The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-11
PoRTENTOUs EVENTS IN RUSSIA.
%Incendiary Pamphlets Scattered Through

~Incendiary Pamphlets Scattered Through
ont the Empire.
New York Times correspondent: In Rus
STA all at once q concocted movement has
risen to the surface in different parts of
the empire, which creates wild excitement
in the little colony of exiles here and vague.
unrest throughout Europe. What this
something is We cannot tell, because no
kilograms have got through from Russia
for the last two days, save a colorless office
dispatch about q students uprising.
About six weeks ago I mentioned in
these dispatches, as having been told by
Russian exiles here, that events of note
we're soon to occur. Thus far they them
selves are in the dark as to what is hap
peping, but it is evident that the students
in Moscow, Kiev and st. Petersburg in
dulged in simultaneous demonstrations,
and it is we'll known that this is always a
signal for other things.
1t is too much to hope that q gen.
uine revolution can be the outcome,
but the nihilists have been gather
ing strength for a long time to
launch forth an imitation of one,
and apparently we are now in the prelim.
AooAy pco0SDs hCOhS DhCh luGIe DIS
been a concerted distribution of patriotic
%handbllls, pamphlets and proclamatiors
oil over Russia, scattered in bundles in
the churches, theaters, hotels and barracks
by unseen hands, and utterly defying the
efforts of the police to prevent their dis.
semination. II is clear enough that ths
recent circulation of a large number
Of detailed and voluminous accounts
OF Siberian outrages among the foreign
press is part of the same plan. 1t is need
less to say that everybody will wait with
sympathetic eagerness to see what ia
brought forth.
The Lite of tho Gar. r.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the
London Daily Telegraph says that a man
who committed suicide there left a letter
in which he confessed that he had been en-
gagged in a conspiracy against the life of
the car. The letter said that the writer
and his fellow conspirators had drawn.
ballots to decide who should take the czar's
life and the lot had fallen to the writer,
who, rather than commit the deed, had de-
termined to take his own life. The letter
also gave the names Of the writer's accom-
plices, several of whom have been arrested,
Cablegrams.
The disorders among the students at
the Russian military academy and the in
stitute of mines and forestry continue and
further arrests have been made.
IT is understood That the betrothal will
soon be announced Of Princess Victoria.
sister CT Emperor William, to Prince AL
bert of Sake Altenburg. Prince Albert is
a widower.
THE strike of the coal miners at Charlie
roi is spreading. The labor league has
presented its ultimatum to the mine own
ers, demanding an advance of Is per cent.
in wages.
In consequence of a hostile domonstra-
ton outside Of the Bulgarian agency at
Belgrade the government at Sofia has or
dered its agent to Withdraw temporarily
from the Seryian capital. Accordingly he
will spend @ fortnight in Vienna.
The F'emdenb1qtt says that another con.
ference having for its object the reconoilia-
ton Of the differences between the Ger
mans, old Czechs, and young Czechs in
Bohemia will meet IN April IL, and that
Count Won Taafe will preside.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for an
exchange of visits between En- peror Will
lam and King Humbert.