LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 42, 24 September 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

BAIL WAY COLLISION AT PITTSBURG SIX PEOPLE BURNED TO DEATH By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PEB PBKBS ASSOCIATION). London, September 23. Obituary— JL)uke of Sutherland. The death is announced of Professor George Croom Robertson, the well-known author of philosophical works, setat 50. Mr Walton, a Gladstonian, was elected for South Leed* by a majority of 948 over Mr Neville, Conser- ative. Mr Henry Fetter, the well-known meat salesman, complained to Mr Perceval, the AgentnGeneral for New Zealand, that a large percentage of the frozen meat from New Zealand is delivered soft, due to defective refrigeration ; hence it compares badly with meat from the River Plate and Australia Twenty-five thousand feet of additional apace at Chicago Fair have been granted to the British Commission. The Vienna correspondent of the Daily News says Colonel Yanoff has been reinforced, and is wintering in Fer« ghana He is making preparations for another advance in the spring. He has mapped out the Pamirs and obtained the sympathy of the local chiefs. Washington, September 22 The Chicago express came into collision with a goods train at Pittsburg. The cars caught fire and six persons, who were pinned down under the timbers, were burned to death. Many injured passengers were taken to the hospital. St. Petebsbubg, Seplember 22. The hearing of a Finland cause celebre has just come to an end. Mrs Sainio, a young and brainless wife of a college professor, poisoned her husband. After a lengthened trial the court ordered her right hand to be cut off, and she was then to be beheaded and her body burned. The conyict appeals to the Czar against the sentence. New York, September 23. True bills have been found against one hundred and sixty nine of those who took part in the riots at Homestead. Calcutta, September 23. The Horewitch expedition to the Karakorum Eange in the Himalaya mountains has discovered a lake of snow three hundred square miles in extent and a mountain 28,000 feet high. The interview, between Lord Roberts and the Ameer of Afghan, will probably take place in December.