Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-07-28
BOMB PEND IN ST. PETERSBURG
mr. PIehve. Russian Minister of tn

SIR. PIehve, Russian Minister OF the
Interior. and Others Killed or
Injured by Bursting Bomb-Great
Excitement i'm Russian Capital.
St. Petersburg, July 2S.-N. Plehye,
the Minister of the Interior, was assas-
sinated at the Warsaw tAtion in this
city this morning, by TIE explosion OF a
bomb. His coachrIan and several
SPECTATORS were also killed. NJ. Plehve
had lust arrived at thu station when the
bomb was exploded. The windows in
the station were smashed by the force Of
the explosion, the bridge was damaged
and the pavement was tornup for a con-
siderable distance.
London, July ga dispatch from
st. Petersburg gives the following YER
sion of the assassination of M. Plehye.
The minister was on his way to Peter
hoff about ten O'Clock to make report
to the Emperor. When his carriage
was passing in front of the hotel De
Varsovic, which is close to the ST. Peters
burg terminus of the Warsaw railway,
man suddenly rushed out of the re-
staurant, which is attached to the hotel,
and hurled bomb at the minister's car
rage The explosion was terrific. The
minister and his coachman we're killed
on the spot. The carriage and the
horses which were drawing it were shat
tered into atoms. The body of NJ.
Plehye. was terribly mutilated. His
left arm and both legs were torn off. The
bomb thrower, despite the confusion, was
Immediately surrounded and arrested.
Another report states that NJ. Plehve was
approaching the station in a carriage
when motor car drove up with two
persons in it. OF these, one was an Off
cial with the uniform of the Minister of
Ways and Communications, and the
other wore morning dress. AS the motor
passed NJ. Plehve's carriage one Of the
occupants threw bomb in front of the
horses. 1t exploded and several by
ISLANDERS were injured, but none was
killed, as at first supposed. The Minis
ter of the Interior and his coachman
we're so mutilated that fragments OF their
bodies had to be collected and carried to
the Ministers residence in a cashmere
net. After the explosion the motor car
stopped and both occupants were arrest
ed. Their identity is not yet known.
The assassination has caused an immense
sensation everywhere.
1t is asserted that two bombs were
thrown, one from the motor car and the
other from the restaurant. Twenty per-
sons we're wounded by broken glass
Three floors of the building adjoining
the hotel were smashed to atoms. This
report has it that the coachman was not
killed but was seriously injured.
Berlin, July 2S.-Dispatches received
from St. Petersburg state that when the
news of NJ. Plehve's assassination was
received at Peterhoh, the emperor trem-
bled and sank into chair, overcome by
the shock. The st. Petersburg police
already possess proof that the assassina-
ton was the result of conspiracy by
the revolutionary party.
London, July 2S.-A dispatch from
st. Petersburg states that NJ. Plehve's as
sailant is a Jew who refuses to give his
name.
Geneva, July 2S.-The Russian rev.
olutionists here are jubilant over the
death of NJ. Plehve. 1t is asserted there
is a widespread revolutionary plot on foot
the most formidable since the assassina-
ton of Car Alexander III. The black
list includes all the governors of the
Russian provinces and the ministers.
The Gar was not included in the list,
as he was regarded as weak, but amiable.
Now, however, he too has been added to
the list.
Berlin, July 2S.-The unconventional
newspapers justify the assassination of
NJ. Plehye. The Tageblatt, for example,
characterizes the deed as the execution
of criminal guilty of a series of crimes
against humanity"
Berlin, July 2S.-Prominent Jews
here say that the last administrative act
of NJ. Plehve was the preparation of
measures of relentless Jew batting. He
decreed the suppression of four Hebrew
newspapers published in St. Petersburg,
thus throwing out of employment 300
Jews, with twelve hundred others Deepen
dent upon them. Not content with this
he ordered the Jews thus thrown out Of
work and their families be expelled FROM
st. Petersburg and conveyed back to the
pale.
st. Petersburg, July 2S.-W. K.
Plehve, the Russian Minister of the In
terror, was killed by a bomb thrown
by Jew, whose name is not known, at
ten o'clock this morning. NJ. Plehve,
who was driving to the station to pro-
coed to Peterhof palace, had reached
the hotel de Varsovic, which is close to
the station, when a man rushed out of
the restaurant connected with the hotel
and hurled a smoking bomb directly in
front of the horses drawing the minis
ter's carriage. The carriage passed
partly over the bomb, until the missile
was directly under the seat, when sud-
denly, with resounding defamation, the
messenger of fate exploded. The air
was filled with portions of the carriage,
and when it settled, the bodies of NJ.
Plehve and his coachman were lying in
the midst of the debris.
The prisoner, who is said by some to
be Jew, and by others a Finn, when
arrested, said: "This is nothing to
what is to come. am not the only
one." As to the exact nature of the