THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA.
CZAR ABDICATES
AFTER BIG REVOLT:
SON OM THRONE
of
Russian Duma in Control
Great Empire—500 Per-
sons Kilied.
GRAND DUKE MADE REGENT
Simultaneous Uprisings in Petrograd
and Moscow—Empress Placed Un-
der Guard — Emperor Heeds
Demand to Quit—Soldiers
Join Revolutionists and
Two Statesmen Are
Slain.
Petrograd, March 19.—Czar Nicholas
of Russia has abdicated and the Grand
Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, his
younger brother, has been named as
regent of the empire.
Nothing official regarding the dynas-
ty’s future has been given out, but it is
understood the Grand Duke Alexis,
heir apparent, is to be recognized for-
mally when conditions become settled.
Corrupt Ministry Ousted.
The Russian ministry, charged with
corruption and incompetence, has been
swept out of office.
One minister, Alexander Protopopoft,
head of the interior department, is re-
ported to have been killed, and the
other ministers, as well as the presi-
dent of the imperial council, are un-
der arrest.
A new national cabinet is announced,
with Prince Lvoff as president of the
council and premier, and the other of-
fices held by the men who are close
to the Russian people.
No Peace Movement.
The duma joined hands in the revolt
which aimed at the reactionary con-
duct of the war and the ineffective dis-
tribution of food. Its success means
a more aggressive part in the war and
is said to put an end to German hopes
for a separate peace with Russia.
The British and French ambassadors
here already have established official
business relations with the new cabi-
net and with the executive committee
named by the duma.
tion,
Czar on Way From Front.
London, March 19.—A Reuter dis-
patch from Petrograd says that the
emperor is expected to arrive at the
Tsarskoe-Selo palace and that several
regiments with artillery are hastening
to the same place.
: It was this com-
mittee that forced the czar's abdica-'
fessor Manuiloff of Moscow university.
Minister of War and Navy, ad in-
terim—A. J. Guchkoff, formerly presi-
dent of the duma.
Minister of Agriculture—M.
gareff, deputy from Petrograd.
Minister of Finance—M. Tereschten-
ko, deputy from Kiev.
Minister of Justice—Deputy Keren-
ski of Saratoff.
Minister of Communications—N. V.
Nekrasoff, vice president of the duma.
Controller of State—M. Godneff,
deputy from Kazan.
Control Is Complete.
That control by the new government
is complete is undoubted. Telegrams
from generals commanding at the vari-
ous fronts have displayed an astonish.
ing unanimity of support of the new
order.
Demonstrations against the govern-
ment have been frequent during the
last few weeks. The attempted pro-
roguing of the duma fanned the fires,
which spread rapidly from class to
class and from civilians to troops.
Sunday it broke forth in flame.
Panic-stricken, the ' government or-
dered the mounted patrols to fire on
the people. The patrols refused, and
a battle between the police and the
troops followed, regiment after regi-
ment joining the revolutionists, seizing
and throwing the heads of the secret
police into prison.
For three days open battle raged in
the streets of Petrograd. Strikes in
factories and on street cars were
called in sympathy with the revolu-
tion. .
Wednesday the week’s nightmare of
revolution ended more suddenly- than
it had begun. Planks were pulled
from windows, doors were unbarred,
factories, stores and banks reopened.
500 Slain in Revolt.
The only evidence that a revolution
had been fought and won was the
smoldering ruins of a few public
buildings. The cost in life is unknown.
It is believed, however, that it did not
exceed. 500.. ; ’ Foi
Magical and sudden as was the
transition from the old to the new, it
is believed here that its results will be
almost immediately visible in the in-
stitution by the new Russia of a more
vigorous and efficient prosecution of
the war against Germany.
Appeal Made to Czar.
‘The duma telegraphed the principal
generals at the front to use their influ-
ence with Emperor Nicholas in sup-
port of the duma’s appeal for a popu-
lar government, says Reuter’s Petro-
grad correspondent.
General Brussiloff, commander in
chief of the armies on the southwest-
ern front, replied:
“Your. telegram received. I have
fulfilled my duty to my emperor and
my country.” .
Gen. Nicholas V. Ruzsky, member of
the supreme military council, replied:
“I have carried out your request.”
