Show OUTLOOK GLOOMY st petersburg nov 17 2 p m the outlook tor an early collapse of the is more gloomy today the situation is distinctly more menacing the council of work mens delegates or strike committee are manifestly encouraged by the extension of the strike in st petersburg various officers including the bank tellers telephone girls and some of the professional leagues having voted to join in the movement moreover it is certain that the work mens council have received mysterious supplies of funds aal consequently they present n bolder front practically all tho pre reals based on economic demands have b een abandoned although the houlday figures in he oratory ac meetings n order to hold the workmen who have no thought except improvement pro in their material condition the work mens council a i reply to count witter per conal appeal to his brother workmen ridiculing the governments profession of solicitude for the workmen and renewing their demands tor ahe immediate abolition of martial law in poland etc vitte s attempt to negotiate directly with the strike leaders ha rome to naught although he offered concessions in the case of the cron sta dt mutineers muti in the event of their being condemned to death but the leader refused an compromise all or nothing was response the imperial ukase on the land tiuis tion issued today although it alp s out about of the peas ants arrearages arrea rages of debt which under ordinary circumstances might have been received with joy is another disappointment the of adal lands are loo vague to calm the agitated peasants who in be tho don and volga are g and murdering no has been obtained of yesterdays report of a adlei emperor leading he peasants of penza troops have taken possession of the moscow railroad station ana the road will be ic opened by means of ralli oad battalions the resumption of irenc on this load i for the capital |