CABLEGRAMS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXVI, Issue 1319, 28 July 1899, Page 6

CABLEGRAMS.

: — : -"♦—: — — • The Times attributes a decline in consols to sellers unloading in antici pationof a reduction of interest in 1903. Tha new cold stores erected at Manchester for the: Colonial Consign-, ment Company were opened ;by the Lord Mayor. News from the Solent states that two more deaths have ecourred as the result of the explosion oh the Bulfinch.. A Reuter's agency states that an Italian, at Louisiana! shot an American doctor, whose friends lynched tne Italian and five of tho Italian's friends. Mr EMhn Root, a prominent New York lawyer, succeeds Mr Alger as Secretary for War. Senor Pelloux, 'he Premier of Italy, has directed the courts to enforce a drastic public bill, though Parliament has not sanctioned the 'measure declaring it to be pr ential to counteract socialist?. A reconnaissance of Egyptain troops ascertained that the Khalifa is in desperate straits for food and ammunition. He has very few followers. The death is announced of Colonel Robert Ingersol 1 . The Rennes court-martial on Dreyfus takes place on August 7. The Arbitration Committee adopted a scheme for submission to the Peace Conference. Mr Goschen, referring to his offer to refrain from the projected expansion of the navy if Russia would also refrain, Stated that as Russia has taken no decision in the matter he was no j longer justified in deferring the British programme. j Eif y children were poisoned at a school treat at Greenwich, but they ] have all recovered. j General Booth opened a monster ' Solvation Army Exhibition in London. He received an immense ovation. The Hnus-2 of Lords read the Clergy Tithes Relief Bill a second time by a large majority. The French authorities have expel'ed the Marquis Cerralho, one of the leader* of the Spanish Carlists, from St, Jpan-de-Luz, in the Department of Bas-es-Pyrenees-An alarming accident has occurred at Berlin. Forty persons who were leaning on the vvire railings round a cyc^ track were struck by lightning. Three were killed and 20 injured. An explosion on the Austrian torpedo boat Adler killed five of the crew. M. Stepns, a Russian electrician, claims to have discovered a method of telegraphing from London to New York without wires'. A remarkable autamobile car race has taken place in France. A 16---horse power machine covered 1423---miles in 44hr 34min. The stiike of the railway employees at Brooklyn and New York has collapsed, but it has developed at Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, where the street cars were dynamited and 14 passengers injured, four seriously. The mob is beyond control, and ball cartridges have bpen issued to the local militia.