Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-03-30
FATHER GAPON TO SUE.
ANSWERS CHARGES AND SAYS HE
HAS MARRIED DESPITE RULES
OF HIS CHURCH.
HE ANSWERS THE CHARGE
Denies He Grated and Sold Out Work
ingmen-Count Witte Gave Him
Permission to Stay.

SIT. PETERSBURG, March &C.
Father Gapon in frank, open letter to-
day replies to the attacks on his public
and private hfe announced that he has
instructed his lawyer, M. Margolin, to
bring an action for defamation OF char
acter against his detractofs and denies
the charge of betraying and abandoning
a girl while he was a prison chaplain.
Gapon explains that, refusing to fol
low the rule of the orthodox church pro-
hibiting the remarriage of priests, which
he de lares drives the clergy to secret
immc~a lily, he took to his bosom as his
wife girl whom he loved, and she is
still living with him.,
Continuing Gapon declares that CT the
sic. 900 which Premier White gave
through former Commerce Minister Ilmi-
riaZetT for the restoration OF the Gapon
labor organization, he only received
$500 al, of which was used to help the
workmen. The remainder was stolen py
Mathushensky, the, press agent.
Regarding the charge Of gambling at
Monte Carlo with mysterious money,
Canon says: During the bloody uprising
Mt Moscow | received money for literary
work and while abroad out OF simple
curiosity ! played for small stakes. a
review of my connection with the work
men $ movement VIII DlVNS lhhI NV y
was an agent of the government and
that | labored solely in the interests Oh
the workmen.
When he returned to ST. Petersburg
Canon admits that he communicated
with Count Witte, who gave nm per
mission to live here. considering that ms
work was constructive and not destruct-
i've"
Emperor Nicholas. in receiving depu-
tation of peasants from kaZan province
today employed n new and stronger
tone. He said nothing about satisfying
their hamburger and spoke only. OF the
inviolahility of the property, informing
the peasants that 4 recurrence OF agra
rian disorders and the destruction oil
property would not only be punished i'll
the most severe fashion but the COM
munities participating i'll the disorders
would be deprived Of the assistance OF
the peasant banks.
The papers continue to be filled with
rumors of Premier Witte's resignation
which they say has been offered to the
Emperor, but not acted upon
Sixteen Corpses Are Found.
Fishermen Of Warsaw say they have
found sixteen horribly mutilated corpses
in the River Vistula, near the citadel.
The c0rDscs were bound together with
roDcS and some of them lacked hands
and feet.
TEe governor general Oh Iltls has de-
ported to Siberia five employees OF small
bakery who recently struck.
The Rech says that Prof. Nicholsky,
a notorious leader of the Black Hun
drcd. has been appointed by Interior
Minister Durnovo to a position in the
ministry of the interior ut salary OF
$4,000.
The Finnish court which is trying the
men who robbed the Russian state bank
here February 26. getting away with
&27 800 in broad daylight, has asked for
the extradition of the three Russian stu
dents who were arrested OF Stockholm
recently on the charge of having been
concerned in the robbery.
The workmen in the Presnia and Lee
fort districts III Moscow pronounced
against a general strike before Easter.