Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertiser for the Counties of Flint Denbigh

■HEIRESS' UNWELCOME SUITORS. Miss i Dorothea Crouse, whb inherited £ 800,000 from her father, the late Mr. Edgar Crouse, of Syracuse, has gone to Paris from New York to -escape "the unwelcome attentions of a horde of fortune-hunters. For the past two years Miss C'rouse"has travelled almost con- stantly, in order to escape her suitors, who in- clude two impecunious French, noblemen and a number of other adventurers. She spent last winter in Paris, but returned to New York in the spring. Three of her suitors followed her, and- reinforced the American contingent which laid siege to her heart and fortune. Miss Grouse's life story reads like a. romance. According to the Herald, no one knew of her existence until Mr. Crouse, the wealthiest man in Syracuse, died in 1892. He left £ 1,200,000, which would have been divided among twenty- five relatives but for the unexpected appearance of. his wife and daughter. He had been mar- ried under the name of Wilson, and they had lived together in London for long time Mrs. Crouse obtained a divorce, and she is now the Countess Policka. Her daughter received £ 800,000 and a £ 20,000 mansion in Riverside- drive as the resiilt of a compromise wiui the other relations. >■

YOUNG BARONET'S SAD DEATH. The.d.eth took, plaice s suddenly at the Clock House, Chelsea Embankment, under an anaes- thetic while undergoing an operation, of Sir Henry Leslie Huntington, second baronet. -He w-as only 21 years of age. and succeeded Ito the baronetcy, which Was created last year, ais re- cently as Christmas, upon' the .death' of* his father, Sir Charles' Philip "Huntington, who sat from 1892 to 1895 as Liberal member for the 1 r Darwen Divisicm""Of. LanirrtSftifSV" The dead baronet was the fourth son, and his three elder brothers died/before he was born. He was unmarried, and is succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother, ..Mr. Charles Philip Huntington, who is in his .19th'; Vear. One'of his sisters is the wife of Captain Nor.ton, M.P. The existence of a new danger to life was revealed at the inquest on Sir Henry, when a verdict of Death from misadventure was leturned. Dr. Spilsby, the pathologist of St. Mary's Hospital, who made?; a post-mortem ei- amination, said < that Sir .Henry's condition 'Was •known as'status^/ItiniUiatictis or limphatism. It would not be, .recogniciable: during life, but persons subjected to 4t'see^etl to be specially 'mble to sudden death from' trivial causes. In this case death was due to syncopes It revealed a new daiiger-in the-administration of anses- thetics.

FOREIGN OFFICE: A^G-ffS: The Secretary' of St-atte for Foreign.'Affairs has appointed Mr. Louis Male't, C.B., to be an" Assistant Under-Secretary of State fofc Foreign' Affairs, in succession to Sir Eldoii orst, K. C. B. Sir Edward Grey has further appointed" Mr. Williani Tyrrell to be his privates secretary; in succession to Mr. Louis Malet, C.B., aocI Mr. C. H. Montgomery to be his precis writer, in succession to Mr. William Tyrrell. I The Ri,ht -Hii, Charles Hardinge, G.CjM.G-, Permanent• Under-Secretary- of State for Foreign ASairs, has appointed Viscount I Errington to be his private secretary, inlsuc- cession to Mr. C, II, Montgomery. Mr..Malet_entqred" the;i¥loreign OfSce^in 1888, and has served in g,everal capacities since). He has had diplomatic appointments in.,Rio Janeiro; Rome, and Egypt, and was given his.Q.Ij}. in on 1905. Viscount Errington is the .son and,heir of Earl Cromer, and holds the rank of Third Secretary in the Diplomatic Service. 1

1 iii-i c £ 7Q,0@0 FOR CHARITY. The late Mr. John Thomson, of Tunbridgo Wells, left estate of the gross value of; £ 119,508 12s. 6d., of which the net personalty has been fSworn at Y.119,354 10s. By his will he' left 300 to his cook, Annie Couch; £100 to his house- maid, Caroline Heasman and a life annuity of1 £ 50 to his housemaid,Eliza Ann Mackie, if respectively in his service at his decease. His charitable bequests include CI,000 each to twenty London hospitals, and £ 500 each to two others. There are three bequests of Y,1,000 each to provincial hospitals, eighteen of £ 1,000 each to Scottish hospitals and institutions, £ 500 each to five orphanages and aeylttms. The resi-.> due of his property, roughly about Y,20,000, is left equally between Glasgow 'Royal Infirmary, Westminster Hospital, Guy's Hospital, i St> Mary's Hospital, Paddington^ and the General Hospital. Tunbridge Wells. In all: the charitable bequests amount to about £ 70,00p.

