HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10954, 2 May 1901, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By E-ectric Telegraph—Copyright. 0 A NEW ARMOUR PLATE. (Received May Ist, 9.31 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. America is esperimenting -with a new armour plate, alleged to be far superior to Krupp's. DONATIONS TO AN ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL. Several donations of ten thousand pounds, several of a thousand each, and one of five thousand have bsen made to the building fund of the Anglican Cathedral at Liverpool. APPOINTMENTS FOR BRITISH GENERALS. General Sir Archibald Hunter has been appointed Commander of the Forces in Sootland. General lan Hamilton has be_n appointed Military Secretary to the War Office. JHE DISCONTENT IN ALGERIA. Tho rising at Marguerite, near Algiers, shows indications of profound Arab discontent with tho administration of Algeria. WAIHI GOLDMINING COMPANY. (Received May 2nd, 12.17 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. The Waihi Goldmining Company propose to increase the capital to half"a million. THE AMERICAN OCTOPUS. Mr Pierpont Morgan has acquired a large interest in Leyland Bros? wellknown line of steamers trading from Liverpool. It Ls feared .Mr Morgan is aiming to obtain complete control with a view to an American attempt to capture the British export coal trade. A GERMAN "JACK THE RIPPER." BERLIN, May 1. Ludwig Graf, twenty-six years of age, foreman of the Railway Works, was ar- j rested at Luclwigshaven, charged with j co_imittin.g eighteen murders similar to J the..?, of the notorious "Jack the Ripper." He confessed that he did it, as vengeance j on womankind, and he blamed the reading of poisonous literature, which led to crimes, i