*THE WORKER* Brisbane, October 26, 1895. General News Summary.

 *THE WORKER*

BRISBANE, OCTOBER 26, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 23.

Rise in price of flour.

Sailing club formed at Townsville.

Big forest fires in the United States.

Cuban revolutionists proclaim a Republic.

Russia massing troops in Eastern Siberia.

Slight earthquake shocks at Port Darwin.

Turks threatening to dethrone the Sultan.

James Taylor, M.L.C., dies at Toowoomba.

Drought in South Australia damaging wheat crops.

Further outbreak of fire in a Broken Hill mine.

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Chinese demolish an English Church at Amoy.

Great booming of Australia of Australian companies in London.

Great Britain demands a protectorate over Ashantee.

Another seam of coal discovered at Jumbuuna, Vic.

Strained relations between the King of Italy and the Pope,

An English syndicate buys the Auckland, N.Z. tramways.

Patrick Cosgrove accidentally shot dead at Strathfield N.S.W.

Big fire at Hastings, N.Z. A number of buildings destroyed.

Russia massing troops in the Caucasus ready to march into Turkey.

A Chinaman  in Brisbane fined£10 for illegally selling opium.

French Republic going to spend£40,000,000 in building new warships.

Conference of Queensland wine growers in the Brisbane Town Hall.

A Sydney man gets three months for throwing a dog out of a window.

Collision between a large steamer and sailing vessel in Sydney Harbour.

Fifty persons drowned in the Nile through the sinking of a ferryboat.

Treasury of the Portuguese settlement at Goa, India, looted by insurgents.

Reported that the King of Abyesinia  has been struck dead by lightning.

An Indian hawker committed for trial at Warwick on a charge of murder.

The Chief Secretary for Ireland says the Irish people are tired of agitation.

Ketch G.H.V. wrecked on the coast of Tasmania and all the crew drowned.

An Austrian Field Marshal financially ruined shoots his wife and himself.

German Emperor unveils a statue of his father on the battlefield of Woerth.

Miss Clarkson, disappointed in love at Cudgegong, N.S.W., commits suicide.

A Chinaman at Lawrence, N.Z., shoots dead his wife, two other women, and a man.

Dead body of a miner, named Peter Runsoo, found in the Parramatta River, N.S.W.

N.S.W. Parliament going to sanction an underground electric railway in Sydney.

Morgan, put into a hypnotic sleep in Sydney, is awakened after a week’s duration.

Terrible explosion on board a Chinese transport vessel near Kinchow 600 lives lost.

Several cases of smallpox  reported on overseas vessels arriving in the Southern provinces.

The Mayor of Sydney refuses to give Bicycle Champion Zimmerman a public reception.

A French Senator gets twelve months in goal for being concerned in railway frauds.

The brig Minora almost capsized in Newcastle Harbour by the frolics of two whales.

Schooner Sarah Pile stranded on Breaksea Spit and afterwards abandoned by the crew.

Ten steamers and twenty-one sailing vessels in Sydney Harbour awaiting cargoes of wool.

A confectioner, named James Stedman, is knocked down and robbed of£200 in Sydney.

Moslems in Turkey furious at the Sultan for agreeing to the demands of the great powers.

Victorian Executive decide that the death sentence on Emma Williams shall be carried out.

Russian Black sea fleet of warships anchors at the mouth of the Bosphorous to overawe Turkey.

German press attributes the settlement of the Turkish-Armenian difficulty to the British Premier.

A boy named Kock is seriously wounded at Indooroopilly through the accidental discharge of a gun.

Great Britain presents an ultimatum to Venezuela, S.A., for making arrests on British  territory.

Mrs. Jane Reynolds arrested on a charge of perjury in Sydney in connection with the Dean case.

Remains of an unknown and wrecked ship loaded with Australian wool found at Auckland, N.Z.

The leader of a gang of incendiaries New York is sentenced to forty-eight years’ imprisonment.

John Cousins committed for trial at Sydney on a charge of setting fire to a factory at Annandale.

Dead body of a man strapped and weighed, with  head bashed in, found near the river at Forbes, N.S.W.

William Kimber, at Rockhampton, pricks a boil with a pin and shortly afterwards dies from blood poisoning.

Maryborough Chamber of Commerce condemns the Government for not continuing the Gayndah railway line.

N.S.W. Executive commutes the death sentence passed on A, Whitley and J. Wilson to imprisonment to life.

Dean expresses a wish to withdraw all his statements in connection with the great poisoning case in Sydney.

Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, suggests a convention of the Irish Party with a view of stamping out dissensions.

Disastrous fire in New Orleans between 200 and 300 houses burned and a large number of people rendered homeless.

The manager of a London silversmith company arrested on a charge of complicity in the robbery of 34,900oz. of silver.

British Admiralty grants a pension to Surgeon Lea. who was dismissed by court martial from the Ringarooma in Sydney.

The Republic of Brazil, Chili, and the Argentine  request the United States to recognise the Cuban revolutionists as belligerents at war.

The Rev. James Clarke attempts to forcibly capture the pulpit in the Church of England at Dulwich, N.S.W.  Congregation leaves the church.