Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-23
ROYAL BRUTALITY.
Treatment of the Wife of the
Cars Brother.
FORCED TO CHANGE HER RELIGION

BY Methods About which Dark Hints
dignant Because She Is the Queens
CONFERENCE.-The Election at Aston
Bad Blow at Home RuIe-LiveIy
Times in Ireland-Priests Put in sun
day ut Preaching and Politics.
LONDON, March o3-Deep indignation is
expressed among all classes OF English
men in regard to the reports current as
to the treatment of the Grand Duchess
Elizabeth, granddaughter of Queen Vic
toria, by her husband the Grand Duke
Serg us of Russia, brother of the car IL
Is nov well understood that the cars
motive for appointing his brother to be
governor of Moscow was not, as officially
stated, to give him a mark of esteem, but
TO remove the grand duchess from the
foreign society of St. Peters bury, where
her maltreatment by the imperial family
has alread caused an internati nal scan
dial. The reports as to the abuse to which
the lady has been subjected are mere Cos.
sip, but come from high and trustworthy
sources, and nobody in England has any
doubt of their truth
Scratch n Russian, Find a Tartar.
The grand duke is,said to be really at
tached to his wife, but he treats her on
the same principle that Russia treats a
conquered province or state Having an
nexed her by marriage, he has claimed
that she must become Russian altogether
oven to the abandonment of the religion
in which she was born and educated
With this purpose coercion characterized
as brutal has been tried upon her When
she desired to attend English services she
found no carriage to take hez, and the
grand duke on such occasion has shown a
displeasure in ways that Russian or Tar
tar whether high or low, very we'll under
stands. There is no allegation openly
made of physical violence, but rumors
even to that effect are current. The young
duchess appealed for "a divorce to her
father, the Grand Duke Louis of Hesse.
and her grandmother, Queen Victoria
That Dreadful Dread of Scandal.
The queen, dreading scandal, appears to
have advised her TO comply with her hus-
bands wishes as to religion. Officially
the queen was simply stated TO have sent
her blessing TO her grand dau chter, about
to be converted TO the Russian church.
The Grand Duke Louis, however, took a
different view of matters. He was iudig-
nant and openly protested against bis
daughter being coerced as TO her religious
profession, and wanted to bring her home
Then ensued correspondence between the
father and the grandmother, the former
urging, the latter deprecating Interior.
ence, but before anything could be doEe
the Russian imperial family apprehenslve
of the disgrace that would attach to them
should the grand duchess leave her hus-
band, made the official announcement of
her conversion.
Sent Where Her Cries Can't Be Heard.
Then speedily followed the decree ao.
pointing Ser-iuS governor of Moscow and
removing him and his wife to that interior
Russian city, far from the glimpses of
England and Germany that may occa.
sionally be caught at st. Petersburg 1t
is not at all certain that the end is yet
The Grand Duke Louis is thoroughly
aroused. 1t is he whl has through The
Times and other newspapers appealed
from Queen Victoria TO the English peo-
pie in behalf of his daughter, and what
ever the result may be he has certainly
succeeded in exciting Il strong public SEN
timent.