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HAY MOTHER'S SHOCKING DISCOVERY. Touching the death of Elizabeth Prosser (42), wite of John Prosser, farmer, Brillev Court Farm, near Hay, an inquest was held at that place before Mr. Charles Moore, Leominster, district coroner, on Tuesday. --Deceased's mother, Mrs. Weale, said that y* went into the granary over the cider- and saw deceased's body hanging by fype, which was attached to a wire fetched between two beams. Ot, 'p E. Hincks deposed that the woman Ii latterly very depressed. He thought JJth was hastened by heart trouble. jury returned a verdict of Suicide 0llst of unsound mind."

rAN BURNT AFTER RETURNING FROM AN EISTEDDFOD. t o fresh light was brought to bear upon ohe Trcdegar burning fatality at the inquest jj., Saturday. The victim was Edward Davies '» a collier, of 4, Colenso-terrace. ho rS" ^ar £ aret Davies, the widow, explained 0 the deceased left home at live o'clock at ^onday evening to sing with a local cuoir Blackwood Eisteddfod. Witness and the nildren went to bed, but about one o'clock eldest girl awoke and discovered the 110nse on fire. Deceased had not come to ^d. The neighbours were aroused, and the was located in the front room, the door which had to be forced open, as the ^eased was lying behind it in an uncon- £ ious condition. Witness did not know that the deceased had returned home. William Edmunds, who accompanied the Jvfseased to within 30 yards of his home, said t.ha.t Daviee was sober when he left him. d«ath,j'Ury return€d a verdict "Accidental

JUMPED INTO A POND. u mid'da7 on Saturday a man named 8 Wr. liTin= at Marquis-road, Forestfach, bricuSea' was Pe<>:1 to jump into the Tunnel XHun ^ard pond by a man, who immediately befort.in a^^er him. Ah re, however, sank bodv 6 would-be rescuer reached him. The afterwards recovered. The deceased years of age.

I A MYSTERY AT USK. r*11 Friday nisfht the occupants of houses «WUk bridge were startled by hearing in j. °f "Help!" from a man apparently Tiv^r reS8, ci^er on the bank or in the ^^ht was very dark, and no tdosto, man oould be found, although rfiojr. lamps, carriage lamps, Ao., were <i ,qUltioned. It is believed, that he was Juried. ♦v is conceived that the maai walked „„ 0T>en gate, over the bank, a..d into a°^rVw^ltS^l Which is very deep. To StSdw ni&ht had Dot found. and no one had been reported \to be mif;Sl11g.

TfLHaC DISCOVERY, y-uinsrrst son of John Smith, an elehuool tradesman, made a tragic In 'Powis Castle Park on Saturday. filS father dead sitting under an Per); a d hundred yards from his home, W °f h>y gash in the right wrist and a 24 }, cfen^d near by. (1:i "<>11% T^sed, who had been massing: for "ight evidcnt!y beeD d€ad elnce Fri"

^A.VBILO WOMAN HANGS >„ HERSELF. Ito s- Sarah Thomas, of Plasyberllan, Capel v ac, Llandilo, widow, hanged herself to a ^■m in the cowshed at Plasyberllan on .^eeday morning. She had previously sent fiS" *'r,n Tom' th,e onljr on« at home. tx> a .^?hbounng farm, Pantyblodau, with a tl?ssage, and during his absence she aocom JJ|*ea ker end. Th, d«.,«d was ,aet^™ leaao Joncsi' of Persondy, Capel -Wheun p^me[ tae houso observed having •" f direction of tne cowshed, herseij t^3e r0^>e hanged Th "Hh. year^ was a widow, of about 60 • and had several children.

At BURNT TO DEATH BY SOOT. 011 ?€d atLG°Werton on Monday shown that • Francis- a^ed it was ipon the L 1uantlty of hot soot, &c„ fell he was set^T Grovesend 'Works, and -*«th^frorshoyck^rnt--The V6rdiCt Wa«

^CARDIFF BABY SUFFOCATED. lnQuesf a?'o5rd?ff (fiS ^iot ooto^) held an of Daniel Monuay on the body of the late af, months, son °Dr NJ WILLIAM^RS°E' A D<>CK LA,B°URER' there were marks 'of ^n^,Ur&eon' Ba^d that and slight, if any, f^«Ure, on the Suffocation was the oatise #°°Ilvul8ioTls* thought, by overlying. °* death, The jury returned a verdict of -A ^ath from overlying." 4 Accidental-

IMPROPER FOOD." At an inquest on a babe of two ■»« Hannah Squeers. at Swansea, the oo^thfi iMr- Leeder) examined the tinned a^^ used for the child. He said it ,ery starchy sort of thing. The doctor had ^ld them that giving: wrong food waa of the trouble. This child of two ^nths could not digf«t it. jnrv returned a verdict that death t^due to convulsions, caused by improper

