Abergavenny Chronicle

"SISTER TAYLOR, M.D. Appearing in the dock in a nurse's uniform, Ruth Taylor, thirty-seven, an attractive-looking woman, pleaded guilty at London Sessions to a charge of o blaming credit to the amount of cLh 2Y gIL. by false pretences a? the Washington Hotel, Paddington, where she had stayed for over a month. She wore, it was stated, what looked like two South African war medals, but it was proved that they were not issued by the War Office to women. Detective-sergeant Parsons said that during her stay at the hotel telephone messages were reoeived from Taylor purporting to come from the War Office. A bugler in the Yorkshite Light Infantry also came to the hotel, and was introduced by the woman as her orderly, who had come from the War Office with her instructions. These were directed to Sister Taylor, M.D." Later the bugler explained that he had for- merly met the woman at Aldershot, and used to walk out with her, but had broken it off. She afterwards wrote to him to renew the acquaint- anoe, stating that she had come into momey, and they could now settle down together comfort- ably sk bffl?* was, the officer stated, an ordinary monthly nurse. She was eentenoed to three months' imprison- ment, to run concurrently with a sentence of one month which she is at present undergoing. CAKES AND PUDDINGS.—No. 10. A most wholesome and easily digestible family pudding is made from the following recipe. FIG PUDDING. I packet of Cakeoma. 6 ozs. fine chopped Suet. 1 pinch Salt.. 6 Figs (cut up). 1 or LE I pinch (cgug tsi alf a, glam of Milk. A thd to half & glass of Milk. METHOD. Empty the Cakeoma into a large basin or mixing bowl, rub in the Suet and Salt, then add the Figs. Beat u add the Figs. Beat up the Eggs, and add them, together with the Milk, end well mix; then put it into a well-greased pudding mould, tie a cloth over it, and steam or boil for three hours. Serve hot with a sweet sauce. It is sufficient for about a dozen persons. For a smaller pud- ding, the quantities should be reduced propor- tionately. Next week a recipe for Queen Cakes. Cakeoma is sold only in .3¡d. packets by Grocers and Stores everywhere.

I COULD- NOT AFFORD A DOCTOR. I A mother stated at a Lambeth inquest con. oeraing the death of her child that three hours after its birth the infant was taken out to a doctor's surgery, as she had, not sufficient money to call a doctor. Her husband was twenty-three years old, a printer's labourer, and earned 14s. a week. The Coroner: Does he work all day ? The Mother Yes, from eight in the morning till seven at night. On learning that the witness's husband had recently received a rise in wages of Is. a week, the coroner observed: "I hope you will not get extravagant in consequence of the increase." The verdict of the jury was "Death from natural causes.,

THE REST OF THE TALE-LATEB,. I There once was a merry young skater, Who went on the ice with his mater. The weight of the pair Was too much to bear, For mamma was a real heavy-weighter.

BURIED ALIVE. I By the collapse of a house in Cumberland- street, Dublin, two lives were lost. The house, which was let in tenements, had been in a dangerous condition, and when a contractor and a labourer were engaged in making necessary repairs the back of the house, which is 40ft. high, collapsed, and overwhelmed both meq. Their dead bodies were subsequently brought out from under tons of debris. The six families residing in the house were warned by cracks in the walls, and reached the street in safety, though not without several wounds from falling bricks. It was at first feared that two children were also killed, but they were subsequently found elsewhere.

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POLICEMAN'S FATAL SHAVE. The suggestion that a policeman named Charles William Murphy had accidentally killed himself while shaving was made at an East Ham inquest. Murphy called to his wife, "I have cut half my face off; the razor slipped." When she entered the room she found he had a perpen- dicular cut on the right cheek and a horizontal cut, three inches deep, on the throat. He died shortly afterwards. A medical man expressed the opinion that the wounds were inflicted intentionally, but the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," and added, "There is no evidenco to show directly, but we fancy the policeman may have fallen upon the razor in some way or other, for there is no indication why he should have com- mitted suicide."

