Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1898-09-23 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

INIUMMIR I. as insensible as say Wait a rim tbs.Ø It is probably true that the Ansargusta are rioted in gamine es to the espedirmey of a seine wil* by mailing universe' horror, hes straegthined the very ties hetwean a monerch and his pew% that lii. the mimics of AiwaI iam to break. EMI criminal ferocity may eenestintie have the grace to so erect that Its. ANITA  Aerie lying on the reeks at aierbn lased for nearly sk meths, the Peninseales and Oriental steamer Chin& his been seocesetelly looted. She went ashore at Asake Foist as March 25, and ethos April three German and Swedish salmop stamen havens. worhiegherd to rescue bee from be. dangerouspasias. Their task was the of imam dty, fee large masses it rook bed peestrated into her forehold and hod fob. blasted away before her hull could be patched up sad the water romped out of it. The provide of suomes were serer very bright, but about ten days ego, wham a gnat effort to loot the ship baled, mese umbewrftere who hod insured her at Eby gales., per Gent. pee up all hope and psadoity Oases to mat rid of their liability. Mame\ the China 1,. Ise ship, eth yet two years old, it may be doubted whether her vans to opal to the enormous sums that have been vest to miketieg her and must yet be upset tobkg her it foe service. Perhaps se snob pains brie ever beide, hem takes to remover a wreathed simmer, and if the China bed p.. where somewhere out of sight it I. emiesivabk that AO might have been allowed to rest. let the WIWI of a great mail steamship line le net are to have the reed dielimed by the beam of their lined, vessels.  Anne • railway carriage in always, in this country, ohs of the safest places in the world, the degree of aemuity varies fame year to year. Lest year, ae we leers tram the report issued by the Board of Trade, was comparatively risky ter travellers. le a total of 1,030,4711,101 journey* 18 paseengers were killed; that is, one ia 57,24J:367. This is sot • bad record in itself, but it does not represent the best results obtained in protectiag the travelling publics whist accidents Arnoag the last '.1.1 years four stand out pre-eminent toe the small loss of if. which the nalway mused through mishaps to trains. These are 1886, whoa six paaassigers only were killed; and 1891, 181 e, and 1886, in each of which the deaths were Bee in number. The black yams were 16711, the year at the Tay Bridge disaster, and 1880, when the oathsion near Armagh took place. It is worthy of note that by far the majority of deaths and injuries which occur ma railways are act due to accidents to trains, but various causes for which the persons killed or injured are chielly reepossible. The total number killed in dm working of railways in PVT was 1,165, of whom 233 were trespasser* 132 suicides, while 811 were passing over level-crossings. In other words, 467 persons were killed who had no business upon railwa7s or who were grossly centime in their behaviour.  At the autumn race meeting of the Dover and District •&.,sag Club the other afternoon, E. McDomou of Loudon, met with a serious accident., suelniningi a fractured nose, through. mining out mod colliding with the leans round' the hack. The machine struck • spectator surd gent, livia in Dover, inflicting a nasty wound I. on his f At three eclook the other morning a comet, white pre but a faint tight, was s.rv.d by the ellaials of the observatory at Coponhessia. It istelisred to he • Temp-Swift.' comet, which Zrerlnn in sad returned in 1144). The ti hat comet was brilliantly risible for • short time Is the sorthern humans, estendiss over onarly 100 degrees. The view dews the crater of Vesuvius, even when it is gaittebeak IS very impressive. After aa eruption, whew the mouatana has its top Mown away, the crater is a huge bowl, steep an the mod perhaps boort. deep. This bowl is NIA ;Frith chinas of steam, lit as the nadereide with • lurid red glow. The whole of the bottom of the bowl is lariat, owing to lb. surging cloud . of gam