Show CAPITAL QUIET BUT IN PANIC astl petersburg oct 20 st petersburg was in a panic today but to a large extent apparently without reason the most alarming rumors were in circulation and the shopkeepers on all except a few of the principal streets closed their stores and boarded up the doors and windows while peaceful minded inhabitants kepi within doors anxiety was evidenced in the whole city but so far nothing has occurred to justify these wears there were no disorders gen who aas been placed in command of the st petersburg garrison and given adf additional division of reinforcements declares that ho la amply able to maintain order and the police are allowing the strikers to vent their enthusiasm so as w avoid a demonstration on gen instructed the police not to interfere with the parades so bonfe as they were orderly oui ne gave notice tonight he was prepared to cope firmly with any dis order lie had printed in all the evening papers a that the troops would tomorrow be ordered to use ball cartridges in case thre should aca any outbreak by the greatest exertions the gova rement today succeeded in moving trains manned by military operatives on a few railroads traffic wag resumed irregularly on tae moscow and st petersburg railroad and on lines from MOSCOW ta brest and kazan the first efforts were directed to the moving af cattle trains go as to prevent famine in the two capitals and one trainload of cattle arrived at st petersburg and another al moscow A scanty supply of milk butter and eggs is arriving in st petersburg over tha finland railroad tho employed emp loyes of which refuse to strike the situation however cannot be regarded as much improved the strikers at their meetings today were as determined as ever to continue the strike and the full force of the government railroad battalions Is almost helpless in the faco of the general strike on the railroads the most encouraging feature of the situation is the absence of any widespread disorder picturesque details nave been received of the uprising at charkoff Kh arkoff where students and strikers took possession of the locally in the center of the city containing the university cathedral and other buildings threw up barricades constructed a regular fortress and elected provisional government but cooler heads effected an arrangement which made it unnecessary for tho troops to storm the revolutionary citadel the defend ers of which marched out with full honors of war minor tumults are re ported from other cities but in general the strikers are adhering to their determination to make the protest in orderly fashion in order to show themselves flit for self government tho strike has proved most effective in forcing the government to speedy action on measures which have been lumbering in commission tor many weeks wednesday night yie ministers after a five hours session finished the final draft of a law creating a responsible council ot ministers and today completed the revision of the statute granting freedom of assembly both of which will be taken to elm geror nicholas for signature tonight the ministers held another sess loni meeting formally as the commission but in reality as fount wittes cabinet to discuss the election regulations of the doumat II 11 wag a short session and mainly concerned th dec eions in siberia it Is reported that M watte simultaneously with the promulgation of the cabinet s statute will issue a proclamation la defining his policy and asking the nation to give a tair trial to the new governmental myslem and resist the efforts of revolutionaries to throw the entire country into a of anarchy the source of the funds which aro apparently at command of the revolutionists is a mystery in moscow tho revolutionary committee is paying strikers 15 cents dally and has invested large sums in arms aud ammunition the rifles and cartridges taken la finland and poland were part of those purchased by the committee it Is conjectured that financial aid 13 being received from socialists and revolutionists abroad and some of it may como from america in response to an appeal published recently lo 10 new york newspapers on of the jewish bund boston oct iorli about waa destroys in a alre in the storerooms store rooms of the 0 E fosgood company and toe washington credit company on street |