Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1904 — SLAIN BY AN ASSASSIN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SLAIN BY AN ASSASSIN.

Bomb Ends Life of Smilan Minister of the Interior. M. von Plehve, Russian Minister of the Interior, was assassinated at 10 o’clock Thursday morning while driving to the Warsaw station to visit the Emperor at the Peterhof palace. A bomb was thrown under the Minister’s carriage, completely shattering it. M. von Plehve was terribly mangled. The assassin was arrested. The coachman was killed and the wounded and maddened horses dashed wildly away, only the front wheels of the carnage remaining intact. Immediately there ensued a scene of the wildest confusion. Police and gen-

darmes hurried up from every direction and vast crowds gathered about the spot where the mangled body of the Minister lay In his blood. For 100 yards the roadway was strewn with the wreckage of the carriage and pjeces of the red lining of the Minister’s official overcoat. A few yards from M. ' von" Plehve’s body lay the body of the coachman Guarded by police the body remained in the street until the arrival of the official corresponding to an American coroner, even in the case of the most powerful Minister of the empire the law requiring that this formality had to be observed before the bodjr could be removed. After this official had viewed the body It was placed in a carriage, covered by a robe and was drjven slowly to a little chapel adjoining the railroad station and then to Plehve’s magnificent town residence, adjoining the Ministry of the Interior. The prefect of police notified the Emperor of the tragedy Immediately upon its occurrence. The Emperor, who was at the villa Alexandria, at Peterhof, was greatly affected by the news, coming, as it did, after the bad tidings from the seat of war, with fears of International complications and the strain incident upon the hourly expectation of an event so close to the father’s heart Recent assassinations and attempts at assassination of officials in Russia include the following: M. Bogolepoff, Minister of Educa"tlon, Feb. 27, 1901. M. Slplagulne, Minister of the Interior, April 15, 1902. Obolenski, Governor of Kharkoff (wounded), Aug. 11, 1902. General Bobrikoff, Governor of Finland, June 17, 1904. Vlatsheshaff Constnntinovitch von Plehve, Minister of the Interior, July 28, 1904. The Texas Railroad Commission is In receipt of nu application from the Galveston commercial bodies requesting that the commission call n hearing to consider the matter of canceling the present rates on cotton and adoptiug a tariff on a strictly mileage basis. Plans have been formulated for the incorporation of the Atlantp aud Pensacola Railroad, which will build from Andalusia, Ala., to Pensacola, and form a direct line from Atlanta to the latter point, using connection with the Central Railroad of Georgia.

VON PLEHVE, “THE TERRIBLE.”