WHITECHAPEL MURDERS.
London, October 2. It is stated that a clue to the identity of the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders has been obtained. A medical man is suspected, and an arrest is expected hourly. The affair has created a profound sensation. The action against Earl Galloway for alleged assault on a girl has been abandoned. Paris, October 2. The Cabinet intend to prosecute Intransgeant for asserting that military funds have been applied for electoral purposes. Belgrade, October 2. The ex Queen Nataliie fiimly refuses to surrender her maternal and civil rights, and the populace show an inclination to violently support her if the coercion of her son continues. Sydney, this day. The first report is received from the New South Wales representatives at the Dunedin Exhibition is, that the display made by New South Wales is equal to any display in the Exhibition. Messrs Ellery, Eussell, and Todd discredit Egessns theory for the prediction of an extensive drought lasting from the middle of next year to the end of 1893. Adelaide, October 2. A cabman named Crawford shot his wife three times. The tmfortunate woman is dying. The cause is attributed to dissolute habits of wife. Melbourne, this day. A man named Thos. White murdered another man named John Welford to-day, by driving a long knife into his heart. White was jealous of the other on account of attentions paid by latter to his wife. Vienna, October 3. In the course of a speech at a banquet to-day, Herr Fisza declared that so far as he could forsee the peace of Europe was assured. •*- ~- -*-^4BBJM^%SfoTe7^^ It ia rumoured on the Bourse that a credit of three' million marks will shortly be required to provide bronze guns to be used in connection with smokeless powder recently introduced. Vienna, October 3. Fremdenblatt, one of the leading political papers in this city, in an article dealimr with Bulgarian affiairs, urges the Porte to re-consider Prince Ferdinand's right to the throne, and declares that the concurrence of Great Powers should be received.
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Northern Advocate, 5 October 1889, Page 3
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