Eureka Reporter | 1906-09-21 | Page 2 | Trepoff Dies Natural Death

lost hated man in russia is dead but not at hands of H s enemies aix attempts had been made on HI life with n the past three one instance a man who resembled him be ng shot st petersburg general dmitri pe commandant of the imperial palace died at 6 clock sat arday evening in his villa at peterhof Pe of angina pectoris general whose name was indelibly linked with reactionary re in russia was a remarkable man he was a natural despot a ty rant by inclination education and con diction he was one of those men who have constantly appeared in rus sian history just at the time when con were most promising for put ting an end to despotism to turn rus sian rulers from liberalism to reaction it was he who became the guiding spirit of the reaction after nicholas II 11 had issued his manifesto in the fall of 1905 promising the people a share n the government holding the po j mitlon of master of the palace aa league with the court intriguers who were determined to restore the old regime he constantly bad the emper or s car in all six actual attempts p on the life of general have been made within three years and only last july general kozloff of the headquarters was assassinated at Peter hot by a ter aorist who believed he was firing upon general would have been 51 years old in december several months he had been suffering from a heart affection and asthmatic troubles and some time ago was forced to abandon a large amount of his routine work