Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-10

having, while intoxicated, the other day
in one of the principal restaurants of the
capital, assailed an elderly gentleman
with coarse reproaches for traverSing
the public dining-room with his hat on
instead of waiting till he reached the rxit
to don it.
AS the gentleman requested him to
mind his own business, he proceeded tt
have him arrested, and abused MN IN a
most shameful fashion. Not until the
police station was reached was 1t dis
covered that the prisoner was colonel
in the army and a brother OF the MINIS
ter of the Interior.
On the following day the ponce omclai
was dismissed in disgrace after having
been compelled to humbly apologize to
the colonel, and now Gen. kIeygels is
following him, his successor as Chlef OF
Police at ST. Petersburg being no other
than Gen. Trepoff, who has hitherto
filled the same position at MOSCOW.
The appointment of Gen. Trepof can
not fail to be regarded in Russia, as
elsewhere in Europe, in the light OF an
evil omen. For he bears name that
Is execrated throughout the domin1ons
BILE severity and relentless cruelty OF his
father. old Gen. Trepoff.
The latter was during the concluding
years of the reign of Alexander II at the
head Of the entire imperial police, and
so frightful were the punishments In
prisoners that one of them, a young girl
Of the name Of Vera Sassauiitch. on re-
covering her liberty made her way into
the office and shot him.
Tried publicly by jury at st. Peters
burg, she gave in court such terrible
picture Of the sufferings of those who
were incarcerated in the dungeons Of the
Peter and Paul fortress on account Of
political opinions that she was at once
acquitted.
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by this unexpected outcome of the trial
that they allowed several hours to elapse
before they attempted to take any steps
to rearrest her, or to place her under
lock and key. By that time it was too
late. She had disappeared, and in spite
of the strict watch kept along the 'front.'
Ter, she was somehow or another SNUG
gled across and turned up a few months
later at Geneva, where she became the
life and soul of the Nihilist headquarters
there.
At that time all Europe was ringing
with her name, and it was the shooting
of General Trepoff that first called the
attention of the outer world to the i'm
portance of that powerful nihilist move
ment which three years later was to de-
prive by means of nitro-glycerine bombs
the Russian empire of the most liberal
that has ever occupied the Nus
covite throne since the days Of Peter the
Great
What has become of Vera 1 do not
know. But / believe that she is In Lon
DON and last heard of her when she at
tended the funeral Of "Stephniak, who
was killed by being run over by a tram
at Woodgreen, and who like herself mad
shot a chief of the st. Petersburg police
namely, General Dreteln, who had sue
ceeded old Trepoff.
1t is curious circumstance that the
of young General Trepon,
the son of vera's victim, should coin
eide with news received in private letters,
and which I mentioned in these columns
the other day, to the effect that most of
those precautionary measures against the
nihilists which were in force throughout
the last reign. and abandoned wneh
Nicholas assembled the throne, have now
once more been called into use OWING 10
! renewal of activity on the part of the
terrorists. Indeed. the precautions
adopted during the last few weeks Tor
he emperor's safety are even more elao-
,rate and extensive than those organized
.or the protection of the late car.
The latest news in connection with the
scandal which is bringing SO much dis
credit and shame upon the pr1nceiy mouse
IF Coburg is to the effect that Captain
Keglevitch has attempted to commit
suicide in the military hospital at Ag-
am, in which he had unjustly been con-
ined as a lunatic by order of the minister
If war after the criminal authorities had
declined to hold him on the charges OF
forgery brought against him by Prince
Philippe of Coburg. The later is the
most intimate friend of the minister of
var, who acted as his second in the duel
which he fought with the captain.
Moreover, 1 hear from Brussels that
King Leopold, yielding to the popular
sentiment in Belgium, has announced his
of proceeding at once to
Vienna with a view of insisting upon the
Iteration of his daughter. Princess
louise, from the lunatic asylum at Doeb-
ing, in which she is now confined by or
Ter Of her husband. He has intimated
hat he will bring her back to Brussels
With him, and that she will henceforth
make her home with him, and among her
,wn people, who are violent in the ex-
preston of their indignation as to the
reatment to which she has been SUBJ
ected in Austria.
From Brussels the princess, with the
assistance of her father will continue
hose divorce proceedings against her
husband which the latter has attempted
o choke off by charging her with insan-
ty, and her principal witness, Captain
Negleyitch, first of all with correspon-
lence, then with crime, and lastly with
unacy The entire affair threatens to
levelop into a scandal of such magni-
ude as to lead to the possible expul-
ZION of the whole Coburg family from
Austria, and probably also to the with
travail of the badly used widowed Crown
Princess Stephanie to Belgium. In fact,
10 one can say where the matter will
'top-Marquise de Fontenoy in Washing
on Post.