Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-05-26 | Page 1 | Tried to Slay Official Section

TRIED TO SLAY OFFICIAL st petersburg may 20 A report hai reached here of an attempt to assassinate prince of the department of Khar kolT who was commended by the czar for suppressing the rioting among the peasants of that district lacut gen governor of vilna whose assassination wai attempted recently on account of his wholesale flogging of political prison era many of whom were educated and who according to custom were therefore exempt from flogging justified these punishments on alic ground that he was ordered to inflict them by IL von the minister of the interior peasant political prisoners have also been whipped at Bielo and other polish towns eighty persons who were arrested for taking part in revolutionary disturbances at were confined in a private building A number 0 rioters concentrated in the vicinity of the building contemplating a release diio rioters were charged several times by the trompa before they dispersed and the liberation of the prisoners waa thus prevented armed with daggers and sticks the townspeople of chirtel Ch irsel in the caucasus have a score of prisoners who asset bcd they were innocent