The Telegram. — 1900-09-18 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Divimos I. We Ham, 2; bouthampton, 0. • Portsmouth, 1; hlillwall. 0. Hotspur, 5; Chatham, 0. Luton, 2; Bristol City, 0. Bri,tol Rovers, 3: Kettering, 1. Reading, 3 ; Rangers, 0. Watford, 1; Swindon, 1. Brumpton, 1; Gravesend, 1. DIVisiON 11. Sheppey, 2; Maidenhead, 1.  In the recent fighting in Northern Nigeria the Munctii people used very deadly poison cn their arrows, and several of our natives died within a few minutes of being struck.  A mob broke into the gaol at Tunica, M eippi, on Friday, and dragged out and hanged three negroe4 who were confined there for having shot and murdered whites.  For some days past Vesuii ins has been in eruption. Immense boulders are being thrown one. Tne phenomenon is being wiftneised by a large number of v isiturs.  Dreyfus' long sojourn in Berne seetus to have come to an 'end. He left last week, and after vi,iting the Berneae Oberland went, with his wife and two children, to Interlaken.  Major Gibbons, who has justcompleted a transAfrican journey of 13,000 niiles, stated that one of the most pleasing features of his travels is that he has never killed a native, ow lust one of his buys from death, either by disease or miesuiveuture. The Fleetwood mail steamer Mike of Cornwall while ptoceeding on Friday night to Beifast with a large ournber of passengers, ran down the schooner Pahbus, of the county Down coast. A member of the latter's crew was drowned. Four seamen were injured on the stt.suiship by the falling spare. The schooner was struck amidshipti, and sank in five minutes.  VINOLIA COMPANY, Lll).—An CO-dAy'd London Times begins it, leader with the :.tatement that Lord Roberts 11314 " scattered and driven before tdin the last organised elements of the Boer resist. ance," and he ha i issued proclamations annexing butti the Orange Free State and the Transvaar, we .oeq to notify you that the Vinolia War Fund is now closed, after having been in operation nearly a year, and amounting, as near us we can say .S 5 the moment, to about ClLooo.—September 4th, 1900.  THE WORLD'S  Several fresh cases of plague Gl:two.%  DoINQa  rePorlk.d fmit  Prince Albert of Saxony has been killed in • carriage acciibinr. More cotton mills were closed on Monday net:um of the scarcity of cotton. The Sirdar, Sir Reginald Wingate, lam 1,44 Dunbar for Egpyt, to resume his iithoial duties. A boat taking people to witness the 314401 Henn Races capsized, and seven lives Illa klipw, to have been lost. A despatch from Scranton, Pennsylvania, au* that no fewer than 70,000 minera of all grid,. ale now idle in District Nu. 1, At Aldershot, on Thursday, Private Brien, xin South Wales Borderers, was committee tor mil on a charge of wilful murder. Sipiclo, the Prince of Wales' assailant, is belieenn to be in Switzerland, and the Swiss police haw been ordered to search for him. A mushroom fonnd on Risley Common Mealhend no less than 54in. in circumference, and stood llia. high, its weight being 31b. 14oz. Lieut.-Col. Cocayne Frith, who was thrown Nei his horse at Canterbury on August 2nd, and Iran tured his neck, died on Sunday. A man named Tatting, aged 63, whilst at when on the midland Railway, neat Cheltenham, eu knocked down by a train and killed. The body of John Littler (50), of Northnien. has been discovered in the River Weaver at kw ton, under mysterious circumstances. A large French steam fishing vessel ran 'shoal on the Goodwin Sands early on Sunday She was floated off with the high tide ninny*. John Parr (19), 'French polisher, was sentenend to death at the Old Bailey, on Thursday, fa, shooting his sweetheart with a revolver. At Chatham, on Saturday night, Mita Carolios Driver, an octogensulan, was burnt to dna* through the upsetting of a lighted candle. William Hall, a Whitby cab-driver, enainiiint4 suicide in the pearince of his invalid mother, Li jumping from a bridge to the rack). river-bed. A coroner's jury on Monday fouud that no owl was to blame for the fatal explosion of cordiki cartridge on board H.M.S. Diadem at Borehaven. Alfred Otto (35), cooper, of Calming Timm was at West Ham committed for trial. It war stated that he stabbed his wife and walked away laughing. The memorial committee have decided to erect a statue of the late Mr. Tom Ellie, M.P.. Chief Liberal Whip, mu his native village of ceindd. wysaru.  A Miss Driver, an eccentric octoirena,i„,n Chatham, has inet her death Irons burin, it is supposed, by a fall winlei carrying a lighted candle.  An important circular was binned by the Board of Agriculture on Thnrsdny, drawing attention la cases of foot-and-mouth chigate in widely sepana.,l parts of England. The recklst extravagance of the Maharajah 01 Bintrtpore) who has recently been deposed by the Government of India, led him to buy • tithe! coach costing £lO.