The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-03-28
THE LAND OF THE CZAR.
No Petitions Allowed Students Max
Ing Work for the Police.

KANSAS CITY, March 27-In the st. Pc
tersburg and London dispatches have re-
Gently appeared published items with regard
to well known Russian lady, Mary Tsebri-
kova. who is about to be exiled for having
written letter concerning Russian affairs to
the Gar. George Kennan. with whom she
has been corresponding, has been interview
ed, and gives information about her. Mary
Tsebrikoya is more than 40 years old, and
has long been known In her own country as
an able and talented writer upon social and
political subjects. She was, until recently,
one of the editors Of the well known liberal
magazine, the Northern Messenger, publish
ed in st. Petersburg. She has never been a
revolutionist, still less terrorist" She
wrote Mr.. Kennan that she intended to petit
tlon the Gar, and expected To suffer severely
1or the act She enclosed copy of the peti-
rion.. 1t is simply vivid description OF the
condition Of the Russian people, and an ap-
peal for reforms. 1t contains no threats
against the Gar, but warns him that the
state Of things which exists in Russia Is sure
to produce dangerous disorders. Mr.. Ken
nan supposes that Nine. Tsebrikova went to
st. Petersburg soon after writing him. The
late reports from Russia about Nine. Tsebri-
kova are that she is to pe examined by a
medical expert In regard to her sanity, and to
be banished to some town in Russia proper
LONDON, March 27.-The renewal of dis
orders at the st. Petersburg University,
onstrations by the students. were suppressed
by the police. There is further rioting at
Chark0tf and KaZan universities No par
ticulars Of the disturbances have been re-
ceived.
Trouble In the New Republic.
Rio DE JANEIRo, March 27.-The garrison
of this city recently became disaffected, and
fused to go, and the government cancelled
the order.
Fourteen Thousand Strike.
MADRID. March 27.-Fourteen thousand
wOrkmen of Barcelona have struck for high
er wages and fewer hours Of labor.
Count Herbert's Successor.
BERLIN. March 27.-Baron Bieberstein, a
minister of Baden, has been nominated to
succeed Count Herbert Bismarck.
Foreign Notes.
The Mikado has opened an Industrial exhi-
bition in Yokohama.
Bismarck retains the title of Prince, as
well as that of Duke of Lauenburg
Advices from the west coast Of Africa
state that fighting has occurred at Katonu,
in Dahomey, between the French forces and
their native allies. Three men were killed
and II wounded.
The American ship Glendon, New York
for Yokohama and HiOgo, before reported
ashore near Yokohama, Is total wreck. No
lives were lost. A portion of the cargo may
possibly be saved.
A Siberian letter, received in Paris, an-
nounces the arrest of three men and woman
for writing an appeal to the Russian people,
protesting against the conduct of Ostashkin
in the Yakutsk affair. The trial of the pris-
oners will result in sentence to death.
Queen Victoria Of England on her way to
the Continent this week, took with her three
coachmen, nine grooms, eight horses, one
donkey, three carriages, seventy-two trunks,
three special beds, a special cooking stove,
wine, two doctors, one surgeon accoucheu r
for the Princess Beatrice, three ladies in
waiting, nine women servants, one lord, tw o
equerries and seven dogs.
The Emperor has conferred the collar of
the Order OF Hohenzollern upon Count Her.
bert Bismarck.