The Bourbon news., 1905-01-17
Young Man Fired Three Times at
Gen. TrepOff, Ex-Chiet Of
Police of Moscow.
FOURTH ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE.
No Serious Fighting For Some Days
Near Mukden, Though Night Skirm-
ishes on Both Sides Continue.
Appearance of Gen. Mistchenko's Cav
airy Southwest of Lao Yang lndi-
Gates the Preliminary To An
Operation of Magnitude.

Moscow, Jan. 16.-At the Nicholas
station, while Gen. Trepoff was bid
ding farewell to Grand Duke Sergius
on his departure for st. Petersburg, a
young man wearing students cap
fired three shots from a revolver at
the general. All the shots missed Gen.
Trepoff.
Gen. TrepOff, who recently was re-
lieved of the office of chief of police of
Moscow and ordered to the front to
take up his duties as head of the Red
Cross society in Manchuria, incurred
the special enmity of the students of
Moscow by the severity with which he
put down their demonstrations. With
in one year, in 1902, there were three
attempts upon his life. The first of
these, on March 81, was by a woman
named Allart, a governess, who placed
the muZZle of a pistol against Gen.
TrepOff's breast and pulled the trig-
ger, the weapon, however, failed to
discharge. Four days later man
armed with dagger tried to force his
way to the presence of Gen. Trepoff
with the avowed purpose of killing
him. Within two days after this Incl
dent, while Trepoff was riding in his
carriage, young man, supposed to
be a rusticated student, sprang upon
the step of the vehicle and tried to
stab him, but only succeeded in slight
ly wOunding a policeman. After the
anti-gOvernment demonstrations in
Moscow last month it was said that
the socialistic revolutionary party had
passed sentence of death upon both
Gen Trepoff, chief of police, and
Grand Duke Sergius, governor general
of Moscow.
A Raiding Expedition.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 16.-The war Of
flee does not admit that the appear
ance of Gen. Mistchenko's cavalry
southwest of Lao Yang is more than
raiding expedition designed to strike
the railroad at several points and in
terrupt the transportation Of Gen.
NOgi'S guns from Port Arthur to Man
churia, but from certain indications it
seems possible that it is preliminary
to an operation of magnitude. Gen.
MistchenkO has over 10000 horsemen,
and moving rapidly, might be able ito
seriously damage communications in
the rear of Lao Yang The tone of
dispatches from some Russian CORE
SpOndents vaguely hints at very i'm
portant developments and the military
writer of the NOvOe Vremya expresses
the opinion that the long calm since
the battle of Shakhe is about to be
broken. 1t is also noteworthy that
there have been no official dispatches
from Gen. Kuropatkin for two days.
Japanese Defeated.
Huanchan, Jan. 13, via Mukden, Jan
16.-There has been no serious fight
ing for several days, though night
skirmishes on both sides continue.
The most important action recently
was that in which Capts. KosinOff and
Triotgki, with rs Cossacks, drove the
Japanese out of the villages of Mitzi
and Tkhangay and captured a large
amount of forage at both places.
Gen. Linevitch has been inspecting
the whole front and finds that the men
and supplies are in excellent condi-
tiOn. The Japanese on their side are
pushing sapping operations toward the
Russian lines at several points, but
have not made serious progress.