news., 1906-08-04
TO TIE UP ALL RUSSIA
General Strike Order Obeyed by
Twenty Thousand st. Peters
burg W0rkmen.
CRoNSTADT COURT MARTIALs
Drumhead Courts Condemn Partici-
pants In Recent Revoits-Sveaborg
Rising Entirely suppressed-Premier
stolypin Goes to Peterhof With Res
isnaticn-Fate of Cruiser Unknown.

isnatien-Fate of Cruiser Unknown.
st. Petersburg, Aug. AIN antieipa-
tioh Of labor riots small steamers with
quick firing guns mounted on board
are cruising up and down the Neva.
The employees Of the electric light
ing plants, always the earliest baro-
metric record of political conditions,
ceased work in obedience to the call
for a general strike issued by the
Workmen's council This call already
has been obeyed by 10000 factory
hands in the capital. 1t Is impossible,
however, yet to predict the result of
this universal political strike.
The best other available index to the
situation is the railroads The railroad
men have not as yet needed the call
for general strike except in the case
of an insignificant line running to
Sestroretzk and other shore resorts in
the vicinity of st. Petersburg. The
men of this road barricaded the line,
with the result that they had an unim-
portant collision with Cossacks.
Workmen on Strike.
The men In a dozen establishments
In the Vasili Ostrov and Wiborsky
quarters and in the Moscow quarter,
beyond the Narva gate. have gone out.
The plan is to extend the strike to
Moscow on Monday and gradually to
extend it throughout the empire until
everything, including the railroads and
telegraphs, is at complete standstill.
The police have arrested half dozen
members of the Worlxmen's council.
1t is stated definitely that the first
step toward dictatorship will be the
nomination Immediately Of Grand
Duke Nicholas to the chief command
of all the troops in Russia.
Premier Stolypin has gone to Peter
hof with the intention of rendering his
resignation.
The report that Emperor Nicholas
had fatty refused to accept the condi-
tions to which Premier Stolypin
agreed in his negotiations with Count
Heyden, Alexander Guchkoff, Prince
Nicholas Lvoff, Paul Vinogradoff and
Senator Koni for the reorganization of
the cabinet turns out to be true.
cossacks to QueIl 7evols.
There is dissatisfaction among the
men Of the Moscow regiment of the
guards quartered in st. Petersburg,
and Cossacks have been sent to the
barracks of the regiment.
The restlessness among the troops
composing the garrison in the south
ern provinces causes great alarm. A
revolutionary manifesto circulated at
Odessa declares that Russia is on the
eve Of military and naval revolution
which will be sharp and desperate.
A portion of the troops in the sum-
mer camp at Rembertoff, near War
saw, mutinied. The artillerymen drove
their officers out of their quarters A
detachment of Cossacks sent to the
camp were received with grapeshot.
The governor of Samara was killed
by a bomb which blew off his head
The assassin was arrested.
The officers of Cronstadt showed
splendid courage during the mutiny
there All of those killed fell fighting
Colonel Alexandroff received the mutt
ueers with revolver, and Captain
Tyroschinsky of the submarine miners
was bayoneted after desperately resist
ing. Rear Admiral Beclemscheff, whe
received many wounds, died.
Trials by drumhead court martial
were resumed at Cronstadt, and it is
believed that further executions are in
progress.
Mutlny on Cruiser Checked.
An incipient mutiny broke out on
board the Russian cruiser Bogatyr al
Helsingfors. 1t was Immediately put
down with the arrest of 200 of the
sailors.
Sveaborg fortress is completely in the
hands of the government. The mutt
neers there have been sent to Skatud
den island to await trial.
A soldier who came ashore from the
fortress says the causalities will run
into thousands.
The fate Of the cruiser Asia, which
was sent to Abo, Finland, mutinied
hoisted the red flag and sailed in the
direction of Sveaborg, is unknown
Admiral Bireleff started on this ship tc
take command of the Baltic fleet Al
Helsingfors. He is believed to be 6
prisoner on his own flagship.
The accounts received here of the
mutiny on the armored cruiser Pam
vat Azova off the Esthonian coast show
that the sailors expected to obtain the
support of the garrison of the fortress
of Revel A student agitator probably
one of the emmissaries sent from st
Petersburg, was slowed away OF
board
When the crew mutinied after mid
night Wednesday the cruiser was an
chored twenty miles down the coast
Captain Sosinsky arrested and seni
ashore sailor named Taroeff, who was
regarded as being the ringleader In the
mutiny. But two hours afterward. the
sailors rose, entered the cabin ant
killed Captain Saborovsky, the Officer
of the watch.
Escaping Officer Killed.
The firing aroused the officers below
who ran upon deck and, taking In thu