M. Rodzianko, president of the
duma, sent the following telegram to
Emperor Nicholas:
Ichin-
The Grand Duke Nicholas is report- )
ed to have reached the Russian capi-
The dispatch says that he will
tal.
probably take command of the troops.
According to information received
here the Russian people have been
most distrustful during recent events
of the personal influence of Empress
Alexandra. She was supposed to ex-
ercise the greatest influence over Em-
peror Nicholas.
The Empress Alexandra, before her
marriage to the emperor of Russia in
1894, was the German Princess Alix of
Hesse-Darmstadt.
A popular revolution has been suc-
cessful and the government of Russia
rests temporarily with a self-appoint-
ed committee of the duma.
After three days of battle, in which
the majority of the 30,000 troops in
Petrograd mutinied and supported the ~
revolutionists, calm has returned.
The czar’s abdication was in com-
pliance with the urgent demand of the
committee of the duma, which notified
him that upon his assent depended
the fate of the dynasty.
Troops Back the Duma.
Telegraphing from Petrograd Wed-
nesday, Reuter’'s correspondent says
Kronstadt, the fortress and great na-
val station at the head of the Gulf of
Finland, 20 miles west of Petrograd,
has joined the revolutionary move-
ment. Two deputies, Pepelauff and
Taskine, on instructions from the du-
ma committee, proceeded to Kron-
stadt, where the troops placed them-
selves at the disposal of the duma.
The Copenhagen Ekstrabladet re-
ports that the Russian consul in Hapa-
randa, Sweden, says that former Pre-
mier Sturmer and Minister of the In-
terior Protopopoff were killed in Petro-
grad. Both were charged with pro-
German sympathies.
New Cabinet Announced.
A new national cabinet is announced,
with Prince. Lvoff as president of the
council and premier, and the other of-
fices held by the men who are close to
the Russian people.
The members of the new national
cabinet are announced as follows:
Premier, President of the Council
and Minister of the Interior—Prince
Georges E. Lvoft.
Foreign Minister—Prof,
Milioukoff.
Minister of Public Instruction—Pro-
Paul N.
% Hall '
“The situation is becoming worse.
Measures must be taken: immediately,
Taffeta in Spring Coat Fashions.
for tomorrow it may ba too late. The
hour has arrived when the fate of the
country and of the dynasty is being
decided.”
M. Chtchegiovitoff, president of the
council of empire, was arrested in his
home and temporarily held in the min-
isterial room of the duma.
A telegram received by the naval
attache of the Russian embassy in
Paris reported that the railways and
public services in Petrograd had re-
sumed work.
The revolution, which evidently was
carefully prepared, broke out simul-
taneously in Petrograd and Moscow.
The garrisons, which obeyed the in-
structions of the revolutionaries, im-
mediately took possession of these
cities after comparatively little fight-
ing and equally small amount of de-
struction of property. :
Petrograd Bridge Blown Up.
In Petrograd one bridge was blown
up. Strict military rule prevails and
the army has the situation so well in
hand that it is not expected adherents
of the late government will be able to
offer any serious resistance, even in
remote provinces.
After ‘receiving word of the revolu-
tion, it is reported, Emperor Nicholas
returned to the palace, where he ar-
rived on Wednesday.
The following details of the revolu-
tion have been given to the press from
a source usually well informed on
Russian affairs:
“The soldiers refused to act against
the crowd which started trouble when
it heard of the ukase issued by Em-
peror Nicholas proroguing the duma.
On Sunday the committee which had
met to discuss the food situation was
partly transformed into a provisional
government under the presidency of
President Rodzianko of the duma and
included representatives of the duma
council of the empire and of the
municipality. The garrison agreed to
support the provisional government.”
The proclamation by the military
governor in Petrograd forbidding any
street assemblages and declaring that
any disorders would be ruthlessly sup-
pressed made it apparent that affairs
were graver than the dispatches al-
lowed by the Russian censorship would
indicate.
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EAGER TO PROSECUTE WAR
English Correspondent Asserts That
All Classes of Russians Favor Con-
tinuation of Hostilities.
London, March 19.—Reuter’s Petro-
grad correspondent sent the following
dispatch concerning the Russian revo-
Jution under date of March 14:
“Your correspondent has been in the
streets both night and day for the last
three days. He has n long lines of
Rungry men, women and children, and
has seen the wanton firing of rifles
and machine guns, and civil war in the
main thoroughfares, but has not heard
a single word against war.