Sir Alexander Lawrence, a grandson of Sir Henry Lawrence, of Lucknow, has been unani- mously adopted Liberal candidate for West Norwood at a meeting of the Norwood; Liberal Association. Sir Alexander was Liberal candi- date for the Strand division in 1906. Erected three years ago, the Theatre Royal and Hippodrome at Barry Dock, which was con. structed mainly of wood, with steel girdera, has been completely destroyed by fire. The flames were fanned by a strong easterly wind, and in less than an hour the theatre was a heap of ruins. The Council of King's College have appointed Dr. David Waterston, F.R.S. (Ed.), Professor of Anatomy in succession to Professor Peter Thompson. Dr. George C. Low has been elected lecturer in parasitology and medical entomo- logy, and Professor W. D. Haliburton Dean of the Faculty of Science, medical division.

IMMEDIATE ANNUITIES With Return of Purchase Money. For Particulars write- Gresham Life Assurance Society, Ltd., ST. MILDRED'S HOUSE, LONDON, E.C. Assets Exceed £ 10,000,000. JAMES H. SCOTT, General Manager and Secretary.

E" OUR LONDON LETTER. I [From Our Special Correspondent.] I C-1 A great many Peers are in attendance at the House of Lords this week who have not been seen there for some time. The Peers have no constituents to consider, and nobody to haul them over the coals if they absent themselves from divisions. The actual legislative work of the Upper House is done by comparatively few Peers, and the majority of the six hun- dred odd lordships take their Parliamentary duties lightly. A hundred or so is reckoned a very fair attendance, and it is only on very important occasions that there is a much greater number present. In the Home Rule division of 1893 460 Peers voted, and in last year's division on the Licensing Bill 368 went into the division lobbies. Their visits being so few and far between, it is not surprising that some noble lords should be a little strange to the place, and whenever they are present at Westminster in large numbers there are always plenty of stories of the backwoods" Peers losing their way in the lobbies and oorridors, and having to be set in the right way by policemen. Nobody has now any doubt that a General Election will take place in January. The only point upon which there is still any specula- tion is whether the Government will resign or dissolve Parliament. It is almost certain that dissolution will be decided upon, but there are some Ministerialists who consider that resignation would be the better tactical movement. The position then would be that the Unionists would have to form a Govern- ment, and have to deal with the unique situa- tion caused by the action of the House of Lords with regard to the Budget. An appeal to the country would still have to be made, of course, as a Unionist Government would only command a small majority of votes in the Commons. Whether that state of things will be materially altered as a result of the General Election is one of those things which we shall learn in the fulness of time. But, as [ have said, it is not at all likely that Minis- ters will give up their seals of office before the appeal to the country has been made. Though it started off in such promising fashion, the sixpenny horsed cab has not up to now been anything like so successful as it was hoped it would be. The comparative failure is at least partly due to the action of the drivers themselves. Old habits die hard, and cabmen who have been accustomed to getting a shilling as a minimum fare, do not take kindly to the sixpence. They would rather, apparently, wait hours for the shilling that comes but seldom than be raking in the smaller amount. There have been many com- plaints of the men concealing their little flag which is the standard of the sixpenny cab when they see a chance of getting a shilling fare. This practice is frequently indulged in when it is raining and cabs are much in de- mand. Then, seeing no sixpenny flags, people get a motor-cab if they can, and the hansom driver has to wait until the taxis are all en- gaged. He loses certain sixpences while waiting for the chance of a shilling. It is cabby nature, but scarcely common-sense. It seems that nothing short of making the six- penny fare compulsory will solve the problem. Fleet-street, the hub of the universe, is to be widened, and not before it was needed. The improvement has been dis- cussed for years, and at last the decision has been reached. For such an important thoroughfare, thronging with traffic at every hour of the day as it is, sixty feet seems scarcely wide enough. That, how- ever, is to be the width of "the Street," and though it would be better to make it wider still, a sixty-feet thoroughfare will be a vast improvement. These are matters which they do much better abroad, and the capitals of the Continent have on the whole much finer streets than those of London. The County Council is contributing 9200,000 towards the widening, and it is expected that the work will cost more than double that sum. No theatrical announcement for a long time has aroused so much pleasuable antici- pation as the statement that a new comic opera by Sir W. S. Gilbert is to be pro- duced at the Savoy theatre next month. The music is by Mr. Edward German. It may be that the collaboration will not prove such an ideal one as that which gave us the Gilbert-Sullivan series, but Mr. German is always clever, and he writes delightful music, so that even the most devout Gilbert and Sullivan worshippers are hoping for great things from the new opera. The story has been on the stage before, having been produced at the Haymarket more than thirty years ago. It follows the lines of Sir W. S. Gilbert's play "The Wicked World," that delightful and truly Gilbertian fantasy in which a community of beings live on the upper side of a cloud suspended above the earth, untouched by mundane troubles, joys, and wickedness—untouched, that is, until some mortals begin to take a hand in the plot. Then, of course, the trouble be- gins. Those who have read the story are eager to see the opera, in which Mr. Work- man and other favourites will have good parts. Do playgoers go to the theatre to see plays or simply to see popular actors and actresses in favourite parts? From the re- cent experience of Mr. George Alexander and Mr. Lewis Waller it would seem that the actors have it. These gentlemen gave their admirers a shock by appearing in beards in new plays in which they played the principal roles. Dramatic criticism nowadays is nothing if not serious, and so, in several notices of the performance more space was devoted to the beards of Mr. Alexander and Mr. Waller than to their acting or the plays themselves. Among the ladies of the audiences consternation reigned. They did not like their idols in beards at all. Plainly they preferred beauty unadorned, and said so with much em- phasis. And Mr. Alexander and Mr. Waller bowed to the storm, and their chins ap- peared once more in their smooth and shaven beauty. No doubt both gentlemen will think twice before they trifle again in such manner with the sacred interests of the drama. Though the name of Sir John Fisher's successor is announced it is not likely that he will be appointed for some time yet, as the present First Sea Lord of the Admiralty is expected to continue in office, at any rate, until after the election. It is anticipated that he will resign when the new Govern- ment takes office, and certainly after five and a half years of tremendously hard work, and of bitterly hostile criticism, he may well be counting upon a rest from his labours. But his work will remain, and the policy which he inaugurated and directed with so much genius and energy will be continued, it is confidently expected, by his successor. Sir Arthur Wilson has a splendid record. He is acknowledged to be the finest strategist and tactician in the Navy, and as the best pos- sible man that could have been chosen to follow Sir John Fisher. A. E. M. I

