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ACCIDENTS IN THE DISTRICT. i MYSTERIOUS FALL FROM CANTON BRIDGE. Into the death of Edwin Lewis, aged 28, the man who was found lying in the bed of the Elver Taff near Canton Bridge nearly a fort- night ago, and who died at the workhouse infirmary on Monday, Mr. E. B. L. Reece held an inquest at the Cardiff Law Courts on Tuesday. The father of the deceased, George Lewis, a respectably-dressed, elderly man, living in Mortimer-road, Canton, gave evidence of identification. His mother had seen him at the workhouse every day since, and had been told that their son had sometimes recovered consciousncss. Harry Govier, of 27. Springfield-place. Canton, said he was driving a cart over Canton Bridge at 7.50 p.m. on September 13. c when he saw a man put his hands on the Parapet and jump over. Witness got out of his cart and saw deceased lying on the stones in the bed of the river, the tide being very Low. Before Lewis jumped over the bridge he crossed from one side to the other and Ehonted, "Harry!" The Coroner put a question to witness as to whether the deceased fell over the bridge, and Govier agreed that he did fall over, but did not explain how it was possible to do so. Dr. England, of the workhouse, said that deceased was unconscious during most of the time he was in the infirmary, and died on Monday from hemorrhage into the spine, caused by the fall. Addressing the jury, the Coroner observed that too much attention must not be paid to the evidence of the lad Govier. who said that the deceased put his hands on the bridge and jumped over. The jury returned the following verdict:— "Death was due to hemorrhage into the spine by accidentally falling over Canton Bridge." In explanation oil their verdict subsequently Borne of the jury expressed the view that deceased fell over the bridge when trying to sit on the parapet. A BROTHER'S CHARGE OF NEGLECT. At an inquest held at Swansea Hospital on Friday on the body of Thomas Philip Beynon, aged 28, a tram-man at Killan Colliery, Dun- ^ant, William Beynon, brother of deceased, said his foot was injured when three trams ran wild at the colliery. Witness was under the impression that his brother had been neglected by the doctors. They hardly looked at his foot, never put a bandage on, and only gave a lotion. He was afterwards sent to Swansea Hospital.-Dr. -Hector Jones, of Swan- sea Hospital, said deceased, was admitted on Sunday, suffering from blood poisoning; and terrible inflammation. Deceased died from flvffiine*' There was a eligiu, cat on the foot. —T)urirf» tbe evidence the question arose as to whether the real injury was caused by tbe accident or by the chafing of a boot.— The inquiry was adjourned till October 3. MAN DECAPITATED ON THE RAILWAY. jTVew Tredegar Is ouoe more tbe scene of it *"igpdy. About 11 30 on Saturday Walter Seoker, aged 60 a foreman of the pit-top workmen at the Elliot Collieries, and living at 109, Queen's- road, was crossing the Brecon and Merthyr line, which passes through the yard, when an engine and van overtook him and caused instantaneous death by cutting his head clean off and otherwise mutilating the body. He leaves a widow and several children. IRISHMAN'S TERRIBLE FALL. brln,<nrit>1^ accident occurred at the Cam- an Dry Dock, Swansea, on Saturday. w e. °f Liverpool, a well-known liner, as in the dock, and William M'Quirk, a Se man- aged 50, a native of Arklow, Ire- and, was engaged in carrying rubbish to the quayside. He wras subsequently missed, and ^ntually his dead body was found in the ™ud on the gridiron, having fallen from the 6hip. The poor man's skull was badly frac- tured. FATAL FALL FROM A HAYLOFT. Mr. W. Buckley Roderick conducted an Inquest at Llanelly on Monday concerning the death of Tom James, a stableman em- ployed at the Dynevor Hotel, Llanelly, who died on Sunday morning as the result of Injuries received by a fall from a hayloft on the previous evening. The deceased was last 6een alive on Saturday night by the landlord of the Dynevor Hotel. When the landlord's son returned from a holiday on Sunday morning about 7.45 he observed that here was a bruise on the deceased's head, nd his coat and face were covered with blood. He was asked how he sustained the thJer?w and.he replied, "I fell down from COLL'F;R'S TERRIBLE DEATH. inquest at the Naml^°n an Monday on the body of iy» °" Institute on marrit'd man. ,ho*■ £ £ » nant Colliery on Saturday 1 the °°ee- Edwaxd Jones a repairer at the collierv said that on Saturday morning he and S other men were standing a pair of timber and ho sent for O'Neill to help him to raise the collar up. As they were lifting it up the roof fell, and about 30 trams of debris fell on him. O'Neill asked twice to try and release him, but as they were going to do so, a second fall occurred, which completely buried him. Medical evidence having been given, the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death. GIRL UNDER A TRUCK WHEEL. Mr. Howel Outhberison held an inquest at Garth Police-station on Tuesday on the body J* Margaret Jane Petty (ten), daughter of Sattlr?etty' a Maesteg collier, who died on the g»^?L a of injuries received at Joseph S°1Liery Siding. picked up fourteen, said he ek ed n p, th4I of a truok > girl from under the wheel the break as ifD?thfr boy had his hand on head was on the 10 &t°P !t- Tbe girl's Richard HowellB "s;.a^ainst the truck. between the buffers1 he saw the girl fall Dr. Morley Thomas stating that the child evidence fracture of the skull. liad sustained a ro.reS"* "A<te"" *»«■ .«

