Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-15
NIHILISTS BARRED.
Uncle Sans Hospitality Has
Reached Its Limit.
TALK THAT Is CURRENT IN LONDON.

krapotkine, the IrreconciIable, concludes
That the United states Is Not Healthy
for. Men of His Ideas, and Stays Away
Horrible Illustration of Religious In
tolerance in Ireland - The "Crank"
Bobs Up in st. PauI's Cathedral and Is
f'Fired''-European News Items.
LONDON, Do. 10 The nihilistic and
anarchistic world is agitated by the dis
covery that KrapOtkine. the noted Rus
sian free thinker and irreconcilable, has
cancelled his engagement to deliver a
series OF lectures in the United States
The nihilists Of Russia now sojourning in
London had looked forward to these lee
. lures with great expectations, as the argu-
ments OF so eminent a man in the scien-
tific world were thought certain to have
powerful effect in swaying public opinion
III the United States to the side of the
revolutionary party in Russia Every
thing was arranged about the LIST of No
vember for Krapotkine's departure. He
delivered a farewell address at an entLus-
iastic meeting of his admirers, and it has
ever since been supposed that he shortly
thereafter sailed on his mission
Afraid to Come to America.
Nothing being heard of his arrival or
coings on the other side, however, his
friends became uneasy, and Sunday in
quiries were made at his residence in Har-
row for the purpose OF learning if any
news had been received The callers were
astonished to fluid that Krapotkine had
not sailed at all. 1t transpired that his
NVaG laH ht-1 a
also by letter. the reason being the
troubles of the anarchists in Chicago over
the use of suitable halls and the treat
ment accorded Walter Crane in Boston.
Some of krapotkine's friends hint that
the letter contained hints at his possible
arrest aud confinement in Sing Sing
prison, evidently intended to brighten
him and induce him to abandon the trip.
They urge him to begin an action against
his manager for breach of contract
Tho Gar Apprehensive of Plot.
Others declare that it was krapotkine
himself who cancelled the agreement, his
action being inspired by sympathy with
Crane and as protest against the al
legged injustice shown that artist and
thinker. There is also rumor that
George KEENAN,, the noted writer on the
Siberian exile system. advised krapotkine
W give up the tour, though tine reason
therefor is not given. The nihilists re-
port that they have lately received num-
bers of warnings from their friends at
home TO the effect that many detectives
from st. Pete rsburg, Moscow, and Kieff
have recently started for Paris. Berne and
London, where their instructions are TO
exercise unusual vigilance, the Russian
government believing that a plot against
The car is being Matched
scant Refuge for the NihiIists.
The nihilists are also uneasy over a re-
port that France is no longer a refuge for
the people of their kidney, owing to the
possibility that the government OF that
country may. in order to curry favor
with its ally, Russia, surrender the fugi-
tives from the czar's dominions. Several
OF the most urgently wanted" of the
Nihilists in France have shown their be-
lief in the reality of this danger by quiet
ly leaving Paris and taking up quarters in
London. Even in this city greater degree
of caution than usual is observed by the
nihilist colony. Stepniak, the celebrated
historian of the Terror" has not been
seen ia his accustomed haunts OF late, and
1t is more difficult than it formerly was to
obtain an interview with any of the nihiI-
istic leaders.