The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-03-04
A Polish Students Suicide Driven to
Despair by Russian Injustice.

The affair which mentioned in one
of my recent telegrams-viz.: Polish
student committing suicide, in Warsaw,
in consequence of the barbarity and
atrocity of the Russian authorities IN
prosecuting Polish students-has, OF
course, not failed to create an unusual
amount of excitement in Warsaw.
have received from Warsaw the follow
ing interesting details:
son the 18th inst. much-gifted
young collegian named Ignaz Neufeld,
studying with the best prospects in one
of the higher classes (seventhl OF the
Warsaw G gymnasium, committed suicide
out of desperation by shooting himself
with a revolver. The present Curator
of the Schools in Russian Poland,
Apuchtin, the much-hated tyrant, who
even forbade the Polish students to
speak their native language in the
streets, and who lately, on the occasion
of opening the Russian Seminary for the
Clergy in Chelm, publicly declared, 1
am proud to have been the first to thrust
knife through the heart of Poland,
had taken severe measures against
some pupils OF the fifth class, be-
cause of their having subscribed a
few rubles among themselves
and presented the much-feted Polish &C
tress, now playing in Warsaw at the
Polish Theater, with bouquet. For
this crime Apuchtin caused fifty pupils
to be expelled, with the addition that
none of them should ever be allowed to
study at any public Russian school. The
Director of the above College, named
Choszewski. was ordered to make up
the prescription list The Director be-
ing a true Russian Tschinownik, turned
his attention especially to those students
he hated, or for whom he had any per-
sonal antipathy, and more particularly
to Young Ignaz Neufeld, an excellent
student, but from whose mother this
Director had demanded a dOucear OF
400 rubles. Neufeld's mother being
known to be poor, and to be living daily
from hard tc mouth by taking in needle
work, could not satisfy the Directors
demands; consequently Director
Choszewski placed the poor woman's
only son and hope at the top of the pro-
scription list, although convincing
proofs had been given that lgnaz Neu-
field not only had not taken any part
whatever in the ovation given to the ac-
tress Modrzejewska. by his colleagues,
but even knew nothing at all about it,
To be expelled from Russian Gymna-
SUM, with the addition of not being al
lowed to study at any other Col
lege in Russia, means with Rus
sian students the giving up study
altogether. At this young Neufeld
grieved so much that he placed himself
before Director Choszewski's door and
shot himself through the head. The in
human Director forthwith locked the
door inside and positively forbade even
water to be handed to the suicide. In
consequence of this Neufeld, who might
have been saved, bled to death. The
desperate mother hurried off to where
her dearly-beloved sons corpse was ~
ing, at the sight of which her grief so
maddened her that she gave Apuchrin a
ringing box on his ears. The poor des-
perate woman was seized and thrown
into prison. Neufeld was borne to his
grave on the goth inst. An immense
crowd of about ten thousand persons
accompanied him to his final resting
place; women sobbing, and cries OF
down with the tyrant, were heard the
whole way. Such a crowd has not been
seen in the streets of Warsaw since
1868. The police turned out in full
force, the military being under arms the
whole time in the barracks. The ex-
element is great, and continues to in
crease. Disturbances are much to be
feared on account of the easily infiamed
temperaments of the people in War
saw" Vienna Cror. London StdndGd