Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1905-02-23

lists, Tribunal, and martial law has
accordingly deem declared at Tar
skoe-Selo
No,disguisessis, made of. their5rav.
ity with which the threats of the
revolutionist~ are.. regarded by the
authorities. -@7 - - I'D
The chief of the seer police has
ordered special and extraordinary
precautions to prevent any attack on
Emperor or any member of the I'm
perial family.
When itsis...considcred:: that.even
in the ordinary times mo member of
this family goes abroad without an
escort; that secret police are eyer at
h Cars side to prevent his being
approached; that the palace is guard
ed, and that care is taken against
his route beingk nown in advance, it
will be appreciated how extraordi-
nary are the present precautions.
1t means that the Emperor of Rus
sia lives as a sort ofa state prisoner
for his own protection.
Inside the palace it is stated that
every man who has excess to the
Emperor's presence, regardless of
the VISITORS stetion, finds at his ell
bow Il specially designated guard,
who does not leave him even when
in Intimate audience with the Gar.
Letters threatening the Emperor
and all his family with death have
been found inside the palace, and in
some mysterious way have reached
| the doomed personages. Gossip has
it that the revolutionists or some
body to be ofthem have managed TO
place these dread warnings even III
the Cars chamber while he slept
Every approach to the palace at
fsarskoe-Seio is guarded, and even
the state carriages are stopped anus
inspected mile from the entrance
To the grounds.
Report has il that the Gar has not
rallied from the depression into
which hs was plunged by the assassi-
uation of his uncle, and that he i,
certain he will be the next victim.
Washington, Feb 81. President
Roosevelt assured Representative
: Campbell, OF Kansas, today that all
: Of The power Of his administration
necessary would he used in the
investigation he is undertaking
through the Bureau Of Corporations
into the affairs of the Standard Oil
? Company to the end that the small
I producer, dealer and consumer alike
shall have fair treatment, and that
E; as the same time no injustice shall
, be done the Standard Oil Company
t or any other concern.
= The President assured Mr.. Camp
. bell that this is the most important
Y investigation of the kind which has
h been undertaken, and he is going il :
Y to il with the determination that it
shall be as thorough and successful
y at the machinery of the government
a can make it. He wants nothing but
: exact Justice and fair play.
/ Among the numerous telegrams
l. and letters received by Mr.. Camp
hell congratulating him and the
i President on the developments in
the matter, Mr.. Campbell calls es-
- pecial attention to those which have
come from Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Il Although the civil war ended
:. forty years ago, the appropriations
Il for the maintenance of soldiers or.
al phan schools are still called for al
:. every session of the legislature, and,
4 what is altogether ineXplicable, they
ie have been growing steadily. Ii
A. 1891, $1,000 were appropriated foi
is their support; in 1895, $3.50, 100 in
le 1899, 1851 200; and 1908, $3S5,00o
Id The bill offered in the house las
II week for the same purpose asks fol
Id Si2l 900, which is an increase %
$50 600 over the previous appropri
alton. 1t would appear from al
this that, although the veterans arr
~ dying off rapidly, the number o
F., soldiers orphans are increasing.
m A destructive fire sosaid to be du
IT. to defective f1ue entirely destroyed
or the handsome residence of A. r
it Pennington, at Benton, on Tuesda,
ed morning. The family were eatih
-. I..1-, L. CT ,,-hon ono of the "a mi |,