The Mena weekly star., 1906-07-26
THE RUSSIAN SITUATION
Extreme Nervousness and Excite ment Pervade All Classes
 at St. Petersburg.
TROOPS GATHERING IN LARGE NUMBERS
A Report Current that Ukase Ordering Dis solution of Parliament Has Already Been signed-Ex Extraordinary Council in Session at Peterhof With Many Rcac- tlonaries Present-Syzran in Ruins


 St. Petersburg, July 21.-Extreme nervousness and excitement pervade all classes owing to fear that the ac- ton of the lower house of parliament ln adopting at two o'clock Friday morning an address to the people may De the signal for Q coup d'etat against parliament. It is rumored that the step has been decided upon and the Strana prints report that an imperial ukase ordering the dissolution of par lament has already been signed.
 The feeling of general alarm is in- creased by the fact that all night long guard regiments have been marching into the city from the guards camp at Krasnoye-Selo Moreover it is known that the colonels of the Seminovsgy regiment of the guard and of the Hussars of the guard and the colonels of the Issailovsky, Pavlovsky, Preo- brajensky and Yaegerski guard regi- ments and the colonel of the horse artillery of the guard were summoned to the headquarters of the commander of the St. Petersburg garrison where they received instructions regarding the disposition of their troops in tho case of certain eventualities.
 high placed parsonage in conyer sation with the correspondent of tn Associated Press Friday made no at tempt to conceal the gravity of the sit uation. He said:
 Everything may depend upon Fri days sitting of the lower house O: parliament. If no step is taken tc avoid conflict with the government the sequel may be tragic
 At the Tauride palace Friday a pess imistic feeling was prevalent but the leaders generally did not believe that the government would dare to attemp dissolution of parliament.
 At the opening of the session of ths lower house the question of the pub lication of the address to the country which President Moroumtseff Thurs day night decided had not been car ried owing to the lack of a quorum was allowed to go over until Monday
  cupy the chair.
 Without debate the house then adop ted a resolution on the subject of the Bialystok massacre, demanding the prosecution of the military and police officials involved, irrespective of rank The resolution which constitutes d strongly worded indictment of the gen eral government which is held respon- sible for the secret propaganda melt. ing class against class, says:
 Realizing it's powerlessness to sup press the revolutionary movement th- government attempts to suppress it by melting one portion of the population against the other, especially selecting the Jews for victims.
 The resolution concludes with an- other expression of distrust of the ministry and a demand for it's re- signation.
 The Bourse Gazette says that an ex- traordinary council was sitting Fri day afternoon at Peterhof with Gen Count Ignatieff, the noted reactionary h IODtQOuuSlSclls lOiillti piOCuldtoi- general of the holy synod; Gen. Ire poff, commandant of the palace M Sticninsky, minister of agriculture and others in attendance discussing the advisability of the immediate dis solution of parliament
 Sahara, Russia, July 21.-The latest news from Syzran is that the city is in heap of ruins. Hundreds of per and several men suspected of incen- 1iarism were lynched. Food for the starving inhabitants of Syzran is being sent from here and from Saratoff.