The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-02-23

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RAGE CONTAINING GRAND
DUKE sERaIUs.
His Victim Is Instantly Killed-Head
Is Torn from Body-Coachman Fa-
>. tally 1ajured,-7-Murderer Caught
z Horror occurs in Moscow. 3
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Moscow, Feb. 1S.-Withinl the walls
Of the FAR famed Kremlin palace, and
almost sunde rneathbt the historical tower
from which Ivan the Terrible watched
the heads of his enemies falling be
meath the ak on the famous Red
Square, and within stones throw of
the great bell of Moscow, Grand Duke
Sergius, uncle and brother-in-law of
Emperor Nicholas and the chief of the
reactionaries, met a terrible death
shortly before three O'Clock Friday.
The deed was committed by a single
terrorist. who threw beneath the car
rage of the grand uuke a bomb
charged with the same high-power ex-
plosive which wrought Minister Won
Plehve's death. The missile was packed
with nails and fragments of iron, and
its explosion tore the imperial vic
TINS body to CHASTITY fragments, which
strewed the snow, for yards around.
Every window in the great lofty facade
of the palace of justice was shattered
and bits of iron weresimbedded deeply
in the wallis of the arsenal, a hundred
yards away. ! AZ ,.g
The Assassination. IA
According to late details, Grand
Duke sergius, who generally was ac-
companied by his wife when out dry
ing, was on this occasion going to his
private Russian bath inghistold official
residence in Tverskaia street. The
vehicle in which he rode was a plain,
shabby, closed carriage, such as would
not be likely to attract attention. sssIt
was followed by detectives in couple
of cabs. The grand duke was driven
rapidly .aa3 was half way across xhe
square between the great bell tower
and the icholas gate when the bomb
was thrown beneath his carriage,
where it exploded, literally demolish-
ing the vehicle, killing the grand duke
and fatally. injuring his driver. The
nfv. hoH 1xy 1nA
He refuses to give his name and glories
In his deed. 42rA
Head Blown OFF.
The grand duke was instantly killed.
His head was blown off, actually being
separated from his body, which was
mangled.
Grand Duchess Elizabeth, who has
been engaged daily in the task of pre-
pairing comforts for the sick and
Russian soldiers in Manchu-
ria, was about to drive to the palace
to join her husband. When she heard
Of what had befallen the grand duke
she was driven in haste to the scene
Of the tragedy and knelt hatless and
coatless on the blood-stained snow and
prayers for the welfare OF
the soul of hersslain consort. 4
.: The only actaul witnesses of the al.
sassination were a couple of policemen
on beat in the vicinity. 1t still appears
to be uncertain whether the assassin
was iny a. sleigh Or hiding in the .tun-
mel beneath the Nicholas tower & I
Long a Marked Man. y
ssp Fhe assassin belongs to 1.-The noted
Fighting Group" of the socialist rev
olutionary., party, which has removed
other prominent officials and long
since passed sentence of death upon
Grand Duke Sergius. The grand duke
knew that he stood in the shadow OF
death. He was the recipient of re-
peated warming and elaborate precau-
lions were taken to insure his safety,
but all the resources of the gendarm-
erie, secret police and soldiers proved
against, an attempt almost
exactly duplicating the procedure that
caused the death Of Minister of the In
terror Won Plehve last July. /
q Was Intesely Unpopular. L
Grand Duke Sergius, who was "a
brother-in-law as we'll as uncle Of the
emperor, and who had exercised i'm
mense influence at court, was regarded
as the. most reactionary of the grand
dukes. AS governor general of Moss-
COW he was intensely unpopular. His
advent as governor general of Moscow
was followed by expulsion of the Jews
from the central provinces and
throughout his administration his rix-
orous and harsh measures aroused the
greatest hostility. especially among tie
students. N
News Prostrates Gear. R
st. Petersburg, Feb. 18.-The news of
the assassination of the grand duke
reached Tsarskoe-Selo while the tmpe-
rial family were entertaining Prince
Frederick Leopold of Prussia. It Gre
ated the greatest CONSERVATION. -. The
emperor is reported to have been com
pletely Frustrated. &
, The murder of Grand Duke Sereius
just at the time when the forces of lib.
eralism were again in the supremacy
and when the summoning of the zern-
sky sober was actually assured, meets
with universal reprobation, even by the
extreme social democrats, who de.
nounce the crime as strongly as do the
liberals and conservatives. 4