THE BEYROUT AFFAIR.
FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION. SIEGE OF A MONASTERY. United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. • LONDON, Aug. 29. An unsuccessful attempt was made to burn the American College buildings at Harput, in Asiatic Turkey. The U.S. warships Brooklyn and San Francisco, and a gunboat have been ordered to- Beyrout. The eruption of Vesuvius is increasing. An Italian troop train came into collision with a goods train ncsir Treviso, nine being killed and 80 injured. The official eiJtinmte of the French vintage is much below the average. The police and military were engaged for many hours in removing the monastery barricades which barred the progress of the expulsion of Redemptionist monks at La Rochelle. When the barricade was removed the monks retreated to the roofs, but quickly succembed to streams of water from fire hose.
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Southland Times, Issue 19138, 31 August 1903, Page 3
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