The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-02

LONDON, Dec. 26. - Contradictory
stories are received regarding the Grand
Duke Sergius, brother of the car, who
last spring vas appointed governor OF
Moscow. At the beginning of the
present month it was said the grand
duke was making himself very unpopular
by his efforts to suppress 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 transportation of Sl2,oOO
which had been sent to the Orla branch
of the Red Cross society for relieving the
sufferers in stricken provinces. The
czarina is the chief %patroness of this
branch of the Red Cross society. The
grand duke recently gave from his privy
purse 10000 roubles for the sufferers, but
the fact that he interfered with the
stealing of the famine money caused him
to be very unpopular with a certain
wealthy and influential 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 10y the car and with playing
the part of IA tyrant. They say 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
praying for his removal from the office
of governor of Moscow.
Adviccs received today state the ear
suspects his brother of nursing ambi-
tious designs" though the nature of
these designs in Il country where all pc
litical honors emanate from the car is
not stated. 1t is added the ear has
been 50 impressed by the array Of evil
dencc 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 he gave
orders recently that horse races at Mos
COW were not to m en until he ar
rived. A large crowd was present at the
races and was kept waiting for an hour
and a half before the grand duke APP
The crowd grew very impatient
at the delay and when the grand duke
appeared he was vigorously Kissed. This
incident was reported to the ear, and, it
is said. is considered to decide the ques-
ton of the grand dukes dismissal from
office. The wife of Grand Duke Sergius
is the daughter of Grand Duke Louis
Of Hessia and granddaughter of
Of Queen Victoria. She recently aban-
doned the religious faith in which she
was trained and in April last formally
joined the Greek church. The grand
luke is recognized as the head of the
Old Russian Orthodox party and all
recent advices regarding him, with the
exception of today showed he stood in
nigh favor with the car. The very fact
hat he was appointed to the important
office of governor of Moscow shows he
must have enjoyed the confidence of the
Ear to the highest degree. 1t was
charged in some quarters the conversion
Of the grand duchess was not the result
Of a free change in her religious belief
but it was due to the moral suasien of a
very brutal kind. This statement was
semioifically denied at the time but the
fact remains that she at one time was so
lisgusted with her husband she was
with difficulty restrained from leaving
lim. 1t is said the ear interposed his
rood offices to prevent the scandal that
would follow the separation.