As a preliminary to the establishment of a naval bas-e at Scapa Flow, in the Orkneys, the Orkney Harbour Commissioners are about to prepare designs and estimates for a 200 feet extension of the existing pier at Scapa, so as to meet the Admiralty requirements. At Margaretting, near Chelmsford, a rough- legged buzzard has been found; a little owl, another very rare bird in England, has been killed at Hempstead, Essex. A heavy motor lorry skidded at Weybridge- road, Addlestone, Mr. Bramley C. Taylor sus- taining three broken ribs and internal injuries.

GREAT PROTEST MEETING. I Ten thousand men and women were present at the Albert Hall on Friday to demand com plete reform of the whole system of adminisr tration in the Congo. Supporting the Archbishop of Canterbury, who presided, were the leading ministers oi every Protestant denomination. Peers, mem- bers of Parliament, without regard to party 01 politics, and deputations from leading philan- thropic societies were on the platform. The folowing resoution, proposed by Dr, Clifford, was passed — "That this meeting, remembering the special responsibilities assumed by the people ano Government of this country in the events which led to the creation of the Congo Free State, and recalling the participation of Great Britain in the Berlin Conference of 1885, and believing that no greater danger can threaten a Chris- tian nation than failure to abide by the moral obligations it has deliberately contracted, de- clares that so long as the cruel oppression under which, in violation alike of the prin- ciples of humanity and of definite treaty obli- gations, the natives of the Congo have long been suffering is maintained, the people 01 Great Britain are bound to press forward un- flinchingly their demand for a complete reform of the whole system of administration in the Congo territory." The Archbishop of Canterbury said we knew that, in whatever way it had come about, a great wrong was being done to a helpless race, that we were ourselves in part responsible for the past, and that if that wrong were allowed to continue we should be answerable to God and man for the continuance. "King Leopold ought to have been prose- cuted in the High Courts of Europe for infi- delity to his trustees," declared Dr. Clifford, and added that it behoved them to be suspicious of a man with a bad character of twenty years' standing, whose sanctimonious cant only added to the enormity of his wrong-doing. "To try to read the story of the Congo is to sup on horrors," said the Rev. Silvester Horne. "It is the story of a people done to death that European financiers might flourish. It is the story of a people done to death that a million- aire libertine might give rein-" A storm of applause drowned the end of the sentence. 0.

