The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-06-07 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ABROAD.  The temperature at Suez has been abnormally high for this time of the year. On one day the thermometer registered 113 Fehr. in the shade. The .kir_was excessively dry. _ .  Women in Victoria are agitating for their rights. They have formed an organisation .to obtain the Parliamentary franchise for women ca the same terms as are applied to men.'  Congregationalists at Middlesbrough, Massachusetts, nave undertaken a new responsibility. Babies arc cared for in a special room adjoining the church sshile their mothers attend the service.  A Dijon telegram states that a widow named Cochet on Saturday killed her daughter by cutting her throat with a razor, and then committed suicide with the same weapon. The woman lost her husband a year ago, and since then has been strange in her manner.  A telegram from Leipsic annotmees the death there of Professor W. Roscher, the eminent political economist, at the age of 78. He was a prolific writer, among his works being a "History of English entitle...l Economy in the Sixteenth and SeventeentliCenturies," which was published in 1851. . . -  The trial of the two men who last month made the murderous attack upon Simon Bey hiaksud, the Armenian notable, was concluded on Saturday at Constantinople. Both prisoners were sentenced to death, while two at their accamplines were sentenced to eight and four years' imprisonment respectively. A disastrous fire occurred at Ottumwa (Iowa) mi Sunday, and live blocks of buildings are DOW 111 wins. One person was burned to death, and another was andbeeted by smoke, while three Ohm wero seriously insured. The buildings destrojed included 15 business houses and 20 residences. The loss is estimated at 225,000d0i.  The Kolnische Zeitung states that the reports from the Caucasus Thiehhave reached! St 4 Peterehatt regarding the health of the Grand Duke George, the Czar's. second son, An whom the Castilla and Professor Sacharpn have recently gone, are satisfactory. The Czarewitch was to leave on the 6th inst. on board the Imperial yacht Polar Star for England, with the object of visiting his flancit, Princgst Mix of lime. Early on Monday naoriag a large quantity of stone collapsed at the Earl of Durham's Dorothea Pit, Philadelphia, New Herritnn,and -four men, named Reid, Laidler, Mcßride, and Turnbull, who were engaged in drawing ;a4 be rime, were seriously miurad. Laidig, ea- Reid 'were almost completely buried, but they were speedily extricated and placed under medical care. Their injuries, though sennue, are not considered dangerous. A disastrous freshet took place on the night of April 20th on the River Han, which flows into the Yangtse, near Hankow. At Hiis time of the year I the mouth of the Han is usually crowded with I junks and boats. The water rose upwards of six feet in one hour, and the enormous rush wrecked or carried away hundreds °notate. It is impossible to estimate how many lives were Wel it; aireA.4 (between April 22nd and 23rd,) ever lxid)es have been washed ashore at Yangle, eUttie farther down the Yangtae.  Mr. Hugh Fraser, the British Minister to Japan, died on Monday at Yokohama, tr Fed gent* ; man had been in the diplomatic, since 18 I when he was appointed Altar 'the Hague. Within live years he occupied similar poeitiweit Dresden, Copenhagen, and Berlin. After 1880 . Fraser served in Central America., 'in *Oki Pekin, Florence Vienna, and Rome, in positions of increasing importance, until 1885, whea he was promoted to be Milliner *indent at Sainting°. His removal to Japan as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Phinipoteatiary, took) place in April, 1888. -r , A despatch from Colfax, Washington State, gays that two murderers, named Hill and Parker, were taken from gaol and hanged from a balcony of the Court-house by a mob of armed men. Two years ago Hill killed a man named Summers. After a trial which cost the ocpuniri 30, 000dol. , he was sentenced 1 to two years' imprisonment. An appeal against this sentence was still pending. Parker was about 1, to be tried for the marder of a Mr. Cooper in October last. The jury which was engaged in the I case watched the lynching from a room in the , Court-house. The Inends of the victims of this mob law declare that thy will avenge the lynching. It is. estimated :by Slime experts who have considered the question that the wet of constructing a railway from Mombasa to the shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza wottid protubly exceed four millions mossy, rrh• ground is extremely difficult, and the highest point on the route is about B,oooft, above the sea. An official despatch .from Seoul (Corea) mentions e barbaeous custom haying been carried out with. *WWI ita Use 'mains f Lini-Ohaium, the Conan conspirator, who was recently murdered in Shanghai. On arrival at Yokwachin on the 14th Inst., the body was cut into eight pieces, corresponding to the number of Conan provinces, and each portion was sent under escort to its destination to be exhibited as a warning to future rebels against the King's authority. Jasper: "A great many actors are out of work at present." Jumpuppe : "That is strange, when so ni.my people who are ad WON are on the stage." Miss Eiderby: "I don't understand why some ...women are so sensitive about their age. I 'have never tried to conceal mine." Miss Trenchant: "You are very wise:" A bit of conversation overheard in the conserve. tor)" at an forrawrffierb 002 40, you actuurt black eyes ee Ere: "The light is so dim here, I really can't ley!"