CABLE NEWS. HOME AND FOREIGN.

Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 648, 12 July 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. HOME AND FOREIGN.

(per pbess association) Pabis, July 9. From Bordeaux reinforcements havo boen shipped to Dahomey. The Dahomeyans have captured Bagary and destroyed the Catholic missions. They also bave burnt three priests and three nuns. The French troops eventually defeated the natives. Constantinople, July 9. Cholera bas broken out in Samara. In Astrakham the ravages of the cholera are serious, and riots bave taken place owing to the police endeavoring to prevent the populace from fleeing from tho oity. Sofia, July 9. The trial of tbose charged with th 9 murder of M. BeltobefE continues. One witness has given evidence to the effeot that ou one •ccasion -when Prince Fredinand was journeying to meet his mother it was arranged with the driver and stoker of the train that they should stop in Dragoman Pass, and then murder tbe Prince and M. Stambuloff. Washington, July 10; It is reported .that another attempt is to be made by Pinkerton's forceof private detectives and police to taikl© tb© strikers. A force of four hundred men ia starting for Carnegie's homestead in bulletproof cars, with provisions for several days. The strikers are well armed, and have supplies of dynamite, in addition to fire arms. They patrol all the approaches to Carnegie's mills, whioh are the focus of the strike. The civilians of Pittsburg declined to respond to the Sheriff's appeal for help. San Fkancisco, July 9. An explosion took place at the Giant Powder Works, near San Francisco, killing 104 people, maatly Chinamen. Geneva, July 10.A boiler of the steamer Mont Blanc exploded on Lake Geneva. The iron plate crushed through the .aloon, killing twenty passengers, and injuring forty others. Among tbo victims were several English tourists. London, July 10. Mr Dibbs wishes the New South Wales Parliament to meet early in September. The Cabinet desire him to return via the Suez Canal, but Mr Dibbs adheres to bis first intention of going baok by way of Canada. Ho has informed his Cabinet in cypher what hopes there are of obtaining a cessation of convictism in New Caledonia from the French Government. It is understood some members of the Koyal Family are moving to obtain a high honor for Mr Dibbs.