A SOFT ANSWER. I "Now then, where yer goin '.P" I "Back again, guv'nor

BANK CLERK'S LOST PENSION. I Frauds discovered during changes in the office of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., the well-known London bankers, led to the appear- ance at the Old Bailey of William Thomas Barnes, 61, bank clerk. He pleaded guilty to obtaining money by false pretences, and was sent to prison for 18 months. It was stated that Barnes was in aharge of the coupon branciPof his firm in Lombard-street. The charge referred to a loan with the Republic of Uruguay, in connection with which the bank had to pay sums quarterly to holders of coupons in this country. Such payments amounted to £ 120,000 a year, and the prosecution alleged that Barnes took small sums from each depositor when paying them the bulk of money due to them. Investigation showed that the frauds extended over 16 years, and the total amount obtained, said counsel, was £ 2,900. Barnes had written a letter saying the money had gone in Stock Ex- change speculation. For 42 years he had been a trusted servant, receiving a salary of £ 330 a year, and he would have been entitled to a pension of £ 200 upon retirement.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. I Two deaths were caused by an accident on the District Railway at Ealing broadway Station. Nathaniel Calder, conductor, aged twenty-nine, was killed on the spot, and Frank Tibbies, driver, aged forty-four, died later in the day. The accident occurred shortly after half-past five in the morning, and the train was entering the station from the train shed to make its first journey to the City. Ealing-broadway is a terminus, and the train, instead of pulling up in the ordinary way, dashed into the stop blocks. The front coach, containing the motor, mounted the platform and dashed into a brick wall opposite. The second coach telescoped into the first, but the remaining four coaches kept their places on the rails. Calder and Tibbie were pinned down by the wreckage. Calder was dead when extricated, and Tibbies was badly crushed. One leg was immediately amputated, but Tibbles died in I the evening from shock.

THE SWEET SORROW OF PAR1ING. I "I suppose you found it very hard to part With your daughter, sir?" "Hard? Rather! In fact (between you and me), I had begun to think it wfs im- possible.

'COACULlNE.' KLINX TENASITINE.' Cements for mending all things. 6d. each. "That's right, guv-nor, it serves her right," said Albert Stevens, a Penge labourer, when arrested for cutting open the head of Lilian Roberts with an iron instrument. Franz Schuler, a German waiter, was sen- tenced at the Sussex Assizes, to eighteen months' imprisonment for stealing .£1,200 worth of jewellery (the property of Arthur Cecil Abra- hams) at the Esplanade Hotel, Seaford. 4LINSEED COMPOUND' with warm water is an excellent gargle for sore throat, Colds, Coughs, &c. A project is on foot to establish an Irish Mer- cantile Marine, the object of the promoters being to obtain the control of a fleet of coast- ing vessels to trade between Irish seaport towns. For S4 the L.C.C. will sell and deliver within six miles of the depot, their disused horse tram- cars, 23ft. long, 7ft. wide, and lift. 3in. high; for X5 they will deliver up to ten miles. I LINSEED COMPOUND for Coughs and Colds. Of proven efficacy. 9id. & l/l. Of Chemists only. Mr. Westcott Stile Abell, Instructor in Naval Architecture at the Royal Naval College, has been appointed to the new Chair of Naval Architecture at Liverpool University. The Chilian Government has submitted to the Chambers a bill providing three millions sterling for the purchase of a battleship, four torpedo-boat destroyers, and two submarines.

