Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-07-05
In FEAR OF NIHILISTS
Singular Precautions Taken
Funeral by the st. Petersbnr.
Police.
Tie Barbarian of Russia Has
Been 0utdone.

Although open threats ~ A
against the car by the nibilis,. ,.o'enee
being made in the present REIGN ''e not
Tune OF Alexander H., the police oor = .1y n
themselves bound to exercise tbs 'T r.
vigilance IN safeguarding the person 80, -.',
sovereign. An illustration Of =. VI 'As
tremes to which they carry tb.sis ,ls *
Just now of Russian society. and ,.T, YAK
had the details from one OF tbe . la'a
concerned ID the affair, its antblr.:S,ll
may be considered beyond ouest1,
few day ago the burial servi.'
place of the Belgium ambasssdo, c .oOA
de Dudzeele, and was attended by 49,
elite of st. Petersburg socigty - jug
the mourners was a very old friend 80
counts, who was astonished on rssot;-s
the church to find e ticket of ad,n;s.;-
demanded by the policemen. Pa w
planned that he had been sneci.H.
invited by the family and @..
no tickets had been issued rnc1
which the policeman said t5".E
the car having expressed T'M
intention of attending orders had bag1
issued by the chief of police to alIou
one to enter the church whose jdspsi-
was not established by ticket of adm,
sion. At this iuncture the coun,sts h.,
self drove mp, accompanied bv her 6ap,s
ter, but was also denied admittaace n.
policeman saying in derision, in rapl, "A
postulations, that "any woman coma
pass herself off as the Counties de- ma
zeele, and that, "if she really vss
widow of the ambassador she should bsv.
provided herself with a ticket" uvs
quite in vain that it was pointed ont Nh. III
alongside The coachman was sitting N "
functionary with cooked hat and feather,
whose presence Is peculiar feature III
the households of ambassadors here. An
who always accompanies the csrriagM
when Official visits are made. At lss,
finding the polioeu an objurate, IA
friend TO whom | have referred wen, IA
and searched for some enc of the hes#
officers OF the police, who, after some ard
gumeut, consented to allow the widow "A
enter. None the less, the regulation Ma
/ enforced in many other cases, and .onA
we'll known lady, the Princess Mesteherskgl
also an old friend of the family, VA
ruthlessly turned back by the poee!s
Another princess only managed to get id
by waiting patiently IN her carriage until
someone in authority should arrive, "A
length general of tue czar's suite, vi,aS
whom she was acquainted drove up and
/ he escorted her iuto the church ItneedS
hardly be said that this conduct of lid
police has excited good deal Of indignai
| tion among the sufferers, but il is a ia I
miliar feature of the czar's movemenss
and the police excuse themselves on I'D
ground that that they are bound TO taka
every precaution to protect the pers0s
| of the sovereign from the nihiist attacks
As for the czar, he seems TO trouble
| himself very little about precautions, 30 \
/ IL is fact that characterized the late sux
Feror during the last few years Of hA
| reign. Still, he never walks openly u
| the streets, as the late emperor did e7e4
after being fired at by SglOyiff, nor hN9
the plots against him up to now been 4
that bloodtnirsty, diabolcal characie1
that marked the Reign of Terror y
present the car resides in the AuitehkCI
| palace, on the Ncvsky tue surrounding
of which are well guarded by soldiers 4
! police. Quite swarm OF superlniendI
ents and Other superior police Officers ~
kept on duty day and night IN the uclnI
| ity, and in front of the palace no one
allowed to linger. The car frequent
drives cut in an open sledge ou'' II
thouga he may seem unprotected ~
route he intends to take Is always vel
manned with police. The latter nave NJ
vet got over the lesson taught by the ia'i
emperor's death. | know Of 40 moii
melancholy spot than that on the ga'nl
crime canal, where a gloomy Soarlils ~
closes the fatal spot where the uiaL,
caught Alexander ii. rs If IN trap Il
quay is narrow and but slightly iIequeu
ed By the public. Once the sm2g-oI
reached it, escape was hopela s.
nihilis with theicsbOn4bs blcesea eve
avenue, End on the bridg; comma1ails
view of the quay stood Sophie Fe'O'A!
ready 10 give the signal for the S'.a' II
nation by huttering her haDdkerea's..
aud about the city that fatal oauoa!
posed as many trOops as Ens
plovs to govern tn@ whole OF Il0'''
I in Ire leading thoroushfdres tng poi n
were swarming as usual Ike me-
these and the other mighty l"'''s ~
autocraoy we're impote0t the moa l... h.,
emneror entered the chain OF IeA',-
the nihiIists had posted round 'ae p "a,
of the assassination. Since then 'ie ri, h,
have made il their aim to never lea'e
sovereign unprotected, and Iron ,.rs-,
point of view the interests OF the 80 80
public are of no importance con
NTH the fulfllment OF the task