Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-10
RUSSIA AND ROYALTY
{ ShadcW That CSrke1s ths
 Path of the Czars.
THE FEAR OF kSSkSSINAT!ON
Plots That Were Wover Around Alex sraer II. and the Bomb That Shat tered His Hody-kn Infernsl Msc!1re That Failed to Kill Alexander Ill.

If the ears may exteud the world round. Wherever the ruler of all the Russias may happen to te. 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 pne Soloreff wearing the uniform of an official passed the guards one day. and again the cZar was fired upon Alexander ran for the palace. Solo rieff followed him and fired three times. The cZar ruu in zigzags. how oyer, ard sc escaped. Not long after walt1 two hines were laid 10 blow up he imperial train One did not ex- plodp hni the second wrecked the 1 lrsin. once more the ear escaped. Watching eyes had saved ii.ij. titr uME.r> LaN.a1 persuaded tlse ft!irr to t;tne ;.Jlr;t";' train.
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 Tie deaier inspired confidence. and , his custom increased gradually. No wonder, for most of the parcels that his customers were carrying away by day contained nothing but earth- earth that during the night hours had been scraped by the man and his wife from beneath the street. It was by such ingenious method that ,tun- nel was holowed and cleared under l neatb the way the czar often passed. an innocent couch upon which the 1 housewife slept covering: the entry 10 the tunnel.
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 the day the scheme was to be carried
 out the cZar upset ail the arrange
 .Aents by going off 10 lunch with the 1 ,N p1 rpth hn. q
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 fGl girl-a countess. too-named le- rcvSkava It was she who. seeing the altered arrangements. gave warning. | T4e czar would return to the palace another way Along this route four
 n:en carrying bombs were stationed. One threw his. Men and horses were 1 killed all around but the cZar stepped from his coach Unscathc0. 4 second ] man holding bomb came forward and threw it. This time the effect was awful" says Waclaw Gasiorow- ski. who describes the incident in his book Tragic Russia" '''rhe czar fell as if cut by scythe. His legs were !
 who had escaped as by a miracle many times.
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 were attempts upon his life The ! fourth was one of the most sensa- tiona in the entire list of nihilisI pl0ts
 On bright autumn day the impe rial train travelled at full speed oD the 1 ! It toward noon. The imperial family , wore in the dining ear. where lunch was about to be served The cook and his help were making the last prepara tions for 1t when an assistant was taken ill
 The court physician attended ,he man and. having stated that he had fever. with symptoms Of some mex pljcable aillnent, decided that the E3aI could not remain in the imperial train and he was left at the next station
 Enc train moved forward toward 1 Borki. travelling at the speed Of eighty l kilometers an hour Then the elec , trical bell notified the cook that th" imperia! family were ready for lunch con. A few seconds after the bel sounded terrific noise was heard and violent explosion ch&0ced in the twlnklng of an eye tue luxurious iul- perlal train into a heap Of hYol:eo ron. Of wrecked cars. of mu.i!atod cofpses' enSeloped in snlole and made all the more narrowing by the moan Ing and cries for help of the wounded
 let the c2ar escaped. The dining room car that the nihili>ts hal in- | tended should he a grave fer the czar. his family and his suit saved hiH. for although its roof and Aaar ,yer, wrecked its sides were preserved, They inclined toward the cenlar. 0yo'l. ped each other like two cHr.> ge,l s, I mained in that po>itior. pr0:tt,i4 fbOSa Wprp tESrp