New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-17
ALTKHAN0FF KILLED.
BOMB IT 1LEXANDROPOL.
Wife Of General GEebof. Also
Loses Life an Explosion.

Alexandropol. July 16.-General AIikhanoff.
former Governor General Of Tlnis; Nine. Gle
boff. wife Of General Glieboff and the coach
man who driving their carriage were blown
TO pieces by bombs thrown at their conveyance
at go O'Clock this morning.
A son of General Alikhanoff and daughter of
General Glieboff sustained serious injuries.
The party was returning to the residence of
General Alikhanoff from his club The bombs
were hurled in Beboutoff street
General Alikhanof was nicknamed the wild
beast by the Caucasian members of the lower
house Of parliament. who often referred to his
cruelties in the Kutais district. where he led i
number Of punitive expeditions. His rigorous
methods to this end brought him the enmity of
the rcVOlutOnists.
General Alikhanoff was seriously injured by
bomb at Borjam on May 30 of last year. This
bomb was thrown just as he was about to take
train for Tiflis Its explosion seriously wounded
in addition TO the general a member of his staff
and several Cossacks The remainder Of the
Cossacks fired into the crowd, killing many per-
sons and then burned to the ground the build
ings into which the people had fed
The fate that has at last overtaken General AK
hanoff was decreed for him more than year ago
by the Russian terrorists in reprsal for his msn
DDS of suppressing disorder in Transcaucasla III
1905. For several months In the fall of that year
the government of Kutais province was ~
IN the hands of the revoluuonists, VINO heLu INC
entire line Of the railway from the Black sea 10
the Suram tunnel which they had blockeu pg ~
rlodng dynamite within it. disloging huge pieces
Of rock, which fell across the tracks ...,- 81,
To General Alikhanoff was assigned the task OF
restoring and of bringing peace TO the re-
gion Arriving in the disturbed district ne an.
nounced that he would make the grandchildren OIL
the youngest persons then living there TO tretIple
81 his name. He then sent column OF CossackS
through the fertile valley of the fAon 20 Iay ~ II
waste by fire and sword. More than hfty slhall
towns were destroyed. hundreds of men We're
slaughtered while the women ana elrls MetS e ~,
served for a more fearful fate at the hands or the
troopers Many OF those who succeeded in making
their escape from the soldiers did so only TO perish
nom cold and hunger in the mountains.
The atrocities committed attracted universal at
.entlon. and the Armenian Bishop of Skusha pre-
ferred charges of serious nature against AK
forced to appoint commission TO investigate them
klikhanof was condemned, and the central gov
eminent was at last moved 10 intervene ana 10 re-
press the represser.
dfYerentlv known as the Butcher Of Kutais' and
&c the .Paciher of Kutais.' The mere checking or
10 be an adequate punishment for his misdeeds 10
the terro-ists who thereupon sentenced him 10
death The first attempt 10 carry out the sentence
In May Of last year was unsuccessful d4louel no
fever than eight bombs were thrown at him at
the time. ..,- ~
active part in the Russian advance INTO EN-. "a
Asia OF Circassian birth and thoroughly Versed
IN Oriental ways, he proved himself TO De an astuSe
and useful officer 10 his commanding generals II
was due 10 his diplomacy that the merry 1tkhes
,na5a their submission Russia, and he was a
valuable assistant to General Kouaron at the time
n the dispute between England and Russia over
the boundary deImitation Of Afghanistah IN 4o9s
and 1856 As a colonel commanding a colunnh OF
C,oesacks he led ~. attack at Penjdeh that WOulu
doubtless have plunged the rbal countries nto
var but for the Indifference OF the Amer as 10 ms
+itIe 10 the district which lis British aliles lot
their own strategic purposes, We're SO anxious 10
secure TO him.