EPITOME OF NEWS.

Lake County Press, Issue 615, 26 July 1894, Page 2

EPITOME OF NEWS.

♦ Frosty o’ nights. The ball to-morrow evening. Mr Saunders, M.H.R, declares that the medical profession has noc madeone atom of progress in the last 4,000 years’.’' or ; .- Tennyson Smith, of teetotal renown is now conducting a mission in Melbourne on behalf of the temperance organisations. A terrific hailstorm is reported from E-’perance Bay (W.A.), where hailstones weighing loz fell, being the largest ever seen in the district. The adeged case of smallpox at Eltham, Taranaki, turns out to be one of cow pox. New Zealand is promised a visit between to-night and Sunday from the disastrous gales raging in Australia. Mr A. Millard, teacher, Fortroso, had his shoulder put out by a fall from a buggy in which he was travelling,, through the wheel coming off. Mr L iw, a companion, was stunned. The Hobart police have subscribed enough funds to keep 20 of the unemployed at work. Persons inciting to Anarchy in France are to be transported. Shots have been exchanged between Chinese vessels and Japanese gunboats. The Valkyrie, sunk in the Clyde, has been raised.

A rouseabout at one of the Fortymile Bush hotels, N. 1., has just come into a legacy of £2,000 a year. German army authorities condemn Dowe’s bullet-proof cuirass, which oa tri »I was pierced at 600 metres range. The famous Morris geyser, in the Yellowstone National Park has changed into a volcanic crater.

The barque Vivid, bound from Kaipara to Melbourne, has put into the Sydney harbor, having lost the whole of her deck cargo and had her bulwark* damaged. Laga, who threw the bomb at Signor Crispi' recently, upon receiving sentence smiled and cried, Long livu Anarchy ! Brethren, avenge me.” One hundred persons drowned by the capsizing of a ferry-boat at Blelaja, Russia. Thousands of persons have left their horn 'S iu O m>Canti<» >ple owing to t'i» earthquakes, which have, however, modified of late. H. S. Fish caused A Evans to be bound over to keep the peace, Evans having thr.-atoned to assault kish. Fish’s tongue got him a thrashing,from the same gentleman once before. A publican in New South- Wales has been fined for opening his hotel 10 minutes too early. Jordan, the colored man who was arrested at Melbourne on a charge of being concerned in the murder of the woman Hicks, with whom he had been living, was found guilty and sentenced to death.

The Auckland Weekly Herald* has now in use a typesetting machine, and a number of the employees have consequently been dismissed. Laga, the Anarchist_con rioted on a charge of attempting the life of Signor Crispi, has been sentenced at Rome to 20 years’ imprisonment. The chairman of the United States Tariff Conference has reported to the House the failure of the Conference to agree as to the duties on coal, iron, and sugar. The House hai referred the Bill back to the Conference. The Governor of Taxes, in condemning the President’s invasion of State rights, declared that the country was on the verge of a great revolution, as the result of dismemberment. The beef eaten in Wellington, so far as tho Post can make out, and in the district supplied by the Wellington butchers, is about 12,000' head perannum. Tne Victorian Agricultural Department hopes to see a trade in butter established between its own colony and the Cape, where a recent shipment met. with public acceptance.. A Sheffield firm, having discovered the secret of manufacturing shells made for the Russian Government, have offered to supply the Imperial Government with the missile. Four British warships and two torpedo boats while b-ing prepared the Naval manoeuvres were found have defects in their machinery and broke down. They will be docked for repairs. The Argentine Republic have not yet decided the question of extraditing Jabez Balfour. A magnetic healer who has bean, practising in Wellington for some years, and met with a certain amount of success, has been predicting a tre--rne-idous earthquake in two or-three months. The man h\s gai-o d such ascendency over -pie of walk minds that families have sold off, and { •rt t . . others r.p preparing; folio .v sui: to t-h-:; uaau. r. it is said*, of 4Q,