^TYPOOL WOMAN'S TERRIBLE b DISCOVERT. ??ry Strange, aged 54, an ostler employed ^irf- Blaendare Colliery, pontypool, and foxing on the Cwmlicky Mountain, was on Wednesday evening hanging to a *rom the bannister at his house. Mrs. left home in the morning to go to • and on her retarn she found her S^d's. body suspended. She at once out it U^9,nd sent for assistance. Police-sergeant arrived at the house and found life ft*. Strange had recently been treated lhe h • Jones for rheumatism and pains in X

4Tfj £ TIC DROWNING OF PONTAR- A Verv DAWE CHILDREN. G?dre«t-^iBead drowning case occurred at when tw<> chiid^r Ystalyfera, on Saturday, one year and a^h»i'iained Archie Brain, aged collier, and Bron-vyJ-80?; Richard Brain, months, daughter 0f 7vtfs» a&ed fifteen Worker, lost their lives. er Evans, tin- It appears that- the children Walking hand in hand on the cjT€re 8een opposite their homes, but their euhiLfeajnk Movements are unknown. The mother ofU^nt °f the children went to look for her child on hissing it, and her troubled look alarmed a shopkeeper named Griff Jones, who came cut of his shop only to find the body of the V"tle girl floating in the water near the shop. Without divesting himself of his clotb- t"=' Jones jumped in and brought the body the bank, but life was extinct. water was then let out of the canal, Dr T^'16 ^K>dy °F the little boy was found. ■ James was soon on the scene, but could on ^thing. The spot is a very dangerous th^" ^ccess from one side of the canal to e other can only be got by walking on the p °.f the lock-gate, the footing being chiM1, w*de\ It is not known whether the jj, who lived next door to each other Channel-row, were drowned in the lock r in the ordinary wateroourse.

130Y OF FIVE MEETS HIS DEATH AT MARDY. lkbout half-past ten on Wednesday morn- ng a boy of five years, named Daniel Hard- Ing, son of Lewis Harding, of Rowley-terrace, £ >ardy, met his death by drowning. In com- pany with other lads he went into a field £ «ar the river, the Ehondda Fechan, and oy some means fell in. His companions save the alarm, and his body was found 100 yards down the river. yards down the river.

