The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-24
A Slight Clue Discovered 10 the
Explosion l'nder the st. Pc
tershurg Winter Palace.
what the Csar and the Nihilista Pro
pose TO Do-The Dublin Man.
sion House Fund.
An Attempt to be Made to Curb the Oh
structiopists III The English Parliament,
RUSSIA.

LONDON Feb 92 A H. Teierahurg Iiaratoh
nsates that ELK more aoiiera wounded by the
EXPLOSION IN the Winter Palace have died. II is
stated that the commander Of the palace has
been put under arrest.
A Berlin diepat eh eaya the Car wishee a etate
OF Siege proclaimed all over Russia.
A Ut. Petersburg aiapa'ch TO the ntlV le,e
ernph eays Gen Gourko, Governor General OF
st. Petersburg, Cen nrenteln. chief Of the I'm
perial police and Gen, Iourotf. rrnfect af police
Of 81. Petersburg. have received notices from
the Nihilist committee informing them that
they need not trouble Themselves to make AT
fanHpmania for An illumination Oh the ocra+
sion of the Czat'a Anniversary. "a the revpln-
nopss are s an
"A dianalch from 81, IetcLshnrR !" the Pdap
Neers Save; There Ia come difficulty In conn.te-
ton with Gen. skoheoGa appointment to the
command Of the Russian expedition against the
Turcomana lie IL said 20 natat that hta plans
are not 70 ba enliect 10 in'aIfafaura from tho
military administrations In Tur rkes'an or the
Caucasus. H,s II, mination we influenced Ivy
The fact Int his rtnn avoided Merry, II Ne re-
port of the Intention VI England tp hand over
materially affect Russias wish 10 avoid Merv In
Difference 20 the viewa OF England,
IN. HETF FRsnIRa, Feb. ~. The 6tffidi Has
se1,per announces that inquiry into the Winter
Palace explosion has had The result of rruder
ina II 10 aomc extent certain that the crime waa
committed hy parHNn who passed IA n work.
man and that there IL reason to suspect con-
nection between this person and some individ-
nails who were arrested previous TO the eXplo
aiSn. ma..4
VIENNA Felt. 23 Tho Ner F5ee n-es> says
DiphtheTta Ia raging in.central Russia. II has
carried of since last November ever Ao.ooA per
sous In the provinces Of UharkaN and Poltava
alone. and III The neiS ShhNrhooa W WAiSi whoa
villages have almost diad out.
A norton of the letter from Prince AleNan :
der, Of Hesso te his wife, dated St PeershurE,
February NJ, and published here says was
received N the railway station by All tho
sons of the Emperor and by Prince Alexander.
of Bulgaria and was thence conducted to the
Winter Palace. The Emperor awaited me AT
she staircase Nn wer proceeding through the
large corridor to his malestys apartments.
when sudden feaIfn detopattou was heard.
The flooring WAS raised ~ by an earthquake.
the gas axtinEulshed and we were left III total
darkness, Al the same time y horrible dust
and smell oi eunpowder and dynamite filled
the corridor. Some one shouted to us that the
chandelier had fallen down IL the saloon whore
the table waa laid for dinner fastened
thither with the Czsrowitch aud Grand Duke
Vladimir while Count Adelhers, in doubt rs to
wha, might have happened, held back the EN-.
neror WE found MI the windows broken and
the walls In ruins Dinner had been delayed
half an hour for my arrival. and II WAS owing
70 thia circumstance that the Imperial family
had not yet assembled Id the dining hail.