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At a Southwark inquest it Was shown that an elderly woman died from bl-ccl-poisoning, sei up by chapped hands."

I FATALITIES TO WORKERS. I Three men were killed and another terribly injured by a shocking accident at the works of Messrs. Cammell Laird and Co., Sheffield, on Saturday. A large stack of pig-iron was to be loaded into railway trucks, and the men began working at the foot of the pile. The founda- tion became weakened, and without any warn- ing the stack, 20ft. in height, suddenly col- lapsed, the workmen being completely buried under fifty tons of metal. A rescue party was immediately set to work, but half an hour elapsed before the bodies were reached. It was then found that George Cooper, George Thomp- son, and John William, all of Grimesthorpe, were dead. The fourth man, James Grannon, had both legs broken. Two men lost their lives and two others were injured seriously by a crane accident at New- ton railway bridge, between Craigellachie and Dufftown, on Sunday. Workmen were repair- ing the bridge, and a girder was being removed by means of a large crane, when the crane and the bogie to which it was attached toppled over the parapet into the River Fiddich, thirty feet below. The four men who were on the crane were thrown into the river, two of them being killed outright, and the other two severely injured.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR TETB. KITCHEN.-Stormy and Squalls, unless Cook is kept in a good frame of mind by a liberal supply of Keating's Powder, which keeps pantry and larder free from Beetles, Ants, and Cock- roaches. Sold by Chemists, Grocers and Oil- men. in tins only, 3d., 6d., and Is. Bellows (filled), 9d. A !ITeat Welsh convention has been arranged by the National Council of the Evangelical Free Churches to take place during the week begin- ning June 10. Sermons will be preached in English and Welsh. Mr. Maurice Levy, the Liberal who opposed the Women's Suffrage Bill and blocked the re- cent discussion of the subject in the House of Commons has introduced a Bill to enable all adult men and women to vote. A striking example of the effect of agricul- tural depression was given at St. Mary's Vestry meeting, Dover.. One of the parish charities arises from the rent of land on Romney Marsh, which formerly let for L140 a year, allowing £ 7 yearly each for twenty widows. Owing to the depression it has now been let for £ '45 a i year, which is divided amongst ten widows.

FIRE AT A COAL MINE. I At a time when 118 men were at work in the mine, a disastrous fire broke out at the Old Silkstone Colliery, Dodsworth, near Barnsley, all the pit-head works and a large quantity of coal being destroyed, the damage amounting to = £ 40,000. The fire broke out at the pit head at two o'clock in the morning, and in half an hour the wooden gangways connecting the various shafts, as well as the head gears, were a mass of flames. Engine-houses, electric plant buildings, and machinery were destroyed. The fire brigade prevented the fire from reaching the upcast, or ventilating shaft, and the men of the night shift were brought to the surface as speedily as possible. Twelve hundred men have been thrown out of employment.

I BARRISTER'S SUICIDE. I At the inquest on Charles Vincent Fox, a barrister, twenty-nine years old, of 37, Red- clyffe-gardens, S.W., who killed himself in a bedroom at the Dolphin Hotel, Southampton, it was stated in evidence that Mr. Fox en- gaged a bedroom at the hotel and went up to bed at 10.30. Nothing more was seen of him until 11.30 the next day, when the boots, who was sent to see why he had not come down, found hita under the bedclothes, fully dressed, even to his overcoat, covered with blood and grasp- ing a five-chambered revolver in his right hand. The jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind.

A little cottage in a remote corner of Essex was the scene of a coroner's inquest. The coroner took the evidence standing at the door, holding his papers against the doorpost, and the jury stood in a double rank on the garden- path. While watching the working of a chaff-cutter, the waistcoat of Mr. Robert Mann, jun., of Wivelsfield, Sussex, was caught in the machine. After being whirled round until his clothing was torn to shreds, 'lid' wa's thrown to the ground, much bruised, but otherwise unhurt.

