The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-25
AssAssINATED.
Vlolent Death OF the Czar Of Russia-Ths
New Emperor.

New Emperor.
A ST. PETERSBURG correspondent Of Lon
don paper, under date o the 18th, says: The
Imperial carriage was attacked ON tie Ekat
Rinofsky Canal, opposite the Imperial stables,
while the Emperor was returning with the
Grand Duke Michael from Michael Palace in a
closed carriage, supported by eight COssacks.
The first bomb fell near the carriage, Destroy
ing the back part. The Car ana his brother
alighted uninjured. The assassin, on being
seized by a Colonel of the Police. drew
a revolver, but was prevented
from firing it. A second bomb
was then thrown by another person, and fell
close to the Cars feet. its explosion shat,ef-
ing both legs. The Car was Immediately con-
veyed in an unconscious state to the Winter
Palace, where he died at $3.50 this afternoon.
HIS LAST MOMENTS.
ST. PETERSBURG, March Ii.
It is now stated that the assassins 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 fatal work,
exploded with such force as to tear up the en-
tire pavement around the place where they
struck and to make a hole four feet deep in
the ground.
DR.. Dvoriachine, who was among the ply.
sicians first summoned to the Gar, immedi-
ately fetched the necessary instruments for
amputating his legs, which we're held by the
flesh only, the bones being broken. Blood
flowed cOpiously from the lacerated wounds.
India rubber bandages were applied first to
the right leg, below the knee. and then to the
left. The 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 tieo
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
Chaplain Bjainor availed himself of the inter.
val of apparent Consciousness to administer
the sacrament, and for a moment some hopes
were entertained of the Cars life. But
minute or two afterward his heart ceased t.
beat. During the final flicker of life the mem
bers of the family surrounded the bed. ard the
Archpriest rected the prayer for those in ex-
tremis. all present kneeling. The spectacle
was heartrending.
PROCLAMATION or ALEXANDER III.
The following Imperial manifesto has been
promulgated:
1--WE. by the grace of God, Alexander III
Emperor and Autocrat of ali the Russias, Gan
of Poland, Grand Duke of Finland, etc..
hereby make known to all our faithful sub
jects that it has pleased the Almighty, in Hi
inscrutable will, to visit Russia with heavy
blows of fate, and to call her benefactor, the
Emperor Alexander IL, to Himself.
ale fell by the hands OF the impiOuS muir
derers who had repeatedly sought his preciou,
life, and made their attempts because they
saw in him the protector of Russia, the fOun
d faa o. ner g he Rs ANA tne
bow to the unfathomable will of Divine Provi
dence, and offer to the Almighty our prayer
for the repose of the pure soul Of our beloved
1--WE ascend the throne which we inherit
from our forefathers-thc throne of the Rus
sian Empire and the Carbon and rand-Duke
dom inSeparably connected whit. We asSum
the heavy burden which God has impose
upon us with a firm reliance upon His almighty
help. May He bless our work to the wcliar,
of our beloved fatherland, and may He guide
our strength for the happiness of all our faith
In repeating before Almighty God the
wow m ase 70 our fore
fathers, our whole life to care for the welfare
aud honor of Russia, we call upon our fair b.
ruI subjects to unite before the altar OF the
Almighty their prayers with ours, and COM
mend them to swear fidelity to US and to our
successor, his Imperial Highness the Hcrcdi-
tary Grand Duke Nicolai.
Given at St. Petersburg, Ammo Domini 1851.
Hnd the first year Of our reign"
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
Alexander H., the late Emperor, was born
April II april %, new Style, 1878. He was the
.
cess Charlotte, of Prussia; educated under the
supervision of his father, by General Moerder,
learned German, and the Russian poet JON
kOwski; entered the army in 1881: was Colo
mel in the regiment OF grenadiers in 1885;
Chancellor of the University of HelsngfOrs,
Finland, in 1857; was Superintendent of the
military schools of the Empire in 1919;
was appointed to command in the
Caucasian army in 1850; succeeded to
the throne ut the death of his father in
1855 and was crowned ut Moscow in |
1856. In 1S41 he married the Empress Maria, |
daughter of the Late Grand Duke Ludwig H., |
of Hesse-DarmStadt The Car leaves six |
children -Alexander, who succeeds to the |
throne; the Grand Duke Vladimir, the Grand |
Duke Alexis, the Grand Duchess Marie, the |
Grand Duke Sergius and the Grand Duke |
Paul, the last-named being in his twenty-tirst |
year. Their first-born son, Nicholas, died al |
Nice. France, 1866. Since the death of the |
Empress, in 1850, the Car contracted a NOR.
ganatic marriage with his former mistress
the Princess Dolgorouski. There have been
five previous attempts ON the life of the En-
peror.
THE NEW GEAR.
Alexander was born March 10, 1915. married |
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Princess Dagmar, daugh-
ter of King Christian TX, of Denmark, who
brother. Their eldest child, Nicholas Aiexan-
derOvitch, was born May 49, 1868. George,
their second son, was born May 10, 1871; their
third child, a daughter, Xena, was born April
Is, 1875, and their fourth, Michael was born
December 5, 1878.
THE FORMER ATTEMPTS AT ASSASSINATION.
This is the sixth attempt which has been
made upon the Cars lie. the first having
been made on April IS, 1866, when he was fired
at while entering his carriage at st. Peters
burg. The pistol, however, was TUNED aside
by Dmitri kOrakOsOw, who was afterward en-
nobIed for the act. Tue second attempt was
made at Paris, June 6, 1861, by Berezowski, "a
Pole, who fired into the carriage in which the
Gar was seated with his two sons
ana the Emperor Napoleon. Boh SOY.
ereigns escaped unhurt. Another great
shock was given to pubic feeling
april IL, 1877, when Alexander SolOvief at
tempted to shoot the Gar in front of the
house of the military staff in st. Petersburg.
The assassin was arrested. Another attempt
vas made December j, 1879. when a mine was
exploded under the railroad with the inten-
ion OF blowing up the train on which he was
Entering Moscow. His Majesty, however, was
lot III the train. About seven O'c.Ock on the
evening of the 18th OF February, 1880, an ex-
Ilosion occurred in the basement of the I'm
1crial Winter Palace, under the principal
:uard-roOm. Owing to an accident the Car