'1 h_- — 1 Mr" Wynne E. Baxter j the» "East JLiondpn coroner, remarked that he had 'not had a case of murder or manslaughter in his district; ipf., mora than tw'elv^ moiiths. 1 In a tree, fifteen feet from .the''ground* I ek Hill Woods, Sobden (Lanes,.),•jar''feff}Or-sJi piftgton hen has-built a uesfc, and is hatching thirteen eggs.

FIGHT WITH CAVE DWELLERS A remarkable battle has taken -place bn. tweeh British troops and the Tibuk cavs dwellers at the latter't. stronghold in the Pro- vince of Bornu. The Resident of Bornu re- ports that in the fighting the British met with such determined resistance as has, .sel- dom, if ever, been seen in the Protectorate. He adds that no, military operations in Northern Nigeria have taken place recent years in which the troops had such genuine fighting to do under difficult and nerve-trying conditions. According to the details, the patrol com- pany, which was left after the departure of the main force, directed its attention to cut- ting off the water supply from the remainder of the Tibuk people, who were still among their cave strongholds. A large number of the caves were cleared early i-n January. A strong picket was. then posted at the entrance to the caves and a force placed around the stronghold of one of the leading Tibuks, thus cutting off the latter from any attempt to ob- v tain sufficient supplies. Eventually it was found that the hill had its own water supply, and an attempt was accordingly made to ren- der the hill untenable by. placing a block- house on it. A force, of forty men cleared the lower caves without loss, and proceeded half-way up the hill under ground without once coming to the surface. A blockhouse made of cowhides and skins was dragged up over the houlders and placed in position in charge of a strong picket. The Tibuks fired' arrows for a day and a night at t the blockhouse without, however, doing any damage. On the following day a further at- tempt was made to locate the water supply, j and a force of fifty men, under Lieutenant Wolsley, divided into small parties, entered the lower caves. The whole place was found to be a labyrinth of caves and passages oc- cupied by Tibuks, who shot from black holes below and from either side of the passages, so that it was impossible to clear them. Some of the Tibuks succeeded in getting behind the attacking force, while others threw down great rocks. Meanwhile, the danger of being buried alive in the passages was very great. Though the casualties were few, the fight- ing was very severe sand trying, and the men j behaved with exceptional, courage. It being found impossible to locate the water supply, arrangements were again made to patrol the hills and surrounding country, so as to pre- vent the 'I'ibuks from returning to the c&ves. A much larger force will be necessary if the whole place is to be cleared. The wonderful accuracy of the Tibuk arrow fire is again commented upon. Many or the r troops, though not actually wounded, received arrows through their !clothes and at night- time any exposed fire would become the tar- get for arrows directed against the men sit- j ting pear.

STRANGE MISTAKE IN IDENTITY. A remarkable case of mistaken .identity was heard at the. Clerkenwell Sessions. Seven witnesses identified Robert White as a man who had swindled or attempted to swindle, them, and ten 'other witnesses, including a police inspector :aml tw-o constables, were prepared., to prove that it was impossible for White to have been the perpetrator of the ,kv frauds;. i The money obtained' by the frauds amounted, to- only 9s. altogether, and the facts were not disputed. The only question in dis- pute was that of identity. OUe case was typical of the whole. The swindler introduced himself to the prosecutors as a comedian who had left his purse at home, and he presented a card bearing the ..words, "Geo. Martin, comedian, 84, The Grove, Brixton, S.W." Tli<re was noisuch place. The swindler asked for'Sttiall loans and gave* as seevriy showy cigar tube. The jury decided that White was not guilty, and Mr. Wallace, K.C., in discharging him, said: "The jury have acquitted you, and everybody Who h'eard "the evidence must agree with" tile ^verdict.' I certainly do." You are discharged, with no suspicion I being placed upon you' d

FIGHTING AGAINST DEATH. 1'V 11 d (3- "When the ss. Olivemoor (arrived at !Portie- head from South America she had a harrow- in- tale to tell of the sufferings 9f a Nor- wegian crew which she had rescued on mid- ocean. The barque Hereford, on March 29, taet .wikh a gale -IV, Iiieh washed three of the crew overboard and carried 'away the boats and most of the gJefupn deck. To add "to her plight she sprang a leak, and the crew, realising that the vessel was doomed, 10 took • I>;> the pump's and, tried to some pfm the ,provisions WhichL_.had been f d»ei|ched with seawater in the hold. Till April 4 the crew laboured on. By this time their fresh v/xiter supply had given out, &s as their pro-eisdonei-iand two1-ste&n^erRv; which had been sighted' had n«i>t ^noticed them. On A-pri4 -7 -tite^rew sighted the Olive- moor, which saw their, signals of distress and came to their rescue, not a moment tooi soon, for there were ten feet of water in the hold, and the, Hereford when: abandoned off Cape" ^latteyas sinking: The qaptain, -was:- severely injurqR by falling timbers, na all the men ,,wel;er-Jin -gfeat odrgtregs fromdllunger j and thirst. They were landed, safely at- Nor1- t Virginia,. ? ■'> j1

