Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-15
H1GH-HANDED PROCEEDINGS.


The detachment next paid a visit to
Mr.. Balavinsky, Justice of the Peace for
the district of Senkoff, whom they
treated in like manner, but as before
the police discovered not shred of evil
dence to Justify their suspicious Were
searched also the houses and grounds
of Mr. Vorenez and Mr.. Dihokovsky,
rich landowners who had filled public
Offices, with the same result Nothing
was found. Nevertheless Mr. Vorenez
was taken away to prison, and after
being kept for some time in custody ex-
lied to a remote province in the North
that of Oloneza What he had done
to merit this punishment he never knew
1t was said at the time that there had
been some rumors to his disadvantage
among the peasants. At length the
Procurator withdrew his men and took
his departure, leaving the representa-
tives of the Koupiansk nobility in q
state of utter bewilderment as to the
cause of the sudden and unwelcome
visit they had received, and the humili-
alton to which they had been exposed.
Nor had they yet done with their zefH-
Gus official. A few months later he
paid them yet another visit, proceeded
precisely in the same way as before and
with precisely the same result. But as
it was deemed necessary to show some
wool for all this cry, several innocent
persons were arrested and exiled by
administrative order; for, on the princi-
pie that guilt should not be imputed
until it is proved, we have a right to
assume that the very fact of these I'M
fOrtunates being neither brought to
trial nor accused Of any specific offense,
implies their innocence. With Mr.
Koutchalovsky, Justice of the Peace for
tire district OF Ekaterinoslav, the Procu-
rator was more fortunate The police
found in eis house the manuscript copy
of q speech delivered by workman
called Peter Sonaleste at the Trial of
the Fifty" For this crime the Judge
was exiled to Arkangolesk, in the ex-
treme north of Russia.
ALLEGED CAUSE OF THE OUTRAGEs.
Until it was revealed by the indiscre-
ton of one Of his employees, the cause
of the Procurator's excessive zeal re-
manned mystery In 1874, that is to
say five years previously, Leo Dihov-
kosky, one of the early apostles of rev
hard labor forhaving printed in clan
destine printing office two socialist
pamphlets. But a part only of his
type and plant were taken; the rest he
had either destroyed or hidden safely
away Now, as it happened, this gen
tleman was also Koupiansk land
owner and akin to several of the
neighboring gentry. So, Procurator
Melchnikof, turning things over ''in
what he was pleased to call his mind
came to the conclusion that the Missing
type was concealed in some country
house on the district. Hence the mill
tary pomp and parade, all these pre-
tentious visits, house searchings, fish
pond draggings and the rest, proceed
ings which both surprised and amused
the peasants and other inhabitants of
the neighborhood. According to an
other versiOn-in country where the
press is fettered rumors naturally take
the place of news--the Procurator had
some old scores to settle with the no.
bility of Koupiansk, and took this
means of serving them out" the af-
fair OF the lost type being merely a
pretext.-Loadom Cor. San Francisco
Chronicle