Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-30
Grand Duchy to Be Divided Into
Zemstvos.
JULES vERNE'S DREAM OUTDol
POLICE SEEK A SPORTY NONE
CONTROLLING Powers I'm DominiOns Of
the Car Use Drastic Measures
60 Crush strike of Polish
WOrkmcn.
BY GEORGE FRASER.

ST. PETERSBURG, oct. 29-(Special to
The Bee)-The final and organic absorb
ton OF Finland into the Russian empire is
now matter Of only a short time. The
continuancy Of the latest Finnish Diet has
convinced official Russia that there ia no
more use in trying to bring Finland as q
separate entity into harmony with the bal
ance Of the empire, the semblance Of
separate identity will be wiped out the
grand duchy will be divided into zemstvos
and made a Russian province. Just when
I this will be done is not known but IL will
not be very long
Around the World.
Russia has made it possible to circle the
globe in thirty-seven days cutting Jules
Nerne's time in half Owing to the recent
improvements in the trans-S berian railway
| service the journey between VladivostooIc
ana Moscow has been accelerated twenty
tour hours Supposing passenger leaves
London on a Monday, he would reach
/ Yokohama on the second Monday after HIS
( departure, and by taking one Of the fast
steamers Of the Canadian Pacific line Van
couver could be reached in twenty-slx days
from London. and Of course, it is easy
enough # the steamers connect at New
York, to reach London in eleven days after
/ leaving Vancouver.
! The police Of Russia, Austria and Ger
many are searching for a fugitive Paulist
monk Father Damascus Macoch, who il
charged with the robbery of precious stones
valued at $3,OOOOOO and the murder of his
! brother, a postman.
The robbery took place year ago at
Czestochowa, in Russia Poland. The church
there contains an image Of the virgin ana
child ascribed to st. Luke. The image once
/ belonged to the mother OF Constantine the
Great and has been at Czestochowa since
1882.
Miraculous powers are ascribed to It and
inyriads or pilgrims have visited it during
the last six centuries. Some 100000 Poles
go there each year. The image had been
decorated with precious objects Of vast
worth, presented by popes, emperors and
kings The virgins crown, given by Pope
i Clement in l7l9, was valued at $4,000 A
robe OF pearls given by Queen Hedwig OF
Poland was worth hundreds of thousands
Of dollars. There was a painful sensation
throughout Poland when the news OF the
robbery Of Ss,OOOOOO worth Of the treasure
was made known.
Monk Was "a Sport.
Hhe missing monk, who was attached To
a CzestOchowa monastery, is said 10 have
been living riOtously with O. woman-said
by some to be his brothers wife and bv
others TO be telephone operator-at War
saw and other towns.
The discovery of BODY in the River
Warta adds to the mystery. The man
who had evidently been murdered, was
found sewn up in a sofa He proved 10
be Wenzel MacOch, a postman and brother
Of the monk
The public prosecutor had meanwhile
ascertained that the monastery authori
ties misled the police in their attempts to
/ trace the authors, both of the robberv
and the postman's death The monastery
has now been officially sealed and ex-
haustlye investigations ara taking place.
Several monks are under arrest A papal
delegate is understood TO have arrived
with orders to expel the Paulist monks
and to transfer the monastery TO another
order.
The police believe that the dead post
man had knowledge OF his brothers guilt
and that the monk caused him to be muir
dered in order that he might not denouncs
the authors Of the robbery.
Strike I'm Russia.
Russias ways Of dealing with q stIike
are Of the drastic kind which wouIdn't
be tolerated IN America, but which seem
TO be effcacious IN down-trodden POLAND
Six hundred disconnected tramwav men
in Warsaw "came out" the other dsv.
and 50 did the police and the military
These combined forces arrested all the
strikers. lodged them in gaol, forced them
next day to work the cars, each under
the escort Of four soldiers and traffic
was continued as usual" At the close
OF the day the men were conducted back
to prison.