Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-06-23
DREADED NIIIILISTS.
LEO HARTMAN, THE NOTED REFUGEE,
DESCRIBES THEM.
The Enormous bombs that Were Lately
Found In Odessa-What Lies Rehind
the Curtain Of secrecy.
For tho Dispatch Copyright by Bachelor &
Co 1901

/ least scrap Oh lnltlllgtnct Ifi ihliiih- ~. WV
activity OF Nihilism in Russia can at nll es-
cape the vigilance Of the Izar's police.
! Electricity dare not fash the whole truth
across the Atlantic 20 the shores OF America
nor is the sacrcdness Of the mails tfcc from
/ his inquisitors. Nevertheless most OF the
/ information which has actually ran the
( gauntlet Of his detective system during the
/ last ten years has been almost entirely con-
/ fined 90 news ~ that character-"in ohcn-
slvc' news amounting 20 zero. Behind
| this black curtain of secrecy there hes ND
den countless prosecutions, unspeaAaule
/ fortunes, and Ceascless slaughter through
/ out the vast empire Of the Tar.
significant though short cablegram
[ which We read in the papers the other day,
/ Nay Z7th. lifts this curtain little. .,
Two enormous bombs says the little
/ St. Petersburg cabiegram, have been
/ found in Odessa beneath streets along
which royal visitors usually pass on their
way 10 the palace. II is supposed that the
| bombs had lain some years M the position
/ in which they were found
Who among the Nihilists dug out this
| lOng-forgottcn mine and placed the bombs
| IN position; Why did they not remove the
/ bombs whom they changed their plans
/ These bombs might destroy Heaven only
/ knows how many innocent lives by acct
dental explosion.
The fact is that none of the men who IN
1879 dug out this nowly-dlscOvered mime
/ escaped annihllatlOn; and but one remains
Yet alive of all those who made the bombs
1 for this mine at Odessa and the other two
/ at Moscow and AlexandrOfsk.
The most significant point implied by
! the present discovery Of bombs at Odessa,
/ ten years after they were placed there, Is
/ that the Tcrrorists Of to-day are not the
| 1crrOrists Of 1879 The movement Us the
/ very same-the TcrTorists' policy was then
/ as il is now regarded the only means of
wrlnging the least concession from the
/ Tar. But by the year lS52-only q lapse
| of three years-not one OF the mann found
| ers Of the Ierroristic party was any longer
! a freeman. and now at THIS writing am
/ the only one left alive to do justice TO their
memory.
Annihilated i'm 1899 the pioneers Of ter
! rorisrn. however. were followed bY other
| daring men who took up their work. ! ct
! before two short years had passed away
/ this second little army of The revolution
/ lists. some 1900 strong, was anmhuated as
! thoroughly as the first.
! And still the revolution WAS not dead,
! for the next year 05Sjl Ierroustc activity
was renewed with intense vgor. SO great
/ had been the loss I'm their ranks, however.
/ that the new men felt the need Of
| guiding mind and resolved upon hoid at
/ tempt az the liberation OF some Ola eNp"-
7
! the dors of war were loose upon them
! before this plan was completed. The Gov
eminent was swift and mcrcless. for from
| 1855 To 1889 severe and bitter battles were
I fought, whose terrible story cannot be told
/ at present i'm the space az my command.
/ 70 give tho readers vivid though an ln-
complete idea of tins struggle. rapid anu
! brief sketch mere touch mere AMI there
/ viii bc all that can be attempted ln TINS
| article.
ON MAY I. 1855. two men. Antouof and
/ Maka2pfskv, were arrested lu Charkou.
| Bv "a bold stoke the second escaped t"o
! DAYS after Another man. =. llSluskN, was
/ caught ON the same day and IN the sam
/ city lie fought for his liberty, killed Pm,
/ captor-a police officer and wounded 90
| gcndarmc. In his house were found the
! 1crrorsts' press type, and printing MAJ
/ tenals: four bombs, five reviewers. TWO
! dAegers. and other arms; and though only
/ tried bv court-martial on june llth, he WAS
| executed on the Dist. The loss of the
printing material was severe blow. bul
such wa, their vitality that ON tine "a of
December following tine Ierrorists issued
O00 copies of the eleventh and twelfth
number Of The WI of he P'ope-
organ. each over thirty pages long.
The wear 1856 began with the arrest lu
Iagauzog of AKIN Sigida and his vie with
two lady friehds-PheodoZ0 and IRIS
kaya To the surprise of the police thct
found with them another puntlns-oince, an
other large supply of The VI ~ a. he It0pt,
and five bombs. About this time two other
,.,it,ting-otficos ,yer. discovered in Toula
AMI Pcnsa. with pamphlets aud papers and
n hook of two hundred pages, besides FOL
stoTs What Shall We Dog" all ready for
distribution. This year feemed % ne
marked more by organization and agita-
t;nn rather than bv active TorrOri-tic war
4 T.. o..
made ;ndiscrimiuatclv, a. usual. by the
nolipo Tins feeding the revolution which
soon broke out with undimiuishcd fierce
ness ON the part of the new Icrrorlsts.
The 1st Of March, 1857. found two of
+he1u WAITING ON B0l-hava NOrskava
Great Carbon street i'm ST.. Petersburg
fnr tho Tzar fo como back to his pallr.
fr1,,, a MILITARY re,ie,v. Tbov were Gene
raIntr orJ An1riusll,in bv name. each with
ai;ttIo ,,r.sant for tbe 'Tzar I'm the shape
ga b0oI "tGo last cditionu of the dyfa-
,.;,o Lo,,b An hnur later i'm the same
rit,. OsinanoG AN escaped exile from Si-
Leria. With three others-all with more
bombs-wcre arrested. in two days more
a administrators was discovered i'm the
heart Of st. Petersburg. and Madame Ara
nina the housekceper Of the dynamite
foct"rv with the owner of tie house
a,,d iii &c bi. servants were arrested. MI
merons raids were made by the police for
tbc nurDose Of capturiuc prohibited books
and tLe omniprcsent bombs. Prisons were
nack.d TO overhowiuc. thousands upon
tL.,s,n6s wore deDarted under heavy
'.,,orJ amt of ii prtersburo back 10 their
country homes or TO Siberia for safety from
contamination with the Nihilism Of the
cirv. Arrests in Vino. Ekatcrirodaz Gin
Caucasus). i'm Kasan. SaratoG. and many
other towns. followed each other in rapid
o,...l..,l,, o,,1 a. MON, form, If eVer-yyidrr-
;''', ,,.r.oc,,tion yoe ;ustitutad Fathers
~ .,.re.tod blenders were expelled from
oovernrnent service and even compelled To
cLeDae fb@ir names LAWYERS yenturing
g., Jefend tbe "susneefs1 we're themselves
eJ in tba omen fourts and sent to
wilson's Mock trials and quick executions
bcca,ne the order of the day: Andriush-
In GcnaraloT Osiuanof. already men
.inn,od MIN Two others. hr4vrlv met their
f,te ON tbc scaffold. the trial of twenty-one
ntbers Numerically commenced. ending
s.r ,,,st ~ tbem in the same fatal way.
I IOi . NE fIIavnc Scntember no less than
80 ,i,J tecn army others were tried for