New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-28
CAPITAL IN DIZZINESS.
Mutinies and Destruction OF Battle
shin Reported Confirmed.

St Petersburg Oct. 27.-During the afternoon
the widest rumors spread, and the city was
seized with semi-panic. The students oegah
TO congregate at the university in the Nasslh
Ostrow district. announcing that they intended
to hold the building as the students OF hharkoH
held their university against the military, ana
10 hold a meeting tonight to which workmen
OF all the social groups were invited Warnings
having been issued last night that the govern
rnent would not permit revolutionary meetings
at the universities and higher schools under the
euse of student assemblies, General Trepor
DISPATCHED troops TO surround the building
To add to the alarm the strikers succeeded III
stopping the machinery OF the electric hshI
plant and the city is in darkness
Reinforcements Of troops pouring into the
CITY The Yellow Cuirassiers, Hussars ana the
Omsk Regiment have arrived here from Tsars-
koe selo and six thousand soldiers are comins
by water from Reval
several trains with military escorts have
forced their passage from Moscow. but the rail-
road tie-up is practically as tight as yesterday
The governments railroad battalions are now
exhausted The last were sent to Moscow and
Syrian last night
The most alarming reports are circulating
about affairs In the south of Russia. Private
reports receive here are said to confirm the
stories of the mutiny board the battlesh1p
Cstharine II and the destruction by incendiaries
of the battleship Patellimon formerly the Kniaz
Potemkine. Tho authorities do not confirm the
rurnors and kilograms Of inquiry remain unan-
swered.
In the interior of Russia the people have
neither mail nor newspapers. The widest ru-
mors are being spread
General Trepoff has issued the following proc
lAmation:
he lorio Cfr al iS bad b>
rurlors of expected grave disorders. Measures
for the protection of life and property have been
taken, and L therefore ask the people TO attach
no credebce 10 these rumoTs- IT, however, any
disturbances are attempted they viii be. put
down at their inception. before they have time
TO assume a serious character.
/ have given orders TO the troops and police
TO suppress any such attempts Immediately and
IN the most vigorous manner and the military
have been directed to fire with ball cartridge if
the crowds offer resistance. No blank cartridges
VIII be used. ! find it necessary to give this
warning TO the people that every person
joining a disordery crowd may know the risks
he takes. In order TO avoid grave consequences
prudent citizens should not join gatherings hav-
ing disorderly purpose.
Small depositors to-day started run on the
Savings Bank On the Bourse a very nervous
feeling prevailed.
The employees of the Siberian Azoff and Dom
sisoi banks have struck.
Small squads of soldiers were scattered along
the streets and in the markets Even detacn-
ments OF the guard regiments the Preobraj en-
sky, semionovsky and Horse Guards were doing
patrol duty Beneath the surface there was
much excitement. The revnlutionists spread
the tidings that revolution had begun. A
story afoat that provisional government
had been established. The better classes are
atrsid TO Many meetings have
been held in the night.
At a meeting of delegates from the profess
Gionel unions. comprising doctors, druggists ard
lawyers, it was decided TO strike from October
% until a constituent assembly should be sum
uloned.
With a single exception, all the newspapers
of Kiefr have declared in favor of strike Ali
the drug stores in Saratoff are closed The
town is without artificial light and no news
payers Sre appearing. The Saratof Town Coun-