Twenty-five leading financial firms have subscribed to underwrite the Bank of New Zealand stock. Baron Schroder has suggested, with a view to settling his claims against the old Loan and Mercantile directors, that he should transfer his own Land Company’s shares to the new company. The St. James’s Gazette says that the practice of eating arsenic in order to improve the complexion prevails to a large extent among Australian women. Their health is wrecked by the ravages of the poison. It points to the Sydney ladies as proof of its assertion. Thi? statement is denied as a gross libel. A thunderstorm which passed over Wellington on Friday afternoon only lasted half an hour, but was one of the most severe experienced there for many years. The lightning was very vivid and rain came down in sheets, the street, presenting somewhat the appearance of lakes. The lightning disarranged the electric light, in some instances the light being extinguished altogether. In the telephone exchange the peals of thunder came like the re- I port of heavy cannonade, and the shut- ) ters of a majority of the annunciators fell. The cadets had rather a sf vere fright, but no one was injured, though many instances of machines being in- | jured are reported. , j A French torpedo boat named the Hydrondeur collided with a vessel in the English Channel, and, as she was leaking badly, all haste was made for Boulogne, with the view of beaching the vessel. The vessel was driven along at a speed of 28 knots, and that high rate caused a fire on board. This led to almost, a panic on board, and when it was discovered that the outbreak was in the vicinity of the magazine the crew became frantic. Fortunately, however, the flames were extinguished, and the vessel reached the harbor safely. Snow fell continuously for six days last week at Oberon, in the hills west of Sydney. The country is comphti ly covered, and stock are likely to perish for want of food unless a change occurs shortly. At Kiandra the snow reached the housetops, and the townspeople wereindulgingin exercise on snowshoes from the roof of the Kiandra Hotel. Althongh the weather is bitterly cold in Sydney no rain has fallen for many weeks. While engaged in blowing up the sunken yacht in the Solent a charge exploded in the boat, blowing three men to fragments. Owing to the hostility of the Government, the Paris Socialists are appealing to the working classes to organise a social revolt. Lee and Gumming have been executed. In the confession left by Lee just previous to his execution for the Barraba murder he adheres to his original statement. Mnckay, he says, w; s shot accidentally in the struggle. Fears are entertained for the safety of the steamer Duckenfielcl, from Na pier to Sydm y, and the steamer Phoebe boa been sent out from Sydney in search of her.

Pope, a “ New Australian ” resident in Buenos Ayres, has received a letter from Paraguay, dated towards the end of June, stating that the adherents of Lane, who is chief administrator in the New Australia settlement in Paraguay, intended to migrate to the Argentine. The letter states that the people of Gonalez are nearly starving, and that, unless assistance is rendered they must descend to the level of the natives.

The Times (London) commenting on the New South Wales elections, says the Freetrade victory is the clearest pain ; the reduction of the labor party is less significant, because the last Parliament has shown the futility of the labor organisations. The freetrade majority will enable the colony.to take up its natural position in leading the way to the abolition of intercolonial customs duties. John Buchanan, ex-constable stationed at Dunedin, recently airested in Melbourne, has been committed for trial at Invercargill on a charge of deserting .his illegitimate child.

Sufficient arsenic was found in the bodies of Mrs Needle’s children (Melbourne) to cause their deaths. The people of the Austrian capital will long remember the Bth of June. Not for two generations has a storm of such violence been witnessed as the terrible downpour of hail which burst on the city at an early hour. Many persons were injured, some severely, And the destruction of property was enormous.' Hail-stones of pigeon-egg size poured down with such violence and density that it looked as if an avalanche were descending upon the capital. Innumerable roofs and chimneys were carried away, and about 500,000 panes of glass were smashed. Lamp-posts and telegraph wires were destroyed, while parks, gardens, and squares afforded a spectacle of utter devastation! The panic in houses and streets was indescribable, hail stones rushing with terrific noise into rooms and putting them under water in a few minutes. The streets were covered with ice several inches deep. Some, people had to be laterally extricated from the ice which had fallen round them. In the streets horses were deserted by coachmen, and severe injuries were inflicted on an artillery regiment drilling on the heath. Horses in wild flight trampled upon fallen men, dragging guns in all directions through the streets. An enormous number of birds and horses wi re killed, and, had the storm occurred while the streets were crowded, the disaster would have been much greater. Considerable injury was caused to the Imperial palace.

