The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-09
nIH,LIsM NOT DEAD.
The News About Nihilists Has Simply Bsen
Carefully SQppreaaad.

NIHlLisM NOT DEAD.
The News About Nihillsts Has Simply Bsen
Carefully Suppressed.
For the sake of his Gear and father
land. Count Dmitry Andreevitch Tolstoi.
the Minister of the Interior. undertook
to perform . very clever feat. not
smacking of wise craftsmanship and
genuine diplomacy. It is generally
known that for many years past all
the powers of Europe have looked upon
nihilism rs a smarting thorn in tho
Cars heel. The home troubles, it was
believed, would not allow the Russian
autocrat to WELD all his huge forces
against any foreign enemy. This mat
ter was actually annoying His Majesty's
Government. Therefore Dmitry An.
dreevitch made up his mind that nihil-
ism must be dead, or at least proclaimed
to be so. Certainly the role Of trickster
was not becoming to a man of three
score and ten, minister, = senator.
president of the Academy of Sciences.
an actual privy counselor. a count,
and knight of all the imperial orders,
but if in holy Russia it is blissful to be
. '.fool for Christ's sake" then why
could not high dignitary Of Russia
descend to the role Of a trickster for the
Cars sake? Be it what it may, the
illustrious Count dug himself n grave
for Nihilism, performed n funeral
service, and delivered an obituary ora
tion over it, and all that in dead secret.
His grafton, however, he took pains to
make known all over the world.
'.Nihilism is dead" said the Cars
Minister, and it was flashed through the
wires that encircle the globe. As all
Governors of Russia are under the inn
mediate command of the Minister of the
Interior, and all the newspapers are
under the unavoidable control of the
same minister. it has for the last three
years looked here indeed rs if Nililism
had turned upon plain Mill. Even
abroad 1t was lately admitted that the
Nihilists had degenernted and gone.
Suddenly news came here from the
City of KharkOff that Nihilism was yet
alive. As the Minister of the Interior
and the Governor Of Kharkoff arc now on
the leave of absence. this inopportune
discovery was not smOthered in the very
bud. These are the facts:
A few days ago, at midnight, in tho
city of Kharkoff, graced with . uni
versity, there was arrested in the street
q man who proved to be armed like n
regular terrorist. He had on his person
a pistol. dagger and some poison. In
order to get all the glory to themselves.
the gendarmes, without informing their
superiors, tried to find the house in
which the captured Nihilist resided. In
u suburb they found Il house in which
one of the two boarders was missing,
and they guessed that that was the place
they needed. Though it was past nine
in the morning, yet the other man was
fast asleep. They awoke him and asked
him to dress himself. Two gendarmes
sat on the foot of the bed of their mar.
waiting for him. Suddenly he thrust
his hand under his pillow, snatched a
big pistol, and fired at one Of the two
gendarmes. He missed his aim and the
two men grappled with him. Another
SuOt WIS uIeu. uuu oiIC Va thC WV fsOh0
darmes, FessenkO, fell MORALLY wound
ed. A third gendarme rushed into the
room and his wrist was pierced with =
bullet. More men rushed in. and the
Nihilist was OverpOwered and secured.
His name. as it appeared from his pass.
was Platon Lebedinsky. The wounded
gendarme was taken to a hospital, but
he died on the way. In few minutes
all the authorities of KharkOff, Vice.
Governor, Colonel Of Gendarmes, the
Provence Attorney. and the Chief of tho
Police, with hundreds Of policemen and
gendarmes. were at the place of shoot
ing. In broad daylight. before crowd
of people, they had discovered the Mill
list quarters in regular running order.
There was a secret printing press, and
piles of orders of the much-dreaded ex-
ecutive committee; dynamite, nitro
glycerine, and bombs ready for use; y
little armory of pistols, dagSers. and
cartridges; different masks and wigs
and dies. and other accessories of Mill
list quarters. There was an oven full of
explosives, which no man in KharkOff
dared to approach, and SO an expert OH
tue NlnIIiSC uOulUS WIS ScuI ucTc AOiA
this city. The expert placed bomb in
a hollow tree and exploded it by means
of the electric current. The simple
minded residents of KharkOff thought
that an earthquake shook them. Wood
en- splinters flew for half a mile.
When Dmitry Andreevitci Tolstoi
heard of the Kharkoff incident he
swoOned, and. ON coming to himself, he
swore that all the Kharkoff authorities
should be put in sacks and drowned in
the Donetz River at midnight, along
with their two captured Nihaists.
Now it transpires that during the last
three years. which appeared SO quiet,
the number of the arrested Nihili,ts was
as large as in the liveliest times of terror
ism. But everything was done quietly.
The victims, without any trial, were
hidden beyond ''ninc iron DOORS" as a
Russian fairy tale runs, and the tongues
of the witnesses of their arrest were
sealed under the penalty of Siberia.
No. Nihilism will not die till the
people Of Russia will long for annihila-
ton of the monstrOus system of auto
cracy.-COr. N. T. Sun.