RESTLESS RUSSIA.
FINANCIAL TROUBLES FEARED. [PBZfIS ASSOCIATION.] ST. PETERSBURG, 15th June. There was a fall on the St. Petersburg Bourse yesterday. Four per cents, dropped to 72. It is rumoured that 6ome of the provincial land banks are oh the evo of suspending the payment of interest on bonds, and that unless the Government rescues them a financial cataclysm will result. Owing to the murder of a comrade, Caucasians at Troitzka attacked a division of Cossacks. Twelve were lulled, and twenty-three injured. The troops succeeded in restoring order. STRIKES IN THE PROVINCES. (Received June 16, 8.30 a.m.) St. PETERSBURG, 15th June. Strikes have occurred at Kertch, Odessa, Tula, and in many other provincial towns. Two thousand peasants vainly fried to stop the St. Petersburg-Sebastopol express train. They broke the windows of the train. WORK OF AN ANARCHIST. ST. PETERSBURG, 15th June. During a Corpus Christi procession at Biolstok, a Jewish anarchist threw from I a balcony a bomb which lulled many people,.. including a clergyman. The windows of the Jew's house were simultaneously- peppered with revolver shots. A crowd of eoldiera surrounded other houses, and fired volleys through tho windows. Meanwhile the processionists and \ others sacked tho Jewish shops, and killed and wounded hundreds of Jews.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 5
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206RESTLESS RUSSIA. Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 5
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