Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-19
THE FEAR OF ASSASSINATION
Plots That Were Woven Around Alex ander IL. and the Bomb That Shat That Failed to Kill Alexander Ill.


 of tn" ears may extend the world round Wherever the ruler of all the Russas 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 Soloricff. wearing the uniform of ah official, passed the guards one day. and again tue cZ;9r was fired upon Alexander ran for the palace. Solo, r,eff followed him and fired three times. The ear ran in ZigZagS. how ever. and SD es, aped. Not long after ward two mines were laid 10 blow up tee imperial train One did not ex- psodr. but the second wrecked the train Once more the cZar escaped. Watcisiu" eles had saved titn. their owners having perstadtd the ralar to t1ke anelhn,, trai'.
 = t.t'ii' Alexander II. owed his life to tlsp fact that tt taGie h1tt=to q fant tf@r a' 'iit !,a,;tce. \ hnui4 63rN l.ft.aa e'st Il .ar..t I"rriiol, Il i!:,. i!al,t..i resi- et*.t ''. i#i 4'se' r:::tf "1> r5#t t'gc>cnt
 js:5t of II r.ir ase"fsl,;,, 9.4 tht ives of i.,'~ it's r!i,"r> W. >'#3d s.a' f1oSt e.Eear'} fer tl,"jr ar'a2j'3: i1.=, unity. Ore '"lls IL" ~tot.s vi :, G.:t.a ;.!sl1re taatiots slcp iH }iH|aII :;u,!3taja street ks5'..rn. f..=u H34>.e,>.a# tn the police, LOCK i..p shop aEa Sc, out to impress th" l.aljer. who "-trt al Ways making ~uf..3H i&@fe4ti,n> of premises aiUiI-; tue tliornu@htares through which .tlaxander II passed, that lic was nofhiae but provish,n dealer Nearly every OH" in that street was T paid spy, bu, kobozeff joked with his customers. pleased his purveyors aad was most affabie and apparently harmless
 Tic dealer inspired confidence, and his custom increased gradually. No wonder. for most pf tue parcels that his customers were carrying away by day contained nothing but earth earth that during the night hours had been scrlped by the man and his wife from beneath the street. It was by such ingenious method that a tun- ne, was holowtd and cleared under the thoroughfare and a mine laid be neath tho way the czar often passed an innocent couch upon which the housewife slept covering the entry to the tunnel
 Set all the work was useless. On tiie day the scheme was to be carried dut the czai upset all the arrange 'DentS by going off 10 lunch with the Graud Duchess Catherine Michaelovna
 Among those who were watching on behalf of lie terrorists was bcauti fcl girl-a countess. too--naEled Pa revSkaya. It was she wio. seeiug the altered arrangements. gave warning Tae cZaf would return to the palace another way Along this route four men carrying bombs were stationed. One threw his. Men and horses were killed all around, but the cZar stepped from his coach unscathed. A second man 8loldinS bomb came forward and Threw it. This time the effect 1ss awful" says Waclaw Gasiorow. xxi, who describes the incident in his book. Tragic Russia" ''The czar fell as if cut by a scythe. His legs were shattered 10 pieces" So died the czac who had escaped as by miracle many times.
 Alexander III. followed. and there were attempts upon his fife. The tional in the entire list of nihilist plots.
 On a bright autumn day the impe- rial train travelled at full speed on the track we'll guarded by soldiers. 1t was toward noon. The imperial family were in the dining car. where lunch was about to be served. The cook and his help were making the last prepara. tions for it when an assistant w.s taken ill
 The court physician attended thu. man and. having stated that he had fever. with symptoms of some inex. plicabIe ailment. decided that the man could not remain in the imperial train. and he was left at the next station.
 The train moved forward toward Borki. travelling at the speed of eighty kilometers an hour. Then the cleo trical bell notified the cook that the imperial family were ready for lunch con. A few seconds after the bell sounded terrific noise was heard. and a violent explosion changed in the twinkling of an eye the luxurious in,- perial train into heap of broken iron. of wrecked cars. of mu:ilated cornSas anvnlored in smoke and made all the more narrowing by the moan ing and cries for help of the wounded. Yet the czar escaped: The dining room car that the nihilists had in. tended should be grave for the czlr. his family and his suit saved him. for although its roof and floor were wrecked it's sides were preserved