Digest of Cable News

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3102, 26 September 1899, Page 2

Digest of Cable News

Friday Capetown cables state tbat the court suspended the certificate of the captain of the Thermopylae for six months. The quarantine restrictions against i the plague in Egypt have been j removed. Altogether there were 90 cases in Alexandria, of which 44- were ! fatal. General Caceres, Minister of "War in the Provisional Government formed in San Domingo after the assassination of President Heureaux, has resigned. He will stand his trial for tbe murder of Heureaux. There have been a number of burglaries recently at various railway Biations in South Australia. A constable and porter, wbo were watching at Woodville, surprised two men breaking into the station. Seven al harmless shots were fired, but tbe men managed to escape. The New York Club hava notified all concerned that if steamers obstruct the course for the America Cup, the race will be re-sailed privately j Dr Baxter Gow, of Prestwick, has been appointed superintendent; of lunatic asylums in Kew Zealand. Saturday Sixty churches in the Loudon and Rochester dioceses have abandoned the ceremonial uso of incense, in accord ance with the recent decision of the Archbishop. ' Max llegis, ex-mayor of Algiers j and a number of other anii-Semitics have barricaded their bouse at Algiers, and defied the authorities. The police attacked the place, and a severe conflict ensned, several ou both sides being shot. An earthquake occurred at Aiden (or Indin), a town of Asia Minor, 60 miles south-east of Smyrna. One hundred persons wero killed, and many houses were destroyed. The Shamrock had another trial spin in New York harbor, witb a view to testing her enormous mainsail. The latter proved a surprising success. All the Ministers for the N.S.W. Cabinet, have been re elected with the exception of Messrs Lyne, Wise, and Fegan, whose seats are being contested. Monday ; Tbe London whwat market is qniet. Australian October cargoes, 30a ; New Zealand do, 27b 3d * Adelaide off-coast, 29<*. Rabbits are active — large, 9d to iH-d ■ young, 7-J,-d ; hares, ls 9d. Three soldiers died suddenly at j Aldershot from ptomaine poisoning, alleged to be due to eatirjg cheese which was traced to a certain brand shipped by the steamer Papanui. After an analysis of thu cheese th« War Office forbade the supply of New Zealand cheese till after the adjourned inquest on October 12. The New Zealand Government were represented at the j inquiry. Later cables state that twenty soldiers at Aldershot a*e suffering from the effects of cheese poisoning. A court-martial has tried Admiral Montojo, commander of the Spanish squadron, which the Americans defeated in the great naval battle off Cavite early in the Philipiae war. Montojo is to be deprived of all promotion and placed on the reserve for surrendering to the Americans. Max Regis, the ex-mayor of Algiers and a violent anti-Semite, bas fled in order to avoid the warrant issued for his arrest for murder. The starving crew of the whaler Era have been rescued after spending 27 months icebound in Hudson B iy. The steamer Glaucus, coal laden from Newcistle, had a narrow escape from being wrecked. In a fierce gaie her propeller broke, and she was drifting ou to the rocks, when the crue succeeded in anchoring off San Remo. The firstofficer and three senmen pulled ashore and safely sucoeeded in reaching laud. A steamer was sent to the vc-ssel'i* assistance and towed her off.