The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-11-15
REVOLUT|ON|STS
SEIZE PETR0GRAD.
immediate Peace Is Declared
For and Arrest Of kerensky.
WINTER PALACE B0MBARDED
Worknen's Congress Begins Its Ses-
sions-lenine Welcomed Back And
Chosen As An officer OF
The Body.

Petrogf
Petrograd.-T Provisional Govern
ment has been thrown out OF power
by the Extreme Radical headed by
Nickolai Lenine; Premier Kerensky
has fed the capital; several OF his
ministers have been placed under ar.
rest, and the Winter Palace, the seat
Of the Government, has been lombard.
ed by the guns of the cruiser Aurora
and OF the st. Peter and ST. Paul for
tress and forced to capltulate to the
revolutlonists.
A congress Of the Workmeh and Sol
diers' Delegates OF all Russia has con-
vened in Petrograd and will discuss
peace and war and the formation OF a
the questions OF organization OF power,
constituent assembly. A delegation
has been named by the congress TO
confer with other revolutionary and
democratic organizations with a view
to initiating peace negotiations for the
purpose OF taking steps to stop the
bloodshed."
As yet the details OF the disorders
which followed the assumption Of
power by the Radical element are
meagre, but Il is known that from its
moorings in the Neva, the cruiser
Aurora fired shrapnel and solid shot
against the Winter Palace for four
hours, with the guns Of the great for.
tress and machine guns stationed in
front OF the Palace keeping in accord
with the salvos from the warship.
Desultory fighting also took place at
various points inside the city, the rev.
olutionaries capturing vantage points
along the Nevsky Prospekt and vari-
Gus bridges over the Neva. II is pos.
sible that the casualties among the
citizenry were slight. as the Work.
mems and Soldiers Delegates took
precautions to warn the people to seek
refuge in their homes.
Reports as to the whereabouts OF
Kerensky are various. Some of them
say that he has sought safety in Mos
COW, while others assert that he has
gone TO the front in an endeavor to
obtain the backing Of the troops to
forestall a debacle Of his Government
Cossack regiments are declared al
ready to have announced their readi-
ness wholeheartedly to support the
Government on condition that no COM
promise with the revolutionists is
made. but on tie other hand It is as
eerted that delegates from the Black
and Baltic Sea fleets have declared
themselves in favor of the Radicals.
Workmen's Congress Meets.
The General Congress of Workmen
and Soldiers Delegates OF all Russia
convened here with $50 delegates in
attendance. The chairman declared
that the time was not propitious for
political speeches and the order Of
business of the congress approved was
as follows:
First Organization of power.
Second Peace and war.
Third. A constituent assembly
The officers elected comprise II
Maximilasts, including Nikolai Lenine,
the Radical Socialist leader; NJ. Zinc
vieff, an associate of Lenine, and Leon
Trotzky, president of the central
executive committee of the Petrograd
Council of Workmen and Soldiers
Delegates. In addition, seven Revolu-
tionary Socialists were appointed.
A delegation was named to initiate
peace negotiations with the other rev.
olutionary and democratic .organiza-
tions, with a view to taking steps to
atop bloodshed,"
Assumes Full Power.
The official news agency made pub
iic the following statement:
1.-THE Congress of the Councils of
Workmen and Soldiers Delegates Of
all Russia, issued the following proc.
lamations: