SHOCKING.

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SHOCKING.

PLAGUE AND THE FEAR OF IT.

THE PENNY DREADFUL AND ITS

EFFECT,

A BATHING FATALITY

BY ELECTKIO TELEGRAPH— OOPYBIBHT (PEK VRESS ASSOCIATION.) Peking, January 30. Three thousand Russian workmen on the Eastern Chinese railway, fearing the plague, struck because the administration refused to dismiss fifteen hundred Chinese and give passes to repatriate the Russian families. ' The strikers and their families have been evicted from their dwellings. Sydney, January 30. At the enquiry into tho Narrandera tragedy, in which two youths shot Mrs Wary and her daughter/ their employers, Reginald Clare (16 years of age) stated that he, with the boy Miller (17 years old), planned to rob the place. He got rifles and they waited behind the bank until they had an opportunity to shoot their victims. Both had been reading bushranging literature. Hamilton, January 30. A sad bathing fatality occurred at Forest Lake this morning on the occasion of the Baptist Sunday School picnic. William Kean, aged 26, with a man named Ruehbrook, went for a swim. The latter noticed Kean in difficulties. Kean said he was all right, but shortly afterwards called for help. • Rushbrook again went to his assistance, but Kean caught his would-be rescuer by the throat . and the latter was obliged to' let go. Kean then sank. The . body was found twenty minutes' later. Rushbrook reached the shore with difficulty.