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I GENERAL BOTHA'S WELCOME. I General Louis Botha, Prime Minister of the Transvaal, who arrived in England on Satur- day for the Colonial Conference, was officially welcomed at Southampton by the Mayor and Corporation. The brief ceremony took place in the reading-room of the Carisbrook Castle, General Botha being accompanied by his daugh- ter, Miss Helen Botha. The mayor presented an address, and in a brief speech said that the corporation was delighted to welcome to Eng- land the first Premier of the Transvaal. General Botha speaks English, but he prefers his native tongue for public occasions, and his brief speech was translated by his chief of staff, Mr. Meyer. "I regret that I am not such a master of your beautiful language as to be able to speak direct to you in it," he said. "Allow me to express my heartfelt gratitude for the welcome—the hearty welcome-you have ex- tended to me at Southampton. I greatly appre- ciate that honour. There was a time when I was not surrounded by such a body of English- men as I see around me now, but I thank God that I have now the liberty and freedom en- joyed by all you Englishmen, and I hope for the best of times for the whole Empire." Almost immediately afterwards General Botha and his party went ashore and left by the boat train for London.

LORD CROMER RETIRES. I Earl Cromer has resigned his position as British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt. The news, which was quite unexpected, was announced in the House of Commons by Sir Edward Grey, who, speaking with great emotion, said that Lord 'Cromer, upon medical advice, had decided that it was necessary for him to resign, and he read the following letter from the Earl:— "I have arrived at the conclusion that I must ask you to accept my resignation. I have done so after very full consideration and consultation with my medical adviser and Sir Stephen Mackenzie, who is here. I am most anxious that it should be particu- larly understood that the reasons which have induced me to take this step are wholly due to the state of my health, and that no political considerations of any kind whatever are in any way connected with it. More especially, I desire to say that nothing could be more effective or generous than the manner in which the present Government has supported me. It has been the greatest pleasure to me to serve under you, and it is with extreme regret that I shall break my official connection with you. After spending, however, 49 years in the public service, I am thoroughly worn out, and I am really unable to support any longer the excessive strain which my work here entails. I feel also that I do not possess the health and strength which are necessary to do justice to all the very important interests involved. Both doctors are quite agreed that it is necessary that I should give up my work." This news, Sir E. Grey said, had caused the Government the greatest regret, and to him personally it meant more than he could ekpress. Of Lord Cromer's work in Egypt he spoke in terms of the highest admiration, and he declared that it was the object of the Government to maintain that work and to EABL CFIOMER. j continue the policy which Lord Cromer ha-I inspired. He concluded by the further an nouneement that the King had approved of the appointment of Sir Eldon Gorst as Lord Cromer's successor. At several points in Sir E. Grey's brief speech there were general cheers conveying sympathy with Lord Cromer and admiration for his services, Mr. Balfour rose at bnce to say that theo regret expressed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs would be shared by every man having the honour of a seat in that House. They all recognised how marvellous were the labours, moral and material, which Lord Cromer had gone through in Egypt, and they all admired the way in which under international and other difficulties he had performed "the task- committed" him. Of his successor he would say that' all who knew Sir Eldon Gorst knew how great were his abilities and how unequalled was his know- ledge of recent Egyptiah developments, and also bow anxious he was to carry out intact the policy of his great predecessor, whose5 loss to the public service they all lamented. Lord Cromer retires from the public ser- vice after nearly half a century of work which has scarcely a parallel in even the splendid records of British administration. Born in 1841, the ninth son of the late Mr. Henry Baring, for some time member; for Northampton, Lord Cromer, then Evelyn. Baring, began life in the army. In 1858'he entered the Royal Artillery, and after 18: years' service reached the rank of Major. He acted as secretary to the late Sir Henry Storks in the Ionian Islands, and when Sir Henry went to Jamaica to conduct the in- quiry into the outbreak in that island in 1865 he took Baring with him"; From 1872 until 1876 Captain Baring acted as private secretary to Lord Northbrook, then Viceroy of India, and in 1877 e went to Egypt as a Commissioner of the Public Debt. Two years later he was appointed Controller- General, but in 1880 he returned to India as Minister of Finance to the Indian Empire. When the great crisis arose in Egypt''in 1883 it was felt that he was the man to grapple with" it. He was consequently appointed Agent and Consul-General, with the rank of a Minister Plenipotentiary in the Diplomatic Service, which position he has held up to the present time. He was created a baron in 1892, viscount in 1898, and earl in 1901, and besides many other decorations he holds the G.C.B. and the G.C.M.G. The first Lady Cromer died in 1898, and in 1901 Lord Cromer married Lady Catherine Thynne, second daughter of the fourth Marquis of Bath.

