Digest of Cable News

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3101, 22 September 1899, Page 3

Digest of Cable News

Xuu-, ■■-. xu'.XX X,;X^X',u r Tweaday. s . 1 ,. .j jyp>tQn..an4.;.^p.j } , : London, v have been fined £5 . £or t .bpißg ./in- po^aessioni :of unwholeseme fruit. The defendants Srg(ied ;i that ,: thei. contracts "Withi 'the consignees empo w_red . ' ' th&iri-'- to '•' r ejebb any ftuit not ini 1 a^hb.oughly'abutfd and ■yholfesohie ' conditio*- j i:i arid- uriabund c_nfiignme*_t_' which > had jbeen-tejected reaaltedqinf »7vio*_a-7sfallin^- upori-' the aendera of £18,000. •■ i; » A dari-agjattempit at highway robbpry occurred i at/ Laiiglaatej a Biiburb f- three miie_ - o _.tiide r : ; J6B^ti_i_Bb_rg. . ! Fiyd arcned ___n i ' i ßtbj^ped' I, i*the cW iii which wai^ the secr.ta_y of 'the 'Jbh'annesburg G6n_olidated.' ! __:ai_. r Ueef G.dld /Mining Cbnipany, 'corive^iH^ tße. minera*' .wag^s to the ' nrihei They 1 sh_t : tho . fiver,' when' the Becretkry _hot r one bf : tli_ desperadoes .dead, wh:e.reupoo;the others promptly decannped. - .i ir> . .Two v , bpys,; .. : n apaed ., , . QtSuling and. Thpn.pßpp, 5-;W.er.e. J; dypwried at Eorbeß while canoeing. 7 v A.th*:e.e,-y.ear-ol(. : phiidj playing. at a: railway ; gate.&Jb Perth W. A. placed its head between, the gate .and. , the, poato The former awung to.and shut, cijvjshing the- phild'B: head to a, pulp. , i The, autumn,, lambing returns for N.S..W. average a little over 43 pcr r cent., or a decrease of : 9 per cent, .on the previona autumn returns. The sheep io the colony show ia decrease of over sir million!*--, this enormous falling off being due to the drought. A Jew named Silsner waa convicted and sentenced to death at Polna, Bohemia, for the murder of a Cbriatian girl, who waa sacrificed aB part of a religious ritual. London markets adviae: Froz.n Mutton. — Crossbred wethers and m.iden ewes.: Canterbury, 3£d ; Dunedin and Southland, 3 3-l6d. Lamb : Prime Canterbury, 4 _d • fair average (including Dunedin, Southland, Wellington, and secondary Canterbury), _|d. Wednesday. Two bookmakers in London bave been fined £100 each and their assistant £25, at Clerkenwell Police Court for keeping a bettinghouse. The profits for 12 months amounted to £12,320. The strike of tbe tramway employes at Cleveland (Ohio) is collapsing. It is estimated that the strike bas iuvolve. a total loss to the strikers, employees, and general injury to trade of one million pounds, Ifc is reported from Chicago that the Armour- Weare Commission Company are organising a wheat corner. TH.ESDA.Y. Mr Lyne, apeaking at Ger manton, N. S.W. outlined the Government policy. It includes a system of light railways to develop the couutry, liberal land iaws, Early Closing Bill, amending of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act in the direction of making the award compulsory. Guerin's garrison has been provisioned for another fortnight. , The Senate, has commenced the trial of Derodlde, Herbert, and 20 others for conspiracy at Paris. The correspondence Beizad disclosed that an alliance existed between the League of Patriots. anti-Semites, Nationalists, and Royalists • that years ago the Duke of Orleans authorised Andree Buffet, the Orleans representative, who was arre3ted on the Belgian frontier, to expend 300,000 franc 3 for the purchase of the support of the labor associations and to foment disorder. Apparently failure to secure the assistance of the army disheartened the Duke, who telegraphed to Buffet at tbe end of August that there was no present possibility of a revolution, and to await the end of the Dreyfus case and the frightful c.isis following the Exhibition.