Home & Foreign.

Lake County Press, 6 January 1898, Page 7

Home & Foreign.

The bubonic plague is on the increase in Bombay, and a fresh exodus of in habitants has taken place. Out of a total of 14,297 cases the deaths numbered 11,882.

[n the ballot of the Society of Engineers 50,000 voted against accepting the employers' proposals and 1041 in favor of them. There were 42,065 against 51 hours per week and 8515 in favor.

The la<e Alfred Noble left £l3 1,000 to provide five annual prizes to students and inventors who shall he adjudged to have done most for the benefit of hj iinanity.

Reports fiom West Africa state that the French have occupied Cayenne, east of Bissanduga, an important town on a southern tributary of the Niger. Tli.' Porto has promised shortly to pay half a million pounds arrears of the Russo-Turkish war indemnity.

It is stated that the French have occupied tin island of Hainan off the coast of China.

A Reuter's telegram from Paris states that French officials are ignorant of the seizure of Hainan. The Daily Mail states that the French occupied Hainan simultaneously with the occupation of Port Arthur, seizing the wives at Hoihow, the chief port of the island, in Older t'> prevent commu'.icition with lloiu Kong.

British officers with ihe Egyptian army recently advised that 12,000 troops were required ill the Soudan. As the result of this advice 2(J additional officers embark for Egypt forthwith.

Archer has been committed for trial for the minder of Terriss. Advises from the Soudan state that a force of native levies have captured an important fort, near Kassala. The seige lasted six dajs. The defenders made a heroic stand, The British hold the river Atoara, from El Damer to Tonnit.

A disastrous conflagration has oecured at Port au Prince, th*'capital of Ha) ti. No less than 800 liouses were destroyed, end 3000 persons have been rendered homeless. The fire was followed by a shock of earthquake. The Rev. Mr Dull', of S\ George's, Glasgow, will be a delegate of the Fie" Church of Scotland at (he Jubilee c. lebration of the Qtayo Presbyterian Synod. The telegraph wires to Khyber Pass are being continually cut by turbulent tribesmen. General Weyler has protested to Queen Christiana of Spain agai:ist President M'Kinloy's reference to himself and the-Spanish army. It is reported that the owners of the Empress line of steamships, running between Vancouver and Japan, have received a requisition from the British Aiuiralty authorities desiring their steamships to fee kept in rea lincss for any emergency* The Canadian Pacific railway authorities say they arc not aware of the repV rtttl requisition. An Afghan, ;^MM«^yij^iil!ilji*

feaid Mahomet "iyh, the murdered man's brother, and Said Mahon.et Noor his partner. Yah has confessed to the murder, alleging that Noor oil' red him •£SO to kill his brother. Owing to the engineers' sttike in England, Russia h»h ordered 200 engines fo tlw new Siberian railway from American linns. As tie- "Utcotuc of th" recent convei tion sigi e(| by representatives of the United States, Russia and Japan, for the suspension of pelagic sealing in the B'hring Sen, President M'Kinley bus signed a bill prohibiting U.S serlers engaged in pelagic fisliing and prohibiting the importation of skins of pelagic seals.