DEFAMATORY LIBEL ALLEGED. AN INTERESTING ACTION IN EAST GLAMORGAN. Considerable interest was taken in a case heard before the Pontypridd stipendiary on Wednesday in which Mr. John Little- johns, chief agent of the East Glamor- gan Conservative Association, preferred a charge against Mr. Stephen Jacobs, the ex-sub-agent of the association, of publishing a certain defamatory libel. Mr. Lovat-Fraser (instructed by Mr. Har- ley Downs, Cardiff) appeared for Mr. Littlejohns, and Mr. Evan Davies. Cardiff, defended. A number of gentlemen officially connected with the Conservative party in South Wades were present. Mr. Eraser, in opening the case, stated that the prosecution was taken under Section 5 of Lord Campbell's Act, whereby it was stipu- lated that proceedings might be taken against any person for maliciously publishing a defamatory libel. The Stipendiary: In this court then and in this case we cannot inquire into the truth or falsehood of the statements made. Mr. Fraser agreed, and said all that was necessary was that the bench should be satis- fied that letters of a libellous character had been published. The circulars increased in venom as they proceeded, and the worse were letters 2 and 4. Mr. Jacobs had acted as sub-agent of the East Glamorgan Conserva- tive Association-a post he occupied for two or three years. During the last year, however, his conduct gave great dissatisfac- tion to the association, and the defendant was then dismissed. The defendant was extremely annoyed at his dismissal. He had found his post a lucrative and comfortable one, and in revenge Mr. Jacobs issued the four circular-letters now complained of. Mr. Jacobs in these letters attacked the whole system of working of the East Glamorgan Association, and cast reflections upon the President and other officials, and particu- la.rly attacked Mr. Littlejohns, whom the defendant regarded as responsible for his dismissal. The letters were, he (Mr. Fraser) thought, beyond all question libellous, and were couched in terms calculated in the highest degree to oause a breach of the peace, as they were scattered broadcast. In the first letter the defendant remarked:- I have determined to appeal to the public and the many Conservative friends I have in South Wales, the oommittees and mem- bers of Constitutional clubs, and all others with a sense of fairplay and justice. Portions of the letters were published in the public press, and aroused very great interest. In one of them the defendant declared:— I shall address a series of open-air meet- ings in the constituency on party organi- sation daring the summer months. Nothing, argued counsel, could be more cal- culated to bring about a breach of the peace than conduct of this kind. -Mr. Ivittlejohna had a great many friends in Eaet Glamorgan, and open-air meetings of the kind suggested would, no doubt, have led to serious disturbances. As he (counsel) had already intimated, all he had to do was to prove publication of the circulars, and if they were in the least libellous, then it would be for their worships to commit defendant to the sessions. He could not go into the truth of the statements, but he was instructed iO deny in toto that there was a.ny basie of truth ;n the allegations oontained in thei attack made upon Mr Littleiohna THE EVIDENCE. Mr. James Thornton, Cardiff, gave evidence of having received duplicates of the letters referred to—two at Caerphilly Station. Mr. Thornton, under cross-examination, said he had not seen the official notification of the defendant's appointment, if such an appoint- ment had been made, as lecturer under the Conservative Union Amooia;tion. Mr. John Bryant, secretary of the Penrhiw- oeiber Constitutional Club, also gave evi- dence as to the circulars, which were con- tai,ned in envelopes addreesed by Mr. Jacobs. eston, the Vioanage, Pontypridd, said the vicar (the Eev. J. P. Griffiths) had three of the circulars. PI Powell, treasurer of the itnondda Conservative Association, Treorky, also spoke to the issue of the circulars. Mr. Fraser asked Mr. Powell what feeling the printed circulars which came into his pos- on had upon his mind. Witness: Disgust. Mr. Eva.n Davies objected to the question. The Stipendiary: You have only to prove public,t.tion. Mr. Fraser. Mr. J. Littlejonns, tne prosecutor, spoke to obtaining circulars Nos. 1, 2, a.nd 4 from various clubs, and identified the handwriting upon some of the circulars submitted to him as that of the defendant. Witness referred to the publication of extracts from the circulars in certain newspapers as indicating the widesp,rea-d interest created. The Stipendiary, after perusing a letter attached to one of the circulars, remarked to prosecuting counsel: "This seems to be material to your case," and, referring to the headlines on the quotations from the newspapers, his Worship added: "The editors are reeponsible for those." Mr. Fraser: Yes, it only goes to show how widespread the interest was and the likeli- hood of a breach of the peaoe being com- mitted. mitted. Mr. Littlejohns said that one of the head- lines was "Association said to be in a rotten state." Cross-examined by Mr. Evan Davies: The circulars contained other matters besides reference to the dismissal of Mr. Jacobs. Mr. Davies: A resolution was passed at the last annual meeting of the association that this matter should be inquired into and an arbitrator appointed. The Stipendiaxy: How is that material to this court? whZ' Davi€S: Only upon the point that the qu€Stion resolved itself into the dis- ther« °i- Mr" Ja°oh6. (To witness): Waa dant l? dlspTtt-e between you and the defen- ln y«ar?—No. Johns said £ ^^a^a^taation, Mr. Little- dered at oniT;.Jaoobe thought he had blun- and threaten^1 me' and wianted an apology, witness, "he PTOOe*'dings. "But," added to get it durijff not had it, nor is he likely ra added that Mr j J117 Witness further the coals" in th^ ^3^ been "hauled over formation of rk dlsputo regarding the Counsel said that Vha?7 CIub- he thought he had the caso' ajl(I were libellous, and also thn* that the letters Droving publication. had succeeded SENT FOR tr The Stipendiary: I thiBk^ documents there i8 zaatw* » n eaoh °f £ »i,er No. 2 circular, l tLof,a libellous a ve^ prions charge. LTare li^ «un* -^ea -it*- I reserve my defetn^t staged. Not guilty, committed him The Stipendiary & charge for trial to the next aS&lieS Pll,bliahing "Si was allowed' own recognisances of £ 25. an enretiee of je18 each.

HUGE SHIPPING PROFITS. PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION COM- PANY'S PROSPEROUS YEAR. The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's annual report shows that the profits for the !-ast year amount to £tKJl,743, and after debit- income-tax and placing £ 205,000 to depre- ^tion account, there remains a credit oi £ 189,000. After paying £ 88,000 in dividends, carrying forward £ 45,000, and placing L50,000 to dividend reserve account, the balance to r~!n, credit of the underwriting account is £ 426,000.

WORK OF TERRORISTS. TWENTY PERSONS KILLED AND WOUNDED. The terrorists of Lodz threw a 1,01115 deteotives, who were passing a!ong a street m company with four soldiers. Both detectives were killed, and two soldiers and three other persons were wounded. A patrol of infantry, attracted by the noise of the explosion, came up and o<pened fire, wounding thirteen persons Thirty arrests were marlj.

