RUSSIAN.
Sixty houses were destroyed by fire in St. Petersburg on May 22. - It is now stated, on the authority of a telegram from Odessa published in a Vienna paper, that the Czar returned to St. Petersburg from the Don Cossack country three days earlier than he had intended, owing to an attempt made by a student to kill him on the 18th inst. during ceremonies at Novo Cherkask. The student fired at him as he rode by in his carriage. , On June Ist 1200 coalminers in Bachaut, in Russia, out on strike attempted to rob a brewery owned by a firm of Englishmen. Some 50 English workmen in the attacked brewery resisted, and during the fight which occurred three of the workmen were killed. Many of the strikers, who are all Russians, have been arrested. The conflict ended before military aid arrived.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1858, 1 July 1887, Page 14
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143RUSSIAN. Otago Witness, Issue 1858, 1 July 1887, Page 14
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