Digest of Cables.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 109, 3 February 1903, Page 6

Digest of Cables.

Some of the patients in the Colney Hatch Asylum, evading their nurses, roamed about the grounds in their night attire until the morning. The dea'h roll numbers 52. The press insist on a strict inquiry into the origin of the outbreak, Servia has contracted with an Austrian firm for 45,000,000 cartridges and other warlike material. Mr Andrew Carnegie has offered a quarter of a million dollars to provide a library for The Hague Arbitration Court. Lieu toD ant-General Lyttelfcon bas been appointed to the supreme command of the military establishment from the Zambesi to Capetown, with headqnariers at Pretoria. The Afrikander newspaper ' Onsland,' commenting on Lynch's sentence, refers to the National Scouts as fighting for Britain's pay against their own people, adding that what in one case is punished by death is in the other glorified and rewarded. The Irish Parliamentary party has contributed £100 towards "Colonel" Lynch's defence fund. Many resolutions have been passed in his favor, and petitions are being signed throughout Ireland asking for clemency on his behalf. A son of the late Sergeant Storks, governor of King's College Hospital, has bequeathed ,£60,000 to the hospital. Over 250 voters have been disfranchised in connection with the recent bribery in Shrewsbury. One hundred Liberals were proved to have received Conservative money. The semi-teetotal movement in England is making rapid strides, especially in business circles. The pledge is to abstain from drinking between meate.