The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-28
IERR0RISIS RULE
RUSSIAN CAPITAL
Police Unable to Cope with Fight
ing Organization Of Social
Democrat Party.

Berlin, Feb. 2s;ZThe vorwaerts as
Of Baku, Elizabetopol, Tidis, Kutais
and Daghestan have proclaimed their
independence from Russia.
According to the Vorwaerts, 100000
workmen are now on strike in the prov
inces of Kief, Kherson, Ekaterinoslav,
Poltava, Podo1ia and Kharkoff.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 2S.-The utter
impotency Of the police in the face OF
the terrorist organization is shown by
the increasing boldness of the latter all
OF th st. ppo banEs Simple the eGees
Of Grand Duke Sergius' death were
found. They read:
"The sentence of death passed upon
sergius Alexandrovitch was executed
The Fighting Organization Of
the Social Democrat Party,
Moreover, the notices were neatly
printed, thing unknown in the days
of the late Interior Minister Won Plehve,
when similar notices were run off on
copying machines. The secret police
then were too close the heels of the
terrorists to permit Of the use Of a
printing. press.
Shields Dukes Life with Her Own.
The Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna,
whose husband, Grand Duke Vladimir,
is high on the list Of those condemned
to death, is trying to shield his life
cred with threats and warnings, but
has twice received from abroad formal
letters, signed by different groups, in
forming him of his sentence to death
and of the assignment Of men to exc
cute it. At the same time the Grand
Duchess Marie, like the Grand Duchess
Elizabeth in the case of Grand Duke
Sergius, was notified that her life and
her sons lives would be spared, and
she was appealed to not to 60 abroad
in her husbands company.
Family Lives in Terror.
The letters naturally terrorized the
family and household Of the grand
duke, who has aged greatly during
the last few weeks under the strain
of what he insists is the unjust criti-
cism which placed the responsibility for
the bloodshed Of Jan. % wholly on his
shoulders. Altho the grand duke 8
health had been failing for over a
| year, he is now almost a complete
wreck. ..r ...1
For time the entreaties Of vladi-
mir g family and the warnings of the
police suffced to keep him within the
walls of the palace, but since the fu-
neral Of Grand Duke Sergius, Vladi,
mir has shaken off restraint, declaring
that he refuses to show cowardice, and
drives out in q closed carriage. Sunday
he walked for short time up and
down the quay in front of the Winter
palace. At his side, however, is always
the Grand, Duchess Marie The grand
duke tries to elude her, but she insists
upon being Immediately apprised if he
is going out, DOMINIC wraps and accom-.
panying him.
! Vladimir Sentence Suspended.
Today Grand Duke Vladimir re-
ceived letter from one group, which
had previously warned him, saying his
sentence. was temporarily suspended
which is attributed either to a more
correct appraisement of his share in
| the events of Jan. % or to the general
decision Of the terrorists to give the
autocracy a breathing spell and await
| the result of the assassination Of Crane
Duke Sergius. The latter comedies
/ with the views of those acquainted
. with the methods Of the terrorists, who
| point out that succession of assassi
nations would defeat their object BY
compelling the emperor, in the interest
of the safety Of the imperial family
/ to thrust aside all questions of con
i cessions and to sanction the most dras
tic measures Of repression.