Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-24
CABLE NEWS.
Prince Plon-PIon Protests Against
the Prescription.
he SEEKS TO REFORM NOT DESTROY,
Outrageous Cruelty Of a Russian
COuntess---Heay Sentence-.-
General Dispatches.

PARIS. February 23.-Prince jerome
Napoleon (Plon- Plon) publishes letter ip
which he protests against the proposed
prescription the French Princes, aud in.
sists that such treatment would be unfair.
The Bonspsrtists, he declares, are defend.
ers OF the revolution. What the Republic
requires 10 increase its strength and pres-
tige, be says, is reform Of its methods o,
government, The expulsion OF the Prin.
ces would tend TO the destruction OF ths
Republic.
Prince Napoleon also takes occasion 10
criticise the manner in which the Presi.
dent is chosen. He SAYS that the people
should be allowed 10 elect their own Chief
Magistrate, and that the method which
gives the power Of selection TO the Nation.
al Assembly should be abolished.
ARCssIIY SENSATION.
LONDON, February 23-A dispatch from
Odessa states that the criminal court q,
Poltavs to-day rendered ITS decision in the
case OF the Countess Won kirkescoaeu
who was convicted last saturday Of felo
niously suppressiDg will and OF inhumsn
cruenes which caused the death OF q peao.
ant woman psmed Norna Janisprelski.
The sentence e the cour; is tha; the de.
tendan,s own property be coniscsted TO
the crown that her late husbands s title and
estates revert TO certain distant relatives
and that she be imprisoned tor ten years.
The trial occupied the greater part OF last
week aud caused an immense sensation in
Russia The facts as told in court are as
follows
In lsj2, the defendant, then Mile Olga
Bervandsk, was married 10 Count Nicolas
Won Kirkcscofen. She WAS - years old
and he was two years Younger. The mar
rage WAS one OF convenience for property
reasons. NO children were ever born 10
them. In 1853 the Countess discovered
that her husband had liaison with girl
whom he had established at game-Eeep
ers lodge. The girls accouChemen, led
10 the discovery. Shortly after the chlld
WAS born the Countess had il stolen from
the lodge and brought 10 her At the cas-, 10.
She confessed in court that her intention
was 10 stranyle il, but she Ai'erward decd
that she could punish her husband moro
by compelling him TO announcs the child
as her ohspring, aud hIs
legitimate heir. The boy was accordingly
brough, up in this belief, bU. he was
treated with gren, severity by the Countess
In l-74. when he was twenty one years old.
he left home, and has slucr led an extrav-
acant life in various European cap'tals.
In 1850 his father died, leaving will
which declared the secret Of the yourg
mans birth, bu, left him all the Counts
personal property amounting 10 con'd'
.rnple fortune. The Countess hid the will.
bu, did not destroy it. The young Count
succeeded 10 the title and eataies without
queston, but continued 10 live abroad.
| His father paramour WAS B,ill living, and
the Countess caused her 10 be seized and
imprisoned in the Castle, where she WAS
treated with such rigor that che became In
sane, and died OF voluntary starvation 10
| 1894
Recently the young Count went home
/ on yisit, and accidentally found the cup
pressed will. He placed il in tho hands Of
the public prosecutor aud returned to Paris
taking the name Of Nicholas J"uisprelskl.
He has ample mehus but Is said TO 90
drinking himself 10 death.
An appeal 10 the Crown is 10 be made
| on behalf OF the countess. The Czsr 10
very severe upon any tampcIiDg with ,'ues
amony the Russian nobility, but as the
sentence OF imprisonment, ia based only on
the charge OF murder, i, is hoped tho, she
mny be allowed 10 retire 10 convent Tor
life. The Countess for many years has
been repu,ed lady oi great, Ont Aus'srs
piety.
BAyARILa COMING CELEBRAFION.
LONDON. February The poet FIlgsr
and the Duke Of SsSc.MeiniDgsn, have
made a new rendering Of Byfons "aerino
Faliero, which will soon be p'acrd upon
the stage. The. Meiningsn Company Is
the Centenary celebration ot the birth oi
the late ex.king Ludvi9, OF BsvAna,
The celebration will be !held on the s.h,
9Th and 10th OF July
THE xlDAGAsCAR TREATY wRhSGLG.
PANS. February 23 In the Chamber
of Deputies today NJ. 81. Romms gave no
tice that he would move an amendment TO
he bill proposing q credit 10 enable the
Madagascar treaty TO be ratified, providing
tha: the treaty be referred back to the
Government for RECOMMENDATION.