Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-08

sndcr II. and the Eonao That Shat
 ters1 His Body-An informal Machine
 Tbet Failed to Kill Alexender III.
 The shadow that falls across the path of tho cZars naH extend the world round. Wherever the ruler of all the Hlssias may happen to le, there the shadow of fear lies
 Once in Paris, once in the palace gardens. Alexander II. was fired at. Again in the Winter Palace square pre Solorieff. wearing the uniform ot lN official, passed the guards one day, and again the cZar was fired upon. Alexander ran for the palace. Solo, l,ief followed him and fired three ll,ncs. The czar run in zigzags, how yer. and so escaped. Not long after ard two mines were laid to blow up
 =. ii&ae"i;'J train. One did not ex- |. ,,r. but the second wrecked the .4:n. once more the ear escaped. s.'4.rh:l.: eyes ila sssNen hri. their
 N acrS huyie- persuaded the ruler to s.fke a>othe: rain.
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 ;u' tt HH h,, a;ieiHpts oH the !it'~ I.us~5&'S r.I.cl> iWn ~laEd ,sUt l1'.s' .earle frr .hejr a.G1zf= in-elfii,N ,,re .ii~ tAr story .: il ;f!jr Hspre- tei.;ir1.> st,s js Mala4 siaNaia .-',c. !, z:,-t sA.s. '!l.s,;A''' Nn |" U, f'alice. tooN tae shop atlu se ont ia impress the lt!!tr. who were al- ',:.X> making >1i,..t.-n i9~j7rr;ion> nt j,t,>!pi~t~ a!ol- h" iiornu-htareS thro1. ii uhicA .A,.XaHder H. tea>S.'d ;lat l." WAS netllin- but a provision .:na',r Nearly every on" i!' that street Was paid spy. but koboztf lDk,.t! with his customers. pleased his ,urycyorS aud was most afi'able and apparently harlalcS>.
 Thr dealer inspired confidence, and nis custom increased gradually. No M:}Mtler. for mos; of the parcels that his eJl>tolIrrs were carrying away by ,,av contained ne>hing but earth earth that during the night hours had been scraprd by the man and his Wife from beneath the street. It was lyF such ingenious method that q tun ne, was heiowed and cleared under llr thorouyhfare and d mine laid le. neuth the way the ezar often passed, ;;n innocent couch upon which the housewife slept covering the entry fo the tunnel.
 Yet all the work was useless. On nc day the scheme was to be carried 0G, he czar upset all the arran:-e- .leHtS Eby eoin@ off 10 lunch with the Grand Duchess Catherine Michaei"vli.l.
 Among those Ni!o were watching on hrilalf of the terroriStS WaS a heauti. ;uI 2ir1-a countess. too-named Pa rp.skaru IL was she who. seeing the a,t2trd arrangements. gave warning ray czar would return to the palace cuutiicr way. Along this route four n.cn carrying bombs were stationed i,nc threw his Men aud horses Were killed all around. but the ear stepped from his coach unscathed. A serond man holdin. a bomb came fnrWal'i and threw it. This time the effect was awful." says Waclaw GaSi"rHN:- ski. who describes the incident in hi, book. Tragic Russia" '.'he czar feli as if cut bv Scythe. His legs Were shattered 10 pieces" So died the tH:si' who had escaped as by a mlaci,' many timrS.
 Alrxander H. followed. and there were atte mptS upon his life. The fourth wa> one of hr most SenS;l- tionai in the ire list of nihiliS, plots
 On bright autumn day the imp.- rial train travelled at full speed on ;he track we'll guarded lay soldiers. l. WH~ toward noon. The imperial family were ia tEe dining ear. where lunch was about to be served. The cook and his help were making the last prepar;' 1 tions for it when an assistant was taken ill.
 The court physician attended the man and. having stated that he had fever. with symptoms of some mex plicable ailment, decided that the ma could not remain in the imperial train and he was left at the next station
 The train moved forward tow..t Borki. travelling at the speed of eighty { ki!ometers an hour. Then the cleo trical ba.l notified the cook that tt!' imperial family were ready for lunch con. X few seconds after the h"l sounded q terrific noise was heart. and a violent explosion changed in th'
 twinkling of an eye the luxurious i"l perial train into a heap of hro,:Hl iron, of wrecked ears. Of mutilalef
 corpse>. enveloped in smoke and mad
 all the more narrowing by the uie"t
 ing and cries for help of the wound2t
 Yet the cZ;>r escaped. The diA!N
 room car that the nihilistS had r. tended should be d grave for the c.,"'
 his family and his suit saved him. T.
 although its roof and floor "ef wrecked it's sides were preSerNct |