MISCELLANEOUS.
DROUGHT IN ENGLAND
STRIKE OF FISHERMEN. A DUELLER PUNISHED. London, May 18. Drought is retarding the English crops. The Durham miners have refused to reappoint a Board of Conciliation. Penzance fishermen, objecting to Sunday work, threw the fish of the East County boats overboard. The number of London builders and joiners on strike is 25,000. Caibo, May 18. The construction of the Akeleh railway advances at the rate of a mile and a half per day. Benlin, May 18. Herr Katze, who fatally wounded Baron Schroder in a duel arising out "of recent scandals, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment in a fortress.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 21, 20 May 1896, Page 2
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105MISCELLANEOUS. Hastings Standard, Issue 21, 20 May 1896, Page 2
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