New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-02-26
FEARFUL OUTRAGE,
Particulars Of the Outrage in
the Political Prison at
Kara, Siberia.
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the Russian exiles in London to-day from
friends who are located a short distance
from the scene of the horrors. They are
brlef, but conclusive, confirming fully re-
port OF the affair received here from an of
fclal IN st. Petersburg who is in sympathy
with the cause of the people. According to
the details received to-day it appears that
the trouble at the Kara prison originated in
hunger strike" in August, when the wonl-
en- political prisoners tried to starve them
selves to death to escape the brutalities of
their jailers. All the women imprisoned
there abstained from food for fourteen days.
The jailers did not believe that they would
be able to keep up the struggle. At first
they jeered 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
theprison officialsresortedto artificial means
to compel them to take nourishment. The
methods adopted, however, were violent and
hcentlous, and the women were compelled
to abandon their strike. Abominable out
RACES followed and were of daily and hourly
occurrence. This state of affairs led Mad
anne Sicida, whose death by fogging has al
ready been announced, to ask for an inter
view with the director of the prison, in hope
OF securing an ameEoration 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 villain and slapped his face. It 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
Koalesl1i, wife of Prof Koaleski of Kieff;
Madame Smirnitsky and Marie Kolujny.
The last two ladies were from Odessa. Two
months elapsed after these events before
Lieut.. Gen. Baron Koff, governor general
OF the province Of the Amour, instructed
the directors of prisons that the secret
edict of March, 1883, which or
dered that political prisoners should be
treated by prison officials in pre-
clsely the same manner as criminals con-
demned for common law offenses would be
enforced, and ordered the directors to no
THY the political prisoners Of both sexes
that they would be liable to corporal pun
ishnent if they violated certain of the
prison regulations. The male prisoners,
foreseeing immediate danger, held con-
sultation and sent to the director of the
prison petition that he would tel egraph
to the minister of the interior at st. Peters
burg requesting him to suspend the appli-
cation of the edict. This the director re-
fused to pay any attention to, and there
upon the men warned him that the first
fogging ola political prisoner would be the
signal for the others to
COMMIT SUICIDE TOGETHER.
Three days aiterward Lieut. Gen. Baron
KorF sent special order directing that
Madame Sicida be punished according to
the regulations and the order was executed
to the fullest extent. Madame sicida was
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
me IN M the coa nea Of At the the sae
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 reopened,
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
been struggled into the prison was not sui
ficient to kill quickly, but in the course Of
the evening two of those who had shared it
-Bobokova and Kolujny-died. Their
corvulsions and the dead silence which
reigned II the other cells reused the
attention of the guards, and they immedi-
ately summoned physicians who admin
istered emetics to the survivors and endeav-
ored by every means to counteract the eff
fects OF the poison.
a PETITION TO THE CAR.
PHILADELPHIA, Special-A largely at
tended meeting Of the Siberian Exile Petit
ton association was held here to-day TIE
form of petition to the car of Russia was
agreed upon. 1t is the purpose of those in
terested in this movement to circulate cop
les the petition all over the United States
for signatures and to place the same in the
hands of the czar. The petition, in sub
stance, is as follows:
To His Imperial Majesty, the Car of All the
Russias: We who petition your majesty are
belong to people who have long been bound by
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