The Telegram. — 1901-03-05 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Free lunches at liquor saloons have long been Customary in America. The pastor of a Brooklyn church proposes to add the e(11:110 attraction to his services,  Mr. E !ion is reported to have invented a new storage battery which will revolutionise the present syetem of electric traction. . • . .  abaci Raphaol painting, for which the late Mr. Vanderlaic offered £60,000, has beau sold at Berliu for £l3OO.  The French miners threaten a general strike. Six Austrian soldiers were wounded by the explotion of a powder magazine. On Sunday morning, seven of the inmates of the Home for Agud Men at Noisy-le-Sec. Paris, kept by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Seven IMlora, were found dead, while two others were in • dying condition. It is believed that they were suffocated by fumes escaping from a cracked stove in the dormitory. A violent epidemic of pseudo inflneriza is spreading rapidly in Nice and Cannes. Nearly all the visitors are suffering more or less severely. Paris has just opened her first "Girls' Club." Mr. McKinley during the ceremony of being inaugurated as Presidem of the U. S., which will be held out of doors, will stand in a glass case to protect him from the weather, which is bound to be somewhat cold.  Mr. Nation, tiring of prison life, gave £4OO bail and was released. She ham instructed her attorneys to sue a publican, named Whiles, ler £2,000 damages for advertising a "Carrie Nation Cocktail."  Thirty peraons hats been injured at Millers. bnrir. Indisu:i by the derailing of a train through a br ken rail. A murder in the United States has been sentenced to two years' hard labour, at the end of which he is to be banged.  Forty-nine men ouo of 50 were killed in a coalmine fire at Diamondville, Wyoming, only one grim.. camping..  An Anarchist hea caused great commotion in the cathedral of Notre Dame. While mass was being said the man, with his hat on, walked quickly towards the high altar, bowled over a magnificent beadle who tried to oppose his passage, and was about to attack the officiatioff priest, when he was pinioned by some members of the congregation and held down until the police arrived,  According to the German census the population of the Empire on December Ist w. 56,345,014. At last the much talked-of peat Anieiniaii iron awl steel trurit has been definitely incorporated. The combination comprises all the important factories in the United States, including Carnegie's, and IN capital is about £230,000,000.  The United Stated Government is alarmed by disquieting news from Cuba to the effect that the Guttman ate ready to fight if America insists upon a protectorate. . _  ba the arrival of the mail steamer Alameda off Golden Gate, San Franciaco, a heavy fog prevailed and the Captain lay-to for 24 hour,, refusing to enter the harbour until the atmosphere was clear. The passengers were very indignant at the delay, and drew up a memorial severely condemning the Captain for his timidity. On reaching the harbour finally the paiisengers learned of the disaster to the City of Kin de Janeiro through entering daring the heavy fog, and at once a change came over them. A fluttering testimonial was given to the Captain.  A well-known Belgian painter hoe just discovered a pic,aire ascribed to Karl Fribr,tnia, one of Rembrawit's pupils, to own work. The picture, which reprraents an ntervle w between Antony and Cleopatra, has long been in the hands of an obscure Belgian family, who did not suspect its value. The number of lives lost in the wreck of the liner City of Rio de Janeiro as San Francisco on Friday lasi is estimated at o%er 120, licluding a lance proportion of Asiatics. About 80 persons were saved. The captain stood on the bridge giving orders until he went down with his ship.  Last year was wonderful one for winegrowers in France. Only o two occasions, 1865 and 1875, was tbe yield-1,481,000 gallons—exceeded.  The province of Astoria.. Spain, according to the Braugh Medical Journal, rejoioes in no fewer than 28 oentenatiana in a total population of 600,000.