RUSSIA.

Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 3, 3 July 1879, Page 2

RUSSIA.

The flames of fires at the village of Grenberg were raging five days after breaking out. A di«ease tbat proves fatal in twenty-four hours has broken out in the Cau?asu». The conflagrations in Eastern Russia are causing great ditress. Among tbe Mhilistsundergo.ng trial atKieff are three nobles — one a Prussian subject, and the daughter of a Privy Councillor, and a titled lady. Russia lias demanded satisfaction from China for excluding traders from tbe frontier town«. The greater part of Lublin, a city in Russian Poland, containing 20,000 inhabitants, was destroyed hy fire. Several female Nihilists will soon be executed. Four revolutionists have been hanged at Ki^ff. The Russian grain crops ara suffering from a small insect, and one-third of tbe entire wheat crop in Southern Russia is threatened with destruction. The female Nihilists at Kieff were sent to labor in th 3 mines. The river Amoor and its tributaries have overflowed, and a famine is threatened. Five hundred Dogbertan mountaineers have been exiled to Liberia. An attempt was made on the life of the Czarewitch, on his way to the Peteroff Palace, which was found barricaded. The Russian Insurance Company lost 2,087,000 roubles by incendiary fires at Alexandria SolouviefF, who attempted the death of the Czar, was comicted and executed on the same day.