Evening Express

Whale's Titan icStruggle I CAUGHT & KILLED BY OCEAN CABLE Ajocarding to the "Telesra/pih Age," an interruption of the submarine cable between I qui que and Valparaiso (Ohili) which occurred on August 14 last was oaused by a large whade that was afterwards drawn to the surface by the repair-ehip Faraday from a depth of 400 fat-boms. The cable in which the whale was entangled weighed in air while wet 1,7151b. per na-uti-oalmlle, and had a breaking strain of 6.06 tone. The cable's weight in salt water was l,0051ib. per nautical mile. If the whale came to the surface to blow he must have held two or three miles of cable in suspension. This, however, is unlikely, eince it had four turns of the cable round its body, one being in its mouth. When the trouble with tne cable was dis- covered teste from Valparaiso and Iquique placed the break about thirteen miles from the latter place. The repairing eteamer Faraday left Iquique for the position of the break, and commenced grappling in 342 fathoms. With 500 fathoms of rope out, the cable was hove up, cut, and tested to Iquique. The end was buoyed, and the sibip. grappling further out, picked up the cable, which oame in badly twisted and with increasing strain. A large whale waa finaLly brought to the surface, completely entangled in the cable, the stench being unendurable. The cable was cut close to the whale amd the vessel moved to windward. Tests were made and Valparaiso spoken. The ship made eotmdings in the vicinity, which showed a depth of 415 fathoms (2,490ft., nearly one-haJf mile). It is extremely doubtful whether an air- breathing animal could go aa deep as 400 fatnoms, and as that depth is much below the limit of pelagic life on which most whales feed, it is not likely that the whale would penetrate such a depth. Total dark- ness, moreover, prevails in depths of 400 fathoms. The Valparaiso-Iquique cable was laid on January 27, 1906. At first sight -it seems unlikely that the whale entangled in thos cable could have remained eight months without complete disintegration or being gradually consumed by small forms of life on the bottom. The deep eea, however, as intensely cold, the temperature being close to the freezing point of fresh water, and the carcase, unless actively attacked by bottom life, might be expected to last longer than in the warmer surface waters. Since from what we know of air-breathing animals it is uuiliiely that the whale would descend 400 fathoms of its own accord, and as a deep sea. cable is not laid very slack, it is doubtful that the whale oould have fouled it at the bottom. The logical conclusion is that it became entanogled during the lading of the cable, whilst there was a considerable length of it in suspension. The twisted condition of the stiff and heavy cable a-bout the animal shows th.a.t the energy expended in the vain effort to free itself must have been enormous.

ATTACK ON THE LORDS. ftpeaiing at Wakefield on Saturday, Mr. Rumoiman, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board, said that the Government were meeting the problem of the House of Lorda, but if they did not have a. conflict with them this yea.r, at all events they would do eo next year, when tihe subject of religions equality was once more thrown into the political arena. They would then have aroused In the House of Lords the same stupid prejudice as before, and if a. dead- lock can^e he for otne would be prepared to join issue upon it.

WELSH CHURCH INQUIRY. There were hopes that meertings of the Welsh Church Commission would be held this weak now that the Lord Chief Justice toafi returned from circuit. It was found on Saturday, however, that an arrangement ait the law courts was not possible, and, conse- quently, the chairman of the Oomsnission (Lord Justice Vaugiban Williams) was o^Iig-ed to iasrue an anrnjouTucement that no further meeting was arranged as yet.

2 LIVES SACRIFICED FOR A FOOTBALL Two youths, named Ashworth and Lee. were drowned on Saturday evening in the River Roach at Heywood. A football went into the flooded river, and one of the youths tried to re-gain it, but was carried away by the stream, and his companion attempted a rescne, with the result that both bodies were taken down-th.. Aver.

HOW THE PEOPLE LIVE IN WALES! A BRILLIANT SERIES OF ARTICLES L. GEO. R. SIMS r DAGONET") wiR appear EXCLUSIVELY in the "WESTERN MAIL" XND 'EVENING EXPRESS' AND COMMENCE OS MONDAY, JUNE 24. ys I. Among am Plaom dea, t with are:— CARDIFF RHONDDA SWANSEA VALLEY NEWPORT RUMNEY MERTHYR NEATH DOWLAIS LLANELLY TREDEGAR RHYMNEY EBBW V ALE VALLEY PONTYPRIDD &C, &c., &c., &e. NO MAN living has studied the social condition of the people more thoroughly tbain Mr. GEO. R. SIMS. He understands tthds problem from top to bottom, and aide to aide, and has remedy for exist- ing ovkle is hosed om tihe reasonable motihods of a sane and practical reformer. FOR SOME time he has been engaged in an eshauE- the investigation into tihe oondikdons of life among the teeming populations of South Wales. He has discovered many evMs, and descrabeB these evils with all tihe power and eloquence of nflaLdh he is snob a master, but, since he is above all things practioaJ, he aJso tpoduta out the remedy. THERE ARE sixteen articles in the se-ri-s series tihe meet inMporfcajxt that bas ever been written affect-tog tiuis district. THE ARTICLES wild Appear EXCLUSIVELY in- tae "WESTERN MAil II AND 'EVENING EXPRESS' AND WTLL START ON MONDAY, JUNE 24 THE QUESTION OF A NEW SUIT FOR SPRING & SUMMER. We are ready to make your Spring Suit. We never were more ready. Whoever you may be, if you place your order with us you oan relr upon the personal attention of the pro- prietors being given to it. Nothing shall be soa-m-oad. The trimmings, the make, the cut, the style, the fit, every detail will receive our careful thousrht. From top to bottom your suit wiU be a Reliable Suit distinctive in appearance, tip-top value, giving you the utmost pleasure and comfort while you are wearing it, a.nd the satisfac- tion that your money has been well invested. The CITY SUIT, to measure, Worth 25/- Worth The BUSINESS SUIT, to measure, 25/- Worth 40a The SOLID SERGE Suit, to measure, 25/- w&a 25/- 4? The BLACK SUIT, to measure, 25/- Worth 25/- 40s The Frock Coat & Vest, to measure, 33/9 W5 The Cashmere Trousers, to measure 10/6 s\° £ h NEW GOODS DELIVERED DAILY. Capital & Labour, 59 & 61, QUEEN-STREET, CARDIFF.

