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  2. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY

    A special train bringing a load of passengers from the annual agricultural show at Flemington back to Melbourne collided with a suburban train, which was travelling out to Coburg, about half a mile from the ...

    Article : 1,013 words
  3. EUGENICS AND NATIONAL PHYSIQUE.

    Sir James Crichton-Browne, presiding at the Sanitary Inspectors Congress at Sheffield (Eng.), referred, in the course of his opening address, to the science of eugenics. ...

    Article : 145 words
  4. Advertising

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  5. ALLEGED MURDER—COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

    The Coroner at Coonamble (N.S.W.) on Wednesday, concluded the inquest on the body of Frederick William Koenig, whose death occurred as the result of a gunshot wound received at Deeside the previous ...

    Article : 589 words
  6. AUSTRALIA'S AVIATOR INJURED.

    Mr. W. Mart, the aviator, who recently completed the building of a new monoplane, while flying at Windsor on Wednesday met with a serious accident. It was his third trial of the machine. Hitherto he ...

    Article : 218 words
  7. WIFE'S VIOLENT DEATH—HUSBAND CHARGED WITH MURDER.

    Ellen King, a married woman, residing in Ultimo, died in Sydney Hospital on Wednesday from injuries stated to have been received in a quarrel at her house late on Tuesday night. Her husband, James Patrick King, ...

    Article : 345 words
  8. WOMAN SUICIDES FROM MANLY BOAT.

    When the Manly furry steamer Burrabra was off Middle Harbor on Tuesday afternoon, on the Manly side, a hatless woman rushed on to the upper deck aft and threw herself into the sea. A boat was quickly lowered, ...

    Article : 145 words
  9. NATIVE CONSPIRACY TO MURDER COLONISTS.

    News of a frustrated attempt by New Guinea natives to massacre the whole white population of Friedrich Wilhelshafen was received in Sydney by the arrival of the German steamer Coblenz on Wednesday. ...

    Article : 328 words
  10. DEVASTATING FIRE.

    A huge conflagration in Los Angeles, which started in a defective flue in a cafe on a pleasure pier, destroyed the chief buildings in the pleasure resorts, Ocean Park, and "Venice," the total damage being estimated at ...

    Article : 190 words
  11. BESIEGED BY POLICE—TWO KILLED.

    An extraordinary tragedy took place at Noumea on August 19. A Corsican ex-convict named Franceschi was for several hours besieged in his cellar, shot one of the besiegers dead, and after being smoked out of his ...

    Article : 593 words
  12. TRAM CONDUCTOR SHOT.

    Patrick Guthrie, a tram conductor, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on Tuesday night with a bullet-wound in his left thigh. Who fired the shot is a mystery. ...

    Article : 108 words
  13. NEW REGULATIONS FOR SAFETY AT SEA.

    The, new British Board of Trade regulations, which are to come into force on January 1, provide that foreign-going passenger and cargo vessels must be provided with sufficient lifeboat accommodation for all on board. ...

    Article : 100 words
  14. PRESS AND PARLIAMENT.

    In the N.S. Wales Legislative Assembly on Thursday, the following new standing order was, on the motion of the Attorney-General, agreed to by 37 to 30 votes, defining the position of the Press ...

    Article : 192 words
  15. DEATH OF MR.JUDKINS.

    Mr. W. H. Judkins, temperance advocate reformer, etc., died in Melbourne on Tuesday. ...

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  16. ENCOUNTER WITH HOUSEBREAKERS.

    Franklin Peterson, aged 20, son of Professor Peterson, of the Melbourne University, was returning to his home in the University grounds on Saturday night, when he saw a man crawling along towards the house. ...

    Article : 209 words
  17. "THE ORIGIN OF LIFE."

    The annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was opened at Dundee on Wednesday. Dr. E. A. Schaefer, Professor of Physiology at ...

    Article : 345 words
  18. STABBED IN THE BACK—FIGHT WITH BURGLAR.

