The East Riding Telegraph. — 1903-06-06 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

EIG,OO. Official reports on the iegislation El Canada and other countries with regard to gambling in futures and options in fuodstnffs are shortly to he issued. Wu ting lung, an Eogiish-spsnking Minister, has been appointed to the (Mines() F 'reign Office, much to the sati=faction of the legations, as he was formerly at Washington. The Japanese Consul at Seoul has left the Korean capital with an escort for Chitiam-po iii order to investigate the situation on the Yalu created by recent Russian action. An udirt has been issued at Florence, Wisconsin, against the employment of women in bars. The police have orders to arrest any female engaged in serving out drinks in future. Clerks to the nine school hoards in Middlesex are to be informed that the County Council will not take them over under the Education Act as they only wish to employ officials who can devote their whole time to the work. . .  At the annual meeting of tan Coroners' Society of Eogland it was resolved to direct the attention of the Home Secretary "to the present unsatisfactory state of the law dealing with the provision of places for the holding of inquests." Travelling scholarships ot £12.0 have been placed in the gift of the London School Board for the purpose of allowing a teacher of at least eight years' experience to travel in some other country in order to study its educational methods. " The law has not-provlded for such a case" was all tho consolation given to a Yarmouth woman who sought a separation on the ground that her husband stopped in bed instead of going to work and rattled a dustpan to drown her remonstrations.  Alter a five days' fight a Montreal ittrike of 2,000 electrical workers and street railway emplo3e+ has collapsed. It WAS an attempt to make two of the largost companies employ only union men. . . . .  Toe King has requested that stawls shall not be erected on the Him Cuarda' P wade on the occasion of his birthday on June ;26, but that permits shall be g;ven to priviliged persons to pass through the hue W sentries. Lord Cheyleemore stated at the annual meeting of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Help Society that besides finding employment for discharged soldiers the society had provided to some men artificial limbs and sets of false teeth. An extraordinary meeting of the crowned heads of Europe ,sill take *lace at Copenhagen on November 15th next—the 40A1 anniversary of the accession of King Christian—it his Majesty's health continues as astimiacLery 0.3 it is at present. On the morning when he WM sentenced to be hanged William ALCarthy, of Lexington, Kentucky, asked for a cup of case. He managed to empty a bottle of morphine into the cop, and, drwking the mixture, fell down dead. To Toronto police have decided to put a stop to the shaving of hotel guests in the public barber's room on Several hotels have been raided, and tho oll'en,liog guests fined £4. Shaving must in future IP3 done in prive.l.o rooms. At the village of Snainton, near Scarborough, two tramps were begging when Constable Harrison took them into custody. Toe shock was so great to one of them, maned rtebert Spencer, aged about 65, that he fell to the ground and died in a few moments.  An elderly roadscraper in one of the Yorkshire country districts, who was removed to the asylum, had 1'...7g) in gold in canvas bags secured inside his shirt, and at his house a bank-book was found showing he had £93 to his credit. Thu Halifax Guardians have take resiiession of the money. Brijido Gonm.les was about to be sentenced at Tia Juana, Mexico, for horse-stealing, when he declared that he could prove an alibi, for at the time the horses were stolen ha had just murdered a man 30 miles away and buried the body. It was found that the prisoner's statement was correct, whereupon be was acquitted. During a dark nicht, some thieves entered a field at Menindee, New South Wales, and sheared all the wool on a ibek of sheep. They managed to get away with the wool without being discovered. When two babies were being reared in an incubator at Harwood, Texas, they got mixed up, and a lawsuit is pending over their identity. The two mothers earn claim the 6J•1115 child as their own. _ . _  Midi Fanny Woad, a young Isdy of 21, and