A Dangerous Habit. —— a —— LORD TREDEGAR'S fiEW PHASE. So the King will stay in Cardiff Docks —or, better still, Cardiff Roads—on the Friday night. What a picture of deco- rations it conjures up—of bonfires blaz- ing on the bills of Wales and Devon- shire, of fancy lanterns dancing across the waters, flashing and floating, like those lights of Hampstead in the Harrow School song, a friendly greeting o'er." I do not know how far it may be possible to illuminate the shipping in port at the time, but the bonfires should certainly be lit all round the coast. If the Royal yacht remains in the Roads overnight some arrangement should be made, with his Majesty's permission, for serenading parties. It is to be feared that there will be no room, after all, for a review of the Volunteers, but, whatever the military arrangements may be, I hope the authorities will not omit the veterans. Nothing gave King Edward greater pleasure when he visited Swansea a couple of years ago than the long line of veterans drawn up in Wind-street. They were not all veterans, exactly. There were men of all ages-youngsters not long back from South Africa cheek by jowl with the white-headed survivors of the Mutiny. But it was a fine body of men, and, whether they be young or old, a place should always be found for the veterans in Royal visits. You can always trust our lovely British weather to score over every- thing. Of late the weather and the weather forecasts have been trying to see which could be the gloomier. Things were getting positively unbearable, but at last the weather has taken a pleasant rise out of the forecast. The latter pre- dicted "some rain," with various other inexhaustible evils, for Saturday. We had the rain-" some." It was such a success that the forecast prescribed another dose for Sunday, but, lo and behold! we had a glimpse of summer. May the weather play the same trick with the next forecasts. The forecast is, as ever, gloomy. No change in the general character of the weather is expected because of the approach of another depression from the Atlantic. Why cannot the Atlantic keep its depressions? Thanks to the weather, some good sport was spoiled on Saturday. The cricket. was off," but the school boys went through their sports pluckily enough. What an inte- rest Lord Tredegar takes in these gather- ings of lads! He drove .through the wind and rain on Saturday in order to present the prizes to the lads of the University Settlement, and to speak Greek in the presence of Professor Burrows. There is no end to the versatility of Lord Trede- gar. He is always presenting us with a new phase of his genial character, or a new and unsuspecting accomplishment. When he suddenly burst out into Greek the University Settlement lads* were duly impressed, no doubt. Greek is all right for Professor Burrows, but if Lord Tredegar persists in this habit of classical quotation he will find his speech not reported. It is not playing the game to suddenly throw a quotation in ancient Greek at the head of the reporter. Glad- stone did this once or twice. The first time he did it the reporters dropped their pencils and stared aghast. It is a dangerous habit. Who knows but that Lord Tredegar may not be quoting Chinese one of these days? When Nature is looking anything but beautiful out of doors, it is pleasant to turn into the South Wales Art Society's Exhibition, where you see soft idealisations of Nature. I have often wondered why the amateur artist keeps so exclusively to the painting of landscapes and seascapes. Here, and it is the same in nearly every provincial exhibition, there is no genre painting, or very little of it, and what little there is belongs to the artists and not to the amateurs. Still, the landscapes here are very beautiful. You can see the Marshfield Meadows as they always oikht to look, and many an inspiring picture of Gower scenery is shown. The South Wales artists are evidently dis- covering Gower. But has the Cardiff Cor- poration discovered the South Wales Art Society? Is it not possible to hold an exhibition such as this in the large assembly room at the CSty-hall ? The art society deserves a great deal more encouragement than it gets from the public or the public bodies. When the new Welsh National Museum is being built,, 1 an effort should be made to get a few rooms added suitable for such exhibitions as t-hat of the South Wales Art Society. Some members of the Newport Oorpo- ration ar, bent upon saddling the town with a municipal milk supply. Will it be another Wentwood? The corporation's experience in milking has hitberto been limited to milking the ratepayer, and they have succeeded in this remarkably well. If they do establish a municipal milk depot it will only be the means of milking the people's pockets again. Municipalities have lost a lot of money in the traffic in milk. and Newport is very likely to lose, too. And why should the ratepayers pay for it? Only a few people in Newport will be able to derive benefit from the supply. It is absurd to hope to supply them all. Why should the few be favoured at the expense of the many? There is only one effective way of meeting the milk scandal, and that is to make the system of inspection stringent and to visit offences with heavy fines. Mr. George R. Sims, whose forth- coming articles in the u Evening Express" are exciting so much interest, has taken a keen pleasure in opposing this idea. He has a few conundrums which remain un- answered, such as, Would Socialism give every man asparagus, or would it give everybody prawns and plovers' eggs ? Imagine everyone, in the ideal Socialist state, taking a docket to the medioal officer of health and asking for a fresh, well-tested plover's egg. What a rush there would be on the asparagus! This is Socialism. Mr. George R. Sims—"Punch" the other day called him very funnily Mr. Jaw Jar Syms—intends to write on much more human things than Socialism, and when his articles start running I can promise readers of the Evening Express" a great treat. Some of the .articles will be a revelation to South Wales. The mention of municipal milkshops reminds one of the municipal piggeries. Do the Cardiff Corporation intend to proceed with these extravagant build- ings, or will someone, put down a notice of motion to rescind the last resolution of the council and re-consider the whole of the four buildings? It will be a scandal if the corporation are allowed to proceed with the piggeries. They are laughed at by every agriculturist. There is only one gentleman on the corporation with a practical knowledge of agriculture, and he is against the piggeries. It seems very ridiculous, but, really, it may yet be necessary to call public meetings to I protest against palatial piggeries 1

