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Show LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. • NOTHING BUT BREAD. Quebec, Sept. [September] 28 - Bird Rock will be supplied with food from Magdalen Island until Quebec can forward supplies. Eleven people were on the rock for seventeen days with nothing to eat but bread. • REPORTED OUTBREAK. Constantinople, Sept. 28 - Five battalions of troops have been dispatched to Hedjaz, Arabi [Arabia?], where an outbreak is reported, probably connected with the recent deposition of the Grand Thane [?] of of Mecca. • AMAZONS. New Orleans, Sept. 28 - This morning Melissa Powers and Addie Johnson, young women, fought with butcher knives about a young man who had been paying attention to both. The women were frightfully cut about the face and all parts of the body. Powers received a stab wound in the breast from which she died almost instantly. Addie Johnson is in a critical condition. • A BIG STEAL. Cincinnati, Sept. 28 - Twelve thousand dollar's worth of diamonds and valuable jewelry were stolen at the exposition building, this morning, from an exhibit. • SECRET CONVERSATION. London, Sept. 28 - A Vienna newspaper publishes a story in effect that the Emperor and Empress of Russia were secretly crowned during their recent visit to Moscow. If the Emperor survives till the public coronation the secret ceremony will be considered void: In the event of his death it will be made public so as to avoid difficulty in proclaiming the Czarowitch Alexander the lawful successor to a crowned monarch. • FATAL EXPLOSION. Opessa, Oct. 1 - An explosion in the torpedo magazine on the Russian ironclad, Admiral Rapoff, killed two officers and thirty seamen. • HORRIBLE HOMICIDE. Wheeling, Oct. 1 - A special to the Intelligencer says: A most blood-curdling homicide occurred, about fourteen miles from Clarksburg, this morning about one o'clock. John R. Roggers, Jr., killed his wife and a daughter aged thirteen, while in a fit of mental derangement, induced from strong drink. He attacked his wife while in bed. She called on the daughter who came and assisted her mother to get loose from the grasp of her father. They then fled the house and he grabbed a large iron poker and followed them. Overtaking his wife he hit her two blows, the last of which proved fatal. It seems that the daughter who was killed had come up to help to save her mother and with one blow he killed her also. The other children fled. When found, mother and daughter were lying together in the road near the homestead. Roggers was found in the house in a state of intoxication. He denied the killing or knowing anything about it. He was a well-to-do farmer living on Rock Camp, Harrison Co. [County] of an old and respectable family. The occurrence created great excitement and is without a parrellel [parallel] in this section. • MATTERS IN EGYPT. New York, Sept. 30 - The Tribune's London cable says: Egyptian matters are going through a period of suspense. The check [?] point of the recent telegram is the alleged prevalence of hatred for foreigners in the Cairo population. The incidents reported, however, indicate rather religious fanaticism than the existence of the alleged national feeling. English confidence in the Egyptian tribunals for the trial of Arabi is not profound. There are no signs here of a vindictive feeling, but Sir William Gregory's appeal for Arabi will only do him harm. Concerning the settlement to be adopted the public are thus far in absolute ignorance. No Cabinet Minister has opened his mouth. An attempt to extract a speech from Gladstone, this week, failed. The press generally takes no delicate line [?]. The repeated efforts of the Times to commit the country to a policy of annexation have evoked feeble responses. There is every evidence of a general desire for annexation. Even the topics admit the difficulty Gladstone would meet in repudiating the express pledges. The one thing certain which appears is that the Aught-French control will not be reestablished. Gambetta's persistent ally demand means merely that he wishes to be able to tell France hereafter that he would have saved her rights had he been in power. |