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Show KILLED POLICE CHIEF TO PURGE llll OFFEHSE Light Thrown Upon the Recent Assassination of Secret Service Officer. BY GEORGE FEAZER. Special Cable to The Tribune. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 15. There Is little doubt that the recent assassination of Col. Karpofr, chief o tho St. Petersburg Peters-burg secret police, was tho result of a plan by the dead chief to provoke a series of outrages to strengthen the hands of the government in dealing with Finland. I learn from a most trustworthy source that the real mum; of Voskrcssenslcy, thu murderer, is Prcobrashensky Petrovsky. and that after the revelations of M. BourzclT on the HUbjcct of Russian police methods he was appointed as successor to the notorious provocatlvo agent Azeff. Petrovsky's relations with the secret police po-lice wore discovered by the St. Petersburg Peters-burg terrorists, and ho was threatened with death. To purge his offense he promised to kill Col. Karpoff. Health of Czarina. Tho Czar and Czarina arc again at Tsarkoc-Selo and will remain for aome l time. 1 am informed that, hor majesty's health, while showing considerable Improvement, Im-provement, is still far' from what It should be. The physicians do. not. seem, to 'be able to master the nervous affection affec-tion from which tho Czarina suffers, and which was brought, on by the tcrrlblo conditions in Russia.' St. Petersburg Flooded. The low-lying parts of the c-iLy have heen flooded owing to a heavy storm in the Gulf of Bothnia. .The-water In tho Neva and the canals rose sl feel ;ibove th normal level.- Mounted police pa-trolcd pa-trolcd the threatened districts, and many of the Inhabitants were obliged to leave th" basement dwellings. They were provided pro-vided for by the municipality. Rnssla'a cotton crop this year will aggregate ag-gregate I'.SO.OOO.OOr) pounds, or about. 00 per eent of the requirements of the mills. About. ?2 per cent will be bought in the United State and the bala.nee in Egypt. Women Are Barred. Tho leral profusion In Russia has finally been declared dosed to women by a council representing the various institutions in-stitutions of Russian lawyers and jurists. Tho question arise from the attempts of two women barristers to plead in court. Further developments have occurred In the great commissariat .-ca.nda.lji, in which the state Is so id to have been defrauded de-frauded of enormous sums by the collusion col-lusion of Its military officials and of contractor. Three highly placed officials offi-cials In the commissariat of a SI. Petersburg Peters-burg district Colonel SnmJiilln. Captain McnslnkofC mid Captain Shustoff have been arrested on charge of fraud. Distribution of Army. According to the Bourse. Gazette, the national defense committee of the Duma In a secret session has agreed to a special spe-cial grant of X. 1.000.000 for reorganizing tho present distribution of the arm? This presumably concerns thu withdrawal with-drawal of a certain portion of the forces in Poland behind a. new Hup of defen-e |