Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-24
GRAND DUKE SLAIN.
Uncle Of Gar, Most
Hated Man in Russia,
Torn by Bomb.
OTHER DOINGS CONCERNING RUS.
STA AND JAPAN.


Grand Duke Sefsius, uncle and
brother-in-law of the Gar, was on
Friday decapitated by bomb
thrown from a sleigh occupied by
two men. His coachman also was
killed and his carriage wrecked.
One of the assassins when arrested
exclaimed: 81 don't care. l have
done my work WE'LL"
st. Petersburg was thrown into ex-
citement, but not altogether sur
prised at the assassination, as it was
reported the Grand Duke together
with Grand Duke Alexis and General
Trepof, was condemned to die by
the social revolutionists of Moscow.
A belief exists in st. Petersburg that
a mountaineering program is about
to be carried out by terrorists.
Sergius was the most hated man
in Russia and greatest influence in
staying the Cars hand toward
liberality. He had been marked for
the bomb for some time.
Grand Duke Sergius left the
smaller palace at the Kremlin at 3
o'clock to drive to his private Rus
sian bath in the old official residence
in Tverskaja street. He was in q
closed carriage alone.
The Grand Dukes carriage was
driven at a smart trot through the
Senate square. A sledge was stand
ing under the tower of the Nicholas
Gate, and in it were two men, one
of them dressed as a workman. AS
the royal carriage approached, the
sledge shot out and then drew back
as if to allow the Grand Dukes
equipage to pass. Just as the car
riage came alongside the sledge one
of the men rose to his feet and
hurled bomb beneath the wheels of
the passing vehicle. The explosion
that followed it was heard all over
Moscow. 1t shattered all the win
dows of the law courts and hail of
iron pelted the grim stone walls of
the arsenal. A thick cloud of smoke,
snow and debris arose. When it had
cleared a CHASTITY sight was presented.
On the snow lay fragments of the
body of the Grand Duke, mingled
with the wreck of the carriage. The
Grand Dukes head had been torn
from his body aud reduced to q
shapeless pulp and the trunk and
limbs were frightfully maugled. A
finger bearing a rich seal ripg, was
found lying several yards away. Tie
crimson tint and a sicKening smell
OF blood were everywhere. Only a
few fragments of cloth indicated
that the body had been once clothed.
The coachman lay moaning with
pain beside deep hole in the pave.
ment. The borses, dragging the front
wheels of the carriage, had dashed
off, maddened with pain, to sink
dying before they reached the gate.
Several days later pieces of human
flesh and fingers were found yards
away In the snow heaps.
Just before his death Sergius, who
was the leading reactionist, wrote q
letter saying that they had better die
by bombs then to relax the laws.
The Gar and his grand dukes are
beginning to become terrorized. They
have decided to grant the land con-
gress, and the day is probably at
hand when the autocrat will have to
surrender some of his power. None
OF the court dare leave the palace.
All are as it were in prison. The
assassination has also most probably
paved the way to peace with Japan.
SCORES GEN. sToEssEL.
Officers of the Russian cruiser
Sevastopol, captured at the fall of
Port Arthur, characterize Gen. Stoes-
sci as coward. "The world will
know Stoessel as he isl said they.
"He is coward. Stoessel was bur
rowed a great deal of the time in q
cave. The real heroine was NINE.
Zouhoneli, who, when her husband
was killed, took command of bat
terry of three eleven-inch guns at II
point commanding the water supply,
and held them until she was also
killed. The garrison was deceived
by false reports of the approach of
knropatkins' army and the Baltic
fleet"
Other liberated naval officers had
no criticism of Gen. Stoessel or the
conduct of the defense of Port
Arthur, beyond the fact that the
Russian fleet was undermined and
had not sufficient supply of am-
munition when the war began. Port
Arthur, they said, would have fallen
the latter part of August had it not
been for the Strengthening of the
land forces with guns and men from
the fleet. "Gen. Stoessel," said Capt.
Vonessen, sis brave soldier, a great
general, and a true patriot. He held
out to the last minute. He had
plenty of ammunition, certainly, but
l never heard of an army which
could live on ammunition. Lack of
food was the main reason for the sur
render"
SOME WAR NOTES.
The peace talk has little founda.
ton. 1t is announced from Russia
that the war will go on.
Riots broke out again in Warsaw,
the capital of Russian Poland. %
were killed by a volley from the
troops.
In a recent dash by Russians last
Friday to capture a certain heights