PRISONERS REVOLT -4 SIX WARDERS AND THREE CONVICTS KILLED. News has been received from Kapjansk, in the Government of Kharkoff, that a revolt has occurred among the prisoners in the local gaol, and that a chief warder and five assistant warders were killed during the disturbances. The leader of the revolt fled to the loft of the building, where he concealed himself, and set fire to the gaol. The prisoners sub- sequently resumed rioting, in the course of which three of them were killed. The fire Was ultimately extinguished.-Reuter.

A TRAGIC MYSTERY, A gruesome discovery was made at Ashton- ooder-Lyne on Wednesday at the house Occupied by the family of an Army pen- sioner. named John M'Hugh. A sanitary Inspector, finding the drain badly stopped «ade investigations, and found in the pip^ 6 body of a child, which, though scarcely recognisable, was afterwards identified as that of Thomas M'JHugh, aged two years and months, the son of the oocupier of the House. The child disappeared three months ago, at the same time as the father, who has not. Bino been heard of.

-THE AMERICA CUP. + SIRT. LIPTON'S CHALLENGE DECLINED. The New York Yacht Club, the members of wh.i-^ met on Wednesday eveiIling to con- eider Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge for the Amenca Cup, has unanimously declined to accept the challenge, on the grounds that the requirements of the deed of gift in connec- tion with the cup are not met. Sir Thomas proposed a race between 68ft. yachts, and asked permission to build two yachts for the purpose and then to use whichever proved the faster. The club has decided that it is impossible for them to agree to these conditions, in view of the terms of the deed of gift. The largest possible boats, they say, must defenu the trophy, without any restrictions as to design. Small yachts would lower the dignity of the cup. .H SIR THOMAS LIPTON INTERVIEWED. Sir Thomas Lipton was seen by a press representative at his Southgate residence to- day in reference to the refusal by the New York Yacht Club of his challenge for the America Cup. In reply to inquiries, he said: "The challenge was sent by me through the Royal Irish Yacht Club, and, of course, any acceptance or refusal of it would be sent to the club. I have heard nothing officially as yet, and cannot, therefore, say much on the subject, but I have heard from various unofficial sources that my challenge is declined, and I can only say that if this be so I am very disappointed. The New York Yacht Club people are my very good York Yacht Club people are my very good friends. They have always shown me the greatest kindness and consideration, and have net hitherto refused me anything." Asked if he could in any way account for the refusal, and whether he thought there was anything in the conditions of the chal- lenge that might explain it, Sir Thomas • "Evidently, it is the new rule (under which I challenged) that is the objection. There are but two rules known to the yacht-racing world—the international, which prevails in this country and practically all over Europe, and the universal, which was established by American yachtsmen. Had I challenged I under the international I could have under- stood a refusal better, but I challenged under their own rule." # Asked under which rule previous challenges and acceptances had issued, Sir Thomas replied:— "Neither the one nor the other, but under a rule which was made some 53 years ago, and which is not recognised by any yachting club in existence apart from this particular race. The boats which have been built for this race of recent years are freak boats pure and simple, and euoh. as no designer would dreajn of copying. British designers have hitherto been found to create such boats, but they do not oare for the responsi- bility, and are not likely to do so a«ain. When you remember that these frail vessels have to cross the Atlantic you will under- stand that the anxiety and mental strain are too great for the designer to willingly bear. The responsibility for the serious mishap would probably be laid at his door, the strain ail fcbraug-h the raoes. during the oroeeing, must be very great. That is why the old order of things was abandoned in the case of the present challenge, and why I ofrered to meet tbe holders of the cup under the universal ruJe, which provides for the einplajoTKiit of a good, healthy, sea- worthy type of craft. It seems to me," added Sir Thomas, "that the advantage would have been all on the side of the challenged rather than the challenger. Not a einsrte boat has been built in Great Britain under t-he universal rule. whiile dozens ha-ve been bnilt on the other side—in building such famous boofts as the Queen, the Effort, and the Avenger." Sir Thomas further stated he challenged with a boat, or rather for a boat, of 66ft. rating, which meant 77ft. on the water-line, and the trust-deed in regard to the America Cup pro- vided the challenger should be over 65ft. rating and under 90ft. on the water-line. So that he appeared to be well within the terms of the trust-deed. At the time of the interview Sir Thomas had not seen the cabled reasons for the refusal of the New York Yacht Club.

