HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12964, 18 November 1907, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. BRITISH PREMIER'S ILLNESS. LONDON, November 15. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman's progress is satisfactory, and he will b© able to travel in two days' time. A MURDER TRIAL. Thomas Kerr, caretaker of Gamstown Golf Links, was tried on a charge of murdering ' Ellen Pinnock, ten years ago. Tho body was recently found under his cellar, through th© revelation in a trance ot a medium named Staples. The jury disagreed, and Kerr was discharged. TW r O GUNBOATS BURNED. BERLIN, November 15. By a fire in the Baltic shipbuilding yard two gunboats were destroyed. CANADA AND UNDESIRABLES. OTTAWA, November 15. A conference of charitable organisations at Ottawa urged the Dominion and the Ontario Governments to prevent the influx of mentally end physically diseased immigrants and other undesirables. SUICIDE OF A BROKER. HAMBURG, November 16. A tremendous sensation was caused on the local Bourse by the suicid© of Herr J. Ballin, a broker, brother ot tho maneger of the Hamburg-Ameri-can Steamship line.* A NEW TRIBE. NEW YORK, November 16. Doctor Gordon, of Pennsylvania University, has discovered an intelligent and vfirtuoup tribo of Asiatic origin in tho Alaskan wilderness. The tribo is governed by priests, who are patriarchs. DISASTER IN EGYPT. CAIRO, November 16. • An explosion occurred in a contractor's store at Assouan. Three people were killed and 11.. injured. MINING ACCIDENT. LONDON. November 16. By a cage accident in the Barrow Colliery, Barnslcy, seven men wore killed. JUVENILE SMOKING. Sir Henry Campbell-Banncrman hopes next year that a Bill will bo introduced in Parliament to stop the sale of tobacco to juveniles and juvenile smoking.