*THE WORKER*
BRISBANE, October 5, 1895.
General News Summary.
Big decline in the trade of France.
Pasteur, great French scientist, dies.
Price of wood still on the rise in London.
Barcaldine boiling down works destroyed by fire.
Attempt to assassinate the Japanese Premier fails.
Terrible landslip in Arabia; 100 persons killed.
Chinese soldiers insult the British Consul at Foochow.
John Foley burned to death in a hut at Pyrmont.
Important discovery of gold at Waratah, Tasmania.
Russia intends massing 90,000 soldiers at Vladivostock.
Big hailstorm in the suburbs of Sydney does much damage.
Probability of war between Great Britain and Absentee.
Colonel Gerard Smith appointed Governor of West Australia.
Mrs. Bloomfield run over by a train and killed in Sydney.
The Rio Loge arrived at Bundaberg with a cargo of Kanakas.
Cuban revolutionists inflict a severe defeat on Spanish troops.
Valuable quartz reef discovered within a few miles of Melbourne.
New developments in Sydney regarding the Dean poisoning case.
Number of Brisbane shopkeepers fined for having light weights.
Successful auction sale of South Australian wine held in London.
Labour Member Wilkinson wins the Parliamentary Rifle Match.
Sixth thousand Japanese soldiers occupying the island of Formosa.
William Clarke blown to pieces in a quarry at Canterbury, N.S.W.
Manager of the Bank of N.S.W., at Cairns, found dead in his room.
Robbery of 34,900oz. of silver from St. Pancras Station, London.
A lunatic in England murders three men and then commits suicide.
A waggon load of wool from Maneroo station taken fire near Longreach.
Mahomedans raid an Armenian Church at Antioch and kill ten persons.
French army administrators charged with bungling and permitting frauds.
Irish National Convention at Chicago institutes a military brotherhood.
Sir George Dibbs gazetted managing trustee of the Savings Bank of N.S.W.
British warships ordered to China in consequence of anti-foreign outbreak.
New bridge costing £1,360,600 over the River Danube declared open for traffic.
Eighteen new batteries of artillery added to the strength of the Russian army.
Rose Garman’s clothes catch fire in Melbourne and she is burned to death.
Hannah Guest falls down a pumping shaft at Spottiswoods, Vic., and is killed.
A crazy man stabs six fellow lodgers in a boarding house at Maxborough, Eng.
Intercolonial conference of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows meets in Sydney.
A Cuban insurgent officer shoots his father who was captain of the opposing force.
Brisbane newspaper boy named Cross run over by a cab in Queen street and killed.
Chinese Government accepts the ultimatum of great Britain and dismisses a Viceroy.
Prisoners in connection with the Bowen Downs poisoning cases further remanded.
John Wilson found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to death in Sydney.Nellie Leckie dies near Wilcannia from the effects of eating flowers from a tobacco bush.
Great Britain sends an ultimatum to China demanding redress for outrages in fourteen days.
Richard Barker, the “Queensland giant,” arrested in Sydney in connection with a glove fight.
Two miners, named Smith and Roonan, killed in the brilliant Central Mine, Charters Towers.
A miner named Robins killed by a fall of earth at the Day Dawn Block, Charters Towers.
Seventeen British warships assembled within forty miles of the Dardanelles to overawe Turkey.
Brisbane Ministers’ Union protests against Sunday street demonstrations in aid of hospital.
A little girl named Brown is burned to death through her clothes catching fire at Ballarat, Victoria.
Two miners named Leslie and Swern drowned in Preservation Inlet, N.Z., through their boat capsizing.
Frank Tiniani, a Manilla man, sentenced to death at Thursday Island for the murder of a policeman.
The Anarchist who attempted to explode a bomb in Rothschild Bank, Paris, gets three years in goal.
John Dwyer, seaman, falls from rigging of the steamship Duke of Argyle, in Brisbane, and is killed.
A man named Moir crushed to death in a shed blown down at Mount Drummond, New South Wales.
James Brown committed for trial at Balranald on a charge of administering poison at Canally station, N.S.W.
Editor and publisher of Sydney Truth apologise to the N.S.W. Comptroller of Prisons for libelling him.
Turkey agrees to pay an indemnity to England, France, and Russia for outrages committed on their consuls.
Lord Lamington reported as having been appointed to succeed Sir Henry Norman as Governor of Queensland.
Premier of South Australia invites a conference of Australian Governments to deal with the influx of Japanese.
Two men named Holmes and Larson washed overboard and lost from the coal hulk Gem between Newcastle and Sydney.
Popular agitation in Japan against the Ministry for withdrawing the army from portion of conquered territory in China.
An Albury, N.S.W. syndicate propose to divert the course of the Toolong River and prospect the bed of the stream for gold.
For assaulting and robbing a police constable at Rockhampton three men are sentenced to three years in gaol, two of them to be flogged.
George Dean, of Sydney, makes a statutory declaration that he never confessed to ever having poisoned his wife or ever administered poison to her.
T.M. Sheridan sent for trial on a charge of murder. E. Thomas and Sarah Chapman accessories in connection with an illegal operation performed in Sydney.
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