Russia.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3700, 14 August 1906, Page 3

Russia.

SENSATIONAL, SUICIDE. GENERAL DISORDER. St. Petersburg, Aug. 12. A daughter of General Print/, committed suicide at Odessa under sensational circumstances. While approaching * General Kaulbars (Governor of Odessa) and General Karangozoff, apparently with the intention of killing them, the woman fell, and a bomb which had been concealed in her reticule exploded. The woman made _an endeavour to escape, but, being pursued, she entered a hotel, and shot herself dead with a revolver. The personnel of 3VI. Stolypin’s reconstructed Cabinet is announced, As the result of pressure brought by the Court party the Cabinet is purely a bureaucratic one. Prince Vassiltchikoff is the new Minister of Agriculture, M. Isvolsky (brother to the Minister of Foreign Affairs) is Procurator of the Holy Synod, and M. Filosofoff, Comptroller-General. The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times reports that 230 members of the late Duma, including Professor Mouromtzeff (President) and Prince Dolgorukoff, are being prosecuted for signing the Viborg manifesto. Armed robbers, many of them mounted on bicycles, are terrorising the districts round Moscow, desecrating and pillaging churches, and murdering inoffensive persons.