AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
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A SUSPICIOUS 1 — JM'-.r By Electric Telegraph—Per Prfjf.r Association —Copyright. Received 0.23 p.m., Jan. 20., | - ST. PETERSBURG, Jan||f|g|: The Czar, Czarina, and Dtafefg3ij Empress attended a brilliant||fjgp, mony. tho company partacipatii®jfe_; Uie blessing of the waters of\l Neva. When the uttering the- BenoilictUir • the fortress, St. Peter, aira saluted simultaneously, crashed in an upper Nicholas Hall, in'the Winter It Wtis n.t first attributed t0.,concussion of guns, but it - found that an iron bullet Tanjfi diameter had dow. „ . Tlie Imperial Party >eurei Palace. ... The. crowd were greatly esc. Later on it was' officially eiCEg that a charge of shrapnel, insf-i the charge, was fired gun belonging to one of bs■stationed near the Bourse. Some bullets struck Ibe-facS# the Palace, breaking four wind* I A policeman was wounded, Apparently 'the 17th Batter) * First Horse Artillery, the most';*' tocratic Corps in the army, fit. , shot which after gun \ Tuesday was loaded, the shell ing been inadvertently, left i* , gun,. , . ... 3~4 The explanation is popularly 5 sidered highly 'rhis | happened to be pointing.m the M ' lion of the pavilion where the*),. -5 mony was proceeding. g
CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS, By Electric Telegraph—Per Pres Association —Copyright., .ft ■Received 11.30 p.m., Jam :! ST.. PETERSBURG, -Jan. 20 "-ere are sinister rumors thatfdf iucidei.-*-. was the outcome of s, jr. iary contiiracyi The. .whole bat?, implicated has been: arrested.. Court officials .warned that would happen. ' The Court is startled, bccijfeov regiment officers are entire:^,at men. The Czar exhibited t ness.; He held a diplomatics*! tion afterwards. LONDON, 'Jan. J
'The Russian Embassy in Lout states that- it has unofficially b-% that an agitator fired a shotting direction of the Palace from aci the river, hoping to create a derc strati on. V.'ftftT-s
Some accounts allege that ffijsfti: either killed or wounded one oS and some spldiers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1360, 21 January 1905, Page 2
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300AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1360, 21 January 1905, Page 2
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