The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-27
SERGIUS OUT OF FAVOR.
THE CzAR SAID TO HAVE TURNED
AGAINST Els BROTHER

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The Grand Dukes Efforts to Suppress
the Corruption ia the ofical World
in Connection With the Famine Fund
Make Him Very Unpopular-His Re-
moval as Governor OF Moscow
Possible.
LONDON, Dec. 28.--Contradictory stories
are received here regarding the Grand
Duke Sergins. brother OF the car. who,
last spring, was appoiuted governor OF
Moscow. At the beginning Of the presenr
month it was said that the grand duke was
making himself very unpopular by his ef-
forts to suppress fraudulent practices grow
Ing out Of the corruption for which the Rus
sian official world Is notorious. One scans
dal Ia which the grand duke is
said to have intervened was the misap-i
preparation OF sl2,50o which had been sentt
to the Orla branch OF the Red Cross Society .
for relief purposes among thesufferers in the
famine-stricken provinces. The czarina isi
the chief patroness OF this branch OF the
Red Cross Society. The grand duke re-
Gently gave from his privy purse 40, 600
roubles for the sufforers, but the fact that
he has interfered with the stealing Of the
famine money has caused him TO be very
unpopular with certain wealthy class.
who are doing their utmost to-
secure his removal from office
he Is charged by this class
with taking advantage Of the authority
conferred upon him by the czar, aud with;
playing the part OF a tyrant They say.
| that his peremptory behavior is an insult TO
them, and so determined are they to have
his power abridged that they have prepared
and forwarded to the czar a petition pray.,
ing for his removal from the office Of gov-
ernor Of Moscow.
THE CzAR AGAINST HIM
Advices received to-day state that the
car suspects his brother Of "nursiug ambi.
tious designs" though the nature Of these
designs, IN country where all social and
political honors emnnate from the czar. is
not stated 10 is added that the ear has,
been 30 impressed by the array of evidence
presented to him against the grand duke
that 1t Is his intention to send him into ex-i
ile. An illustration Of the Tyranny" Of
the grand duke is given. 1t appears thaF
be gave orders recently that the horse races
az MOSCOW were not TO COM
mence until he arrived A large
| crowd was present at the races
and was kept waiting for an hour
and half before the grand duke appeared
The crowd grew very impatient at the de-
lay, and when the grand duke appeared he
was vigorously hissed. This incident was
| reported TO the car, and, it is said, it is cons
| sidered to decide the question Of the grand
dukes dismissal from Office. The wife of
| the Grand Duke Sergius is a daughter Of
the Grand Duke Louis of Hesse, ard a
granddaughter Of Queen Victoria. She res
Gently abandoned the religious faith in
which she was trained, and in April lasu
she formally joined the Greek church.
FORMERLY THE CzAR's BAvoRITE.
The grand duke is recognized as the head
OF the old Russian orthodox party, and all
| recent advices regarding him, with the ex-
ception Of to-day's, showed that he stood in
| high favor with the car. The very fact
that be was appointed to the important Of
| flee of governor of Moscow shows that he
must have enjoyed the confidence of the
car TO high degree. 1t was charged in
some quarters that the conversion Of the
Grand Duchess Sergius was not the result
OF free change 10 her religious belief,
but that 1t was due to moral
suasion OF very brutal kind. This state.
ment was semi-of1icially denied at the time.
but the fact remains that she at one time
was so disguised with her husband that she
was with difficulty restrained from leaving
him. IL is said that the czar interposed his
| good offices to prevent the scandal that
would have followed O separation.
SUSPECTED OF TREASON.
Copyright, 1891, By the ~ Y. associated Press.N
BERLIN, Dec 20. "A report is in circula-
ton and obtains credence in diplomatic
circles to tho effect that Count Won
Schouvalof, the Russian Ambassador to-
Germany, is to be transferred to Moscow
as successor TO the Grand Duke SerRius.
| brother OF the czar, as governor general
] The car has given the Grand Duke Sergius
a peremptory leave Of absence for a
| year, and it is looked upon
as certain that the grand duke
will not return 20 his post at the expiration
of that period. 1t is more likely that he
will he sent out of Russia or be placed under
surveillance at some post in Central Asia.
The grand duke. it is alleged. has been tam
pering with the allegiance OF officers high
Ia command at Moscow, Warsaw,
wilma and other military centers Count
Won Schouvaloff, upon whose,f1delty the car
rests, has been ordered to proceed to Gat@
shina to confer with the ozar. The Galician
papers are filed with articles advocating
the renewed enforcement of repressfve
measures against the Jews in Russian
| Poland.
A large number of persons have been
| arrested In Warsaw and its immediate
vicinity, but the authorities act with abb
solute secrecy. People suddenly disappear
and it Is understood that they have been
arrested.