Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30

| that fortune, perhaps, had placed MIN
by her side as new human impulse, an
added arm in the great work which,
Ferrari assured her, would be the signal
Tor the coming millennium of their race
ana the overthrow of the Colossus OF
Despotism which threatened to bestride
the civilized world.
Ferrari had of late over and over again
expounded to Anna Klosstock lin whom,
after all. his hopes of success in the lat
| est enterprise of his career were center
! ed) the tremendous growth of the revo-
lutlonary strength in Russia which had
taken place under the new car Alex
| ander III.
| While admitting the numerically small
numbers of the organizing and executive
| forces, Ferrari had shown Anna by doc
umentary aud other evidence the vast
extension of the movement towards
| which they occupied the van; and while
! receiving in secret cenclave the reports
OF the advance which was being made
right through the military services, they
both chiefly rejeiced in the prospects of
! the propaganda among the peasants, who
had in many districts and under more or
less authoritative encouragement. work.
| ed their will upon the Jews, but had of
late entered into secret agrarian alli-
| ances with their Semitic fellow citizens
! against the mobiles and landed proprie-
! tors.
| Jews throughout the provinces most in
! sympathy with the holy cause had been
| welcomed into secret societies; and
| it was set forth in a recent important
| work by TIkhomirov that one of the great
| significant political facts of the moment
| was definite transition of anti-Semitic
! into agrarian troubles.
| The people, finding it difficult TO form
| peasant parties, had organized secret
4 societies, one of which, having wide and
! powerful ramifcations, had contributed
a new brother to the Ferrari organiza-
| ton.
! Everything looked we'll and promising
for the first signal of revolt, which,
being made in st. Petersburg. was to act
! as beacon-f1re over wide and extern
| sIve district of outposts, military, civil
and agrarlan, IN which many classes,
| official and otherwise, were engaged.
| The train was laid. It was the patriotic
| duty of Ferruri and his confederates to
! light the match which should brlug about
! that great popular rising which is the
/ hope and was the and purpose of
| the great popular N, ement throughout
! the empire.
| On fhe day which was to bring about
! such great results st. Petersburg was
| unusually gay and to stranger it might
| even have seemed as if, for the time be-
| ing, both military and police had made
! some special relaxation in their discipline
! and duties of surveillance.
But everything in st. Petersburg Is
! more or less mysterious. No man can
| account for the under current, which
! ebbJ and flows and rushes hither and
| thither beneath the surface of its ordi-
! nary life. 1t is calm sea. that flows in
! sidiously above the juttIng rocks, moving
sands and dangerous eddies.
| The police of Russia are as secret as the
! Revolutionists Both are as active; and
! on this momentous occasion the authori-
! ties, inst sad of having relaxed their
watcbful guardianship over the imperial
| power, were especially lynx-eyed, we'll
| informed and alert, as was only too COM
| pletely manifested to the little band of
| conspirators under the leadership of An
! drea Ferrari.
! 1t is q rare occurrence in open daylight
| for the police to disturb the citizens by
| an important arrest. These operations
are generally reserved for the stiffness
| and repose of the night; but on this busy
| sunny day little troop of police and
military were ticking very devious routes
/ outside the leading thoroughfares, quiz
! city surrounded q house near the Tav-
| reda gardens, which had been for four
! and twenty hours under the eye of an as
! tute detective force. The result was one
! of much greater Importance to st.
| Petersburg and the car than his Off
GERS understood. 1t prevented the
| ignition of that train of fre which
| had been laid with so much skill and pa
thence; and it added to Russia 3 political
! prisoners, among others in whom the
readers of this history are interested,
| Anna Klosstock, Andrea Ferrari. Philip
Forsyth, Ivan Kostanzhoglo and Paul
| Petuski. Fortunately, so far as their
| immediate existence was concerned, the
plot, as it presented itself to the police,
was of minor character; presenting under
their investigation none of those grave
and serious features which really be-
| longed to it, and, like many another
revolutionary enterprise in Russia, it was
nipped in the bud without exciting any
particular attention. 1t found, however,
during several weeks an interesting po-
htical subject in the hands of an English
correspondent attached to a great Lon
don journal, and it was through this me-
dunn that Lady Forsyth and Dick Chet-
| wynd became acquainted with the un-
happy position of the Countess Stra-
venskY's companion.
The newspaper correspondent informed
the English public that among the pris-
ouers recently tried and condemned to
period of exile in Siberia, was young
Englishman who, having first given an
assumed name to his captors, had con-
fessed that he was Philip Forsyth, an
artist, of London, student at the Royal
academy, the son of an eminent engineer
who had lived and died in Russia, leav-
ing behind son, Philip and his mother,
Lady Forsyth, a widow, of London.
The young fellow, said the correspond
ent, had no doubt given these particu-
lars in the hope of some Intervention on
the part of his family. The plot with
which he was associated was not regarded
as of any very great Importance by the
authorities, except that it compelled
them to make an example of the per-
sons concerned, one of whom, an Italian
Jew named Ferrari, having strangled
his sister, had succeeded in commit
ting suicide in prison. another. Ivan
Kostanzhoglo, was sentenced to lifelong
imprisonment; third, Paul Petroski,
to q short period of detention; and a