The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-02-27
FEARFUL OUTRAGE.
Particulars of the Outrage in
the Political Prison at
Kara, Siberia.
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LONDON, Special -Further details of the
outrage i'll political prison at Kara reached
the Russian exilcS in London to-day from
| friends who are located a short distance
| from the scene Of the horrors. They are
| brlet but conclusive confirming fully re-
| port OF the affair received here from an of
fetal IN st. Petersburg who is in sympathy
/ with the cause of the people. According To
the details rccciVed to-day it appears that
| the trouble at the Kara prison originated III
a hunger strike in August, when the WOn-
en- political prisoners tried to starve them
selves to death to escape the brutalities OF
their iailerS. All the women imprisoned
there ab3tained from food for fourteen days.
| The aile1, did not believe that they would
| be able to keep up the struggle. At first
| they jecred at the women, then tempted
them with food and then, finding this OF
no avail. threatened them. When several
of the women were at the point of death
| from their voluntary abstinence from food
the prison officials resOrted to artificial means
| to compel them to take nOurishment. The
methods adopted, however, were violent and
licentiOus, and the women were compelled
| to abandon their strike. AbOmnable out
RACES followed and were of daily and hourly
| occurrence. This state of affairs led Mad
anne Sicida, whose death by hOgging has al
ready been announced. to ask tor an inter
view with the director of the prison, in hope
of securing an ameliOratiOn Of the COndi-
| ton of the prisoners. This request was
granted, but when she was taken before
| him she found him abusive 1t is said that
in her evaporation at his abuse she called
him a villain and slapped his face. 1t isnOt
positively known, however, what took place
during the interview, but whatever did hap
pen Madame Sicida
DID NOT RETURN TO HER COMPANIONS.
| She was taken from the directors office and
conveyed to the prison in which common
offenders are confined. Three of her COM
panions from among the political prisoners
were permitted to Join her. The adViCes
received to day state that there were Mary
Koaleski, wife of Prof. KoalcSki of kictt;
Madame Smirnitsky and Marie kOlujny.
| The last two ladies were from Odessa. Two
months elapsed after these events before
Lieut.. Gen. Baron kotf, governor general
OF the province of the Amour, instructed
the directors of prisons that the secret
ediCt of March, 1888, which Or
dered that political prisoners should be
treated by prison officials in pre-
cisely the same manner as criminals con-
demned for common law otfenses would be
enforced and ordered the dirett9rc ~ no
THY the political prisoners of both sexes
that they would be liable to corporal pun
ishment if they violated certain of the
prison regulations. The male prisoners,
toreseeing immediate danger, held a con-
8ultation and sent to the director ofthe
prison a petition that he would telegraph
to the minister of the interior at St Peters
burg requesting him to suspend the appli-
G~1$ad = the ediGt This the dirsctt9Hr rs re
upon the men warned him that the first
fOgging of political prisoner would be the
signal for the others to
COMMIT SUICIDE TOGETHER
Three days aterWard Lieut.. Gen. Baron
Kortf sent a special order directing that
Madame Sicida be punished according to
the regulations and the order was executed
stripped and received 100 lashes. She was
carried off bleeding and in an unconscious
condition, and her death ensued from
rupture of the heart. Her three compan-
ions committed suicide within an hour OF
the time of hearing of Madame Sicida's
DEATH The Corpses of the four
women were buried at the same
time in the courtyard of the common
offenders prison. For weeks a Gordon Of
vigilance was SO closely maintained around
the prison that nothing was known OF what
was happening within. Since the secret
channel of information has been rcopened,
it has been learned that the men carried out
the threat of suicide. They met together
and thirty of them shared what
poison they could obtain and then
went to their cells to die
The quantity of poison which had
hoo nj %
ticient to kill quickly, but in the course of
the evening two Of those who had shared it
-Bobokova and Kolujny-died. Their
corvulsons and the dead silence WHICH
regned n the other cells reused the
attention Of the guards, and they immedi-
atelv summoned physicians who admin
istered emetics to the survivors and endeav-
ored by every means to counteract the eff
fects OF the poison.
PETITION TO THE CAR.
PHILADELPHIA, Special.-A largely at
tended meeting of the Siberian Exile Peti-
ton association was held here to-day. Tie
form of a petition to the car of Russia was
, agreed upon. 1t is the purpose of those in
terested in this movement to circulate cop
les of the petition all over the United States
for signatures and to Rl ace the same in the
hands of the car Inc petltlOn, IN SUP
stance is as follows:
To His Imperial Majesty, the Gar of All the
Russias: We who petition your majesty are
citizens of the United states OF America. We
belong to people who have long been bound by
the national ties of sympathy and gratitude to
the great Russian nation, and to the CzarS
clothed with her majesty, who WELD her power
and shape her destiny. Sharing as the past has
taught us TO do in the thoughts that concern
the glory and happiness OF your people
we have been moved to bring to you, with GOOD
greetings this petition: That your majesty will
personally take note of widespread interest
among us, in the workings and effects OF the ST
IBERIA exile system. We do not forget the pena
reforms already accomplished in the Russian
empire We are not blind to the mental anC
physical sufferings that of necessity are part
! OF any system of punishment for crime against
, individuals, society or the state; nor are we un
3 mindful of the need Of reforms which art
l actively engaging the attention o
phianthropists in our own methods of dealing
e with convicts. In this are but giving ex
< preston to the feeling of friendly people, that
| II the punishment of some of her subjects, Rus
STA, whether from causes peculiar to her people
or account of ancient custom, is not in al
points in harmony with the humanizing senti
I ments of the age Whether err in this o
j whether we are right, wish is that by TIN
wisdom and power of the car and the favor Q
Cod Russia may continue to grow in the ad
miration and sympathy of the American people
and Of the whole civilized world.
! ADAM BURSTS.
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