^EEORiMING THE LORDS. I "I'j.1 Air. Birrell, the Chief Secretary for, Ire- land, addressing a Liberal demonstration at Halifax, made >" the announcement that the Government attack on the House of Lords will take the form of a bill. "Admitting that some use might be made of a really critical second Chamber, which the country does not possess now," he said, "I believe the bill for the reform of the' House of Lords to be produced before long4 and by that I mean soon-will bear discus- sion, and that being laid before business-like people, it will receive more, general support from all parties than is generally supposed. During the discussion of the Education Bill ) I watched the proceedings of the House of > Lords, and .a. more topsy-turvy upside-down," muddle-headed assembly I never saw. ,1, ? Mr. Birrell added that the country, 'rriustJ not judge the Liberal Government too harshly, for "a Liberal Government is al- in waysi-in opposition. It has to play two parts —the game of a Government in power in one: House and in ^opposition in the other Hoxise.

STRUGGLE ON A VIADUCT; I Crumlin Viaduct, which carries the Great Western Railway over the western valleys"-of Monmouthshire, has been the scene of a des- f perate struggle bctavo-eii a colliery labourer and two railway officials. Upon presenting r himself at Llar-hilloth Colliery, the labourer "i was refused his lamp at the" lamp-house in consequence of his muddled condition. T Leaving the [colliery he walked Oil to Cfum- lin, and having reached-the top ot"the viaduct ttied to get over the parapet, his intention evidently being to throw himself to the ground below. The two railway men, who ) happened to be near, rushed towards the ihan, and finally succeeded in overpowering i'iiin. He was handed over to the police,, and conveyed to Newport Workhouse. I

A young woman?,)named Mary Murray died from injuries received by falling from a tram-' car at Merrion, near Dublin. She attempted to alight' when the car was in motion. During an inquest at I^oplar a juryman softly, whistled a tune. The coroner quietly told him that if he did nOt heliave r himself he might have to whIstle for his fee! 1 u, "J

UIOTS IN ST. LUCIA. Serious rioting is reported to be in progress in St. Lucia, the most northerly of the. Windward Islands. According to the New York "Herald," the trouble began with the coal-heavers, who looted the stores. It spread, however, through the country to the workers on the sugar plantations, who are now destroying the canes and besieging factories. A number of natives were killed during collisions with the police. Telegrams received at the Colonial Office from Mr. Williams, the Governor of the islands,, state that the eoal-heayera struck work and looted twelve stores. The police fired on them, and three people were wounded. Next day the coal-heavers promised to return to work, but disturbances were started on the sugar plantations. Much cane was lourpt, and the factories were stopped. The rioters charged one of the three central factories at Roseau, but were, driven back by police, who fired on them, killing four and wounding nineteen others. Mr. Williams states that 100 Barbados and 27 St. Vincent armed police have arrived on the scene, and that a Dutch man- of-war is in harbour. He expresses the hope that the back of the trouble is broken. The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered,the Indefatigable of the Fourth Cruiser Squadroit to St. Lucia.

NOTABLE DEATHS. Viscount Hood died on Saturday morning at his residence, 17, Hertfoi-d-street, "Mayfair, in Ins sixty-ninth year. He entered the Grenadier Guards in 1854, and served in the Crimea, for which campaign lie had the medal with clasp. He succeeded his father in the peerage in 1846 at the age of eight, and married in Edith, daughter ot Mr. Arthur W. Ward, of Calverley Park, Tun- bridge Wells. His eldest-surviving son. Major the Hon. Grosvenor Arthur Alexander Hood, who was born on November 13th, 1868, succeeds to the title. The death has occurred at Argeles, France,, of the Hon. Mark Rolle, uncle of Lord Clinton. He was seventy-two years of age, and succumbed to congestion of the It,gs, Throughout Devon Mr, Rolle was highly esteemed, :and his bounty was great. He subscribed a consiSeraole sum to insure the lives of Devon Yeomen who went (to fcfte South African War, and there Was no movenujra of public value that he did not generously B^ipoxt. A member of the Trefusis family, of which Lord Clinton is the head, he succeeded to the vst estates of the late Lord Rolle in North and East Devon. Sir Alexander Wilson, Bart., formerly Master Cutler of Sheffield, and chairman of (5ammell, Laird and Co., one of the great Sheffield firms, died on Saturday night, aged 70. He was also a Justice of the,Peace for the West Riding. He leaves no heir. t ( Mr. II. J. Pettifer, the well-known Conservative speaker, died in Lpdoni on Saturday,, at the age of 64. He was a familiar figure at meetings, and his natural eloquence earned for him the title of "the working man orator.' He was. born in Bir- mingham, and for many years was a metal spinner in that city.

