The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-05-29
miscellaneous.
THE N1H1LIsT REBELLION.
Notes Of the Russian Reign Of TerrOr--ThO Power
OF the Secret Order

Notes Of the Russian Reign OF TerrOr--ThO Power
Of the Secret Order.
A few weeks ago Serge Lawroweki ,one
OF the ablest detectives attached to the
Third Department, was sent from st. Pc
tersburg to Poltava with instructions to
get at the secrets Of the Nihilistic organ.
ization there established. Arrived at
Poltava, Lawrowski displayed great &C.
tivity in guiding the researches of the
local police, made many acquaintances
in different characters, being an expert
in changing his appearance and manner,
and was hopeful Of his mission, when
his evil fortune prompted him to fall in
love with the pretty daughter of priest
named Achristoff. Thisgirl, only seven
teen years of age, was affiliated to the
associations, and had been planted upon
Lawrowski by order of the Poltava COM
mittee, with the object of betraying him
into their hands. After fortnight's ar
dent courtship, Mile. Achristoff allowed
herself to be persuaded to give her ad-
mirer a rendezvous by night in a garden
just outside the town.
When Lawrowski reached the trysting
place hs vas surrounded and seized by
five masked men, armed with revolvers
and knives, who bound him to tree,
and then cut off his nose and ears. Bleed
ing, and unable to shout for assistance,
as he had been gagged by his mutilators,
he remained where they left him, in an
agony of pain until early morning, when
he was found senseless and all but dead
from loss of blood. An open letter in
his pocket contained the following feroc
ious announcement: I'VE cut off his
nose because he is sleuth hound, and
his ears because he has proved himself
an ass, in that he paid court TO one of
u.s." Mile. Achristof has vanished from
Poltava, and all the efforts of the police
to track her to her hiding place have
proved utterly Intellectual. Meanwhile,
Lawrowski lies in a helpless condition;
and even should he rally from the utter
exhaustion induced by the hemorrhage
suffered during that terrible night, he
will bear hideous witness on his disfgur-
ed countenance, as long as he may live,
to the pitiless anger of the Poltava COM
mittee
The st. Petersburger Z9itung reports
four attempts at assassination committed
at Kasan, the victims have all been State
officials of high rank. Three of the four
persons attacked have died of their
wounds. One of these latter, Novikoff
the President of this district, walked into
the principal restaurant of Kasan few
minutes before he was shot, and said to
one ofthe walters: "Friend, give me a
dram; perhaps it will be the last shall
ever driuk." A glass of vodki was yiven
to him, and the waiter noticed that NV
kOff's hand shook as he lifted the liquor
to his lips. Immediately aflerward he
left the restaurant, but as he opened the
door a bullet struck him full in the breast
infiCting wound which has since prov.
ed fatal The agents of the committee
actually engaged in these outrages have
been arrested. Two are working men,
one is Boyar, and another handsome
and highly educated girl of seventeen.
The latest news from Kief indicates
that the revolutionary propaganda is as
suming extraordinary dimensions in that
province. Eight peasants were brought
into the provincial capital in chains from
q village named Chramowko, about six
teen wersts from Kiew, accused of dis
tributing Socialist pamphlets and insur
rectionary proclamstions at the fairs and
markets of the district. These men con
bfeSsed under pressure that thew had sue
Ceeded in circulating some 40 600 of these
publications among the country folk, In
another village, Toperoko, secret print
ing Office was discovered by the police
in the school house of the commune
Their search was instituted upon infor-
nation being given by the scribe Of the
Mir, "a man named Koprowskl. Next
morning he was found dead in his bed
with knife plunged to the hilt in his
breast. London Telegraph.