The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19
LOOKING INTO
 RUSSIAN GRAF I

St. Petersburg, March 1S-(Special)- The disclosures from the government in resignation into state and municipal cor ruption in Russia are causing a painful feeling. Certain St. Petersburg city coun- cillors are alleged to be involved in ex- tensive frauds.
 Twenty agents of M. Neidhardt, the senator visited the offices and factory of the Westinghouse company, which buiit the St. Petersburg tramways, and made a search among the company's s books last ing six hours It now seems apparent that the Czar will have thorough exam ination into the operations of the west inghouse company in the empire made. It was recent disclosures in the opera tions in this country that led to the first susnicions of corruption. The Czar is most carefully following the senatorial inquiry.
 His majesty has received M. Neidhardl, at whose instigation the government Is taking criminal proceedings against M. Dandre, the president of the reVlslohal committee of the St. Petersburg munich pality.
 The first important trial resulting fro11 the inquiry has been in progress at Mos cow Colonel Poliakoff, administrator or the commissariat department of the Mos COW military district, is charged Wila systematically demanding and receiving bribes from contractors.
 Russia will build great navy, the work already outlined to extend over period of four years. The council or mlh- isters will ask the imperial duma to vote s5O. .0oO. GOO for the construction of four bat tleships of the latest type and largest size The work is expected to begin tniS year and be compelled in the year l9l5. The fur dealers of Irbit, in the govern ment of Perm, have decided to request the prime minister to prohibit the calchihs of sables for two years. being conVlnceu that only by this means can the extlnc- ton of the sable be prevented. The fur- industry is one of the chief occupations Of this section.
 tragic development of the recent murder by microbe" trial in St. Peters- burg has occurred, Mime. de Lacy, Wife of Count O'Brien de Lacy. who was sen fenced for complicity in the death Of has brother-in-law, having lost her reason as | a result of the disclosures. | After the sentence was passed on tne
 
 courts quietly and vent home. Then at | o,cloclS the next morning she vanished. General Buturln, her father twhom the nrisoners had also plotted to murder), | feared she had committed suicide and asked the police to search for her. Mime. do Lacy was discovered in an electric tramway car. She was gazing at the other passengers with distraught looks, and when approached answered incoher- ently.
 car and hastened away, but was Followed and nursued and persuaded to enter po- | Iice station. Taken home, she was ex- | amined by physicians, who pronounced her bereft of reason. She recognizes no one. and was utterly worn out. For tWo days she had apparently been wander ing without shelter or sleep in the neigh borhood of St. Petersburg. During ms | trial her husband declared that he had married her for her money. lie was sen | fenced for penal servitude for lie l N, cniridonoff. a wealthy Moscow mer- chant who is about to celebrate his gold | on wedding. has sert out invitations en- eraved on thin sheets of gold, worth $2OSl each. instead of the usual cards. | Two deaths from exposure at their posts of duty during the recent plzafa hase caused much comment Alter nlsh, ol ,atansa cold. over 50 degrees below zero ,,a,ng repistered Russian sentry al rronstadt was found dead in his sentry box. and sailor was discovered frozen to death on the quay. The frozen corpses
 were found at their posts as if still or
 duty.
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