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  2. Conspiracy in the Russian Army.

    Time publishes the following comments on the subject of conspiracies in the Russian army: No wonder that when a military conspiracy is discovered in the ...

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  3. European and Other News.

    SIMLA, July 21.—Twelve officers of the Royal Engineers have been detailed for special duty in connection with the inquiry being made into the external and internal defence of India. ...

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  4. GERMAN VIEWS ON LORD SALISBURY.

    BERLIN, July 20.—Lord Salisbury's speech at the Canton Club is much commented upon here. It is regarded as a proof that the position of the British Cabinet has been ...

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  5. HEAVY SENTENCE ON A BIGAMIST.

    AT the Manchester assizes John Adcroft was charged with bigamy. It appears that the prisoner and his wife lived together at Bolton until October, 1885, when, it was stated, his ...

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  6. THE HEAT IN CANADA.

    HAMILTON, July 18.—The average maximum shade temperature throughout Ontario on Saturday last, 16st instant, was 98 degrees Fahrenheit. ...

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  7. THE RUSSIANS IN CENTRAL ASIA.

    BOMBAY, July 20.—According to intelligence from a native source the Russians are secretly negotiating with the Governor of Yarkand requesting permission for Russian troops to ...

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  8. PROTECTION IN SPAIN.

    MADRID, July 21.—A very strong Protectionist agitation is developing in Spain, despite the efforts of the present Liberal Government, which declines to modify the import, and even ...

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  9. ARREST OF SOLDIERS IN GERMANY.

    BERLIN, July 20.—Several soldiers of the garrison of Mayence have been arrested, it having been discovered that they were members of the Patriotic League. When the barracks ...

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  10. THE FRENCH MOBILISATION SCHEME.

    PARIS, July 21.—The Senate to-day passed the experimental Mobilisation Bill by 172 against 82 votes, after a debate in which General Ferron and Campenon defended the measure. ...

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  11. THE PANAMA CANAL COMPANY.

    PARIS, July. 21.—The general meeting of the Panama Canal Company took place to-day. The Emperor of Brazil was present. His visit was arranged this morning by M. de Lesseps, and ...

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  12. THE DEFENCE OF INDIA.

    SIMLA, July 20.—The question of the external and internal defence of India is engaging the special attention of the Indian Government. No complications ore feared, but the ...

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  13. REPORTED FRACAS IN ROTTEN ROW.

    THE London correspondent of the Irish Times says: Fashionable society is excited by the announcement of another aristocratic encounter in Rotten rew. According to the version most in ...

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  14. DESTRUCTION OF A MEXICAN TOWN BY EARTHQUAKES.

    NEW YORK, July 19.—Intelligence received here from Mexico states that a succession of earthquakes has reduced to rains the town of Bacariac, in the province of Sonora, containing ...

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  15. MISSING ALPINE TOURISTS.

    LAUTERBRUNNEN, July 19.—It ia feared that an Alpine accident involving the loss of six lives has occurred in the Bernese Alps. A mountaineering party of six persons left here ...

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  16. LAUNCH OF A RUSSIAN IRONCLAD.

    ST. PETERSBURG, July 26.—The new ironclad Emperor Alexander II., which has been three years in building, was launched from the naval dockyard this morning in presence of the ...

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  17. FATAL MOUNTAIN ACCIDENT IN SWITZERLAND.

    Geneva, July 21.—While two Englishmen were making an excursion in the Engadine from Samaden without a guide, one of them fell from a rock and was killed. The body has ...

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  18. CONCESSION OF THE CRETAN DEMANDS.

    CONSTANTINOPLE, July 20.—Mahmoud Pasha, the Special Ottoman Commissioner in Crete, issued a proclamation to the Cretans yesterday, the principal points of which were as follow ...

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  19. MURDER OF AN ARCHBISHOP.

    VICTORIA (BRITISH COLUMBIA), July 18.—Intelligence from Oonalaska states that Dr. Seghers, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Victoria, while engaged in founding missions ...

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  20. THE CHOLERA IN SICILY.

    NAPLES, July 19.—Telegrams from Catania state that the number of deaths from cholera at that place is from 12 to 16 daily. Several cases have occurred at Francofonte and Paterno ...

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  21. IRATE MILLINERS.

    VIENNA has long been notoriously one of the dearest cities in Europe to live in; and the milliners of the milliners of the Donal stadt have made up their minds that they, at least, will do nothing likely ...

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  22. ATTEMPT TO SHOOT A POLICE COMMISSARY AT PAGNY.

    PAGNY-SUR-MOSELLE, July 19.—This afternoon a traveller who had arrived from Metz, while waiting in the Customs-house, fired four shots from a revolver at the police commissary ...

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  23. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A CHURCH.

    THE Trinity Church, which is situated at the extremity of the Rue de la Chaussce d'Antin, in Paris, was recently the scene of an encounter which created immense sensation ...

