The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-24
FUNERAL OF THE PRINCE OF Or.
ANGErTRIBUTE OF THE
PRINOEOF WALES.
An American Lady Killed in
the Recent English Rail-
way Accident.
Dictum of the French Academy
OF Observation-Disclosures in
Cholera HlusOry.
Lord Wemyss' Motion Defeated
Chinese Preparations Look
ing to War.
ENGLAND.
RAILWAY Acc1nnn,n

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
| LONDON, July 16.-The EXPIRES,
train on the Manchester Il Sheffield
railway was wrecked, to-day. Five
persons were killed and MANY injured
The scenes underneath the bridge
after the train had fallen, were terri.
| bic to witness. The carriages were
reduced almost to splinters. The
| groans of the men and shrieks of the
women and children, were heartrenG.
ing In the extreme. Some delay was
experienced before the victims could
be eXtricated.
LATER-Twenty-five persons killed
and forty seriously injured. 1t seems
the axle of the engine of the express
train on the Manchester and Sheffield
Railway, near Pension, broke and the
train jumped the track and fell
through bridge.
AT IT AGAIN.
LONDON, July 16.-A box of explo-
slves was discovered on the quay of
the London custom house, said to have
been taken from an American vessel
CHOLERA RUMoRs.
LONDON, July 16.-There is a rumor
of cholera at Alexandria.
EXAMINING VESSELS
LONDON, July 16.-Gen. Merritt,
American consul-general, has ap-
pointed physician to examine vessels
coming from London to the United
States for the purpose of ascertaining
their sanitary condition.
MTTINY IN TURKISH TROOPS.
LONDON, July II. = Assiout dis
patch says the remainder of the Turk
ish battalion here has mutinied and
were all disarmed. Their ringleaders
were sent to Cairo. The failure of
the Mudir to prevent an outbreak is
regarded with suspicion.
AMERICAN LADY KILLED.
LONDON, July 17.-An American
ady, Mrs. Ed. Lesion, was killed in
The Permission railway accident yes
;erday.
ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A MONUMENT.
LONDON, July 17.-An attempt was
made last night to blow up monu-
nent, at Salisbury, to Lord Herbert,
With box of gun powder. The
PEDESTAL was injured.
wEMYss' MOTION.
LONDON, July 18.-The Wemyss'
notion was defeated-1S2 to 1872.
THE FRANCHISE BILL.
LONDON, July 18.-In the house of |
ords, to-day, the Earl of Wemyss |
moved to consider the franchise bill, |
provided the government would I'M
lertake to present, at the autumn ses-
ion, the bill for the redistribution of
eats in the commons, Lord Shafts
Jury seconded the motion.
GLADsToNE's STATEMENT.
LONDON, July 18.-Mr. Gladstone
tated in the house of commons, to-day
hat the financial committee of the |
egyptian conference, is ready to sub
nit a report to the conference, which
will meet shortly.
CATTLE SHIPMENTS TO ENGLAND.
LONDON, July 19.-Tbe Marquis of
Iorne will introduce to Lord CARING
ord, lord of the privy seal, next week
deputation in favor of the importa-
ion of healthy cattle from the west
m states of America, through Cana
a, and who will show him that the
armers of England want American
attic. They will represent the laws
f the states from which cattle come,
strict to prevent the
pread of disease.
BARK WRECKED.
LONDON, July 19.-The bark Nix
urg, from Quebec to Leith, was
near Penland. Nine lives
ost.
FAILED.
LONDON, July 81. A. Englhart,
nerchant, failed. Liabilities, e270,-
90.
AN INFECTED VESSEL.
LONDON, July 19.-The steamer st.
)unstan, which arrived in the Mersey
from Marseilles, after los
ng Two persons from cholera has
'een twice disinfected, the stores
AIKEN on board at Marseilles were de-
troyed and her water ballast was
out.
ENGLISH POLITICS.
LONDON, July 19.-It is semi-offi-
tally denied that the Prince of Wales
II Queen Victoria, tried to influence
he tory peers in favor of compromise
n the franchise bill. The tories as
ert that the queen approves of the
of Saulsbury's policy of re-
listing the adoption Of the
franchise bill, until an appeal to the |
country has been taken. John Bright |
s preparing measure for reform of |
he house of Lords, based upon the
principle of life peerages, with a linn
ted number of hereditary peerages.