Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-01-19 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

OOO. A telegram from Chicago, states that there ion reign of terror there, the city being overrun with criminals and tntmpe. . . • . . _  It is ssid that the fee paid to each of the leading British counsel on the recent Behring Bea Arbitration was 7,500 guineas. Mr. Irving's eight weeks' engagement in New York. comprising lifty•four performances, has yielded clone upon £37,000. It is said in Treaeury circlm that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has called for the total number of Ile Queen a eirsonusep'Yliisgoi paying gsTconZl tax on mi‘ntention to confer the honour of knighthood on Mr. W. L. Booker, British Consul General at New York. . . . .  A Rochefort telegram states that a civil engineer, a quartermaster, and a sailor have died from injuries in a torpedo ves.l explosion. A New York telegram says that a terrible accident has occurred on the railway. near Jersey City. Fifteen passengers were killed and many injured. One of the most interesting estates now in the market is Charleoote Park. Warwickshire, Sons elated in the popular mind with Shakespeare's deer-stealing adventure. The House of Lords sat form quarter of an hour on Monday afternoon, and read the Parish Councils Bill a first time. The second reading wen net down for today pro forms. Sir John Lobbook has tamed a wasp m that he atrokes its back and allows it to sit on his hands. One day it will sit down quite hard, and Sir John will wish he had spent his time otherwise. Two thousand men assembled at the Manchester Town Rail, on Monday, in search of Corporation welt. Three hundred bad Nvork found for them, but the other 1.700 were aent away disappointed. A telegram from Batourn announces the de of a notorious Caucasian brigand named f Jit Mikaai.hyli, who has for ninny years le s terror to the districts of Orourghet and a .0... . . . "  A scrim]. riot is reported from Chathar. , where a picket, who had arrested a sapper of the Royal Engineers, were net upon by a number of engineers and bluejackets, arid severely maltreated. _ . . .  On the 25th a the present month. in senora:moo with the will of the late Miss Gordon, the colon. tion of Chinese curiosities which belonged to General Gordon are to be brought to the hammer at Christie's Rooms: .  A woman pained Knorr has been executed in Melbourne. She was a baby-farmer, and had murdered several infants committed to her charge.  _ On the Way to the etaffold she joined heartily in the singing of hymns. At Bolton, a youth named Spalding haa had awarded gm against the Jolly Mineral NVater Manufactdring Company for the lose of an eye, which was named, while in the defendants' employ M a bottler, by the bursting of a sodawater bottle. Mr. Tom Mann ban addressed a letter to Mr. Russell Smart, the Independent Labour Party candidate for Huddersfield, consenting to be nomivated for the secretaryship of the party on condition that he will sot serve unlesa elected by a two-thirds majority. Telegrams to hand from If tvana report a railway disaster to an exprms from Mate..., eight mil. from Cumanayagua, where it was rim into be a heavy freight train, several cars being one.. piote!y demolished. Sixteen persons lost their lives through the collision. The rod liebiug NOMPOII on the Tay and itn tributaries opened on Monday, under favourable conditions. The 'fey has been full since the dem of last Henson, and as spawning tirne Wan propitious, good results nre aMicipated. Several splendid salmon were landed on Monday. The steamer City of Peking, which has arrived at San Francisco from Hong King, brings the details of a disantrom tire that occurred at the large temple in the city of Ningpo on December S. and resulted in the destruction of the temple and the death of 300 woinen and children.