LEAVING FOR EVER. Sir Brodrick Cecil Hartwell was named as co-respondent in tie divorce suit brought by Mr. Edgar Warner Chamberlain, an engi- neer lieutenant in the Navy. It was stated that Sir Brodrick eloped to Australia with Mrs. Chamberlain, and two letters of confes- sion were put in evidence. Mrs. Chamberlain wrote to her husband, "I have left you for ever, and have away with. Sir Brodrick Hartwell. I have been very unhappy and miserable. Forgive me, if you can, for the wrong I have done you, and forget me." The second letter by Sir Brodrick to his wife, ran: "I am leaving you for ever. So long as I cared for no one else the life you expected me to lead with you was bearable, but it was almost impos- sible that it should have lasted. At any rate, directly I met some one I cared for and who cared for me, I knew I could no longer go on living the miserable semi-detached life I had been living for the last two years." Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane said miscon- duct was proved, and adjourned the case for formal proof of Mr. Chamberlain's marriage, which took place in Vancouver.

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0: 11 SCHOOL DESTROYED BY FIRE. During a thunderstorm which passed over I West Surrey, St. Catherine's School for Girl's, Bramley, near Gaildford, was struck by lightning, and the whole building, with the exception of the north-west wing and the chapel, was destroyed by fire. Happily no one was injured; the boarders were all away for Easter holidays. The lightning struck the corner of the building in which were the servants' quarters, and the. fire rapidly spread right and left along- the roofs. The Guildford, Godalm- ing, and Shere fire brigades were summoned. At first they worked from water derived from the Godalming water main, but the pressure being inadequate recourse was had to the mill-stream situate some distance away, and here an ample supply was obtainable. Gradually the brigades mastered the flames, and saved the beautiful chapel and the north- west wing Some furniture was saved, but most of the contents of the school (which was erected at a cost of < £ 13,000) were destroyed. The dam- age is covered by insurance.

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Fifty-eight competitors were this year at. tracted by the Mark Hamburg Prize for the best composition by a British composer. As no composition sent in was considered by the judges to be excellent enough for first prize, only second and third prizes were awarded, and these were won respectively by Mr. William Wolstenholme with a polonaise impromptu and Mr. J. S. W. Rowe with a scherzo. After a trial of six months the Blackburn Town Council decided to discontinue the Sun- day opening of the Free Library and the Art Gallery. Alderman Crosslèy stated that during the winter the average number of books asked for was only 28, and since Christmas it had fallen to 1&- At the meeting of the Anglo-Argentine Tram- ways Company, Limited, neld in London, Mr. J. Heaton, who seconded the adoption of me report, said the population of Buenos Ayres was about 1,000,000 persons, and that the com- pany had carried about 100,000,000 during 1906. "Thus," he added, amidst laughter, "the whole population is carried in the company's tram- cars twice a week.

