LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 19, 2 August 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright, I l'Klt UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | London. August 1. There was great consternation caused by the report of Mr Gladstone's illness, but he passed a pood night and is improving. The papers represent his mdisi position as the result of a chill. ' A prisoner at Glasgow has confessed j that he was employed to assist in the murders of Lorda Lei trim and Mbunttnorres by the man who shot Carey at the Cape. The Daily Chronicle's American correspondent Hunks the Pittsbnrg strike will help the Democrats in the Presiden ihi I contest Washington, August 1. Tha case of the soldier James is exciting public indignation all oyer the United States. The Ceutral Labour Union has demanded that the workmen in the National Guard shall resign. The heat iv New York is abating. Three hundred deaths have occurred from sunstroke at Caraccus. The rebels now have complete possession of Venezuela. The soldier who was hung up by his thumbs has suea three officers for £1,000 damages for the outrage inflicted on him. Dr Talmage, the well-known divine, who has been on a visit to Russia, had an interview with the Czar, whom he describes as genial and simple in his svays, and showing an interest in religion exceeding that in politics. Dr Talmage considers that foreigners have been monstrously wrong in their judgments of the Cz:»r. Paris, July 31, A circular is being distributed in France urging the Cardinals to support Cardinal Rampolla or Cardinal Gibbons at the next election for the Papal Chair, and oppose any candidate favoured by the Triple Alliance. The Anarchist* have invented a new infernal machine in the shape of a book, which, upon being inverted, explodes with immense violence, and is calculated to cause enormous damage. Thousands of people welcomed Prince Bismarck on his arrival at Jena. August 1. A report, not, however confirmed, is current that an attempt was plotted to dynamite the public buildinga at Versailles. New Yobk, August 1. The Russian Jew who shot Mr Fricks, manager of Carnegie's mills, has been committed for trial. The heat in New York is unexampled. On Friday tiie thermometer registered 107 in the shade. Mail traffic has been suspended, and 100 deaths are reported from sunstroke. In Chicago there is n water famine. Berlin. August 1. A wing of Heiligenberg Castle at; Baden has been destroyed by fire which originated in Princess Beatrice's bedroom. The fire in Heiligenberg Castle was caused by a maid accidentally igniting the Princess Beatrice's bed curtains. The Princess escaped in her nightdress without being burnt, and awoke the household. Her Royal Highness suffered great less in jewels and clothing. Tangier, August 1. The rebels defeated the Sultan's troops, and many of the latter are deserting and joining the former, who are marching on Tangier and burning the villages en route. The European portion of the population is greatly alarmed.