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THREE CHILDREN DROWNED I At an inquest held at Llanxhiddian, Gower, I on the body of a four-year-old child named E. Ohas. Williams, the father (Ohas. Wil- liams) stated tbat the deceased went out to; play with his brother, and shortly afterwards his wife told him that the child was in the stream. Witness ran out, but oould not find deceased anywhere. The water was about 4ft. deep and running swiftly, and they had to give up the search till the morning, when, after diverting the stream, they found the child's body in a hole.—The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death." A young lad named Herbert Gibbon, aged I nine yeaa-s, who, with a number of other lads of the same age, had gone to the Briton Ferry Docks on Saturday evenilllg to await the return of a pleasure steamship from Weston, was playing about on the East Pier when he slipped and feU into the river and! was drowned. Dragging operations were at cmoe proceeded with, and continued all night, but without recovering the body. A little boy named Sem John, three yeaja and eight months, eon of Evan Wm. John, a collier, of 63, Daviee-tarrace, Nantyffyllon, went to pl-ay on Saturday wdth anothear' brother. They were throwing stones at culvert at the bottom of Daviee-terraoe, and! by some means or other Sem fell into the culvert amd was drowned. The culvert had to be opemed before the body was found.

PRESENTATION AT DUFFRYN A number of the parishioners of St. Matthew's met at Duffryn on Saturday for the purpose of presenting their wed- ding gifts to Mr. J. G. Moore-G-wyn, who will wed Miss Gilbertson, of Glan- rhyd, on Thursday next. Mr. Eynon Bcftvem, on behalf of the parishioners, presented Mr. Moore-Gwyn with a silver kettle and staoid with crest and inscription. Mr. Howel and Mr. Prout, on behalf of the day and Sunday schools, followed with a presentation of a silver cruet; Mr. Joseph Thomas and Mr. David Lewis with a case of fish-carvers from the choir and bellringers of St. Matthew's, and Mr. Bradley, on behalf of the household servants and gardeners, with a silver ink- stand, egg-boiler, and egg-stand.

MUSICAL SERVICE AT CARDIFF I A musical service was given at St. Andrew's Church, Cardiff, on Sunday night. The festival eveisong and orchestral recital was arranged by Mr. Ambrose H. Mabbett, musical director, Ac., of the New Theatre, and the evident appreciation of the large congregation must have been gratifying to Mm. Mr. Mabbeitt oond-uct.ed. the orchestra, and Mr. J. E. Deacon was at the organ. The opening voluntary was the Gloria from Twelfth Mass" (Mozart). Mr. L. P. Humphrey gave with fine effect the eolœ Nazareth and "Prodnds, of Life." The voluntary after evensong, furapb.rase, Adeste Fideles," and the orchestral recital were fea-tures of t'he service, coupled with Mr. A. Price's cornet solo, The Lost Chord." The grand finale was the Hallelujah Chorue by orchestra, choir, and organ.

"WESTERN MAIL" LINOTYPE PICNIC The night linotype operators of the Wes- tern Mail," accompanied by friends from other departments, journeyed on Saturday tor their seventh pic-nic by a four-horse break to the Horse Shoe Inn, St. Aaan, where Mr. Kerman (late of the Ocean House Hotel) pro- vided dinner and tea in capital etyle. In the evening a vocal and instrumental con- cert proved a bjg success. The toast of the Western Mail Limited, given by the chair. man (Mr. J. Gleod), was greeted with hearty rounds of cheering. The return home was aooomplished shortly before eleven o'clock. The secretarial duties were performed by Mr. F. C. Lewis.

APPOINTMENT FOR MR-CH ESTER JONES I The King, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, has been pleased to appoint Mr. Chester Jones to be a Metropolitan police magistrate in place of Mr. G. G. Kennedy, who has been compelled by ill-health to resign his appointment. Mr. Chester Jones will be remembered locally as the barrister who, on behalf of the Home Office, conducted an inquiry at Cardiff into the application of the new regu- lations then proposed for the protection of dock workers from injury in the course of their employment.

NEWPORT DISTRICT OF ODDFELLOWS The officers of the Newport District of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of OddfeUows paid a visit to the Loyal Ifor Hael Lodge, Eogerstone, on Saturday. They were enthusiastically received, and during the evening speeches were delivered by Grand Master Sundy, Deputy G.M. Gididinge, Prov. Oar. gw- G. J. Jones, P.G.'s Cyrus T. Cliesitt (Temple of Peace), Price (Raglan oastle), amd others.

CARDIFF HUNGRY CHILDREN At the open air meetings of the I.L.P. in Cardiff on Sunday resolutions were passed; denwunding the adoption by the corporation of the Provision of MeaJs Act in the interest of the 500 hungry children WhOo it ia aadd, attend. the Cardiff aahools.

