The Telegram. — 1900-03-13 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE WORLD'S DOINGS.  The Duohess of Aost t has given birth to a son. Mother arid child are doing well. The Tasmanian general elemions have resulted in the Ministry obtaing a strong niajorlW, Mr. Joseph Ryan, secretary to the Irish National Federation tu America, died on Sunday. The «state of the late Mr. Ismay, founder of the White Star Line, bar been returned a 4. £1,297.881 gross.  Princess Christian on Saturiisy opened the newly. emted St. Johtes National Schools at Peel Grove, Bethnal Green.  Mr. Phelps, form•rly United States Ambas-ador to Great Britain, died ou Saturday after an of about neven weeks.  In a quarrel between regulars and militiamen at Dover, on Saturday, three soldiers received severe bayonet wounds. A telegram from San Domingo states that the Congress has proclaimed martial law, and many persons have been arrested. Toe Queen has conferred the honour of Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India upuu Lord Sandhurst, late Governor of BOlllbaY. The 96th birthday of the British and Foreign Bible Society was celebrated at the Guild Had on Saturday by a tea to children. The Rev. Francis Ohnvasse, Priucip,l of Wycliffe I{sll, Oldoril, has ben appointed Bishop of Liverpool in succession tdMr. Ryle.  A distreteing boating accident occurred off Harwich on Sunday afternoon, a young mau named Foradyke, of Feittat3we, being drowned. The oldest and most interesting country mansion in the pictutesque reaidential district of Woodhay, near Newbury, was on Saturday deatr.iyed by are. Mr. Brodie Hoare has been elected chairman of the rar:iamentary Committee of vie Central Awiociation of Bankers, in succession to Lord Avebury.  It is reported from Constentinork thee s. Ukase ham been homed by the TmAr urattnir tie'rapid mobilimation of the RUISaiAII Army and Navy Ramer yes.  Sir Charl-s Hall, the Recorder of Loudon and Conservative member of Parliament foe the Fillshury division of 1101burti, Med in London on Friday morning. Sir William Gaestin, Inspector-General of Irrigation in Egypt, is about to take a scientific expedition to the White Nile, whieh will report on the supply of water.  The German Reichstag, on Friday, by 168 v‘ites to 98, adoptea Chute, 14 tit the Meat Bill, euittaiulug proMtitive re,trictiuue against the impo. tatiuu of American meat.  A man named Hugh Thompson was murder...A on Thursday uigt.t wheu returning irsati Louisgilien, co. Fermanagh Aaize, where he was to be examined to a malicious injuries case. The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of the Marquis of Zetlaud to be a Knight of the Order of Tuiatle, Au the room of the late Marquis of Lothian.  Sir Thomas Lipton has cabled to the New York Journal confirming the report that he wid again chailenge for the America Cup in 1901. His yacht will probably be built by a Clyde Wu-Ai-11611m who was recently arrested on a charge of aesisting to obtain for the Pekin syndicate the couceselon for the Homan Railway, Las been condemned to impri,oinent for life.  Mr. Choate, the United States Ambassador to this country. left Loudon on Friday for Cannes, where he veld join his wife and daaghter, and subsequently visit Athens and Consiiantinople.  The preliminary meeting of the Patriotic Fund Inquiry Comunssion was held ou Friday at the Westminster Palace Hotel, Lord Justice Colima pre.iding. The proceedings were private. The body of Arthur Charles Graves, bank clerk, who had been noising from his home aL Bury St. Edmunds for about a mouth, was found on Sunday in the river Lark, a Furnhani St. Martin.  A national testimonial is being orgaid,ed by shop assistants to Lord Avebury (better known as Sir John Lubbock) iu recogni, ion of bis splendid services iu shortening tneir ounce of labour. Annie Durose, aged 30, was burned to death at a lodging house in Marchinout Street, 131txnusbury, on Saturday. She was the occupier of a back town on the second floor in which a fire broke out. As a means of excluding Chinanien from work ing in the British Coluinthan mines, a It'll has been introduced forbidding theemployment of any man whose fair is more than four inches long. Owing to a gas explosion a land.lip occurred on Friday in a coal none in the Valdagno district (taly), in which 300 men work in gangs. Two unners were killed and 12 dangerously injured. A sentence of 12 unmans' imprisonment was passed, at the Loudon Sessions, on Friday, on Potrick Haggerty, a young labourer, convicted of stabbing three persons, two of whom were women. Terry McGovern knocked out Oscar Gardner in New York on Saturday in the third round of a fight for the father-wei2itt championship. The tiiht is regarded as ane of the cleverest fast bouts on record.  Au election to fill a vacancy in the Newbury Town Council was a,tended with a remarkable result on Friday night. The candidate.) were a licensed victualler and a teetotaller, and each polled 256 votes. A coroner's enquiry, held on Friday, glowed that Miss Emily Lroul•s York, a governess, threw her,elf from a fourth storey window, at 57, Curzon Street, Mayfair, W., on Tburaday, and was instantly killed.  The French columns at El Golea and El Azoud, in the south of Aliteris, have received orders to push on southwards to Instils, hut not to touch the Tatilet region on the west, which is tecognised as belonging to Morocco.  At Rowley, Satffordshire, on Friday, a child, named Annie Whitfield. was playing on a hearthrug when she waa struck by a cinder, which flew out uf the kitchen tire. The child waa quickly euieloped in flames, and died within a short tinie. Tbe Theatre Franc tit., the historic " House of MoLere " in Paris, we destroyed by a are which broke out on Tlinisday noon. Mlle. lienriot, one of the " pensionnaire•i," 1.a4 burnt to death, and incalculable damage was One to the priceless art collectiou.  The late Profetror Hughe,,, F.lt S., kit £473,000. Thirteen thouaand pounds ia to be dila-muted among five learned societies, and the residuary estate, which is estimated will ultimately realise £400,000, is to be devoted to the benefit of four London hospitals.  M. Arboin, the newly-elect.d deputy fur Troyen, hi literally incapable of bitting in she French Chamber, although legally elected. He la bn extremely corpulent that none of the seat., allotted to the deputiea are large enough fur him, aud one will have to be apeclally made to meaaure.  Aldershot was startled this morning by two suicides of sofdiers. Private Smith, 3rd Royal Irish RPgiment, cut his throat at Ourunna Barrack.. Ahout the same time a private of the Royal Army Medical Corps eut”red the Exchange Hotel and blew out his braina with a revolier.  An anti-Briiish demonstration IV3X made by • number a student• and ronghe at Buniesiux, who attacked the Britiai Consulate, breaking • door and some windows, afterwards stoning the Consul's rrsidence. A number of the rioters were arrested. M. Deleasee hss apologised to the British Ambassador for the incident.