“A shortage @f food, the lack of or-
ganization and the neglect of the most
elementary precautions are popularly
ascriled to German influences. This
is a word of provocation on every lip.
“The killing of Rasputin was the
match that set fire to the vast heap of
patriotic determination that Russia
would deserve well of her allies if she
would give herself the chance.
Taffeta dresses and coats reappear
each season, sure of a good following.
This season, countenanced by Paris—
if that’ makes any differenee—it prom-
ises to be more used for afternoon and
evening dresses and for separate skirts
than any other silk. It léads for the
last mentioned by a.long way. These.
separate, silk skirts are im plaids,
checks and occasional stripes, and in
combinations of many colors, some of]
them rather startling. It is a fancy
to wear long coats of pain ‘silk over
them, made in the fashion of a suit
coat or a long coat of black taffeta
will serve this purpose and many oth-
ers.. ¢ vee
The coat of black taffeta shown in
the picture is touched up with white
braid and buttons and a hité collar.
Contrasting collars ‘of chiffon, broad,
cloth are a feature of these coats as
well as of blouses and suits. There
ts a wide, soft girdle with hanging
ist. .
ends tied loosely about the
Pockets are conspicuous by their ab-
sence on this coat, but they are sug-
gested and the inevitable widdued hip
effect attained by plaited panels let in
at the sides. They are Set in in box
strap that leaves a standing plaiting
over two inches wide.
"One of the best of thé hew taffeth |
coats is made ‘with a’plain, tightfit-
ting body, decorated with pin tucks
running in parallel Tows from the cen-
ter of the back to the underarm seams.
The front is.similarly’ttimmed. The
sleeves are plain dnd flare at the
wrists, revealing their lining of soft,
white satin, : i
The skirt of the coat is very full and
slopes from the front to the middle
of the back, where it is pointed. It is
lined with satin also. It is heavier
by the weight of its lining than coats
of the sort shown in the picture.
“Keeps White. :
To keep crepe de chine articles
awvhite, bé careful to use luke warm was
ter, not hot; use white soap, rinse at
least three times, then wrap in a towel
for two or three days (keeping damp
if inclined to dry out), and then iron
on the wrong side with a warm (not
hot) iron. If these directions are fol-
lowed carefully your things will keep
like new. It is the standing wrapped
in the damp towel that is the most im-
plaits, stitched down with a braided
portant part. :
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Blouse of
Somewhere between a sweater coat
and a dressy blouse stands this novel
model made of bright green jersey
silk trimmed with white satin. It is
fashioned with’a rather long peplum,
provided with" a belt made of the jer-
sey and ‘has the easy adjustment: to
the figure of a sweater. But its wide
collar, turned back cuffs and fancy
sleeves place it in the class of dressy
blouses. This compromise between
two purposes makes it a useful gar-
ment for the woman who likes to
spend the day in a garment that will
not be out of place, whatever .its en-
vironment.
Novel management of the body of
the blouse and of the slgeves, in cut-
ting, makes this an interesting gar-
ment and it looks as if it would be a
good selection for the woman with a
stout figure. ‘At each side pockets are
simulated by narrow bands of satin
set onto the front. The small buttons
are black and . white, making a very
sparkling combination with the vivid
green of the material.
Silk in various weaves from the
ninnest crepe georgette to rather
heavy jersey, like that in the blouse
pictured, appears to have displaced
cotton and linen materials to a con-
' giflernble extent. But nothing can
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ever be more elegant than these same
sheer cottons and linens that emerge
from the laundry as good as new. Mid-
summer brings back our wandering
allegiance always to the refinement
and beauty of white in washable
blouses. It is just as well to get
them ready now; they are to be our
main dependence in hot weather.
Old Gold Blouses.
Since the short outside blouse was
put up as a rival to the wash waist
tucked into the skirt there has been
| strong rivalry in the way of new de-
signs. Colors have been accepted with-
gundy red; but now there is a new
blouse of old gold satin, which Is lined
with crepe and has a belt of Japanese
embroidery. This is offered for any
kind of skirt and can be worn in the
home or under a top coat.
The blouse that is worn with the tail
under the skirt is no longer smart. The
peplum blquse is the fashion.
