The Rhos Herald

EPITOME OF NEWS. A message from Tabriz rppgrf-e fclig election of fifteen Deputies to the Mejliss. The body of a young lady has been washed ashore at Holme, oh the coast of Norfolk. Major Trotter, of the .Grenadier Guards, has been appointed aide-de-camp to Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada. The Archbishop of Canterbury has bestowed upon the newly-appointed Dean of Norwich, Dean Russell Wakefield, the Lambeth degree of D.D. Tenders ranging from fifty to sixty thousand pounds have been received by the Willesden Council for the construction oi & main sewer, j While bathing sear East Cliff groyne at Ramsgate a Faddragton. postman,, named Bryce- son, was drowned.. Alderman Thomas Mayo has consented to be- come Mayor of Loughborough for the seventh time. Thirty-four stock hackneys &»<] hackney ponies fetched £ 1,879 a-fc Sir Gibert Greenall's sale at Warrington. During" a severe thunderstorm the magnifi- sale at Warrington. During" a severe thunderstorm the magnifi- cent cathedral of Ficarole, Italy, was struck by I lightning and damaged. Lord Torphichen's eldest sov,, the Master of Torphichen, has just died in Nyassalaud, where he was Assistant Cbinmissionex- The smack Leader, of Inverness, fouled ¡ several of the warships Iyiag1 in Cromarty Firth I and was dismasted. Mr. T. Gibson Bowles ba.,4 signified his willingness to meet the members of the King's Lynn Liberal Executive with a view to adop- tion as Liberal candidate. The owner of the Cambrian Collieries have given notice to over four thousand workmen to terminate their contracts owing to the hauliers' dispute under the Eight Honrs Act. Mr. James Haslam, M.P., has been appointed chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress. In response to signals from a liner bound from Glasgow to New York, the coastguards {rat off from Portsmouth Harbour, and later anded thirteen stowaways- Masters in the Arabian Yemen are becoming more serious. The Mabdi now has a following of forty thousand men, and it is expected that the Imaam will furi-her support him to drive out the Turks. A clock and two shillings have been stolen from the Italian Hospital, in Queen-souare, Bloomsbury, by a burglar who broke into the kitchen. Swansea plasterers, who hare been on-strike twenty weeks, have been awarded an advance of Is. Id. per week under the decision of the Board of Trade arbitrators. Mrs. Ann Durey, of Lord-street, Wolver- hampton, who has just reached her 101st year, has been but once in a train, and has never yet seen the sea. A labourer named Brocklebank fell thirty feet from a mill in course of construction at Hull, and was killed, in the presence of a large number of people. On the occasion of the fiftieth a,J!lnÍversa.ry,oJ the publication of the "Legende des Siecles" of Victor Hugo, a monument to the poet by M. Rodin was unveiled in Paris ha the presence of many political and literary notabilities?, A case of "'spotted fever" (eerebro-spinal meningitis) has been received into the Western Hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums Board from the parish of St. G eorgeVi»-fhe-West. The King is expected to return to London from Balmoral on October 11 or 12, but will spend only a day in town before leaving to at- tend the Newmarket race: meeting which com- mences on October 12. The governing body of Bath College have re- solved to close the college, which was founded in 1877, at Christmas, and to wind up the com- pany. There are now seventy boys under tuition. One hundred and fifty c-limbere were killed in the Alps during the summer of 1909, axid a large number injured. The majori.t,y, ei the fatalities were in the Central Alps, the victims being chiefly Swiss. "The evidence depends on one of the most dangerous of perso-ns--an amateur detect-iv, who boasts of his twenty convictions/' said Mrd Baggallay in discharging a. man a-t- the Tower Bridge Police-court. Sir J. J. Baddeley, a Sheriff of London, will contest the aldermanic vacancy in the Ward of Comhill created by the resiipmtiou of Alder- man Guthrie. I Mrs. Davidson, the invalid widow of a Rose- neath boatbuilder, has been burned, to death in her cottage. The door was locked, and she died before it could be battered down. An old woman named Elizabeth May., Aged 70, of Cliff-street, Hoxton, wao knocked down by a motor-car and killed while cMUMiNg Penton- ville-road, London. Having pleaded guilty, Arthur Lewis, sen., was fined £ 30 for having used his milk shop, at 26, Church-street, Greenwich, for the purpose of betting. A telegram from JJone (Algeria) states thai J seventy-five time-expired soldiers had a discus- sion with a number of Maltese labourers, with the result that the latter assaulted tlje with stones, mortally wounding a corporal. Alderman William Randall, J.P., pasrehased am estate in the heart of the besonglt of Hemei Hempstead at an auction sale, and staled that he would offer it to the towns council for a public park and recreation ground. General Boulanger's widow has died! fiJi Mar- seilles, at the age of seventy-two- Tfcus General committed suicide with a revolver at, the tomb of Mme. de Bonnemain, in the IxeSies Cemetery, just outside Brussels, on September 30, lfigl. The projected Crimean mancetivres, represent- ing the invasion of the Criifxa, hste been aban- doned owing to the illness of the Tsswritea. For the same reason it is most unlikely ifeafcffoe Tsar will pay his visit to Italy. Dr. Roger Hughes, of Bala, has 4. aged 76. He was a J. P. for Merioneth, Aldernxm of the County Council, a prominent and i sfsmnck Liberal and Nonconformist. He was a bo table philanthropist, and did greai terriee to ooooa.- tion. El Roghi, the Pretender, whct* w" mp&rbed te have been executed by order of Matey Ha.M, le still alive and confined to his cage. He U. suffering from the effects of an otd WØUfI alJå. being attended by a European doctor, "A multitudinous array of rode, sws^^efited, and undig«etible proposals/' is how Mr. Thomas Burt, M.P., describes the agendla IITE Trade* Union Congress in his report Hue Sorttisaa- b«rland miners. A new edition of "Wesley's Journal in six volumes, including many diary eatriew In » curious form of shorthand whicn has taken the editor yettrs to decipher, is to be issued at inter- vals spread over two j€am bj the IfstfMadifti Publishing House.