    A desperate struggle took place early on Friday morning between Mr. George William Selby, an accountant, living at Mulvern (Vic.) and a burglar, during the encounter the intruder drew a knife and stabbed ...

    Article : 347 words
  19. SYDNEY MARKETS.

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  20. DISASTROUS CLOUD BURSTS.

    A series of cloud-bursts has been experienced throughout Pennsylvania(U.S.A.), and most disastrous floods have resulted. As far as is known forty lives have been lost, thirty ...

    Article : 138 words
  21. FISHING RESORTS

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  22. Advertising

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  23. BRIDGE COLLAPSES—TRAIN PLUNGES INTO RIVER.

    Four railway men were killed and 26 passengers were seriously injured through portion of a train plunging into the, river, at Camp Douglas(Wis., U.S.A.), owing to the collapse of a bridge, which has been damaged ...

    Article : 151 words
  24. SHIP FOUNDERS—SURVIVORS' TERRIBLE STORY.

    The British ship Criecieth Castle, while bound from Peru to Antwerp, foundered off Cape Horn. A lifeboat containing 11 members of the crew alive and six dead has reached the Falkland Islands. ...

    Article : 89 words
  25. TURNED OUT OF HOME—GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S PLIGHT.

    Lord Denman is not to be allowed to occupy his official residence in Sydney after his present visit has come to a close. Correspondence has been going on between the State ...

    Article : 223 words
  26. BREACH OF PROMISE CASE—£200 DAMAGES.

    The hearing of the case in which Kathleen Farnell claimed £1000 from Harold Douglas Folder for breach of promise of marriage, was concluded in the Hobart Supreme Court. Mr. Justice Nicholls, in summing up, ...

    Article : 104 words
  27. [?] CRAWLS THROUGH FLAMES.

    Peter Peachey, and workman at the Lithgow blast furnace, on Wednesday had a narrow escape from a frightful death. He was engaged cleaning out one of the stoves, he and another workman taking only three ...

    Article : 48 words
  28. RAFT SINKS—TWO BOYS DROWNED.

    At Sunshine (Vic.) on Tuesday two boys lost their lives, and a third narrowly escaped a similar fate. Richard Perry, aged 7, together with two brothers, Thomas McCulloch (13) and James McCulloch (9), visited ...

    Article : 167 words
  29. GRAVE SITUATION IN MOROCCO.

    The situation in Morocco is causing increased anxiety. There are already 58,000 French troops there, of which number 46,000 are in the western half of the country. ...

    Article : 51 words
  30. EMULATING DEEDS OF COWBOYS.

    Two Geelong(Vic.)college boys on Saturday afternoon went for a trip on the Barwaon to Queen's Park, on reaching which they has a remarkable experience. The collegians were about to land, when three lads with ...

    Article : 10 words
  31. GERMANY AND ENGLAND NEAR WAR.

    Mr Aikins a member of she Canadian House of Commons, who was interviewed after he had attended the Education Coherence at The Hague, said that as a result of conversations he had had on the Continent and in ...

    Article : 157 words
  32. EXPLOSION IN DYE FACTORY—WOMEN TRAMPLED UPON.

    An explosion wrecked the plant of Messrs. Kraus Brothers, dyers, at Chicago (U.S.A.) A panic seized the employees, and in the rush for the exits the men knocked down aud trampled on a ...

    Article : 76 words
  33. OTFORD TUNNEL MYSTERY.

    At the adjourned inquiry concerning the death of John Joseph M'Namara, whose body was found in the Otford Tunnel on August 14, Edith M'Namara deposed that she last saw her husband alive on Tuesday ...

    Article : 219 words
  34. THURSDAY'S HOMEBUSH FAT STOCK SALES.

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  35. WEALTHY BARONESS IMPRISONED AS LUNATIC.

    A violent campaign has been started by the Belgium press in favor of the reform of the lunacy laws owing to the abduction and immurement in one of the asylums in Brussels of the Baroness van Boren, a wealthy Dutch ...

