Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-02
BEYOND THE BELLOWS.
THE RUSSIAN MILITARY DESPOTISM.
Great Alarm in ST. Petersburg and
HawdOn on the Tyne-The 0ren-
burg Fire-ViOIent Hurricane
at Szegedin.
The Russian Military Despotism.

ST. PETERSBURG, May IA teellng OF
gloom prevails. Rigorous police regu-
lations respecting the watching OF
houses and visits and searches by night
are to be made. After nine o'clock in
the evening nobody will be at liberty to
show himself in the street without a
certificate, upon which must be written
and attested the place from which the
bearer comes and to which he is going.
Soon it will not be necessary to light a
candle before half past nine, yet
at 8 every one must be in doors, and
after 10, as in the barracks, every light
must be out. Notwithstanding all this
the insecurityin st. Petersburg increases
every day. Grenades are exploded IN
the streets, and one night recently sedl-
tious placards were stuck up in the
vicinity of the theatres and at the street
corners, and although the city
police and detectives were at once
hurried up and the placards torn down,
the manifestOes, nevertheless,
appeared anew. In this one night, up
wards of $50 persons were arrested, and
among all these people the police failed
to find a scrap of paper which appeared
to have anything to do with the procla-
nations; the secret bill sticker on the
other hand went on with his work, and
the police were unable to discover him.
The alarm at last became so great that
two companies were posted at the en-
frances to a number of houses and in
tho street, but, when the guard had
its attention called to the right the bills
were posted on the left, and after they
had been torn down on the left they re-
appeared. On the 10th a peasant was
arrested in whose pocket were found
the dispositions for the revolutionary
troops. According to this account ac-
tive operations were to commence on
the night between the 10th and 18th.
Instantly the government made the
most extensive preparations for defense,
and the troops continued several days
and nights in readiness for immediate
action.
LONDON, May IA dispatch from
Berlin reports that the wife of Professor
Botkin has been imprisoned in st.
Petersburg, on suspicion OF Nihilism.
The wife of the Chief Military Prosecu-
tor has also been accused OF Nihlllsm.
Violent Hurricane at szegedin.
PEsTH, May IA violent hurricane
at Szegedin, yesterday, destroyed the
works prepared for restoring the rail
way, and filling the breaches in the
dams. The barges filled with material
and earth were mostly destroyed. The
storm caused extensive fresh breeches
in the railway embankment, and the
labOrers are in great danger. Relief was
sent this morning,
Rowing on the Tyne.
NEWCASTLE q PoN-TYNs, April 20
The inhabitants of canny Newcastle of
all degrees ale greatly excited about the
coming international rowing match,
and Tyneside (both Sides is crowded
whenever Hanlan or HawdOn makes his
appearance on the water. This morn
ing the weather was dull and gloomy,
but the river being smooth Hanlan pad
died a mile and half, when he turned
and came back at an easy pace. Haw..
don, led by double scull boat, and
Higgins, the ex-champion, went four
miles at so good pace that he pleased
his supporters. The betting, however,
is still 6 to on Hanlan.
The Orenburg Fire
ORENBURG, May 1.-The recent fire Is
attributed TO Carelessness. Nine hun
dred and forty-nine dwellings were
burned, mosque, 4 mills, 292 shops,
several tar, coal and firewood stores,
meat market, workhOuse, besides the
buildings named yesterday. The Car
has contributed ten thousand roubles
for the relief of the sufferers.
Floods in Hungary.
VIENNA, May loving TO the heavy
rains in Hungary and the melting OF
the snow, the waters have everywhere
risen. The gaps in the dykes at Siege
din have not vet been closed, and the
waters have risen in the town, rehood-
ing the ground already become dry.
English Sporting News.
LONDON, May l.-Lorillard's two
vear-old, Pappoose, won the race for the
first spring two-year-old stakes, at New
market, to-day. There were four start
ers, Khabara second, Home Rule third.
Betting was to against PappOose, 8
TO against Khabara and 10 to | against
any other. Joint running was made by
Home Rule and Khabara, the pair being
clear of Pappoose TO the bushes, where
Home Rule was beaten, PappOose joining
Khah9ra 4 fine race home took place,