The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-01

incendiary description, but last month the police
learned they were planning a great Nihilist
manifestation in st. Petersburg. Soon after a
false proclamation from the Gar, addressed to
the peasants, fell into the hands of the police.
1t was to have been published on Feb. 10 told
style), the twenty-fth anniversary of the liberia
ton OF The serfs, and ran thus:
My father, who now rests in God, freed the
peasants from the bondssof slavery, but the no.
bles have annulled the work of the great Gar.
l. Alexander III, sharing my fathers love for
the people, am now kept prisoner in my own
palace by my own mobiles. To celebrate the lib
Grafton jubilee / give the land to the peasants.
Let them rise against the mobiles, and march on
st. Petersburg to free their Car from his i'm
prisonment."
Hundreds of thousands of these procsamations
were to hare been distributed in the provinces,
In the hope of drawing number of rural depu
tatons to st. Petersburg for facilitating the
manifestation. The national Jubilee, which was
In preparation, was at once, by the Cars order.
coundermanded. The police ordered the arrest of
the conspirators ten days ago. Eighty agents,
IN various DISCUSSES crept into the house. All the
approaches were occupied while a strong de-
tachment OF troops was stationed behind the
neighboring church, ready for any emergency.
An agent then rushed into the porter's lodge,
shouting, come and help me to tackle drunk
ard at the corner of the street." The porter. a
suspected Nihiist innocently rushed out, leav-
ing the entrance unguarded. The troops in
stantly surrounded the building. The police
broke open the doors of the printing room.
where they discovered twelve Nihiiists-men
and women-who made a desperate resistance.
woundng eight of the agents before they were
arrested. After searching the room the police
arrested a number of other suspects, among
them Krugtof, the novelist, and Mme Dubrow-
in, a well-known contributor to Svet, the organ
of General Komaroff's 3 brother. The date of the
trial is not yet fixed.
Denials of Nihilist plots in Russia come with
ma Zipcp Off avn az ch,1ro I'm
anias is outdone by the official newspapers.
which coolly publish reports of the execution OF
the warsaw consprators, after having denied IN
their own columns, few days ago, the exist
ence OF any conspiracy there. Without noticing
official statements, there is trustworthy private
information that within the past two weeks,
three distinct Nihiist plots, on large scale,
have been unearthed by the Cars police, who
are ever vigilant but still powerless to suppress
the underground revolution. Hardly day
passes without arrests of individual plotters in
St Petersburg The terrible dungeons of the
Fortress of ST. Peter and ST. Paul are
overfowing with prisoners, in spite of
recent extensive deportations to Siberia.
The Gar is furious because Switzerland still
permits political refugees to find safe retreat
Berlin lately endeavored to call the Swiss gov
ernments attention to this matter but was
promptly and politely snubbed for his temerity
by the Foreign Minister of the plucky little re-
public The Cars representative at Paris was
more successful in a similar effort It having
become known that France intended to extend
amnesty to Brezowsky, who fred at the late
Gar In Paris some years ago, protest against
such action was entered by Baron Mohrenheiu,
the Russian ambassador who intmated that at
the present moment" it would ''rritate" Alex
ander Ill NJ: De Freycieut who attaches the
greatest Importance to Russian friendship, took
the hint and assured the Baron that Brezowsky
would remain prisoner.