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  24. TERRIBLE SUICIDE.

    A HORRIBLE case of suicide is reported from Low Moor, near Bradford. A man named Joseph Normington, a furnace-keeper, jumped upon a waggon, and in the presence of another ...

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  25. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.

    INTELLIGENCE received at New York states that during a thunder-storm at Streatmur, Illinois, the lightning struck the powder-house of the local coal company. The result was the ...

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  26. ELOPING AT THREE SCORE AND TEN.

    A SINGULAR case is reported from Liverpool. A Mr. Humphries, a respectable horsedealer, resided with his wife at Hull. The couple, who were between 60 and 70 years of age, were ...

    Article : 138 words
  27. ATTEMPT TO EXTORT MONEY.

    AN attempt to extort money under throat of exposure has just been brought to light in Paris. It will be remembered that Pranzini declared during his trial for the murder of ...

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  28. "The Young Idea."

    WITH reference to Mark Twain's "English as she is taught," a writer in the "Publishers' Circular" recently said: Do any of Mark Twain's examplee surpass in absurdity the ...

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  29. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN AMERICA.

    NEW YORK, July 21.—Intelligence received here states that during a thunderstorm at Streator, Illinois, the lightning struck the powder-house of the local coal company. The ...

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  30. Married a Mesmerist.

    THE Philadelphia correspondent of the St. Louis Globe Democrat, telegraphed on 19th May: Mary Emily Babbington, a voluptuous little blonde, with large blue ...

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  31. THE FAMINE IN ASIA MINOR.

    CONSTANTINOPLE, July 21.—The Sultan has subscribed £11,500 for the relief of the inhabitants of Adona and Konia in Asiatic Turkey, who are Buffering from famine. His ...

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  32. DESPERATE STRUGGLE IN THE WATER.

    A BRAVE feat was performed at Kingston, Ireland, by a constable named Ewbank, who, having seen a man fling himself into the sea off the pier, instantly throw off his coat and boots ...

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  33. A WEDDING IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.

    A WEDDING took place recently on the Northern Pacific Railway in Idaho Territory. A widow from Minneapolis travelled westward by Pullman car, and at a place called ...

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  34. THE ALASKA FISHERIES.

    VICTORIA (BRITISH COLOMBIA), July 18.—Intelligence from Alaska announces that two sealing schooners, one of American nationality and the other a British vessel named the Annie ...

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  35. Stop My Paper.

    A MAN came into the office with a black eye a strip of court plaster on his check, one arm in a sling, and as he leaned on a crutch and wiped the perspiration away from around a ...

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  36. A ROYAL SOLDIER ONE YEAR OLD.

    THE following paragraph is taken from a private letter from a lady now visiting Madrid : "The young King of Spain was one your old on June 18. The Tailors' Guild of Madrid ...

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  37. GROUNDS FOR A DIVORCE.

    THE following are the grounds on which a divorce was asked for in an American court: "1. That owing to her defective eyesight the lady was not able to tell exactly what kind of ...

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  38. MOSQUITOES IN ENGLAND.

    THE St. James's Gazette says : An invasion of mosquitoes recently caused much anxiety and Buffering in Camberwell and Dulwich. One person, it is stated, was bitten so ...

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  39. SPEECH OF THE FRENCH MINISTER OF WAR.

    PARIS, July 23.—General Ferron, the Minister of War, to-day paid a visit to the Military Academy of St. Cyr. In addressing the cadets, the general expressed the conviction ...

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  40. ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A POLICE STATION.

    THE Press Association's Holyhead correspondent telegraphs: A few minutes after midnight recently an alarming noise was heard in the town of Llanerchymedd. Those who ...

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  41. A STRANGE HIDING-PLACE.

    A SINGULAR revelation was made recently at an inquest, at Wolverhampton, on the body of Susannah Vernon, a married woman, who, after cutting her throat with a razor, was removed ...

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  42. DANGER FROM HERAT.

    THE mutiny among the garrison of Herat last month calls to mind the danger, says a contemporary, which any ruler pf Afghanistan must be prepared to face, now that a regular ...

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  43. OUTRAGE BY FOREIGN FISHERMEN.

    WHILE the Great Yarmouth fishing-boat Thalia was engaged in mackeral-fishing off Great Yarmouth four Ostend trawlers deliberately put down their trawls close to the nots of ...

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  44. DEAD IN THE EYE OF THE LAW.

    THE case of Mr. John Hay (says Truth) is a pretty satire on the beauties of English law, Mr. Hay was sentenced in 1885 to seven years' penal servitude for larceny. The Home ...

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  46. GREAT FIRES IN RUSSIA.

    A WARSAW despatch states that the town of Siebez, in the Government of Vitebsk, has been half burned down. Three hundred and fifty families, mostly Jews, have been rendered ...

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