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Show RcfUGEE PROn i RUSSIA ARRIVES Army OGcer Escapes From ' Prison to Go to Japan, and Now Comes to the United States. SAN FKANCISCO, Dec. 18. On the Japaneee liner Nippon Miru, arriving yesterday afternoon, wae Iealar Pe-troosky, Pe-troosky, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Russian (rmy and now a refugee from the C'tar'e dominions. Petrooaky was an army officer at Vladivostok last January, when a iiot broke out in that city. He was found in a revolutionist's house by secret service ser-vice officers, and upon trial was sentenced sen-tenced to a year's imprisonment. He obtained permission to visit his wife, and escaped with her from Vladivostok. Vladivo-stok. They reached Nagasaki, Japan, in a junk. At Nagasaki Petroosky, so it is said, published articles advising the Russian soldiers to look after their rights, even at the point of the bayonet. Things were getting warm for him, even in Japan, Ja-pan, when he disappesred. He was next heard of n Honolulu, where he boarded the Nippon Maru for this city. He claims that all his troubles recited from an interview in Vladivostok, in which he uttered sentiments not piir-ticularlv piir-ticularlv friendly to the Czar. Both he and his wife have been detained on the steamer pending an iavestigatiou of the case. |