PANIC IN A TUNNEL. 1 SERIOUS RAILWAY COLLI- SION IN FRANCE. At 10.20 on Wednesday morning the pas- senger train No. 317 collided with the Trans- atlantic train No. 8,104 in Breval Tunnel, near Mantes. Several carriages left the rails. the engine of train 317 dashing into the last carriage of the Transatlantic train. One of the passengers had a leg broken, while sixteen others were slightly injured. Two main tracks are blocked between Mantes and Breval. The Pa-trie," of Paris, in an account of the accident, states that the Transatlantic train from Paris to Cherbourg had been stopped by a. signal in the Breval Tunnel, when the express train to Rouen ran into it, the engine of the latter telescoping the rear ca,rriage of the Transatlantic train. The tunnel immediately filled with smoke from the engines, causing panic among the pas- sengers. The names of the injured are not yet known. The newspapers state that a young American girl, whose indentity has not been ascertained, was rather seriously injured. It was only with the greatest difficulty she was extricated from the debris. Her mother escaped by leaping out of the compartment a moment before the collision aictually occurred.—Renter. COLLISION IN GERMANY. A suburban electric train and a steam train came into collision outside Potsdam Station on Wednesday. The guard of the electrio train was seriously injured, and two passengers sustained slight injuries.—Reater.

RAILWAY HERO'S DEATH. FOREMAN PLATELAYER KILLED IN SAVING A GREEN HAND. The dramatic story of the death on the line at Balham of Thomas Smith, a foreman platelayer, aged 41, and the remarkable escape of his gang of 24 men, was told at the inquest on Monday. The men were working on the up local line in a dense fog, when the lookout's whistle warned them of an approaching train. They Ktonned over to the down line—right in front of another approaching train! Smith shouted a warning, and the men flung themselves down, some in the six-foot way and some between the metals right in the track of the train. The foreman lost bis life in saving that of another member of the gang. Smith, se^ ing the man dazed and in danger, stayed to force him down flat between the metals, and then leaped for the six-foot way. He was just missed by the down train, but fell forward under the wheels of the up train. and was cut to pieces. The other men escaped without injury, with the exception of Nathaniel Finch, of Peckham, who is lying in hospital severely injured. 'Accidental death" was the jury's verdict.

HET VOLK ADVANCING. TRANSVAAL PROGRESSIVES FEEL THEMSELVES BEING OUSTED. Mr. Purchase, a member of the Transvaal Legislative Council, has been appointed chairman of the Rand Water Board in suc- cession to Sir William Carr, notwithstanding that the board unanimously asked for the re-appointment of Sir William Carr. Mr. Raitt, also a member of the Legislative Council, has been appointed Government Inspector of White Labour. This is regarded by the Progressives as a political move to re-place them in the Upper House by members of Het Volk, particularly in antici- pation of the introduction of a measure relating to the composition of the Upper House.—Renter.

DIESRIDDLEDWITH BULLETS. « HOTTENTOT DE WET KILLED IN ACTION. Morenga, the greatest of the rebel chiefs in German South-West Africa, a thorn in Ger- many's side for the past three years, has been killed in a fight with a British force in Cape territory on the German border. Morenga, the Herero chief, was no ordinary Hottentot, but a bold, adventurous, and intelligent man, who had created no small amount of trouble in South Africa during the last few years. In January, 1904, the Herero tribe in German South-West Africa murdered some settlers and destroyed railway bridges am telegraph lines while the German troops were engaged in another part of the colony with the Bondelzwarts. The Reichstag imme- diately voted money and troops to suppress the rising. In the early stage of the war Morenga inflicted a series of de-fe,ats upon the troops by swooping down on them and as quickly disappearing. After twelve months 11,000 troops had been sent out, at a. cost of £ 2,100,000, which worked out at £ 1.000 per head of the purely German population in the Colony. Another JM.000,000 was voted for 1905, and in June of that year Morenga again defeated the Germans under Captain Siebert and captured all their ammu- nition and supplies. Morenga offered to treat with the Germans, and in the mean- time captured another camp. The Witbois surrendered after the death of their chief, Hendrik Witboi, and on December 3, 1905, Herr von Lindequdst, the Governor, reported that the rebellion was suppressed. But he hai reckoned without Morenga, who became more active than ever. In March last year the Germans made a desperate effort to catch the Hottentot De Wet," as he was called, but he escaped once more, and on May 11 be was driven over the border and captured by the Cape Police. From first to last Morenga cost the Germans 1,750 men dead, 900 wounded, and 2.000 invalided. Although the German Consul-General promised that all should be forgotten and forgiven if Morenga returned, that elusive personage decided to remain in Cape Colony, where he was given permission to reside near Upington. Despite all vigi lanoe, he broke loose again last month, anJ re-crossed the border with 150 armed fol- lowers. Morenga has been killed so many times by report that the news of his real death will hardly be believed in South Afnca. He was educated by a missionary, had travelled for eighteen months in Europe, and could speak Dutch, English, and German. lie was a broad-shouldered, squat-figured man, black as ink. and wore European clothing. With his death disappears cause for friction between the German and British Colonial officials in South Africa.

