CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3497, 16 March 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

A Nation in Turmoil.

A SUPPOSED BRITISHER’S DEATH. Rx OWN TO PIECES IN THE CAPITAL. St. Ptti;rsdi;rGi March 12. \ Britisher named MacCallxmi, sta'-ine at the Hotel Bristol, near St. Isaac’s Cathedral, St. Petersburg, was blown to atoms. The police considei ho was manufacturing bombs. The first floor was wrecked completely, and several people were injured. There is great excitement in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, March 13. There is little doubt that McCullough is a native of tixe Baltic provinces, and has falsely used a passport as a Britisher. , In connection with the incident many persons have been arrested HI St. Petersburg and the Baltic provinces. ‘•UNEASY LIES THE HEAD!” DANGERS OF LIFE IN A PALACE. St. Peterreurg, March 13. The Orloska peasants burnt the Derenginsky refinery which belonged to the Grand Duke Michael. The Czar, owing 1c Km numerous AnarchElo, jemains within the precincts ot the garden of theilTsaiskoe Selo palace, just like a prisoner. King Christian urges the Dowager Empress to star 1 in Copenhagen until the situation has improvedPLE ASANT DISCOVERY FOR THE CZAR. Sr. Petersburg, March 14. The Czar’s senior page has been denounced Diving to his hostility towards the court, and he has been pronounced to be insane. Incriminating correspondence and Socialist literature and chemicals were found in his apaxt rncnls. . . . The peasant movement in Russia :is extending over the whole central provinces. „ ... Clcncrnl Trcpoti h&s renewed has warning to the strikers that they would be mobilished unless they resumed work. Mauv have since returned to work. London, March 14. The Russian loan which was being raised in Paris has been postponed ovine to a hitch.