| Show THE MOSCOW assassination ashert A abort time ago the contained a dispatch dla patch announcing the an am sassi nation of the mayor of moscow hussla it did not attract very much attention hereabouts for the reason that that official in IB not or was not well known to the american reading public and tales of plots and counterplots counter plots resulting in or attended with murder mind and other crimes are so go numer oua from the land of the czar that they do not attract as much attention here as althey they ot otherwise berwise would but the story of Moe cowd mayor la is quite an extraordinary one it appears that he was the son of alexander 11 II who was blown to pieces with a bomb by oihi lUt in 1880 and a half brother of the present czar alexander III A correspondent of the new york kerald herald makes the whole matter of the assassination a romance which he be alleges began some forty three years ago when the destinies of the busman empire were controlled con trolle 1 by the proud czar nicholas at that period the heir to the throne was the czarowitz alexander att afterward erward alter ward alexan ler ier it II though reared under a parental regime cf more than ordinary austerity young alexander managed to enjoy life and find opportunities to indulge his taste for gayety gaiety and plea pleasure tsure there had never been a gayer younger set at the russian ourt than that led by him but his bis exalt exalted id station carried with it penalties as well as p privileges leges and following many similar precedents he was practically forced into info a marriage with a german egerman princes the fair princess from the land I 1 however good and amiable though she was ws did not appeal to the ardent temperament lempe of the Euse que it A lover of princess dol goro goroski uki though he be submitted with a good grace to be on the matrimonial sitar altar in the interests of dynastic Lly policy he had bad neither the nor the intention of forsaking his bis sinful habit and his attention to tilis nis wife was of the most perfunctory character etwas lc was understood in ourt circles that toe ezikowitz czi ezi was waa in love wito baroness clara von 1 a lady in waiting on the czarina and after his bis marriage she was closely watched it was once decided to send her way away lut the czarowitz prevented this the court gossip meantime becoming more anti anil active finally nicholas heard if cf it and an i being unlike most of the race from which he sprang a strictly moral man took action in the matter and finally sent the baroness bareness away she had bad noi noa been in her retreat very long before the cooing coning ruler joined her L acut u t they wera i use quent ly separate J by an emissary emie emis siry of the czar and she was sent still lurther away with a strict injunction not to return As a result of her unlawful alliance with the czarowitz a child was born and in making the journey required she died alexander was devotedly attached to his bis and as suon soon as it had arrived at proper years appointed him mayor a f moscow the one that was recently assassinated the mysteries miseries erieg and crimes odthe of the court of russia would make st dark chapter in the world Is history it if they could be gathered together and published royalty and morality amorality are not always addicted ted to travel traveling ilag in company with each ether colaer in fact act we believe such companionship to exist only in a afew few camm but certainly lit at petersburg has a record that thai wight might cause any other royal headquarters to blush with shame bhame |
