The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-29
Murder of DeSpOtiC Cabinet Officer Believed to Have
Been Part of Widespread Plot
Against Officials.

| or the tragedy in view of the hourly
expectation of her ACCOMPLISHMENT
Won PLEHVE's WIFE INFORMED.
The news was broken to the Minis
tiers wife at Kybinsk, on the Yolga
| while on her way to their country
| seat, with their son, who Is 81 years
of age. Won Plehve saw his wife and
| son OF last night and then drove to the
residence of General Bagdanovich an
old friend and associate. with whom he
I remained until a late hour. The min
| lister appeared to be pre-occupied and
/ some OF the guests asked him If he had
| received any more threatening letters
and demonstrated with him for going
about unprotected. Curiously, NJ. Won
| Plehve replied: / am safe enough
! every day in the week except Thursday.
| No on knows of my movements before
hand except on that day, when every
body knows / go to present my weekly
| report to the emperor"
| The assassin was dressed in the uni
| form of Warsaw railway guard He
is comparatively young man.
The cyclists escorting the Minister'S
| carriage were powerless to prevent the
bomb being thown.
The assassin when throwing the
| bomb should. Long live freedom"
with little Russian accent
THE OFFICIAL VERSION.
|
assassination occurred at $50 a. m.
The assassin. who was standing on the
| sidewalk. tried to break through the
| crowd as the Minister'S carriage ap-
| preached but being interfered with he
! jumped into the street and threw the
bomb at the rear of the carriage, which
was closed one. The assassin was
| severely wounded in the stomach and
| over 20 persons We're injured
~ inic ar,c
| When the body was undressed at his
residence not a single wound was found
on the trunk. but the lower part of
| the face was literally blown away.
| The assassin has not regained con-
| seriousness. but the physicians who per-
| formed the operation on him believe
| his life will be saved There is no
| official confirmation of the report that
he took poison but 1t is believed to be
| true.
number of arrests have been made.
but as yet there is no clue to the
| identity of the assassin. or of the real
| nature and cause of the conspiracy The
| crime in many respects is similar to
| the Nihilist tragedy which resulted In
| the death of Alexander H.
POWER BEHIND THE THRONE.
M. Won Plehve was the real power
behind the Russian throne. While as
| ton he incurred the hatred of NJ de
| Wftte, then Minister of Finance, who
later retired on account of the rise to
power of Plehve. The same state of
affairs happened in the cases of the
governors of Kief and Odessa.
NJ. Won Plehve, who succeeded to the
confidence of Count Lamsdorff upon the
retirement of de White, worked with
furious energy. The influence of Count
La Of
Minister was being rapidly undermined
by Won Plehve, as well as that of Gen
eral Kuropatkin. both of whom might
have been compelled to abandon office
had Won Plehve lived.
The foundations of the Russian en-
pire were suffering under the rule of
Won Plehve The urban workers be-
came discontinued and openly revolu-
tionary, while the peasantry was i'm
poverished. The educated youth of the
empire was ready for action against the
Government. The bureaucracy was di-
vided.
A POWERFUL FACTOR.
With his restless ambition and re-
lentless determination NJ. Won Plehve
had become powerful factor in Rus
Sla Had his rule continued ii is more
than likely that the empire would soon
have been at war with itself.
w. NJ. Won Plehve was 65 years OF
age and had been in public work for
more than forty years. His first prom
inent post was that of public prosecu.
tor of Warsaw in the early seventies
Poi1sh Nationalism was then at its
height.
He threw himself into the work OF
downing this with such vigor that he
was soon summoned to st. Petersburg
where he was made chief of the secrei
police.
When the late Car Alexander was
assasslnated Plehve became a more ar.
dent hater of the NihiIists, and in 1SS.
} became under secretary of the Depart.
: ment of the Interior.
Three years ago, as minister for Fin.
land he won the hatred of the Firms
Since 1892 he has been minister of the
l interior. Here his work against tn,
press and his hatred of the Jews wor
= for him world wide notoriety.
THE KISHINEFF MASSACRE.
: What part. If any. NJ Won Plehv,
actually played in the Kishineff mas
sacre will probably never be known
but his enemies have claimed that h,
had fun knowledge of events leadfns
to the massacres through his politica
friend and agent, Kroushevan, known
as the most extreme anti-Semite il
1SuSSle, anu proprietor OF lne BeSSdTa
$ betz, newspaper of Kishineff. TIL,
? latter is said to have prepared for trou
Die by publishing a series of strong
: ~ Worded antiSemite articles. Tn
OBJECT of Won Plehve ia this matter
according to the charges made at tn
time was to divert the attention of tn
people at large from the government
II should be remembered that all allie
satl"nS made against NJ. Won Plehv
nave never been proved to be founde
on fact' and in view of the Emperor
= inquiry into the matter and the fac
5 that Won Plehve retained the Emper
ors confidence. it is only Just to as
! sumo that the charges were unfoundeC
The last great public work of yo,
I Plehve, so far as known, was the draft
ing of the peasant code. early this ve,,
There is a scheme for peasant reform
. ordered by the Emperor in his recen
manifesto. BY this scheme member
I of the nobility in each province an,
district will be allowed to elect thei
= representatives in local committees l.
| be established throughout the empire
but the representatives of the Zeems
tovosks will be appointed by the Gov
errors.
PLAN OF REFORM.
. The local committee will be above
> freedom to discuss the project and t.
propose any changes therein except o.
three points, which the Emperor ha
) reserved from discussion. namely, tina
e the peasant class must remain entire.
} separate legally from the other classes