Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-02-27
TO KILL GRAND DUKE
PLOT AIMS AT ASSASSINATION
OF NICHOLAS.
TERRoRlsTs REoRGANIZING
Many Guns and Bombs Are Being
Manufactured to Wipe Out
Whole Romanoff Dynasty.

st. Petersburg, Feb. 23.-An off
cial announcement was made yester-
day by the ministry Of this into rior
concerning <sie plot which was discov-
cred and frustrated two days ago by
the police, the object of which was
the assassination of Grand Duke
Nicholas NichCMievitch, second cou-
sin of Emperor Nlcnolas, and COM
mander of the imperial guard, and Nj.
Chtcheglovitoff, the minister of JUS
tice.
The official announcement ascribes
the attempt directly to the social
revolutionary party, whose terrorist
association was reorganized in May OF
last year after having been allowed
to relapse after the congress held in
Finland in the spring of 1906. AT the
time OF reorganization the sum of $780,
600 monthly was assigned for espion-
age and the preparation of bombs and
other instruments of death. The
group to which the execution of these
latest crimes was entrusted is official
ly designated as the mobile fighting
detachment of the northern district
The socialist revolutionary party
four months ago made an unsuccessful
attempt to assassinate Minister
Chtcheglovitoff on the accession of the
funeral of General MaXimoffsky, direc-
tor OF the prisons of the ministry of
the interior, who was killed in this
city by Mile. Ragozannikova, and it is
responsible also for the assassination
of Lieut.. Gen. Vladimir Pavloff Jan. g,
1907, Maj. Gen. vladimir Pavloff Jan. 9
Jan. 8, 1907, and M. Guiedma, COVER
nor of the political prison on Basil
island on Jan. 80 of the same year.
The murderer of nj. Guidema, for
whom the police have been searching
in vain since the crime, is among
those arrested the day before yester-
day. This group of terrorists is in no
wise connected with the Maximalist,
which executed the attempt upon
Premier Stolypin at his villa in this
city in 1906, and which has put through
several big political robberies in st.
Petersburg and Moscow.
The selection of Grand Duke Nicho-
Las and M. Chtcheglovitoff for assassi-
nation has occasioned some remark.
as neither the grand duke nor the
minister has been active in repressive
measures. In M. Chtcheglovitoff the
reyolutionists apparently were trying
to Kill not the man. but the head of
the department responsible for the
political trials of last year, as we'll as
the prison regime under which thou
sands of revolutionists have suffered
Frand Duke Nicholas, although not
directly connected with the admins
tration, except by his position of nomi-
nal commander of the troops in st.
Petersburg, has been held up by the
revolutionists to the popular gaze as
the patron of the reactionary organiza.
ton and malevolent influence upon
Emperor Nicholas.
The police have discovered on Basil
islands the headquarters of the north.
ern organization. In a secret cham
Der were found, in addition to a GUAM
tlty OF reyolvers and cartridges. two
powerful bombs of the finest workman
snip and great quantity of great
explosives of enormous force. The
tenant OF the building where this find
was made, and who was arrested on
the street with bomb in his pocket.
has been identified as an accomplice
In the murders of Lieutenant General
Pavloff, MAJOR General Won der Laun-
ltz and General Maximofsky.
-Four dodgers in the building. two
men and two women. also were arrest
ed and are now confined in for
tress. The two women arrested YES
terday in Finland are shut up in the
same fortress.