•; tt A PRINCE AND S.P.G. The Prince of Wales, who was accompanied by the Princess, laid the foundation-stone of the new biiiiding to be erected in Tufton-street, Westmin- ster, for the Society for the Propagation of the y 0 Gospel in Foreign Parts, on Saturday, and paid a striking tribute to the society's excellent work. His -Royal Highness remarked: "I can testify from personal observation in almost every part of the Empire to the great results that the society has achieved, to the self-denying and strenuous life of its workers, and to its remarkable success in supplying to our fellow-countrymen who may be toiling beyond the sea in Che' remotest St^ricts of India, or our Colonies, the religious opportunities which they have learned to value as members of the National Church of England." The Princess received pursfes of money which had been collected in all parts of the world for the funds of the society, the aggregate sum amounting to £ 8,125..

0" .1 r J CENTENARIAN LA,]),Y'$ W,, ILL.- The will has been proved of Miss Mary Barber Alexander, of Eckington Villa, Reigate, Surrey, who died in February at the age of 103 years. Her estate, which'has been sworn at the liètvahIeí of £ 22,489, she left in trust for her two sisters, one of whom died three days before her. Miss Alexander was a member of the Society of Friends, and in a codicil made in 1902, written in a clear hand .showing hardly any traces of her great age, she stated that if any persons mentioned e' 6 or benefiting under her will should become mem- bers of Any monastic or conventual brotherhood or sisterhood, or take on themselves any religious vow or obligations whereby their religious or indi- vidual liberty is curtailed or lost, they were td forfeit any interest under her will.

FATAL BOATING MISHAP. A small sailing boat, hired by three young men belonging jio Deal sank off the end of the pr07 menade there on Sunday, and one, Frederick Finn is, aged -4, was drowned. The accident created an exciting scene. The boat was observed to put. out in the morning, and it was thought that thelug-' sail was too large for the craft. This proved to. be unhappily correct. for in a puff of wivd the boat overturned and went doWn Several boats were immediately launched The' tiien could be se6n clinging to a spar in the rough sea, but before assistance could reach'them FirinU sank. Tlie other two men were, rescued, in, a state of exhaustion.

i.r LIFE GfARDS M FIREMEN. Detachments of the 1st Life Guards an .d the Grenadier Guards assisted on Sunday evening at a disastrous fire which destroyed an Italian restaurant in. Thames-street, Windsor. The fire brigades of Windsor, Eton, Datehet, ,anch Slough did the pumping, and the Guardsmen formed a cordon round them. The fire was not got under until le resttau'ant was burnt out and niuch adjoining property destroyed. J. Two fatal fires occurred on Saturday night. An old man named Robert Baker was burned to death in a houijpin Leeds and hi wife .severely injured by the explosion pf a paraffin lamp. A young man met his death in a house in Blenheim-street, 'Chelsea, in a similar fashion.

Jr £ 100 FOR A DOG BITE/ Mrs. Howell, a clergyman s widow, was awarded £ 160 damages in the Kings Bench Division for injuries caused by the bite of St. Bernurd. dog belonging-to Mr. FredMcNaughten, a Well-known musici-hall perlormer. Mrs. Howell was buying plants in a Brixton florist's sliop when Mr. McNaughteti and the dog' catne in.. She was about to stroke the dog when it flew at her, and bit her severely on the left side of .the face, disfiguring her permanently and for a time endangering her lifts.

The death of, a boy bf eight,, named William Clements, eon of a furniture porter, was at the inquest in Shoreditch attributed to ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating stewed!eels. The remarkable collection of Greek coins in gold, electrum, and silver, belonging to Mr. Auguete Delbeke, ,is befing dispersed at Sotheby's. £1,667 was realised for 120 lots. At Slough Sessions William Hyde was ordered to pay Ylo inclusive, or to go to prison for two jnonths, for loitering at Datchet-oh-Thames for the purpose of betting. Th6 appeal of Messrs. Kynoch, Limited, against a coiivictiori by the Grays Bench for adding mercury to blasting gelatine was dis- missed at the Eeeex Quarter Sessione.

