*THE WORKER* Brisbane, October 19, 1895. General News Summary.

 *THE WORKER*

BRISBANE, OCTOBER 19, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 16.

Queen of Corea killed by her subjects.

N.S.W. revenue shows a big decrease.

A woman in Sicily poisons 33 children.

West Australian Parliament prorogued.

General Booth lectures in New Zealand.

Big fire at Coolgardie; damages £250,000

J. Delaney drops dead in a hotel in Mackay.

Rich discovery of gold at Wedderburn, Vic.

Police prevent a Kanaka battle in Bundeburg.

Massacre of Armenians in Turkey still continues.

Robert Roberts found drowned in the Brisbane River.

A woman falls through a skylight at Ballarat and is killed.

Spain borrows £3,000,000 to prosecute the war in Cuba.

Bundeburg citizens agitate for a railway to Burnett Heads.

Australian live sheep sold in London at about 40s. each.

Hostilities in Africa between the Italians and Abyssinians.

James Kilch, aged 8 years, crushed to death by a cart in Sydney.

Steamship Bezwada leaves Gladstone with 254 horses for India.

Robert Miller commits suicide on his wife’s grave at Normanton.

Melbourne police raid betting shops and make several arrests.

George Horace Lynch sentenced to death at Adelaide for murder.

Judge Paul temporarily appointed to the Supreme Court bench.

August Voght unsuccessfully attempts suicide at Georgetown.

Queen of Madagascar accepts French terms and disbands her army.

Prime Minister of Madagascar arrested by the French commander.

Bowen Downs poisoning cases at Muttaburra further adjourned.

Turks actively engaged in laying down torpedoes in the Dardanelles.

Steamship Rakaia leaves Rockhampton with a cargo valued at £128,464.

The  ketch Gambier Lass sunk by a steamer when entering Port Pirie.

Good prices for Australian wool still continue in the London markets.

Frank Nosworthy accidentally shoots himself dead at Conmurra, S.A.

Police constable Clarke accidentally shot dead at Alton Downs station.

John Stephenson fined £10 in Brisbane for illegally selling a bottle of ale.

Attempt to fix a minimum price for selling Australian beef in London fails.

A number of Brisbane shopkeepers fined for selling tobacco without a license.

Proposal to municipalise the Brisbane Gas Works postponed by the Council.

Four persons seriously injured at Warrnambool, Vic., by a flash of lightning.

The revoking of poisoner Dean’s free pardon considered by N.S.W. Government.

The Czar of Russia congratulates the French Republic on its victory in Madagascar.

Dean, the notorious Sydney poisoner, committed for trial on a charge of perjury.

Inhabitants of the island of Crete have organised a rebellion against Turkish rule.

John Olsen charged at Rockhampton with intent to murder two men at Lake’s Creek.

A Chinaman at Bendigo seriously wounds two of his countrymen with a meat chopper.

Insurgents in Goa, India, capture a detachment of Portugese soldiers sent against them.

English syndicate formed to take over Brisbane tramways and adopt the electric system.

Cape Colony Government offer to supply two warships equipped to the Imperial Navy.

Joseph Ellick, a fireman on the S.S. Oruba in Sydney commits suicide by cutting his throat.

Foreign Ambassadors in Constantinople protect Armenian refugees from Turkish soldiers.

Professor Kennedy, the mesmerist, at Sydney, sends a man into a hypnotic sleep for a week.

British  and American marines landed in Corea to protect lives of British and American citizens.

London branches of the Irish National League urge the expulsion of Tim Healy from the party.

Two brothers named Wilson sentenced to four years in goal for setting fire to their shop in Sydney.

John Newby, a sugar mill proprietor at Maclean, N.S.W., fined £30 for running an illicit still.

A schoolboy, aged 11 years, committed for trial at Goulburn, N.S.W., for stabbing a schoolfellow.

Shop Assistants’ Association presents a petition to the Legislative Council in favour of early closing.

Baxter and Saddler lowest tenderers for section 2A of the Bundeburg-Gladstone line; amount £98,858.

London bankers trying to injure the credit of South Australia for attempting to float a loan without them.

A Sydney waiter for putting brandy in customers’ coffee is fined £30 for not having a license to sell spirits.

Maryborough Municipal Council refuses to give General Booth a public reception at the request of the mayor.

Mayor of Sydney requisitioned to call  a public meeting to assist the wife and child of notorious poisoner Dean.

A miner named Bottrell dies from the effects of injuries received through an explosion in a Charters Towers mine.

Collision in the North Sea between a German steamer and a  French barque; the latter sunk and 12 seamen drowned.

James M’Lean, who fatally stabbed a shipmate on the steamship Australasian in Sydney, sentenced to three years in goal.

Green, the fourth person wanted by the Sydney police in connection with the Dean conspiracy case, gives himself up.

Howard Freeman charged with murder in connection with an illegal operation performed in Brisbane is committed for trial.

Cabinet meeting of Turkish Ministers at Constantinople accepts the demand of the Great Powers for reform in Armenia.

The Pope says the Italian Government shows an intention to perpetuate the conflict between Church and State and repaganise Rome.

Public meeting at Winton protests against the appointment of a Select Committee to consider the proposed Hughenden-Winton railway.

In connection with the alleged poisoning at Bowen Downs Baxter has been discharged, Bristowe remanded, and Langborne committed for trial.

An Indian hawker at Warwick shoots another Indian dead and then fires his revolver at the police and several other people. Sergeant M’Namara wounded in the heel.