“I throughout the southern = portion’ of
‘| an Erie theater a masked bandit held
KEYSTONE BRIEFS
Philadelphia preachers have formed |
a church advertising club. {
Thomas Manion, of Mount Carmel, |
owns a 30-year-old hen. |
A postoffice has been established at |
Brookmont, Allegheny county.
Work at the new Millersburg elec
tric light plant is steadily progressing.
Coatesville is to have paved streets,
for which the property owners will |
pay.
The Reading Railway Company is |
planning the enlargement of its shops |
at St. Clair.
A dog got into the coop of Lewis |
Peck at Lewistown and killed thirty |
prize chickens, valued at $40.
Adjutant General Stewart accepted |
the resignation of Lieutenant W. P.!
Wattles, Troop A, First cavalry.
Prof. Wm. Eiton Mott, engineering,
has been named to succeed Prof.
John M. Leete as dean of Carnegie
Tech.
Adjutant General Stewart is quoted
as saying: “No State is better pre-
pared for military standing than Penn-
sylvania,”
First Lieutenant Albert A. Wagner,
assistant surgeon of the National
Guard Field Hospital, Pittsburgh, has
tendered his resignation.
Fire destroyed the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Campany
power plant at East Pittsburgh. The
loss will total many thousands of dol-
lars.
One hundred and twenty new mem-
bers were gained the first day by the
Hazelton Red Cross Society in its
week’s campaign for larger member-
ship. :
Prominent orchardists predict that
within the next ten or fifteen years
the .apple crop of the State will be
worth more than: fifty million dollars
annually.
: Joseph'B. Kelly of Brooklyn; N. Y.,
a senior. in the department of electri-
tal engineering in Pennsylvania State
College, has been chogen valedictorian
of hif'clasd.. (3¢1' 3 & “i
The Superior Court handed down a
decision ‘upholding ‘the’ public service
commission in its ruling prohibiting
thé Pittsburgh Railways Company
from charging the double night fare.
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A coroner’s jury at Mt. Union held
Engineer Cook and Brakeman Jacobs,
both of Harrisburg, responsible for the
wreck at Mt. Union, on February 27,
in which 20 passengers lost their lives.
The men furnished bail of $2,000 each.
That the peach and <dpple crops
Pennsylvania this year will be record
breakers unless a cold wave should
come during budding season, is the
prediction made by the large fruit
growers.
aided employment agencies in local
chambers of commerce and similar or-
ganizations in which both employers
and employes should have a part were
discussed at the Department of Labor
and Industry. :
Speaker Baldwin banished lobbyists
from the floor of the House and ad-
monished the chief sergeant-at-arms
to see that his deputies kept the aisles
clear and the members free from ac-
tivities of “those who should be be-
hind the rail.”
Industrial accidents in Pennsylvania
resulted in the killing and injuring of
19,395 employes during ‘the month of
February. Commissioner Jackson
states that the total amount of com-
pensation payments during February
aggregated $199,470.58.
As hundreds of people were leaving
up the cashier and forced him to turn
over the box office receipts, amount-
ing to $1,000. After receiving the
money the bandit joined the theater
crowds and escaped.
State fish wardens were summoned
to meet the State Fisheries Commis-
sion for discussion of spring and sum-
mer work, including inspection of
streams for pollution and the protec-
tion of young fish which the State
out question, and, so far, women have
gone in heavily for blue and dull bur- |
! plans to send out by the million.
| A large shipping contract has been
obtained by the Bethlehem Steel Com-
pany, for cargo carrying vessels of
6,500 tons and over, involving an ex:
| penditure of $13,000,000. It is under-
stood they are to be built for the
| Cunard Steamship Company.
Drilling of a community water well
in New Castle, where there are few
wells and no springs to relieve the
condition resulting from the poor
water supply, has been ordered by
council. The city will bear the entire
expense in an effort to supply pure
drinking water.
Six persons were killed and proper-
ty damage amounting to $60,000 was
done when an explosion wrecked the
finishing department of the Aetna
Chefgticgl Company, manufacturers of
high explosives’ at Emporium.
The State Board of Public Grounds
and: buildings = completed considera-
tion of tentative plans for the Capitol
Park extension, including changes in
the layout of the present park and ‘the
creation of gardens, courts and lawns
to be surrounded by a group of build-
' ings adapted for future needs of the
state. A preliminary appropriation
will be asked of the Legislature.
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