AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1435, 20 April 1905, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

. MURDERS. AT ST. PETERSBURG, 1 ' ; JJQUSES PLUNDERED BY, K-OOLI* W G'ANS AND SOLDIERS., By, Electric .Telegraph—Pet Press i Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG,. April 17., Soldiers at ChebjabiusK. joined hooligans plundering houses. .Tlio idemonsitratorsi later attempted .to inCite the people to attack the Jews, j i (Tho lUsturbafieea continued foe .three days. Tiroops from Ekaterinburg I ~ , ,were sent to quell the riot. I i A libel action in Moscow disclosed I jft.\ ,; -7chat .various persona purchased from. I jihe military, hospital certificates of I ■.r ‘ exemption. from military; the j sums ranging to £5500,. • f, • I ; The Czar has nominated M- Bum- I guijie’s Commission,, instead of per- I nutting an' election. .This is con- I srdured a clear indication that ho I docs not intend .to confer a wide sy.s- I teui of national representation. • I The Czar informed tho Holy, Synod 1 (that he was .unable, during dis- I imbed times, to convoke a council I to ciect a Patriarch to cftect re- I forms in ecclesiastical ’ad-ministra- I i jticui.s Ho intends to summon aI j council of tho old Russian Church I ( „ When the movement is fav.orablc.. I ] •- The recent barristers'- congress in I , ift. Petersburg adopted .their Polish I c colleagues’ proposal for autonomy, of I c -Poland, a democratic oonstitption. j t with national legislature, sending I t representatives tq a central Faria- I w incut at St. Petersburg, and no in- j 0 toifcrenCQ with Polish rights. Tho I p lawyers’ organisation has 120,0UU J p Adherents throughout -Russia,. in- | c j eluding doctors, chemists, teachers, I b and engineers, and is determined to Jbi prevent reactionaries rendering the l UI .Czar’s rescript nugatory, | tl ST, PETERSBURG,. April is'. J m .Tho Czan extended, to Siberia tho |at zemstvos,'’ syst-om of 1864, This is jbe understood to imply a future national I assembly,, nob based on class ropre- I scrytabion. | • /Many Russian, firms arc closing I worts in anticipation of labor I disorders on May. Ist, I A policeman at. St. Petersburg, I Without provocation, killed a sailor I and wo.ujiided another, who were I jcihaltJiJrg: in the street. Other sail'ors I whereupon tailed the policeman, Tho I Admiralty refuses to surrender the I sailors, alleging that they, acted in I self-defence, j

RIOT, WITH MOUNTED POLICE. AN ASSASSIN CONDEMNED TO. DEATH* ■*- ' 3y Telegraph—Press Association— , Copyright.) ST. PETERSBURG, April 19. The funeral of a PubiloSS worker, .who was accidentally killed, led to a -r revolutionary demonstration. A collision with the mounted police resulted. Many arrests were made. - Some rioters were injured, Kolsieff (recently cablud as Kannies) • has been sontoocod to death for assassinating Grand Duko Sorgms. He declined to plead, saying he was not a criminal, bat a ... prisoner takoD in oivil war.. The jury Ajnoludad the Mayor of Moscow and the Marshal and nobility of St. Petersburg.