Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-30
6aJeas the the c3ars.
 " HE FEAR OF ASSASSINATION
Plots That Were Woven Around Alex snder II. and the Bomb That Shat tered His Eody--An infernsl Machine That Failed to Kill Alexander ili

shceT U. ana the Bomb hat Shat
 tered His Body--An internal Machine
 That Failed to Kill Alexander Ill.
 The shadow that falls across he putf, of the cZars may extend the world ' re9nd. Wherever tue ruler of all the Russias may happen to t". there the shadow of fear ifps.
 Once in .l'arV;, once in tue palace gardens, Alexander II. was fired at. Again in the Winter Palace square pne SoIoriefi. wearing the uniform Of n official, passed the guards one day. and again the ear was fired upon Alexander ran for the palace. Solo rieff followed him and fired three times. The cZar ran fn ZigzaSS, how ever, and so escaped. Not long after ward two mines were laid to blow up tue Imperial train. One did not ex- plode. but the second wrecked tbc train. Once more the ezar escaped. Watching eyes had saved him. their owners having persuaded tho ruier to take another train.
 Later Alexander H. owed his life te tbe fact that he came late to q fune tion at the palace A bomb blew clean out a large portion of the imperial resi- s@s.e s.eirce. but the cZar was not present.
 But of all the attempts on the lives of RusSa'S rulers tWo stand oat most clearly for their amazing ingenuity. ' 0ae tells the story of a iitue unpre tentious shop ill Malaja Sadovaia street kobozeff. then unknown te the police, took the shop and set out to Empress the police. who were al ways making sudden inspections Of p.emises along the thoroushfares through which Alexander II. passed. that he was nothing hut q provision dealer Nearly every one in that street was a paid spy. but koboZeff ioked with his customers. pleased his mrveyors and was most affable and apparently harmless.
 - The dealer inspired confidence, and bis 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
  r~wife from beneath the street. 1t was by such ingenious method that tun- nel was hollowed and cleared under the thoroughfare and q mine laid be- heath the way the cZar often passed. an innocent couch upon which the housewife slept covering the entry to l1i1 1e tunnel.
 I vnf An fho nn day the scheme was to be carried
 the czar upset all the arrange
 by going of to lunch with the
 nnh6ln 1(therine Michaelovna. VllIhofg Eho were watching on behof of U Irorists was beauti- ;ul girl-a coo1tesS. too-named Pa lrcyskaya. It was she who, seeing the ' altered arrangements, gave warning. Cac czar would return to the palace another way. Along this route four ner carrying bombs were stationed } One threw his. Men and horses were tkilled all around. but the czar srepped Ajrom his coach unscathed. \ second man holding q bomb came forward and threw 1t. This time the effect
 
 ,who describes the incident in his Nook. Tragic Russia ''The czar fell lI If cut by scythe. His legs were \ Aattered to pieces" So died the czar Vyyho had escaped as by miracle flnany times.
 { Alexander III. followed. and there l~erc attempts upon his fife. The nf In ,ltiona in the entire list of nihilist plots,
 On bright autumn day the impe- rial train travelled at full speed on the track we'll guarded by soldiers. It was Howard noon. The imperial family @s ere in the dining car, where lunch Was about to be served. The cook and hi help were making the last prepara. titns for it when an assistant was talen i'll.
 Ehe court physician attended the man and. having stated that he had fever. with symptoms of some inex- lplicable 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 dlometers an hour. Then the cleo trical bell notified the cook that the -tmrerial family were ready for lunch con. A few seconds after the bell lsounded terrific noise was heard. and violent explosion changed in the -twinkling of an eye the luxurious inn perial train into heap of broken Iron. of wrecked cars, of mutilated corpses. enveloped 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 'rooln. car that the nihilists had in-