Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 82, 31 December 1892, Page 3

Cable Brevities

While some persons were engaged in thawing frozen dynamite cartridges before a fire in a tunnel in course of construction in Long Island City fat New York), an explosion occurred destroying the tunnel and wrecking the Post office. Six men and three women were killed, while eighteen other persons were injured. One man lying on a sofa had his throat cut by falling glass, and instances are mentioned where others lost arms, or nad eyes gouged out. An engagement has taken place be teen 300 insurgents and 250 Government troops at Los Alamoa,a town of Mexico, in Sonora. 140 miles north-west of Cinaloa Thirty-three were killed and many wounded. ■ Charges against the leaders of cholera riots in Russia still continue, and eight «f those who took a prominent part in the Tashkend trouble in July hare been gentenced to death by strangulation. Ad outrage resembling the Mount Bennie affair has been reported to the Sydney police. A woman named Annie Morrison has died in the hospital from the effects of brutal ill-treatment received at the hands of a band of larrikins. She was discovered in a djing condition by the police, French Socialists have appointed a committee to shadow certain people on the day of the re-assembly of Parliament, and are also issuing an appeal to the Mir..*. Fire hundred passengers are on board tbe missing steamer Umbna, but the agents are confident the vessel will turn up- , . A severe frost is being experienced m Great Britain, and four deaths from exposure are reported. Numerous skating accidents, are re* ported at Home, and the fatalities number 30. The London Chronicle announces that it is proposed to form a union of British capitalists, with an aggregate capital of two hundred million sterling, to endea Tour to boycott trades: unions.