THS BAPTIST PRESIDENT. i ——7 | This year the 'BaptMt 'Union has ae i'te presi- dent the Rev. W. J. Henderson, B.A., ^'resident of the Brietoi Baptist College. He may be de- scribed as a Londoner, .for' he .was born at Poplar on September 10, 1843, and he was only sixteen when he became engaged in evangelistic work, and preached in the open air in Wool- wich and the surrounding districts. He has himeen told how ne used to preach at fairs, at racee, and in the streets, not knowing where his j next meal was to come from, but as happy as the day was long. At first associated with the Plymouth Brethren, i I JtEV. W. J. HENDERSON. lie later became a Bap- tist, and was educated for the ministry t; Raw don College, j: Leeds, where he re- mained five yea res. He | graduated at London University, and in each of the examina- tions passed in' the firet division. His first s charge was at Birming- ham in 1868, and he I went from there to j Coventry in 1872. Here | he was very successful i in his work, and j during his twenty-one vears: residence there I he took, a large part in the public life of the town, serving on the Hospital Committee, the School Board, the Technical Institute, and other public bodies. He was one of the pio- neers of the men's meeting movement, while Bible classes formed a large part of his work, and when he left Coventry in 1893 to take up his present position as Pastor and Principal of j Bristol Baptist College, as successor to Dr. Culross; some 2,500 men, women, and children were under religious instruction in the classes and schools connected with the Queen's-road Church, which he had built at a cost of £ 12,000. At Bristol lie has done splendid service both in the college and the city, for he is a" member of the Council of University College, member of the Education Committee for the City of Bristol, and chairman of the Staffing Sub- Committee since 1903. He married in 1868 Liicy Ann, daughter of Edward Firth, of Harro- gate, and he has one son and three daughters, He has written many sermons and articles in dictionaries, religious magazines, and news- papers, and his favourite recreation is to in summer spend all the time he can get in some mountainous district. „ „

7 HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCE. The King has been pleased to approve the following appointments in connection with the forthcoming Conference at The Hague:— To be Plenipotentiaries:- The Right Hon. Sir Edward Fry, D.C.L. The Right Hon. Sir Ernest Satow, G.C.M.G. The Right Hon. Lord Reay (late President of the Institute of International Law). Sir Henry Howard, K.C.M.G., C.B. (H.M. Minister at The Hague). To be Military and Naval Expert Delegates :— Lieut.-General Sir Edmond Eiles, G,.C.1.E., K.C.B. Captain C. L. Ottley. M.V.O., R.N. The following will be attached to the Mission:—• Mr. Eyre Crowe, of the Foreign Officc, Secre- tary to the Mission. Mr. Cecil Hurst, Legal Secretary. The Hon. Charles Tufton and Mr„ Addison, Assistant Secretaries. Lieut-Colonel G. E. Yarde-liulier, C.M.G., D.S.O., Commander J. R. Segrave, and Major G. K, Cockerill, at.tached to Military and Naval Experts.' | The King has beeri pleased to approve of the following.appointment The Right Hon.1 Sir Edward Fry to be a j\nightj Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Bfc Mktliaei a"nd (PeoTge., ■

OUR OLDEST PEElt. The days of man are three score years and ten, says the Psalmist, yet our oldest peer, Lord Gwydyr has passed that allotted span by twenty-seven years, for he recently entered on his ninety-eighth year, and now that"Lord Field has passed away lie is the only noiiagena- x-ian4 ih the Hohse1 of 1;01:\16, though Lord Brampton (Sir Henry Hawkins) will. enter the nineties at his next birthday. Although Father of the Peers in age, Lord Gwydyr has not long been a member of the Upper House, 'for he did ndt take his seat there until sis late as 1870, when he suc- ceeded his cousin, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, in the title, whereas the Earl of Leicester entered the Gilded Chamber in 1843. and Earl Nelson' in the following year," though they are young as compared with Lord' Gwydyr, being 84 -and 83 respectively. Con- sidering his great age, Lord Gwydyr enjoys extraordinary -health, which he attributes to the fact of his being a non-smoker, a mode- rate eater and drinker, LORD GWYDYR. I and to taking. plenty of exercise. He can re- member the great rejoicings which followed the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, and he was present at the coronation of George IV. in 1820, to which he went in his grandfather's ffarge (manned by liveried boatmen) from the stpps of Gwydyr House, still to be seen in Whitehall; but for some years how a Government office, while he also attended the coronation cere- ( monies of William IV! Victoria, and. Edward VII. When Queen Victoria, .ascended the throne he was secretary to the Lord Great Chamber- lain, and this office he ( held fpr forty-three years. Lord Gwydyr" lives "entirely at Stoke Park, his country place:near Ipswich, where he was visited last year by the Frince and Prm-5 J cess of Wales, and he is very proud of the fact that not long ago he led his two-year-old grand- son into the grounds and helped him to plant a tret, by the k side of one which he had himself planted just 94 years before. Lord Gwydyr, whose enly son and heir, the- Hon. Willoughby Burrell, is nearly 66 years of age, is the oldest member of the Zoological Society, tc which he w'as elected 74 years ago, seven years after its institution.

