Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-07-13 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  The Queen has forwarded her annual suhserip. Lion of £25 in aid of the funds of the Gordon Boys' Home. The Rev. Edward Foley, • a of the ehle,A clergymen of the Church of England, has died at, Ewd.bourne. aged 90 years. . . . . .  According to tint Berlin Noradeutsche wine, the German Emperor will not attend Cowea regatta. An Erpres.l telegram from New York ay s it ia reported that lierniany is trying to borrow R. 5,000,000 in Wall Street.  Senor Villaverde, the Spanish Finance Alin. ister, has resigned owing to ill-health. He will be succeeded by Senor Al:en de San Lazar.  At Lincoln s ftertiant-ilained Martha Swanston, 13, was so badly horned in a fire that she died in hospital. Mrs. Mooring, of Abingdon, who has five sans in the army, has received £4 from the Qiieen as a mart of her Majesty's appreciation of this interesting record. The net profit of the Cordon Highlanders' stal at tlae Royal Naval and Military 1311.7.aar was £483 Mi. ltd. This sum was exceeded by only one other stall.  The Board of Trade returns for the past six month% show an ineremie f£15.920,12R in imports and of £17.854,70 in exports, against the corresponding period last year. Lloyd's agents at Port Elizabeth have cabled that the steamer Ashlands, Hull for Natal, had street the Doddington Rock and was a total loss, the crew being saved.  At a meeting of the Weet Fife Liberal Anneelation Mr. John D. hope, of Inehinartino, ww, adopted 1%4 Liberal candidate at the next  Miss Dora Yates, of University College, Liverpool who has just passed the M.A. examinolio., is first ,Tewess to take this degree in Engl I, says the Jewish Chrottielr. A Sunderland engineer recently received three letters. The first opened informed hint of his mother's death ; and the second told of a Nephew's deuth ; and the third eon Milled the mm.mws that his brother had been murdered in America.  Captain Stanley Byrne, eon of Lieutenant C,,tonel Henry Byrne, Commandant of the Finahury Italie+, will take charge of the newlyformed company of the C.1.V., which proceeda to South Africa.  It. has been intimated by the War Office that the Commander-in-Chief is greatly disappi.iiited by the fregnest instances of carelessne, on the part of ollicers in interpreting and carrying out the rules for training the Militia. A riirdiet of " wilful murder " has been returned by a Pontypridd coroner's jury amnia a coloured man named Lacey, who is alleged, in a fit of jealousy, to have murdered his young wife, a white woman.  The German Government has released skipper Alp, of the trawler Isis, of Grimsby, who was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. It is due to the intervention of the Foreign Office that the man was liberated. I%lr. T. W. Russell has been adopted is Unionist candidate for his constitueiley, South Tyrone, on promising to resign his position in the Government if Ministers introduced an Irkh Catholic University Bill. The Greek army is to be entirely reorganked under a German officer of field rank, who will be attached to the personal staff of Prince Constantine. The Prince will shortly be appointed Commander-in-Chief. Sir E. Walter Greene, of Nether Ball, Suffolk, has accepted the iiivit:wion or the local Conservative party to stand for Bury St. Edmunds in the Conservative interest at the next general election.  At a meeting of the Northutnherhind Coal Trade Conciliation Board in Newcastle the miners were awarded an advance in wages of 12.'. per cent., leaking them 52', per cent, over the stoodard of 1879.  As the result of the misjudging of distance, some carriages which were being shunted at the Lancashire and Yorkshire station at Southport, crashed into the terminus structure, which was considerably damaged. The buffers also penetrated some empty coaches of a Manchester train.  The dyers on strike at Tarrasa, Barcelona, stoned some nun-strikers as they were leaving the factory. Some shots were also tired. The gendarmery were called out, and fired a volley in the air, whereupon the strikers dispersed, and order was restored. One workman was injured by a stone. At Mailborough Street Police Court Harry Hull, turf accountant, was •lined 1.:60 and costs. mat Frank Day and Harry Graham each Lit) awl costs, for keeping 4, King Street. St. James's, as a betting club. George P 1111111) was boiled over. Sines the New Year El:: 214 had been taken, and 1:9,5•23 paid out