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some citizens Of Fee have been arrested
for trying to take the life Of the Sultan OF
Morocco.
WILLIAM GRIFFIN, eighty years OF age
| and his grandson, eight years old, were
drowned in the Humble, River, at Bolton
| Canada. The boy fell into the river and th'
old gentleman attempted to rescue him.
A WHOLE family, consisting Of father,
! mother and six children, was suffocated tc
death by charcoal fumes in room in Paris,
| France.
LARS NIELSEN, a trader residing on the
| small island Of Celia, in the Solomon group IN
the Pacific, and three of his native assistants
! have been killed and eaten by the islanders.
| Within the past year six white men have
been killed and eaten by the cannibals OF this
group out of q total white population or
thirty.
INFLUENZA RACES In ST. Louis, France.
The whole population of the place is affected.
Business in the public departments is para
lyzed.
THE Manchester Canal Companys ware
house in Liverpool, England, has been
burned. An enormous quantity OF cotton,
grain and -four was consumed. Inc damage
IS estimated at $500, 900.
EUGENE SCHUYLER, the American Consul
General at Cairo, Egypt, is dead.
MAHoMED Bin CAssIM and three Others
have been hung at Bagamoyo, Arabia. Iaree
wears ago they murdered near Iabora, Gle,
seeke, a German merchant. CasSlm oeiohSeo
to distinguished Arabian family.
OsMAN D1GNA is at Omdurman, Egypt,
and his followers have returned TO Iokar.
Osman is said to have lost 400 men oy tanlne
and sickness.
SUICIDES by drowning and hanging have
become alarmingly numerous IN 0Klo,
Japan. The average is ten per gay & anu Oh
June 26 there were no less than eighteen.
MUCH damage to crops in Canada was
done by storm.
EM1y BEY, meeting Dr. Peters at Mpwa-
pwa, Africa, authorized him to recover the
ivory left by Emin at Wadelai: DR.. Peters
has returned to Germany, hopeful OF organ
izing a new expedition. He declares that
Uganda is entirely secured to German inter-
eSts.
THOMAS OLIVER killed his three children
in Labrador and then committed suicide
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the great explorer,
has recovered from the illness with which he
was seized just before his marriage.
A MEETING of the residents of the Island
of Heligoland, whose cession to Germany ls
provided for by the Anglo-German agee-
ment, was held, at which grateful farewell
address to the Queen Of England was
adopted.
A wATERsPoUT has wrecked all the rail
road beds between Switzerland and Italy,
and tourists are forced to continue their
Journeys by carriage. Half the Tyrol is un-
ier water and terrific landslides have de.
stroyed the railroad between Maisbruck and
Britain.
FLOODS in the Eoang-ho River, in China,
have DESTROYED the embankment at Lund-
wunnias. Shang Taing is inundated. The
Peiho River is rising, and the waters now
cover the country into the walls of Peking.
HA1LsroRMs have destroyed the crops in
upper Bavaria.
COSTA RIGA and Nicaragua have formed
an alliance with Guatemala.
A NUMBER of Turkish soldiers, who were
proceeding from their camp near Canea:
Crete, to we'll to draw water, were fired
upon from ambush by party of Christians
and five of the Turks were killed.