HER LIFE FOR HER DOG. }¡,; ¡r., In trying to save her pet dog from being run over by a motor-car, Miss Brassey, a maiden lady and relative of Lord Brassey, sacrificed her life at Edge Malpas on Monday night. The motor-cijr belonged to Mr. F. C. Bowring, of Liverpool, and at.the time of the disaster contained Mr. an^ Mrs. Henry Bowring,fof •'New Zealand, and thteir two fions. They were returning from Skatford-on- Avon to Birkenhead, the driver being Thomas, Mason, of Liverpool. In giving an account of what happened Mason said just as he was running into Edge Malpas he noticed a dog crossing the road and a lady running after it to save it from the car. They were only a few yards in front" "of the car. He applied both brakes, stopping the car within its own length, but not before the mudguard of the left front wheel had knocked Miss Brassey dowu. He was travelling at fifteen to eighteen miles an hour. Medical aid was immediately summoned, but Miss Brassey succumbed to her injuries shortly after- wards. She lived at Clock House, Edge Malpas.

THE ROYAL CRUISE. King Edward, Queen Alexandra, and Prin- cess Victoria landed at Palermo on Thursdaj last week, and proceeded by motor-car to ths museum, where they were received by Pro- fessor Salinas, the director. Professor Sali- nas is also director of the Sicilan excavations, and King Edward displayed much interest on this subject, and asked for information con- cerning the prehistoric village which has been discovered near Girgenti. His Majesty also admired the historic and patriotic mementoes in the museum, notably the wooden cannon used during the insurrection z;1 of 1860. The Royal party lunched at the Hotel Igiea, and coffee was served on the terrace overlooking the sunlit sea. Their Majesties then motored to Monreale, and, after inspect- ing the interior of the magnificent cathedral ajfid the cloisters, they calhsd on the Arch- bishop at his palace near by. The Arch- bishop was permitted to photograph King Edward and the Queen, and Princess Vic- toria, and was in turn photographed by her Majesty. Their Majesties then drove back to the harbour, stopping at the Capuchin con- vene to visit the catacombs. King Edward, Queen Alexandra, and Prin- cess Victoria, again landed from the Royal Iyacht on Friday morning, and were greeted I' by an enormous crowd which had gathered in the harbour. Before proceeding to the Villa I Florio, their Majesties visited the Pantheon, the church of San Domenico, and other churches, and then went on to see the villa, j with its beautiful grounds. Next they pro- ceeded to the Villa Amalfitano, the. property of Mr. Whitaker, where they lunched. The Royal party subsequently called on Mr. Churchill, the British Consul, and in- spected his splendid museum of Persian curios. After a visit to the Botanical Gar- dens, their Majesties called upon the Count and Countess Mazzarino at their palace, where they partook of afternoon tea, and then returning to the Royal yacht, which left Palermo at 8.30. ETarly in the morning a local collector of curios and antiques went on board the Royal yacht by desire of King Edward, who bought from him a number of beautiful articles. The vendor, in recounting his interview, said his Majesty bought a picture frame of coral and enamel in antique Sicilian work, and had it in his hand when the Queen entered. The King at once concealed the frame, explaining afterwards that it was a gift for the Queen, and that he intended to prepare for her a pleasant surprise by allowing her to find it in her room with his portrait in it. The Royal yacht, with King Edward and Queen Alexandra on board, arrived at Naples on ,Saturday morning. Salutes were ex- changed with the shore batteries. The Duchess of Aosta went on board the Victoria and Albert during the morning, taking with her a collection of views of Naples for Queen Alexandra, and a number of photographs taken by the Queen and developed while her Majesty was in Sicily. Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria paid a visit in the after- noon to the Galleria Umberto 1. and the Galleria' Principe de Napoli, and made some purchased in the shops. They returned to the harbour at seven o'clock. King Edward visited the British cruisers Suffolk and Lan- caster. On Sunday morning rain fell steadily, and King Edward and Queen Alexandra attended divine service on the Royal yacht, but the crew marched to the English church, causing quite a sensation in the neighbourhood. Their Majesties had planned a trip to Capri to visit the D.uke and Duchess of Cumberland, who P,re there at present, but owing to the rough- ness of the sea the visit was abandoned. I In the afternoon the King with a few mem- bers of his suite landed and drove in a motor car through the city, visiting the Villa Flori- diana, returning to the Royal yacht at six o'clock. The Queen remained on the yacht, and was an interested spectator of a cere- mony which took place on board the Italian battleship Regina- Margherita, when a silver bust of Queen Margherita was presented to the vessel. Queen Alexandra remained on board the Vicr toria 'and Albert on Monday morning while King Edward went for a motor-car drivje. In the afternoon King Edward went shopping, visiting a number of antiquarian dealers' .estab-, lisbmento, and buying numerous objects of art, and bronze copies of antique treasures at Pom- peii, Boscotrecase, and Bereulaneum. Later the Duchess of Aosta accompanied Princess Victoria to the royal yacht, returning to take King Edward and Queen Alexandra for a motor-car drive to Capodimonte. On the way the royal party witnessed a tramcar accident, a car running off the rails and injuring twelve people. Their Majesties asked for particulars of the disaster, and expressed sympathy with the injured. The latter were removed to a hospital, whither King Edward sent an aide-de- camp for further information as to their .condi- tion. After reaching Capodimonte the royal party drove about the park and took tea on the terrace

