Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-05-11
BOMBS SPREAD TERROR.
VICE ADMIRAL DOUBASOFF FRIGHT
FULLY WOUNDED u MOSCOW
AFTEl- SERVICES.
KILLED BY EXPLOSION.
Several Attempts of the Reds Malk
Sunday as = Cory One in the
Cars Domains.
LONG RECORD IN FIVE MONTHS.

MOSCOW, May 7.-Nice Admiral
Doubassoff, governor general of Moscow,
was frightfully wounded by the explosion
of bomb thrown at his carriage Sun
day afternoon. One foot was blown off
and he was seriously injured i'll the back
and head. 1t is feared his injuries will
terminate fatally.
The governor general at Ekatcrinoslav
was assassinated Saturday evening by
six persons WHO fired volleys from rcvol-
vers at HIM and escaped.
Terror Spread in Elizabethpol.
News comes also that the governor
general of E.lizabethpol was assass!natcd
Sunday.
The man who threw the bomb at Mos
COW was killed and mutila Ted by the eX-
plosion. Col. KokonetZoff, the governor
generals adjutant. was killed. as was 4
policeman and boy who happened to be
near at hand. \ number OF bystanderS
was fractured. The carriage was de
mOlished.
Gov.-Gen. Doubas soff had been at the
Uspenski cathedral. where services III
honor of the Cars name day had been
held. Knowing he was under sentence
ranged to aight from his carriage At Il
side entrance to his palace. But on the
way hrme from the cathedral he changed
his mind.
Assassin's Aim Is Bad.
AS the governors carriage drove up to
the palace gates Il young man. dressed IN
the uniform of Il naval officer, stepped
from the sidewalk and hurled Il bomb at
the carriage.
The assassin's aim was at fauit Tor
the bomb struck the pavement several
a tIp of the carnage. Even
then the force of the explosion was so
great that the carriage was demolished.
Gov.-Gen. D0ubassoff WAS hurled lor-
ward under the horses heels. 1t is
thought the assassin was the student IN
whose rooms a bomb exploded on Satur-
day killing three accempiiccs.
March Il bold attempt on DoubaS-
soff's life was frustrated by the arrest OF
woman who had actually invaded the
palace with a bomb i'll her hair.
Forty-fve Years in the Navy.
Vice Admiral Douhassoff entered the
navy in 1880 as a midshipmaI. and Won
his St Georges medal. the highest deco
IA ton for bravery the CZal can beStoW,
during the RuSso-Turkish war, when. as
lieutenant. he fought side by side
with Makaroff. who went down i'll the
petropavlovsk at Port Arthur.
But it is as Il diplomat aud n states
has won his renown in Russia. He is Il
natural born leader of men, stern, harsh
and 4 severe taSkmaster-
Terrorist Harvest of Death.
Tue terrorist branch of the Russian
revolutionary party has been active in
the last five months. the list OF notable
transformations of Russian officials since
December /. 1905. including:
December Gen. Sakharof, at SaratoH;
shot and killed by woman.
December 29-Chief of police of Moscow
killed by bomb.
january 4-Governor of Ufa; killed by Il
bomb.
of governor general of CaucaSia: shot.
February 1-Gov. Falonef of Potaya;
shot.
April s-Governor of liver; killed by Il
April 29-Chief of police of Odessa; killed
by bomb
In addition a score or more of chiefs Of
police in smaller cities of Russia and
Poland have been killed by bombs. On
February II a woman tried to kill Vice
Admiral Chouknin, governor of Sevasto-
pol. He was severely but not danger
ously wounded The woman was shot
and killed by his orderly.
Carried Bomb in Candy Box.
1t turns out that the man who at
tempted yesterday to assassnate Dou-
bossoff was Il revolutionary disguised as
naval officer. which enabled him 20
approach the palace without creating
suspicion. He carried the bomb i'll a
candy box and had a false passport III
which his name was given as Metz,
which proved his connection with the
three revolutonists who were killed by
the explosion of bomb III their room
on Saturday last. that being the name
under which the apartment occupied by
the reyolutionists was rented.