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There are 500,000 Germans among the 2,000,000 inhabitants of Chicago, and the news of the great fire has naturally created an enormous sensation in Berlin. The Standard states that lest the public should be alarmed at the possibility of similar disasters in Berlin, Herr Brandt,

In addition to addressing his constituents at East Manchester on Monday, January 11, the Prime Minister will attend a luncheon the following day at the Conservative Club, Manchester. PENDING ELECTIONS. GATESHEAD A meeting of the Unionist and Conservative party leaders was held p

THE FATALITY ROMSEY inquest was held, at Cambridge, to-day, <yii Arthur Porter, who was crushed death by subsidence of earth in trench made for laying new gas main at Komsey. Dr. Lucas said thorp were marks burning the body, and ft witness stated that deceased was three feet from

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Probably the year just ended will remembered in the Retford district as one in which all classes of trade suffered owing to the very unfavourable harvest. The town is to a large extent dependent upon agriculture, and a succession of years in which grain has been selling at unrem

The body the late Sir E. Dawes, chairman of the New Zealand Shipping Company, and director of the Suez Canal, was landed at Plymouth early yesterday morning, from the Donne Castle. The deoeased expired at Tenoriffe on the 21st December, from consumption. The remains were met Ply

enable her engage in a two pears' war, if necessary, without thinking of "eplenishing magazines arsenals- A friend ff mine, who has just arrived from Japan, astonished at the pessimism which seems to prevail in London regarding the ultimate issue >f the contest between Japan and

TRACE OF ASSAILANT. Telegraphing last night the Press Association says the efforts of the police to discover the murderer of Dora Kiernick. the young Polish woman found murdered Wednesday in a lodginghouse in Whrtefield Street, Tottenham Court Road, London, so far, proved unsucc