ANARCHIST ATTACKS POLICE. Andrea Mattel, an Italian Anarchist, who is said to have been expelled from London, on arrival in Paris took a train fron the Gare de Lyon on his way to Italy. The train was about to start ,when Mattei threw himself or fell from the third-class compartment in which he was seated. A porter helped him to rise and took him to the commis- sariat of police. There Mattei was questioned as to his identity, and gave his age as 56. Suddenly in a fit of madness, he drew a knife and attacked the commissary, wounding him in the neck and face. A policeman who attempted to I seize Mattei was likewise severely stabbed, and it was only after a desperate struggle that the mad- man was overpowered and securely bound.

BUTLER AND THE WINE. A surprise visit to the servants' hall led to the appearance in the Malpas Police-court of Fre- derick Golstraw, butler to Mr. D'Arcy Hartley, of Chorlton Hall, Cheshire, on the ebarge of stealing bottles of wine, the property of his master. Mr. Hartley said that he was told that the prisoner and others were drinking his wine, and in conse- quence he paid a surprise visit to the servants' hall. There he saw Golstraw and others with glasses and a bottle of port before them. Police- sergeant Howard said that he was sent for to Chorlton Ilall, and he and Mr. Hartley questioned the prisoner. In the butler's box and under cer- tain clothing he found 16 bottles of wincs and spirits.

Two verdicts of £ 50 damages eacn were given against Wilfred Colpitts at Sunderland C-Ounty-court for knocking, people down with a motor-car. ( The White Star liner Adriatic, the heaviest vessel in the world, left Queen's Island, Belfast, on her trial trip, and afterwards proceeded to Liverpool. It has been decided by the Poplar Board of Guardians to send thirteen more men from their farm colony at Laindon to Canada, and to pay ten guineas in respect of each case. The Local Government Board have sanctioned the emigration of three other men. Mr. Thomas Forsythe, aged thirty, when crossing the railway line at Portmarnock Station, Co. Dublin, was knocked down and killed b> a Dublin to Belfast train. Mr. George Hodson, C.E., well known as a specialist on matters of water supply, died at his residence at Loughborough, Leicestershire, from acute pneumonia. It was stated in a case at the Shoreditch County Court that costs in all action for £1. had amounted to £ 37. Two men were injured by a gas explosion at Woolwich Arsenal Railway Station. A prisoner pretended to be dumb at Bristol Police-court until he was asked if he were deaf, when he replied HNo."

STRANGE POISONING CASE Crovdon Police-court was crowded on M' day, when Richard Brinkley, 1 carpenter, Maxwell-road, Fulham, was changed on rema with the murder of Richard Beck and his wi Elizabeth Beck, of Churchill-road, Croyd( and with the attempted murder of th daughter, Daisy, and Reginald Parker, a lodg1 Interest in the case was intensified by the h that the body of Brinkley's late landlady, M Johanna Maria Blume.who died last Decembt a few days after executing a will in Brinkle^ favour, is to be exhumed. The signature Reginald Parker appears on her will as that a witness. Mr. R. D. Muir, on behalf of the Treasur said he was not in a position to open the ea at length that day, as important inquiries we: being made which might have an unportai bearing upon the case before the magistrates. Mr. Bale, a dispenser of medicine, engage with his father at Tower House, Manor-roa< South Norwood, said he had known Brinkle for some fourteen years. Last year, whe Brinkley was doing some carpentry work i Tower House, he asked witness if he could giv him some prussie acid to poison a. dog. and wa referred to witness's father. The father, William Bale, said Brinkley aske, him for some prussie acid to poison a dog. Wil ness gave him some—probably a drachm. 1 was in fluid form, and in a poison bottle The bottle bore the label Poison," and ttl,, words Tincture of Opium," but in reality i I contained prussic acid. Two or three day afterwards pi-icoiier told witness lie had spil the poison, and was supplied with abon another drachm in the same bottle. Daisy Kathleen Beck described how hei father, her' mother, and herself were seized with illness after drinking stout alleged to have been brought to the house by Brinkley. Reginald Clifford Parker, an accountant, said he made Brinkley's acquaintance about three years ago, and some little time back, at Brink- ley's request, he drafted a will for him, but had not signed a document knowing it was a will. Once he wrote some papers for prisoner with regard to an outing, signed with^ his name, and at the request of prisoner he signed a second copy. He never knew of a Johanna Blume, alive or dead. The hearing was again adjourned.

