The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

tional monetary conference in order that sh'
may accept it without pledging herself to I
bi-metalc standard.
The appeal OF Orion, the Tichborne
claimant, having been dismissed by the House Of
Lords, there remains nothing for him but tc
complete his fourteen years in prison.
Mohammed Jan, the noted Afghan
leader, has been murdered.
In one of the Spanish provinces thirty
persons have been arrested for making demon
strations in favor of federal republic.
Alexander H., Gar of Russia, has at
last met his death at the hands Of
Nihilist assassins. On Sunday afternoon,
March 10, while riding with the Grand
Duke Michael in a closed carriage, guarded by
eight Cossacks, bomb was thrown, which tore
out the back part Of the vehicle. The Gear
and his brother sprung out, when
bystander drew revolver, but was pre-
vented from discharging it. At this
instant second bomb fell near the
Gar, shattering both his legs. With cry fol-
help he fell, and was taken to the Winter Pal
ace, where troops kept back the throng. The
sacrament was administered to the sufferer,
who survives his injuries but an hour. The
two assassins stood on opposite sides of the
roadway, disguised as peasants. One was so
roughly handled that he has since died. The
other gives the name Of Roussakoff. The
dead Emperor was born in 1918, and
was called to the throne while Russia was en-
gagged in the Crimean war. The chief event OF
his reign was the emancipation of $4,000, 900
serfs in 1891 Attempts upon his life were
made by Karakson, at Moscow by Berezowski
in Paris during the international exposition :;
by Nihilist, who fired at him in the streets of
st. Petersburg by the explosion of mine
under the Winter Palace, and by means of
an internal machine beneath the railway track
at Moscow. Alexander the heir to the throne
was born in 1916, and welded the Princess
Dagmar, Of Denmark. The Grand Duke
Alexis and the Duke and Duchess of Edin-
burgh have left London for st. Petersburg
kilograms Of coincidence have been received
from nearly all the leading countries, the
United States being among the first to offer its
tribute.
A telegram from the Russian frontier
states that the attempt to assassinate the Gear
was not unexpected, as the police had received
an intimation Of the existence OF conspiracy.
Several domiciliary visits i'll search of political
criminals were made the night preceding The
murder. The Car was warned not to attend
tho parade.
All the European Cabinets and the eli.
tire European press express profound SORROW
for the death of the Ozar. The Emperor OF
Germany is said to be inconsolable. Gladstone
Harrington and Granville called on the muir
dered monarch's son-ln-law, the Duke Of Edin-
burgh, to express coincidence, and President
Grevy telegraphed his sorrow to st. Petersburg.
Messages of coincidence were also sent from
the other European courts.
A st. Petersburg dispatch of March
IA says; 1t isnow stated that the asssasins who
killed the Gar drove in an open carriage, and
were thus enabled to avoid suspicion, and get
close to the imperial sleigh. The bombs
which the murderers threw, and which did the
up tho entire pavement around the place where
they struck and to make hole four feet deep
in the ground. Both the Cars legs were bro
ken, tho lower part of his body severely injured,
and his left eye forced completely out of its
socket. Theassassins were disguised as peasants.
Russokotr, who threw the first bomb, has been
student for two years at the Mining Academy.
Tho second bomb-thrower has been arrested
He il also young man. A Cossack and
civilian who declined to give his name, died
from injuries received by the bursting of the
bomb. Altogether twenty persons are more or
less injured, thirteen of whom are in the hos
ptal Dr. Dvoriachine, who was among the
physicians first summoned to the Car, imme-
diately fetched the necessary instruments
for amputating the legs, which we're held by
the flesh only the bones being broken. The
blood flowed copiousy from the lacorated
wounds. India-rubber bandages were applied,
first to the right leg below the knee, and then
to the left. Tho Cars right hand on which
was glove, was found to be greatly lacerated.
His marriage ring was broken to pieces and
driven into the flesh. The surgeons tied up
the several arteries. At length, under
the influence of sulphate of oxygen and
ice, the Emperor opened his eyes,
and respiration became more apparent. Chap
lain Bj6inor availed himself of the interval OF
apparent consciousness to administer the sac.
rament, and for moment some hopes were
entertained of the Ozsr's life. But, minute
or two afterward, his heart ceased to beat.
During tho final flicker of life the members of
the family surrounded the bed. The Arch
priest recited the prayers for those in extremis,
all present kneeling, The spectacle was heart
rending. The Czarowitz assembled the throne of
Russia as Alexander III, and the imperial
family court officials and the troops swore al
legiance to him. In his manifesto to the people
no announces himself as "The Autocrat of AL
the Russias, Gar Of Poland, Grand Duke of
Finland ETC., and pledges himself to devote
his whole life "to care for the welfare and
honor of Russia" and calls on his faithful
subjects to unite before the altar Of the
Almighty their prayers with his, and COM
mends them to swear fidelity to him and his
successor, "his Imperial Highness the Grand
Duke Nicolai."
One of the chief organizers VI the
attack on the Gar was arrested in St. Peters
burg on the 18th and made full confession.
He denounced Russakoff in person, and the
latter recognized the corpse of the citizen who
died in the hospital as that of his accomplish
the man who threw the second bomb. The
house from which the assassins obtained the
bombs was discovered, and, as soon as the DO
lice appeared the male occupant shot himself
1t is said that warnings were repeat
edly sent to the Gar, but he disregarded them
oil. The Nihilists diverted the attention of
the police by letting them suppose the ex-
ploslyes were being manufactured in London
while they were being prepared in st. Peters
burg.
Princess Dolgourouki, the morganatic
wife of the late Car, has left st. Petersburg
and will not return.
P,J. Sheridan, one of the Irish trayers.
ers, was arrested under the Coercion act. This
is regarded as the most important arrest that
has been made.