Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1893 — A RUSSIAN TRAGEDY. [ARTICLE]

A RUSSIAN TRAGEDY.

Mayor of While Presidm|||>ver Council. The Assassin Arrested' Ahe Mayor a Fav. orlte of the C*-?/—Supposed Niuim'auot. The mayor of Mq&lbw was shot In the abdomen with a tifMver, Tuesday, by a man named AdrifJoff. Adrianoff has been arrested. Tbijsity council had met In the city hall tiftelect a new mayor. Mayor Alexejeff h|M just called tho meeting to order, whery Adrianoff pushed his way past the doof leeper and entered tho reception room vfjflch opens Into the council chamber. ll(f|emanded loudly to see the mayor, and Kg Alexejeff left the chair to ascertain hisfjiusiness. Adrianoff began to reproacMfim with dishonesty and oppression of fm people. M. Alexejeff ordered him to Have the building. Adrainoff tHm drew a revolver and shot the mayorain tho stomach. Three councilors ran/® the reception room,seized and disarmc4Jfdralnoff before he could lire again andliellvered him tp the police. Others earri<i§Mayor Alexjeff to his private office Wjjlre a physician dressed tho wound and cStored him to conciousncss. Adrainoff islf a respectable middle class family livirtjTsome distance from the city. Tho MayoßSas been In high favor with the Gzar, dpi the tragedy is believed, to bo the result® a Nihilistic plot.