OUR LONDON LETTER. I [From Our Special Correspondent.J Everybody is talking about the coming General Election, and everybody now as- sumes that it is to take place in January. Exactly what makes people so confident ii3 difficult to say, but these are times in which much significance may attach to a nod, and a whisper be charged with tremendous im- port. Thus a great deal has been made of the answer of a Cabinet Minister who, en being asked whether a General Election was coming, said laughingly, "Well, you had better get ready." Much, however, may yet depend upon the action of the Lords, though there is a general impression that their atti- tude to the Finance Bill will make an appeal to the country inevitable. But what will th »y do? That is the question. There are plenty of rumours floating about, but, naturally, nothing definite is known, perhaps not even by the leaders of the Peers themselves. An interesting suggestion which is obtaining a good deal of favour is that they may after all consent to pass the Bill, though with a strong protest, declaring what they consider their own powers in the case of financial bills and with an understanding that. an appeal to the country shall be made a- an early date. There will probably come a time when the horse-drawn cab will have completely van- ished from the streets of London, aad very last of the species be exhibited as a curiosity at Madame Tussaud's. It- wo-rd not be surprising, however, if the evil ( H were to be postponed for years yet by t t introduction of the new sixpenny cab f< r & The drivers of the hansom and irfte "growler" have had all the disadvanta-g *g on their side in the competition with tip motor-cab, which not. only travels faster, Imfc until now has been cheaper as well. that the Gd. initial fare has been adopted Ly so many drivers, the horse-drawn veiiic may be expected to regain a good deal of their lost popularity. Not many people will want to pay eightpence for a short journey if time is not of great importance when they can get a hansom for sixpence. The drivers have been quick to see the possibilities in the new fare, and there are already abfltrfc fifteen hundred of them flying the red fiag. It has been suggested that they should agree to the abolition of tips, but that is too revo- lutionary a principle to be adopted all at once. Cabbies are, however, a chastei-ed race compared with what they were a few years ago, and it is related that some, of them during the last day or two have ac- cepted the bare sixpence without other com- ment than a deep-drawn sigh. It almost passes belief, and I should feel very nervous .about trying it myself. If Mr. Louis Parker and the other makers of pa-eauto had done nothing else worthy of note, they at least deserve thanks for having put an end to the old style of Lord Mayor's Show. No more shall we see the tawdry procession of cars, men in armour, fire engines, and a higgledy-piggledy collection of oddments like a fourth-rate circus procession. At its best it was only fit to "amuse children," and we can very well spare it. The last two processions have been in the nature of ordered historical pageants: they meant something, and were therefore interesting, while they were certainly more stately and imposing than anything in the .old style that had been seen by the present generation of Londoners. Efforts are being made to organise for next month a "Show" of exceptional. interest. The suggestion has been made that it should take the form of a demonstration of the strength of the Empire, in which detachments of all arms should take part. There, is some doubt as to whether the official authorities will give the necessary consent to this, but whether they do or not. the organising committee are determined that the procession, whatever form it may take, shall give us something worth seeing. How- far we are already from the days, which yet were not so long ago, when no trip to Lpndon was complete without a visit to Moore and Burgess Minstrels! Nothing changes more suddenly and completely than the taste of the people for entertainment. No door nail was ever more dead and done fcf than a minstrel entertainment, with its Mr. Johnson, its corner-men, its bones, its ban- joes, and its black faces. If "Pony" Moore, George Leybourne, and all the merry, melo- dious crowd could come back in their glory, rattling their bones and cracking their jokes as in the palmiest of their palmy days, they would not earn bread and butter. The great British public now goes to "the halls" .and the musical comedies for its entertain- ment. Are the people better off? Do they laugh more heartily than their fathers and mothers who were sent into convulsions over the quips and cranks of "Pony" Moore, that prince of corner-men? Perhaps not, but they are in the fashion. Tastes are less simple nowadays, and perhaps also..we laugh less easily than we used. And "Pony," who made nigger minstrel entertainments the rage, and saw them so comloletev out of fashion, has now taken his last "curtain. Well, he made thousands forget their troubles for a time, at any rate. It is not a bad epitaph. Musical London continues to crowd Queen's Hall nightty, where Mr. Henry Wood's orchestra is having a most success- ful season. The programmes for this week are of exceptional interest, and include several brand-new works, with others placed for the first time in the repertory. For Friday evening two interesting "first per- formances" of the latter are announced. They are Schumann's "Concertstiiek," for four horns and orchestra; and a new Suite in G for strings by Bach. The Bach item is an arre-Ingement of some charming movements from the master's less familiar works, such as the Organ Sonatas. The programmes of thic &mual series of eight Symphony Con- certs, the first of which will be given on the 30th inst., are full of interest to music- lovers, and among other important an- nouncements by Mr. Robert Newman are a pianoforte recital by Moriz Rosenthal on Tuesday in next week, a Ysaye Orchestral concert on the Saturday, and two recitals by the same master on October 2.7 and Novem- ber 3. The newspapers are determined to find a bride for King Manoel of Portugal, and a Lisbon journal, which has a reputation for getting accurate information, has announced that Princess Alexandra of Fife. eldest daughter of the Princess Royal and the Duke of Fife, is to be the Queen of Portugal. The journal went so far as to say that the mar- riage will be celebrated in Lisbon in April next. The rumour is. of course, not a new one. It has been frequently repeated and often denied, as it was promptly in this in- stance. It is to be noted, however, that on the day before the Portuguese paper made the announcement, there was a message from a. Press representative in Lisbon stating that the marriage of the King would take place in April. This correspondent, however, did not name the bride. The rumour adds interest to King Manoel's forthcoming visit to Eng- land. A. E. M.

