The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-11

vrasp-lilSe hiss OF bullets about his head
Fortunately neither himself nor his
horse was touched. The command to
cease firing was Immediately given and
the soldiers Of the regiment from which
the bullets came were marched back to
their quarters and al investigation was
begun in the hope of ascertaining from
the barrels Of the rifles which of the
soldiers fired ball cartridges. Several
arrests are understood to have been
made.
one of the grand dukes aides-de-camp
who, however, was not personally pres
ent, advanced to the Associated Press
the theory that possibly the bullets were
fred by accident but he considered that
beyond doubt there was 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
1T was no more an accident" the
aide-de-camp said, than was the firing
of the charge of grape from the salut-
ing battery at the Winter palace on the
occasion of the ceremony of blessing the
waters of the Neva by the emperor d
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 Krasnoe-SelO today and spend
a week with the soldiers of his imperial
guards
AOMEL lAAAtAfL AOE A.UOU.
After the preliminary investigat lions
the military and naval prosecutors
have decided to try by court martial
no less than two thousand soldiers and
sailors who participated In the Cron-
stadt and Sveaborg mutinies. The
prospects of the men, however, have
been frightened by the decision of the
emperor to appoint two extraordinary
commissions headed respectively by
Generals Nodar and Guncheroff and
Admirals MOllas and MakarOn to in
VesUgate the causes of the o1Itbrea ks
at CrOnstadt and Svea borg and to de-
termine The responsibility for the de-
moralizatiOn. War Minister Rudgeri and
Minister of Marine Birileff. are said to
be arriving at the same conclusion as
Admiral Skrydloff, the commander of
the Black sea fleet that the officers are
more to blame than the men.
The commissions viii inquire into
the general conditions prevailing in the
navy and army and it may result in a
very great shakeup including the
wholesale cashiering and retirement of
commissioned officers. A proDositfon
to Through indefinitely the superfuous
sailors on the Baltic station is heinz
seriously considered. It is pointed ouf
enat there are no ships nor occupation
for them and that they are merely a
source of decentralization.
- Government to Make a Poll
ST. Petersburg. Aug. 11-Another in
oication OF the determination Of the
administration to participate vigorous
~ IN the electoral campaign is furnish
ed by an order of the minister If the
interior to the police throughout the
empire to make reports as speedily as
possible on all the political parties In
their district. their strength, organiza-
organs.
Count Heyden today contributed to
the controversy over the failure al
himself and his friends to enter the
ministry. an open letter declaring that
they insisted on being given at least
1lVe places in the cabinet in order te
nave prepOnderance but that they
were obliged to refuse the two places
finally offered as this would have made
them negligible quantity
Secret Printing Establishment
Moscow. Aug. 1.-THE police have
discovered in a neighboring village :
secret printing establishment Of tbe
revolutionary league. where the Vibore
and Ierjioh manifestos to the arrny
ana navy have been printed The no
lice also captured three bombs
1t is learned that among the Nom.
bers of the revolutionary comnaittee re-
Gently arrested in Moscow was RFroa
Efrenod, who is said to have been fbe
chief Of the central organization of Inc
serial reVolutionists' and peasanfs
league of the Moscow district
Fifty workmen agitators were ex.
PEELED Yesterday from Moscow.
At the session of the national coro.
mittee OF. 0ctoberists tomorrow, al
which the platform COMMITTEES viii
2 present new programme on which The
party expects to appeal to the country