Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-28

ST. PETERSBURG, December 24.-Numer-
Gus arrests continue TO be made at KEN,
of persons suspected of Nihilism. Nine
more officers are among those imprisoned
either under suspicion, or direct charges
of connection with conspiracy against the
Gar. The Russian authorities believe
they have upearthed widespread plot in
which a number not only Of lower officials
but also those Of higher rank are involved.
The extent Of the plot is unknown.
There is much discontent in the army
with the prolonged period OF peace and
many Of the officers think that the Car is
too pacific In his disposition. There is no
longer an outlet for these war-like spirits
in subduing the tribes of Central Asia. All
these have been brought thoroughly
under Russian subsection. The Rus
sian Empire was never more peace
able, so far as external enc
mics are concerned and the murmuring
among the army officers, ambitious for
glory and disappointed in their hopes OF
promotion, is correspondingly great. 1t is
no secret that there was bitter disappoint-
ment in military circles seven years ago,
when the Car had TO bring his autocratic
authority TO bear to prevent his Generals
from plunging into war with Great Brit
ain and Afghanistan, and the spirit OF i'm
pdlICuCC dlHOHB NhO ANNoSAeA NA--NSNS AN-0
been increasing eyer since.
For these and other reasons, the author
ities at st. Petersburg are greatly appre-
hensive as TO the extent Of the conspiracy
developed at Kieff. and much excitement
prevails both in official circles and among
the public.
Meantime the persecution Of the Jews
goes on more earnestly than ever, the lead
ing official prosecutor being the Grand
Duke Sergius, brother Of the Car, and
husband of Queen Victoria's grand-daugh-
ter Elizabeth. AS Governor OF Moscow.
he seems determined to turn
every Jew out of the city. The Jewish
population of Moscow has already been re-
Sergius became Governor, to about thirty
thousand, and the number continues TO de-
crease under the added rigor Of penal laws
and the intolerable severity OF their en-
forcement.
Bya new law, which has recently been
put in force, only ten out OF hundred
Jewish lawyers in Moscow and St. Peters
burg are allowed TO practice, while in
Warsaw and Russian Poland this liberty is
wholly denied. The Moscow University
shuts its doors against Jews, and 1t will
not be long before the C0nservatoire does
the same. The severe treatment or the
Jews Is having rulnous enect upon real
estate and other interests, at least
thirty thousand lodgings being empty in
Moscow. The most pitiful scenes are wit
messed among the Jews at the railway sta
tions: men and women over so years Of
age, and half clad little children, crying
and praying in the cold. Their sufferings
are viewed with utter indifference by the
Russian authorities, and any nonresident
Jews who display kindness towards
them risk being put under
suspicion. The soldiers detailed
to assist the police in guarding Jews treat
them with the greatest brutality, and fre-
ouently prick the unfortunates with their
bayonets, II they attempt to leave the sta
tions in which they are penned. The Off
GERS do not like the work of guarding Jews
which they look upon as beneath their dig
nity and this also is q cause Of some discon-
tent among the military.