Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1905 — SLAIN BY A WOMAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SLAIN BY A WOMAN.

Terrorist’* Hercr.ce on SarnhoJT, ExWar Minister, f<jr Atrocities. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, in a dispatch sent by way of Eydtkulmen, East Prussia, says: “Lieutenant General Saharoff, former minister of war, was assassinated. The government had deputed General Saharoff to visit the province of Saratov for the purpose of quelling the agrarian riots there. A woman belonging to the so-called ‘flying columns’ of the revolutionary movement called at the house of the Governor of Saratov and asked to see General Saharoff. She fired three revolver shots at the general, killing him on the spot. When arrested the woman who committed the crime declared that she had executed a decree of the terrorists’ section of the Social Revolutionists.” The'news of the assassination of Lieutenant General Saharoff, fqrmer minister of war, had been preceded by the most horrible stories of the manner in which Saharoff had been repressing the agrarian disorders. He corralled peasants with Cossacks and then had them beaten with the soldiers’ whips. In so doing Saharoff pursued

the system adopted by Prince John Obolensky, former governor general of Finland, in suppressing the agrarians in the vicinity of Kharkov 'several years ago. At that time the prince caused the peasants to be whipped by relays of Cossacks and compelled them in turn to beat their comrades. Father Gopon, leader of the workingmen at the inception of the labor troubles nearly a year ago, which led up to the present revolutionary movement, has been condemned to death by a tribunal named by the Central Revolutionary Committee. Two emissaries of the committee were named to carry out the sentence. Treachery to the cause of the people is the charge made against Father Gopon on which >he Revolutionists condemned him. On his return* recently to Russia, after being abroad, where he was compelled to flee after “red Sunday,” Father Gopon argued strongly against a continuance of the strikes which have become of such frequent occurrence in RusAi. Immediately the revolutionary leaders declared he had been influenced by the government. Father Gopon was summoned by a formal communication to appear and answer the charge, but he did not do so. The trial was held in his absence and both written and verbal testimony was offered before the tribunal. A unanimous verdict was returned, finding him guilty and condemning him to death. Subsequently the Central Committee affirmed, the sentence of the tribunal and proclaimed the necessity of executing the former priest. Fugitives who have arrived at Vienna state that the conditions in Odessa and Bessarabia are desperate. During the rioting of the last few days they assert 8,000 persons, including many students, have beWi killed. The Governor has posted placards about thej city, giving notice that the troops will fire upon the people at the least provocation.