Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1905 — BOMB THROWERS BUSY AT WARSAW [ARTICLE]

BOMB THROWERS BUSY AT WARSAW

Chief of Police Badly Hurt as One of the Results of a Plot. ATTACK ON A POLICE STATION Precedes the Attempt to Kill the Chief, and Wounds Six. Officer Is Hastening to That Point When He Meets the Assassin, Who Escapes, After Kilting a Pursuer. St. Petersburg, March 30. —A telegram from Sitjasa, Manchuria, under date of March 30, says: “The Chinese report that a Japanese column whieh is probably carrying out a flanking movement has been seen twenty-seven miles northeast of Fipinghai (seventy-four miles north Tie pass). St. Petersburg, March 30.—Officially the authorities continue to deny stoutly that Russia has made any proposals to Japan. This is literally true, as Russia has only made known the negative conditions—no cession of territory and no indemnity—leaving the intermediary to convey these conditions on its own responsibility to Japan. Diplomats in St. Petersburg are convinced that something is in progress, but none of those in a position to know will acknowledge that they are aware what„ actually has been or is being Qoite: Gunshu Pass, March 28.—The Japanese apparently have withdraw n from the region to the south of the Russian front. Cossack patrols which have been making extensive reconnaissances southward found no Japanese within thirty-five miles. General Lfneviteh is dispatching scouting parties east and west to guard against a possible turning movement. Warsaw-, March 27.—A bomb was thrown into the carriage of Baron Von Nolken, chief of police of Warsaw, at 8 o’clock last evening. The attack on Baron von Nolken was the result of an elaborate conspiracy of the revolutionary party.. Shortly before 8 p. m. an elegantly dressed man went to the police station at Praga, a large suburb of Warsaw, on the other side of the Vistula, and threw a bomb into the assembly room of the station, wounding six persons, two of them dangerously. The man started to run away, but was caught by the captain of the station. He was found to be a Jew. but his identity has not yet been discovered. Second Ilomb It Thrown. A telephone message was immediately sent to Baron von Nolken at the city hall. Informing him of the outrage. Baron von Nolken, accompanied by a police official, took a carriage and started immediately for Praga. When passing the castle where the governor general resides a man standing on the pavement threw a bomb at the carriage. Baron von Nolken. who was sitting on the side nearest the assailant received the full charge of the bomb, while his companion escaped unhurt. The coachman was throw n from the box and the carriage was smashed. Baron von Nolken was removed to the city hall, and doctors were summoned who found he had received injuries on the head, neck, arm and leg which are believed to be serious. Bomb-Thrower Get* Away. Meanwhile the police official accompanying Baron von Nolken saw the bomb thrower fleeing, and pursued and caught dp with him, but the criminal proved the stronger and tore himself away. Another policeman fired twice after him without result. Half an hour later a man was found dead in Sowia street, but he proved to be a plainclothes policeman who was seen pursuing Baron von Nolken’s assailant. The police believe that thelatter turned on the policeman and shot him dead. Baron von Xolken’s injuries are serious, but it is thought that be will recover. A girl who was passing the spot when the bomb was thrown was wouuded by splinters, and bad to be taken to the hospital. How the Plot Was Laid. According to the theory of the police the revolutionists calculated upon Baron von Nolken going to Praga on learning of the explosion of the bomb at the station there, and knew he must pass the castle, that being the only road by which be could reach the only bridge across the Vistula. The affair caused great excitement. A popular rumor says the revolutionaries adopted this course of informing the police that they have more bombs besides those discovered in the Powonski cemetery Saturday. BUSMAN POLITICAL SITUATION Men Who Noser Took Part In Politic* Are Now Actlvo Liberals. St. Petersburg, March 27. A very significant and important feature in connection with the political situation is tie fact that the disaster and ruin with which trade and Industry are threatened is forcing the merchant and commercial classes of the big cities into politics. Heretofore as a matter

business they have carefully refrained from meddling in the liberal movement, but the situation Is now so serious that they feel compelled to define their attitude, and everywhere they are pronouncing in favor of the liberal demands for the cessation of the war and for a constitution. The peasant movement in south and west Russia continues to spread. There has been a renewal of the burning and destruction of property in the Chernigoff government, the peasants attacking especially the property of M. Tereschtenko, a rich sugar refiner who has 400,000 acres planted to beets. Several landlords have been murdered. The peasants in other sections are taking armed possession of forest land, on which they had the right of cutting wood before emancipation, and are offering resistance to the police. The reference in the Warsaw account of the attempt on the life of Baron von Nolken to bombs found in a cemetery Is to the fact that the police at Warsaw discovered eighty bomlis hidden in a brick grave in the Powonski cemetery in Warsaw. A revolutionary movement of considerable proportions is making Itself manifest in connection with the industrial disturbances in the region around Siedlco, Blelsk, Vlodslavsk, Rodin and Lukov, south and southeast of Warsaw. The country has been flooded with proclamations of foreign and local origin calling for a rising in Poland. At Moscow an organized depot of arms and liombs was discovered recently on the premises of a rich merchant named Barassoff. Investigation disclosed a conspiracy to distribute arms. There have been over 800 arrestß in connection with the affair. FOB WHAT IT IS WORTH Bomor it P*rli That the Czar Failed at Attempted Suicide, Paris, March 30. A unconfirmed rumor from St. Petersburg is published here this morwtfig to the effect that Emperoy-NTcholas made an attempt to teomHrff” suicide and wounded himself In the hand, and that the emperor's design was frustrated by the intervention of bis mother, the empress dowager. The Journal’s St. Petersburg correspondent says that Emperor Nicholas is in daily consultation with competent personages of political, financial, diplomatic and military circles for the purpose of studying the question of peace from every point of view. Llnevitch Find* the Japs Again. London, March 29. —The Times’ St. Petersburg correspondent telegraphs, dating yesterday, as follows: “The entire absence of private and press telegrams from the front, together with a laconic message from General Linevitch tonight, dated Harbin, and saying ‘No reports from the armies.’ evolves fears that communications have been cut and that tne Japanese have turned the Russian positions.” As reported In these dispatches yesterday the Russians thought they had lost the Japs, but found out their mistake when the rear guard had to fall back on the approach of a Japanese column. Alt About Rojestveusky’a Fleet. Paris, March 27. —The foreign office confirms the news of the departure of the Russian warships from French waters of Madagascar several days ago. Sura. March 27. —The whole of Vice Admiral Negobatoff’s squadron has sailed southward.