Show RIOTOUS DOINGS IN charkoff Kh arkoff russia oct ac restoration of the telegraph system enables the sending oe a description of the drama which hag been enacted here since the when the news of the death of a student named constan as the results of dounda inflicted by patrol and ot other acts of violence on the students led to exciting meetings at the university at which in anticipation of the arrival of troops it was decided to barricade the university and to defend it by force barricades formed ot telegraph poles paving blocks etc were built around the center of the city and the university was converted into a fortress the windows and doors were blockaded with masses of stones and coal and red flags with revolutionary inscriptions were hoisted on the roofs this university garrison which numbered was well supplied with arms simultaneously in the town the mobs pillaged the shops of the and one shop was completely sacked dragoons appeared on the scene and fired fusillades into the crowds killing three persons and wounding many others further conflicts took place between a patriotic demonstration of persons bearing a portrait of tha emperor and bodies of students and workmen who were proceeding to the university boughs roughs profited by the confusion to attack shops and peaceable in the outside portions of the town matters reached such a stage that a state of siege was declared in the university district lieutenant general mau was placed in command and a committee on public safety was formed by leading citizens this corn entered into negotiations with the governor meantime the troops arrived and the committee with the consent of the governor In trusted the guardianship of the towo to a militia composed ot armed students and work men this militia was acclaimed by the populace but at certain points its mem beff were fired on by troops and many of them were wounded the commit tee conferred with judge mau with a view of arriving at terms for tha sur render of the university general demanded that the besieged beld un their arms to the university administration and march out in silence and added that they would be permitted to proceed without coleata alon to their comrades who ing a great meeting in square the terms were accepted and the garrison matched out in silence between lines of troops valle the crowd massed behind the troops cheered the garrison was escorted by a squadron of dragoons to eleft square where they met with great enthusiasm and dispersed them before disorder |