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Show Word ILis Been Sent Through-out Through-out Empire to Tie Up Every Industry, ST. PETERSBURG LIGHTS H ARE ALREADY PUT OUT H Prediction Is Made That Move-ment Move-ment Will Fail for Lack of Preparation. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. -1, 2:45 a. m. St. Petersburg is in darkness tonight. H The employees of tlie electric lighting plants, always the earliest barometric record of political conditions, coased work during the afternoon, in obedi-enco obedi-enco to the call for a general strike. 'This "call already lias been obeyed by 2000 factory hands in the capital. It will be impossible, however, to predict jH tlie success of this universal political strike until Monday, as the workmen in St. Petersburg 'and the provinces have two holidays. Saturday, which is the fete day of" the dowager Empress and a great religious feast; and their regular holiday ot Sunday. The only other available index to the situation are the railroads. Up to 2 o'clock this morning the railroad men have not heeded the call for a general strike, except in the case of an insignlll-cant insignlll-cant bobtail line running to Sestro-rctzk Sestro-rctzk 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 important collision with Cossacks last night. Dictatorship Likely. In the meantime the fate of the Stolypin Cabinet sways in the balance, and Russia is upon the verge of dis-orders dis-orders which may lead either to the reign of the military or the proletariat. Stops toward a dictatorship may be taken Sunday or Monday by' the nomi-nation nomi-nation of Grand Duke js'icholas to the chief command of all the troops in Bus-sia. Bus-sia. This would virtually place him in control of all the disturbed districts of the empire where martial law has been proclaimed. 1 This matter was a subject of earnest discussion during the interview between tne Emperor ana Premier Stolypin yes-terday, yes-terday, from which tho Premier re-turned re-turned in a greatly vexed stato of mind. tt Tho revolutions at Sveaborg and Cron- IH stadt and the mutiny on board the cruiser Panyatazova gave the tone to the conversation between his Majesty and tho Premier. These events, al-though al-though they have all ended fortunately. apparently have left a strong impres-sion impres-sion upon the mind of the Emperor. Tho A'ssocinted Press has been in-formed in-formed from a high source that the nomination of Grand Duke Nicholas to jl tho post of commander-in-chief, if made, will bo announced as "for tho purpose of harmonizing the activity of all troops, without reference to politi-cal politi-cal affairSj" but Premier Stolypin is iH scarcely disposed to regard the nomi-nation nomi-nation 'in this high light. IH Government Pears Attack. IH A dispatch received by tho Asso- jf ciatcd Press from Scstroretz says that heavy reinforcements arc being poured in there, evidently in fear or. an at-tack at-tack upon tho Government large and small arms factory located in that suburb. The long distnnce telephone station was occupied last night by half a com-pauv com-pauv of infantry in order to prevent the "anticipated attempt of tho revolu-tionists revolu-tionists to sever telephonic communion-tion communion-tion between here and Moscow, and tho last train in from Moscow brought railroad officials who had collected tho fuuds on hand at the various inter-mcdinto inter-mcdinto stations to -prevent their sciz-lire sciz-lire in case- of a strike. It was announced at tho Admiralty last night that tho drumhead court-martial court-martial proceedings at Cronstadt prob-ably prob-ably would be suspended with tho exe- ll cutiou of seven riugleaders of the mu-tiny, mu-tiny, who were coudemned to death Thursday. The other mutincors will bo subject c"d to trial by tho regular court-martial, court-martial, which will" bo convened after tho customary delays. Death List Growing. It has now been ascertained that tho doath list on board the cruiser Panyntn-zovin Panyntn-zovin included Capt. Sosinsky, two IH Liou tenants, the chiot engineer and tho junior engineer, tho surgeon, a mid-shipmau mid-shipmau and tho chief potty officer. Captain of tho second-class Mozyroff jH was mortally wounded. A private and two Lieutenants were slightly wounded. About fifty Bailors were killed or wounded. vM The three pettv officers who organ- IH ized the loval sailors to retake nosses-sion nosses-sion of the" ship have been singled out JM for imperial cominendation. The muti-ncers muti-ncers will bo courtmartialod at Roval. jl Tho report iasc night that Emperor IH Nicholas had ilatlv refused to accept tho conditions to which Premier jH Stolvpin agreed iu his negotiations with" Count Hevdcu Alexander Guchk-off, Guchk-off, Prince Nicholas LvotT, Paul Vino-gradolf Vino-gradolf and Senator Konin for tne re- IH organization of tho cabinet and which tho Premier expects tho Emperor to ac-cept, ac-cept, turns out to be true. Official con- jH firmatioii came this morning in a ono- IB line announcement as follows: "The reports that the non-bureau- JM cratic elements will enter tho cabinet ll aro untrue." Dictatorship Coming. Count Hoyden and his conferees havo now washed thoir hands of tho jH government. The Count himself has VM already left St. Petersburg for his es- IB I tato iu the country and all M. Stoly- IH pin's glittering promises of "strong-handcu "strong-handcu reform'' arc thus suddenly IB dashed to tho oartli. At his first on-con on-con u tor with the influence at court ho IH has been worsted and tho predictions IH of tho Liberals that tho dissolution of IB parliament would inovitably lead to a IH dictatorship, appear on tuo point ot IH realization. There is no doubt that IH tho panic created at Court by the mutiny at Cronstadt, within earshot of tho Emperor, niado tho victory, of tho J I Camarilla easy. It is difficult to understand un-derstand how M. Stolypin can now remain re-main in office without stultifying him-dolf him-dolf in the 0303 of the nation and tho world. Patrols Pill the Strocts. The guard regiments, which were sent back to their camp at Krasnoye-Selo at the end of last week, when tho Government Gov-ernment was conHoling" itself with tho belief that the country had nccopted the Emperor's fiat, are again on dutj'at the capital. They have boon marching all night. The patrols in tho siroots have again been reinforced, all the public buildings are heavily occupied by troops and tho number of domiciliary visits and arrests have boon rodoublcd. The authorities not as if they were dazed and not kuowing what to expect next. The searchlights of a cruiser stationed on tho roof of tho Baltic works wore played last night on tho river, as if St. Petersburg was besieged by a foreign foe. Tho Koch has boeu confiscated and even such a high-tonod napcr as tho Ravitstvaio (Quality), and Prof. Kovalovskv's Ekstrana havo been suppressed. Only the Novou Vremya nnd tho Svet or tho unofficial papers seem to bo immuno from seizure. Last night's incendiary fires did not sproad, giving relief to those who feared (he whole city might be sot on fire. Women Join in Mutiny. Tho crowd of civilians who joined the mutineers includod a largo number of women. Thoy wore armed with rifles, revolvers 'and swords. One of the wounded captains wns spared because be-cause he woro tho St. Qoorgo cross. Capt. Prodionoff, who was killod, fought in tho battlo of the Sea or .Tnpnu on on9 of tho Russian ships which foundorod. lie was fourteen hours in tho water beforo ho was picked up. Casualties Aro Heavy. A mossago from Svoaborg fortress during tho day said that the casualties would bo shown to number many mora than COO, oxpresaing tho opinion that tho totals would run into thousands. Tho garrison consisted of 0000 men. Tho ioador of tho Bod Guard, Capt. Koch, has been arrested. A numbor of worknion are on strike, and tho street cars aro not running, "but there have been no disturbances today. |