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Tragedies and Disasters. A widower named John Thomas Rouse, who was to have been married on Saturday, at Crunford, near Matlock, failed to appear, and his body was recovered from the canal. Going ashore near Skallingen, Denmark, the Norwegian steamer Venezia, of Bergen, from Blyth for Esbjerg, is a total wreck, and the captain, his wife, and ten of the crew were drowned, and the cargo lost. Accidents. A cyclist was crushed between two London County Council cars and badly injured in Ken- nington-park-road on Monday. motor-car was entirely consumed bv fire, except the framework, on Blackfriaer-bridge early on Monday morning. A horse bolted up an embankment at Seisdon, near Himley, and Mr. Albert Evans, a Draycott farmer, who was driving, was so badly injured that he died soon afterwards. Thomas Ward, forty-three, a sawyer, of Burnley, who was mangled in a circular saw at the English Electric Tramways works, Preston, where he was employed, died from his injuries. The death of a compositor was ascribed at Hackney Coroner's-court to heart failure from lead colic. A doctor thought the man had con- tracted lead poisoning through handling type and not cleaning his nails properly. Elizabeth Caittini, nine months old, wfs tilled by falling through the rails of ft home- ,made cot, it was stated at the inquest at Islington on Saturday. Knocking down a man named Driver at New- port (Monmouthshire) a donkey bit and kicked him so severely that he succumbed to his injuries. A tramcar laden with workmen ran down a hill at Erith on Saturday, and crashed into an empty car, but no serious personal injury was caused. At a cricket match at Dunfermline on Satur- day, two members of the fielding side came into collision and fell to the ground. It was then found that the leg of one had been fractured, while the other was suffering from concussion of the brain. Cases in the Courts. A man who was fine,d at Chester for using abu- sive language said that the complainant worked his horses so hard that they committed suicide. A summons was granted at Willesden on Mon- day to a woman who complained that a, neighbour had been annoying her for eleven years by knock- ing at her door. "He's what thev call a 'crow, remarked a police witness at Brentford, explaining that what he meant was that the youth in question kept watch whilst others of his class committed rob- beries, signalling to them when the police were in sight. Dr. Dillon, at Croydon Police-court, said he prescribed for a certain pauper patient, but only to satisfy the man, who was not really ill. "I suppose you gave him a little aqua pura?" ob- served the clerk. "Yes," admitted the doctor, "'only we call it a tonic." A man who applied at Marlborough-street on Saturday for a summons against a woman for using insulting language towards him said that I" eh a called him "a 1" and "a and «a That's nothing," replied Mr. Ken- nedy, the magistrate "don't take any notice of that. I was called all those things the other day." At Belfast Police-court Joseph Simon O'Neill asserted that he was the heir to Lord O'Neill's estate at Shanes Castle, Antrim, and that he had come from California to claim his own. He was an Saturday committed to the asylum, it beiny proved that he was insane. Two brothers quarrelled about a fence, and, as a sequel, one summoned the other for assualt at I Stratford on Saturday. "It is a pity," said the chairman, "that brotherly love should be spoiled for a 5s. fence. Why don't you shake hands and lIlake the thing up again?" They did so. The Warld of Sport. The fight for the light-weight championshij at San Francisco resulted in a victory for Nelsoc (the Danish boxer), who knocked out Jimmj Britt in the eighteenth round. The swimming race in the Seine was won by a Frenchman. Miss Kellerman, who won the third prize, had an enthusiastic reception. Commercial and Industrial. The strikes at the Liverpool, Cardiff, Pen- arth, and Barry Docks came, to an end on Mon- day, when large numbers of the men returned to work on the employers terms. Messrs. Goodall, Backhouse, and Co., of Leeds, have offered P,500 to be competed for as a prize to the grocer's assistant who shows the greatest knowledge of his trade, after examination by a board of experts. Coal-porters in London have been notified of a decrea.se in their wages, and a strike is talked a,bout. The Lancashire coal trade is reviving, ana 40,000 miners and surface workers are working full time in Manchester, Bolton, Hindley, Tyl- desley, Atherton, Bamfurlong, and Wigan. The tenant farmers in Worsley and the ad- joining districts near Manchester are forming a combine for the protection of their info and the cheaper distribution of their milk ana other produce. Military end Naval. Naval officers and men complain that whereas formerly four-fifths of a commission Was spent in harbour, the ships now spend too much time at eea. The new battleship Hindustan, 16,350 tons, left Portsmouth on Monday for Gibraltar to join the Atlantic Fleet. Brilliant operations marked the opening of the cavalry manoeuvres in Berkshire, under the direction of General Sir John French. The Army Selection Board has been given power to reconsider the cases of these major- generals who were recently passed over for the rank of lieutenant-general. This is tne matter over which General Sir R. Pole-Carew resigned as a protest. The