Extraordinary Story. I MR AUGUSTUS LEWIS ARRESTED Alleged Attempt to Pick a Lady's Pocket. An extraordinary case was tried at Man- chester County Police-court, when Mr. Augustus Lewis, formerly inspector of fac- tories at Swansea, and now at Manchester, was accused of attempting to steal one half- penny. one handkerchief, and a bag of sweets from a lady's pocket at the county cricket ground, Old Trafford, on Thursday afternoon. He was further charged with committing an assault upon Mrs. Emily Alcock. The case caused the greatest sensa. tion. and is quite unbelievable to those who know Mr. Lewis. Mr. John Crofton, who prosecuted on behalf of the police, said it seemed almost incredible to him, and would appear so to the magistrates, that a gentleman like Mr. Lewis could have placed himself in such a terrible situation. Mrs. Alcock was sitting on a form along with her husband at the cricket ground, when Mr. Lewis came up and sat on the form behind them. After a little time she felt someone fumbling about in the region of her pocket, complained to her husband, and moved away. Later in the afternoon Mr. Lewis came up to them in another part of the ground, and was again seen by a witness with his three fingers in the lady's pocket. Emily Alcock, of Hulme, gave evidence bearing out Mr. Crofton's statement. On the second occasion, she said, she felt that Mr. Lewis had her jacket drawn up, and his fingers in her right-hand jacket pocket. I which contained one halfpenny and ar bag of sweets. She again complained to her husband, who told her to stand still, and the police were informed. Mr. Lewis: Do you say that I was sitting behind you at 1.20 p.m.?—Yes. Mr. Lewis: I was not there at that time. You had a child with you?—Yes. Was the child sitting beside you?—The baby was between my husband and myself. Did you not take the child up and put it on your lap, because it was crying?—But the child was not crying. Albert Alcock, a cabinet-maker, gave evi- dence bearing out his wife's statement. When his wife complained the second time he watched Mr. Lewis, and saw that he was doing something with his right hand. Witness then went some distance from his wife, and, watching Mr. Lewis, saw him with his right hand in his wife's jacket pocket. James Harvey, a clerk, said he noticed Mr. Lewis with his right hand in a lady's pocket. He watched him for a few minutes. Mr. Lewis seemed to be moving his fingers about in the lady's pocket. Police-constable Barrett aJso gave evidence as to having watched defendant, who was standing with his back to Mrs. Alcock. He had his right hand in the lady's jacket pocket. The officer then went up to him, caught hold of his fingers, which were then in the lady's pocket, and took him into custody. Mr. Lewis said, "What are you charging me with ?" and the officer replied, "With attempting to pick a lady's pocket." Defendant replied, "Simply ridiculous." Mr. Lewis, on oath, said he was the senior inspector of factories for the Manchester district. He knew nothing of the accusations made against him; they were absolutely false, and he did not touch the lady at all. At five o'clock he got up and went to have a sandwich. He suffered from lumbago and sciatica, and was working his hand back- ward and forward in order to ease the pain. The officer must have been mistaken when he stated that he saw his fingers in the lady's pocket. His knees might have touched the lady when she got up, but that was all that took place. The Chairman said: "We dismiss this information on the following paymenta:—ICe. to each witness, and a guinea to the advo- cate. In all you will have to pay C2 lis." Mr. Lewis promptly brought the matter before his superiors at the "ome Office, and was much cheered by the sympathy with which he was received. It is understood that the matter will not be allowed to rest.

DEFECTIVE LYDDITE SHELLS It bas just been discovered, says the Cen- tral News, that the steel supplied to the War Department for the manufacture of the oases of lyddite shells contains a defect which, it is feared, cannot be eradicated by any or all of the numerous treatmen-ta to which the cases are subjected before they oan be completed ready for the gunner. The defect in question is due to the fact that the steel in the centre of the original bar i8 reedy," with the result that when the "billet" is cut from the bar and is "cupped" the slag, or reedy, material does not distri- bute itself in the sound metal, but :s forced bodily into the base of the shell. Needless to say, because it is the vital part of the ease, any weakness at the base must necessarily increase the terrible danger of a shell bursting in a gun. It is for the moment impossible to say with approximate oertainty how many shells oon- taining the grave defect referred to hare been issued to the service, but there is reason to believe that they can be named in thousands. The whole matter is, however, occupying the serioub attention of the War Depart- ment, and, in pursuance of urgent orders from headquarters, experts are now engaged in making a minute examination of the lyddite shells at present in the service maga- zines and stores.

ROBINS NEST IN A BASKET Robin a have built their nest in the ware- house of a wine amd spirit merohiant at Trowbridge. In the building is a gas engine amd ma.chinery which is rimming all day long. The nest is built close by in an old wime bottle basket hanging from, a beam. Last year the birds hatched out a brood of young, and returned this year to their old quarters, where five eggs have been laid, which the mother bird is busy hatching. The other day the basket was taken from the beam into the open and photographed with t.he mother bird on her ne&t.

MERRY DAYS OF YOUTH. A woman, aooompanied by a lad, appli-ed at the Tottenham Police-court on Saturday for a. summons against the headmaster of Seven Sisters School for assaulting her son- Alderman Huggett: Most boys deserve a thrashing occasionally. Some boys get it, some don't. I received many a thrashing when I was a boy, and it has done me a world of good. Alderman Huggett told the applicant she had better oomplain to the clerk to the education committee.

A GIANT COFFIN An exceptionally large coffin was required for the burial of Mrs. Mary Ann Preston, wife of the landlord of the New Inn, Bamby- gate, Newark, who died last week. The coffin was 6Pt. 10in. long, 3ft. Zin. wide at the ShoulderB, and 18in. wide at the feet, and it was 2ft. deep. The bedroom window and casemient had to be removed to get it into the house, and it required ten men to lower it into the street.

