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  2. THE WEEK'S MISCELLANY

    At the Sydney Central Criminal Court, William Belcher was arraigned on an indictment charging him with feloniously and maliously murdering Arthur Bosom at Epping on October 31. ...

    Article : 614 words
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  4. ALLEGED ARSON—MAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

    At the Adelaide Police Court the Colonial Mutual Fire Insurance Company brought a charge against John Pope, of having set fire to a shed on his property at Park-side, with intent to defraud the company in a matter of ...

    Article : 334 words
  5. PICNIC PARTY'S TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE.

    The morning was intensely hot, culminating in a thunderstorm during the afternoon, at Darwin, on Saturday, November 23. A party in a two-horse vehicle had been picknicking about 13 miles from town. It ...

    Article : 300 words
  6. LADY DISAPPEARS—SUICIDE OF HER FRIEND.

    Mrs. Sydney Nowill, wife of a Sheffield (Eng.) merchant, mysteriously disappeared from a fashionable hotel at New Quay, a watering place in Cornwall. Mr. James Delay, a retired solicitor, formerly of ...

    Article : 249 words
  7. SUFFRAGISTS' DASTARDLY ACT.

    A number of suffragists destroyed a quantity of letters by dropping acid into pillar-boxes in the streets of London on Thursday night. The 6 o'clock collection of letters is the heaviest of ...

    Article : 306 words
  8. YOUNG CRIMINAL GETS LONG SENTENCE.

    John Ternent, 20, who pleaded guilty at the Newcastle-Quarter Sessions to two charges of breaking and entering, and also to two charges of stealing in dwellings, was sentenced, in all to eight years' penal ...

    Article : 294 words
  9. HUSBAND FOUND' GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER.

    James Patrick King was arraigned at the Sydney Central Criminal Court on an indictment charging him with the murder of his wife, Ellen King, at Pyrmont, on September 4. ...

    Article : 251 words
  10. WAR IN THE BALKANS.

    Peace negotiations are in progress in Constantinople, and all the allies are represented. Unconfirmed reports state that Turkey has requested permission to join the Balkan Federation. Adrianople is regarded as the ...

    Article : 229 words
  11. ATTEMPT TO ROB A BANK.

    A daring attempt to "hold up" the Gonger-street branch of the Commercial Bank at Glenelg (S.A.) was made on Thursday afternoon, just as the bank premises were about to close for the day. A. middle-aged man ...

    Article : 120 words
  12. £10.000 STOLEN.

    Ten thousand sovereigns were stolen and replaced by lead, in a consignment of 200,000 sovereigns from the credit of England to the Credit Lyonnais, Alexandria. The boxes bore the seals of both banks, and these ...

    Article : 228 words
  13. "RINGING IN" AND LIBEL CASE.

    Judgment was given by the Chief Justice on Wednesday in the case in which Sinclair Adkins, grazier, of Strezlecki, sued John Wren, racecourse proprietor, of Melbourne, for £5000, as damages for alleged libel ...

    Article : 253 words
  14. RIVAL LABOR LEADER'S FIGHT.

    At the close of the convention of the American Federation of Labor at Rochester, Haywood, .the leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, came into conflict with Barnes, the manager of the Socialistic campaign ...

    Article : 73 words
  15. BOYS FALL OVER CLIFFS.

    On Saturday, afternoon, November 23, Martin and Byrnie Annesley, aged 9 and 12 years, residents of Katoomba, fell over the side of the rocks at the Narrow Neck. The police went out in search of the ...

    Article : 193 words
  16. DISASTROUS EXPLOSIONS.

    An explosion occurred in the dry Branch plant of the Com Products Refining Company at Waukegan ([?]., U.S.A.), and resulted in the deaths of eight people. After the explosion the building caught fire, and a ...

    Article : 109 words
  17. FRENCH TROOPS MOBILISED—OFFICER'S BLUNDER.

    Through mistaking his instructions, Brigadier B[?]n, in command of the brigade of gendarmerie on the French frontier, in the Department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, directed a general mobilisation instead of a local one. ...

    Article : 165 words
  18. CLEVER RUSE OF POLICE.

    Reginald Wright, a clerk employed in Lloyd's Bank, at Bournemouth (Eng.), who is chained with robbery, was arrested on Marley Common, Haslemere, by the police, who were searching for him. ...

    Article : 88 words
  19. WOODROW WILSON'S MAJORITY.

    The returns in connection with the recent Presidential election of U.S.A. show the popular vote to have been: WILSON (Democrat).....6,156,748 TAF (Republican).....3,376,422 ...

    Article : 76 words
  20. WOMAN CHARGED WITH SHOOTING.

    Linda Kelso was charged at Carlton (Vic.) with having shot at Samuel Maber with intent to murder. At first the man refused to give evidence, but subsequently he stated that he did not know who shot him. ...

    Article : 94 words
  21. BOXING IN AMERICA—WOLGAST AND NELSON BEATEN.

    Willie Ritchie defeated Ad Wolgast, thus winning the world's championship light-weight honors at Daly City. The contest went for 16 rounds, Wolgast steadily losing throughout the bout. ...

    Article : 138 words
  22. POLICE COMMISSIONER SHOT BY CHAUFFEUR.

