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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 79, 30 September 1895, Page 2

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CHICAGO CONVENTION. RECOVERY OF STOLEN SILVER. A MURDEROUS LUNATIC. TUB KEY TO PAY AN INDEMNITY TO ENGLAND AND RUSSIA. AN ATTEMPT TO MURDER A JAPANESE ADMIRAL. AN EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE. AN IMPORTANT ENGINEERING WORK. IPEB FBEB3 ASSOCIATION.) London, Sept. 27. A man named Henry Bailey bas been arrested for robbery of silver at St Pancras station. Several ingots were found in bis possession. One-sixth of the stolen silver has been recovered, another ingot being found in Cainden street. Tho Dnblin Independent denounces the Chicago convention, and asserts that no leading Irish people are present. A lunatic just released from the Lichfield Asylum murdered three men in succession and then committed suicide. Colonel Smith regards his selection as Governor as a new departure, and says that for the first time a Governor has been chosen owing to his experience in trade. Personally, he says, he was the initiator of the Australian wool trade in Hull. An Irish harvester working at Mexborough, in the West riding of Yorkshire, became affected with the heat, and stabbed six fellow-lodgers while they were asleep. Two of those injured are said to be dying, and the others are in a bad way. Amsterdam, Sept 27. Ten thousand diamond cutters have gone out on strike, owing to the em ployers refusal to agree to the union's labour conditions. Constantinople, Sept. 27. The Moslems of Antioch while searching for armg, raided the Armenian Church. The Armenians fought bravely and lost 10 in the engagement. Turkey has consented to pay the indemnity demanded by Russia and Great Britain for the assault on the consuls at Jeddah in June. Shanghai, Sept. 29. H.M.S. Aoelus has been ordered to Woo Chang. Four more British warships have been eent to Yang-tse-Kiang. The German squadron has been ordered to Swatow, in the province of Quaog Tung. An anti-foreign lunatic attempted to murder Ito, the Japanese Admiral and Premier. New York, Sept. 29. The Chicago Fenian Alliance has fallen flat, and it is believed that the threatened violence is. merely talk. Bucharest Sept. 28. The King of Roumania has opened the bridge over the Danube at Tchernovode which cost 34,000,000 francs. Its length is 3628 metres (over two miles), and the highest level above the water is 30 metres. The bridge is considered one of the engineering triumphs of the century.