"NEW WORLDS FOR OLD." In the July number of tihe "Grand Magazine" will appear the first of a notable series of papers, "New Worlds for Old," to which. Mr. H, G. Wells will describe the con- stitution of the society of the future as it appears to his prophetic eye. "New Worlds for Old" will be found to be a. fit complement to the same writer's startling "Anticipations," which was so widely read.

DOG PROOF ARMOUR A polioe-dog competition was held at Rouen yesterday, at which points were given for the maaineir in which the animals attacked a man representing a criminal. The dogs were unmuzzled, and the man was protected from bites by a suit of thick leather, top-boots, a strong mask, and gauntlets lined with steel ringB.

A TRAVELLING RECTOR The Rev. A. Tnpper-Oarey, rector of Lowestoft, goes to his flock, instead of I expecting them to come to Mm. He has visited the Cornish coast while they were engaged in the mackerel fishing, and now he is going to the Shetlands, where they are catching herrings.

WINE AT A BAZAAR. A gift of claret having been received for a baaaar ait Ohingford, it was found tjmt it would be impossible to dispose of it without a licence. The Epping justices have conse- quently gramted am occasional licence to enable it to be consumed om the premises.

AMERICAN POSTWOMEN I The American. Post Office Devoxtm-mt has appointed 257 women as rural letter carriers, and nearly 1,000 aj& .acting as substitutes.

Street Fusillade. DEVleS ISLAND PRISONER SHOT 1 SENSATIONAL AFFAIR. Edward Guerin, the prisoner who escaped from the French penal settlement on Devil's Island, and was discharged on Friday by the English Divisional Court, after having been detained in Brixton Prison for twelve months on reman<f for his extradition by the French Government, was shot at in Ruesell- sqnare, London, about twelve o'clock on Saturday night. The incident forms a most sensational denouement to the adventurous life of Guerin, for it is supposed that the outrage has some association with the mysterious circumstances of his arrest in a French train in 1901 on a charge of being the instigator of the robbery of the American Express Office, in connection with which he was sent to undergo penal servitude on Devil's Island, the Frenoh convict settlement in which Dreyfus was incarcerated. Guerin has always protested his innocence of any complicity in the crime, and alleged that he was the victim of a. vindictive woman with whom he was formerly acquainted. On Saturday -night Guerin was walking in the vicinity of Russell-square, acoompanied by his wife, when a cab dfrove up to the spot where the couple chanced to be moluentarily standing, and what followed took place before the eyes of several people who were passing by at the time, the scene of the outrage being the Russell-square Station of the PiccadiHy and Brompton Tube. Several revolver shots came from the cab, and one of the bullets struck Guerin's foot and brought him to the ground, the oth-eru happily missing their mark. The sound of the shots brought a constable at once to the soene, and the occupants of the ca.b. a man and a woman, were arrested after a struggle amd taken to Hunter-street Police-station. Guerin was conveyed to the Royal Free Hospital, where, by the aid of the X-rays, the bullet in his foot was extracted, and the injured man is now making a good recovery. Questioned as to the identity of his assailants, Guerin persisted in refusing to make any statement regarding them, although he adimitted that they were both known to him personally. At the police-station both of the prisoners were charged with being concerned in attempting to murder Guerin, and the male prisoner was farther charged with attempt- ing to shoot the polioe-oonstable who effected his arrest. The persons arrested gave the names of Charles Smith and May Churchill. The con- dition of Guerin is favourable.

THE LATE LORD GORDON. I Cause Celebre in Divorce-Court Recalled I The death of Lard Gordon recalls the fact that his name came before the public parti- cularly in connection with his second mar- riage, which was preceded by a divorce suit, in which his cousin, Mr. Eric Gordon, cited him as co-respondent. Mr. Eric Gordon's wife was a. young American widow, Mrs. Close, whose maiden name was Jennie Humble, and who belonged to Minnesota. She was divorced by Mr. Gordon, and afterwards married the co- respondent, LaIrd Gran ville.. Another cause oelebre arose from this one. The divorce court gave the child of the lady to Ma-. Brie Gordon, but, after marrying his cousin, the mother defeated the order of the count by carrying off the child, a girl, dis- guising her in boy's clothes, and taking her on board a tug from Tilbury to Dunkirk. Lord Granville's eccentricity was not only illustrated in this fashion. He was lost some eighteen years ago, for instance, whilst on a hunting expedition, and it was learnt later that he had joined a party of Indians and gone with them intoo the interior of Vanooufveqr.

BRITISH 11 SLAVES." I The Shearwater has just returned to Bsquimalt from Southern waters, where she visited the Galapagos Islands to investigate a report that thirty West Indian British sub- jects were held in practical slavery. Captain Allgood found these men, one of whom was in irons. They deposed that they had been brought from the West Indies to work for the Governor of the Galapagos, who is also a general of Ecuador. He paid them less than a, shilling a. day, and, by charging them for their food, kept them in debt, and refused to permit them to return. The men fell on their knees to CSaptain Allgood and implored him to take them away. Captain Allgood was unable to find the Governor, who is believed to have fled on a vessel which left as the Shearwater was approaching. The captain has reported the matter to the authorities in London.

