The Telegram. — 1900-05-01 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE WORLD'S DOINGS.  Sir George White visited the Qaeen at Winds° r on Monday night. Nearly five and a-half million natives are now in receipt of relief in India. Tim arrests in Constantinople of members of the Young Turkey Party continue. A New York telegrani denies the Madrid story that is revolution is imminent in Cuba. Owing to a dispute in the Staffurdshire pottery trade, 20,000 hands were idle on Monday. Great damage has resulted in Central and Southern Texas from floods and a hurricane. The aeath is announced from Toronto of Sir J. Hagarty, formerly chief justice o: Ontario. A child named George Mickavitch was burned to death at Bethnal Green, on Saturday night. Ou Mm lay a man named Chilton, 84 years of age, WAS horned to death IV, Huxham, near Exeter. Baron Saurina, once German Ambassador at Constantinople end Home, has died at his country seat. The Panama Canal Company's concession has been extended for six years, commencing April 1904.  A postman whilst riding a bicycle along Fulham hold, London. fell under a delivery vau and was killed. The steaiuship We',bury, for flardiff with Iron ore, struck near Hartland on Monday, and will become a wreck.  The first direct special train from Berlin to Constantinople will run on May 1, doing the journey in fifty hours. Hard frost .n Saturday night seriously damaged the Jersey new potato crop. It will mean enormous loss to many tanners. The strike of Paris laundresses and laundrymen has come to an end, a settlement having been arrived at with the employers. It has been decided by the Government to arta the Volunteer Artillery Corps with the rain. guns as in use in the regular Army. Sir John Bridge, the late chief magistrate of the metropolis, died at his town residence at haltpast six on Thursday evening. Prince's Theatre, Preston, was the scene of a fire on Friday. The stage was destroyed and the auditorium reduced to a wreck. Four additional courts are to be erected at the Royal Courts of -Justice on the ground at the Carey Street end of the building. Tue Emperor William has decided to confer on Field Marshal Court von Blumenthal, now in his ninetieth year, the title of Prince. Mr. Ittalyard Kipling, who arrived in England on Saturday from South Africa, has j ailed the committee of the Army League. A collision occurred on Monday on the junction railway between Swindon and Marlborough. Several passengers were severely shaken. At the Anti-Tuberculosis Conference at Naples, on Saturday, the formation of an International League to combat the disease was approved. A telegram from Havana states that a United States revenue critter has captured a small British sloop which was sponging at liatabano. The biggest railway engine ever constructed has just left Messrs. Bursig's famous establishments at Tegel, near Berlin, on its way to the Paris exhibition. At a Council held on Friday the King of Denmark apputnded a new Ministry of the Right, with M. de Sehested RA Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs. About 20 girl machinists had a narrow escape at a fire which broke out, on Saturday, at the Scum-bridge Manufacturing Company's works, at Manchester.  Mr. Albert Mason, ex-Mayor of Swansea and head of the firm of Powiesland & Mason. the local conveying agents for the Great Western Railway. died on Monday.  Carpenters and joiners in the Dudley district have conic out on strike in consequence of the employen refusing to concede an advance of one half. penny per hour,  Large premises standing at Finsbury, occupied 1-. y Messrs. Edward Knights & Co., wholesale toy dealers, were nearly destroyed by tire early on Friday mornine.  Mr. Edward Morgan, of the Royal Navy, alio W 413 viliting friends, was thrown fr,nn hie cycle between Kfiluwen and Kilkeel on Sunday, and died in a few hour.  A violent cyclone hal caused great damage in the province of Huelva (Spain). Twelve houses have already collapsed. and about 60 others are threatened with ruin.  The War Office issued on Monday night a special Army Order embodying the Royal Warrant regarding the re-enlistuient of ex-aoldiers for service at home and abroad.  Two Greenock loan. James Macaulay and John Anderson, caulkers, wer9 drowned at Wetnyss Bay on Saturday whilst fishing. Their boat was swatriped by a cnoppy sea. • _ _ _  Mr. Frank Beckuell, assistant manager of the Lancaster Stendard, died at Lancaster on Sunday, having fractured his skull in jumping from au omnibus at Hornby Castle. Kudal, the second principal town in 13ritisih Nortu 11,rneo, Was attacked by a band of Damns, on Friday. Several Sikhs wet, killed anu wounded, and Mat Sator lu reported killed.  On Saturday morning two workmen eamei George Cua 1111 l ag* aud Robert Colledge, fell down Kelioe Pit, liaat Durham. The former was killed, and Colleder wa* badly injured.  . Charles Frost, a driver in the employ of the G.P.0., Portnuouth, WWI decapicatPd on the railway line at that town. A letter found upon him proved the case to be one of suicide. Lloyd's report that a collision has occurred in the Channel, between the - British steamer Scorns King and the ketch Pamlico, of lowey. The latter vessel sank, one ut the crew being drowned.  The Russian ironclad Admiral Aproxi,,f, which grounded off Hwland, &n ',land in the Gulf of Finland, hut November, floated on Friday wibh the aa.imtance of the ice-hreaker Jermatk.  The foundation atone of the new Portman Mitt.ket was laid in Friday morning by Sir William Podia, general manager of the Great Central Railway, in the preaence of a large as,iembly. The medallion of the Queen cot in coal, which was presentrd to Her Majesty at Wolverliampt ~,,, on Friday, was made by a collier in 1887. It wiss cot with a clasp knife from a piece of coal 64in. by  The side of a sand pit at Great B.ntley, near Colchester, fell iii on Friday. burying 'rhoinas Newman, aged five, and his sister. The little grl was dead when removed, and the boy was