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Show Osar Escapes Another Attt'inpt on The Life oft ho Czar. I5ij Irr.Kiition ( anal. A Sor. ions Cutting A Hair- XewH Items and Clippings From All Around. ESCAPE OF THE CZAR. special to the Herald LxaminerCable London April 8 That the Czar of Russia has aain narrov.lv escaped as-sasmatiou as-sasmatiou is evident The Daily Tele-graph's Tele-graph's correspondent in St Petersburg wires an astounding sti.iy to h;s paper which .s published this morning. The Hews will caii'e all the more txcitenjeut because it has been repeatedly stated "bv authority" tecentlv ill it the Lniper-or Lniper-or has long ceased to h.ive any (ear of pol.tieal and S-jcia'isiic conspirators and that he appeared il. uly on the stieets v itliotit an escort and was enthusiasti--cally lecrived by his subjects. '1 lie correspondent cor-respondent thus relates tlw occurence.' "On this Tuesday nK,rniii, a fiesh attempt at-tempt on the li!r ot the Czar was frustrated frus-trated whether by mete accident or by tile cleverness of tii- p lice is uncertain. To-day is the Jj'.h of Maicli in the Russian Rus-sian calendar ai.d ne of the greatest liolidavs 1 f the yea r. I; is als a yre.it least Jay with ihe raiment s ol the im-jurial im-jurial hoisi Kmiids ai.d the cavalier liurse sfnauW, w;;nm it is customary fot the Car and C. iri.t.. and their tespec-tive tespec-tive chiefs to leview .11 the niai ageoppo site the palace of Grand Dnk" Nicholas Except members ef the Inipeiml family no one is admitted to this review with out a special invitation, issued personally and bv an aide.-de camp of either rei-men. rei-men. The number is limited to peop'e known to the aide-de-camp or the olficer of the regiments. All the millitarv appear in gala uniform and civilians in evening dress. There are two small stands erected on either side of the portal through which the Czar and Czarina enter. They are occupied by the guests in the order of their arrival. arri-val. Those who stand at the end naer the door are in very close proximity to his majesty as he walks into the manage He approaches this entrance twice during dur-ing the review. At 10:30 o'clt.ck this morn ing a man of midole height and salow com p1xion of the southern type, pieseuted a ncket snd took his place at the extreme ex-treme end, where the distance between the Czar and himself would not be more than five paces. The fact that this man was the first to arrive; that he took this particular stand and did not divest him-self him-self of his reat coat aroused suspicion, lis card of invitation was examined and doubts arose as to whether the ticket had been issued to any person of his name. He was then requested to remove re-move his great coat. At first he begged to be excused on the ground that there were very strong draughts in the manage which was true, but immediately afterwards after-wards he consented and retired to the ante-room for the purpose of taking it off. Heie he wps ariested by a detec live police officer 111 plain clothes and conducted quietly to a prison where a Smith & Wesson revolver was found in bis pocket together with a globule containing con-taining what was supposed to be some poisiou, probable vitrol. The prisoner whose name, real or assumed, is Skeam ikin, claimed to be merely a well known doctor. About three quarters of an hour after the arrest of Skeamelkin the Czar made his appearance walking slow ly up the passage between the stands wheif: had not the would-be assassin been removed in time, his majesty must Jiave been killed." The correspondent goes on to say: "I have just heard, but do not know whether the statements is worthy of credence or not that the police expected expect-ed the arrival of J-'eamikin although his whe.eabouts was unknown. He is said to have ceme from some provincial city lor the special purpose of attempting the life of the Czar, and the plot as believed be-lieved to be a continuation cf the conspiracy con-spiracy founded by Sophia Gansbury. |