I COLLARS ON FOXHOUNDS The bearing of the new Dogs Act on hounds kept for sporting purposes was discussed by the Hastings County Bench on Saturday, When Sidney Seweil, of the Devonshire Hotel, Bexhill, was summoned for allowing a puppy, which he was "walking" for the East Sussex Foxhounds, to be on the highway without a collar bearing his name and address. The defence was thait the regulations did not apply to any member of a pack of hounds, and that the puppy was registered and branded on the ear as belonging' to the East Sussex Hunt. The wearing of a. collar, it waa stated, would be most dangerous to the dogs. The summons was disimissied.

I CHAUFFEUR IN THE DOCK j A chauffeur, named Percy George Garrard, was remanded at Westminster on Saturday charged with obtaining £100 by false pre- teruoes from Mr. Samuel Brown, deater, of Yeoaruansrtrow, Brompton. The accused was in the service of Mr. Bateman Lancaster Rose, stockbroker, of South. Kensington, and received from him, a. written authorisation to dispose of an Argyll motor-oar. Having done this and kept the money, it was allegied that he attered Mr. Rose's writing1 so as to make it appear that he had a Daimler oar for sale for £ 2fl5. On the strength of this letter the prosecutor painted wAh L100 to the prisoner as part. purchase money.

I DANDY'S JOKE. I A well-known dandy of Copenhagen, Pom- mery Petersen, introduced himself at a linoleum store as the inspector of the palace of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He ordered all the staircases in the palace to be relaid with new linoleum, and requested that the work should be completed before the Minister's return from Paris. The linoleum laying was started at once, and was nearly finished when the joke was discovered. Petersen declared that the old linoleum looked too shabby for the residence of the Foreign Minister. He was detained for far- ther explanations.

I WENT TO SEE THE SEA I Percy oopeey. ag-ed ten, who robbed his step-mother of 4a. 6d. and ran away from his h-ame in one of the by-streets of Kensington a week ago, was found by the police. He told the West London magistrate on Saturday that he went to Dover. Mr. Lane: Why to Dover? The Boy: To see the sea. Mr. Lane: Hadn't you men the sea, before? The Boy: No, sir. He was sent to the remaend for a week.

I SOLICITOR'S SUICIDE. A shot was hoard on Sunday morning in one of the bedrooms of the Bell Hotel at Sandwich. The door was broken open, and a gentleman was found dead in bed with a bullet wound in the heart. A revolver was in his hand, and he had evidently committed suicide. He was identified as Mr. Minter, a^ed 75, a solicitor, of Folkestone. He was formerly- coroner for Folkestone.

KILLED AT A LLWYNYPIA PIT Oliver Lewis (26), a. married man, was knocked down by the crank of an engine he was cleaning at the Glamorgan Coal Com- pany's Llwynypia Pit on Saturday afternoon a.nd fatally injured.

£ 200 A YEAR FOR WORKHOUSE CAKE I Raabridge Guardians (SufFolik) were informed by the otenk, on making a oontract for cake, that 3001b. were now Oaten each week at the workhouse, amd the cost was close aa £2JXJ a year. The Local Government Board bad pot cake on the new dietary ta-blas. and it bad raised the cost of indoor maintenance.

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Ganger Cut to Pieces. I TERRIBLE ACCIDENT NEAR LOUGHOR John Phillips, a ganger, was walking on the up line towards Llanelly on Saturday night, and when he had gone a distance of about 200 yards past Loughor Bridge he sighted a goods train ooming up, and crossed to the down line in order to get out of its way. At that very moment the Fish- guard express came 3Ilong on the down line and killed him instantaneously. Informa- tion of the accident was given at a local signal-box, and a search party were horri. fied to find that some man had been muti- lated beyond recognition by the passing train. The Loughor officials picked up the mutilated bits of the deceased's body and put them in a bag. They had not much difficulty in identifying the body. Phillips was only 42 years of age, amd leaves a widow and three children.

BURIED IN A FALL OF CLAY Death of Mr. J. F. Clarkson, Porthcawl Mr. J. F. Clarkson, Well-street, Porthcawl, succumbed on Saturday to the injuries he received on the previous day through being buried in a fall of clay at the brickworks at Cefn Cribbwr, near Kenfig Hill, of which he was the owner. After the accident he was conveyed to Porthcawl by train, and subsequently attended at his residence by Dr. Hartland, who found that his spine was fractured and that other injuries of a very serious nature nad been sustained. The deceased gentleman, who wig 46 years of age, was generally held in high esteem, and his death has created quite a gloom in the neighbourhood. A native of Perth, he came to Porthcawl over twenty years ago, and until recently he was agent to the Brogden Estate, and he was also the licensee of the Esplanade Hotel. He acquired the brickworks at Cefn Cribbwr some years ago. He had been a member of the Porthcawl Urban Council for some years.

THE PECULIAR PEOPLE. Numbers of the Peculiar People were in the Assize Court, Chelmsford, when one of the sect, Thomas John Whale, a. horseman on a farm at Waikenng, was charged with the manslaughter of his seven-year-old oMM- Prisoner is one of the Original Peculiars, who carry to the utmost extreme a refusal to have niedical attention in time of sickness. The story told by the prosecution was to the effect that the child developed pains in the head and back, and, at the advice of the elders, Whale sent for Dr. Williamson, who diagnosed the case as diphtheria. The parenits, however, refused to allow the child to be treated medically, and death resulted from diphtheria^ after great suffering. Whale was found guilty of neglecting has child in a manner likely to cause unnecessary I suffering. The jury recommended him to mercy. The postponed sentence.