MINING DISASTER. ——<—— CAGE FALLS A DISTANCE OF 700 FEET. A cage carrying seventeen miners employed at the Jones M'Laughlin Steel Works at Tregaunce (Michigan) on Friday fell a distance of 700ft. Fourteen of the mffll were killed instantaneously, and no hope is entertained of the recovery of the others.- Renter.

NASTY KICK FROM BOOTS. CHEMISTS' PRESIDENT POUNDED IN HIS OWN MORTAR. At Westminster Police-court on Monday Mr. Richard Atkinson Robinson, late prest dent of the Pharmaceutical Society, trading as Messrs. Malden and Co., chemists, ot Brompton-road, London, was fined £3 and £2 2s. costs on each of three summonses. issued at the instance of Boots, Cash Chemists (Limited), for offences under tile Pharmacy Act of 1868. The offences were telling strychnine in a bottle not labelled with the name and address of the seller, selling the said poison to a person unknown to or not introduced by a person known to the seller, and failing to make the schedule entry required by the Act giving particulars of such purchaser. Mr. Muir, for the prosecution, said that for the purpose of defence of a summons issued against Boots by the Pharmaceutical Society for selling a bottle of tabloids, each tabloid containing one-sixty-fourth part of a grain of strychnine, Messrs. Boots caused a number of purchases to be made from chemists in London, with the object of show- ing that their method of sale was generally adopted. After their conviction Messrs. Boots waited to see if the society were instituting prose- cutions for infringements of the Act, but no steps were taken, and, consequently, Messrs. Boots selected for prosecution Mr. Hobinaon, who was president of the society during the early part of the year. On behalf of defendant counsel said he could not resist the technical plea of guilty, and the Magistrate imposed fines as stated. a—— —

LEFT COAL IN THE CASH-BOX WENT ON A HONEYMOON WITH THE REAL MONEY. At Croydon on Friday James iand Annie Pentland, aged 21 and 19 respectively, were charged with stealing jewellery and various articles, valued at £100, from the Rev. W. Watson, and Arthur Trengrove, antique dealer, with receiving the same knowing them to have been stolen. Prosecutor stated that his house was left in charge of the female prisoner, then un- married, while he was holiday-making, in August. On returning he found a missionary box had been rifled and coal substituted in it, the cash-box forced, and the jewellery in question stolen. Prisoners were arrested at Bristol. The husband said he would take all the blame, It was stated he had induced the woman to marry him, a-Tid, after plundering the house, they left on a honeymoon. The two Pentlands were committed for trial. Trangrove was remanded.

ARISTOCRATIC LADY. CHARGED "WITH COMPLICITY IN A MURDER. At Cracow on Friday Mme. Dobrodzicka, a. lady of artistocratAo Russian birth, now married to an Austrian gentleman, was arrested at the instance of the Rhssian police charged with complicity in an attempt to murder the Governor-general of Warsaw over a year ago. The lady is 21 years of age. —Central News.

BABY HERO DROWNED. Two children were accidentally drowned at Birmingham on Monday. They were playing on the canal towing path, when one of them, a little girl aged four, fell in. Her brother, who was six years old, attempted to save her, but also fell in, and both were drowned. Jr THE ALIEN. WELSH COAL: What is your business here, please? YANKEE OIL: Guess I've come to take your job. You're under notice to quit, you know. It is stated that large preparations are being made for the use of oil in the place of coal in the Royal Navy.