HOME HINTS. HOME .HINTS. I Don't give children potatoes until they art two and a half years old, and even then mash them thoroughly first to make them more digestible. Chamois leather gloves will be easily washed if rubbed in a good warm lather till the dirt is removed. Then rinse in a clean lather, squeeze dry, put the gloves on to the hands, remove, blow in them, and dry in the air. In this way the leather is kept soft and » good colour. There is some difficulty in scaling fresh- water fish, but it will be found easier if they are dipped in boiling water for a few minutes before the attempt is made. A simple way to get warm after exposure to cold is to take a long breath with the mouth firmly shut. Repeat this several times, until you begin to feel the heat re- turning. When cleaning silver add a few drops of methylated spirit to the plate-powder instead of water. The brilliance will last twice as long, saving labour and time. To wash hairbrushes and keep the backs from being spoilt, first rub the back with a little vaseline; then add about a tablespoon- ful of ammonia to a quart of cold water. Wash the brushes thoroughly in this, and rinse afterwards in cold water. Hot sage tea will break up a cold if taken by patients who remain in bed. Our fore- fathers used the sage leaves as a dentifrice, and also as a dressing for wounds. When putting away knives, clean them and lay them in a box in which a layer of dry sawdust has been put; then completely cover them with more sawdust. When required for use, they only need dusting. < Don't throw away squeezed lemons; use them for cleaning brasses and dish covers. Put a pinch of whiting on the article to be cleaned and rub it well in, using the lemon as a sponge. IRON MOULD STAINS. I Stretch the cloth over a basin of boiling water that the steam may come through, cover with salt and lemon-juice, and. rub the mark gently with a piece of cotton wool, occasionally dipping the material in the water till the mark is removed. Then rinse well in warm soap-suds. THB GUEST CHAMBER. I When preparing for a lady visitor, donT: forget that the following things, though perhaps not actually necessary, will add much to her comfort. A small, steady table, supplied with everything necessary for writ- ing letters. A small work-basket, containing cotton, needles, a thimble, and so forth. A few books and a magazine or two. A spare blanket, in case of chilly nights. A box of matches and a candle, unless the room is lighted with electric light that can be turned on and off while lying in bed. WHEN THB STOPPER STICKS. I To prevent a stopper from becoming fixed in a glass bottle, wipe over the ground part of the glass with a little salad oil. To re- move a fixed stopper from a bottle or de- canter, wring a cloth from very hot water and wrap it round the neck of the bottle. "his causes the glass neck to expand, and if the stopper is being pulled while the neck becomes heated, it can be easily removed be- fore the heat has penetrated to the stopper itself. To SOFTEN SHOE LEATHER. I At this time of the year boots frequently get soaked with rain, and after drying they are usually stiff, and therefore uncomfort- able, no matter how slow the process of dry- ing has been. Kerosene will soften boots and shoes that have been hardened by water, and render them almost as pliable as they were when new. Castor oil, well rubbed all over shoes, will preserve the leather and make it more or less waterproof. So, too. will lin- seed oil; but it must be applied not once, but many times. CHOOSING A NURSE. I If an applicant for a position as nurse- maid has any natural imperfection-such as squinting, stammering, or any little nervous trick, this should at once decide you not to engage her, as children are very quick to imi- tate such things, and once acquired, such habits are very difficult to get rid of. ABOUT BABY'S SLEEP. I A healthy baby should sleep quite well without being rocked to sleep. It is a bad habit to be in and is difficult to drop. Al- ways let baby sleep in a cot or cradle by him- self, never in your bed, as he will not get enough air, and there is great danger of your lying on him. Be careful to see that his sleeping clothing is quite loose and com- fortable, and that there are no strings or bands to restrain him. Don't let baby sleep on your lap, as he is much cooler and more comfortable in his cot, and will sleep more soundly. USEFUL RECIPES. I TOAD-IN-THic-HOLIC .-Take one pound of meat scraps or sausages, one pint of milk, half a pint of flour, two eggs, seasoning, salt and pepper. Grease a baking dish, place in it the meat, and cover with a batter made of the well-beaten eggs added to the flour and milk, pepper, and salt. Bake in a hot oven for one hour. GINGER BISCUITS.-Take half a pound of flour, half a pound of sugar, half a pound of treacle, one egg, two ounces of butter, one teaspoonful and a half of ground ginger, one teaspoonful of baking-powder. Warm the butter until it is liquid, mix it with the egg and treacle, pour the mixture on to the flour, sugar, ginger, and baking-powder, previ- ously rubbed together, and make into a stiff dough. Roll out, cut into shapes, and bake in a quick oven till brown (about six minutes). POTATO BROTH.—Take a quarter of a stone of potatoes, one medium carrot, one medium turnip, one small parsnip, one large leek or onion, a piece of cabbage, one ounce of butter, three quarts of water, and salt to taste. To three quarts of boiling water add the carrot, turnip, and parsnip, cut up in small pieces; boil for one hour; then add the potatoes, cut in halves or quarters, the cab- bage and leek, cut in pieces, the butter, and salt. Boil about one hour longer, stirring often. A LUNCH CAKE.—Rub four ounces of butter and lard into half a pound of flour. Add to it a quarter of a pound of ground rice, a quarter of a pound of sultanas, three ounces of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Mix with an egg and a little milk. Bake in a greased tin for an hour. TASMANIAN PUDDING.-Take two ounces of large sago, and swell in a pan on the fire in half a pint of milk. Pare, core, and slice two large apples, put them in the oven with a little sugar and water, and cook till tender. Take the sago from the fire when it has ab- sorbed the milk. Beat up an egg with one pint of milk, mix with the sago, and add half a teaspoonful of grated ginger. When the apples are tender mix all together, and put in a piedish and bake half an hour. CURRANT SCONEs.-Get a loaf from the baker before it goes to the oven, and add to it half a pound of sugar, one ounce of carra- way seeds, half a pound of butter, and one and a half pounds of currants. Mix all well together, roll it out, and cut into neat little scones, then bake in a slow oven. EGYPTIAN STEW.—Wash and soaK one pint of lentils, and place in a stewpan with three carrots, two turnips, two onions, two sticks of celery, all cut very small. Pour over a quart of water or stock, add pepper and salt, and stew slowly for two hours and a half. Then add some slices of cold meat, and sim- mer for half an hour. Ten minutes before serving add ketchup and browning to taste, and serve in a deep dish. When grease is spilt on the range, scatter salt over it, and then scrape up; this will re- move all disagreeable smell.

