CONDENSED CABLES AND TELEGRAMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10501, 23 November 1901, Page 1

CONDENSED CABLES AND TELEGRAMS.

' . Five hundred deaths- from plague are ■ reported in Moicow, Odessa, and Kief. ,_ -Professor Marcus Dobs has been sef lected for the Moderator-elect of the ,IJnited Free Church, g v -'"'-The Lisbon, populace stoned sixteen members of the French religious orders, who re?embarked. Dr Treves, speaking in London/ said • tha King was never in better health \tljan at prseent. » ' The students' , demonstration in. Athens against translating ■ the Scripture . into modern Greek led to serious -riots. Seven people were killed and thirty injured. The Premier was fired at, 'but escaped uninjured.. The troops are guarding the public buildings. '- Advices from Seattle state 'that the ' miners belonging to the secret order known as the "Midnight r Snn," conspired to overthrow 1 Canadian authority at Klqndyke. An inquiry into the mat- v ter is proceeding. -' . ,-Chri^tppher,Purneßs is the leader of a BrituA^fcyndicate formed with a capital -of triiejftj-fiye. million to -develop mining industries, railways,, "and steamer communication in* r^fctadn,-. At the Bine Meetsfcg, the King's Match was won with 323. The championship', was secured by Grummeth (Victoria) with 392. The Galway election -resulted — Lynch1247, Plunkett 473. .The defeat of the latter is attributed to -his courting the Nationalist vote And alienating the Unionist. •