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United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Revolution In Venezuela. New Yobk, June 26 In connection with the revolution m Venezuela, the Vice-president and 1741 men, with five guns, surrendered after five hours' fighting. A Train Fatality. j Santiago, June 26. A bridge m the province of Talca, m Chili, collapsed, precipitating: a train into the river. Many persons were killed. Others were rescued through, and from the roofs of the carriages. British Trade London, June 26 Tn the House of Commons the Finance I Bill was read a third time by 280 votes to ; 181. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, declared j himself a Freetrader. He said it was true that Canada and Australia, with their almost limitless resources, had prospered under protection, which, m. England, foreshadows grievous social and fiscal dangers. Replying to complaints regarding the disparity between imports and exports, Sir M. Hicks-Beach emphasised the growth of the income tax returns as proving the better condition of every clasa of the community. Panama Canal Washington, June 27 The Congress has adopted th# Panama Canal route. Russia and Cabul Bombay, June 27. Russia, through the Governor, M. Tashkend, asked to have an official representative at Cabul. The Ameer is favorable to the proposal, but one of the late Ameer's widows, the mother of Mahomed Uinar Khan, exhorts the Ameer to refuse. Wholesale Poisoning New York June 27 Jane Toppan, a trained nurse, of Barnstable, Massachusetts, was sentenced to an asylum for life for poisoning thirty-one patients with morphine and atrophine, causing paroxysms of degeneracy.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 5697, 28 June 1902, Page 2
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