THE MURDER OF I MISS LAKE. — f LONDON LADY'S FATE IN GERMANY. The trial of the man Land for the murder of Miss Lake last year was resumed at Essen on Tuesday morning The spot where the murder took place was visited, the prisoner being asked to point out the i-cad l1ë f01" lLnriOT1 the dalv of the murder. I^nd asserted that he attacked Miss Lake riSbt-hand side of the road, and dragged her into the wood, whereas as a of fact the body was found on the left of the wood, opposite the spot indicated by Land. IP rePly to the questions of the presiding by Land. *— IP rePly to the questions of the presiding judge, the, prisoner repeated that he wafl certain that the murder was committed at the spot shown by him. He remembered that there were stile and a oopse on the way to the spot. There is no copse on the way to the spot. There is no copse on the left of the wood. At tbe a/t6r"o°n'B Bitting the examination of witnesses was resumed. An official named Mathe testified that on October 2 last year he found the hat and handbag of the deceased lady three paces from the body. At Monday's hearing Land declared that Miss Lake had her hat on. Three other witnesses gave evidence that at a quarter past six on the day of the mur- der they saw a lady of short stature, wear- ing a brown hat. Sihe was accompanied by a broad-shouldered man, who had his arm round the lady and was endeavouring to drag into the wood. The lady appeared to be offering resistance. Other witnesses repeated reports according to which the murder of Miss k^e was no ordinary crime. A man is said to nave visited Essen and returned to England immediately after the murder. The locksmith, August Niemer, who was arrested last year on suspicion of having murdered Miss Lake, said that he had been drinking with a friend near the Black Way on evening in question, but he had noticed nothing out of the common. noticed nothing out of the common. In reply to the presiding judge, he reiterated that he had nothing to do with the murder. A carpenter who was in Niemer's company stated that they had been together in the wood, but he had left Niemer later in the evening. Other witnesses were unable to say for certain if Niemer and his friend were among the people whom they noticed in the wood on the day of the murder. A lady has sent to the judicial authorities vw Daine °- Persons whom she declares to be able to testify that they saw three young men in the Black Way on the evening of the murder who, according to their description, htiT' have been Land and two accomplices. e JQry acquitted the clerk Land. The prisoner was immediately set at liberty orf. of the trial will be borne by the Treasury.—Reuter. ,r.

VENETIAN MURDER PLOT. A REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCED. astounding development in connection with the death of the Russian Count Kama- y is announced from Venice. It is Reported that the police there have jnet into possession of evidence that the plot against Count Kamarovsky was designed to involve the life of the count's eight-year-old son. It is alleged that the Oountees Tarnovski had taken advantage of Count Kamaroveky's condition, when he was intoxicated with champagne one evening, to induce him to frame a codicil to his will by which it was provided that, apart from the £ 20,000 insu- rance on his own life which was to go to her, she should, in the event of the young boy Edgar's decease, inherit the entire fortune bequeathed to him by his father. The "Corriere della Sera" says that the Venice police have. through clues furnished to them by Naumoff, been enabled to seize papers in Countess Tarnovski's handwriting, giving minute directions for poisoning the lad as soon as the count himself had been "suppressed."

SMASHED IN A HOIST. TWO KILLED, ONE BADLY HURT THROUGH A STRAP BREAKING. A hoist accident occurred at Messrs. Charles Macintosh and Oo.'a rubber factory at Manchester late on Tuesday evening, resulting in the death of two employes and serious injuries to a third. It appears that three men-Thomas Lee, 38, married; George Morgan, 39, married; and William Morgan, 36 were engaged in conveying goods from the ground floor to the top storey, when the strap of the hoist gave way. The hoist came to the bottom with a tremendous crash. William Morgan and Thomas Lee were killed, and George Morgan, brother of William Mor- gan, sustained shocking injuries about the head and body, and lies in the Manchester Infirmary in a critical condition. Tne hoist was fitted with brakes, but these, apparently, had not been applied.

FELL FORTY FEET TO DEATH A shocking accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon at the new Town-hall, which is in course of erection, at Lancaster. A workman named George Wake, of Liverpool, was engaged fixing cornices, when he over- balanced and dislodged a quantity of masonry, which crashed throngh the scaf- folding, carrying Wake with it. He fell a distance of 40ft., and died three hours later at the infirmary.

