Foreign

AnvicEs of the IT1I1 say Ü.at while the steamship Victoria was on her way frora Colombo to Adon twelve men feil into the sea while attcmptinjr to lower a boat and all wero devoured by sharks in full sight of the paasengers. Count Andüassv. the Austrian statosman, died on the lStli near Vicuña, agcd 07 years. Soluns, an Amorican, won the great annual sprinting match at ShctHold, Eng., on the lSih. THE Knglish stoamer Conil Queenwaa sunk off the River Tees on tno lSlh and sixteen livos were lost. i An explosión in acolliery near Decize, France, on the l'.Mh caused the loss of tnany lives. Thirty-four bodies had been recovered. Fhaxk 1''aik i ii. i). Norman Scofïeld and Georgo Balley, all ander 15 years of age, broke through tlio ice on Little lake at Port Dover, Ont., on the 19th whilo skating and were drowned. Tuk steamer High (ate colliiled with tho ship Sovereign in a fog off Lundy island, Eng., on tho l'.ith, and six persons were drowned. Josepii Gillis Biooab, tho wollknovn homo-rule member of Parhamont, dicd stiddenly on the l'.Hh at Clapham, a subuib of London, of hoart disease. He parttdpated in the debato in the House of Commons tho night provious. Ho was 02 years old. The four children of John Leston lost their lives on the '20th in tho burning of a residencf at Kinslon. Ont, and Mr. Leston was probably. futally injurcd. Ax ordór was lssued at Berlín on the 20th prohibiting the circulation in Oermany of the Volksanwalt, a paper published in Cincinnati, O. In' tho elections in (lormany on tho 20th tho Socialists made heavy gains, tho Government losing flftepn members of the Eetchstag. Advicks of the 21st say that during the recent storm wliich swept along the lioshu coastin Japan about 1,000 lishing boaté with between 3,500 and S,OQ0 lisbonnen drifted out to siia, and 000 of these boats with all tho men on board were lost. On tho Ton komo coast over 300 boat Wete wroc'.vi d and about 600 flghermen were drowned.