PRECIOUS PARCEL LOST. An extraordinary robbery has been reported to the London police. The victim is Mr. Walter Smith, a farmer of Bridgwater, Somerset, who arrived in London on Friday with £ 1,000 in his possession. The sum was made up of £ 750 in gold, with the balance in bank-notes. Having engaged apartments at a hotel, Mr. Smith went out in search of a place of amusement, carrying the money in a brown paper parcel. He was nervous as to the safety of his wealth, and calculated that by wrapping it in paper he would disarm suspicion as to the character of the parcel's contents. He went to a West End music-hall, and during the performance sat with his precious parcel under his feet, so that he might feel the slightest touch. At the conclusion of the performance he rose to assume his overcoat and light a cigarette, and for a few moments his feet were removed from the parcel. When he stooped for the parcel he discovered to his dismay that it had disappeared, and all trace of it is at present lost.

RETURNED WITH THANKS. I A band of Austrian gipsies, numbering nine- teen, have had a series of adventures at Dover and Calais in their efforts to enter England. At Calais the Nord Company refused to em- bark them for Dover. They then tried the South-Eastern and Chatham Company, whose agents demanded evidence that they were pos- sessed of the requisite X5 each person in com- pliance with the Aliens Act. The chief pro- duced £160, and the band were brought to Dover- on the mail steamer Empress. On arriving at the pier they were examined under the Aliens Act, and as four were found to be suffering from ophthalmic troubles, they were deported. On reaching Calais the four gipsies remained disconsolately in the station all night, and the French authorities will gradually work them over the frontier. The men are coppersmiths, and all the tribe were in national costume.

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In recognition of his valuable work for meteorological science, Dr. W. N. Shaw, F.R.S., has been awarded the Symons gold medal by the council of the Royal Meteorologi- cal Society. The London County Council is prepared to receive from cricket clubs applications for the use during 1910 of reserved match grounds at the parks and open spaces under its control. The death has been announced of the Hon. Mrs. Elphinstone, wife of the Hon. Edward Elphinstone, with whom she celebrated their golden wedding last May. The Estimates submitted to the Canadian House of Commons provide f6r E600,000 for the naval service, including construction and maintenance of ships, the upkeep of dockyards, and the establishment of training schools.

