RUSSIAN DISORDERS.
(Press Assn. — J3y Telegraph. — Copyright.! ST. PETERSBURG, -April 14. The followers of a fanatical section of Roman Catholic priesthood in Warsaw country alluded . to in the cables of the 21st February attacking churches, expelled the Catholic clergy from several towns and villages for refusing to join the movement. Seven were killed and thirty severely wounded in the two latest tights. The fanatics call themselves "Muriavites." They already number one hundred and fifty thousand. The ajitUoritieis do not interfere with them. ST. PETERSBURG, April 16. Two workmen .iro'e executed at Warsaw for attempting to dynamite communal offices and desecrating the Czar's portrait; Eighteen hundred political offenders have been imprisoned at Moscow. (Received April 17, 8.55 a.m.) A woman returning -to Russia after leading a high life at Harbin, was liiur. i dered in the tram, and robbed of ten thousand pounds sterling. Her body was thrown on the metals, and was subsequently identified as being that of tb© wife of an Odessa engineer. The' 1 murderer is the son, of an Odessa 'land owner, and liiig been arrested. An affray occurred in the Russian Church at Geneva, A.?filiili«t made a demonstration against Jado\v'.vky, . the Russian Minister for Switzerland. Detectives tried to eject the offender; Revolvers were used on both sides. Several of the congregation were wounded.
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Poverty Bay Herald, 17 April 1906, Page 3
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