ESCAPED FELONS RE-TAKEN. -9 MISERABLE PLIGHT OF THE FUGITIVES. Two convicts, Thomas Ellis and Alfred Parish, who escaped from Dart-moor Convict Prison on Tuesday morning, during a thick fog, were captured at four o'clock on Wed- nesday afternoon at Post Bridge, which is only about four miles distant from the prison. Fully a hundred warders an^ -fag were engaged in searching for the miss g convicts throughout Tuesday night and nesday. When found, the men were to „ plight. They had, apparently, had Jw nothing to e*t since their escape, h also suffered somewhat severely exposure to the bad weather. DESCRIPTION OF ^^S^an^cte, The description of the „n+. supplied by the Prinoetown Pr ties are:- No. G59 T Ellis, aged 21. born in London; fresh complexion, dark-brown hair grey eyes; of well-proportioned banld, heaght, 5ft. 6in„ tinsmith by trade; scar on eye- brows and scar on bridge of nose; costume, that of the drab S^g; connoted of larceny and receiving at the North London Sessions on Taxiiiary 2, 1906, and under sentence of three and a half years' penal servitude and two years' police supervision. No. F358 Alfred Parish, aged 21; also a native of London; complexion fresh; hair dark brown; eyee grey; height, 5ft. 4in.; of proportionate build; carpenter by trade; costume that of the drab gang; scar aoroes left eye, and tattooed with design of a dagger through heart on right forearm; serving three years a.nd a half penal servi- tude for warehouse-breaking in London. FIFTY MILES OF EXCITEMENT. News of the escape was wired to every quarter which could afford any probable egress. Stationmasters, farmers, villagers, the police of Tavistock, Moreton, HamP" stead, Plymouth, and Exeter were apprised. Within a radius of fifty miles of the prison the occurrence roused excitement, which only gained in intensity as hour after hour passed without any news that the men had been found. One hundred warders, armed with carbines, are engaged in the hunt. From Yelverton to Prinoetown they are stationed at regular intervals, and on all other roads leading to the towns and villages a similar patrol 1B being made. Every villager, too, is on the alert, for the award of X5 whdoh is offered for a capture is a very desirable addition to a labourer's income. The boots and stockings of the two convicts have been found in the neighbourhood of MerrivaJe Bridge, about midway between the prison and Tiverton. The inference is drawn that the men have discarded tiheir boots in the hope of making their flight more secure. Convicts' boots are stamped with the broad arrow, and on the soft moorland turf, made spongy by heavy rain, tihe broad arrow would leave a trail. The fosr on Tuesday was so dense that one oould scarcely see a yard ahead. This is a most unusual thing at this time of the war for, though the moor is cold at nigfht, it is generally bright and sunny by day. A house-to-house visit was made on Wed- nesday. As the moor is twenty square miles in extent, and abounds in hiding-places, the men might hide successfully for weeks oould they only get food. There are military campsi a.t Lydford and Okehampton, so that t,li-e chanoes of escape are even less than usual from the start. It is just twelve months ago that a convict escaped in the evening and made his way to Yelverton Station, boarded a train, and got as far as Penzance, where he was captured about 30 hours afterwards. For this reason the railway line is being closely watched, and every train that passes closely. scru- tinised.

PUBLICAN AND GIRL. SERIOUS CHARGE OF ASSAULT. Stephen Hayea, landlord of the St. Ives Hotel, Swansea, was charged at tho local Police-court on Thursday with assaulting Ger- trude Jones, aged fifteen, on May 28. Mr. L. Hiiohards prosecuted, and Mr. Thompson defended. The prosecutrix said she was a servant at the Tredegar Arms, Hodney-6treet. The landlord and landlady were away on the 28th of May, and defendant, who was a brother of the landlord, was assisting at the Tredegar. Defendant met her in the passage and kissed her twice. She refused to go with him to the smoke room, and he followed her to the kitchen, where he acted improperly. A knock came at the bar, and be desisted, saying he would come back. She left the house and went to her mother at Cwmbwrla. She told her mother what had occurred, and her mother took her back to the Tredegar Arms and accused the defendant. The latter asked, Did I hurt you, Gerty?" Witness replied, You might have hurt me If that knock had not oome at the bar." In cr^fes-examination witness said she was too frightened to scream, and it did not enter her head to do so. She denied that it was a made-up story. The defendant did not push her and tell her to get on with her work. She denied that she had neglected her work. When charged, the defendant did not deny what her mother said. The defendant at the interview expressed his sorrow for what he had done. He said he did not oom- plain that the girl did not do her work, and that he only pushed her. Mrs. Prangle, a married sister of the prose- cutrix, also testified as to what took place at the interview with the defendant. The defendant, who reserved his defence, was committed for trial at the next sessions, bail being allowed.

MOTHER AND BABY IN DOCK ATTEMPTED MURDER & SUICIDE ALLEGED. Elizabeth Evans, a widow, of no fixed abode, but who is at present staying at Swansea Workhouse, was brought up at the local police-court on Thursday, charged with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the North Dock, Swansea. She was fur- ther charged with attempting to murder her infant child, Bessie, aged fourteen months, on the same occasion. Margaret Thomas, a widow, living at Vaughan's lodging-house, The Strand, Swan- sea, said the defendant was her sister-in- law, and up to the 21st ult. ha dlived at her house, when she (witness) told her to look for another place, as her house was too small. The defendant had previously said she was downhearted, and did not care what became of her. Philip George Bevan said that whilst at work at the hydrauJio tip he heard two screams and ran to the quay-side, where he saw a man named Arnold throwing a life- buoy to the woman. She was, however, too I-,hausted, and witness eventually jumped Into the water and recovered them. The TvfVJ.' after recovering, said, "My child." in to il! 1)01100 the prisoner said, "I jumped °ne Jf t°at of the did not wantany- i>r LI me-" 1 woman -nl* Ed^iards said he thought the ^fendl^th*rdly 8ane' assizes, hail committed for trial at the 03,11 faeing allowed.

