| Show business men are m despair at the Ou took st petersburg thursday dec 14 morning via Eydt kuhnen east prussia dec IS abe emperors name day december will be signal iced by on important peasant manifesto and the publication of the election law dmitri president of the moscow the most commanding figure among the moderate liberals who with M jouchkoff Gouch koff a prom I 1 anent member of the moscow alexander and others been consulted in the preparation of the election law is out with a strong appeal to all who have the welfare of the country at heart without regard to party affiliation to unite in the restoration of order and thus insure peaceful elections and the convocation of the national assembly which is the only legal place in which to settle political differences he further declares that all closes of the population can join in this imperative work except those who do not believe in the following doctrines first the development of a constitutional tut ional monarchy based on universal suffrage and second the reform of russia by peaceful means through an imperial national assembly under tho leadership of the law and order party an attempt is making to organize a counter peasants party in opposition to the moscow peasants congress the post telegraph congress at moscow is still holding out insisting that the strikers can be unless a new development enters into the situation their cause apparently is lost the ranks of the strikers are being deserted and those returning to work are compelled to sign a declaration to the effect that they were enticed into the union under false pretenses and agreeing not to meddle with politics in the future nevertheless the strikers can cripple the postal service tor an indefinite period and without the striking operators it is impossible for the government to secure a resumption of telegraphic communication muni cation there are no signs of a break on the siberian lines and business men everywhere ery where are in despair at the outlook runs on savings banks are reported at many places in the provinces the desperate strikers here continue their attacks on mail wagons and the robbery of letter boxes the provincial are complaining pla ining that they are unable to col elect lect the taxes without the aid of the federal government and they have been obliged to close the schools throughout the volga and don regions the peasants continue to cut down the toi ests the arrival of general maximovitch the successor ot the late general as the emperors representative at Sd was signalizes signalized by an unfortunate incident the peasants in the district of Bala scheff had been rounded up by the authorities with the aid of cossacks in order to persuade them to return the wood and other property which they had stolen when suddenly the commander of the cossacks was shot and fell dead from his horse whereupon the cossacks fired on the crowd killing four and wounding ten persons general maxi who arrived on the scene am mec fately afterwards was greatly distressed and in the name of the em geror promised to succor financially the families of the dead and wounded peasants the assassin of general has confessed her identity to the extent of admitting that her name is amelia she refuses however to furnish any other information to the authorities from central russia comes the news that the estate of ivan pat president of the moscow agricultural society and a prominent member of the has been sacked and destroyed by the peasants the says that one of the leaders of the sevastopol sebastopol Seba muti has been hanged the announcement from st petersburg that the identity of the assassin of general has been established would seem to dispose of tho reports that the murderer was a man disguised as a woman BIG DEAL IN IRON LANDS duluth minn dec 15 one of the biggest mining deals in the history of the masaba mesaba iron Rang ewas consummated yesterday when the transfer of a halt interest in what are known as the J J hill unlooked unloosed un loosed ore lands on the western masaba mesaba range was formally made to the U S steel corporation the papers being filed at grand rapids glnn the county seat of itasca county glnn today the principal part of the ore lands on this range comprises a vast acreage on the west end of the masaba known as the walker lands those lands have been variously estimated to contain from to tons of ore running about one halt bessemer RAILROAD PASSES mcw york dec 15 at a meeting of the executive committee of the trunk line association yesterday the abolition of free passes on the railroads included in the asso was discussed any decision in the matter of passes it was said rested frail with the ft the several lines the committee adopted adopt el a resolution recommending that all passes designed as inducements to secure business be discontinued tha of abolishing passes altogether was left to the individual lines GERMANS TO BE slaughtered stockholm dec 13 the dagens Nya etera corroa ondene who returned here today from riga sava the letts constituting a majority of the population ot control the situation their leader M i editor of the deelas lapas Is also the head of the federated revolutionary lutio nary societies and has command of everything their hatred of the german speaking population which is unrelenting Is caused by years of oppression on tho part of the german nobility the peasants around riga are burning estates and murdering land owners tho germans of riga expect a st Bartholo mews night and it Is evident that the letts are preparing for a wholesale slaughter the central part of riga can be protected at the bridges if the army is true in each block one house has been prepared as a fortress in which to shelter the germans when the massacre starts beside this the householders have established various places of refuge murders are committed in broad daylight mostly tor revenge and the police are afraid to interfere the governor general does not dare command the troops not knowing whether they will obey orders several country communities have established republics intending later to confederate into a baltic republic the revolutionaries are preparing an irresistible strike for january and the workmen are being armed the revolutionaries have refused to allow either germans or russians to leave livonia the correspondent says he fears that the deep hatred jelt by the letts for the german nobility and german capitalists will lead to an awful calamity |
