BRITISH AND FOREIGN-

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 61, 13 March 1906, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN-

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] FIGHTING IN THE PHILIPPINES. (Received March 13, 8.49 a.m.) NEW YORIJc, March 12. A total of nine hundred Moros were killed or wounded, including a number of women and children who mingled with the rebels in their last resistance over the lip of the crater. BISHOPS ORDERED TO. RESIGN, PARIS, March ,12. '■', The Pope has summoned seven .French. Bishops- tt> resign.- '■-. •: .- : , A DISORDERLY DEPUTATION. •_ .■ ■" LONDON, March 12. Fifty women advocating female suffrage attempted to see; Sir H. Gamp-vbell-Bannerman withoxit an appointment. They refused to disperse: several were arrested, and .afterwards, released. ■ ' ' THE AMERICAN COAL STRIKE. NEW YORK, March 12. The men's demands for readjustment of wages and better conditions on the American anthracite fields were rejected. A FATAL EARTHQUAKE. LONDON, March 12. By an earthquake at Bashahr eight people were killed and twenty-six injured. BEQUEST TO A UNIVERSITY. . LONDON, March 12. Oxford University has accepted the late Mr Stephen William Silver's collection of New Zealand birds. LEGALISING EUTHANASIA. NEW YORK, March 12. Dr Gregory introduced into the lowa legislature a bill legalising the painless killing of hopeless incurables at the instance of the patients; also of hideously deformed or idiotic children at the instance of their next-of-kin. FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION. NEW YORK. March 12. A railway collision occurred at Godsend, Ohio. The carriages afterwards took fire. Ten people were killed and fifteen injured, some fatally. - A DIAMOND KING. LONDON, March 12. | The Rhodesian settlers petitioned Lord Selborne against the Chartered De Beers granting Mr John Willoughby the exclusive concession over two hundred square miles of diama'ntiferous territory.