St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-27
Sergius, Brother of the Car,
Wins the Enmity Of Rich
ScoundPelS.
He Interfeped With Steals Of
the Funds to Relieve the
Famishing,
Became Unpopular Among
Copruptionists, and Must
Be Dropped.
A Brazilian Mob Attacks and
Destroys Two Newspaper
Offices.

LONDON, Dec. 26.-Contradictory sto-
ries are received here regarding the
Grand Duke Sergius. brother of the
car, who last spring was appointed
governor of Moscow. At the beginning
of the present month it was said that
the grand duke was making himself
very unpopular by his efforts to sup
press fraudulent practices growing out
of the corruption for which the Russian
official world is notorious. The scandal
In which the grand duke is said to have
interviewed was the misrepresentation of
S12, 500 which had been sent to the Orla
branch of the Red Cross society for re-
lief purposes among the sufferers in the
famine-stricken provinces. The car
ina is the chief patroness of this branch
of the Red Cross society. The grand
/ duke recently gave from bis
privy purse 10000 roubles for
the sufferers. but the fact that he has
interfered with the stealing of the
famine money has caused him TO be
very unpopular with certain wealthy
and Influential class, who are doing their
utmost to secure his removal from
Office.
ScOundrels Feel Insulted.
He is charged by this class with talk
ing advantage of the authority con-
ferred upon him by the car and with
playing the part of tyrant. They say
that his peremptory behavior is an in
suit to them, and so determined are they
to have his power abridged that they
have prepared and forwarded to the
car a petition praying tor his removal
off IF of
} The adVices received today state the
I car suspects his brother of nursing
|: ambitious designs" though the ma
ture of these designs in a cOun-
try where all social and polit-
ical honOrS emanate from the
GEAR is not stated. 1t is added that the
car has been so impressed by the array
of evidence presented to him against
the grand duke that it is his intention
TO send him into exile.
An illustration of the tyranny" of
the grand duke is given. 1t appears
that he gave orders recently that the
horse races at Moscow were not to COM
mence until he arrived A large crowd
was present at the races, and it was
kept waiting for an hour and half be-
fore the grand duke appeared. The
crowd grew very impatient at the de-
lay, and when the grand duke appeared
he was
Vigorously Kissed.
This incident was reported to the
ear, and, it is said, is considered to de-
eide the question of the grand dukes
dismissal from office. The wife of the
Grand Duke Sergius is daughter OF the
Grand Duke Louis of HeSSe, and a
/ grandGaus liter of Queen Victoria. She
! recently abandoned the religious faith
in which she was trained. and in April
last she formally joined the Greek
church. The grand duke is recognized
as the head of the old Russian orthodox
party, and all recent advices regarding
him, with the exception of to-day's,
show he stood in high favor with the
car. The very fact that he was APP
pointed to the very important Office of
governor of Moscow shows he must
have enjoyed the confidence of the ear
to high degree.
1t was charged in some quarters that
the conversion of the Grand Duchess
Sergius was not the result of a free
change in her religious belief, but that
IL was due to moral suasiOn of very
brutal kind. This statement was semi
officially denied at the time. but the fact
remains that she at one time was so dis
guSted with her husband that she was
with difficulty restrained from leaving
him. 1t is said that the car interposed
his good offices to prevent the scandal
that would have followed a separation.