The Telegram. — 1900-10-02 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

TIIE WORLD'S DOINGS.  A cave of plague fa reported at Charters Towers, Queeuoland.  A great fire raged in Hamburg on Friday, debtroying warelomiies and threatening the coal depots. A boy and a girl were burned to death at Thurso. on Friday, as the remit of playing with matches.  Mrs. Francis Seymour. of Kennington Lane, Kennington, has lust given birth tar two girls and a boy. All are doing well. Mrs. Morris, of Holborn, has received £3 from the gllt*Ll in commemoration of the fact taut she has live sons serving in the Army. Some 4,000 Ashanti rebels are concentrated about 20 miles trien Kumasi. In the recent fighting Major Melliss WAS again slightly wounded. On Saturday morning tie sailing bum Hive, of London, in ballast, collided with London bridge, and sunk under Bell Wharf. No.one was injured. There were 30 British vessrls respecting whose loss reports were received at the Board of Trade last month. The number of lives reported as lost was 63.  Six thousand miners employed in the Rhondda Valley struck work on Mon lay. in consequence of Messrs. D. Davis & Company, Litnitedi employing non-union istA.  In the recent hurricane in Iceland, which caused 70 deaths and the loss of many fishing vessels, H.M.S. Bellona, wAs also involved, hut she cattle out unscathed.  Tie mysterious disease "ben-ben" continues to make headway among natives at Rangoon. It seems to chiefly attack those whose dwellings are damp and insanitary.  William Gardner (56) manager to a firm of shipping agents in the City, lied whilst trAvelling on the Cmtral Limiton Railway. He ha i suffered from a he..r affletion.  The body of Swum Hoak (3) wife of a Wand, worth railway 06cm-col:retort who threw her-elf from Putney -Bridge into the :Climate ou Weduesday, has been recovered.  On Thursday, a lady cyclist, MiSP Em ,n Hanson, of Snaw, near Oldham, WU thrown under a lorry hien with bricks. The wheels passed over hsr, and caused instant death.  The body of Nellie Weaver (17) f 43, Devonshire Street, Theobald's Road, who Nil drowned while lioating, was recovered from the Thames on Saturday, near the Tower Bridge.  Mr. 11. C. Fehr has received commissions to execute ta marble the memorials of John Ruskin and Robert Browning, which are to he erected ins public institution in London. Cholera has been so bad in the R tmpore state. India, that the Nawab has just sacrificed one of his elephants in the hope that the offering will appease tne goddess of the disease. At an inquest on Friday it was shown that John Whitfield Sowerbut (23), son of a Le.tis Wesleyan minister, W 49 killed uy falling 4003. down raveyark Crag, in the Lake District. The New York World says that Mr. William K. Vanderbilt has given the Duchess of Marlborough, Ins daughter, £10),OCO as a tuauksgiving for the duk,,'s safe return from the war.  Thieves entered the Bishop's Palace at Chichester, on Sunday, and stole the head id the pastoral staff presented some p-ord ago to Bishop them, and used by succeeding bishop,..r. The body of a weil-drewied man, aged about 40, which had been iu the water about 10 days, has been taken from the Thames at IVandsworth, and awaits identification at the mortuary. An open verdict was on Monday returned at an inquest on Frank Thorpe, a groom, who was killed un the railway near CanterLary. Deceased was to have been married in a few days. The Cunard Company has received the thanks of the Admiralty for the invaluable assistance rendered during the fitting out of transports and the embarkation of troops at Liverpool. Joseph Anuraws (27), carnian, died from typhoid fever while an inmate of Wandsworth Prison, it is th.iurlit he contracted the fever while taking up infected clothes in the receiving ward.  During the excitement at Hartlepool,on Monday, in cunnection with the polling', Geo. Green wass. seriously stabbed that his depositions have been taken. 1 assailant hal not been arrested.  At Saffron Walden. on Friday, Frederick Rutt,,r, show proprietor, was committed for trial on a charge of killing David 140 igere, an army petivitmer, at Chrishall, Easex, ou September 14:h.  A boy of 12, named Mitchell, earched for an escape of gas with a light at Llandudno. Tne result was that he and his younger brother were badly injured, and the bowie extensively damaged. At Idradhurst, near Chatham, on Thursday, fire destroyed the whole of coins farm building, including stables, barns, lodges, and outhouses, as well an niue cornsteicks and five valuable horned.  Mr. Fredk. Hcnson, 51 years of age, a prominent member of the Kett-ring lloar,l I,f Guardian-, COMlllilted suicide on Friday by cutting his throat. It is said he had been depies•ed owing to a love affair.  Con Amble Henry Flower waq, at Dublin, on Monday. committed for trial on a charge of having murdered Bridget Gantiod on August 22nd. The body f the dead woman was found in the River Dodder.  At Brongh Hill fair, near Appleby, Westmoreland, on Monday, a aoldier avcidentally shot the daughter of a shooting saloon proprietor named Gaiter. of Birmingham. The woman's condition is serious.  Wohn Jones and John Watson were at Weston Fri' commuted for tiial on thie charge of attempting to eteal £75 by means of the confidence trick from a farmer from We,tern Australia.  An inquest was held on Friday concerning the seven persons who were drowned an Wexford Harbour on September 14th. The Jury found that the disa4er was due to panic and overcrowdtnu of the tender.  Prince Inkanthor, the Crown Prince of Cambodia, haii inynteriougly di4apueared. H. wail to have ianied for 111,itaeilles on September 23rd, but, invtead, went off for Bruseele, and has nut been heard of since.  A lunatic, named Allan Duncan Stewart, 51 years of ag-, hit.; escaped from the City of London Asylum, Drtiuri. An inmate of :he P,ckhain House Asylum, named John Tilston Evans, has also escaped. The North German Lloyd is having two ocean steamers built which are to exceed the r,cord. breaker Deutschland in aize and speed. One of them is to he cslitel Kaiser 'Wilhelm /I. and the other Kronprinz Gil. A. H. Fraser, Adjotant-General and Chief Staff officer of the NorthAVestern military district, died on Monday in Chester. He served through U, Abyssinian war and took part in the assault and capture of Magdala.  T. Rook, a seaman of the Cambridge, gunner) school ship, wa found on the line max Devomport, on Thursday, with his throat cut in two wales Lind both legs broken. Close hy was a blisaissaitiej ra.zur. Rook has succumbed to his injuries,