UNITED IN DEATH. A tragedy of love has just been revealed at Birmingham. The driver of a Great Western Railway engine running over the new Strat- ford-on-Avon line, a few miles outside Bir- mingham, on Sunday night, saw the bodies of a young man and woman lying on the side of the rails. The couple appeared to have been dead for some hours. The man had two bullet wounds in his head, and the young woman had a wound in the breast. Beside the man was found a revolver with three chambers loaded and three empty. On Tuesday the man was identified as Wil- liam Boon, of Stafford, and the woman as Marian Hickman, aged 20, at Spring-hill, Birmingham. Boon was a hairdresser by trade, but was out of employment, and was living in lodgings at Camp-hill. He was a married man, but his wife and family live at Si afford. Inquiries at the home of the parents of the dead girl show that the tragedy was the sequel to a love romance. About eighteen months ago Marian Hickman met Boon, and kept company with him for some time, but six months ago she made the discovery that her lover was a married man. The courtship was at once broken off, and Mr. and Mrs. Hickman thought that the man had passed altogether from the girl's i Boon's landlady said liiat he left lu>jT»e on Satuiday saying that ii he was not bad: at a certain time siie must not expect him, as he should have gone to Stafford. Hhe believed I he was engaged to Miss Hickman, who had I been to see him on several occasions.

