Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1882-02-23
RUSSIAN ALARM.
St. Petersburg Dispatch to the fond On

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SIT. Petersburg is now invested by u chain
Of Cossack patrols, with posts Of guard
Ulcers and police on the high roads.
There is no means OF ingress3 on esress for
nihilist consplfators or peac eabte citizens
Iii special passports for this purpose are to-
be issued such an alternating measure Will (
follow later as Of secondary importance.
At present, on at any rate, this morning the
entrances to the city we're throngetl With
troops ofstlavel lers or public carriers of all 7
kinds to whom a return to the capital was.
positively forbidden. The Inconvenience
TO many toWnsrn Ell, whose business con
stantly calls them outside st. Petsrsl3rrg, .
can easily be imagined. 4 The Cogsacks are
instJu ted to send everybody trying ia en-
Ter the town TO superior otfic GERS ststi
on the highways, and here tho very strict
est Investigation is to- be made. This is
the 6rstregulation establ ishea by tie newly
elected council of Twenty-Five members, al 4
Of whom have been presented to- day To his 4
majesty the emperor. Notwithstanding thu
novelty, the suddeness, and the faults and
irregularities of the election end on these
points the various newspaper editors have
received hundreds of written comp lai,lts-,2
8 very respectable choice was somehow
made. At least, judging from the many
known names which ii ure on the list
of the twenty five finally voted II By
the two hundred and eighty eli ,ht deputies,
there is not much to flint fault with. Among
others there are the venerable Gen. Trepoff,
formerly governor Of ST ST II etersburg; Count
Bobrinsky, marshal Of nobility; Col. Fred
ericks, colonel of horse guards; NJ. La
mangly, governor Of the h state bank, and
many others Of good standing and local
reputation. The elected counsel met to-
day and appointed ub-committee for
celebrating the second MEASURE Of severity
anu supervision, which is that all arrivals i
at the various railway 'telnaini shall be sub
sjeeted, through police agents and tiroshky
drivers. toa certain system Of espionage
and detection. Every traveller, on arriving
at a railway station, VIII first have to give
all particulars Of himself. and will then be
furnished with the number Of dToshkT if
he wishes to be driven to i his destination d
Surprising him to have taken droshky the
driver will have to see that his fare goes to
the place which he gave to the police officer
as his destination IN the town, and il he
should 20 Ito any otherthe driver must I'M
#meaiatelyy inf orIa the police, who will then
relieve the droshk man Of his task. ss e his
is followed by d third measure, which how
ever, The council at present refused to-;
sStlletlo on. his is thHt certain mem bers Oh
the body should take lit il turns to watch
the streets through which the ernpero may
pass thus ncarring grave responsibility
other steps of this kind are to Be taken u
body knows, though everybody fears i that
they will be extrenel enabarra ssing to the
population at large and Of little real avail i
against nihiist plots. &c would be untrue
u to say, therefore, that the measures already
referred to are unani ously approyed q in 4
st. Petersburg . sI a.5.S