HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10870, 21 January 1901, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE PLAGUE. (Received January 19th, 8.56 a.m.) LONDON, January 18. Four members of the crew of a steamer from Alexandria, which touched at Algiers on the way home, have died of plague at Hull. THE GLASGOW EXHIBITION. Tho Prince and Princess of Wales -will open tie Glasgow Exhibition on May 7th. Westralia will be represented at the Exhibition. THE KOWSKINO INCIDENT. Mr Choate, tho American Minister in London, arbitrates between Great Britain and China over the sinking of the steamer Kowsbing at the commencement of the war with China. FRENCH RAILWAY PROJECT IN AFRICA. British capitalists will finance the French concession for the railway from Jibutil, a French, port, with a good harbour, on the Airiest shore of the Gulf of Aden, to AdisabsK?, with the right to continue it to the White Kile. ' HOW AN IMPORTANT CRICKET DECISION IS RECEIVED. The English cricket counties appear willing to accept the decision arrived at recently at a meeting of captains respecting throwers-. Lancashire alone appears to hesitate about accepting it. [This refers tr> a cable message received last month , , stating the 'Marylebone Club had informed the Lancashire County Club that Mold would not be allowed to bowl in county matches next season. This decision was the result of a meeting of county captains, and, according to newspaper reports, it was probable that other trundlers would be prohibited from bowling for unfair deliveries.] CELEBRATING A BICENTENARY. BERLIN, January 18. Prussia is celebrating the bi-oentenary of its monarchj , . [The title of King of Prussia was not assumed till 1701, when the Elector Frederick 111., with the consent of the Emperor Leopold 1., whom he supported in the Spanish war of succession, was crowned at Konigsberg as Federick I.] WEDDING DOWRY OF £10,000,000. NEW YORK, January 18. A daughter of Mr J. D. Rockefeller, the American oil millionaire, has married Mr Prentice, a barrister of Chicago. Mr Rockefeller endows the bride with ten million pounds. THE WRECK OF THE CRUISER. SYBILLE. (Received January 19th, 7.31 p.m.) LONDON, January 18. The Syibille, which went ashore at Saldan'ha Bay, Cape Colony, was seeking shelter during a storm. She is a total wreck, with two large holes in her bottom. THE RAILWAY TRAGEDY. Hill, who shot a raaji named Pearson in a railway car. ?has been remanded. He has confessed his guilt. fHiis real name is George Parker, of Studley, Warwickshire. The ballet has been extracted frocn Mrs King's cheek. Pearson was a well-known farmer in Winchester. THE FRENCH VINTAGE. (Received January 20th, 4.58 p.m.) PARIS, January 19. The French vintage amounts to sixtyseven million hectolitres, the largest yield since 1875. A FORGOTTEN TRAGEDY. Gabrielle Bompard has baen released for good conduct. She in 1889 decoyed a lawyer, named Gouffe, to her apartment in Paris, and helped a hidden accomplice, Eyraud, to strangle him with a noose. At the trial she pleaded that she had been hypnotised by Eyraud, who was executed for the crime.