The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-27
Yachting Cruise Urged by His Medical
Advisers, but Nicholas Loath
to Leave Home.
SITUATION DEEMED GRAVE
PRESENT AGITATION THE BEGIN
MING OF SERIOUS TROUBLE.
Protest Against the Cruelty of Cos
sacks i'm Dealing with Rioters
Views of a Consul.

LONDON, March ga dispatch TO the
Exchange Telegraph Company from Paris
states the highest authority that a
mine has been discovered beneath the
palace of Emperor Nicholas at Tzarskoe
Selo, seventeen miles south of st. Peters
burg. Several notables, the dispatch fur
ther says, are implicated in the plot against
his Majesty. The Russian press was not
permitted TO mention the affair.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg to Reu-
ter's Telegram. says that. in consonance
with what is believed to be the Cars ex-
pressed wish, the minister of the interior
has published instructions for the author
tiles of the towns and provinces recon-
mending preventive measures against dis
turbances as being more effective than Sc
we're repression after disturbances have
broken out
The Birmingham Post, which is closely
in touch with Joseph Chamberlain, says
news received in high quarters in London
indicates that the Car Is in very nervous
state owing TO the condition of the political
horizon. 1t says he fears the result of the
policy of his ministers in the far East,
while the student troubles and threats
against his life, of which there are more
tfan have been published, have completely
unnerved his Majesty. His medical advisers
have strongly counseled a yachting cruise
but the Car has refused to follow their
advices. Those behind the scenes in Russia
take a very grave view of the present agi-
tation and think it is the beginning of more
serious troubles.
A Berlin dispatch says: 1.-The Vorwaerts
to-day publishes a detailed report of the
Russian demonstrations of March II from
a number of eye witnesses, confirming the
statement that those who participated in
the demonstrations included leading MEM
bers of all classes, even army officers, who
were aroused by the police and administra-
tive lawlessness." The vorwaerts also pub
fishes a protest against the cruelty dis
played by the Cossacks under Lieutenant
General Klieghel, prefect of the st. Peters,
burg police, bearing the signatures of the
elite of Russian literature, including men
like Nikola Michajloio. the sociologist; NJ.
Lesgast. the anatomist, and NJ Kareeffff,
the historian, as well as second protest Of
similar character. The Vorwaerts also
publishes a letter of thanks from Count
Leo Tolstoi for the sympathy shown him
by Germans of high and low position in
the matter of his excommuncation by the
Russian orthodox church.
An Associated Press Dispatch from St
Petersburg says: "A circular issued by the
minister of the interior blames the police
for not crushing the demonstrations at the
outset by the dispersion of gathering
crowds. 1t is said the police must learn
where and when demonstrations are
planned and mass their forces there Above
all order must be restored at any cost and
the authorities must not fear to use the
| necessary force and severity. The military.
the circular further says, can be called upon
when firing is necessary and the cavalry
may be summoned upon any occasion to
| clear the streets. The Russian Authors
Mutual Aid Society, founded by the Rus
sian Literary Society, has been ordered TO
| close its premises owing TO a protest of the
| authorities during the recent riots issued a
| short time ago. A student at st. Peters
| burg University named Proskuriakoff, who
| had been sentenced to two years military
service and drafted into a regiment soon
| to leave for Turkestan, a woman student
| named Smyrova and Lieutenant Kutness.
| of sapper battalion, have been found dead
near Yamaburg, in the st. Petersburg pro-
| vince. The student held a revolver and il
was evident that the three persons had
| committed suicide.