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For the Smithfield fat stock show, which opena on December 6 at the Agricultural Hall, the entries total 918, including 293 cattle, 140 pens of sheep, and 141 pens of pigs. Dr. Mile. Marie de Thilo, an elderly woman, has been sentenced at Liestal (Switzerland), to three and a half years' penal servitude fot causing the death of a woman patient. With a capital of J>175,000, the German Aerial Navigation Company, which proposes to estab- lish regular passenger airship excursions, has been formed at Frankfort. The death is announced, from Newtown- hamilton, county Armagh, of the Rev. David Jameson, of the Presbyterian Church. He was a. former moderator of the Dublin Synod, a re- markably able scholar, and a brilliant writer both in prose and verse-

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I "CHARE UNJUSTIFIED." j 0 ——— The remarkable millionaire will suit ended on Friday in judgment against the defendants with costs. The action concerned a codicil made in 1885 by the late Mr. Alexander Ogilvie, the millionaire railway contractor, who died in 1886. The defendants, principally grand-children, alleged that the codicil, which omitted a daugh- ter, Mrs. Frances Brown, altogether, was made when deceased was of unsound mind and under the influence of his wife and Mr. W. P. Suther- land, his secretary. This was denied. I The jury decided that the codicil was duly executed; that the testator was of sound mind; that he knew and approved of the contents of the codicil; and that there was no undue influence. His lordship pronounced for the codicil accord- ingly. Mr. Duke, K.C. (for the plaintiffs) wsked for costs, "but Mr. Grazebrook, for the defence, urged that the defendants ought not to pay the costs of the litigation, which was quite justified in view of the letters left behind by the late Mrs. Ogilvie. Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane, however, said if the case had been tried before him without a jury he would not have called upon Mr. Duke to reply. The defendants had no case at all. It was all suspicion, and nothing else. The charge of undue influence was absolutely without justification. Judgment was entered for the plaintiffs, with costs. ———-

I DEATH OF A DUCHESS. I Consuelo Duchess of Manchester died early on Saturday morning at her London resi- dence, 5, Grosvenor-square. The cause of death was heart failure after severe neuritis. Her Grace was the wife of the eighth and mother of the present Duke. She was the daughter of Senor Antonio Yznaga del Valle. of Ravenswood, Louisiana, and Cuba. The story of her marriage is a romantic one. In the seventies the late Duke, then Lord Mandeville, while travelling in the United States, was struck down by fever, and was nursed by the beautiful Miss Consuelo Yznaga. Soon afterwards they became en- gaged, and were married in 1876. In 1892 she lost her husband, two years after he suc- ceded to the dukedom. She was an excellent hostess and often entertained the King.

I CLERGYMAN AND DOG. I The Rev. George Morgan, a rector and per- petual curate of St. Barnabas, Pendleton, Man- chester, appeared at Barmouth Police-court to answer a charge of dog-stealing at Barmouth. Evidence was given that the dog had been missed, and was subsequently seen in the cus- tody of the rector, from whom finally the police recovered it. His explanation was that the dog followed him about and would not leave him, so finally he took it away with him. The Bench dismissed the case, but ordered the defendant to pay the costs, which amounted to 95. They remarked that he had done a most foolish and idiotic thing in taking the dog away, and said that the police were quite justi- fied in having taken proceedings.

NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL. I At Chatham a court-martial was held for the trial of Captain Warren, of the destroyer Itchen, with respect to the stranding of that vessel on the String Rocks. The suggestion against Captain Warren is that the accident was brought about through his having failed to accurately fix the ship's pos i- tion. She was 15 hours on the rocks and sus- tained some damage. It was stated that the captain and a signalman were the only persona on the bridge when the Itchen grounded. Commander Warren was found guilty of, by default, suffering the destroyer Itchen to be stranded, and ordered to be severely repri- manded. He was acquitted on the charge of negligence. t