The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-28
RESTLESS ARMY OFFICERS
Russia's Warriors Have Grown Weary
of the Long Reign of Peace.
They Think the Gar Has Become Too Pacific,
and Therefore May Have Joined the Nibilists
with the View of Making Trouble.
PLOTTING AGAINST THE CAR.
Army Officers, Grown Weary OF Idleness
Have Joined the Nihilists.

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Army Officers, Grown Weary OF Idleness,
Have Joined the Nihilista
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 27.-Numerous
arrests continue TO be made at kieff OF
persons suspected of nIhllism. Nine
more officers are among the impr :
oned, either under suspicion or direct
charges of connection with q conspiracy
against the Car. The Russian authorities
believe that they have unesrthed a wide
spread plot. in which Q mum Der not only OF
lower officials, but also those of higher
rank, are involved.
There is much discomfort In the army
with the prolon ged period of peace. and
many of the officers think that tho Gear Is
too pacific in his disposition. There is no
longer an outlet for these warlike spirits
In subduing the tribes of Central Asia.
all these having been brought thorough
ly under Russian subsection. The Russian
empire was never more peaceable. so far as
external enemies are concerned. n the
murmuring among the army officers ambi-
tious for glory. and disappointed in their
hopes OF promotion. 10 corrcspondingiy
great Il 10 no secret that there was bitter
disappointment in military circles seven
years ago, when the Gar had 20 bring
his autocratic authority to bear to
prevent his generals from plungiDg
into q wal with Great Britain and Afghan
istan, and the spirit of i'm patience among
Russian officers has been increasing since.
For these and other reasons tho authori-
ties at ST. Petersburg are greatly sppre-
heDsiye as TO the extent of the conspiracy
developed at Kieff. and much e~xcltement
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 hus-
band OF Queen Victoria's granddaughter
Elizabeth. As Governor of Moscow. he
seems determined to turn every Jew out of
the city. The Jewish population of Moscow
has already been reduced from about eighty
thousand. when Sergius became Governor.
10 about thirty thousand. and the number
continues to decrease under the added
Iigor of penal laws and the intolerable Sc
verify of their enforcement. By q new
law which has recently been put in force
only ten out Of q hundred Jewish law ers
In Moscow and st. Petersburg are Flowed
90 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
Conservatoire does the same.
The severe treatment of the Jews is nav
ing q ruinous effect upon real estate and
other interests. at least 80. 600 lodgings be-
ing empty in Moscow. The most pitiful
scenes are witnessed among the crowds of
Jews at the railway stations. men and
women over eighty years of age and half
clad little children crying and praying in
The cold. The suferInRs are viewed with
utter indifference by the Russian
authorities, and any non-Jewish resi-
hent who displays kindness towards them
risks being put under suspicion. The SOL
hiers detailed to assist the police in guard
ing Jews treat them with the treaties bru-
falfgy and fre0uentiV nrlck tha nnfOrfnn-
Ates with their bayonets il they attempt to
leave the stations in which they are
penned. The officers don't like the work of
guarding Jews. which they look upon as
PAUSE of some discontent among the sol
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