FATAL HAND AT CARDS I I Johann Maschik, the electricity snperin- tendemt. in Krupp's great metal works at Berndorf, has died suddenly while playing the card game tarok with friends in a coffee-house. After a deal he announced radiantly, "This is the best hand of my life. I go pagat ultimo," that being the highest ftgure that can be played, and very rarely obtained. The words were hardly out of his mouth when he fell off his chair, and when picked up was found to be dead, the excitement of such a good hand having proved fatal to a weak heart. Herr Masohik was often heard to say that he would like to die in this coffee-honse at Berndorf, where he had spent the happiest hours of his life with his friends. I

WANTED TO BE "DESTROYED" A burly fellow wns charged at derkenwell Police-court on Saturday with begging. .I, m a disgrace," he pleaded. "I admit it. I've just oome out of prison. But I want a chance. Give me a pack and a shovel and a start, and if I can't earn my living you caIDJ have me destroyed." Mr. d'Eynoourt: UmfoirtuiMMely, I can't make any order to that effect. (Laughter.) "WelJ. I'm such a. disgrace that if I couldn't do it I'd be glad if somebody would have me destroyed." Mr. d'Eynoourt: Yon take a very gloomy view of your circumstances. I must send you to the sessions.

FORGED HIS WIFE'S NAME. Baran Sohonberger, the husband of the Hungarian court beauty who was paid by the Hungarian Government to spy on the Emperor, was condemned on Saturday in Vienna to six months' imprisonment for forging his wife's name on bills. Before his marriage the Baron mined him- self by extravagance, and finally became a cabdriver. His wife assisted him financially for a time, was separated from him, and now declares she is herself ruined by the failure of the Hungarian Government to keep its promise to recoup her for the heavy expenses she incurred a.t the Viennese court.

A.S.R.S. AND A STRIKE. A mass meeting of raiiwaymen interested in the national all-grades movement was held at Norwich on Sunday. Mr. Richard Bell, M.P., the general secretary, said the movement now on foot was to decide whether or not the old system of representing grievances to the head- quarters of the railway companies should be dropped in favour of a new and up-to-date one. He denied he had inaugurated this agitation; it was the work of the rank and file. So far as he knew, nOlIle of the Amal- gamated Society of Railway Semwuts' officials had yet suggested a strike.

I TOWN BLOWN UP A terrible dynamite explosion yesterday destroyed a great portion of the town of Covilba, the Portuguese Manchester. Thirty people were killed, and a largo number of others were seriously injured. Sixteen of the principal buildings were "blown to pieces, and blocks of masonry weighing humdredweighte were hurled great distances. The disaster is attributed to the vengeance of dismissed workmen.

NEW OCEAN MAIL CONTRACT. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company intimate that the Postmaster-General has now entered into a contract with the com- pany for the conveyance of Transatlantic mails, the rate of payment to the company being calculated on a poundage basis. This contract indicates an important extension of the principle of payment by his Majesty's Government on the poundage basis instead of a fixed subsidy for the conveyance of mails to and from his Majesty's Colonies and dominions.

KING AND THE RED CROSS The King received at Buckingham Palace on Saturday the delegates of the Interna- tional Red Cross Conference. Among thoee present were Sir Frederick Treves, Colonel Douglas Dawson, Earl Roberts, the Mar- chioness of Londonderry, the Austrian Am- bassador, Lord Cheylesmore, and a large body of country presidents. King Edward and Queen Alexandra received the delegates very graciously, shook hands with the presi- dents and others presented to them, and con- versed with mamy on the subject of the Red Cross Society, its aims, and its achievements. |

THE BEN NEVIS ACCIDENT. A search party has discovered the body of the missing olimoer Graham, who. with a companion named Smellie, fell over a procd- pice on Ben Nevis on Friday. There was a. great gash in the skull, and death was, appa- rently, instantaneous. The remains were con- veyed to the mortuary at Fort William. The injured man in the Bedford Hospital is still unable to give a coherent account of the occurrence.

I WIFE AND CHILD KILLED. 1 It is reported from CtastLebar tha*, at AjOhffl Sound, Mr. Owen Laveile, a. county councillor and extensive merohount, oat the throats of biis wife amd child while they slept, killing them both. Laveile is in custody.

All kimimg ga-es among children have been strictly prohibited by the town autho- rities at Jefferson, New York. ovioc to the afUeeed danger to health.

