Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-05

municate by covered passage and are ex-
actly the same in outward appearance, so
that DO outsider may be able to discover in
which carriage the tar is travelling. During
The emperor's journey last autumn he passed
most of his time in carriage that from the
outside looked Ike baggage car"
Strange as the news item seems to be, it is
but one of the many pertaining to the tzar
and the deeds of the nihilists that are of vital
interest and grave concern to very many in
the wide world, not excepting the United
States. 4. greater or less safety of the tzar
from the never eeasing Vaccinations Of the
hihilisdS strengthens or weakens the value OF
Russian securities in the hands Of bankers
and other capitalists To the ernpePors Of
Europe the tar is a scarecrow, for with mis-
fall and the fall of Russian autocracy they
also will be doomed To the free American
citizen any fact indicating an increased sta
bility or defeat of Russian despotism means
defeat or triumph of those great principles Of
popular government and universal liberty
which are the soul of every American, and
which are bound, soon or late, 10 be the prin-
ciples of the whole human family.
Fully aware of the importance attached TO
all news pertaining to the tzar's safety, and
knowing good many things in that connec-
tion-knowing Of the many means employed
by the tzar's servants &c insure the safety of
their master against the nil,ilists, and of all
such things that are kept strictly secret from
the public, and for the disclosure Of which
laxative subject of the tar would surely go
TO Siberia, 1 viii narrate here what the lin
its of space permit.
1t is many years since / became an Amer
lean citizen and renowned my former de-
grading subjecture to the tar. 1t is also
many years since had personally anything
TO do concerning the safety % of a Russian
tar. The above cited news reminds me Of
an occurrence Of years ago. AT that time the
tar Alexander II had in his train only one
carriage of that peculiar construction which
gave it a likeness to a baggage car. The rest
of the train was different. Knowing this, we
chat is, / and my friends exploded the bag
gage car with dynamite from under the Mos
cow-Koursk railway in Moscow. But it was
q wrong car; it was a real baggage car, while
the imperial conveyance was left intact. We,
moreover, made another mistake at that
same time, but it was not our fault We
we're fooled. The tar was not in the train
at all; he left it in lonely and isolated place
on the road and got into another train, one
which was ahead of his, and which we al
lowed to pass by urmolested.
1t seems to me my deed suggested to the
Russian government the improvement in the
construction of the now travelling fortress.
/ appropriate to myself likewise the honor Of
having suggested TO the present tar the
ACCESSIBILITY of surrounding the immense
Anitchkoff palace in st. Petersburg on the
Nevsl1Y perspective street.-the Broadway
of the Russian capital city-wish deep
trench, excavated and vigilantly guarded
now day and night by the imperial guards.
] WAS the initiator of the nihiiistic under
ground operations, and it was with the OBJ
ject of preventing that sort of engineering
in future that the trench was built.
In cahlegram received from Russia some
what recently there is another bit of informa-
ton, which, by the way, strengthens the con-
victiop in which my former experience and
observations resulted; that is, that a direct,
open attack upon the tar is no longer posi-
bic Ny friends in Russia know it very well,
having been for years 50 deeply interested in
the subject of Russian aut0cracy and Its rep
resentativeS.
This is why they resorted to a new device,
that of placing dynamite packets in a chest
in the railroad station of the Peterhof palace
The telegram bringing this information adds
thet the Glil2lnlle eG lICded aJ tle tIule lhe
tar was expected 10 lie present, but he was
1ot there. No stranger can approach the
var nearer than ) 900 feet; whoever does is
shot dead on the spot.
Some ten years ago, however, any one
could srproach him. At that time Alexali-
der II relied for his safety upon his steel
chain shirt-which was supposed TO be inn
penetrable TO bullets-and upon his train
ing TO retain his presence of mind and ma
newer on the sight of gun or revolver in