Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20
FEAR N HIGH PLACES IN
THE CARS DOM|N|ONS.
SUNDAYS TROUBLES IN ST. PETERS,
BURG MORE SERIOUS THAN
REPORTED.
THREE STUDENTS WERE KILLED
THE MOB RENDERS SITUA-
TION MORE DANGEROUS.

ST. PETERSBURG, Monday March
18.-Alarm %pervades high circles here.
The police have notified house owners
to have their dvorniks or house police
report for duty and hold themselves in
constant readiness. A sotnia, or COM
pany of cossacks, passed the Moscow
gate this morning on the way to Tsars-
koe-Selo, seventeen miles south of St.
Petersburg, where the Car has just
removed to. The police said they
would escort the Gar back to the win
ter 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 p%recaution, since his majesty
is more easily protected there than
here.
1t is apparently confirmed that three
students were killed yesterday. The
cossacks rode into the crowds on the
sidewalk and many faces were cut open
by their knotted whips. Students and
working men threw rubber shoes, canes
and snow balls at the cossacks. 1t is
said that n cossack was killed.
An official of the political police said
a thousand prisoners were taken,
among them being $50 women students.
The presence of the w~orkingmen among
the rioters rendered this demonstration
more dangerous than any known in a
generation.
After reading the manifesto the stu
dents threw their crumpled copies into
the crowd and raised a flag inscribed
For Liberty" the students also shout
ed Help us get u rights and the
mob responded with cheers.
The Official Messenger, which pub
fishes an account of the recent disor-
ders in various Russian cities, and of
Sundays outbreak in st. Petersburg,
says of the latter:
When the crowd, which numbered
5000, became turbulent, the cossacks
and police were summoned. The dem
c%nstrators retreated to the Cathedral
of Our Lady of Kazan, pelting the cos
sacks and police with various missiles.
THE students attempted to display
red and white flags bearing various in
rar;fiNrr On Npn ci6o nt tho Cnfhn-
dral the crowd came into violent col
lision with the cossacks and police. A
portion retired into the Cathedral, be-
having noisily and smoking cigarettes,
although the service was going on, un-
til forcibly expelled.
Altogether 339 male students, 377
women, mostly students, and a other
persons were arrested. A police COM
missioner, 20 policemen, 4 cossacks and
80 rioters, male and female, were
wounded"
All the higher schools of the city
are closed and all the police head
quarters are filled with arrested per-
sons. Others in custody who had been
temporarily confined in the military
riding school, were taken to various
prisons to-day in omnibuses. They
were cheered by the students as they
passed.
The demonstrations Sunday contin-
ued after the affair at the Cathedral,
at other places, especially in front of
the Office of the detective police, where
some of the persons arrested were
taken in front of the Liroysky prison.
and zeal the mining institute and the
Pontilaw factory.
A remarkable features of the demon
STATIONS has been the prominent part
taken by women of the higher classes
of the university.
Serious riots occurred to-day on the
occasion of a solemn mass in the Ca
thedral of Our Lady of Kazan for the
repose of the soul of NJ. Bogoliepoff,
who was shot and fatally wounded by
Karpovich. The police fired their re-
volvers and it is rumored that five stu
tents were killed and eighty others in
jured.