    Albert Bowes, a chauffeur, fired three shots at Sir Edward Henry, Metropolitan Commissioner of Police, outside his residence in Kensington (London) on Wednesday night. ...

    Article : 149 words
  23. BONDI MYSTERY—VERDICT OF SUICIDE.

    At the inquest into the cause of the death of Frederick Charles Bartholomew, whose body was found near Ben Buckler Bocks, Bondi (Sydney), on November 9, with a bullet wound near the heart, a. verdict of suicide was ...

    Article : 57 words
  24. SELLING NAVAL SECRETS.

    George Charles Parrott, a dismissed gunner, recently attached to H.M.S. Penbroke, appeared at the West-minster Police Court on a charge of conveying official secrets to a foreign Power. ...

    Article : 64 words
  25. WOMAN WORKS AS LABORER.

    A worker, who has been engaged in loading steel plates on wherries for six months past was injured in London, and on being carried into a shed asked the doctor to clear the place, and then confessed to being ...

    Article : 70 words
  26. RED RUBBER—"MURDERERS AND PIRATES."

    At the inquiry in London into the labor scandals reported in connection with the rubber industry at Putumayo, Mr. Barnes, who visited Putumayo, on behalf of the British Amazon Company, stated that the system of ...

    Article : 90 words
  27. TRADER KILLED BY NATIVES.

    News concerning the death of Mr. J. H. Davies, of New Hebrides, was brought by the F.M.S. Pacifique, which arrived in Sydney on Wednesday. Circumstances indicate that he was murdered by ...

    Article : 124 words
  28. FIERCE HURRICANE IN THE ISLANDS.

    A terrific typhoon has occurred in the islands of Samar, Leyte, and. North Panay. Two towns have teen wrecked, and there is a heavy death roll. ...

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  29. DIED OF THIRST.

    Two travellers from Dalgonally to Croytdon (Q.) have reported to the police that they found a swag and , pack-saddle on the road at Clarville, 52 miles from Crovdon. ...

    Article : 140 words
  30. SENSATIONAL NAVAL INCIDENT.

    A large detachment of French naval cadets were being: taken on a cruise in the armored cruiser Jeanne d'Arc, when the powder became overheated and caught fire. ...

    Article : 67 words
  31. OLD MAN'S TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS.

    At Dee Why, near Manly (Sydney) on Friday, an old man, Cornelius Kellaher, was found in his but with one eye torn out. and in a very low state. He wag out in the scrub over a week ago, when he ...

    Article : 224 words
  32. PICTURE SHOW PANIC—FIFTY CHILDREN KILLED.

    During a crowded performance at a cinematograph exhibition in a circus in Bilbao (Spain), the operator saw the film burst into name, and cried "Fire!" Although he managed to extinguish the outbreak, his ...

    Article : 115 words
  33. PROPOSED TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT.

    Mr. Grzhsme-White, the well-known airman, proposes a. 80 hours' flight from Britain to New York in a hydro-aeroplane fitted with four engines, each o! 250-horse power, and carrying two pilots, two mechanics, and ...

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  34. ENGLAND'S MENACE.

    Lord Roberts is publishing a book strongly appealing to the nation to be ready for war, and embracing the arguments used in his recent speech at 'Manchester. In a letter to the Press, he calls attention to events ...

    Article : 157 words
  35. WRECKED LIGHTHOUSE—SHIP SEIZED BY SHERIFF.

    The Sheriff on Friday formally seized the ship Dimsdale, which ran into and demolished the Wonga Shoal lighthouse on November 17, when the two keepers were killed. ...

    Article : 68 words
  36. STOLEN MOTOR BOAT—ACCUSED SENTENCED.

    In the Brisbane Supreme Court the Chief Justice passed sentence on accused in the case of the stolen motor yawl Dora. Adamski and each of the Dearloves were sentenced to three years' hard labor, the ...

    Article : 134 words
  37. MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK.

    The trial of "Monte Carlo "Wells" for committing frauds has been concluded in Paris. The prisoner was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Jeanne Burns, Ms accomplice, was sentenced to 13 months' ...

    Article : 41 words
  38. KINDNESS REWARDED AFTER MANY YEARS.

    Mrs. Longeon, the wife of a shipyard laborer at Gateshead (Eng.), gave a seafaring youth shelter and food ten years ago, and the lad at the time said he would never forget her kindness. ...

    Article : 132 words
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  40. NAVAL GUNNERY RECORD.

    H.M.S Thunderer, using Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Scott's fire director, at a range of 10,000 yards, scored with her 13.5-inch guns 41 hits out of 50 shots. The same vessel had previously scored 37 hits out of 50 shots. ...

    Article : 59 words
  41. WORLD'S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP.

    The Davis Cup contest for the lawn tennis championship of the world between Australia, the holders, and the British Isles, the challengers, began in Melbourne last week. ...

    Article : 164 words
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  43. SYDNEY MARKETS.

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  44. AERIAL DEFENCE OF GERMANY.

    The German War Office and the Admiralty recomnend the construction of a fleet of 20 Zeppelin dirigibles of 920,000 cubic feet capacity, capable of maintaining a speed of 51 miles per hour, of remaining in the air for ...

    Article : 62 words
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