FOREIGN CABLES.
DESTRUCTION OF A PETROLEUM CARRIER : SEVEN DEATHS. Per United Press Association . By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. LONDON, Doc. 17. The President of the Oufa Assize Court has been assassinated by v militant Socialist group at Hialystok, in Russian Poland. Tin- Court had sentenced Mellenko. Chief of Police, to death for .beating ministers of the Jewish Bund and H.icia^ de-iuo-crats for at 'ending a nice! ing in n forest. Two nii'inhers executed Ihe sentence, and then disappeared. Socialists also killed two spies at Prinsk. An Italian vessel w a s lying at Marseilles, when 7000 barrels of petroleum aboard exploded, killing the "Captain aaitl six of the crew. TTie explosion was heard for miles. Twentythree coal-laden trucks standing on | the Iquay were burned. The Sultan of Morocco hesitates to accept a French banker's loan o) DO million dollars, fearing State guarantees will be demanded.
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Southland Times, Issue 19232, 19 December 1903, Page 3
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144FOREIGN CABLES. Southland Times, Issue 19232, 19 December 1903, Page 3
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