cavalry divisions ordered to assemble at Churn completed their concentration on Satur- day, the 1st and 2nd Brigades marching the re- maining 24 miles in an almost ceaseless down- pour of rain with a high wind. From Other Lands. At the re-opening of the Dutch Parliament on September 19 a new Tariff Bill will be proposed, by which taxes are to be levied on imported tailor-made clothes and foreign cigars. The provincial governors of Japan have been summoned to Tokio to receive instructions for the suppression of riots. The terms of the peace treaty are to be published in all the provinces. The Commission of Inquiry into the Congo atrocities finds that many heavy abuses exist, and insists on the prompt reinforcement of judicial power in the Congo Government. The city fathers of Berlin have decided to try pig breeding on a large scale as a source of revenue. ■A. great railway strike is threatened in America The freight handlers of twenty-two railways have demanded an advance in wages of 10 per cent. The ca.ts in the town of Frankfort, Kentucky, "Were ordered by the board of health to be killed, because they were held responsible for the intro- duction of an epidemic of diphtheria. As a reward for his honesty in returning £ 13,440, which had been lost by a wealthy negro, Mr. E. W. Taylor, of Kankakee, Illinois, "was recently presented with a cigar worth two- pence halfpenny, by the owner of the bank notes. At a dinner given in his honour by the autho- rities of Homfcurg on Saturday, the Kaiser stated that knowing the sorrow and desolation which rwar brought upon a country, his chief care, as ruler, was to preserve peace. It is reported from the Bismarck Achipelago, a group of islands near New Guinea, that natives of the Island of East New Mecklenburg have at- tacked a tradeship and murdered the whole of the crew, comprising two Europeans and several natives. Over 100,000 workmen threaten to make a great demonstration before the Hungarian Parliament. and will present a petition for universal suffrage to the President of the Lower House. 0 Explosions have occurred at a powder factory near Unionstown, Pennsylvania. Twelve bodies have been recovered from its ruins, and it is stated that thirty-five persons are missing. Lieutenant Pache, a Swiss officer who accom- panied the expedition which attempted to make an ascent of Kanchanjanga, is reported to have lost his life in an avalanche. A revolutionary leader in Poland, named Kastrzak, a German subject, has been hanged at Warsaw, despite the appeal of Social Demo- cratic members to the German Government to intervene. Count Katsura. the Japanese Premier, has announced that the Japanese have an entirely free hand in Korea. The disturbances in Tokio have practically ceased. Steps have been taken t" "t the terms of the armistice- General. A dispute has a,risen between the Newmarket Guardians and the West Suffolk County Council as to whether or not the guardians shall pay for the education of the pauper children under their care. There are now 122 motor-omnibuses plying in the streets of London—thirty-two of Britain and ninety of foreign make. At a meeting at West Ham on Monday night it was resolved to ask the borough council to put the Unemployed Act into operation, and to vote £ 15,000 for the provision of work for the unemployed. In their search for a town clerk, the Glasgow Corporation have intimated that no one over the age of fifty is eligible for the post. James Vanroosum, a negro who was born in the Straits Settlements, was enrolled as the first black voter in Chester on Monday. Winchester Workhouse possesses an inmate who has refused to speak to anyone for eight years. Lady Warwick's Agricultural and Horticul- tural College for Women at Studley, Warwick- shire, will be reopened on the 30th. A fox visited the grounds of West Skirheck House, at Boston, and killed forty head ot poultry belonging to Mr. W. Garfit, M.P. A bust of Charles Dickens, the gift of Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, has been placed in the Pump Room at Bath. Dickens describes the, Pump Room in the Pickwick Papers." After describing to the Southwark deputy- coroner how he recovered a body from the Thames, Richard Herbert, a lighterman's watch- man, mentioned that he had saved twenty-seven lives. Very commendable," said the Coroner. I have peeled this from a tree to-day," wrote Mr. Frank Eames, of Grananogue, Ontario, on a novel post-card, which was last week received at the Chichester office of a Sussex newspaper. The card is made of birch bark, the same material as the Indians still use to make canoes.

LECTURES IN PRISON. I

LIVELY CENTENARIAN.

STOP A COUGH IN ONE NIGHT.I

FROM WIG-POWDER TO PORCELAIN.

i I UNITED IN DEATH. I <1

THE KING'S RETURN. I

I THE QUEEN IN DENMARK.

ENGINE DRIVER'S PROMPTITUDE.

JAPANESE DISASTER. I

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THE FIERCEST RHEUMATISM I

lMISSING NURSE.

I INFANT'S SHOCKING DEATH.

I BABY'S GENEROUS DIET.

RIOTS IN TOKIO. I

EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY. I

I CROSS-CHANNEL SWIMMING.

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" MISS CROWTIIER."

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I HARE POLICE OFFENCE.

I LIBRARY FOR THE BLIND.

A HUSBAND AT SEVENTEEN.

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ISTRANGE WEDDING SCENE.

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