Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-17
DUKE IS GUARDS TARGET.
TON WHILE REVIEWING ONE
OF CARS REGIMENTS.
BLANK FIRING TOO REAL.
President Of National Defense Council
Escapes Being Shot-Neva "Ac-
cident" Is Repeated.

HatlOndI deIeuSe, ndItONIy eScdped as
sassinatiOn yesterday afternoon at the
hands Of the imperial guards in the
camps at krasnoye-Selo.
The reign OF crime in the interior con-
tinues For instance, at Libau, the
postmaster has been killed and robbed
Of $4,000. The attack on the grand
duke was real enough despite the denial
Of the authorities.
Thus far the Associated Press has
only been able to obtain meager details
of the affair, from which it appears
that the grand duke was personally re-
viewing, maueryerng and putting the
troops through bank-iring practice,
when he suddenly was startled by the
wasp-like hiss Of bullets about his head.
Fortunately neither himself nor his
horse was touched
Commands to Cease Fire.
The command to cease firing was inn
mediately given and the soldiers Of the
regiment from which the bullets came
and on investigation was begun in the
hope of ascertaining from the barrels
of the rifles which of the soldiers fired
ball cartridges. Several arrests are I'M
destood to have been made.
One Of the grand dukes aid de camp,
who, however was not personally pres
ent, advanced to the Associated Press
the theory that possibly the bullets were
fired by accident but he considered that
beyond a doubt there was a plot on the
part of a number of disloyal guardsmen,
who deliberately planned to take the
grand dukes life under cover of the
general blank-cartridge firing.
Like Winter Palace Attack
at was not more an accident" the
aid de camp said, than was the firing
Of the charge of grape from the saluting
battery at the winter palace on the oc-
caSiOn of the ceremony of blessing the
waters of the Neva by the Emperor
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 Selo today and spend
week with the soldiers of his imperial
guards.
1t was definitely established later that
the shots were fired by the First batal-
lion of the sharp shooters of the guard,
who advanced in rushes, while making
sham attack on an intrenched position.
Fully Il hundred shots were fired. but the
impatience of the cOnspiratOrs led them
TO open fire at such 4 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 precau-
ton to make a special examination of
the cartridge pouches of the soldiers i'm
mediately before the Inaugural ton Of the
movement of the troops.
Reign of Crime Continues.
An incredible state of affairs reigns
at Warsaw ana LODI. The Inhabitants
are at the mercy of bandits Anarchists
and terrorlSts. Murders and rObberieS
reports of which are not published, occur
daily. The authorities apparently are
powerless.
At LODI today six Anarchists attacked
n German factory owner and his clerk
who were returning from the bank, shot
and killed both and decamped with 500.
Six hundred pounds of dynamite was
stolen by reyOlutionists today at Uzovka.
The police have discovered in a village
near Moscow a secret printing establish
ment of the revolutionary league where
the Viborg and Terjioki manifestos to
the army and navy have been printed.
The police also captured three bombs.
Nine. Efrenoff Arrested
1t is learned that among the members
Of the revolutionary committee recently
arrested in Moscow was Nine. Efrenoff
who is SAID to have been the chief of the
central organization of the social revoIu-
tionists and peasants league of the Mos
COW district.
At the session of the central commit
tee of the OctOberiSts tomorrow, in Mos
COW, the progressive drift of TIE coun-
try will be recognized by proposals for
universal suffrage direct in the cities
and in two stages OF the country, and
the enlargement of the powers of Par
lament to include a revision of treaties
as well as Il discussion of loans. taxes
and concessions. NJ. Shipoff, former
finance minister, will also propose the
N If no of
pire, or upper house, as an advisory
body with DO legislative powers.
For Free Education.
The platform Will adopt negative
attitude on the proposition for a general
appropriation of land. mentioning only
division OF state, crown and church
lands. 1t will recommend the abolition
OF the communal system the ameliora-
ton of the condition of the Workmen
and measure providing that free edu-
cation should be the first care of Parlia-
ment.
The workmen of all the factories at
Reval struck today as mark of sympa-
thy with the mutineers of the cruiser
Pamyat Azova, who are about to be
tried by court-martial.
At Tashkent. Asiatic Russia. the con
troller Of the Central Asian railroad was
murdered on the street yesterday.
Girl Rebels Nerve Bad.
ODESSA Aug 11.-For the space of
a minute last night the life of Gen.
Kaulbars, the governor general. depend
ed on the nerve Of beautiful Is year old
girl he met within a few PAGES of his
palace entrance.
The girl had been chosen as his aSsas-
sin. \ bomb with which she was to ac-
complish her task lay in the reticule she
carried. Unexpectedly confronted by her
intended victim, the girl hurriedly sought
TO open the reticule. Her nerve failed
at the crucial moment. The bag fell to
the ground and the bomb exploded,
leaving Gen. Kaulbars unframed.
Would Kill Hostess Father.
It was learned from official sources to-
day that Barbara Print, daughter of
Lieut. Gen. Printz. who yesterday made
the atten!pt TO kill Gen. kaulbars. az
rived here a week ago from Warsaw on
invitation of the daughters of Gen. haul-
bars. with whom she WAS educated She
frequented the generals house daily
watching HIM closely, and preparing to
make an attempt on his life.
Papers found in her room prove that
Mile Printz belonged TO the Terrorist
section of the social revOlutionists and
tbot she came 10 Odessa commissioned