PENNY IN-THE-SLOT PATRIOTS. ■ SMASH EACH OTHERS HEADS IN ROSCOMMON. I Riotous scenes characterised the meeting of the Roscommon County Council on Mon- day, when the ceremony of unveiling the portrait of the late Mr. Michael Davitt was performed. There was a large attendance of the general public, including many members of the local trade and labour associations. Mr. Hayden, M.P. for South Roscommon, referred to Mr. Davitt as the true type of Irishman, who retired from the 'I Irish party because he thought he could do more useful work outside. Mr. John M'Greevy, a prominent member of the Labour party, thereupon said the Irish party had degenerated into a eort of penny-in-the- slot machine, of which the directory in Dublin held the key. The Chairman, in response to an inquiry, then said Mr. M'Greevy must leave the hall, and in ah instant there was an uproar. Members of the council and of the general public engaged in hand-to-hand fights, and order was only partially restored by the arrival of a large body of police, who met the disturbances by ejections. Subsequent speeches were marked by strong langiuage, and more than once the police had to interfere and expel some of the disturbers. The fighting was principally between the public who are Sinn Feiners and the COUjI- cillors who are patriots of the politician brand. Much furniture was smashed, and many councillors' beads were broken before the g-rea;t Michael's portrait was pro- perly installed, and by that time those of jhL3 admirers who had come to hofnour the noble occasion were either outside cursing the police for evicting them from the joy within or mending their hurts with the cobwebs and other simple medicaments the ruins of the council-chamber could afford.

TRAGEDIES OF THE FOG. 4 PLATELAYERS KILLED BY TRAINS. A shocking accident occm-red on the Great Central Railway near Lutterworth, Leices- tershire, on Friday morning. A gang of plate- layers, who were working on the line just after seven o'clock, in thick fog, stepped out of the way of the up express from Leicester, .1. and were run into by another train proceed- ing to Rugby. One man, named Birch, was killed on the spot, and two others were injured, one, named Allan, having both legs cut off. The injured men were removed to Rugby Hospital. The third man, named Hutchinson, was knocked down and sustained slight injuries. A similar accident took place at Balham on the Brighton Railway on Friday in foggy weather, when one platelayer was killed and another injured.

A CAR THAT DID NOT WORK INQUEST IN BOURNEMOUTH DISASTER ADJOURNED. An inquest was opened on Monday after- noon. John William Ewen, driver and owner of the car, in detailing the accident, said they were going downhill near the Alderney Water- works, when suddenly the car swerved, ran up a bank, and turned over right across the roadway, on which deceased was found in a state of collapse. Witness admitted that when his pleasure car was passed by the committee of the corporation he did not tell them that three times recently it had failed to accomplish journeys. The Coroner said he should adjourn the inquest until Thursday to inquire fully into the cause of the accident.

DREAMED CHILD WAS DEAD MOTHER TURNED AND FOUND BABY A CORPSE. An Inquest was held at Lewisham on Tues- day on the child of a Lewis ham Borough Council employe, aged four months. The mother said that she found the child dead by her side on Monday morning. About two hours before she had dreamt that it was dead. The husband said his wife told him of the dream, and on taking the child up he found it dead. Death was due to natural causes.. » V

CYCLIST AND THE BULL, A cyclist named Idris Felix, residing in London, but at present on a visit at Carmel, on coming round a bend in the road near1 Carmel on Saturday, observed a bull lying across the road. He tried to pass the animal, with the result that it charged the cyclist. Fortunately, the rider managed to elude the bull's on-rush by jumping over the hedge, leaving his bicycle, which was smashed to pieces.

FIGHTING AGAIN IN MOROCCO. ♦ GENERAL DRUDE DISPERSES THE ME HAL LAS. It was announced by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on Saturday that the peace negotiations with the Moorish tribes at Casa Blanca have failed, and that General Drude will, therefore, resume at once the offensive operations which have been suspended since the capture of the Taddert camp. The Temps" describes the situation in Morocco as extremely grave, and declares that the only way out of the present diffi- cult position is to return to the terms of the Act of Algeciras, amended in the manner indicat,ed by the Franco-Spanish communica- tion to the Powers. In concluding, the "Temps" begs per- ) mission to ask the authorities the following Question :—"Granted that we have relieved the Powers of the necessity tw •rfltecting I the ports by European police, what argu- mente would it be possible for France and bp-am to advance in self-defence if trouble to:rDorrow in some of the ports which they claim the right to protect, and News they have done nothing?"—Central The French Government received a tele- gram on Sunday in which General Drude announces that he left Caaa Blanca at four LlSLn0=,n fUUrday mornin £ with three mounted batteries, two machine-gun sections. some Chasseurs ^Afrique, Spahis, and Goumirs. He marched MohfnL jim, where he dispersed the burned their camp. The hp-it- no, difficult by the excessive _nj -f ertbeless, the troops bore up well m^trL ^a ma.roh ed a distance of 40 kilo- v armg the day. The French losses ,°"ly one Goumir killed and five men \r among whom is Lieutenant cn od, of the 2nd Regiment of the Foreign Legion.—Reuter. < SIR HARRY MACLEAN. Negotiations for the release of Kaid Sir Harry Maclean are still proceeding at Tan- gier between the British Legation and a I representative of Raisuii. It is the general belief in Tangier that Raisuii will consent to a ooneidera-ble modification of the extra- vagant demands which he has formulated.— Central News.