BHAVE ItEWAKPEP. I On Tuesday the Fin? d-ec)- -i,t(-d William | Burgar, John Us *\° C oat, Jor.n | Drever, and Ro 'J in id. ii,Mermen,_ of j Pharay Island, Orkney 1 Lit the silver I medal for gallantry ia saving life at sea in the following eircair.sta»'es: | The steam trawler iiope, of Peterhead, stranded on Pharay !L.-u on December 23, I 1908, and her crew, < lug nine all told, succeeded in getting e. They were, however, in a vei.y < \t poi&ition, and the weather was bitteily with freqru:iri. snow squalls. No on.- Ir. on Phaiay Holo, I but the fishermen on Pharay Island, seeing itiie condition of the shipwrecked men, afc- i tempted to cross to thci: The distance to be I covered was about half a mile. < The fishermen only h;;(1 a rude boat 13ft. long, made by a crofter, and failed twice to make the crossing in face of the high sea, strong tide, and the wind blowing with I hurricane force. On the third attempt they succeeded in crossing, but were unable to land, and the shipwrecked men were obliged to rush into the water and be dragged into the boat. Filially, all the men were saved, but the fishermen ran very considerable risk in effecting the rescue. His Majesty afterwards presented colours to a detachment from the Queen Victoria I School, Dunblane,

i SIX INJURED IN MOTOR SMASH, A shocking motor-car accident happened j at Aleeeter, Warwickshire, on Monday after- noon, in wl^h six persons were badly | injured and narrowly escaped with their I lives. The car was completely wrecked. A taxi motor-cab was hired at Birmingham for a pleasure tour. While travelling at I about 15 miles an hour one of the back wheels of the cab was punctured at a dan- I gerous, corner. The mobor skidded and then I dashed into a wooden fence on the opposite side of the road and rolled over, twice pass- ing within a few feet of a big elm tree. The occupants were Mrs. Ingram, of Small-heath, Birmingham, who was badly shaken and sustained injuries to the leg and head; her two children, Charlotte and Frank Ingram, the former having her shouldei hurt and the latter being terribly burnt about the face -and head; Mr. Edward Phillips, whose eye was cut; and Mrs. Robay, also of Small-heath, whose left leg was broken in two places. The chauffeur was injured on the leg and shoulder.

WOMAN'S TRAGIC END. At Bexhill on Tuesday an inquest was held concerning the tragic death of a young married lady named Mrs. Compton Robin- son, of Lissenden Mansions, Kentish Town, London, who met her end on the London and Brighton line late on Sunday night. On the arrival at Bexhill of the Hastings mail train to London, the discovery of blood on the near buffer of the engine suggested that something untoward had occurred. | At eordingly, the line was searched, with the result that the mangled body of the lady was found near the Dorset-road crossing. Mrs. Robinson, who was twenty-six yea±« old, had been staying at a house in Dorset- road Bexhill, for some titoe on account of i her health. She was suffering from depres- sion, and in the circumstances she was re- ceiitly relieved of the charge of her child. Her husband journeyed to Bexhill and iden- tified the remains.

j STRANGE FIRE MYSTERY. j EXTRAORDINARY STORY.. j There is a ease for Sherlock Holmes at Green- L gates, near Bradford, where a series of mys- terious fires are reported to have occurred during the past few days at Waliner House, one of the largest residences in the neighbourhood, which has been built about two "ear. The first outbreak occurred a week ago, when one of the residents of the house was startled I' to see the curtain and bedclothes in one of tho bedrooms suddenly become ignited, although there was no other fire in the roo-ra at the time. I The Bradford Fire Brigade was called, and I Chief Officer Scott, who was in charge, saw the curtain and blind break into flames to all ap- pearance quite spontaneously. The firemen put out the names, but were almost inim?diately called to fires which broke out in several other rooms in the house. So numerous were toe outbreaks that the bri- gade had to be divided. The furniture in the house was removed into the grounds, and a fire- man was left in charge for several days. Some days later, when it was thought that all danger was past, the furniture was returned to the house, but no sooner was the bedding placed in one of the bedrooms than a mattress began to blaze. Experts have visited the house with the object Df ascertaining the cause of the outbreaks, but all have confessed themselves utterly baffled. The affair remains a mystery.

