Arizona republican., 1905-05-15
A MAY DAY QUIET
It Was Brought About by
 COSSdCkS' Whips
Not a Saber Drawn, nor a Drop of Blood Shed in St. Petersburg. Peace Elsewhere.

St Petersburg. May 15.-12:9O a. m. The widely heralded May day demon strations in St., Petersburg were a complete fiasco. and. reports from Mos cow and other provinces indicate that order reigned on Sunday generally throughout the entire extent of Russia.
 Minor disorders were reported at Re val Kishineff and one or two other places but up to midnight no reports of serious tumults or loss of life have been received and the attempt of the social democrats and social revolu- tionists to signalize May day by great government demonstrations ap- pears to have been a thorough failure.
 Dispatches from Kazan. Tihis. Sara tOff, Cronstadt, Rostovon-Don. Kieff. Vologoda, Tomsk and other cities say the workmen observed the day as a holiday, that the shops were closed and that quiet was not disturbed.
 In St. Petersburg the day passed in almost perfect quiet and happily with out a drop of blood being shed The revOlutionaries found it impossible to execute the program of demonstrations and bomb-throwing which they so widely advertised. the workingmen de- clining to sacrifice themselves to ad- vance the propaganda of their self constituted leaders and the advertised meetings were attended chiefly by spectators. Governor General Trepoff handled the situation firmly but with a view to avoiding collisions and he made his dispositions skillfulIy. Squads of Cossacks patrolled the streets. re- serves being held out of sight in court wards and the guard regiments were retained under arms in their barracks, but there was no occasion to call out either.
 At the Probraskenslxy cemetery, where the principal meeting in honor of the January Martyrs" as victims of the Red Sunday" popularly are called, had been advertised, a scanty crowd. largely composed of curiosity seekers, had assembled. The Cossacks dispersed the crowd the more aggressive of whom sang the "Marseillaise" as they were crossing the fields.
 This defiance was met by a charge of the Cossacks who used their whips freely inflicting many nasty injuries. There was a similar incident on Vassili Island where a dozen students, mainly girls raised the ''Marseillaise" and gathered a crowd. The COssacks dis persed the crowd with their whips talk ing great pleasure in slashing the girl students. The latter apparently were anxious to pose as martyrs and delib- erately provoked the attack by singing revolutionary songs. The affair gave rise to rumars that a number of per sons had been killed, but in the in cident, which happened under the eyes of the Associated Press corresponde sabers were not even drawn and mo- body was seriously hurt.
 The day wound up with a tumult in the Peoples Park where while the merry makers were dancing the Rus sian national dances, the agitators scattered proclamations among the crowd and drove a scanty guard of po- lice into a shallow lake. The Cos sacks came up at a gallop. yielding their whips, rescued the police and made numerous arrests. It was notice able that the COssacks rode at wide in- terVals, evidently to minimize the ef- feet of the bombs should they be thrown