The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1895-05-08 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

ABROAD.  News has reached Yokohama that the Emperor of China has ratified the Treaty with Japan. It is reported that Umra Khan has been sent to Cabul, and will, therefore, not at present be surrendered to the Indian authorities.  The Government of Nicaragua is reported to have accepted the terms of the British Ultimatum, and all the ships of the British Squadron except one have left Corinto. The widow of General Tsu-pao-Kwei, who was killed in an engagement with Japanese, has determined to avenge his death, and has accordingly raised an army of females 5,000 strong. On Friday evening, while a storm was raging in the Straits of Dover, the coasting vessel Auguste Marie, of this port, was driven on to the shore between Calais and Cape Gris Gez. The vessel sunk before assistance could be sent to her, and the crew of nine hands were drowned. The Brooklyn Grand Jury have indicted the managers of the Brooklyn Heights Railway Company for the recent deaths caused by the trolley car on their lines. Altogether, 107 people have been killed and 450 injured by the trolley cars in Brooklyn since they first came into use.  A telegram from Bilbao states that the local police have arrested all the members of the committee of the Socialist party in that town. They have been lodged in gaol pending inquiries. The action of the authorities is believed to be connected with the agitation in the mining district, for which the committee are held responsible.  A telegram from Havana announces that the correspondent of the New York World has been arrested at Guantanamo, on the charge of suppoiting the separatist agitation. The Spanish troops have had an encounter with a band of insurgents under the leadership of Marcos Romirez. The latter was killed in the fight. At the Eure Assizes, a young man of 18, named Guinel, was sentenced to death, and an accomplice named Beranger to penal servitude for life, for having be..ten an old woman to death at Etrepagny, because she would not say where she had hidden her money. They afterwards covered the body with rags and set it on fire.  It is reported from Van that an Armenian political prisoner named Roghos was recently tortured and mutilated in so horrible a mariner that he succumbed to his injuries. The British Vice-Consul in Van having sent a report of the occurrence to Sir Philip Carrie, the latter made representa'ions to the Porte, which thereupon ordered an inquiry into the affair. The Berliner Tageblatt publishes the following telegram of Saturday's date from Mojanga, Madagascar: Two Frenchmen who fell into the hands of the Malagasies on the south coast were put to death by order of the Hovan Prime Minister. One was suffocated and the other was shot. The Protestant mission station under the Norwegian Petersen, on the island of Reunion, has been stormed by irregular volunteers. A man named Salle, —w.hck. is under arrest at Paris on a charge of complicity in the brutal murder of Madame Simon, a concierge in the Rue Bleue, was taken to the Morgue and confronted with her body. In the hope that the accused would be surprisettinto a confession the body had been placed in a sitting position in a chair, with the eyes opened in such a way that they would be directed to the supposed assassin as he entered the room. The device was not-successful, Salle persisting in his