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Evening Star, Issue 11168, 17 February 1900, Page 7

A strange story comes from San Francisco, where, on U-cember 23, a wealthy Russian named Ivan Demisswieh committed suicide to avoid the vengeance of the Nihilists. At the inquest two of his fellowcountrymen testified that he was a wealthy landed proprietor, professing Nihilist views, and that he had been clu-sen by lot from amongst the members of a Nihilist organisation to which he belonged to go to St. Petersburg to assassinate the Czir. He had not complied with the order, and fearing the vengeanos of his fellow-conspirators had shot himself.

An “Alleged Husband.”—Cily Editor: “Hr Strong lias been in to-cb.y, and ho had murder in his eye. How in time did you come to speak of Mrs Strong’s ‘alleged husband' in that paragraph about jhor accident?” J. Fresh; "I die! it to steer clear of a libel suit. You know, you told mo always to say ‘ alleged thief,’ ‘alleged murderer,’ and that sort”of thing.”