TELEGRAPHIC

Kaikoura Star, 5 October 1906, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC

RUSSIAN TROUBLES. ACTIONS. ♦ FLOGGED TO DEATH. St. Petersburg, Oct. 3. Shocking rev*alatious have been made at Kherson, where ninetyseven persons were charged with destroying an estate belonging to Krtvinsheei. an ex-Minister. Witnesses declared that after the estate had teen devastated, the chief official of the district arrived with Cossacks, and collected peasants who were supposed to have taken part in the devastation, including the ninety-seven accused. YVitboiit investigation, the official directed a priest to deliver the last Saeraiueut, aud then gave or-

ders that the peasants should be I beaten to death. . . The horrors lasted four days, in the course of , which twenty-three persons were killed, and a hundred and thirty terribly injured. The Cossacks becoming c'-linu.-t ed bvtliri i■l > r u '-*S3 : 1 ■ ■’>>•Tni'u» V, ami Voter" flogged their own ft titers, sons, amt mothers. A BIG B<>BRERY. Oct ober 4. Two roljb. rSj purporting to be ordinary overpowered the crew of a Russian mail boat and secured twelve million roubles. EXECUTIONERS AT A PREMIUM. Sixty-feiir terrorists have been shot at Warsaw during the past fortnight and executioners are at a premium. The troops at Kronstadt have intimated that bliey would not shoot ■ the Sailors emidemue 1 to death. MORE ASSASSINATIONS. , General Riakcvitsh, Military : Prosecutor at Ashk:d>ad, has been J assassinated. An attempt against Ussakouski, thy President of the | court-martial, failed, a .junior ofli- i the assailant. i Hager, manager of Nobel’s works', j and Swedish Vice-Consul, was at- > tacked and killed while out driv- : ingat Batoum. The assassin oscaped.