    Article : 90 words
  36. COST OF LIVING IN GERMANY.

    A hundred thousand people attended a series. o[?] 76 meetings organised by the Social Democratic party in Berlin to protest against the increased cost of living. ...

    Article : 69 words
  37. WHY HAIR FALLS OUT.

    The causes of hair falling are so varied, and so apparently trivial in themselves, and, more-over, are usually present at the time when the hair is still plentiful, that the danger signals ...

    Article : 342 words
  38. SHOT HER WHITE RIVAL.

    At Vila, New Hebrides, on August 23, the trial took place of Mouna, the female Torres native, charged with the attempted murder of a young white woman of New Caledonia. The accused admitted that her act was due ...

    Article : 140 words
  39. STOMACH WORM EXPELLED

    That Comstock's "Dead Shot" Worm Pellets are a safe, sure, and reliable remedy for the eradication of Worms is vouched for by Mrs. J. O'Leary, of 111 Peel-street, Ballarat,. East ...

    Article : 259 words
  40. TRIANGULAR CRICKET IN ENGLAND.

    The Australians played a match against a combined Surrey-Middlesex team last week, which resulted in a win for the latter by 10 wickets. Scores: Australia, first innings, 227, second innings 182 ; Surrey-Middletex, ...

    Article : 81 words
  41. HORRIBLE TALES OF TORTURE.

    The Mexican rebel commanders state that they will soon take possession of Cananea, a rich mining camp, whore there are 2000 Americans, and from which the Government troops have been withdrawn. ...

    Article : 157 words
  42. SUNK IN THE BALTIC.

    The steamer Kursk, which was bringing to Russia the memorial of granite contributed by the French Government for erection upon the battlefield of Borodinor—fought on September 7, 1812, between the French under ...

    Article : 65 words
  43. FATHER SHOOTS HIS SON.

    At St. Clair, Dunedin (N.Z.), Percy John Turner, a commercial traveller, had a fatal quarrel with his father, Robert Turner, the altercation being due, it is said, to the latter having been out of employment for some time ...

    Article : 136 words
  44. COLLISION IN LONDON "TUBE."

    An express collided with a stationary train at the Caledonian-road station, London, on the "Piccadilly Tube" on Wednesday. The rear car of the stationary train was wrecked, and ...

    Article : 52 words
  45. CALLOUS RUSE TO ESCAPE IDENTIFICATION.

    A series of revolver fights occurred between the police and five housebreakers at Hagen (Germany), during which three policemen were seriously wounded. The burglars threw one of their comrades, who was ...

    Article : 74 words
  46. BOY SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN EATEN BY DOGS.

    The Queensland police have come to the conclusion that the lad Hurold Halliday, aged 4 years, who was lost in the scrub at Booyal, near Maryborough, has been killed, and eaten by the wild dogs which infest the ...

    Article : 77 words
  47. FELL FROM AIRSHIP.

    During the artillery manoeuvres at Budapest, a sudden gust of wind tore an airship from the grasp of about 300 gunmers, but three were carried by the ascending dirigible into the air. ...

    Article : 63 words
  48. UNPAID TRAM FARE RESULTS IN REVOLVER BATTLE.

    A tram conductor at Genoa (Italy) followed three men who had left his car without paying their fares, whereupon one of them shot him dead. A number of police pursued the trio, and about 40 ...

    Article : 90 words
  49. LETTERS IN CHILD'S EYES.

    American physicians arc investigating the case of a two-year-old boy named John Dugun at Philadelphia. Two letters are distinctly visible, one on the retina of one eye, and the other letter on the retina of the other ...

    Article : 76 words
  50. Cemented soldier kills seven.

    An insane soldier. named Scbwarz, barricaded himself in a room at Romanshorn (Switzerland), and fired for six hours at those who tried to dislodge him. He killed six .and wounded several others. ...

    Article : 52 words
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