SEAMEN'S STRIKE ENDS. HAVRE NAV RESERVISTS REFUSE TO COMILY. At Tuesday's Council of \r* the Minister of Paris strike of Naval Bcserve S1^11^ considered at an end. oould now be The Havre Naval Beeervist* ply with the directions of the oentral «xm- witte,e to resume thedr dti,, ,d d,,Ir, that they will comtanue the strike until their demands have been complied with in their entirety.—Renter. DUNKIRK MEN WILL CONTINUE THE STRIKE. The Naval Reserve officers at Dunkirk have •voted in favour of returning to work, but the men at a meeting on Tuesday night decided in favour of continuing the strike. The men prevented the steamer San Martin from leaving harbour on Tuesday.—Renter. } j

BUT FAINTS AS VERDICT IS RENDERED. in^TtiSr06 suit was concluded in jury had not any I JUry f°r mercy, but the had to decide nj?rer°Sative of mercy, lhey Mrs. Bryce and l]>rint'iie evidenc^ 1 b<ven guilty of miscon^ Harold Pape hnd been sented what helnct' Mr- Br??e had prt overwhelming Cn„etltured to think was a tbe hands of the and what h6 Mr. Justice Ba>JUry was a iust verdlct" np- His Lordshir>&Pave Deane then summed whether miscondu^sked the ^inT 10 then if had been committed, and conduct. th Jnlea ? there had been mis- would n °f conducing to misconduct Bryce h T 1Irs'I through the ordeal of two j.„ and a half Qn the 8tage, and it was difecilit to suppogg that she would realise wnat lir. Pape meant when he wrote er the love-letters, if e}je understood what <s meant, the co-respondent should have oeen told a,t onoe that she, a married ^omd not have that sort of thing oont £ fn1sTned letters. She kept the letters had no strong egressions of love. They a numbit of hen? in r6Ply- bnt tsul °f telegrams. The iu^, ^otired about 1.40. absence nf re,turned into court after an the verdiot f? h<mr and twenty minutes with dent had the respondent and co-respon- The 1W committed misconduct. like to e^^ln °f the Jury said they would conduct o? their strong opinion that the the cajro oo-reei>ondent as disclosed in On if^ Wae worthy of the severest censure. wa?RlSnff the decision, Mrs. Bryce, who had at the solicitors' table and who and w^X^ excitement, fainted, Mr BrvS^ out of court. wife wao^8 petitioai was dismissed. The Mr Pn her costs. costs* fnTl co-respondent, did not ask for oooaskraeH w ordered to pay the costs occasioned by his plea of connivance and conduct conducing tTmiXnduet.

COST OF BRYCE DIVORCE SUIT. For tCOStliness and prolonged hearing the Bryce v. Bryce and Pape, eon- 071 Tuesday before Mr. Justice Bar- Wi,! ane' will long be remembered. From days The eBd .ed sixteen ys. Ihere were engaged in it four Kind's an,d three juniors, and as the briefs of tl^ three leading "silks" were mSff guineas, and there was added a I refresher ea^h day on each brief the^f ngs oi this trio of eminent lawvpra amount to £ 5,250. To that has tT the smaller fees of the jUniors, the cost of case by prePa-ration of the hand anrt Ie J5 OIB exe,rcising a free computed ^ee3' Ro,ughly' may be short of £ i ^U a„Ca £ e ailsorbs very little involved i e Bryoe case put the -OTie sPc^chmaking, and most f r1U ?articular through a box for th! deaJ' for she was in the wit.nees- tions. Mr66 ^af8' a"d answered 2,300 ques- oounsel, w? K.C., the respondent's case n-n^ t ve or hours to open his Mr IsaaoH hours for his olosing speech. five hom^L the respondent, spoke for iurv a,t ♦vTa ^hole day—in addressing the Carson'o « i 080 his case; Sir Edward th« a0mAn si>eech occupied two hours; and his mmw"16 waB absorbed by the judge in tt Ing"Up. Even the famous and in V- Hartopp and Cowley case hf y Bryce v. Bryce and Pape, for 01117 thirteen days. In that peti- r- a dozen King's counsel and seven f ^ere engaged. For a case giving a ^ear lead we have to go back to the Colin J.ampbell suit of 1886, when eight silks and six stuffs" were kept busy in court for eighteen days.

