The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-26
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Onicei Nos. 70 and " Fon1etnln Street.
"a FEMALE NIlILIST.

"A fEMALE NllllLlOl.
On the eth OF July, IN the year 1877
the little town Of f'atutorovsk, IN Wester
Siberia, was profoundly excited by a paiI
:ul event. i'll
A political prisoner, named Olga Liz
batevitch, it was said had, miscrably pu
an end to her days, She was UNIVERSAL
loved and esteemed, and her violent deaf
therefore produced n most mourntul In
preston throughout tho town, and tn
I,prarnik, or chief Of police, was %secretl,.
accused oil having driven the poor youn
girl, by his unjust prosecutions, to tax
away her iifc.
Olga WINS sent to Talutorovsk, solnl
months after the trial known rs that O
tho "fifty" Of Moscow, in which she wa
condemned to nine years hard labor 10
Socialist propayandism, n punishment
afterwards committed into Punishment 70
Lie. uDProyilcd with any means what
ever OF existence, for her father, q poo
engineer with n large family, could sent
her nothing, Olga succeeded, by indefa
tigabie industry, in establishing hersei
In a certain position. Although little
skilled in female labor, she cndeAvored L
live by her needle, and became tho mill
ncr Of the semi.civilizcd ladies' oftle town
who went into raptures over her work,
These fair DANES were firmly convinced
1t Is impossible to know why-that they
were dressed like the most fashionable
Partisan, and, though they were less pro-
fuse with their money than with theit
praises, yet in that country, where living
costs 30 little, it was easy TO make both
ends meet. Later on, Olg had IN occu,
patton moro congenial with her
habits. Before entering tho manu-.
factories and work shops rs II
sempstress In order to carry on the Social.
ist propaganda, she had studied medicine
for some years ut Zurich, and she could
not now do less than lend her assistance to
certain cases OF illness. This soon gave
her a reputation, and, ut tho request OF
the citizens, the police accorledto her the
permission to fill the post Of a~pothccary
and phlebotomist, us the former occupant
Of that post, owing to habitual drunken
ness, WIS fit for nothing. Not untrcuuent.
y she even took the place OF the district
doctor, a worthy man, who, owing to old
age and n Partially for brandy, was in
such n state that he could not venture
upon delicate operations, because his
hands shook. She acted for him also in
many serious cases battling his antedilu-
Wan knowledge. Some Of her cures were
considered miraculous; among Others,
that OF tho district judge, whom, by de.
termlned treatment, she Ind saved after n
violent attack Of delirium tremens, n
malady common TO almost all men in that
wild country.
In y word, Olga was in great favor with
the peaceful citizens ofTalutorOvsk. The
hatred Of the police towards her was all
the greater for that reason. Her proud
and independent disposition would not
permit her to submit to the stupid and
hulniliating eXisencies Of the representa-.
tives OF the Government. Those repre-.
sentatires, barbarous and ~overbenring as
they were, considered every attempt to
defend personal dignity a want OF respect
towards themselves.
For 4 trivial o~llcnse, resisting an insult
fromthe Eprurnik, proceedings were taken
against her before the district Judge, the
very man whom she had cured OF tleiirium
trtmcns, who sentenced her 10 three days
solitary confinement. TWAS confinement
in n dark, fetid hole, full Of filth and
vermin. When she was released she
seemed to have passed through q serious
illness. From that time she became
gloomy, taciturn, abrupt, She spent whole
days shut up in her room. She was eyi.
IDENTIFY planning something. Among the
worthy citizens OF Talutoroysk, who had u
compassionate feeling towards her, some
said one thing, some another, but no one
ioresaw such n tragic ending as that oil
which rumors ran on July q.
In the morning the landlady entered
her room and found 1t empty. The bed,
undisturbed, clearly showed that she had
not sleptin it. She had disappeared.
The Lprarnik did not lose a moment.
Olga LiubatoviCh being Il OF the most
seriously compromised women, he feared
the severest censure, perhaps evon dis
missal, for his want Of vigilance. lie
found, in Olga's room, two letters signed
and sealed. one addressed to the authori-
ties, the other to her sister, Vera Liubato-
witch, who had also been banislied to an
other Siberian town. These letters were
Immediately opened by the E.prdunik, and
they revealed the mourniui fact that the
young girl had not taken 10 flight, but
had committed suicide. In the letter
addressed to the authorities she said, in a
few lines, that she died by her own hand.
and begged that nobody might be blamed,
To her sister She wrote more fully, ex.
planning that her life Of continuous an
noyanee, Of inactivity and OF gradual
wasting away. which is the life Of a politi.
cal prisoner in Siberia, had become hate.
fult to her, that she could no longer en-
dure it, and preferred to drown herself in
the Tobol. She finished by aiTeetionately
begging her sister. TO forgive her the grief
she might cause her and her friends and
companions in misfortune.
There could no longer be any doubt.
The kpr0rnik sent for ull the fishermen
rear and began to drag the river with
poles, casting in nets 10 recover the body.
This, however, led to nothing. Nor was
it surprising; the broad river was 40 rapid
that in n single night It must have carried
Il body away-who knows how many
leagues?
The body OF Olga, her heart within it
throbbing with joy and uncertainty, had
meanwhile been hurried away, not BY the
yellow waters OF tho Toboi, but by a
vehicle drawn by two horses galloping at
full speed. Her escape had been careful.
ly planned.
She had first to traverse five miles in
utter darkness, guided only by the stars,
which occasionally pierced through the
dense foliage. She WINS not afraid OF the
wild beasts, but the cemetcry.keeper'.
dog was to be feared. The cemeteries arc
always well looked after in that country,
for among the horrible crimes committed
BY the scum Of the conyicts one OF the
most common is that Of d~isinterring and
robbing the newly buried dead. The
keeper Of the cemetery Of T%aIutorovsk was
not to be triiied with bis dog still less. II
was a mastiff, rs big as q calf, ferocious
and yigilant, and conld hear the approach