Show SIGNERS ARE TOBE TO TOBE TOBE BE PROSECUTED Russian Government Going After Men Responsible for Viborg Manifesto TENSION IN THE PROVINCES MEMBERS OF F LOWER HOUSE IN HIDING 7 St S1 Petersburg July 30 The public prosecutor has started proceedings against the members of the lower house of par parliament parliament who signed the Viborg mani manifesto manifesto manifesto festo The charges under which the signers of the manifesto will be brought to trial Is violation of article of the criminal code which provides for attempts to overthrow the existing government This is virtually high treason and the maxi maximum maximum mum penalty is hard labor in the mines No arrests yet have been reported and the Constitutional Democrats do not an anticipate anything approaching punishment of their representatives It is understood that the arrested will be admitted to bail ball pending trial The Constitutional Demo Democrats Democrats Democrats are chiefly apprehensive that the possibility of prosecution held h ld over the heads of their leaders will render them ineligible for reelection in the same manner man manner manner ner that Professor and M Hes lies Hessel Hessel liesse sel se and others were excluded from the thelast thelast thelast last lower house Socialists and radical members of ot the e in cells e for r a long time and thus be pre pm prevented vented from continuing the revolutionary agitation which they are now embarked Living in Seclusion Many of these are now liv living living living ing under cover in the houses of friends in St S1 Petersburg or have gone Into hiding hid hiding hiding ing in the provinces A of the Associated Press today met two pens peas peasant ant who had cut off their hair and beards and who could scarcely be recognized The motives of the government for abandoning its attitude not to prosecute the signers of the Viborg manifesto as set forth recently by Premier in an interview Is not stated but evidently it was influenced by the need of doing some something something something thing to counteract the effect of ot the Viborg address This has attained an enormous circulation In the provinces es in n spite of the greatest efforts on the part pait of the administration to prevent its publication publication cation catton Seizure of the Bossel printing plant here by armed revolutionists for tor the pur purpose purpose purpose pose of getting out copies bf f the Viborg address was duplicated today in but it is believed that this for forcible forcible i cible occupation of printing offices is a abit abit I bit of ot amateur theatricals arranged be between between between tween the proprietors of the establish establishments establishments establishments ments and the revolutionists to save the former from responsibility This same method was employed ed to effect in the printing of the illegal organ of the work ork mens council of St Petersburg last win winter winter winter ter Manifesto to Peasants A manifesto to the peasants of Russia has been Issued in oln the joint names of all the various labor Socialist and revolutionary revolutionary revolutionary organizations including the rep representatives representatives representatives of these organizations in the defunct lower house This manifesto declares de declares declares clares that the hopes reposed in the lower lowerhouse lowerhouse lowerhouse house of parliament have been blasted by br bythe bythe the diabolical designs of the crowd of grand dukes courtiers and wealthy land proprietors assembled around the emperor whose only purpose can be the maintenance maintenance ance of their power over the people By dispersing the elected representatives 0 of t the people peo a and arresting 0 and Imprisoning them the t government has declared tn In n the nation and 0 a 11 0 struggle Is beginning in which rivers of blood will flow and for which the criminal nal government g is responsible re responsible responsIble The people must not spare the government Government Accused This manifesto further accuses the gov government government government of betraying the fatherland by Invoking the aid of ot German and Austrian troops The people are therefore urged to remove the local authority auth everywhere to replace with men elected by them themselves themselves themselves selves and to confiscate all state stae funds The troops also must conform to the or orders orders orders ders of them elected by the people The workmen In the towns the peasantry pe santry and all toilers must In conjunction n with the troops seize the liberty and take the theland theland theland land which the government has denied them 0 The land thus possessed must be handed over to the popularly elected rep representatives representatives representatives pending the elaboration of ofa ofa ofa a new land law The manifesto calls calIs for elections In the basis of universal suffrage and concludes with the words Down with the government and the emperor Long live the dear and free Russian people TRAGEDY ALL THE TIME People Wrought Up to a High Pitch of Excitement Warsaw July 0 While the church of a suburb of ot Warsaw was filled with worshipers today an unknown per person person person son outside began firing rapidly with a revolver A panic followed the church service was broken up and the c I tion In a wild effort to escape crowded on board a ferryboat which sank sanK drown drowning drownIng ing five persons The affair indicates the nervousness of the people No day passes without tragic occurrences In the city park last Satur day evening a man fired Ired into a crowd killed one man and wounded w four It is officially announced that th loss result ing from the robbery of the Warsaw Varsa Vienna train between and Herby July 28 amounts to |