COUNT TOLSTOI'S EXCOMMUNICATION.
RIOTS BY STUDENTS. BRUTALITY OF COSSACKS. [PER PBBSS ASSOCIATION. (Received 20, 8.55 a.m. Sa. Petersburg, March 19. Countes* Tolstoi has protested to tho Synod against the excommunication of her husband. Workmen joined pro-Tolatoi students at St. Petersburg in rioting inside the Kazan Cathedral. The rioters were ejected after fierce fighting, the Cossacks using their whips brutally. Several women- and children were ci ushod. Seven huudred students have been arrested. A hundred students protested to the Holy Synod against Tolstoi's excommunication and petitioned the Metropolitan to excommunicate them also. Tbey assembled in the Cathedral shouting and smoking and upsetting images, and whistling while tho communion was being prepaied.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 53, 21 March 1901, Page 3
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