General News Summary July 24, 1895.

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE, JULY 27, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 24.

N.S.W. general elections.

Excitable times in Bulgaria.

Heavy fall of snow at Wallangarra.

Michael Davitt lectures in Brisbane.

Dwelling house at Albion destroyed by fire.

Good prices going in London for Australian wool.

A serious fire taken place in a Broken Hill mine.

Dead body found floating in the Fitzroy River.

Tenth week of the Brisbane bootmakers' strike.

Sydney Telegraph publicly apologies to an M.L.C.

Kanakas murderously assault a white man at Mackay.

Twelve inches of snow in several places in Victoria.

Steamer Argus goes ashore on a reef near Somerset.

A shearer named Graham dies suddenly at Katandra.

Slight shock of earthquake at several places in N.S.W.

Six miners lose their lives in the Eldorado mine, Vic.

Bundaberg Agricultural and pastoral Exhibition held.

Big meeting at Rockhampton in favour of early closing.

Momba woolshed, near Wilcannia, N.S.W., burned down.

General election day in N.S.W. declared a public holiday.

James Macpherson, the “Wild Scotchman,” dies at Burketown.

Clara Jeffrey arrested in Melbourne on a charge of infanticide.

French troops in Madagascar suffer heavily from climatic diseases.

P.J. Greery, miner, accidentally killed in a Charters Towers mine.

An aboriginal charged with murder escapes from a Coolgardie lockup.

Police constable Harvey commits suicude at Cairns by shooting himself.

Spain sends 30,000more solidiers to Cuba to cope with the revolutionists.

Death of a Japanese diver at Torres Straits through diving in deep water.

Eight Broken Hill miners lose their lives through a fall of earth in mine.

Morocoo pays an indemnity to Germany for the murder of a German subject.

Government gives £150 for propecting purposes in the Rockhampton district.

Insurgents of Macedonia again defeat Turkish troops after severe fighting.

N.S.W. Government gives instructions for carrying out exspensive public works.

An Austarlian absentee dies in London and leaves £28,000 for Tasmanian charities.

City of Melbourne Bank's scheme of reconstruction rejected by Scotch depositors.

Gas explosion in a Salvation Army Home, Brisbane. Captain is seriously burned.

Plaintiff in a libel action against the Melbourne Age obstains one penny damages.

Sheep are said to be dying through extreme cold in the Wallabadah districts, N.S.W.

A New Zealand farmer is arrested on a charge of attempting to murder a bailiff.

James Herschell whilst riding a horse at Roma is dashed against a tree and killed.

A number of students studying geology, in Wyoming, U.S., are captured by Indians.

A little girl is accidentally shot dead by her fourteen-year old brother in New Zealand.

An alleged pirate said to have stolen a lugger and a young girl at Thursday Island.

P. T. manisfold killed by a fall from a horse at the Findon Harrier's meeting in Victoria.

The Black Flags said to have defeated the Japanese in battle in the island of Formosa.

The ex-Premier of Bulgaria dies from the effects of the wounds received from assailants.

Walter Mashier commits suicide by drowning in the Church of England tank near Oakleigh, Vic.

House to house canvas in South Brisbane for the purpose of abolishing the Victoria Bridge tolls.

South Australia returns show that 1,578,590 gallons of wine was made in that province last year.

Adelaide Glendon commits suicide at Kilmore (Vic.) by placing herself in front of a train.

Three men arrested at Sofia in connection with the assassination of the ex-Premier of Bulgaria.

Four Newfoundland Cabinet Ministers arrested on a charge of falsifying bank balance sheets.

£2500 reward offered in connection with the alleged poisoning of food on Bowen Downs station.

New Zealand House of Representatives passes a resolution in favour of abolishing the totalisator.

N.S.W. government offer a reward of £50 in connection with an attempt of robbery under arms.

A Sydney solicitor named Alfred State struck off the rolls for alleged embezzlement and forgery.

Commander-in-Chief of Spanish troops in Cuba defeated and wounded in battle by the revolutionists.

South Australian Railway Commissioner going to make a bid for the carriage of Western Queensland wool.

Steamer Sunrise, from Sydney to Newfoundland, is wrecked on the coast of Newfoundland. Crew saved.

An Italian steamer sunk by collision with another steamer in the Gulf of Genoa, and 148 persons are drowned.

Thomas Kirkbey, whilst working on the relief works, Sydney, is seriously injuried whilst blasting rocks.

A Rockhampton publican named Lipstine meets with a serious injury through being thrown out of his buggy.

A solicitor's clerk in Sydney committed for trial on a charge of embezzling large sums of money from his employers.

Melbourne Society for the prevention of Cruelty takes legal proceedings against a jockey for cruelty to a racehorse.

Reported that a man named Morris has been arrested at Armac on suspicion of being concerned in the Bowen Downs affair.

A number of shearers taken suddenly ill under suspicious circumstances at Bowen Downs station. One Death occurs.

The body of the ex-Premier of Bulgaria is lowered to the grave amidst the hoots and cheers of a crowd of angry onlookers.

A twelve-months-old infant accidentally shot through the head at Burraga, N.S.W., by a loaded rifle falling down and exploding. 

At Tamworth, N.S.W., court sessions, a father and son accused of killing a squatter's sheep were proved to have done so because they were starving.