The Telegram. — 1900-07-03 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE WORLD'S DOINGS.  Rains have improved the crop prorpects in Manitoba.  Plague i officially reported to t..ve broken out at Trebizond.  An explosion at a Lanraihir colliery on Friday resulted in 10 men being injured. At Brlstol,on Friday, it was decided to arbitrate the dispute between the shippers and dockers. A Midland Railway goods guard was killed on Monday near Wellingborough Station by his own train.  The Bristol dockers on b trike returned to their work on Monday, and the in-worried labourers let t the port.  Herr Bloch, a Stuttgart tourist, fell while ascending the Falkenat.,in, in the Bavarian Alp., and was killed at once.  The Leeds aud Liverpool CA11:11 burst on Friday at Pool Stock. Wigan, an three and a-half miles section WAS emptied. Maser.. R. O. Pearce & Evans' two larg, warehou4eß in High Street, Wapping, were seriously damaged hy fire on Monday morning. The Robert Newman prize for organ playing was awarded on Monday, at the Royal Academy of Music, to Ernegt Read, a native of Sheen.  The English steamer.; Vanda and re ?FMC'S Came into coilieion in the port of Antwerp on Friday. The Vandn sank, but her crew was saved. In commemoration of her visit to Ireland the Quecn has piesented the citizens of Whim with a massive gold cup, suitably inscribed.  A haymaker, name unknown, was burned to death in a shed at Iver Heath. Slough, on Friday. The man's remains are beyo..d recognition. The body of Alexander Rae, chief engineer of the Government tug Cracker. who was drownKl in Plymouth Harbour. was recovered on Sunday. The body of a woman named Elizabeth Pugh wan, on Sunday, found on the Great Western Railway between Wednesbury and Priestfield, Bilston.  At South Shields, on Monday, William Aftleek, Varman, was remanded on a charge of having i•ansed the death of a miner named Ambrose Elliott.  The Khedive paid his postponed visit to the Queen at Windsor on Thursday, receiving a hearty welcome from the inhabitants of the Royal borough.  Emma Rowling (26), of Queensbury, was eroesing the line at Ilkley Station, when she was cAught by a Bradford train, and cut to pieces in the presence of her lover.  At the Old Bailey, on Friday, Charles Smith (44), for criminally assaulting a girl of 6 at Walthamstow, was sentenced to 14 years' penal servitude.  Telegrams have been received from the Governments of Victoria, Tasmania, and Queensland approving the compromise clause in the CDlntson. wealth Bill.  At Thurso, on Friday, six French seamen were charged with assaulting and obstructing a Custom House officer, but the case was dismissed on technical pleas. Six deaths have occurred as the result of the expkv.ion at Old Boston Pit, Ilaydock Collieries, last Friday. Three took place on Sunday and three on Monday. Torn Peckham, formerly landlord of the Marlborough Hotel, Brighton, was on Monday sentenced to four years' penal servitude for the manslaughter of his wife.  About 40 miners were entombed by a fall of coal in a Dudley colliery on Monday night. After several hours' work all the men with the exception of one were rescued.  H.H.H. Princess Christian, who was accompanied by Princess Victoria, on Saturday opened the Diamond Jubilee Victoria wine of the General Hospital at Croydon. The Viceroy of India telegraphs that even after abundant rain has fallen throughout the distressed district, relief will be necessary on a large scale until early crops ripen.  Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal on Monday night presided, in Loudon, at the Dominion Day Banquet, when thEre was a large attendance of noblemen and gentlemen. A coroner's jury at Uxbridge returned a verdict of •• Wilful murder" against some person or persons unknown in connection with the discovery of the body of a newly-born infant.  Thomas Figg, who for 40 years has been rural postwan at Tring, hal just retired on pension. Dui in.; his time in tare service of the Post Office he wsiked upward of 220,000 miles.  A terrible explosion of gas occurred on Friday at Old Boston pit, at llaydock collieries, St. Helens. Three workmen were seriously burned, while seven others sustained less berioun injuries.  A flywheel weighing fifteen tons, attached to an engine, suddenly burst at Kehler Parting ton Paper Pulp Work., Barrow, on Friday, killing a young nian, Frank Patrick, and beverely injurom two girbc  At the West London Police-court, Ellen Henser, a young married woman, was remanded charged with stabbing her lodger, John James, with a bayonet. The injured man is in a asugerous condition.  BATH & WILIsT &