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Grey River Argus, 25 July 1913, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

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. : (Per Press' Association. .CONVICTS' ■TERRIBLE FATE: '■ •••■.. NEW YORK, July 23, .;: Trapped; in the -560054 -floor of an .anfiftua.t^d , convict; cage: at -Jackson, in IVlississippi, 35 convicts, ? all negroes, perished -in- "the, flames... The men worked /on the cotton plantations during ithe/day, and. were penned in. cages at^n'^hK : ' T?he origin, of thepfpevis iinknawn. : .; 'r ■;& ■■■■■" ' .y.'.. ■■■'.• • -^i ■ , ■ : .; ■ <''-<sy ■:'■'. v '. -■' .•■•"■•■ . . ■■-■ • > ; * ROYALIS^^O^SEIRAGY. V*:- ■-.>■ -V ; y '■ ": ■■-.:. ■■ LISBON"; Jul^3. -r Ii), all 160 boisili^h^e beens^iscovarrests have. W&n' jjpade,-; inGJttding |wojj s<trcreants ! and v seve'nte'en stfldiers in. fh^ 1 tFirst Ap'tiiierf- Regiment^: i ; ; 5 PROTEeTXON ,>&S. INFANT ' --■ ■•■• "■.■.■■■■.■'••*■ - life.;,; : ' ;:•■"■'■.. ; r ... -..^>;. BRUSSELS^ July. 23. • ' : Thie rfirst-intes-natiiCjn;aJ[:,c6.iieres.s^ fox the •prevention of J irif aiit mortality has' opened.' v In all," 3 5- States are represented, Mncluding' Australia. ' /TXAPE : WITH NM ' v :^r : V ' .'LONDON/ July 23, ; A:^conipany has to pro.miote .;the ; : distribution 6f New Zealand prbdutee in Bnstoli ''Mr. Risely, a merfch.arit, . Will visit Australia in, October to: pfoinote the";developinent of trade .wi^^stol..-. ■: . . ; ' . . WELSH- PISESTA;BLiSHMENT '!;: REJECTED. -- p" ;■-,■/"■'■ -■' ; LONDON, July 23. ■ , The- Hous;tt of ; Lord's reiected the .Welsh": Pisestablishment BiH" by 242 votes td 48. - - : ,_ ' ■ • '■% '.■; ; . H • STRIKE SETTLED ; ■". -^ :■■ ; LONDON;. July 2^. i >T^e^un-:Strik€\h4s; 1 -'^e,ei,S€ttled.'by. : ' the: 'mastets conceding a-, 'half penny i an...h6ur" to. all. labbufefsi v f:r"'¥'^ huge, fraud: ; > ■" '■ ■■-.••' v- ■-■ :^ v ■•; : vLQNPONs' July 23. - ; Arthur : Newton, a solicitor, has been sentenced?' to three v;e^arsl penal servi-. •tu"d§s 'and Bennett tt>,. eighteen, it!ont:hs C M-h?rd - -laJDOur 'for aefrauSing Hahs^Hpsch^bf ;■ : . - ; „.- 'IMPERFEGTLY HANGED. - •?* ; - : ;^ V NEW YORK; -July 2a . , •'; The resu?ciation of a hanged -negro. is rpportrd iromStarke; Flofida. chel!, \yho murdered ahother negroV was sp.htenced : .:to '/■ d^ath ; hnd hanged for half an -hbuj. Thi:ebun.ty^ gaol T)hysician«; having declared^ him dead'he A\?a<; "placed in a coffin. Mitchelf Tevived. living a .half : day, and then suddenly expired. " * : ;. .- ; -V {;H.M.S- SyD^fEY ; V :. -,' '■■ (Red.: jpits'fm^- ■ ' • :-tOJSip^, July 24. T;he cruiser Sydney ' has- left Queens town. ■•■. ■''r-\-' : X'-'' X "' ■■ ■■' '