New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-08-15

GRAND DUKE, COUSIN or RUS
SIAN EMPEROR, NARROWLY
ESCAPES ASSASSINATION.
A7TEMPT is MADE
DURING MANEUvERS

Soldiers Fire Ball Cartridges Instead
of Blanks, But Distance Is Too
Great--lntended Victim Is Unin-
lured,
st. Petersburg, Aug. 13.-Grand
Duke Nicholas Ntcholaievitch, presi-
dent of the council of national de-
Tense, narrowly escaped assassination
Friday afternoon at the hands of the
imperial guards in the guard camp at
Krasnoye-S elo s:8ss
The grand duke was personally. re-
viewing, maneuvering and putting the
troops through blank-fring practice
when he suddenly was startled by the
waspsske hiss of bullets about his
head. The grand duke surrounded by
his officers and aids, was off on one
side out Ofsthe line of fire
Duke and Horse Untouched.
Fortunately, neither himself. nor his
horse was touched. The command to-
cease firing was Immediately given
and the soldiers Of the regiments from,
which the bullets came were marched
back to their quarters and an investi-
cation was begun in the hope of ascer-.
tanning from the barrels of the rifles
which Of the soldiers had fired ball
cartridges. Several arrests were
made.
The shots were fired by the first
battalion of the sharpshooters of the
guard, who advanced in rushes, while
making sham attack on an In
trenched position. Fully 100 shots
were fired, but the impatience of the
consp1rators led them to open fire at
such distance as to Illustrate their
object. Before the maneuvers began
all the ball cartridges were taken
from the troops, and the officers had,
taken the precaution to make a spe-
clal examination of the cartridge
pouches of the soldiers Immediately
before the movement.
Accident Theory Secuted
One of the: grand dukes aids-de-
camp. who, however, was not person
ally present, advanced the theory that
possibly the bullets were fired by &C
cfdent, but he considered that beyond
a doubt there was a plot on the part
OF a number of disloyal guardsm
who deliberately planned to take the:
grand dukes life under cover Of the
general blank-cartrtdge firing.
1t was no more an accident the
aid-de-camp said, than was the firing
of the charge of grape from the salut-
ing battery at the winter palace on
the occasion of the ceremony of bless
ing the waters of the Neva by the EN-.
peror a year and a half ago.
The bold attempt on the grand
dukes life caused an Immediate
change in the plans of the emperor,
who had arranged to go to Krasnoye
and pass a week with the soldiers Of
his imperial guards.
The affair has created a deep inn
preston in military circles, and is
the enc topic of conversation in the
clubs, but the attempt on the grand
dukes life is not generally known
here, no word on the subject having
been published IN the newspapers.
(Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaie-
witch is one of the sons of the grand
duke of the same name who was an
uncle to the car and died in 1891.
The present Grand Duke. Nicholate-
witch was born In st. Petersburg No
vember 6, 1855 He entered the army
and ultimately attained the rank Of
inspector general of cavalry, and aid
de-camp on the general staff. He holds
many honorable positions In the Rus
sian army, and is chief of various reg
iments, including one of Prussian hus-
sars. When the ST. Petersburg gen
eFl strike was proclaimed last week.
and the country seemed to be facing
revolution, 1t was reported that Grand
Duke Nicholas would be made com
mandeP-in-chlef of the army, and
might YulB the nation as q military
djctatnF.)
To court-Martial 1000 Men.
ST. Petersburg, Aug 13.-After the
preliminary investigations the mill
tary and naval prosecutors have de-
cided to try by court martial no less
than 1000 soldiers and sailors who
In the Kronstadt and
SveabOrg mutintes. The prospects Of
the men, however. have been bright
ened by the decision of the emperor
to appoint two extraordinary commits
sio1ers, beaded respectively by Gems
Vodar and Guncherof. and Admirals
Mollas and Makaroff, to investigate
the causes of the outbreaks at Kron-
stadt and Sveaborg. and to determine
the responsibility for the demoral
ization
Illinois Pioneer Passes Away.
Chicago, Aug. 13. Mellican Hunt
died at his home In Franklin Park,
aged 85 years. He was a pioneer OF