*THE
WORKER*
BRISBANE, 7 September, 1895.
General
News Summary
FOR
THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 4
Judge Harding dies.
Cholera at Honolulu.
Terrible gale in Sydney.
Bush fires in Queensland
general.
Mrs. Hart burnt to death near
Bega, N.S.W.
Don’t forget the WORKERS
enlargement fund.
Trade unions congress, Great
Britain, meets.
Proposal to establish a meat
works at Charleville.
Schooner Norman goes ashore at
Woollongong.
The town of Zuhoff, in Russia,
partly burned down.
Wragge calculates a
continuance of dry weather.
A fatal case of Asiatic
cholera reported at Grimsby, Eng.
The Mahdists in Central Africa
defeat Belgian troops.
Russian authorities in India
arrest a British political agent.
Revolution in Ecuador, Central
America. Severe fighting.
A father and son named
Williamson drowned at Natalie, Vic.
Large number of proprietors of
betting shops in Sydney fined.
Big fire at Cobar, N.S.W. Six
business places destroyed.
The Emperor of Germany calls
Socialists a treasonable band.
The Lochiel arrives at
Bundeburg with a cargo of 116 kanakas.
A church in Italy takes fire
and fourteen persons are suffocated.
Turkish troops still
committing outrages on the people of Armenia.
N.S.W. postal authorities
establish an express messenger service.
Dead body of a swagman named
O’Connor found near Goondiwindi.
Charles Sherman sets fire to
his tent at Croydon and is burned to death.
Disastrous fire in a town in
Holland; fifty houses burnt to the ground.
A. Mahomedan obtains a divorce
from a Christian woman in Brisbane.
Pat Smith is crushed to death
at Paddington, N.S.W., by a fall of stone.
A German torpedo boat sunk in
the North Sea; thirteen of the crew drowned.
Richard Caromman, an ex-N.Z.
Government official, shoots himself at Perth, W.A.
Sixteen Chinese concerned in
recent missionary outrages at Kuchang beheaded.
Willies, who murdered his wife
last week in Adelaide, commits suicide by hanging.
A brigantine between New
Zealand and Sydney is severely damaged by a whale.
A Victorian judge censures
squatter C. B. Fisher, who went insolvent for £1,447,000.
Howard
Freeman, of Brisbane, charged with performing an illegal operation on
a woman, is remanded.
Serious
conflict between French soldiers and citizens of Bayonne over the
suppression of bull fights.
A
little girl named Poulton is seriously burned at Toowoomba through
her clothes taking fire.
Roberts
Amos secures a £200,000 contract for erecting new smelting
works at Lake Illawarra, N.S.W.
Japan
consents to accept an additional indemnity of £6,000,000 to
evacuate the Liantung Peninsula.
A
large number of persons arrested in Russia for being concerned in a
conspiracy against the Czar.
The
Treasurer of New Zealand says that in time all banks in Australasia
will be converted into State banks.
Marble
monument erected to the memory of the sculler Searle, on the
Parramatta River, wilfully destroyed.
Serious
railway accident in New York caused by a runaway engine. A large
number of persons injured.
The
Russian Czar presents the Prince of Montenegro with a large quantity
of powder, guns, and dynamite.
Alleged
attempt to wreck a train conveying a number of miners to the
Eight-hour Demonstration in Adelaide.
French
Ambassador leaves Berlin whilst fetes are being held to commemorate
the German victory at Sedan.
France
and Russia ignore the appeal of Turkey against the attitude of Great
Britain on the Armenian question.
Russian
Government prohibits German residents in Russia from celebrating the
anniversary of the battle of Sedan.
Thomas
E. Rolfe, Sydney solicitor, committed for trial on a charge of
conspiring to prevent the course of justice.
Justin
M’Carthy denounces Tim Healy as having conspired against the unity
of the Irish Party. Healy denies the charge.
Religions
riots between Mahomedans and Hindoos in India. Police fire on the
mob, killing ten and wounding fifty persons.
French politicians charged with accepting bribes in connection with privately-owned railways.
A four-year-old girl named Florence Richardson drowned in the River at South Brisbane.
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