WORRIED OVER ACCOUNTS FORMER AGENT TO SIR CHARLES PALMER KILLS HIMSELF. At Gateshead on Tuesday evening an inquest wan held on the body of Mr. George Bolam, accountant clerk to the Felling Council. Deceased was formerly election agent to Sir Charles Palmei. Mr. Bolam was found dead in his office on Tuesday morning from the effects of poisoning. At the inquest it was stated that he had been much worried over a Government audit of his accounts in connection with the Fell- ing Council. The audit had been protracted, lasting five weeks, but the auditor said that, with the exception of somewhat negligent keeping, the accounts were all right. A verdict of Suicide whilst temporarily insane" was returned.

ARTFUL TRICK KEPT SECRET BENEFIT SOCIETY'S SECRETARY CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLING. Henry Thomas Wheeler, general secretary of the United Patriots' National Benefit Society, was again remanded at. Bow-etreet on Tuesday charged with embezzling £ 4,400, the moneys of that society. Dealing with one case under the charge, Mr. Morris, who prosecuted, said the accused obtained possession of a mortgage deed by an artful trick which he should not describe, it being xintieednable that the British public should know more than was possible as to how the trick was dome.

RECORD PRICE FOR A SITE A corner plot of land situated at the iunction of Fifth-avenue and Thirty-eighth- street. New York, measuring 25ft. by 100ft., tias just been sold for the sum of 700,000 lollars. The price is a record one even for I ftfth-avenue. J

LADY'S SUICIDE IN A FLAT. COLONEL'S WIFE WITH AN ALIAS. TvrZ?ea^iirn,nista'Tlc,os attending the death of TinWr e^' wlre °f <Jolonel Gervase F. N. aas'stant adjutant-general of Indian at Meerut, were inquired into on day at Holborn. She had been found dead in her fiat. Mrs Mary Ann Harriet Newport Tinley identifld the body as that of her eistesr-in- law and the wife of Colonel Newport Tinley, of the Indian Army. Witness knew nothing of the circumstances under which deceased was living in England whilst her husband was in India. Captain John. Matthews, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, stationed, at Woolwich, said Mrs. Tinley used to live at Henley, and he took a flat for her at St. George's-mansions, Captain John. Matthews, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, stationed, at Woolwich, said Mrs. Tinley used to live at Henley, and he took a flat for her at St. George's-mansions, Holborn, where she lived in the name of Madame Le Burton. In repJy to the coroner, he said he paid for the flat, and was a constant visitor. While ill at Henley three weeks ago she attempted to ooman,it suicide. At the time, however, she was so ill that she was hardly responsible for her actions. Sihe was very impetuous, and he did not attacih very much importance to her words. TRADESMEN WERE PRESSING HER. Sine was in debt, and tradesmen at Henley were pressing her. She arrived at her Lon- don flat on Wednesday, amd he followed her soon after midnigflit. She then appeared to be very well. He left the foUowiug morning, but on his the afternoon he found her very ill indeed, and. she went to bed. He did not On^riday6 aftin?' SS he to go on duty. ~ien he he sakTsh^wn'a' °f, George's-mansions, Fridiav- n.f+.o™,0 to the deceased's flat on said to £ n°'°0hb7\fOaPt^n Mattbows who ,)«,) 0^ °h, Mrs. Mays, my wife is dor>t^> if went to the room and sent for a al!. a Policeman. Oaptain Matthews was kneeling beside the becL Th,, raedi-I evidence showed that death rp, due to cocaine poisoning. he inquiry was adjourned.

ATROCIOUS MURDER IN GLASGOW. + CAUSE OF CRIME UNKNOWN: FOUR ARRESTS. At midnight on Saturday a Glasgow ponceman was attracted by loud whistling to Anderton Quay, where he found a young man almost cut to pieces and weltering in a pool of blood. An ambulance was at once sent for, but the man, who was bleed- ing from wounds all over his body, died on being moved into it. A lodging-house-keeper says that he saw deceased being pursued along the quaysiie by two men, who ran him down and immediately started to stab him repeatedly. When the lodging-house-keeper rushed up the man's assailants bolted. On Sunday morning the murdered man was identified by a woman who resided with him as Robert Simpson Crane, a winchmin, aged 35. The police subsequently made four arrests. The cause of the attack has not yet traraj- pired. The principal wound is at the back of the ear, and reaches down to the backbone.

1 GRAVER CHARGES PENDING. [ ALLEGED FRAUDS ON A BANK BY A SOLICITOR'S CLERK. At Chester on Tuesday Robert Francis Wil- liams, solicitor's clerk, was remanded. bail being refused, charged with obtaining £2,000 by false ppetences from the Chester branch of the National Provincial Bank on August 25. 1905 The prosecution stated further and graver charges would be made against the accused, who is alleged to have applied to the b^nk for an advance, stating that he was the owner, jointly with Mr. Jones, now his father-in-law, of property free from encum- brances It was afterwards discovered that 'mortgages had been effected on the properly.

