The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-11-20
RUSSIAN PLOTS.
The Authorities Discover Far.
Reaching Conspiracy.
SIXTY NOBLEMEN UNDER ARREST.
The Object Not to XIII the Car But to OBJ
tain Representative Government
Critical state of Internal
Affairs

LONDON, Nov. 14.-Advices from St
Petersburg state that the authorities
there are becoming more and more sus-
picious as the internal condition of the
empire continues to grow more critical.
There is considerable uneasiness re-
garding the status of affairs through
out the empire, and as result of this
feeling the marshals of the nobility ex-
ercising power and residing in different
parts of the country have been warned
that they will be held responsible for
any manifestation of political feeling
againt the government which may oc-
cur in the provinces of local admins
trations under their control.
A careful watch has been placed on
the students at the universities and at
the higher schools and precautions
have been taken to prevent them from
starting any disturbances The tutors
in the universities and high schools
have been ordered to avoid the society
of the students and to have nothing
whatever to do with them outside of
teaching them. They are particularly
warned against visiting them at their
houses
Inspectors in the employ of the gov
eminent make searches of the rooms
occupied by the students and also of
their libraries. Every book that treats
of social questions, or which in the
slightest degree partakes of a political
character, is seized by the inspectors.
1t was thought at first that the gov
ernment's action was due to the troubles
arising from the scarcity of food in
many districts of Russia, as for some
days past dispatches have been received
in this city depicting with minuteness
the terrible sufferings of the starving
peasants Many acts of lawlessness
have been reported as having been
committed by men rendered desperate
by the pangs of hunger, and the state
ment that the marshals of the nobility
would be held to strict account
ability for any political disturbance
in their districts was taken to
mean that the starving peasants and
ening attitude. The watchfulness ex-
ercised in connection with the students
could not be explained on this hypothe-
sis, but as this class of the cars sub
jects are continually in trouble with
the police it was thought that they had
again come into collision with the au-
thorities through their freely express
ing their thoughts regarding the policy
of the government in connection with
the famine.
A dispatch was received last evening.
however, which puts all speculation to
fight and gives a very sufficient reason
for the suspicious of the Russian CEN
trail government that there is some
thing wrong in the empire. This dis
patch states that short time ago ii
came to the knowledge of the police
that conspiracy was under way. The
authorities through the system of espi-
onage which prevails throughout Rus
STA were able to learn who the conspir-
ltors were, their places of meeting and
in fact everything connected with the
plot.
While secretly pursuing their investi-
cations in St Petersburg the police
found that the conspirators in that city
were only part of a numerous band.
the headquarters of which were located
in Moscow. They learned also that the
conspirators had been very active in
securing adherents to their plan and
that the conspiracy had qualifications
which spread to all the principal cities
of the empire.
The object of the conspiracy just I'M
earthed, unlike a majority of the plots
discovered in Russia, was not to kill
the car, but was the organization of a
movement having for its end the crea-
ton of representative assembly, an
object which has been the dream of
many Russians for years.
Sixty members of the nobility and of |
the upper and middle classes who are
charged with completely in the conspir-
acy have been arrested. The discovery |
of the plot and the arrest of so manv
prominent subjects has caused de-
cided sensation in Russia