EMIGRANT TRAIN WRECK. I A terrible disaster occurred on the Canadian Pacific Railway line, near Chapleau, Ontario, in which fifteen English tourists were killed and some fifty people, mostly immigrants from the British Isles, injured. Many of the bodies of the dead were cremated in the burning of the ears, which took place immediately aicer the disaster. The place where the accident oc- curred was along a high embankment, and the train, which was thrown from the line through a broken rail, roLed down the embankment, carrying death and destruction with it. Five cars in all were thrown from the line, and took fire while the victims were buried beneath the splintered coaches. The survivors immediately rendered such aid as was possible, and many of the injured were taken from the wreck. In the case of the tourist car, however, this was impossible, owing to the rapidly increasing fire, which rendered approach dangerous. Here the victims were ciiioriy women and children. There was no water to be obtained, and the place was far from any medical or other aid. Among the killed are Mrs. R. B. Cnamoion and baby, Mrs. H. Davidson and baby, William Day, Sunny House, Kingston, England, Wini- fred and Annie I-Iopton, The Bungalow, Char- ing-heath, Kent, and C. H. Golding, his brother, and wife, and two children, Salmon- road, London-row, Plaistow, Essex; wmio the injured include Joseph Gibson, Salisbury, back badly sprained Charles Coleman, Portsmouth, head, face, hands and back burned Archibald Stettleton, Chippenham, leg bruised; Ernest Knight, Cambridge, wounded over eye, ear. cut; Harry Williams, Winchester, wrist cut; John Faubistelle, Orkney, face and hands burned; William Nares, Orkney, head, face and hands burned; William Hamilton, Dumfries, wrist sprained; Patrick Harvey, Wigtown, Scotland, hand cut, and J. A. Storr, London, scalp wound. The survivors describe the scene as heart- rending, men, women, and children being jammed in the wreckage, and uttering terrified screams for assistance as the flames reached them. In one case a woman with two children waa burned to death in sight of her husband, who was powerless to save them. Many deeds of valour are reported. Janici .Gibson, formerly of the 12th Lancers, who had retired and was going West to settle, is men- tioned as one of the heroes of the disaster. He plunged into the midst (If a burning car with a wet handkerchief over his face and brought out Mrs. Champion, who was pinned underneath a seat. The woman, however, was no sooner out than she discovered that her baby was missing, and with an agonising cry she plunged into the car and was never seen again. Another passenger, George Perce, of Bourne- mouth, is also credited with conspicuous gal- lantry, having rescued two persons from a car that was on fire from end to end. He was in- jured at the moment of the wreck, lInt took no notice of his hurts, and in the work of rescue he was further injured, receiving some cuts and being severely burned. The scene was one of awful horror. One man, whose feet had been pinned between two coaches, was slowly roasted to death, although his would-be rescuers, with their hands burned and bleeding, strove heroically to extricate him. Another passenger was jambed among the wreckage, which had caught him just above the knees. When the rescue party had nearly freed him, the top of a half-burned car fell upon him. The man thrust his intended res- cuers aside, crying "Save yourselves; it is too late for me." The passengers were nearly all English immi- grants, who had arrived by the steamers New York, Kensington, and Virginia. Of the thirty injured a dozen are in hospital at Fórt William, but their condition is not serious. The remain- der have proceeded West to Winnipeg. The sisters Miss Winifred and Miss Susan Horton, of Cliaring-heath, Kent, who met their death in the accident, .were only23 and 20 years of Age respectively. They had gone to Canada witli the intention of settling there. Their mother's grief was pitiable to witness when she heard the news. It is only three weeks ago since the girls, who were bright and attractive, left home. Mr. William Dav, who was also among t-he victims, left England with them. He was engaged to be married to Miss Winifred Horton. Another young lady who was with the party fortunately escaped. The Horton family has been settled in the Charing-heath district for many years, and their history is a singularly tragic one. Six years ago the father of the girls was killed by being thrown from his trap while drtving between Egerton and Charing-heath. Their grandfather was found dead in a field, and their great-grand- father was burnt to death.

