Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-05-09 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  The public libraries of Europe contain about 20 millions of hooks. _  _ In the United States about 18 per cent. of married women are widows.  Of the 19,084,659 acres of land contained in Scotland not quite 4,500,000 are in a state of cultivation.  The Pope has sent his congratulations to the Emperor Francis Joseph on the Hungarian Millen. nial eelebra t  James Galloway, who was injured by falling out of an express at Dal'waffle, Kirkcudbrightshire, while discharging mails from the post-office sorting tender, has died. . .  According to official returns, the output of coal in the Un te.l Kingdom during 1895 was 189,650,562 tons, Icing an increase on the output in 1894 of a million and a quarter tons. A Belgrade telegram received in Berlin says that King Alexander of Servia will, after his visit to England this year, be betrothed to a German Princess.  At Iladdersfield, on Monday, a mill hand named Hurst Haigh, aged '22, of Longwood. near Huddersfield. was remanded on a charge of attempting to murder Emma Horner, aged five years.  On ing t,) a restive horse a Leeds child has ',Jen kitlel si hile the 3rd Volunteer Battalion (-Prince of IVales's Own) West Yorkshire Regiment was at drill.  A rettirn presented to the London County Council shows that during the past year the total expenditure on technical education was £76,552, leaving a balance in hand of £49,610.  The Pope is going to create a Bishop of Coolgarilic, the West Australian goldfields. The Rev. John O'Nlitliony, editor of the Monitor, a Catholic weekly in the colony, is likely to be called.  A Ferious affray between a number of men has taken place in l'enge. One man leceived such severe wounds that he was sent to the hospital, and his depositions were taken. One arrest was made.  In consequence of the burning of the Hungarian flag during the anti-Hungarian demonstration in Belgrade, the prefect and the head of the gendarmerie have been dismissed.  Serious rioting attended the municipal election in Constantine, Algeria, on Sunday. A native was killed, and a lawyer named Grasset, who was aniong those elected, was injured on the head by a loaded cane.  The honorary freedom of York was conferred upon Lord Wenlock on Saturday, on his first visit to the city since his return from India where for five years he has discharged the duties of Governor of Madras. It takes 515 policemen to keep the 206,000 people of Detroit in order, as compared with the 316 re quired in Milwaukee, where the number of people is about the same, or the 309 in Cleveland, with a population of 251,000. The Hotel Cecil, London, was inaugurated by a Press banquet on Monday, at which about 400 British and Continental journalists and other friends sat down, under the presidency of Viscount Hard inge. A boy, aged nine, a son of Mr. Core, one of the engineers of the South Foreland Lightships, was playing with some other children near the edge of the cliffs at Dover, when he felrover, and, striking the rocks 300 ft. below, was dreadfully mangled. Catherine Matilda Gordon, of Moseley, near Birmingham, was bmind over at Marlboroughstreet Police-court, London, for an alleged libel upon Mr. Thomas James Hooper, a solicitor and clerk to the justices of the peace at Biggleswade. A dispatch from San Francisco states that Mrs. Booth-Tucker's health is much improved, and it is hoped that in a week's time she will have suffi ciently recovered to undertake the journey home eastwards. Mr. Uhl, the new United States Ambassador to Germany, was received in audience by the Emperor at Berlin on Sunday afternoon, and presented his credentials in the presence of Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, the Foreign Secretary. An English officer named Lieut. J. L. C. Stevens, of the 20th Punjab Regt. of Bengal Infantry, has been severely stabbed by a Shinwari tribesman at Peshawur railway-station. His assailant was arrested.  Two cousines, named Jones, employed at different ironworks at Wednesbury, by some unexplained means got entangled in the machinery. One sustained serious injury to the upper part of the body, and the other the lower. Ann Willetts, of Tipton, committed suicide. The deceased who had survived three husbands, had been in a melancholy state, and lived alone. She was found suspended by a rope from the kitchen ceiling quite dead. The verger of Christ Church, Highbury, was proceeding to open the building on Sunday for morning service, when he came across the dead body of a man suspended by the neck from a ladder. The deceased has been indentified as Herbert Napper, aged V., late of Birmingham. The Mayor of Guildford, on behalf of the French Government, on Monday presented Captain Robinson, of Ash, with a binocular for kindness to two French sailors who had drifted about foodless for five days in fog off the Newfoundland coast, and whom he received on his vessel Baku Standard.  3007 NEWSPAPERS RECOMMEND MACNIVEN St