SHOT FORMER LANDLADY. THEN EX-POLICEMAN iBLEW HIS OWN BRAINS OUT. A case of attempted murder and successful suicide occurred at Nottingham on Monday night. A young man who recently resigned his position in the Nottingham city police met Mrs. Jackson, the wife of a man with whom he had lodged, and after an alterca- tion he produced a revolver and fired. The first shot missed her, but a second shot struck her in the neck. The man then placed the barrel of the revolver in his own mouth anl fired, killing himself instantly. Mrs. Jackson was removed to the hospital, and is progressing favourably. Deceased was a native of Yorkshire, and was formerly employed on the Great Northern Railway.

THE FUNGUS TRAGEDY. CORONER'S JURY SAYS, "DEATH FROM MISADVENTURE." The adjourned inquest on the six victims of the Ipswich fungus poisoning affair was held on Monday evening.-Mark Ellis, a greengrocer, said Farrow had had dealings with him, having bought mushrooms to make into catsup. Last April Farrow said to witness, I will not live another winter like I have this. I wish all my —— lot were stiff when I get home." Dr. Young said the fungus shown to him by Charles Farrow as similar to that gathered by his father was found growing under oak trees.—The jury returned a verdict of Death from misadventure."

RIOTING IN PRUSSIA. THREE PERSONS KILLED; SIX- TEEN WOUNDED. Fieroe rioting is reported from Moers, in Rhenish Prussia, where a struggle occurred between the inhabitants of a neighbouring village and the police on the occasion of a meeting of Polish miners. The police insisted on the meeting being dissolved, whereupon the Poles attacked them, and one of the policemen fell dead, killed by a revolver shot. A general fight ensued, in the course of which over 80 shots were fired. Two Poles were killed and fourteen severely wounded, while two policemen were also badly wounded. The interior of the railway station, where most of the rioting took place, was entirely demolished.

SWATH OF DEVASTATION STORM CAUSES SEVENTY WRECKS ON NEWFOUNDLAND COAST. A Lloyd's dispatch from St. John's, New- foundland, received on Monday, says the Norwegian sloop Sno-re is an absolute and total loes at Bonavista. All the cargo is lost: nothing can be saved. It adds that severe storms prevail on the coast, and have caused great destruction of property. Seventy schooners are reported to have been driven ashore, many of which are total wrecks.

