The Telegram. — 1900-11-20 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE WORLD'S DOINGS.  Strikes are reported from various towns in Spain.  Herr Ernest Eckstein, the well-known writer, died at Dreaden on Monday. John Baugh fell dead while engaged in digging a grave in litutnpton Cemetery. Professor Adolf Pichler, the poet and novelist, died at Innsbruck, on Thursday, in his 82nd year. Tile vestry of Quarry Bank Parish Church, near Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, was destroyed by tire on Monday. A Manila despatch report 4 sharp fighting in the in which the Filipinos lost 50 killed and many wounded.  Mr. George Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has arranged to visit the West of Ireland during the present week.  The body of an unknown man, was discovered Ir4nging from a tree near Eight Post Pond, Wimbledon Common.  At Leeds, on Thursday, John Burk was committed for trial on a charge of causing the death of his wife by kicking her. The Hon. John Frost, a member of the Cape Ministry, will represent the Cape at the Australian Fed ration festivities. The Colombian Government having seized a British ship to use 88 a transport, the British Consul has, it is said, cabled for a warship. It was decided on Monday to petition against the return of Mr. J. S. Handles, who defeated Sir Wilfrid Lawson at Cuckermuuth.  Fresh depOts of arms have been discovered ab Esplugae, in Catalonia. The railway-station at Seguvia has been destroyed by fire. Miss Elizabeth Alsopp, who has just celebrated her 100th birthday at Bromley. near Guildford, was in the service of one family for 74 years. The death is announced of Professor George Frederick Armstrong, who had held the chair of engineering at Edinburgh Univeraity since 1885.  It) is ststed that Nicaragua and Costa Rica will now co-operate with the United States in any reasonable scheme for the making of the Nicaragua Canal.  It is officially announced that Mr. Bowen Rowlands, Q.C.. has teen appointed a judge of County Courts on the resignation of Judge Lushington.  According to a Munich paper Mr. Rhodos will shortly start for St. Petereburg with the object of funning a syndicate for working the Ural gold mines.  An express train from Parts to Madrid fell over an embankment on Thursday near Bayonne. Twelve passengers were killed and 30 others were injured. At an inquest at Appleby it was shown that the death of Samuel Martin, veterinary surgeon, who took an overdose of chloral, was due to misadventure.  The newspaper Le Soir denies that the French Government has made representations to the Belgian Government with a view to obtain the return of Sipido to France. A keeper in the Italian section of the Grand Palace of the now closed Paris exhibition wounded one of his cotnr udes with a revolver ou Friday, and then killed himself. Considerable consternation has been caused in Church circles in the Rhondda Valley by the sec's,n of the Rev. E. Treharne Jones, curate of Treherbert, to secularism. An aged invalid mother and daughter, named Matthews, of Ebley, near Stroud, w,-re accidentally poisoned by fumes of coal-gas from a service-pipe Et the road way. A lad named Barrett, son of a gamekeeper on the Marquis of Lomlonderry estate, near Stockton-on-Tees, was killed on ttlaturday through the explosion of a toy pistol.  The number of famine relief cases in India hcs fallen, cables the Viceroy, to 555,000. In the week ending Nov. 10th there were 97 cholera cases in the famine areas, of which 69. were fatal. At an inquest on Monday night, lb was shown that John Day (16), booking clerk at New Beckenham Railway-station, was knocked down and killed by a light engine on Saturday night. The body of the young man found shot on the cliffs near Clevedon, Somerset, has been identified as that of James Turner (25), of Ilarlesden. The case is supposed to be one of suicide. In the further trial in connection with the Dum, bell's Bank case the jury, after considering for some hours on Saturday, failed to agree, and were ordered to be locked up over Sunday. The liner Waesiand, which left Philadelphia on Saturday, for Liverpool, has returned to port, having a 10ft. bole in her side, above the water line, through a collision with a schooner. It is stated at the Hague that Thursday. January 31st, has been provisionally fixed for the marriage of Q,ieen Wilnelrnina, 'out no official announcement of the subject has yet been male. Whilst Lord Dynevor was taking siding exercise in his park at Llanchlo, on Saturday, his horse stumbled and threw him, with the result that he fractured his leg and was otherwise severely injured.  Mr. A. Griffith Boccawen, M.P., has accrptei the office of Parliamentary Chanty CommieMmer, unpaid, vacated by the appointment of Mr. Grant Lawson, M.P., aa Parliamentary Secretary of the Local Government Board.  On Sunday night some burglari cut away a pot, tion of the doorway and window at Lewis Abbott's, jeweller, St. L‘sinatd's. The burglars got clear away wi %Al watches, chains, brooches, &c., valued at about £l,