The Telegram. — 1899-02-21 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

GAS EXPLOSION AND FIRE.  ONE MAN KILLED-TRHEE INJURED.  A fir . broke out on Wwinesday morning on the barge James,at Iceland Whari, Old Fort, London. One man, wio.so name is unknown, was burned to death, while two others, Joules Baldock and Henry Gpudge, were no shockingly injuoed that they had to be removed to the Hospital. The outbreak is attributed to an explo•ion of gas.  SWALLOWED STONES FOR YEARS  The authorities at Peterborough infirmary have under their care a reinarkable case. An itinerant conjurer was admitted into that inatltution in great agony. Part of his entertainment, it appeared, included the swallowing of some pebble., ranging in site from a pigeon's egg downward. The man -aid he had done this for years witoont itlWllVenience, but now he has found himself in difficulties, Under skilful treatment some ilixty etones bite@ been recovered, weighing altogether 24nze. It is expected ~iat the man will be well enough to leave the Hospital in a day or two.  A plAtelayer named Bnckey vas cut a tram at Crewe on Wednesday.  pieces by  _ James liarriPou Minton, commercial traaeller, ha e died at Patricroft fruin laudanum_ poisinung. _  Ooe person IV at, killed and several injured by the explosion of a boiler at sawmills at Stuttgart. Mr. Chamberlain was confined to his London residence on Wednesday by a continued attack of gook. The town of Jaro, a o,ort distance from Iloilo, has been captured by the Americans after severe fighting.  The death of Lord Justice Chitty took place on Wednesday at his Loudon residence. He was in his 71st year. Prinee and Princess Charles of Denmark left London on Thuraday for Appleton House, Norfolk. .  hate Marshall, who nwwderel hr sister, MIR romoved tn Monday from Holloway Gaol to Wormwood Scrubs.  William Figures, a workman, was canght m the machinery and killed at the b'irminglastn Button Works on Wednesday. The first CIA 44 cruiser Orland.) was conamisaioned at Portsmouth on 'Thursday to replace the Narcissus on the Chum station.  Thomas Coruh-h, labourer, whileineonversttion with a haulier in the stables at the Victoria Pit, Mermen, fell down dead. G9clfrey Johnson, 15, a Malvern College student, has died from injures received on the railway, all the circnmstances pointing to suicide. Major Springall Thompson, of the let Buckinghamshire Rile Volunteers, one of the most pro. minent rnen in the county, died at Slough on Monday. Influenza has assuined a very .epidemic character among the railway men at Crewe, and hutdredx employed in the North-Westeni Works are off id. . _  A worran travelling from Faversham to MaidAnne expired suddenly in a railway carriaze on Wednesnay morning, alter changing trains at Stroud.  A fashtonably-dressed man, aged about 30, jumped off the Albert Bitige, Belfast, early on Weitheaday morning, and was drowned in the Logan. A telegram from New York states that the Yankton State Insane Asylum welt burned down on Saturday morning. Seventeen inmates are reported to have perished. A young lady cyclist, named Mass, Irving at Clapham, was thrown against an omnibus on Wednesday morning, through her bicycle skidding on the train lines, near the Elephant and Castle. One of the horses( kicked her violently on the head, rendering her unconscious. She was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hoapitisl, but died shortly aft r bring adnuitted from concussion of the brain.