The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-07
TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT
RUSSIAN STUDENTS RIDDEN DOWN
ny MOUNTED POLICE.
st. Petersburg Mortified mt the Cruelty
of the Authorities-PrOf. Il.
N. MelukOh's Arrest.

ST. PETERSBURG, Monday, March A.
To-day was the fortieth anniversary of the
emancipation of the serfs. The students
had been planning for some time to keep
the day as a holiday and perhaps make
some demonstration, but no particular
plans were made. At noon a thousand or
fifteen hundred men students and women
students gathered in and around the Kasan
Cathedral, on the Nevsky prospect, where
mass for the repose of the soul of the Car
Alexander III was being celebrated. After
the mass the students began singing and
the police gathered in great numbers. The
students were surrounded and driven in a
crowd towards the city hall, not far away,
and also on the Nevsky prospect. For no
special reason the police began beating the
students and trampling them under the feet
of their horses. The Nevsky prospect was
filed with spectators. The banks and bust
ness houses were nearly all closed, with
shutters fastened and doors locked. The
spectators and the women students
screamed with horror, but the police kept
up their attack on the students until four
hundred of the latter were driven into the
courtyard of the city hall, the others es-
Gaping into the crowd. The entire city was
Mortified by the conduct Of the police. The
police were warned beforehand, and TWEEN
ty-five delegates from the various st.
Petersburg higher educational institutions
were arrested Friday night for meeting to
consider student affairs.
The Russian police were In charge of
Lieutenant General Kleiget, the project of
police, who, when he rode to the scene of
the trouble. was hooted by the students and
that many women professors Of the higher
educational sciences were among the gath
ering of male and female students who as
the students petitioned the clergy to hold
special services in memory of Alexander III.
but the clergy refused to do so on the
ground they had not the authority. Mean
time the petitioners were surrounded by the
police, who did not seem aware of the OBJ
ject of the demonstrations, but inferred il
was seditious. The students then began
charged them, as already described.
1t is learned that the arrest of Prof. p.
N. Melukoff. the celebrated historian and
author of a three-volume History of Rus
sian Literature" and of "A History of a
Period of Peter the Great" and editor of
the Russian issue of the Fermen encyclo-
pedia, who was taken into custody Feb. IL
was for participation in a conference be-
tween Liberal citizens and $50 students.
called TO consider matters relating TO stu
dent life and start a petition to the Car.
The manuscript of this petition was found
in Professor Melukoff's house. Professor
Melukoff was dismissed several years ago
lAOii N1OSCON ~ " i4bti dilSlH. lie
was afterwards professor of worlds history
at Sofia. Recently he returned to st.
Petersburg.
Sixty-one new arrests were recently made
at Kieff.
The government has decided not TO make
a political affair of the attempt made Feb.
p by Peter Karpovich upon the life of the
minister of public instruction, M. Bogolie-
poff. when Karpovich shot the minister
through the neck while the latter was re-
ceiving petitions at the ministry of public
Instruction. Karpovich, who was formerly
a student at Dorpat University, will be
tried March 20 by a court representing all
classes of citizenship. The penalty for his
crime will not exceed fifteen years i'm
prisonment.