LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 101, 23 February 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

• By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [pick united prkss association j New York, February 22. A Negro, who outraged a woman in Arkansas, was soaked in kerosene and burn! to death in the presence of 6000 pcop'e. The unhappy victim was compolled to apply a match to himself, Paris, February 21. Deacon, who shot a yourig French attache at iNice, is well known in Parisian und American society. An intrigue between his wife and the at 1 ache is supposed to have been going ou for two years. London, February 22. It is expected that 275,000 colliery workmen will cease work on March 12th. It has not yet been decided how long the stoppage will last, but the men will not receive any strike pay. Admiral Tryon fell overboard while engaged in raising H.M.S. Victoria, winch went ashore on the Greek const, but was rescued in time. The number of wills proved during the financial j'ear is unprecedented. The influenza epidemic is responsible for the great increase. Calcutta, February 21. Fiyo hundred Kachins attacked Sodon, in "Upper Bunnah, but were repulsed with a loss to the British troops of five killed and fourteen wounded.