The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-02-26

already pusilShed gave only nlnG O.
the horrible tragedy enacted at Kara
Perfectly trustworthy information, he
said, mad been received in cipher let
ters that succeeded in getting through
to Paris and London from eIiles in
Eastern Siberia. These letters, which
are nothing but neagre scraps of pa
per, tell the story of the recent horror
only il its main outline, but one who
knows about Siberian life does not
need circumstantial recital to un-
derstand the cruelty of the discipline
and the agony of suffering of which
this horror was the elimination. The
full details Of the dreadful story can
not lie long aow in reaching the Wes-
tern world, coming so soon after the
publicity given 10 the Yakutsh afro
ci,y. It van hardly fail to deepen the
sense of horror already felt by the
civilized world at Russia's treatment
of political offenders.
ONE WOMAN FLoGGED TO DEATH AND
THREE SUICIDE.
The facts so far received are as fol.
lows: Madame sigida did not COM
mit suicide, as the earliest reports
stated. She died from the effects of a
cruel fogsing to which she was sub
jseted. The hogsing took place Wed
nesday, the Sta Of November. It was
continued until under the brutal blows
the unhappy victim lost consciousness
| and Law as one dead. The poor wo-
man never revived from the terrible
shock. but continued to grow weaker
and nesker until Friday, when death
came tc her relief The news Of her
! shocking official murder produced
widespread dismay and anguish
among her fellow prisoners and three
of them, unable longer to bear their
wretchsd fate, committed suicide by
taking poison. How they obtained
the poison is not known, but probably
they had it long time in their pos
session and were keeping it as last
resort. The names of the women
were Marie kalush, Maria oadlovina
Karalefskega and NaGesenta Smir-
netka.
SAL ca1 OH y ~11@L'
Maria Kalush was arrested in 1882,
being then girl Of is, on charge Of
disloyalty. Fer father was merch-
ant at Odessa. During her imprison-
ment every means was tried in vain to
extort frem her confession implica-
ting her friends. At last Gel. Katus-
kve gen d'arme officer, brought to
her skillfully forged statement, pur-
porting to be a confession from her
fellow conspirators, and promised im>
munity if she also confessed. Marie
fell into tie tra, and confessed, and
her confession was used against her
friends, who were sentenced to penal
servitude. When she learned they
had made no confession, but had been
convicted on her testimony alone, she
procured revolver and on Aug. q,
called upon Col. katuskya and fired
! at him, wounoing him slightly. For
this attempted. assassination she was
condemned by court martial at Odes-
So On Sept. 10, 1884, and sentenced to
twenty years penal servitude.
TORN FROM HER HUsBASD, REASON
FLEES.
dary Padloyina Karslefskega was
a young married lady 25 years of age
a daug hter Of a well known Landed
proprietor in the south ef Russia,
Paul Verautsog, and a sister Of Basil
Vorautsof,, enc of the best known
! Dolitical escrcrists in Russia. She
iioined a secret circle. which was sur
prired and captured by the police in
February, 1879, and was sentenced to
| thirteen years penal seryitude with
exile to Sibcria for life and depriva-
Sien of all civil rights. Her husband,
though not present, was sent by an
administrative process thousand
miles from the mines to which she
wa. sent. The separation drove her
inssnc ard she was put in a straight
iacket. In 1881 she WAS allowed to
Iioin her husband in the hope ofrestor-
ing her reason. She recovered, but
the new governor separated them
arnin and she was restored to the
Kara mines.
/ Nadesenta Snirn stZka was SO years
ella and astudent in sswonan's college.
She was sent to the Kara mines for
fsfteen years with penal servitude.
tHoRRoR DRIVES TWO NaN TO DEATH.
I ahortly after the suicide Of the
shree wemsn, brother of Marie Ka-
| lush, also q political prisoner, died
suddenly. 1t is not definitely known
as yet whether he TOO died by poison
or whether his death was the result OF
ovsrpowerirg grief on learning of the
| death ofhis sister.
Another exile, named Bobokovo.
committed suicide rather than submit to
the cruel humiliation and suffering Of
dosging. Bobokovo was a university
student and took partiu some public
demonstration Of the students which
were displsasinS to the authorities
BE was therefore. ordered to make
: his abode al Pinego, a small village i
f she provinces Of Archangel, the north
t ern-most portion of European Russia
From there he attempted to make h:
escape, and, for this heinous ofense
was exiled to tho mines Of Eastern 81
IBERIA.
: TEE FLoeGING OF MADAME sIe1DA.
e The flegging ofMadame sigida os
c CURED under orders issued by Lieut..
r Gen. Baron Kof, governor'genera
Z ofthe province OF Armour, in whic!
/ the Kara mines are situated. Ihes'
& orders directed that the secret edic
v Of March; 1888, signed by Galkin
5 Vraski, director-g general Of the prisol
d for the empire, should be enforced
: This edict was to the effect that po!it
q ical convicts should be treated by prii
Y on cfscials in precisely the same nan
d ner as criminals condemned for com
mon Law offences. Political prisoner
were thus made liable to fogging TO
brsaches OF prison discipline: In wha
< particular way Madame Sigida ha
d transgrcssed the prison rules is no
!. clearly explained, But the hogsin
of sensitive and cultured woman t