GUARDIANS ON TRIAL. $ The trial of the six guardians and four offi- cials of the West Ham Union on indictments for corrupt practices began before Mr. Justice Jelf at the Central Criminal Court on Monday. The guardians involved are: George Arthur Crump, stationer; John Anderson, agent;, Richard Philip Tarrant; Alfred Skinner Tom Watts, carman and Frank William Hill,, while the officials are Edward John Hodgkin, master of the workhouse; Lewis George Hill, steward of the infirmary Alfred Riches, store- keeper of the infirmary; and John Baird, engi- neer of the infirmary. Applications were made bv Watts and Riches for legal aid, .which his lordship directed they should have. The case against Crump was taken first, the others being released on bail, and after some preliminary evidence, Mr. Macaskie, counsel for Crump, informed the Court that his client would plead guilty to two charges, one of re- ceiving money from an applicant for a post, and the other of obtaining money from Dr. MacCormack. He did not admit, the others, however. Evidence was given by several witnesses ?!' leging corrupt practices. J. W. Chamberhin said lie was in 1905 applying for the post of collector. He saw Crump, who said, "If yon want the job you must pay for it." He did not see why he should pay, and Crump replied, "It is rather hard, but there are others wno will pay-" When a candidate for the stewara&np West Ham Infirmary, Edward Albert Ht^kins said he was told bv Crump that the appoint- ment was worth the first year's salarv-2üO-- and the jnoney would have to be divided among hIS party. He did not assent to the prtposal, and only received three votes. Dr. McCormack (medical officer to the West Ham Guardians) said his appointment t\lvc months ago last January cost him £105, wliCii he gave in three sums.

A H TERRIBLE ANTAGONIST." :?j,< A strange story of an adventure which befell Mr. Mc>iaughte~n, a Scottish visitor to the town, comes^fram Clevedon.Som. On Sunday last, it is stated, Mr. McNaughten was rowing in a little skiff about a mile off Clevedon Pier when a large snaky object, which he described as like a huge mummy, with large sunken eves enveloped in a sort of 4aiiy :(lap." sud- denly appeared at the Year of tiie boat about twenty va'rds away. It approached by a series bf leans* and dives, causing the sea to be greatly disturbed. Mr. McNaughten, plunging the oars into the surf, endeavoured to.keep his antago- nist at bay, but his efforts were only momenta- rilv successful, and in a fèw seconds it had reached within a few yards of the boau. I can only dimly recollect what happened, he says. The flabby monster seemed to leap .sirfight -mt of the water—straight as an arrow at me. I hardly know what I did. I taink 1 must nave ducked and crashed the oar into the creature. At any rate I was flung violently into the water. When I regained the surface J. managed to clamber into the boat. My terri-ue antagonist was nowhere in sight. In a cuized condition, scarcely knowing what I did, I ex- ceeded in reaching Portisbead."

RAILWAY TRESPASSERS. j At an inquest in the London City Coroner's Court on the body of George Middleton La- wards, 54, a photographer, of Queens-road. Peckham, Benjamin Chaplin, foreman otth- I repair works on the South-Eastern and Chat, A am railway bridge at Blackfriars, said he saw the deceased talking to the men on the line, ap- parently soliciting orders for photographs. I- t, was very common for men to have their photo- graphs taken while at their work. The Coroner (Dr. Waldo) This is certainly a very novel and, I should think, a hazardous business. Of course, he must have been a tres- passer. Do the railway company know aboutt it? The Witness I don't suppose it. is generadv known to the company. The deceased vtoui;^ have been stopped crossing oyer the li noticed. He was^ killed by a tram coming fiom Ludgate-hill Station.. The Coroner: This case seems to be on fours with the recent cinematograph pictur2 fatality; they were trespassing, and so was the d<SS>rr returned a verdict of death while trespassing, aiK 'A tri^^n-- railwav company should adopt more st measures to prevent trespassing.

The contents of Duff House Banff, recemlv a. presented to the inhabitants of Banff-Macduff by the Duke of Fife, are shortly to be sold by auction at the house. Though the pictures have been removed, there still remains some fine furniture, the work of Chippendale, Adam, and their contemporaries, as well as other ■valutttn- ar £ objects. "Miss Gabber was so cold yesterday she could not speak." "Aw, g'wan!" Grace: "I hear that Charlie and have made up their quarrel. Gussie: uni temporarily. Thej are going to be married soon." A party of 260 children—ninety-eight Sjr^ and 162 boys^—from Dr. Barnardo's Homes e Liverpool for Canada. Mr. H. Powell Jones, of the Ralatine Hotel, Blackpool, has been found drowned in the Severn at Shrewsbury. Estate of the gross value of ^rished by Mr. A. T. Lamotte, Croydon, who perishec* in the wreck of the Berlin*

The" Pitsburg Leader" prints a statement bv Mrs. C. J. Holman, the mother of Mrs. Ifeelyn Thaw\ denying that she had any knowledge or Mr. Stanford White's trup character. If," she says, EVelyn had told me what she told the jury, it would not have been necessary for Henry Thaw to shoot White. I should have shot him myself,"