The Penn's Grove record., 1905-07-14
OF POLICE KILLED
Major-GeneraI Count ShuvaIoH, Of
Moscow, Shot.
DEMONSTRATION BY CROWDS

I'll Count Was Popular With the People
Murdered While Receiving Petitions
Encounter Between Troops and Mu-
tineers More Riots Feared by Po-
lice of KustenjI, Roumania.
Moscow, Russia. = Major General
Count Shuvaloff, Project of Police here
and formerly attached to the Ministry
Of the Interior, was assassinated while
receiving petitions. One of the petit
TONERS drew a revolver and fired five
times at the Prefect. The assassin
was arrested.
The assassin waited in the anteroom
Of the Prefecture till the other petit
toners had been received, and then,
entering the audience room he ad-
vanced toward Count Shuvaloff, firing
five shots at close range
One bullet wounded the Count in the
p~ericardium, another pierced his abdo-
men, a third hit him in the arm. and
the fourth in the shoulder, while the
fifth bullet fired by the assassin struck
the leg of an official who was standing
near.
According to the physicians the bull,
let's were poisoned. The victim speed
lily lost consciousness and died.
The assassin, who was dressed as a
peasant. was not identified. He was
recently arrested as a political suspect,
but escaped from the police station be-
fore his examination.
A great crowd gathered in front of
Count S~huvaloff's house and made a
demonstration to show the peoples in
dignation and sorrow at the assassina-
lion of the Project, who was very pop
ular. He owes his death to his custom
If granting audiences to and receiving
petitions from all classes.
The Grand Duchess Elizabeth. widow
Of the Grand Duke Sergius, attended
the first requiem for Count Shuvaloff.
st. Petersburg, Russia.-The assass-
nation of Count Shuvaloff at Moscow
Is considered a purely political crime,
as the Count, who was less than forty
years old, was regarded as being of the
best type of Russian official. He came
from n of the most famous families
In Russia. He was q son of Count
Peter Shuvaloff, the statesman who
represented Russia at the Berlin Con-
ference, was formerly Colonel of the
Guard Regiment known as the st. Pc
tersburg. and was one of Emperor
Nicholas personal friends.
AS Project of Odessa. where he sue
ceeded General Zelenoi, who was ex-
tremely severe, Count Shuvaloff earned
the esteem of all by his firm but len
lent course, making himself particu-
larly popular with the students.
The impression exists here that the
Count vas killed for preserving order.
The situation throughout the Cauca-
sus continues critical. The people are
IN a great state of agitation.
The streets and squares of Tilis are
occupied by troops, but the city has
been quiet since the proclamation of
martial law.
Several persons have been arrested
1t Tifis in whose lodgings wholesale
quantities of bombs were found.
Bombs have also been found in the
quarters of IN employee at the arsenal
at Tifis.
Business at Batum has been at a
9loAuolAA' LAC SAOpo anu Uullho, Will
the exception of the Imperial Bank,
have been closed.
A general strike has been declared at
Minsk. In a fight between Cossacks
and rioters there many persons were
wounded.
Warsaw, Poland.-Three bloody en-
counters between troops and striking
shoemakers, in which about twenty
persons were killed or wounded, oc-
cured.
The strikers were marching through
he city from house to house, demand
ing the lowering Of rents by twenty
per cent. Many proprietors out of fear
complied with the demands of the
strikers.
At Byelostok Cossacks dispersed
,rowds in the streets. Some shots were
fred.