ACID THROWER SENTENCED FAILURE TO KILL HERSELF, BUT GETS TWELVE MONTHS INSTEAD. Lilian garaji Woodcock, 27, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Monday to twelve months' liard la.bour for throwing hydro- chlOiriG acid upon John James Avery, a photog- rapher, of Hackney. Accused, it was stated, bad been on intimate terms with prosecutor's son Frederick, and there had been litigation between the parties. Both prisoner and prosecutor were burnt by the acid, but neither had sustained permanent injury. Prisoner declared that she intended to com- mit suicide, but the prosecutor knocked the glass up, and thus prevented her killing herself.

IN TIME FOR THE GROUSE PARLIAMENT TO ADJOURN ON AUGUST 10. It was reported in the Lobby of Parliament on Tuesday night that the Government hopes to wind up the business of the session in the second week of August, Saturday, the 10th, being the date at which they aim. The Radical members take this to mean that the programme of business as announced by the Premier will be revised and curtailed. ( I

OFFICER DASHED TO EARTH I AND MANGLED. A tragedy occurred on Sunday morning on the occasion of the opening by the King and Queen of Italy cf the National Target Firing Competition organised in connection with the Italian National Fete. On the conclusion of the ceremony a mili- tary balloon made an ascent, in spite of the threatening weather. When at a height of 31) metres (1,000 feet) it was struck by lightning and caught fire, falling among the horror stricken crowd. Captain Ulivelli, the occupant of the bal- loon, was removed from the debris and con- veyed in a dying condition to the hospital. The King and Queen were much affected by the accident, and his Majesty subse- quently visited Captain Ulivelli, remaining half-an-botn- by his bedside.—Renter. +

LOST BALLOON OFFICERS. SHOUTED TO DORSET VILLAGERS TO CLUTCH ROPES. A Dorchester correspondent states that the missing balloonists seem to have been spoken to for tho last time at Winterborne Abbas, a village some six or seven miles from Dor- chester, and on the main road to Bridport. The balloon in passing over that district on Tuesday last had descended so low as to adnit of the two occupants, who evi- dently had lost their bearings, speaking to the villagers so distinctly that their questions oould be heard quite clearly. Their first inquiry was as to their whereabouts, and on being toM they were at Winterborne Abbas, Dorset, they requested the villagers to clutch the ropes of the balloon, which at this time were dragging over or near the residence of a Mr. Atkins, so close, in fact, as to touch the roof. Whilst Miss Atkins went to sum- mon assistance, however, the balloon soared away seaward, and aJl chance of rendering any assistance was out of the question. The last that was seen of it as it gradually disa,ppearod from view was one of the occu- pants standing in the rigging, apparently endeavouring to do something to the mechanism. At that time the balloon, was going straight for the sea. At least, that was the course it would take unless the direc- tion was aJtered after it was lost sight of. The sea is only eight or ten miles distant from the Winter borne Valley. On inquiry late on Sunday night at the War Office it was ascertained that no news had been received of the missing officers.

MR. D. A. THOMAS TO BE CHAIRMAN. f HYBRID COMMITTEE ON LONDON ELECTRICITY. A hybrid Committee has been appointed to deal with the vexed question of electrical supply in London. The London County Council is promoting a Bill, and there are many opposition camps, all of which are offering a. strong fight. Mr. D. A. Thomas, M.P., has consented, at the request of the President of the Board of Trade, to become Chairman of the hybrid Committee, which is, probably, the most important Committee in Parliament this session; and will oer. tainly have the most difficult task.

MISSING SOLICITOR. AFFAIRS IN BANKRUPTCY E26,000 LIABILITIES. At London Bankruptcy-court on Monday the first meeting of creditors was held under the failure of Godfrey Lawford. solicitor, of 23, v^S^lrl ^r'ars- It was stated he recently absconded, and a receiving order was made against him upon the act of bankruptcy of departure from his dwelling with intent to defeat and delay creditors. The Official Receiver, having dealt with proofs to the amount of CZ6,000, said no doubt tha,t sum would be greatly increased when the creditors were all known. The only a,se-ets consisted of a small amount at the bank, and probably some business debts. A trustee was appointed to wind up the estate in bankruptcy. The Official Receiver stated that a proof had been put in by the Marquess of North- ampton for £ 10,000 at the least, due in respect of misappropriated trust funds. The Solicitor supporting the proof said be understood that the claim was nearer £ 20,000.

PATENTS BILL THROUGH COMMITTEE. The Patents and Designs Bill was further considered by Standing Committee C on Tuesday afternoon, and ordered to be reported, without amendment, to the House.