"A BRILLIANT INTELLECT." LECTURER'S TRAGIC END. Mr. Douglas J. Carnegie, M.A., late scholar' of Caius College, Cambridge, a well-known lecturer, who resided at 44, Shooter's-hill-road, Blackheath, London, was found dead with his throat cut in his bedroom at the King's Head Hotel, Darlington, on Friday. Mr. Carnegie was to have started a course of University Extension lectures at Darlington I Technical College on Friday night. He appeared to have been depressed about the success of his lectures, and had taken drugs to induce sleep. At the inquest the manageress of the hotel stated that on Sunday Mr. Carnegie said he was suffering from mental depression, and was sleep- ing bady. He appeared better on Monday, but on Tuesday he appeared to be very depressed before. gc»ng to lecture at Middlesbrough, and remarked that he was not equal to his work. He afterwards said lie had lectured very badly at Middlesbrough. He seemed much better on Thmsday, and retired about 10.15. On Friday mcrnmg the maid said that Mr. Carnegie had not answered her calls, and thinking he might have taken a drug she sent for a doctor. The bedroom door was forced open, and Mr. C; ¡>n?gie was found lying on the bed with his throat cut. A razor was lying on the bed. Cissie McMullen, chambermaid, stated that when Mr. Carnegie went to bed on Thursday night he said he was going to take a sleeping draught. He had complained of being de- pressed, and had a dread of the lecture he had to deliver. The coroner, in summing up, said that he knew Mr. Carnegie personally. He had a brilliant intellect, but he seemed to have some trouble about his lectures. The jury returned a verdict of Suicide white temporarily insane."

GHASTLY CHILD MURDER. -s- At an inquest held at Hoxton on Friday ott the body of a girl child, the coroner's jury re-, turned a verdict of "Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." A brown paper parcel was recovered from' the Regent's Canal and the child was found alive, bu badly burnt with some corrosive acid. It died in the hospital. Elizabeth George said she saw a man and a woman leaning over the wall of the bridge of the canal. She saw the woman throw a parcel into the canal. She did not think she would be able toe identify either: the man or woman. It was stated that an attempt had evi- dently been made to pour vitriol down the child's throat, but it had wriggled, as a baby would, and the acid had gone over the body. The Coroner: The parents of the child and the authors of this diabolical act cannot be traced, unfortunately. Inspector Samuel Lee said all the efforts of the police to trace the man and woman had bee# fruitless.

MAULED BY LIONS. WOMAN'S FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE. An extraordinary suicide in reported front Paris, where, at the Theatre Moncey on Thurs- day night, a young woman named Josephine Ripoche, after a quarrel with a lion-tamer, her lover, who had taken part in the evening's per- formance, thrust her arms through the bars of the lions' cage and was torn to pieces. A display of lion-taming formed part of the piece, and after it, when the cage had been re- moved behind the scenes and the rest of the 1pliy was proceeding, the young woman delibe- rately excited the beasts with a whip, and then she placed her arms through the bars. They were immediately seized by a large lion, which tore her shoulder away and mauled her face and body. The tamer was sent for, and succeeded irt making the lion release the girl, but she died almost immediately. The roars of the lion could be heard by the audience, who, with the actors, were panic-stricken. The iron safety curtain was lowered, however, the firemen were summoned, and the theatre was cleared.

Mr. J. W. Broadbent, a member of the Brad- ford City Council, was ordered fourteen days' imprisonment in the second division for a serious assault on a servant girl in his em" ploy. Mr. Boardbent has been a Conservative1 member of the council for many years. Bones belonging to eighty human bodies, supposed to be those of victims of the Great- Plague, which carried off 3,000 people in White- chapel and Stepney, have been unearthed be- hind a house in the Whitechapel-road, accord- ing to the report of the Stepney medical officer of health. The GMenwiph O-Hardians have rejected ? Scheme for the emigration of thirty children to- Canada. Mr, W. JL Reynolds said the (children could not be properly educa-ted if th$y had to- work ON (Canadian farms. The farmers took children of seven, eight, and nine years eld* hoping to make profit out of th«n), and thejf would be treated as slaves.