The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1894-06-09 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

ABROAD.  'The temperature at Suez has been abnormally, high for thisjime bf,the year. On 'one day the thermonaSter registered- 113 Fahr. in the. shade. The air was excessively dry. . Women Th Victoria are agitating toy.: thelr rights. They, ha.vp.".forxned an orga.zusation.? "to obtain the Parliamentary franchise for women on the same terms as are applied tomen.7 -C6ngregationalists at Middlesbriingli, Massa-. chutts, have Undertaken .a :new responsibility., Babies are cared for in a special lioom adjoining the church while 'their • Mothe* 'attefld thp tervi ce. . • - .  . . A'.Dijon telegtani:states that a widow named Cochet on SaturaY kilted her daughter by cutting,her throat with a razor, and then committed suicide with-fli th e same weapon. The woman lost her husband 'a year ago, and since then has been Orange in her manner. , : A telegram .from -Leipsic announces the, death there of. Professor V. Rosehet; the :eminent political economist, at the age of 16; Hecwaa prolific writer, among his works being a History of English folitical Economy , in; the, ,Si2.-teenth and Seventeenth Centurid,' which was p'ublished in .1851.- • - r  The trial 91 the two men who last month made the reurderous'atta.ek upoi4 Simon 134,Maksuil, the Armenian notable, was concluded on Saturday at ' Constantinople. .Both- prisoners were sentenced to deatll; while two of their accomplices were sentenced to eight. and four years' imprisonment respectively. - It is estimated by some experts who.have considered the question that-the cost of constructing a railway from Mombasa to the shores of Lake Victoria NyftriZa 'Would priabably exceed four millions sterling.. , The ground is extremely difficult, and the highest point on the route is about-B,oooft.- above the sea. A disastrous fire occurred. at Ottumwa (Iowa) on Sunday, aild five blocks of buildings are now in ruins. One person .was btirned to death, and another was suffocated by smoke, while three others ,were -seriduely. injuxed.. The buildings destroyed inehiddd 15 bus inesi houses and 20 residences, _TA° loss is esti Mated at 225,000d01.  The kin Id Zeitung s'tates that the reports from tile Caucasus which h aye reached St. Petersburg regarding, the . health of the Grand Duke, George, the Czar's second Son, to Whom the Czarina and Pr*ssor Sa.ciaarjin. 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 objectof visiting his fiancée, Princess. Alix :of Hesse. An official despatch froin Seoul (Corea) mentions a barbarous custom: having been carried out with regard to the remas of Kim-Ok-Kium the Corean cpbspirator,'wbo!wis recently murdered in Shanghai. On arrival. at Yokwachin on the 14th inst:, the body wa s. cut into eight pieces,, corresponding to the nun &ter of Corean provinces, and each ...portion was sent under escbrt to its destination to be exhibited as a warning to future rebels against tb e King's authority. , Early on Monday in6rning a large quantity of stone collapsed at the' Earl of Durham's Dorothea Pit, Philadelphia,Nev't Herrington, and four men, named Reid, taidleU, Mcßride,and Turnbull, who mere engaged iu draVing at the time, were seriously injur4 • Laidler and Reid were almost, completely burieti, • but they *ere speedily extricated and ph iced under Medical care. Their injuries, •thotigly serious, are not -conside,red dangerous. - •  _ A disastroti4 'freshet took place on the night of .April 20th on the River Han, which lloWs into the Yangtse, tear Hankow. .At this time of the year the mouth a the ,Han is usually crowded with junks and boats. The wafer rose upwards 'of six feet in one hbur,.and the, enormous rush wrecked or carried away-hundreds of boats, It is impossible to estimate how many lives were lost, but alrea4 (between April 22nd and 23rd) lver 4.00 bodies have been washed ashore at Yangie, arlitge farther down the Yangtse. • 'A despatch from Colfax,. Washington. State, says 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 country 30,000d01., he was sentenced to two . years' imprisonment. An appeal against this sentence was still pending. Parker w'as about to be tried, for the murder of a, .Mr. Cooper in October last, The jury yvhicli.Ni'as engaged in the case watched the lynching :from a room in the Court-house. The friends of the victims of this mob law declare that they will avenge the lynching.  "The 'Ebb Tide," the story of the South Seas in vhich Mr. 'Robert Louis Stevenson collaborates with his stepson, will' be published here in September by Messrs. McClure. It is generally thought that this May be the last novel in which Mr. Stevenson will have the assistance of anybody else. The success of the "Story of Creation," of -which some 10,000 copies were rapidly sold, has led Mr. Edward Clodd to prepare an abridgment of that book, whiclt will be published at is. 6d., so as to bring Wwithin the reach of all classes. It will be enttiled a ?Primer of Evolution," and issued by geSsrs. Longinans some time LB th tutumn .. fl '  . MEXICAN CURE, NOWN as