FELL DOWNSTAIRS. Mr. Roberts-Jones held an inquest on Monday at Cross Keys on the body of Jane Leyshon, a widow, aged 70. who died at Wattsville in consequence of injuries acci. dentally received on Wednesday morning last by falling downstairs. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

RHONDDA CYCLIST KILLED. At the Workmen's Institute, Ton Pentre, on cTuesday, Mr. R J. Rhys held an inquest on the body of William Bond (18). collier, of, Gelli, who succumbed on Sunday to injuries received in a cycling accident at Porth. The- evidence showed that Bond was riding home, in company with a friend, at eleven p.m., and when near the Portih Goods Station came into collision with a passing cart. William Lee. the driver, deposed that deceased lost control of his machine, and ran right into the horse, which was going at a slow pace. A verdict of Accidental death" waa returned.

DIVORCE SUIT AFTER FIFTY- ONE YEARS. Mr. George Hall, of New Jersey, is bringing an action for divorce against his wife on the ground of desertion. The couple have heeD. for 51 years.—General News. I

POSSIBLE SOLUTION OF THE MYSTERY. News reached Bridport on Monday night that last Tuesday night, between eight and nine o'clock, two men employed by Mr. Pal- mer, West Bexington Farm, six or eight miles east of Bridport, saw a balloon over the sea a. few hundred yards from the shore. It appeared to splash into the water, and the men were about to launch a boat, when the balloon rose quickly. It is thought possible that the two officers jumped into the sea, thinking their only way of escape was to swim ashore, and that the balloon, thus lightened, quickly ascended.

KILLED BY JOURNEY OF TRAMS. Mr. R. J. Rhys, district coroner, held an inquiry on Monday at the police-station, Trecynon, into the circumstances attending the death of James Head, who was Silled at the Blaenant Colliery, Abernant, early last Saturday morning through being run over by a journey of trams William Roberts said he was the rider in charge of the journey of trams in question. which ran wild owing to the pin of tho shackle breaking. The shackle had been in use for about a month, and it was the custom to have the shackle examined between each shift. He had not known a pin to break in that way before. A verdict of Accidental death" was returned.

LLANDOVERY WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH. An inquest was held at Penybank, near Uandovery, touching the death of Mary Morgan, the wife of Mr. Morgan Morgan, cf Dolygarreg Lodge, near Llandovery, who died from burns. The husband said that he retired to rest about eleven o'clock, leaving his wife in the next bedroom. A few minutes later he heard her shouting, Morgan, Mor- gan, I am on fire." He immediately went to her room, and saw the upper part of her body in flames. These he extinguished, and then procured assistance. Deceased kept a lighted candle in the room, but there was no fire there. Dr. Taylor, Llandovery, testified that the woman suffered from severe burns, and was in an advanced steuge of heart disease. She, undoubtedly, succumbed to shock.—A verdict of Accidental death" was returned.

I TON PENTRE REPAIRER KILLED. At Ton Pemtre Mr. R. J. Rhys held an inquest on the body of William Williams, Pa-ntycelyn. repairer, who was killed on Friday at the Maindy Colliery, Ton Pentre. by a fall of roof. A verdict of Accidental death was returned.

TREDEGAR CHILD KILLED. A two-year-old child, named David Haydn Davies, residing in Hill-street, Tredegar, waa knocked down by an empty ooal cart cn Tuesday, the cart going over its body. The injuries proved fatal.

BOY KILLED AT GORSEINON. Mr. W. Buokley Roderick conducted an inquest at Llanelly on Wednesday respect- ing the death of Robert George James (11), Treeob, who died on Monday evening as the result of injuries he received by falling from a baker's cart at Gorseinon on Friday last. -D,avid James, father of the deceased, said th,a.t his son told him he tried to jump off. but failed to clear the cart. When the deceased recovered consciousness he said, The driver was not to blame; the old horsl it was.Verdiat, "Accidental death."

FIRE ON A LINER. SUSPECTED INCENDIARISM AT NEW YORK. Fire has broken out on the White Star iinei Oceanic. The vessel«>is at her berth at t'ht company's pier, New York, and strenuous efforts are being made to subdue the out- break. The is believed to have originated amongst a cargo of glucose, in the main hold, and it is hoped that it will -on be under control. A sinister feature of the occurrence is that for the past three days the Oceanic has been doubly guarded, owing to threats made by the strikers that they would set her on bre.- Central News. Renter's New York correspondent says the fire broke out in the aft steerage of the liner while she was lying in dock. It was very diffi-cult to get the flames under control, and it was two hours before they were extin- guished. The fittings of the steerage and part of the cargo were destroyed. ======

A TRAGEDY OF JEALOUSY. FAMOUS ACTRESS SHOT BY HER HUSBAND. A terrible tragedy is reported from Aalborr (Jutland). An actor named Nathansei fired two shots at his wife, Gerda Kru 1 Nathansen, with a revolver, and afterwards committed suicide. Frau Nathansen, who is mortally wounded, was a very celebrated actress, and recent^ achieved a etnking success in the musical comedy Die Lustige Witwe." The tragedy is attributed to iealousy.-Reuter.