Russian Affairs.

Opunake Times, Volume XXV, Issue 948, 12 February 1907, Page 2

Russian Affairs.

St. Petersburg, February 9. M. Alexandrovski, Governor of Pensa, Eastern Russia, was leaving a theatre in company with the assistant Chief of Police, when a youth armed with a revolver fired, killing both. The assassin then rushed into the theatre aud shot at the manager, who was trying to arrest him. The bullet, missing the manager, killed a policeman. The atsissin next sought refuge in a cloakroom, and an attendant locked the door. Tho assassin finding himself trapped, committed suicide. The bullets used were poisoned with cyanide of potassium. Revolutionaries had condemned Alexandrovski, who was formerly a Commissioner of Red Cross organisation, on the ground that his mismanagement and corruption has caused the deaths of innumerable wounded soldiers.