The Portland daily press., 1881-03-16
THE DEAD GAR.
NIHILISTS JUSTIFYING THE
ASSASSINATION.
The Bombs Manufactured in Eng
land.
THE GEAR WARNED OF HIS DANGER.

LONDON, March 15.-There was q constant
succession of callers at the Russian Embassy
yesterday to express coincidence. Among them
were the Empressle Eugene, the various am
bassadors and foreign ministers at London,
members of the Government, Lord Beacons-
field, Sir Alexander Gait. Cardinal Manning
and Mr.. Russell Lowell.
The news of the assassination was received
by the Russian revolutionary party in London
at O'Clock Sunday afternoon from their friends
in Paris, Geneva and st. Petersburg. 1t was
announced in Social Democratic halls BY the
respective speakers later in the evening, and
was greeted with loud and continued manifest
atlons OF approval 1t was stated that it was
confidently expected that the new Gear would
grant amnesty to all persons lately transported
to Siberia, and that he would concede some
form of constitutional government to the peo-
pie of Russia.
In Nihihst circles it is accepted as fact
that the assassination is the work of their or
ganlzation and is not due to private revenge.
In the course of the next few days the Russian
Nhilist committee will, it is said, issue state
ment OF the whole affair, showing the act as
pernetrated at their instigation, and attempt.
ing to justify it. The Nihil;stS think that the
names given by the two men arrested are as
sumed, as they are unknown to the revolution
lists here. The headquarters of the party have
recently been removed from London to Paris
Hartmann, who was concerned in the Moscow
Is,
has been issued which was addressed to the
revolutionists OF both worlds, calling upon
them to assemble at an international Socialist
revolutionary Congress to be held in London
Jan. IA, 1882.
The Times correspondent a. st. Petersburg
says the garrison was kept ready all night in
case disturbance should occnr A large num-
Der of Cossacks patrolled the streets on Mon
day. 1t is persstently stated that Count Nell
koff had some days previous TO the murder un-
earthed the plot and entreated the Gar not to
expose himself publicly.
The Cologne Gazettes ST. Petersburg dis
patch says M. Pobedonossew, the Emperor's
tutor, man much revered and of great expe-
rience, will probably, in conjunction with Gen.
Melikoif, play prominent part in public at.
signing the oath of allegiance to the Gar, he
placed the crown upon the Cars head.
The Agence Russo says:-"At 130 D. NJ a
salute fired by cannon on tie fortress an
nounced the conclusion of the ceremonies con-
nected with the ascension of Alexander III to
the throne. The space before the palace was
covered with people when the Emperor and
Empress passed through the crowd on their
way to KozansC cathedral amidst deafening ac-
CARNATIONS.
ST.. PETERSBURG, March 15.-The Grand
Duke Vladimir was yesterday appointed to the
command of the Imperial Guard and of the
military district of ST. Petersburg.
The remains of the Emperor will be re-
moved at o'clock this evening from the Cabi-
net adjoining the reception hall to the chapel
of the palace. All the members of the i'm
perial family and the high digntaries and
cordance with the wish of the deceased, clad
in the uniform of the Prcobraschenski regi-
ment. A requiem was chanted at o'clock
last evening. At midnight the doctors made
an autopsy, which proved that all the internal
organs were in normal condition, thereby
nfIrr nnf a..
health of the Emperor. The body has been
embalmed.
Last week the Gear receized small box, os
teLsibly containing pills, with letter from
abroad, and when Dr. Botkin opened the box
a slight explosion occurred. The pills were
found to contain highly explosive substance,
and enough to kill three persons if all the con-
tents simultaneously exploded.
VIENNA, March 15.-The fact of President
Smolka, who is Pole, not abiding to the as
sassinaiion of the Gar, has raised much COM
ment here.
CRAcow March 15.-The Gas, the Polish
organ, recommends Polish deputies and Poles
in Russia to maintain q calm and prudent re-
serve.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 15.-Russakoff, the
thrower of the first bomb, is a thick set, short
necked and repulsive looking dark man. He
is very stubborn in his refusal to reply to any
questions. He is uninjured. The man who
threw the second bomb appears to have es-
capped.
the morganatic wife of the late Gar, has left
St. Petersburg and will not return.
LONDON, March 15.-Very careful and indus
trious inquiries among foreign refugees in this
capital and at the headquarters of revolution
airy associations which are known to exist here
have resulted in the disclosure of several inter-
esting and important facts concerning the as
oft of the Gar iS hplinund 70 ha
true that the party of assassins consisted of
four persons, Pole, two Russians and resi-
dent of Berne in Switzerland, whose national
ity is not exactly known. The glass bombs
which were used were manufactured, it is said,
at we'll known glass makers factory in Bir-
mingham, and there are said to be evidences
which can bring home to the parties who fur
nished the bombs criminal knowledge of the
purposes for which they were to be used, al
though another story is that the manufactur
ers, while suspecting that these deadly instru-
ments were to be used for some nefarious pur-
pose carefully avoided questioning too closely
the customers to whom they supplied them
The dynamite, with which the bombs were
filled, was procured in London, and the filling
and preparation were effected according to
these stories at Berne. The assassins were
acting under well matured plan, dictated in
the first place by well known Russian refu-
gee now living in Bernie, and carried out by
orders of an association OF which he was the
leading Splrlt. AUuuudub luiuS Wcfo luf-
nished the assassins and they had been resid-
ing in St. Petersburg before the attempt which
resulted SO fatally. They passed themselves
off, one as an English engineer and the Others
as travellers for pleasure. 1t now appears
from letters which are alleged to have been re-
ceiyed in London, that at least two of the a..
sassins frequently drove at no great distance
behind the Gar during his daily journeys
through St. Petersburg, and on more than one
occasion their contemplated murder was pre-
vented from being attempted only by very
trifling accident. Only one of the assassins
has been captured. The other three, it is
claimed by their friends in London, are quite
safe from arrest or detection, and are either
now in security on the German side of the
frontier or living in St. Petersburg without the
slightest suspicion attaching to them. When
the question was asked whether the arrested
man would betray his accomplices the reply
was decided and positive negative
LONDON, March 15.-In the Commons this
afternoon Mr.. Gladstone moved tie address to
the Queen expressing the sentiments of the
Sir Stafford Northcate seconded the motion,
echoing Mr.. Gladstones laudation of the late
Gar The address was unanimously adopted,
as was also resolution of coincidence with the
Duchess of Edinburg.
Mr.. Gladstone, in moving the address, said
the assassination of a great sovereign would,
under ordinary circumstances, supply fitting
occasion for expressing the sentiments OF the
House, but the present occasion was excep-
tional. He dwelt upon the noble self-forget-
fulness with which the Gar after the first at
tack upon him, fingered to see to the wounded.
The crime showed the deepest ingratitude.
There might be cases for criticism and censure
in the great empire ov er which the Gar ruled,
but these were inherited The sole labor of