New-York tribune., 1901-03-20
THE RUSSIAN STUDENT RIOTS
OF SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY
PERSONS, MANY OF THEM WOMEN
TO PROTECT THE CZAR.

St Petersburg, March 19.-Alarm pervades
high circles here. The police have directed
X, house owners to have their dvorniks, or house
police report for duty and hold themselves in
constant readiness A sotnia, company Of
Cossacks passed the Moscow Gate this morning
on the way to Tsarskoe-Selo. seventeen miles
south of ST. Petersburg, where the CZar mas
gone. The police said they would escort the
Gar back to the Winter Palace. and that he
would return by carriage instead Of by rail-. 1t
appears more probable. however. that the COS
sacks were merely sent to Tsarskoe-Selo as a
preca aution since his majesty is more easily pro-
tected there than here.
1t is apparently confirmed that three stuoehts
were killed yesterday. The Cossacks rode into
the crowds on the sidewalk and many faces
were cut open by their knotted whips. students
and workingmen threw rubber shoes, canes and
snowballs at the Cossacks. 1t is reporter 'hat
one Cossack was killed
An official of the political police said thou
sand prisoners were taken. among them being
$50 women students. The presence of working
men among the rioters rendered this demonstra-
ton more dangerous than any before known in
a generation
After reading the manifesto the students
threw their crumped copies into the crowd and
raised a flag inscribed For Liberty" The stu
dents also shouted Help US get rights"
and the mob responded with cheers.
The Official Messenger" which publishes an
account of the recent disorders in various Rus
sian cities and of Sundays outbreak in 81
Petersburg. says of the latter:
When the crowd which numbered three thou
sand became turbulent the Cossacks and police
were summoned. The demonstrators retreated
to the Cathedral Of Our Lady of Kasan. pelting
the Cossacks and police with various missiles
mt tod &c low TRd
white flags bearing various inscriptions. ON
one side of the cathedral the crowd came into
violent collision with the Cossacks and police
A portion retired into the cathedral. behaVihS
noisily and smoking cigarettes. although the ser
vice was going on. until forcibly expelled.
Altogether $50 male students, 3Ii women,
mostly students, and forty-four other persons
were arrested. police commissioner, twenty
policemen. four COssacks and thirty-two rioters
male and female, We're wounded.
All the higher schools Of the city closed
and all the police headquarters filled with
arrested persons. Others in custody who had
been temporarily confined in the military riding
school taken to various prisons to-day in
omnibuses. They were Cheered by the students
they passed.
The demonstrations on Sunday continued at
other places after the affair at the cathedral
pecially in front of the office of the detective po
lice where some of the persons arrested were
taken: In front of the IAtoysky Prison and near
the Mining Institute and the Pentilaw factory
remarkable feature of the demonstrations
has been the prominent part taken by women
Of the higher classes of the university.
Serious riots occurred in st. Petersburg to-
day the occasion of a solemn mass in the
Cathedral Of our Lady of Kasan, for the repOse
OF the soul OF NJ. BogOliepoff the Minister OF
Public instruction. who shot and fatally
wounded by karpovich The police fired their
revOlvers and 1t is rumored that five students
were killed and eighty others either seriously or
slightly injured
Wholesale arrests, including many women, fol-
lowed the rioting.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of The
Daily Express says:
Three hundred arrests were made to-day
Monday. The Minister of Justice was fired at
last week and the life of another minister has
also been attempted.