The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-13
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT, SUNDAY, APRIL 49, 1879.

thought 1t prudent to retire. and went to the
nearest police station for reinforcements.
The Nihiiists had no time to remove anything,
and did not choose to give them over to the
police cheaply. They lost no time In getting
m a plan OF action and Of defense against the
turned Some were stationed around the
house as outposts and the rest went directly
in by the gates Of the yard, which had Two
stored house on the right hand and one on
as well as the roofs Of che two houses, were
occupied by armed students, who welcomed
the police with sweeping volley OF bullets
Three policemen fell dead on the spot; the
mined to enter the house. intending TO- AL
upon the Nihilists who remained downstairs
In charge Of the books and the presses: And
here In o large room, was enacted fearful
suit was as follows: On the side Of the police
four men received light wounds, three were
seriously Injured and four killed on the spot
The losses on the side Of the Nihilists we're,
1t seems, still greater-,four young girls, stu
dents of the university, and three students
killed, while all the others were wounded and
finally arrested by the police. The police
seized the printing press and a great number
Of interdicted books Of foreign publication
How many people were arrested In all | do
| is not fully given BY the official reports.
| IHE SPhEAD OE NlHlLlSM.
But the affair did not end here. Slmulta-
| neously two other girls and several men were
| arrested ia the neighborhood Of the printing
office. Then Mile Herzfeld was arrested
the daughter Gen. Herzfeld, who occupies
| o high position In st. Petersburg, being
member OF the State Council The young
| and renownd Countess Panin, belonging to one
Her stepmother Is reported to be still one OF
the DANES dhonneur of the Empress and
her great grandfather wac the second
| Chancellor of State In the time Of Catherine
were taken In the act Of firing at the police
| with. their revolvers. The names Of the other
| individuals taken up have not transpired as
yet. 1t is not to be- wondered at that girls OF
high families are found involved In such dis
turbances. The women Of Russia have re-
| peatedly taken part In the manifestations Of
| national aspirations, as for instance Martha
Possadnlzo, OF Novgorod; the Princess
Sophia, Peter the Greats enterprisiDg sister,
and others. Russian ladies.in the o1den times
OF domestic seclusion could not be kept
wholly from taking an active part in popular
movements, and nowadays they take q lively
share In all that concerns their husbands and
brothers, and are quite ready to support
| them when the occasion comes
THE ASSASSINATION AT KHARKoFF
| Two days previous to the disturbances ID
Kief Prince Krapotkin, Governor OF Kharkoff,
was assassinated. The Prince had received
several anonymous letters, warning him OF
his impending fate, but he had not needed
them. Personally the Prince was very popu-
lar-socially Is a good husband and father.
He had been married about ten years, and
leaves one FRI Of seven , another little
maturely delivered Of boy. As private
man Krapotkin Is regretted. Many private
houses were hung with black on the day Of
the funeral. But, on the other hand, the doc
hn
| of the Russian Socialists contains long list
of alleged crimes against the causes OF Social
| Ism.
He is accused OF having "martyred" people
in the prisons In the most fnhuman manner,
one or two women having even died in conse-
quence Of the flogging inflicted ON them by
Krapotkins orders. The cup Of his misdoing
was proclaimed to have overflowed with hts
| last act of selling and arresting Fomin, one Of
the five men who made an armed attack on
the police on the thirteenth of July, 1878, at
| tempting to rttake political convict named
Vairnarolsky, who was being transferred
| from one place of imprisonment to another
| under an escort OF gendarmes One Of the
affair. During Fomins imprisonment several
attempts were made to release him, but failed;
several letters were received by Krapotkin
| demanding Fomin's liberation, accompanied
| by threats Of vengeance in case the demand
| was not acceded to. But Krapotkin persisted
In keeping Fomin under arrest, and for this,
the Socialists say, he was killed. The trial OF
Fomin began at Kharkof an the fifth OF
March, all precautions being taken against
possible interference from the revolutionists.
Disturbances were apprehended, but as yet
tranquility seems to prevail. Not the least
striking feature In the proceedings OF the
ag d + the ehdea sensat 10 make
is reported that some days before his
death Krapotkin went to the prison
where Fomin was detained and seeing the
prisoner, told him that his Gays were num-
case, will be fewer than mine" On the
eighth of February a servant girl went to the
office of the KharkOf Messenger and stated
that, her master being dead, her mis-
tress had despatched her to beg that a
that the space should be bordered
with black for the Insertion OF the gentle
mans obituary. The girl said that her mis-
tress was unable to write the announcement
herself but would send it to the Office later in
the evening. But the announcement was never
sent, and the entire issue of the paper ap-
peared with the small black bordered space
empty, ready to be filled up by the announce
wondered for whose name the space was in
tended In the evening Krapotkin was killed |
and simultaneously severarockets were sent
up from different ends Of the city.
The list OF Krapotkin's crimes, as stated
by the above mentioned sociaIlstc decree, is
drawn up in the most accurate manner. The
names of his victims and the dates Of their
deaths are given. 1t is almost impossible to
believe that such barbarous acts could have
been committed in a large and populous city, |
and with the Indispensable assistance Of
many subordinate officials, without some
thing of it having come to the knowledge of
the public, or that such tortures on men and
women were inflicted by the orders of man
Of such gentle disposition as Krapotkin was
known to be-.
French Doctors.
The fees which French physicians receive
says the London News, would seem to their
English brethren very low. gather from a
fhnir Zoo for fret tnfi ON To turc