The Topeka state journal., 1902-03-24
WILL TRY TT AGAIN.
Another Attempt to Reopen St.
Petersburg University.

ICorresp pondence of Associated Press I
st Petersburg, March 6-An attempt
Will be made to reopen the ST. Peters,
burg university and it is supposed 9TH
er higher educational institutions on
Monday, March 10. If it prove a failure
the university authorities say no further
attempt Will be made until the autumn,
perhaps even longer. The matter was
discussed between students to whom
special invitations were sent and the
representatives of the faculty yester-
day. The students desiring admittance
We're required to sign pledge that they
would attend no illegal meetings or par
t1clpate in any disorders. Tt is doubtful
II the experiment will succeed. Many
students declared Immediately after
signing the pledge that they regarded
it as a promise made under constraint
and that they had no intention of keep
ing it.
The fermentation has attained the re-
ligious seminaries and it is said that 10
OF them have been closed. 1t is under
stood that there is only a. remote con-
nect1on between the trouble in these in
stitutions- and the secular schools. The
complaints of the future priests are
purely domestic.
Several incidents have latterly thrown
doubt upon the wisdom of the govern
ment in sending its politically untrust-
worthy elements to the rural districts
1t would appear that the latter are
making rapid progress in assimilating
the doctrines of the new residents. The
Poltava and which is related on the
basis of two separate private letters is
perhaps characteristic:
Some so St Petersburg exiles are liv-
ing in Poltava, a town of about $4,000
Inhabitants, in the agricultural south
Previous to their arrival it was regard
ed as typical somnolent place. the
population being mainly distinguished
for illiteracy. During a representa- ton
in the local theater a few days ago some
one rose in the balcony and shouted,
Tong live Count Tolstoi the excon-
municated." The cry was taken up by
other persons in different parts of the
house and the play came to a stand
still. The police finally cleared the bal
cony and the same evening arrested all
the exiles in their homes and lodged
them in d frai1 Jail with common crimi-
nails. They dem anded the reason of their
arrest and for a hearing but received
no satisfaction. They thereupon de-
terrnined to refuse food in order to force
confessions but finding famine monotO-
nous after Sc hours begin riot. How the
affair ended seems uncertain. One ac-
count says all the common criminals
who joined the political offenders es-
capped.
Great precautions against popular
demonstration on March 4. the ami
of pleasant emancipation, were
made by the local authorities every
where.
So far as known now the day passed |
quietly. Unusual tactics was employed |
at Moscow where the proportion of fac |
tory workmen is large. M. Sabbatof, |
the head of the political police at Mos |
COW has made the working men of that |
city and of several adjacent provinces |
his special care for a year or more. He |
has gained the governn ents consent to |
a policy of conciliation. tt has already /
been reported that he has organized |
associations under police |
supervision. On this anniversary he ar |
ranged a m onster demonstration of the |
workmen in honor of the cZar emanci- |
pator There was an imposing parade !
Of ecclesiastics headed by the church |
to the Alexander II monu-
ment and religious services for 5000 |
worlxmen were held in the numerous
churches of the Krenlin. Delegates of |
the workmen laid a silver floral wreath
1n the base of the monument.