The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-01-01

was last spring.
GENERAL CHARLES ADAMS, of the
Ute Commission, arrived in Denver on the
night of the 10Th. He had little doubt that
the twelve Indians designated by the Com
mission would go to Fort Leavenworth, and
believed sufficient evidence would be secured
to convict several if not all of them.
The First Ward High School build
ing in Milwaukee was burned on the night of
the 2lst
THE CARS DANGER.
An Account of the Recent Attempt to
Blow UP the Imperial Train-A
Passe nger's StOry-The Cars Ap.
prehension and Melancholy.
The narrative of a person who was
actually in the luggage train, a part of
which was destroyed by the explosion
near Moscow, is published in the Lon
don papers. According to this account,
the train conveying the Emperor left
the station at Simferopol at midnight,
the time appointed for its departure.
The luggage train, consisting of four
teen carriages and two locomotives, had
been dispatched half an hour previously,
but by a fortunate chance the train in
which the Gar travelled overlook the
luggage train, and, passing it, left it
some distance behind. In the luggage
train were altogether fifty persons.
When it was still about two and a half
versts from the Moscow station loud
report was suddenly heard. The car
riage in which the narrator was seated
oscillated violently and then came to
a standstill with a sharp jerk. The
narrator Immediately left the carriage,
and, looking round, perceived clear
traces of an explosion. The first en-
CINE was detached from the train, and
the other had left the rails, together
with some of the carriages, while the
remainder of the latter were standing
right across the line. The fourth lug
gage wagon lay with its wheels upward.
At the side of the line was visible large
cavity several feet deep. The noise Of
the explosion had attracted the police
and a crowd of people, who loudly
expressed their horror at the in
tended attempt to destroy the life of
the Emperor. The narrator fastened
to the nearest telegraph station in Or
der to forward dispatch, but found
that communication was interrupted
in consequence of the telegraph posts
having been thrown down by the ex-
way official, who were in the imme-
date vicinity, appeared to be badly in
jured, but all the occupants of the
train escaped with nothing more seri-
Gus than the fright. The perpetrators
of the crime doubtless thought that the
Emperor was in the second train. The
Public Prosecutor and a Magistrate ar
rived at 1.-TWO o o'clock in the morning at
the scene of the catastrophe, and, led by
the traces of devastation left by the ex-
plosion, proceeded to the nearest house,
which was empty.
The magistrate discovered in the
courtyard, concealed under the snow,
some wires. connected with a battery
placed in an clubhouse, from which the
passing trains could easily be seen.
From inquiries made, it appeared that
the house was bought in September last
by young man, who stated that he
was citizen of Tamara. He had been
observed digging in the cellar by the
declaring as his reason for
doing so that he wished to obtain some
sand. In this way a passage for the
train of powder connected with the
mine was followed out. The house it
self was poorly furnished. More wires
were found behind the Wallpapers.
From the wearing apparel left in the
house it is supposed that several persons
had been engaged in the work. The rem
nants of supper, which had only been
partaken of recently, were also found
in one of the rooms. The Paris Ma
tional, which is in kind of way semi
official, supplies in its editorial remarks
some information that throws light on
this crime. 1t points out that St. Pc
tersburg telegram, received on Tues
day, stated that the police had arrested
at Elizabethgrad, a station on the Mos
cow 4 Odessa Railway, q young man
on whose person explosive materials
were found concealed. 1t adds that
since the development of the Nihilist
agitation news of this description has
been so frequent that it passes almost
in Western Europe. But it
concludes from the last outrage that
these arrests are fearful symptom of
the political and social condition of the
Russian Empire. and that the
latest attempt on the Emper-
or's life proves that the members
Of secret societies have not been
in number nor awed into
inaction by the severity of the punish
ment melted out to such as have been
found out. tadds that IS If it be borne
in mind that in the City of Moscow
alone the service of the municipal po-
lice entails an annual outlay of $780,
7O2 rubles, some idea may be formed
Of the gigantic proportions of the pro-
tective network which the Govern
ments, the Administration, and the
Sovereign find necessary. Yet the act
i've members of this new Carbonarism
continue without any visible diminu-
lion Of power their work of violent de-
struction. Nothing appears able to
check movement which has numbers
Of acc0mplices even in the highest
classes of society" The National fears
that this latest outrage cannot but af-
Fect very deeply the Gear, and mate
rally increase the morbid melancholy
which has settled upon him for the last
lew years.
I ACCORDING to the Isdu-R rakaah, the