Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1901 — CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA. [ARTICLE]

CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA.

Students Shot Down at Cathe Iral an 1 Anarchy la Threatened. Unless prompt measures are taken by the Russian authorities it is believed that a revolution, beginning in St. Petersburg, will spread like wildfire all over Russia. The seditious element, consisting of university students, socialist demogogues and the oppressed wage earners, is massing its forces against aristocracy and the Greek hierarchy and even threatens the life of the Czar. The plotters have already attempted the lives of two ministers. The worst of the riots that have lieen of daily occurrence during the past fortnight took place Tuesday on the occasion of a -solemn mass in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan for the repose of the soul of M. Bogoliepoff, the minister of public instruction, who was shot and fatally wounded by Karpovich. The police fired their revolvers and it is said that five students were killed and eighty others either seriously or slightly injured. Wholesale arrests, including many women, followed the rioting. The attack by the police was extremely brutal. Women who made no demonstration were treated in the most cruel manner. Alarm pervades in high Russian circles. The police have notified house owners to have their dvorniks, or house police, report for duty and hold themselves in constant readiness. A remarkable feature of the demonstrations has been the prominent part taken by women of tbe higher classes of the university.