Daily globe., 1883-07-19
THE OLD WORLD.
GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON, Jaly 18-General Sir Evelyn
Wood, commander of the forces in Egypt,
who had embarked at Suez for Englan
has returned by order of the khedive in
consequence of the appearance of the
cholera in Cairo.
BRIsBONE, July 18.-The executive coun-
Gil has forwarded a memorial to Earl
Derby, secretary for the colonies, urging
the government to reconsider the decision
to forbid the annexation of New Guinea to
Queensland, and inviting them to take
steps TO provide federal government for
Australia.
LONDON, July 1S.-The shooting for the
Creedmora cup took place at Wimbledon
to day. The prize was competed for by
teams representing England, Canada, the
Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and India.
The teams were composed of eight men
each, and the firing was at 200, 500, and
600 yards. Each man was allowed seven
shots at each range. The cup was won by
the English team, the score being as fol-
lows: England, 69S Canada, 679 Jersey,
638; Guernsey, 621 India, 614
A revision of the scores made by the
American rihemen in their shooting Thurs
day and Friday for the cup and $50 espe-
cially presented for that competition,
showed that Hinman was the victor, as his
score for two days shooting was 172,
against total of 169 for Joiner.
At Wimbledon, Messrs. Renshaw and
English players defeated Messrs. Clark
and Philadelphia players in a game of
lawn tennis. The Americans meet the
Englishmen again on Monday in another
contest.
Charles De Lesseps is expected here on
Thursday, to continue negotiations with
the British government relative to the
Suez canal project.
The town of Bedford is in the greatest
excitement over lawn tennis tragedy.
The party yesterday were playing lawn
tennis near Ship Inn, st. Cuthberts, in the
center of the town. Among the players
were Mr.. Devere, a young army officer, land
Miss Mckay, an exceedingly pretty young
lady twenty years of age. Suddenly, and
without any apparent provocatlon, Devere
pulled out revolver and shot Miss Mckay
dead. He then blew out his own brains.
Both victims are we'll known in society,
and in both cases the only surviving
parents are widows. 1t was believed
that jealousy was the motive of the crime.
LONDON, July 16.-The court at Nyregh-
haza. Hungary, trying a number of
Jews charged with the murder of Chris
tian girl named Esther Solomossy, went to
Tizzaelar yesterday. When the boy wit
ness, Moritz Scharf, was compelled to look
through the key hole in the door of the
synagogue, through which he alleges he
saw the murder committed, it was con-
clusively proven that he could, by so do
ing, only see one person in the interior at
one time, and that it was impossible to see
a group of persons, as he swore he did.
LONDON, July 1S.-At special meeting
to-day of the London chamber of COM
merce a resolution wss adopted declaring
that the question of the construction of a
parallel Suez canal should be referred to a
royal commission.
The shooting for the Albert jewel COM
peted for at Wimbledon to-day was won
| by Wilson of the Ulster rifles, who scored
Sc. DR.. Scott, the only member of the
American team who competed in this con-
test, scored 81, shooting at 1000 yards.
Each man was allowed fifteen shots.