News Summary August 14, 1895.

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE, AUGUST 17, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 14.

Burglaries in Toowoomba.

N.S.W. Parliament opens.

British Parliament opens.

Exhibition opens in Brisbane.

Several cases of cholera reported in France.

Italy preparing for a campaign in Abyssinia.

Minnie Dean hanged for child murder at envercargill, N.Z.

Mark Twain leaves America on a lecturing tour of Australia.

Toomand Singh, a Hindoo, is cremated at Sandringham, Vic.

A New Zealand policeman named Seymour blows his brains out.

A large building in New York collapses. Eighteen men killed.

G.A. Franklin fined £100 in Sydney for keeping an illicit still.

Gladstone heads a crusade in England against Turkish misgovernment.

Population of Queensland on the 30^th June last estimated at 454,234.

British gunboat ordered to the scene of the recent massacre in China.

Government geologist instructed to report on the Pikedale goldfield.

The barque Mayhill wrecked near Geraldton (W.A.). All hands saved.

Macedonian Insurgents still hold the field against the Turkish troops.

James Smith killed in Brisbane through being run over by his dray.

Labour schooner arrives when Maryborough with cargo of 94 kanakas.

Mrs. Barnes fatally injured when alighting from a train at Galagui, Vic.

Fire breaks out in the coal-bunkers of the steamer Orient at Melbourne.

Great Britain protests against a portion of China being ceded to France.

A prisoner named Wills climbs the wall of Glen Innes goal, and escapes.

Complaints of a severe drought in South western portions of Queensland.

England has another little war in Africa – fifty Zanzibar natives butchered.

A Parsee in Perth, W.A. fined £400 for importing 40 coolies contrary to law.

Reported that Chinese mandarins connived at the massacre of the missionaries.

Andrew Peters commits suicide by jumping off the top of Argyle Cut, Sydney.

Lady Frances Gunning committed for trial in England on a charge of forgery.

Italian Premier acquitted of fraud and perjury by the Appeal Court of Italy.

A Japanese diver drowned at Thursday Island whilst diving in deep water.

A Sydney solicitor named Rofe is arrested in connection with a conspiracy case.

Two other reefs reported as having been discovered at Bower Bird Creek goldfield.

Gold reported to have been discovered on Woodlark Island off New Guinea coast.

Thomas Turner gets lost in the bush near Forbes, N.S.W. , and dies from exposure.

Husband and wife named Gimblett commit suicide by hanging at Darrawong, N.S.W.

Further attacks on British and American mission stations at Canton by the Chinese.

Boot Trade Union Co-operative Factory and Shop in full swing in Queen-street, Brisbane.

Mackay municipal council asks Government to disarm kanakas owing to repeated outrages.

Brisbane 'bus capsizes with twenty-two passengers, several of whom are seriously injured.

Joseph O'Brian falls asleep on the railway line at Lindenow (Vic.) and is cut to pieces by a train.

American warships landing marines and gatlings at the scene of the recent massacre in China.

Justin M'Carthy, leader of the Irish National Party, charges Tim Healy with disloyalty.

Wilson, who ran away with a lugger and half-caste girl on the New Guinea coast, shoots himself.

W.H. Groom, M.L.A., completes his thirty-third year of continuous representation in Parliament.

A man named Freinourg is sent to goal for ten months at Adelaide for forging a doctor's diploma.

Great fire in Sydney. Wright and Co.'s boot factory is burned down and throws 300 men idle.

Collision in the Atlantic between a steamer and a sailing vessel. Both vessels sank. Great loss of life.

Fireman George Lawton killed in Sydney through falling off a fire escape on which he was riding.

N.S.W. Government appoints a Royal Commission to inquire into the gold production of that province.

Sydney Newham committed for trial for attempting to burglaries the Commercial Bank at Nynan, N.S.W.

Earnest Beauchamp, six years old falls into a pot of boiling water and is scalded to death at Kendall, N.S.W.

Two Turkish governors in Armenia are dismissed on the demand of the British Ambassador at Constantinople.

Charge of dynamite placed in the letter-box of the Advocate newspaper, Daylesford (Vic.), explodes and wrecks the office.

Four persons in Sydney who conspired to prove adultery against an innocent woman receive heavy sentences of imprisonment.

French Senator and newspaper editor summoned before the Legislative Chamber for accepting bribes from a railway company.

The dead body of a boy, two years old, found in a lagoon near Port Melbourne with a rope and stone affixed to it tied around his neck.

A widow, her two sons, and grandson murdered at Mansfied Eng. The murderer afterwards sets fire to the house and attempts suicide.

Terrible wreck of the China steamer, Cutter-thun, on Seal Rocks, N.S.W. Captain and all officers, excepting second mate, lost, also five white passengers and 41 of the Chinese crew.