UNHAPPY RUSSIA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3712, 15 September 1906, Page 3

UNHAPPY RUSSIA.

St. Petersburg, Sept. 13. Order has been restored at Siedlee, Thousands have left the city. Colonel Jakovleff, chief of the Warsaw prison, was killed while riding in a cab. The assassin escaped. ANTI-SEMITIC MOVEMENT. INCITING THE POPUEACE TO MASSACRE. St. Petersburg, Sept. 13. M. Grun, chief detective of Warsaw, spared the life of a murderer, who is known among the revolutionaries. The murderer was made answerable for Gruu’s safety and accompanied him elsewhere. The greater portion of the town and the railways has been burnt. Many persons were incinerated. The peasants burnt the Jewish town of Koopen, in the Kemhntz district. The Union of Russian People has placarded Odessa with anti Jewish proclamations. The emissaries of the Union exhibited the placards on noted Jews’ dwellings, their action creating a panic. It was simultaneously announced that many Warsaw terrorists have arrived in Odessa for the purpose of attacking the police. AN HEROIC GIRD. St. Petersburg, Sept. 13. The girl Konoplaniakoff, who was executed in the Sehuesselburg prison, refused to see the priest and she firmly mounted the two steps of the scaffold. Her last words were “ Eong live the Social revolution and liberty.” She had previously handed to her sister a photograph inscribed 1 ‘ My lifeall! had to give.” PEASANTS’ RIGHTS. St. Petersburg, Sept. 13. Novoe Vremya declares the question of giving Russian peasants equal rights with other citizens, and the removal of Jewish disabilities, is not included in the Ministerial measures, but will be left to the Donma.