The Telegram. — 1900-09-04 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE WORLD'S DOINGS.  The Queen arrived at Balmoral_ on_Saturday.  The death is announced of Mr. 'ward McHugh, M.P. for Armagh South, at the age of 54 yeara. _ _  Richard 01litre, landlord of the Dark Lantern Inn, Aylesbury. cumulated suicide by cutting his thrust.  John Bond, an inmate of the County Lunatic Asylum, Greet Warley, bin' succeeded in making his escape.  Mr. Ira D. Sankey, the famous American revivalist and singer, is to pay another visit to this country. One man was killed and two men itijured through the breaking M a crane at the new Queen's .1)ock, Liverpool. A man named Harry liedry was digging up potatoes at Nuneaton on Fliday. Flow one root he gathered 83 tubers. An extra neat for paupers who do work wilt be instituted in all workhouses next NlArch.  Four persona died of yellow fever on hoard the Janesi, winch arrived at Bordeaux on Monday morning from Senegal.  The death by drowning of Captain Malcolm Hogarth, a brother of the well-khown akipper of the Shamrock, is reported.  A tire tausing extrusive damsge occurred on Friday in thegiol yard f the Great Northern Railway, King's Cross, London. inquest waii held at Woo on Thomas Alfred Stacey, 30, who drank spirits ut salts while suffering from delusions caused by drink. The Rev. E. B. Russell, vicar if Leyton, Essex, was killed in a cycling accident near Roselle,l.l HOW', Sutherland, on Thursday night. A telegram from Madagascar states that the first autoinoldle entered Antacanarivo on Friday. to the intense astonishment of the natives.  Messrs. Elder, Dempster, & Go., hipowners, have purchased the British and African Steam Navigatmn Company, Limited, for £900,000.  Alfred Kitson (5.3) a labourer, of Goldthorpe, near Rotherham, his died froth evacuation of the brain, the result of a cyclist collidiug with him. The sting of a tly, says a Cauterhury doctor, caused a young woman in that city to suffer from blood poisouing, which terminated fatally. The Rt. Key. Mgr. Cahill, of Rycle, Isle of Wight, has beeu appointed Romau Catholic lii•Moti of Portsmouth in the place ut the late Dr. Virtue.  Niue survivors of the Liverpool barque Primerct, which wax burned at sea on August 4th, have r..aehed St. Heleua. The master died at sea on July 7th.  The revenue of Queensland for the year ending June 30th amounted to £4,5*200, and the expenditure to £4,540,400, showing a surplus of £47,800. The shipments of butter from Australasia in 1899-1900 e,tablished A "record," amounting to over 493,400 cit., or 204,000 cwt. more than in any previous season.  A demonstration of Nationalists was held on Thuraday afternoon in Dublin, and resolutions were passed adopting the programme of the huh National Leitgu.?. An excursion train on the Philadelphia mil Reading RAilroad ran into and telesconed a milk train at Hatfield Station. Fifteen peraons were killed and forty injured.  A man named Craig, whilst employed oiling points on the Cheshire Lines Railway, near Stockport, on Thursday evening, was knocked down by au express train awl killed.  The Paris Lcberte otatel that Italy has taken the initiative in adilresstniF the Piiwers with a viaw to the possibility of holdiug an international conference against she Anarchists.  A young homing pigeon, belonging So Mr. P. Fitineeham, of Northwich, liberated at Jerley, Hew 283 toile.' in 24 hours and 10 minutes. The pigeon is under six mouths old.  Goods guards on the Midl.ind Railway held conference at Nottingham, on Sunday, on the wages demand.. end expressed a determination to press for the goods guards' programme in tull.  ---Tbe Great Northern down main line was blocked for over an bout a Hitch in, on Monday afternoon, in eoneequenee of two COaCtiOd of a Midland train being derailed while shunting. No-one was hurt.  -- -Another death under circiunatance4 which point to plague is reported from Gla.gow. The authorities more and more incline tu the belief that the original cage of plague was spontaneous and not imported.  John Charles Edwin Parr, who fatally shot hie sweetheart outside 13etbna1 Green Police-station, has been placed in tile infirmary at Holloway Gaol in order that the state of his mind may le fully inquired into.  John NVilson Hall, blacksmith, of Kirkby-inAshfield, was on Monday remanded charged with the manslaughter of Charles Jone., with whom he quarrelled. He is alleged to have felled deceased with a hedge stick.  Mr. Walter H. Erskine has been appointed Assistant Serjeant-iit-Artns in the House ut (Infamous, iu innce.aion to the late Col. the Hou. E. H. Legge. Mr. W. H. Erskine ia a id Mr. H. 1). Erekine, the Serjeant-at-Arans.  While a 1117101 of fork was being removed at th,, New Queen's Dock at Liverpool on Ssturday, the shaft of the crane broke and fell on the quay. A man who was standmg under the crane WAS killeo, and two others were injured. The heath is announced of Mr. Peter McLagan, ex.M.P. for Linlithgowshire, which occurred on Friday night. Mr. McLagau, who was 77 years of are, was, perhaps, best known by his Parliamentary labours on behalf of the temperance CAWS&  According to a statement recently made by the New South Wales Minister of Defence, applications have been sent in for the formation of Volunteer corps representing a total of 10,307 men, or 25 per cent, more than the total establishment of the force.  The Rev. W. Earle, B. L., curate of St. Clement Danes, Strand, is about to apply to the queen to revive the baronetcy of the Earle family, held by Sir Richard Earle, Hart„ of Stragglethorpe, Lincolnshire, in the seventeenth century.  Mr. Clark 8011, of New York, the attorney of Mrs. Maytrick, has in his p(1138t),MLIII the original letter of the late Lord Chief Justice, in which his lordship expressed the opinion that she ought never Co have been convicted. Mr. Bell has forwarded a copy of the letter to the Hume Office. the *team trawler Empress towed into Hartlepool. on Friday, a whale measuring over 80ft. in length. It is the largest whale ever caught off the rib-east coast. The sanitary authibrities at Scarborough on Saturday refused to allow the large sperm whale brought into the south bay to be landed.  Reports from Greece affirm that almost the entire crop of currants has barn destroyed through the ravages of the peronoiperos, a blight which has rotted the young grape. Many thousands of tons of currants are ruined, consequently prices in this country will advance as high as they did in 1853, when the retail price was In 6d per pound.