Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-08-16
CARS GUARDS TRY
TO KILL NICHOLAS
GRAND DUKE COUSIN OF Rus
SIAN EMPEROR, NARROWLY
ESCAPES ASSASSINATION.
ATTEMPT rs MADE
DURING MANEuvERS
Soldiers Fire Ball Cartridges Instead
of 8lanks, hut Distance Ts Tao
Great-lntenced Victim Is unin-
iured.

of Blanks, aut Distance In Too
Great-lnteneed Victim is unIn-
iured.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 13.-Graud
Duke Nicholas NichGlategitch, 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-SaIo H.
The; grand duke was personally re-
viewing, maneuNering and putting the
troops through blankfring practice
when he suddenly was startled by the
wasp-Iihe hiss of bullets about his
head. The grand duke, surrounded by
bis officers and aids, was off on one
side OUT of the 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 ct the regiments from
which the bullets came We're 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 fred by the first
battalion Of the sharpshooters of the
gIard, who advanced in rushes, while
making sham attack on an in
trenched position. Fully 100 shots
were fired, but the mpatience of the
conspirators led them to open fire at
such a distance as; TO Illustrate their
object. Before the maneuvers began
all the ball cartridges we're taken
from the troops, and the officers had
taken the precaution to make a spe-
ctaI 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 tina!
possibly the. bullets were fred by &C
cidenE, but he considered that beyond
a doubt there was d plot On the par1
Of a number of disIoyaE guardsmen
who deliberately planned to take the
grand dukes life under cover of the
general blank-eartridge firing
1T was no more an accident" the
aid-de-camp said, than was the firms
OF the charge Of grape from the saIut
ing battery at the winter palace or
the occasion of the ceremony of bless
ing the waters Of the Neva by the EN-
peror i year and q 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 Krasnoyt
and pass week with the soldiers @
his imperial guards.
The affair has created a deep i'm
preston in military circles, and i.
the one topic of conversation in til,
clubs, but the attempt On the graut
here no word On the subject havin;
been published in the newspapers.
(Grand Duke Nicholas NichoIaie
witch is one of the sons of the grant
duke of the same name who was al
uncle to- the czar and died in 1891
The present Grand Duke Nicholaie
witch was born in St. Petersburg Nc
vember g., 1856. He entered the arm,
and ultimately attained the rank O
inspector general Of cavalry, and aid
de-camp on the general staff He hold
many honorable positions In the Rus
sian army, and is chief of various reg
inents including one Of Prussian bus
sars. When the St. Petersburg ger
eraI strike was proclaimed last weeA
and the: country seemed to- be facing
revolution. tt was reported that Gram
Duke Nicholas would be made cen
mander-in-chief Of the army, an
might rule the nation as a miIitar
dictatsr.y 1885,.
To court-MartiaF 1000 Men,.
St. Petersburg, Aug, 13--After th
preliminary Investigations the mill
tary and naval prosecutors have dc
cided to- try by court martial no les
than 1000 soldiers and sailors VIII
participated in the Kroustadt al
S1eaborg mutinies. The prospects C
the men, however, have been hrigh
ened by the decision of the emperu
to appoint two extraordinary commits
sioners, headed respectively by Gems
Vodar and Guncherof and Admiral
MolIas and MaAaroff,. to- investigat
the causes Of the outbreaks at KruI
s1adt and SveahorS, and to determiu
the responsibility for the demora
ization
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