The Telegram. — 1900-04-17 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE WORLD'S DOINGS.  The Catholic C.,llege at Latwyk, nese Leyden, was destroyed by fire on Friday. There have been 111 cases of plague, 38 of which have been fatal, in Sydney. A conference of Socialists and Labaur representatives way I ,petied on Friday at Glasgow. The Sunbeam, with Lord Briussey on board, has arrived in Table Bay, en route to England. . Mr. Allen, AMRilltalli Secretary of the American Navy, has been appointed Governor of Porto Rico.  Sir H. McCallum, the Governor of Newfoundland, has gone to England for a short visit on private business.  At Southampton, On Monday, the Grand Lodge of Good Temp Lars opened its meetings. There were 366 members present. lb was decided on Friday that a conciliation board ahould be formed by the Scotch ironmayters and blast furnace men.  A great strike has taken place among the telegraphists on the Southern Railway, U.S.A. Six thumand miles of road are affected. An Italian journalist, named Vergriani, who has already been expelled from Geneva, has now been expelled from Berne for stirring up Italian workmen.  At Bristol, on Thursday, a shunting °wino rAn int,. a train from Patchway. Pasiemgers escaped with Plight scratchee, but the traffic wit, for a time disorganised.  Owing to the insulting letter written by Count de Luhersac to Baron Edouard de Rothschild, a duel was fought rn Thursday, in which the baron was slightly wounded in the right arm. A marriage has been arranged between Miss Alta Rockefeller, daughter of Mr. John 11. Rockefeller, the richest man in Ameribs, and Mr. E. P. Prentice, a young Chicago lawyer.  _ At the inquest on the Rev. Edward Selman, of Great Casterton, who was found shot dead in his library, the jury returned a verdict of " Suicide whilst under the influence of laudanuin."  On her way to Cape Town the steamer Mount Lebanon, with horses on board, broke her shaft iu mid-ocean, and was towed into port, a distance of 2,000 miles, by the Empress, a Tyne collier. Toe Rev. Professor Roberts, formerly principal of Regent's Park Baptist College, died on Monday, at his residence, Beecliburough Villas, Folkestone. In 1892 he was president of the Baptist Union. Ru.sian uewpapars state that a salvage company of Genoa has jii,t concluded a contract with the principality a Balaclava, in the Crimea, to raise the British warship which was lout off that town during the siege of Sebastopol. Au engineer, named Benjamin Charles Badnam, (60), residing at West Green, who committed suicide on Saturday by shooting himself, had previously arranged his own funeral, and called in a man to meamie Min for a coffin.  A Munich telegrani states that the betrothal was officially announcel on Easter Sunday of Prince Rupprecht, grandson of the Prince R.gent of Bavaria, and the Duchess Marie Gabrielle of Bavaria, daughter of Duke Charles Theodor.  The American Navy Department has arranged to buy the eubmariue torpedo-boat Holland 'tor 150,030d01e. and to pay the Holland Company 175,000d0h.. fur any boat of that type which it !nay luosequently purchase, provided it is of the same size.  Atter enormous quantities of rock hal been blasted to obtain a clear roadway to the sea, the Talus, a large four-ma,sed barque which had beeu stranded on the liadlington coast six weeks ago, was on Thursday successfully floated and towed into Leith.  The National Union of Teacher, opened its thirty-first annual conference at York on Monday, under the presidency of Mr. Marshall Jackman. Over 1,700 delegates were in attendance. represent. log over 42,030 members. Mr. Jackman, in his address dealt with the question of security of tenure for the teacher. Mr. James F. Blacker was elected vice-president of the Union.