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LOCAL TRAGIC INCIDENTS. ♦ CUPOLAMANJS FATAL WALK ON A GIRDER. The sad fate which befell a married man, named John Jones, aged 29, of No. 3, Garth Cottages, Gellltaelog, Dow la is, employed as a. cupolaman at the old works Bessemer department, Dowlais, was the subject of inquiry by Mr. R. J. Rhys (district coroner) at Dowlais on Friday. Inspector White, Swansea, represented the Home Office, and Mr. D. T. Jenkins attended on behalf of Messrs. Guest, Keen, and Nettlefolds (Limi- ted). Richard Williams, working at the Bessemer converters, said he was engaged in tapping » out one of the cupotas on Tuesday afternoon, when Jones met with the accident. The iron had broken out at the back of the cupola, and deceased, having gone up and stopped it, was returning again by walking on a girder about 12in. wide, when his right foot slipped and he fell. His head was badly smashed, and he succumbed to his injuries whilst being taken home. Lewis J. Lewie, foreman at the Bessemer department, stated that the deceased had worked as a cupola-man for thirteen or four- teen months. In order to reach the place where the leakage was Jones had to go up the steps and over the landing. He could have come back that way. but preferred to return by crossing the girder, which was easier and quicker. The Coroner remarked that they were all more or less disposed to take the quicker way. At a level crossing it was just the same—they would walk right over the line rather thaib go by the bridge, even though a. notice stared them in the face. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death." DIED AT THE LEVERS. Mr. Howel Cuthbertson on Saturday held an inquiry at Port Talbot into the circum- stances of the tragic death of William Arthur James, aged 23, 70, Tydraw-street, Port Talbot, a signalman engaged on the Port Talbot Railway, who was found dead in the signal-box the previous morning. Thomas Partridge, 2, Myrtle-hill, Aberavon, a coalman engaged on the Port Talbot Rail- way. said he found the deceased dead in the signal-box about 4.45 sum. He was lying in the middle of the box his full length, faoa down. The reason he went to th; box was that the Aberavon signalman telephoned that he could not get any reply from the dcceased's box. There were two eng-ines wait- ing to get to the shed, and the signais were against them. Thomas Williams, engine-driver, 59, Gwen- doline-street, said that he spoke to deceased about the traffic about four o'clock. Deoeaead did not complain of anything. Dr. J. Pryce Roberts, Aberavon, said he knew the deceased, but had not medically attended him. He was called Friday morn- ing, and saw the body about 5.10 a.m. in the signal-box. James was dead, and had been about three-quarters of an hour. There were no external marks on the body. Death waa due to heart disease. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. A FATAL CUT ON THE FOOT. An inquiry was opened at the Swansea Hospital on Friday touching the death of William Philip Beynon (251, trammer. Killan Colliery, Dunvant. It was stated that three trains injured the man's foot. Dr. Edgar Jones said that when admitted to the hospital the man was suffering from blood-poisoning. The Coroner: Oould it have been the boot that made the cut. Witness could not say, as the foot when he saw it had been strapped by Dr. Marshall. The man. had a cut on the foot. Dr. Marshall did not think the boot could hurt the deceased where the cut was, but the doctor who first saw the deceased could explain. A Juror: Is it your opinion that he was not properly treated when you saw him? Witness could not expreas an opinion upon that. The inquiry was adjourned until October 3. DOWLAIS WORKS EMPLOYE DIES SUDDENLY. Mr. LI. B. Reeoe held an inquest at Cardiff on Thursday on the -body of William Mexul- ford, 55, of 22, Lavard-street, East Moors, employed at Dowlais Works, who on the 24th inst. was seized with illness and died suddenly. The evidence showed that deceased suffered from pneumonia some six years ago, and had since complained of pains in the chest. Emily M'Cann, POrtmanmoor-road, deposed that at eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning she saw deceased lying in a field near t-ho works at which he was employed. He was just alive. Witness went to get some water, and returning found deceased had died. Dr. Timms attributed death to sudden failure of the heart. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. DIED IN THEIR SLEEP. A widow named Mary Ann Williams, aged 79, was found dead in bed at her residence, 121. Byron-street, Cardiff, on Monday, and an inquest was held at the Law Courts on Tuesday by Mr. E. B. L. Reece. It was Stated by a married daughter that deceased had enjoyed good health up till Sunday last. Dr. James Robinson testified .that death was due to heart failure, and a verdict was returned accordingly. When Mr. Evan Bevan, of 10, Uppemroad, Penywern-road, Dowlais, awoke on Tuesday he found his wife Sarah lying dead in bed beside him. Mrs. Bevan was in her customary health when she retired to bed the previous night. About twelve months ago Mrs. Bevan had a paralytic seizure, and then underwent an operation at the Merthyr and Dowlais General Hospital, but had not been medically attended for the last six months. The deceased was 70 years of age, and came of a well-known and long residential family in the district.

EX-POLICEMAN'S SUICIDE. VERDICT OF FELO DE SE; LADY HE SHOT MAY RECOVER. A verdict of "Felo de se" was returned at Nottingham on Wednesday in the case of Ran- som White, until recently a member of the city police force. White left the force with an excellent character some few weeks ago. On Monday evening he met his former landlady. and walked with her into a field. Here, she declared, he suggested they should' die together. Upon her resisting he attempted to murder her, and turned the revolver upon himself. It is believed the woman will recover.

"BELLE BILTON'S WILL. The Ooamteas of Clancarty, formerly well. known on the variety stage as "Belle Bilton," who died in December last, left personal estate in the United Kingdom valued at £446. Administration thereof has been gramtod to Mr. Alexander Knox M'Intire, of Bankruptcy-buildings, Four Courts, Dublin, the Official Assignee acting in the matter of Lord Clancarty, a bankrupt, who ha* r-lourkcod administration. I

CONGO ATROCITIES. MR. MOREL ASSERTS THEY ARE AS BAD AS EVER. Mr. Morel. Secretary of the Congo Reform Association, addressing the P.S.A. Confe- rence at Liverpool on Tuesday, said that nothing was changed in the Congo, and every day there were fresh victims of King Leopold. The latest indications from Bel- gium pointed to an annexation under con- ditions which would perpetuate the central vices of the present administration. The Congo Reform Association would not have annexation on these lines, and if not sup- portedi by the British people, the grave would close over Congo aspirations for another generation. The conference endorsed Mr. Morel's views, and resolved to make representations to the Government.

COLONEL DROPS DEAD. Colonel George Finch, aged 70, and a rela- tive by marriage of the late Knight of Glin, died suddenly as he was driving from his residence, Maryville, Croon, to Patricks Well, County Limerick, Petty-sessions on Tuesday, where he sat as a county magistrate. The court adjourned as a mark of respect. The deceased officer saw service with the 5th Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers.