Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-02-20

was no word of editorial coltiiileit.
Perhaps the best explanation Is the
fact that both papers, which circulate
largely among the workmen, nave
printed articles bitterly hostile to the
government.
Moscow, Feb. ia thin layer of
snow. today has dimmed the blood
stains in the Senate Square. The VIM
COWS in the Palace of Juctice have been
reglassed. and other hasty efforts have
been made to obiiterate tracts of Fri
days tragedy. Evidences. however. is
being found IN most unexpected places.
Soldiers have discovered may pieces of
the carriage in which Grand Duke Ser
gius was riding when he met his death.
and fragments of flesh were found on
the top of the I2-foot rarapet of the
arsenal. among the Napoleonic guns.
Until the funeral, which has been fix
ed for Thursday. Feb. %, the remains
of Grand Duke Sergius will rest in the
ancient dining room of the Chaudoff
Monastry to which throughout the day
the people of Moscow have been adj
mtted to pay their last respects in par
ties of 100. This Drecaution was taken
because it was thought necessary to
avoid the possibility of demonstrations
The body of the Grand Duke, dress
ed in the uniform of the Fifth G<ieff)
Grenidiers, of which he was the honor
1ry colonel, rests in an oaken coffin.
Only the breast of the uniform, upon
which is an ikon of the Saviour and
the orders of the Grand Duke. is visible.
The Bible beside the head of the coffin
h, IL Il
the imperial eagles.
The assassin remains persistently 81
lent His identity has not yet been es-
tabished, and although the police have
been investigating diligently, they nave
been unable to gather up the threads OF
the plot, or find any clues to the posi-
nle accomplices. The assGssin's papers
and clothes offer no means of Identlfica-
ton, and his pass evidently was forged
and appears never to have been vised.
Photographs have been taken to be
dispatched to al The universities but II
the assassin is actually a workman and
not a student, he police may find them
selves utterly at sea.
Grand Duke Sergius coachman, who
was thought to be dying at the time of
the affair. is still alive. and better, but
is not yet out of danger.
The city presented an aspect of deep
gloom today. There was no music in
the restaurants and there were no per-
formances at the theatres. The imperial
manifesto voicing the grief of the En-
peror. is posted at street corners
| throughout the city, and the crime still
forms the only topic of discussion.
personages and prominent officials,
have arrived and lie in place in the
monastery around the coffin
Kisihneff, Russia. Feb. 19.-The pre-
Saturday. by an unknown man armed
| with a club.
The officials assailant was arrested.
| Moscow, via Vienna, Feb. 19--An
American named MacLeanland, pop
ular professor and English lecturer at
| the Commercial Academy in Moscow.
was shot dead, Saturday, by an acade-
my student named Ssow for political
| reasons.
| Sisow Immediately committed suicide
| 1lfllS, IrdnScaucdSla, rep. ia OlS-
| trict official named Gnoutoff has been
| assassinated at Igdyr by Armenians.
| The motives for the crime were polit-
| ical.
At Vagarshapad, Transcaucasia, the
| mayor has been shot and killed near
| his residence.
| The murderer, who used a revolver
| has disappeared.
| st. Petersburg, Feb. 19.-According
| to reports in circulation, the Empress
| mother has received a threatening let
| ter warning that she will be the next
| victim.
| This is only one Of the many rumors
| afloat. among which is that at meet
ing of the grand dukes, last night. it
was unanimously decided to withdraw
all opposition to the assembling of n
Zemsky Zobor and to recommend its
immediate summoning by the Emper-
or.
Lodz Feb. 19.-Quiet continues here.
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