Hasberger, a prominent Dundee merchant, has been arrested on charges of forgery involving £IOO,OOO upon Scotch and German banks.

Remarkably severe weather is being experienced in Australia and Tasmania, there being heavy gales and snow in the back country. M. Goblet, one of the French Radical leaders, said that the bill for the suppression of the Anarchists would create thousands of exiles. It was a direct attack on the liberty of the press and on liberty of speech. The six-year-old son of Hindrase, a fisherman at Lake Ellesmere, was run

over on Saturday and killed. On Saturday evening a man named James W. Stewart, an engineer at the Islington, Canterbury, freezing works, went into a hairdressing establishment and had his hair cut. He then proceded to have a bath. At closing time the proprietor found the door of the bathroom locked, and, looking over the top of the pavilion, saw Stewart lying dead in the empty bath. Death was due to heart disease.

A Madrid official report states that Malays surprised a Spanish detachment at Mindanoa in the Phillipines, and killed 14 and wounded 47 of them. The Malays were eventually repulsed. It is reported that China has declared war against Japan. China has despatched 12,000 troops to Corea. They are conveyed in eight large gunboats, which have orders to open fire if a landing is opposed.

Twelve Anarchists have been arrested at Prague on a charge of manufacturing bombs.

Over 1000 lives were lost in the recent earthquakes in Turkey. Great precautions will be observed at Santo’s trial for the murder of President Carnot on Friday. The courthouse will be surrounded by a military cordon.

It is reported in Johannesburg that President Kruger will shortly pay a visit to London to rearrange relations between Great Britain and the Transvaal. Cannibalism in New Guinea is something to shudder at. The Rev. Mr Watson says the wretched victims are tied handsto feet; then a pole is passed through this loop, and the prisoner is suspended over a fire, and roasted to death—not right out, but every now and then he is lifted off, and taunted by his captors. At the Engineer group, the victim is tied to a tree, around which inflammable material is placed, and he is thus slowly roisted to make a dainty m>*al for the noble savage.

The Italians resident in Lyons claim 2,000,000 francs as compensation for damage done to their properties in revenge for the m aider of President Carnot by Snnto. Mr W. T. Stead says that “the substitution of faith in the almighty dol ! ar for faith in the Almighty Cod has brought Chicago into its present difficulties ” Stead’s faith is probably divided between the two. Mr John Barns, on behalf of the L .b.)ur members of the House of Commons, has sent a cablegram congratulating the Labor party in Sydney on the result of the elections. UNITED STATES POLITICS. Mr Wilson, chairman of the United St itesTariffConference, has report d to the House the failureof the conference, which was unable to agree as to the duties qp coal, iron, and sugar. He declared that the Sugar Trust was seeking to dominate Congress, and read a letter from the President endorsing the attitude of the House, and urging the adoption of the principle of admitting raw material free. The tone of the letter strongly opposed a surI render to the Senate, but it is generally b lieved the Senate will finally triumph. The House has referred the bill back to the conference. The Senate is much incensed at the President’s dictation rc the tariff, and it is feared that a deadlock will ensue. The groat exodus of American operatives to Europe continues. It is reported that the President intends to veto the Tariff Bill. Senator Hill declares that the President’s letter has removed every chance of the new tariff becoming law. The Daily Telegraph’s New York correspondent wires that it is expected Congress will revert to the MTCinley tariff. The Democratic Senators favor such a course. The correspondent trusts that the tariff will not be sanctioned unless the duties on coal and iron remain. The United States House of Representatives has resolved to amend the constitution by providing for the election of Senators on a popular basis.