Various Cabled Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3551, 25 July 1905, Page 2

Various Cabled Items.

Three hundred Bulgarians, pro bably owing to a dispute over woodcutting rights, surrounded a party o' unarmed Turkish peasants who wore collecting firewood in the Be'esdagh mountains. Thev bound thirt" a id cut them to nieces with ’m f 'he's. Terrible reprisals are expected fr •lithe Turks. Peasants at Kartamvshnvka, in Pm Odessa district, went to their landlord tn complain of the exorbitant re it' charged. Cossacks snddenlv appeared and fired on them, ki'lin.g three and wounding eleven. The police late arrested 120. An extraordinary meeting ot the Don nobility passed resolutions protesting against the employment of Don Cossacks as police as being contrary to the traditions o:’ military dignity. A Jew threw a bomb at Bielstok, near Warsaw, seriously wounding M. Pielken, Chief of Police Three others were killed.

A boiler exploded on the American gunboat Bennington in San Dieg ■ harbour. Over coo ware on board, and 45 bodies have alr-mdy been recovered. Most of the remainder were wounded. Hundreds ofspectators on the pier and in ferry boats saw many human bodies and wreckage shot into the, air and fall into'the water. A section of the npner deck of the gunboat was carried awav from stem to stern. The Bennington was beached in a sinking condition.