The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-06
THE ATTEMPTTo BLOW UpTHE CzAR
The Little House that Was Bought by a
Stranger and His Pretty Wife.
From the London Etanderd.

Moscow. Dec. 4.-On Monday night fyou
Y FIRST Deeemberl, Moscow was illuminated IL
/ receive the Emperor, en route for st. Peters
burg from Livadia, his ssummer residence Ii
y police had then got scent OF the plot; but on
what particular spot the explosion was t.
take Tlaoe 40 one could tell. What happened
vas tMa: Prince Dol2oruuki, Governor Cen
erat OF MOSCOW, met The Emperor Oh the con-
imes oil his government and demanded y pri-
vate auoSence. When It was over the Empe-
ror aud suite immediately passed into an
Otaer traiA quite denuded of lamps end II sps
they say the very engine driver worked In
the dark, the fore-lights being put OUT and
ordered the supplementary train to follow In
balf an hour. His imperial majesty thtsa
started tor Moscow. aud arrived hers safely
~ l0 An iufmense crowd awaited hm at
the Eoursky Station bat their loyaI
| h'lrrahs were taken little notice of. for
the Emperor at once passed into a clo,etI
carriage. and, surrounded by mounted
Euafaa, eight or ten deep, proceeded 10 the
kfemlin The Moscow public, accustomed
To the smiles and bows of the well beloved
Gar, felt rather disappointed, and the sight
| of the closed carriage and serfiad ranks Of
mounted guards created markedly unpleas-
ant tnpression; but then they knew ppthinu
OF the plot. Half an hour after ward fearful
explosion took place OH the kuursky line,
two miles out et town, knocking off the rails
~ taa Imperial supplementary train Ia which
the Emperor had previously travelled and
which was just then passing with ali its lghts
burntlfg and Its Imperial eagles fiuttering |
Happily for those who were In It, 1t was tray
cling altng the right or outgoing line Of |
rails. and the conspiratore' mine had ratt1 |
rally been laid under the left, or incoming |
one. Some of the carriages were overturned |
one or two luggage vans dashed into atoms,
but no lives lost. Az first 1t was whispered |
that thl train was qIta empty, and that 1t |
was only meant to deeefva the conspirators:
but this Is not true. The servants of the In
perial household were In 1t. and one or two
gentlemen holding honorary posts ut court
amOng others Prince Obolpnski.
When the shock was over aud they had got
back their breath again, they discovered a
eubterranean passage 100 feet long between
the railway lines and a two storied wooden
house, rscently bought and furnished by
Mr.. Sookorookoif, stranger FROM Saratoff |
He and his pret y wife were known aud liked
in that neighborhood, and neighbors had
often dropped In on them and drank cup after
cup OF fragrant Russian tea. The couple
had assisted at the Immediate atter-scens Of
the railway accident, and had joined heartily
In the universal expression Of horror aud dis
may. In a very short tune, however people
found out this was no common railway acci.
dent Here was q crater thirty feet wide and
twelve feet deep. Some one had already
passed along the subterranean gallery, and
found that 1t ended in u room III tho lower
story OF their hospitahls neighbor's house.
They looked around for him. but both he and /
his wife were gone, and they have not been {
heard OF since. Nothing was found in the t
deserted house but furniture of the simplest
two electric batteries In common
deal boxes painted red, aud live or elk suits Of
working clothes OF various sizes One of the :
batteries was In an outhouse, Its wires In I
coum unication with u second battery in a !
corner of oneof tho upper rooms From this
latter spot the electric wires passed through |
the floor down To the subtprranean gallery,
ready at any moment 10 give the desired I
shock to the explosive substance laid there |
Everybody now RENE ubsrs that Mr.. Snoko- =
ruokoH had lately "had q cellar made under ,
his house by workmen employed In Moscow" !
and that good deal OF earth and sand had
been earted away. Mr.. Sookorookoff
WAS small man with reddish hair.
mod his wife was fair little woman
face. The importan question now is-was 1t
their natural faces the neighbors looked upon,
1r We're they painted, be- wlgged, and conse-
luently, at present unrecoKuizable2 Next
lay. Tuesday, at O'Clock, the Emperor held
1 ieuec, and the most eminent memUefs of the
Town council presented him with the time C
lonored bread and salt. The address from | t
,he thr0ne la st. Georges Hall was by no G
means OF q mild character. Fathers, moth !
3rs, children and preceDtofS all came In for q | Il
share of the Imperial displeasure, and re S
Ill put down as dangerous, ungkateful and q
sedtious subjects Not even MT. Katkoff, ed | ]
tor Of the M0sk0msky Vedemosti the abject /
'reatufe Of tine government could venture on | /
printing the original, but curtailed, modified | /
tnd toned 1t down into what you have al I
eady probably read; Gan appeal to the d
leads oil Russian families for moral strength | q
md cooperation wherewith to root out of the 4
DreastS of youth sedition." III