The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-09-17

lDuke ssrslus was sssassinated. Tsep-
on namsd Governor eenerat 81
Mosro But q that tme revolution
agagftation strong u The capt.
staf. me sitnafton called q the
strongest man Russia M TreppR
was summoned o ST Petersburg.
Bceiveds the command OF the Imperial
Guard, and was made Governor Cen
Ieral Of the city. He took up his resi-
dence in the Winter Palace and be
came In fact, II not In name, Dictator
of Russia. Troops filed the streets.
and dead walls were. placarded with
notices that he troops had instruc-
tons to use nc blanks and that the
slightest disorder would be suppress
ed without mercy. Under his iron
hand the city became quiet
Among thoce who c~onspired against
him at this time were his two nfeces,
one a Baroness and the wife of a
Guard officer, the other Mile. Leon
tieH. They shot at him in his cabl-
net, but missed their mark. They es-
capped, and the Baroness threw herself
under a train and succeeded in com
hitting suicide. Mile. Leontfeff took
poison, but was saved, and then dis
appeared. She>was shut up for a time
in a lunatic asylum. but came into the
umslight again on Sept. | last. AT
Interlaken, in Switzerland, she shot
an aged Frenchman called Mueller.
mistaking him for NJ. Durrovo, a for
mer Minister OF the Interior, In the
Russian cabinet.
In June, 1905. Gen. Trepof was ap-
pointed Assistant Minister Of the In
terror. To all intents and purposes he
revived the hated Third Section, as
the political police were called, and
brought back the worst days of tyr
amy. In the Winter Palace he sat
all day in a room guarded on every
hand. Telephones kept him In touch
with all parts Of the city, aud he d.
rected the Imprisonment OF this man
and the exile of that without stirring
from his own npartmtnts. Only at
night would he venture out to inspect
his troops, and then he passed through
the streets hidden in a Red Cross am
bulance.
When Count Witte became Premier
in October Of last year and tried a
policy of moderate reform, Treron
seemed to acquiesce. He was really
only waiting the course Of events The
people were intoxicated with their
freedom, and exen Witte was soon
glad to have so strong a man as the
EGoyernor General of st. Petersburg
to suppress their disorder. Once again
his hand descended with ruthless
force, and fol a time he thrust back
the tide of reform by sheer cruelty.
The Gar was led to believe that
his only hope Of personal safety was
to trust himself to Trepoff. a4d SD q
few months ago he summoned tbs
General from st. Petersburg to be.
come Master of the Palace at Tsar-
skoe-selo.
Here he set himself with the aid of
Count Ignatiett to influence the Gar
toward reaction. They counseled firm
ness. They attempted to prove that
the people were not ready for liberty
They organized the Black Hundreds
through such willing tools as Hlrnovo.
They poisoned the Emperors mind
against tht Jews as the instigators OF
the revolution everywhere, and plan
med the antiJewish massacres for Eas-
ter, 1906, which were to demonstrate
to the Emperor how the real Russian
people had risen in their might to
smite the revolution and its a~gttdtors.
But even within the walls Of the
palace Trepoff w:.s not safe SIX at.
Itempts had cl.eai5 been made upon
him at various tlnIeE of his life, and
last June a seventh was nearly sue
cessful. A handsome woman called
upon him and sent in her namc as the
princess Marlshktn. Ills gnurds and
stan were all around, and he never
doubted for a moment that his visitor
was not as she represented herself
Ito be. AS he drew lhHar her .lI:sslis-
Iplciously the woman drew a revolver
from under her cloak n aimed at
him. one Of the guards saw her move
ments and had just time TO spring
forward and knock her hand upinto
the air.
On July 16 a certain Gen. KozIon,
a writer on military subjects, was
walking in the park at Peterhof and