The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-29
A MINE DISCOVERED BENEATH THE
PALACE AT TSARK0E
NOTABlLITIES ARE IMPLICATED
The Gar In q Nervous State on Ac-
count OF the Political Conditions.
Unnerved by the Many Threats
Against His Life-Uneasy Over the
ures Against Disturbances Entoined.
o~nstratfou.
nstration

London, March 26.-A dispatch to
The Exchange Telegraph Company
from Paris states on the highest au-
thority that a mine has been discover
ed beneath the palace of Emperor Mich
south Of St. Petersburg.
Several notabilities, the dispatch fur
ther says, are implicated in the plot
against his majesty. The Russian press
was not permitted to mention the af-
fair.
London, March pa dispatch from
st. Petersburg to Reuters Telegram
says that in c~onsonance with what is
believed to be the cars expressed
wish, the minister of the interior has
published instructions for the authori-
ties of the towns n provinces, recon-
mending preventive measures against
disturbances, as being more effective
that severe repression after disturb
ances have broken out.
The Birmingham Post, which is
closely in touch with Joseph Chamber
lain, says news received in high quar-
tiers in London indicates that the car
is in a very rvo state owing to the
COIlullIOH VI lie pOllllCdl HOTlZOI. l. 10
said that he fears the result of the pol
icy of his ministers in the far east,
while the student troubles n threats
against his life, of which there are
more than have been published, have
completely unneryed his majesty. His
medical advisers have strongly coun-
Seled a yachting cruise, but the car
has refused to follow their advice.
Those behind the scenes in Russia take
a very grave view of the present agita-
ton and think it is the beginning of
more serious troubles.
st. Petersburg, March ga circular
issued by the minister of the interior
blameS the police for not crushing the
denominations at the outset by the dis
persion of the gathering crowd. 1t
says the police must learn when and
where 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 %circula further says, can
be Called upon when firing is neces-
sary and the cavalry may be summon
ed Upon any occasion to clear the
streets.
The Russian Authors Mutual Aid As
ISOLATION, by the Russian lit
erary society, has been ordered to
it's premises, owing to a protest of the
authors during the recent riots issued
a short time ago.
A student at the ST. Petersburg uni
verstiy 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 Smyrnova and Lieuten-
ant KutneSS, of a Sapper battalion
have been found dead near hamburg,
in the ST. Petersburg province. The
student held a revolver and it was ev-
ident that the three persons had com
mitted suicide.
Berlin, March 26.-The VorwertS to-
day publishes a detailed report nf ~
Russian demonstrations of March 18th
from a number of eye witnesses, con
participated in the demonstrations in
even army officers who were arouse
by the politico and administrative law
lessness. The Vorwerts also publishe:
a protest against the cruelty displayed
by the Cossacks under Lieutenant Gen
eral Kleighel. project of the st. Peters
burg police, bearing the signatures o
the elite of Russian literature, includ
ing men like NJ. Nikolaj Michajlovio
the sociologist: NJ. Lesgast, the anato
mist, and NJ. Kareeff, the historian, a
we'll as a second protest of a Simila
character.
h Vorwerts also publishes a lette
of thanks from Count Leo TolStoi, TO
the sympathy shown him by German
of and low position in the matte
of his accommodation by the Russian
| orthodox church.