The Telegram. — 1900-01-09 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

QIIPP. Victors AV,-111.1 P, is being planted on Smith' Lawn, Windsor Great Park, in commemoration of the Queen's 80th birthriAy. •  A sirck f ,arttquake, lasting 35 see. finds, WAR felt on Saturday at Adana aud Tarsus, in Asia Minor. Shocks continued to be felt at in. temals tor some hours afterwards.  Mr. Mortimer Menper, the well-known artist, it leaving England manediately for South Africa. where he intends painting a series of pictnres of incidents connected with the war.  - ----• The River Nene overflowed is banks, in conssqtience of 12 hours' heavy rain, on Sunda; and thousands of acres of land are under wateg between Northam/A.3n and PrterborougU. In response to the nieminial adopted by French professois in England protesting against the insults levelled at the Queen in Prance, sympathetic letter from Her Majesty has been received. Mr. Charles Wood, of Milton-nekt-Sittinghourne, a member of the local Ulban District Council and School Board, who was sutieriug from influenza, died in A sudden fit of coughing on Saturday.  The remains ot Sir James Paget were interred at Finchley, on Thursday. A memorial service was held in Westminster Abbey, as which the Queen and Prince &lid Princess of Wales were represented.  The King of Italy has accepted the resignation of General Mirri, Minist,r of War, awl has charged General PeHoax. Preruivr and Minister of the Interior, to conduct the affairs of the Wse Department. The jurymen who Inquired ox Wiveinfield into the collision on the Brighton line returned terdict of "Accidental death," but expressed shit opinion that certain stations and signal-boxes were understa fled.  For s tying a woman from drowning in the New River, a schoolboy of 12, named William Haler, was owFrib iay prelented at Islington Pulice-statiow with the ntelal and certificate of the Royal Humane Society.  At Terinoude, to Belgium, the village omnibus drove into the canal during a thick fog. One lady and two children were dro..vned, and another lady died from exhaustion after being rescued. Four other passengers were saved. At Jersey, on Friday, Mr. Philip Contanche. Deputy-Recorder of the Royal Court, was found with his head subruerired in a tut) of water. At the inquest a verdict of "Suicide while temper. arily irwurie" was returned.  - - The Balghton ritual case was concluded on Sal. urday. Jcidgment wit, reserved by Dr. Tristram, who said he shou:l decide the question of IMO imitioner's states, and then either party would, in toe course of things, appeal. In response to the Queen's appeal, references to th, war were made in the various places of worship throughout the country on Sunday, and collection's taken in aid of the funds which have been opened in connection with the campaign. The French conspiracy trial ended on Thursday, MM. Ddroulede and Buffet were sentenced to 10 years' banishment, and M. Gu6rin to 10 years' imprisonment in a fortified place. The Marquis De Lur Saluces was also condemned to 10 years' banishment. An attempt was made at Deal on Thursday fo salve the German liner Patna, which recently sank near the Goodwnss. She was pumped nub and re-floated, but shortly afterwards she suddenly went down again. Three divers and two Deal ' boatmen were drowned.  --A fatal accident occurred at Gloucester Ca Saturday, a little boy, named Symonds, aged eight years, being run over by a milk cart, hulltaMing such severe injuries that the little sufferer expired shortly afterwards in the local infirmaryl whither he Wal taken.  The Luke of Connaught, the new Commande. of the forces in lrvland, took leave of the Quees ou Monday morning, and crossed the Solent tO Portsmouth in the Royal yacht Alberta. kL thence proceeded to London, and left by snail foe Ireland ou Monday night.  General Jamont, the French Commander-in. Chief, was nearly drowned at Qutherou, on Sunda! evening. In the darkness and loile fog he missed his way and walked over the edge of the quay into the sea. lie was safely brought' to laud by hie aide-de-eatnp and orderly sergeant. . _  , Captain Leonhauser, with two companies of the 25th Regiment. was attacking a Filipino camp when the insurgents took out five Americas prisoner, they had, shot two, aud "holm! "the other three. Captain Leonhauser rescued two them alive, but they were coyered with awful wounds. At Llangollen, on Friday morning, a builder% labourer, named NVilliams, mitered the house of II man, named Goodwin, and fired several shots at him, wounding Linn in the stomach and back. Williams then shot himself in the mouth and fell dead. Goodwin lies in a serious condition in Llangollen Hospital.  The captain and crew of the barque Withags Gordon, of Belfast, 12 hands all told, were lauded at Dover on Friday night, and reported the total loss of their vessel the same morning off Brighton. The William Gordon when off Brighton was rim into by the stetniship litspur, of South Shields The came of the collision is not explained. Lieutenant-Colonel eon Thump reports that ths accident which occurred on November 18th at Mil Lane Junction, near Bradford, was entirely due to the signalman llolden thinking that two trains had passed his box simultaneously in the fog, running in the same direction on parallel lines. while, as a matter of fact, only one train had done do.  NVhen a young laly, who gives the name of Eastleck. was travelling in a train from Binning., ham to Coventry, she was seized with what ap• p?ared to be a fainting fit. She remained uncoil. scions, and on reaching Coventry WWI taken to the hoepital. There it was found 9he bad sustained complete loss of memory, her history before the seizure being unknown to her.