River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-03-24
accustomed to consign political offend
WERE BURNED DOWN.

than 2, 000, 900 of rubles, and the loss
which has been inflicted on the country
during the past six months was
estimated on the 1T of June at
300O0,0O0 rubles. June was ike
wise prolific of fires. The number
occurring during the month is given
as 5000, causing damage to the amount
of II 100000 rubles. Only 900 of these
were accounted for; the other 1900
were attributed to public disturbers.
Courts-martial were Instituted at Kiey
for the trial of the revolutionists, and a
plot is said to have been discovered to
BLOW UP THE COURTROOM
during the trial. The first group of
persons tried included three MOI emen,
the daughter of Privy Councilor, and
a Russian subject. A part ofthe num-
Der were found guilty of armed resis-
lance to the police, and sentenced to
death; others. who were convicted of
conspiring against the state and social
order, We're sentenced to terms of penal
servitude. Explosions which were at
tributed to the revolutionists took place
in the police Office ut Oursk, at Mini
Novgorod, and in powder magazine
near st. Petersburg. Numerous per-
sons were arrested throughout the en-
pire for having explosives or forbidden
arms, or for being engaged in manu-
featuring explosives. On the night be-
tween the Goth and 9th of June
MORE THAN 4W PERSONS
were arrested at Kiev, large stores Of
dangerous materials were found, and
secret press and revolutionary docu-
ments were discovered in near connec-
ton with the ecclesiastical seminary.
Michael Solovieff who attempted to as
sassinate the car in April, was tried in
June, found guilty of belonging to
criminal association, the object of
which was to overthrow by violence
the institutions of the state, and was
hanged on the 18th of the month. Sew
eral of his relatives were arrested and
imprisoned An imperial order was
issued in July empowering the COVER
nors general to exercise their discretion
in the cases of political offenders
whether to send them for trial before
the military courts or before the ordi-
nary tribunals. The number of per-
sons who had been convicted or were
! held under arrest exceeded anything
| that was before known in the history
of the present reign, and reports be-
came rife that
THE PRISONS WERE GREATLY OVER
CROWDED.
June 10, 600 convicts were dispatch
ed from Odessa in the ship Mimi
Novgorod for the Island of Saghallen,
off Japan, where they were to serve
their terms of punishment. The friends
of the government represented that
they were for the most part persons
who were guilty of common crimes,
but others asserted that by far the
largest part of them were revolution
lists. The vessel sailed by way of the
Srez canal and the Red Sea, and ar
rived at Nagasaki August l. Reports
of their frightful sufferings were ofiici-
ally contradicted. In November the
minister of the interior sent out cir
cular to the governors of provinces, in
structing them to order the rural po-
lice not to interfere with the public
dances and amusemepts in the villages,
rs such interference had caused dis
content am ong the rural population.
THE TRIAL OF LEON MIRsKY.
with seven persons charged with being
his accomplices, for the attempted AS
sassination OF Gen. Drenteln, chief of
the Gendarmeri, began in the military
court at st. Petersburg, Nov. %. All
the prisoners were accused OF belong
ing to secret society whose object was
to oyerturn the the existing govern
ment and to enforce change of the
social order of the empire Mirsky
was also accused specifically of the at
tempt to assassinate Gen. Dreuteln, Of
resisting the officers who came to ar
rest him, of fabricating false passports,
and of melting his fellow-prisoners,
after they were arrested, to revolt.
The chief accusation against the other
prisoners was that of cOncealing Mirsky
after his attempt against Gen. Drenteln.
Mirsky acknowledged the commission
of the offenses for which he was ar
raigned, and only pleaded that he had
committed them public, not for per-
sOnal reasons, and asked not to be
hanged as common murderer. A
sentence to death by hanging Vas inn
posed upon him, but was commuted
to one of hard labor in the mines.
Tury Tarkhoff, his principal accom-
| pIlCt, WAS SCHbtHtcQ W lldIu idpoI III ~
fortress for ten years.
THE MOSCOW ATTEMPT.
Another attempt upon the life of the
Gar was made Dec. 2, when a mine
was exploded under the railroad, with
the intention of blowing up the train
on which he was entering Moscow. His
! Majesty, however, was not i'll the train,
which was blown up, and escaped. The
mine which exploded had been dug out
from a house near the line Of the rail
road, which had been bought by the
young men, who occupied it about
three months before, and was worked
from the house by galvanic wires. The
Gar, it is said, had been warned that
an attempt would be made upon him,
and changed the arrangement of the
trains, so as to mislead his assailants.
FIFTH ATTEMPT.
At about z O'Clock on the evening of
the 18th Of February, 1880, an explo-
sion occurred in the basement of the
Imperial Winter Palace, under the
principal guard-room. Owing to an
accidental delay the Car and the
members of the Royal family did not
enter at the usual time. The explosion
made hole in the dining hall fifteen
feet long and about twelve feet wide.
The escape Of the Emperor was almost
miraculous. Eight soldiers stationed
in the guard-room were killed. The
palace had been carefully guarded by
police, yet it was found on examination
the train could be traced to cellar in
the inner court, and that Immediately
under the guard-room was placed the
dynamite and quantity of gun-cotton.
Fragments of the timbers were thrown
all over the hall, and, had the emperor
and his family been in their places,
they could not possibly have escaped.
At the time, the fact that the train had
not been discovered was much COM
mented on, and it was thought that
some members Of the royal housel old
were frivy to the plot.
g Orge EIiOt's will
The will Of Mrs. Mary Ann Cross,
wife of Mr.. John Walter Cross, was
proved on the 9th Of February, by Mr..
Charles Lee Lewes, the sole executor.
The personal property was sworn rs
under Gao, 600. The testatrix bequeaths
$4,000 to Miss Emily Clarke, 81 600 to
Vivian Byam Lewes, an annuity of fl0Q
for her life to Mrs. Caroline Bray, and
an annuity Of $40, also for life, TO her
housaLa a,,ar Mrs Mary noxvlipo Tho