THE WORKER - News summary week ending September 18, 1895.

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE, SEPTEMBER 21, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 18.

Cholera at Honolulu.
A rebellion in parts of China.
Drought in N.S.W. breaks up.
Gladstone condemns bimetallism.
Heavy traffic on the Central railway.
Shoals of herrings in Sydney Harbour.
Terrible bush fires and drought in N.S.W.
Turkish troops torture Bulgarian notables.
Brisbane contractor loses 1500 gallons of tar by fire.
Forged £1 and £5 notes circulated in Melbourne.
Prayers for rain offered in the churches in Sydney.
Body of a man found hanging on a tree near Wellshot.
Alderman Jones re-elected mayor of South Brisbane.
Proposal to establish electric tramways in Brisbane.
Great Britain annexes an island in the Persian Gulf.
Fatal balloon accident in Belgium; four persons killed.
Good prices still continue in the London wool market.
An African Sultan expels the French from his territory.
Stoppage of Georgetown crushing mills for want of water.
Offices of the New York World partially destroyed by fire.
Seizure of two illicit stills in Sydney; owners fined £100 each.
Shipment of Australian rabbits sells for 1s. each in London.
Another case of Leprosy reported at the Lower Burdekin.
Roman Catholic Church at Rushworth, Vic., destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Blair commits suicide with a revolver at Newstead, Vic.
Fifteen per cent advance in prices at the Sydney wool sales.
Railway train derailed in Victoria through running into a cow.
A Brisbane preacher fined £3 for defaming a publican.
Brisbane barber fined 5s. for shaving customers on a Sunday.
British consul at Wenchow, China, stoned by a mob of Chinamen.
A prisoner in Parramatta Goal commits suicide with a piece of tin.
Government geologist prospecting for coal in the Central District.
Frederick Baggs, a farmer at Baldina, commits suicide by shooting.
Big gunpowder explosion at Kentucky, U.S. Six soldiers killed.
Two more Kanakas arrested at Mackay in connection with a murder.
W. J. O’Connell, school teacher at Coonamble, hangs himself.
The old convict hulk Success spoken in mid ocean voyaging to England.
Election riots in Limerick, Ireland; forty-six persons seriously injured.
A prisoner named Morgan escapes in chains from the goal at Perth, W.A.
Big mortality from disease amongst the French troops in Madagascar.
Several little boys flogged in Brisbane by order of the police magistrate.
Mark Twain arrives at Sydney on a lecturing tour throughout Australia.
Spain sends 25,000 additional soldiers to Cuba to fight the revolutionists.
Disastrous avalanche in Switzerland. Ten persons killed and 200 cattle lost.
Watchman at the Co-operative battery, Bendigo gagged, and gold stolen.
General Booth obtains a gift of 20,000 acres of land in Swaziland, South Africa.
A tree falls on a woman named Denton at Mellemalong, N.S.W., and kills her.
Republican Government of Hawaii pardons the ex-Queen imprisoned for rebellion.
A Melbourne solicitor, named Robert Orme, arrested on a charge of false pretences.
Northern Territory blacks raid a Chinaman’s home near Wyndham and spear a boy.
Melbourne Cricket Club derives a profit of £3,349 from recent visit of English team.
Libel action commenced against the Melbourne Argus; damages laid at £10,000.
John Mott falls down the hold of the schooner Omega, at Bowen, and is killed.
Three hundred natives of the south-east of Africa slaughtered by Portuguese soldiers.
Sheriff’s bailiff of Toowoomba gets £50 damages and costs from the Brisbane Sun.
The whole of the crew of the ship John Eua arrested at Newcastle for disobeying orders.
Harry Cargill arrested in Sydney in connection with the recent burglary in Townsville.
Two Melbourne solicitors and three other men committed for trial on a charge of conspiracy.
Union Jack Gold Mining Company, Ravenswood floated in London with a capital of £80,000.
British man-of-war opens fire on a fleet of Arab dhows in the Persian Gulf and sinks 40 of them.
The barque Dharwar arrives in Melbourne with the shipwrecked crew of the Prince Oscar on board.
Mount Prior Wine Works at Rutbergles, Vic., destroyed by fire; 100,000 gallons lost.
Joseph and Sarah Lane, aged respectively 82 and 72 years, burned to death at Elsternwick Vic.
Lady Gunning, the widow of a clergyman, gets twelve months’ hard labour in England for forgery.
A Chinaman sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for lighting a fire in Parramatta Park N.S.W.
Johm Muellar, at Springton, S.A., unsuccessfully attempts to murder his wife, and then hangs himself.
Sir James Garrick refuses the position of Supreme Court Judge offered to him by Queensland Government.
A Dubbo storekeeper named Albert Whitely shoots his wife dead and then unsuccessfully attempts to commit suicide.
Reported that a train on the New York Central railway ran 456 1⁄2 miles in 407minutes. Fastest travelling on record.
Government of Cape Colony sending two practical farmers to Australia to inquire into the method of wheat-growing.
Publisher of the Melbourne Argus summoned to the bar of the Legislative Assembly for alleged libel on an M.L.A.
Terrible fire breaks out on a steamer between Leith and London; seven women burned to death and many passengers injured.
Mrs. Dean, alleged victim of poisoning, and whose husband was sentenced to death and afterwards acquitted in Sydney, sues for maintenance.