The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-17
They are Causing the Police
Sleepless Nights.
RUN PRINTING PRESSES
And Circulate Revolutionary
Literature Over the Country.

tiouary movement among women ana
girls During the latter years OF the
reign OF Alexander IL. young woman
played powerful part IN the NlnliiSs
movement which clouded that period of
Russian history. Count Tolstci. who WIS
then Minister OF the Interior. pat them
Down with = ruthless hand
But again they are 20 the forefront OF
the revolutionary movement. and strong
/ CT and more Influential than ever. The
murdered Minister sipyasin was occupied
with their suppression. bat this vas a
weak hand. aid the measures ne took 10
curb their political activity only made
matters worse. During the week before
his death over forty young women we're
arrested in various parts Of Russia for
completely in the secret printing OF Sc
ditious tracts and pamphlets. This .
branch OF revolutionary enterprise 20
which the Russian female rexolutioaiss
gladly devotes hersslf Presses worked
by women and girls have been discoverc
In Charkon. SamaTs. Odessa. Kien. Mos
COW and Riga. How many more are
at work which have not been discovered
is unknown.
The leaders Of the female revogutioaists
arc all educated persons having mostly
spent a considerable time abroad study
/ ms in the universities OF Berlin. Zurich
and Geneva Some Of them also study
/ In Belgium. chiefly AZ large
According "a a welI-known spy 81 the
late sipysEin. there are over so young
women wandering about Russia al tka
present time engaged IN propaKatins re-
culating the tracts printed on the street
presses. They assume all manner Of dss-
guises. Some OF them. clad 81 hiaok.
with black shawl over their heads and
cross around their necks 20 about
from village TO village ostcnsibly engaged
In collecting money 20 build churches.
and. what is more remarkable. Supplied
with the necessary license from the &C.
siesias;icsl authorities.
Others arc In the suise OF beEgs-s. clad
In rags. These carry a bag IA which they
stow away bread and scraps given tnesn
By the charitable. In the bottom u ne
bag the curious miKht ind = little buuaIs
o. revolutionary literature. Bur Tor tbs
most part these female cmlssaries are
found Al work among The workmsn IN
nlsnufscturing districts. where they en-
ploy themselves as seausstrcssea or a.
nurses or teachers.
Their devotion 20 the cause knows 70
bounds. One OF them. a giri 81 twenty
two. was lately arrested IN the mansfac-
turing town Of LODI. IN Russian Poland.
and taken before police master charged
with the dissemination ~ scditioua 1T
eFature. she was kept on black bread
and water for ten days and conpeiied 10
starve that authorities mlghf GEE a con-
fession from her a. 10 who her coafed-
crates were. she stub5orniv refused %
speak E word. Weakened by the made
quste food. she fell victim % the prisan
fever and IN her delsFiun msntiones GER
tain names Of friends They we're a.
rested and. On her recovery. ooufrouted
with her
Unable 70 understand how the police
obtained their names and feeling herself
ar unwilling ;rsitre<s she committed sui
eide IN her cell By eating the phosphorus
ends 81 two boxes ~ matches
In Charkon a young woman - twenty
ave threw herself cut % the window.
four stories high. rather thar far into tbs
hands Of The police. who had suddenly
EaEsc IA sype-seftinR
Il Il he opinion % the Russian polirs
that the most dangerous sevoisrsnists
with whom they have 20 deal srs women.
ODD ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE.
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