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i THF ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TOI…

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The Penistone Collision.

-OMNIBUS ACCIDENT IN LONDON

ISHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE.

STRIKE AT THE GATE8HEAD RAILWAY…

TERRIBLE QUARRY ACCIDENT.…

ITHE UXBRIDGE MURDER.I

I AN ABSCONDING BANKRUPT.I

IPARRY'S " NEBUCHADNEZZAR."I

-RHONDDA VALLEY CHAMBER OF…

THE LLAN0VER ESTATES.

- MONEY MARKET. I

TO-DAY'S MARKETS. I

TO-DAY'S SHIPPING. I

NEWPORT SCHOOL BOARD. ! i

TO-DAY'S POLICE.I

-_-_-THE PRIZE FIGHT NEAR…

-WRETCHED DEATH OF A WITCH.

SPORTING ITEMS. -.

THE FALSELY-STYLED REIGN OF…

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THE FALSELY-STYLED REIGN OF TERROR AT CARDIFF. At Cardiff police-court to-day-before Mr R. O. Jones and Alderman Jones-Ellen York, a young woman 27 years of age, who had been five times previously convicted for being a woman of bad character, was charged with being drunk and disorderly. P.C. Phillips said that the defendant was very abusive, rolling against persons who were passing in the street, and abusing them. He cautioned her asked her to leave, but she refused, and after some time he took her into custody. She was finad 5s and costs. Alice Edmonds (20) Amelia Stephens (19), May Thompson (19), and Margaret Evans (20), Y rather fashionably dressed girls, were charged with being prosti- tutes, and wilfully causing an obstruction in St. Mary-street on Wednesday night. P.C. Phillips said that he was on duty in St. Mary-street about 20 minutes to nine o'clock. He saw the four defendants stopping respectable men and causing them to turn off the foot-pavements. He had spoken to them on a previous occasion when he saw them stopping gentlemen, and cautioned them. They then separated, but met again So little below Caroline- street. In reply to Mr Jones the constable said that they acted in concert. On seeing gentlemen approach they would spread themselves across the foot-pavement and stopping there, caused them to turn off into the roadway. He saw them stop eisrht gentlemen passing down the street. It was only after cautioning them that he apprehended them. Mr Jones asked the constable if he saw the defendants stop eight separate men, and the constable said "Yes." The defendant Edmonds asked the constable if he saw her stop any man, and the constable replied, Yes, several. She made a statement that when she was spoken to by the constable they all separated. The constable said that that was on the first occasion. Thompson one of the defendants said, You never cautioned us before." She, however, said that she was very sorry for what she had done. Evans was similarly contrite.—The Head Constable said that EdmonciN was a very bad ^character,r and had given them a good deal of trouble. She had been seven- teen times convicted. She had also been sent home, her railway fare being paid, but it was no use, she returned back and commenced her old life. She was constantly causing them a good deal of trouble in St. Mary- street. Stephens had been twicfe before them. Once convicted and once cautioned. The jther<? had not been previously charged. Edmonds was fined 20s and costs Stephens 10s and costs. The others were discharged with a caution.— Laura Griffiths (20) and Fanny Heatlierington, two women of bad character, were also charged with being disorderly prostitutes and causing sn obstruction by fighting in St Mary-street on the 31st ult. P.C. Mansfield saw the defendants fighting in the street. A large crowd of people had assembled, and the street was ob- structed. Mr Price appeared for Heatherington, and witnesses were called to prove that the fight was commenced by Griffiths, who came up to Heatherington, and, without any provocation, struck her a violent blow in the face. She then returned the blow, and a fight commenced. Grif- fiths was fined 20s and costs and Heatherington 5s and costs.

THE VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A WOMAN…

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BURNT TO DEATH IN BED.

A MALE BEGGAR IN WOMEN'S CLOTHES.

-=-THF HEALTH MR. GLAD-THE…

THE OLDEST MINISTER IN THE…

MR BRIGHT AND THE TORY CANDIDATE…

THE TRAGIC AFFAIR AT CHISWICK.

I The Earthquakesin Spain

A TOWN ATTACKED BY THE IASHANTEES.

ITHE EGYPTIAN CAISSE TRIAL.

-CATTLE PLAGUE IN IRELAND.

-THE DYNAMITE SCARE AT DUDLEY.

-= BRUTAL MURDER OF A SAILOR…

--_-ALARMING MACHINERY-, ACCIDENT.