Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — PLOT TO KILL THE CZAR. [ARTICLE]

PLOT TO KILL THE CZAR.

Rasa lan Secret Service Men Claim to Have Discovered Such. Russian secret service agents claim to have discovered a new and alarmingly formidable plot to assassinate the Czar. The discovery, coming at the same tima with the frantic anti-war demonstration in front of the Governor’s palace at Moscow, has claused great excitement. The secret service lias discovered that the plot to assassinate the Czar and other Russian leaders was laid in England, and hurried requests were sent to the police of London, Manchester and Liverpool to seize the plotters. It is now known that many, perhaps all, of tha plotters fled England before the warning reached tha secret police there, and tfiey are believed to have reached Russia on their errand of murder. The wild unrest, following the students' riots and anti-war riots in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities will, it is feared, serve to hide the plotters until they can make their attempt on the life of the Czar and his ministers. The plot, it is declared, was discovered through the seizure of incriminating correspondence between plotters in Moscow and in Manchester, England, and the two men wanted at Manchester had fled before they could be apprehended. Four persons were killed and sixty wounded during the battles between the troops and the 3,000 students assembled in front of the Governor's palace in Moscow. Three hundred have been arrested. More than 3,000 students participated in the riots and they were not dispersed until after the police had made _ savage attacks with drawn sabers and’ had fired several volleys into the crowd. The authorities knew in advance that trouble was impending, and several squadrons of mounted gendarmerie were concealed in the court yards of houses, ready for an emergency.