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I DUMA DISSOLVED. GRAVE CRISIS IN RUSSIA. The Russian Duma has been dissolved within a few months of its inception. The Premier announced on Friday that a criminal organisation had been dis- covered in which a number of members of the Duma were participating, and demanded the arrest and prosecution of certain members. A strong debate followed, and the Constitutional Demo- crats proposed to refer the Govern- ment's demand to a Committee of the House. This resolution was eventually adopted, but, as the Committee con- sisted largely of Constitutional Demo- crats and members of the Left, it was plain beforehand that the demand would be rejected, leaving the Government no option but to dissolve the Parliament. On Sunday an Imperial Ukase was published fixing the new elections for September. An Imperial manifesto and a new electoral law were also published. FEELING IN THE CAPITAL Arrest of Nine Accused Deputies. ST. PETERSBURG, Sunday. News of the dissolution of the Duma was received quietly in the capital. The city is full of troops, quartered in the principal thoroughfares. Extraordinary measures have been taken to assure the maintenance of order, and there is practically no possibility of any rioting. General Dratohevsky, Prefect of St. Peters- burg, has issued a special order prohibiting any press comments hostile to the Govern- ment, and threatening the suppression of newspapers which ignore the prohibition. According to the rules of State for extra, ordinary defenoe, numerous arrests have already taken plaoe here, nine of the acouaed deputies being among the prisoners. Some of the deputies fled from the capital, among them being M. Osohl, member for the Baltic Pro. vinoes, who was, however, arrested while attempting to cross the frontier in disguise. Public opinion is as usual indifferent, and regards the proceedings without much appa- rent surprise. Professor Milinkoff, interviewed by Renter's representative, said that he did not antici- pate any serious general revolt, but he was sure that anarchy would increase in Russia. The most remarkable speech at yesterday's sitting of the Duma was delivered by the Social Deraom-atic leader, M. Tsereteli, who said: "We are told that there is no salm> tion outside the National Assembly, but we say that there is no Assembly outside the political education of the masses. We arer accused of having organised that education. We declare that our hearts are full of pride, because the accusation shows that we have honestly fulfiUed our duty. Soldiers are around the Palace waiting for the signal to disperse Parliament with their bayonets, but should the Duma. tremble, should it resign its rights, you will, perhaps, save the Assembly from the Government, but will you save such an Assembly from the popular wrath at that inevitable moment when the people will crush the Government and put thiis alternative before you?"—Renter. Feeling in Warsaw. WARSAW, Sunday. The news of the dissolution of the Duma has created a profound impression here, although it was foreseen a fortnight ago. Domiciliary visits are of nightly occurrence. houses and flats being alike searched, and frequent arrests are made both of Socialists and Nationalists. The general opinion here is that the disso- lution of the Duma is directed against the Pu.1es, the important part played by them in the Duma. having angered the Government. The fact that the new electoral law greatly reduces the number of Polish delegates has given rise to great indignation here, and a bitter sense of oppression. The city is, how- ever, quiet. Yesterday evening the Governor-General issued a proclamation declaring that a fine of X300 would be inflicted upon proprietors or editors of newspapers or other persons guilty of spreading false and alarming news or of publishing articles criticising the Government.-R-euter. I Black Hundred Jubilant ODESSA, Sunday. The expected news of the dissolution of the Duma is received with great indifference by the public, but the members of the Union of the Russian People and the Black Hundred are demonstratively jubilant. The Jews, fear. ing a pogrom, are keeping within their houses. The city is patrolled by detachments of troops. Three terrorist raids were carried out here yesterday, and four people were killed, including the manager of a brewery.- Central News. Assassination at Sebastapol. SEBASTIDPOL, Sunday. Colonel Gneesekowsky, deputy-commab da.nt of the harbour, was killed this a.fter- noon by a revolver bullet fired a.t him near the dry dock. The murderer was arrested- -Peuter.

A Family Wiped Out. I SIX PERSONS LOSE THEIR LIVES IA boating disaster occurred off the large island of Cumbrae, in the Firth of Clyde, on Saturday afternoon, a lug-eaii pleasure boat capsizing and the owupants being drowned. It seems that the party, consisting of Mrs. Waterston, wife of Mr. John Waterston. ?pawnbroker, residing at 19, Kelvinside. East Glasgow; her two children; Mr. Barclay, of Kilbirnie, Ayrshire; and Miss Blair, of Dairy, Ayrshire, his fiancee, hired a Ing--sail-boat at Millport, and proceeded to Fintry Bay, at the western side of the island. By some unexplained oause, either through a squall or the occupants moving, the boat capsized, and all were drowned. A little boy refused to join the party as he was afraid of the sea. A later telegram from Glasgow intdtnatog that the calamity involved the loss of six lives, the party including, in addition to these mentioned, Mr. William Barclay, father of Mr. John Barclay. The latter returned from South Africa only a week ago, and should have married Miss Blair next month. The whole Barclay family is wiped out, Mrs. Waterston having been a Miss Barclay, while MT. Waterston, who went to Millport on Saturday night, unaware of the disaster, has lost all his family, except the boy, who feared to go. Four bodies have been recovered. The children of Mrs. Waterston were her son William, aged four, and her daughter Agnes, aged two. The party were aoous- tomed to going out in lug-sail boats, and it it is not known how the accident was caused. The bodies of the two Barclays, William Waterston, and Miss Blair have been washed ashore.

I PONTNEWYDD TINMEN'S GRIEVANCES A meeting of the workmen employed at, the Avond'ale and Tynewydd Tinworks, Pont- newydd, Was held on Saturday, relative to ai I three-sheet concession. It was declared that the Tynewydd men were prepared to hand in notices to come out on strike if all The workmen in the trade were prepared to act similarly, and aak for payment by area. Mr. Griffiths, of the Steel Smelters' Union, pointed out that it would be impossible to take that step, as the men were working under an agreement which would not ter- minate until June, 1908. No action was. therefore, taken.

S. WALES LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS At the Central Hotel, Cardiff, on Sunday the South Wales District Council of the Asso- ciated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen met and considered several subjects dealing with the working conditions of looo- motive men. Besolutions were passed, and in due course will be submitted to the chief superintendent of the locomotive department of the Great Western Railway at Swindon.

CYCLE ACCIDENT AT ST. fAGANS Mrs. iixzie Dy-er, a. yotmg married lady, of 87, King's-road, Cardiff, was out riding a bicycle around St. Pagan's on Sunday, accompanied by her urother-in-law, when in turning a. corner too quickly she fell off the machine, dislocating her ankle, and also receiving a oompoond fracture. A pony and trap was immediately procured and the lady driven to the Cardiff Infirmary, where she received treatment.

TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTIVES I Owing to a. largo increase of phthisis at Newport, and the fact that there are now 70 cases of infectious disease at Allt-yr-yn Isolation Hospital, whioh absorbs the whole accommodative oapacdty of the institution, the question of the admission of oonsump- Uros for treatment haa been deferred