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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 93, 16 October 1895, Page 2

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GENEBAL SUMMARY. Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, has accepted the appointment of associate editor oi Bishop William Taylor's monthly pictorial publication. German firemen on board the American liner Louis mutinied at Southampton recently because an English coal trimmer had been taken on. They stabbed the man, and threw him overboard. William Astor has shaken up the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, and anti-American sentiment has been banished from its columns. Sarah Bernhardt, Madame Melba and other leading professionals, have pronounced decidedly against bloomers. The St. Pancras Vestry Health Committee has recommended the immediate closing of certain of Lady Somerset's houses on Charlton street as unfit for human habitation. Lady Henry herself is engaged in looking after a female named Jane Capebread, who has been arrested more than 300 times. The cholera is increasing in Pekin according to despatches received September 3rd, and deaths exceed 150 daily. The total number of cholera cases reported throughout Japan, on August 29, was 771, and the deaths 429. The aggregate number of cases from the outbreak of the disease is 25,000, of which 1280 occurred iv transports, and the deaths 16,278. Friends of Oscar Wilde who have visited him in his London prison say that he continues to enjoy good health, and is making the best of the situation, although be frequently expresses the wish to die. Those who are interested in the future of the disgraced man have been discussing (according to a despatch of August 24) what will Wilde do when he leaves prison. Although nothißg nothing definite appears to be decided it is generally believed that he will be smuggled out of the country, and enabled to begin life anew, under another name, depending upon bis pen for a living. Lord Archibald Campbell and his pipers inarched through Glencoe on the night of September 7, playing a dirge. Lord Archibald devised this project as an expiation for the historical massacre of Glencoe by the Campbells. The M'Donalds resented the intrusion at first, and threatened to break the Campbells' heads, but the march was finally accomplished without disturbance. The London Chronicle of September. 3 comments upon the increased immigration to America as pointing to another trade boom there. It is certain, that if there is a healthy industrial revival there, more tinkering with the tariff one way or the other will follow. Burns, Broadhurst, and Tom Mann were excluded from the Trades Union Congress sitting at Cardiff, Wales on 3rd September. Although personally affected, Burns approved of their action. At the Manhattan Beach (New York) on August 14th, a cyclist named Peter Berlo made an attempt with a flying start, to lower the one mile perfessional record lrnin 53sec, and succeeded in equaling it. Harry Tyler started ostensibly for the two mile record. Incidently he chipped a big slice off the coveted mile figures, and also lowered the time for the full distance. His times were — one| mile lmin 49sec 25th sec ; two miles, 3min 56sec. Ie is thought, says an exchange, that with fresh packmakers, Tyler could have ridden the mile in lmin 45sec. In England cricket was nearly over for this season wheu the mail left. Somerset, beat Surrey by 53 runs, after an exciting game on August 31st. The Somersetshire slow bowler, Tyler, put up a remark* able performance, as he took all tea wickets in Surrey's first innings.