The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-24
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
Russia.
THE wISTER.PALACE EXPLOSION.


LONDON, February pa st. Petersburg
dispatch states that six more soldiers,
wounded by the explosion In the Winter
Palace, have died. 1t is stated that the
commander OF the Palace has been put un.
der arrest.
A Berlin dispatch says The Gar wishes a
state Of siege proclaimed all over Russia.
A 81. Petersburg dispatch to the U1dY
Telegraph says that General GOurk0, Gov
ernor- General OF St. Petersburg; Gelei al
Drcuteen, chief OF the Imperial police; and
General TOwroii, project Of the police OF st.
Petersburg, have received notices from the
Nihilist committee informing them that
they need not trouble themselves to make
arrangements for Examinations on the occa-
sion OF the Cars annivcfsar as the ileyo-
u,onists are preparing for such an iIlumi.
nation as has not been seen since Nero
burned Rome.
PRINCES ACCOUNT or THE EXPLOSION.
LONDON, February ga portion OF a
letter from Prince Alexander Of IIesse to
his wife, dated st. Petersburg, February
18th, and published here. says ~ was re-
ceived al the railway station by all the sons
OF the Emperor and by Prince Alexander,
OF Bulgaria Qhe writer's own SOM, and was
thence con lucted to the Winter Palace.
The Emperor awaited me at the staircase.
We were proceeding through the large cor
ridOr to his Majesty's apartments, when
suddenly fearful detOnatOn was
heard, the flooring was raised rs by an
earthquake, the gas eXtingushcd, and we
were left in total darkness. At tue same
time horrible dust and smell Of gun pOw-
der or dynamite filled the corridor. Some
one shouted TO us that the chandelier had
fallen down in the saloon where the table
was laid for dinner. fastened tbither with
the CzlrOwltch and the Grand Duke Nladl-
mir, while Count Adle:berg. in doubt rs to
what might happen, held back the Emperor.
We found all the windows broken and the
walls in runs. The dinner had been de-
lay ed half an honr for my arrival, and it
was owing to this circumstance that the
imperial family had not yet assembled in
the diniUg-h9ll.'
INQUIRY INTO THE DISASTER.
ST. PETERSBURG, February 23.--The OH-
cidl Messenger announces that the inquiry
into the Winier-Palace explosion has had
| the result OF rendering il 10 some extent GER
| tain that the crime was committed by a per-
son who passed as a workman, and that
| there is reason TO suspect connection be-
tween this person and some OF the individ-
uaIs who were arrested previous to the eN-
| p0SiOn.
FORTY THOUSAND VICTIMS or DIPHrHEEIA IN
RUSSIA.
VIENNA, February 23.-The Ne,C Free
Press says "Diphlhelia is raging in Cen
tral Russia. 1t has carried of since last
November over forty thousand persons in
the two provinces OF CharkOG and PotOya
alone, and in the neighbOrhood OF Nalki
whole villages have almost died off,"
TIE DEMONSTRATING Process Not
Proved.
LONDON, February % Professor Roscoe,
Of Owens College. Manchester, says he re-
gard, the evidence thus far submitted by
Mr.. J. Ballantyne Hunnay as insufficient 10
establish the conclusion thar he has discov-
cred the process OF making diamonds.
Coolies Killed by IA Railroad Accident.
LONDON, February pa dispatch from
Calcutta to the Times says: San accident
occurred on the 18th instant on the Canda-
har railway, near Nitri, by which seven
coolies were killed and four injured.