RESCUERS' REWARDS. The work of rescue performed at the wreck cf the White, Star liner Suevic came before the Royal National Lifeboat Institution at its weekly meeting, when it was stated that 456 lives were saved by the Cadgwith, Lizard, Coverack, and Porthleven lifeboats. Pecuniary rewards to the crews of the lifeboats and others had been distributed to the amount of £ 404. In addition to these awards it was decided that the silver medal of the institution should be granted to the Rev. Henry Vyvyan, M.A., hon. secretary of the Cadgwith brancb to Mr. Edward Rutter, coxswain of the Cadgwith life- boat; Mr. William Edward Mitchell, coxewain of the Lizard lifeboat; Mr. George Anderson and Mr. William Williams, seamen of the Fuevic, in recognition of-their arduous and gallant services on the occasion. Much indignation prevails at Hope Cove at the apportionment by the Board or Trade of the awards given to the men who saved lives from the wrecked liner Jebba. She carried seventy-nine passengers and seventy-six crew, or 155 persons in all, and every one was brought safely ashore. A cheque for kigo was received, of which £ 155 was paid to the ten coastguards who worked the rocket apparatus and saved thirty-eight lives from the top of the cliff. This works out at £ lo lX)s. per man. Helpers and other expenses were paid out of the balance, and the fishermen, who saved no fewer than 111 lives, received only £ 1 per man. It is pointed out that the gravest dangers were faced by the fishermen, who climbed down the rocks, at the risk of their lives, and from the lower cliff succeeded in flinging a line over the wreck. Delay arose in working the rocket apparatus after it had been successfully fired. and the coastguard officers themselves pointed cut to the fishermen the urgency of hastening the task of getting off the passengers, of whom the majority were hauled ashore by these men in boatswain's chairs. A strange thing is that Henry Hurrell, one of the life-saving brigade, was left out of the account altogether, and when he went for his £ 1 he was told there was nothing for him, and that his father would probably give him half of his sovereign. This he declined, but the fishermen out of their own email payments subscribed to give him his full share.

Two black boys were brought before the Bristol magistrates charged with being stowa- ways on a steamer from Jamaica. Their ex- cuse, when discovered, was that they had run away from the island because they were afraid of another earthquake. The court ordered the boys to be sent back. To be given as prizes to the children the Princess of Wales has forwarded a magnificent collection of photographs to Mr. C. Moffat Soames, hon. sec. of the Ragged Schools, Wandsworth-road. Each photograph bears an inscription that it has been given by the Prin. cess, the president of the schools. Miss Sarah Milward, a resident of Fiskerton, Notts, has died in her 101st year. She was bora at Stilton, Hunts, in December, 1906, and was one of four sisters, all of whom reached a ripe old age. Miss Milward had lived in the reigna of five English Sovereigns, and had a vivid re- collection of the receipt in England of the news of the Battle of Waterloo. She preserved her faculties to the end, and was remarkably active, being in the habit of walking about unaccom- panied until a month ago,

PAUPER'S GRUESOME JOKE. William Jones, an aged pauper, has been ordered by the Montgomery Board of Guar- dians to leave the workhouse. Jones had proved such an unmanageable inmate that he was incarcerated in the workhouse mortu- ary with the body of a dead pauper. No- thing daunted, he removed the corpse from the coffin, propped the body against the wall, and took its place. When a maid servant entered the chamber shortly afterwards with food, she was trans- fixed "by the ghastly sight. From the coffin there came an unearthly voice, which said: "If he will not eat, I can." The terrified girl fainted away. Threatened with legal pro- ceedings unless he departed, Jones coolly re- plied: "I might as well be in prison as in any other home."

Because of the dearth of curates-says eonon Carr, vicar of Goole, 18 per cent. of the grants of the Additional Curates' Society were not taken up last year. Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood paid a visit to Aldershot and made an unofficial inspection of his old regiment, the 2nd Scottish Rifles, late the 90th Foot.

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DISGUISED MAN'S DEATH. AIn; inquest was held at Westminster on Richard Norman Lucas, of Dartnell Park, Byfleet, a journalist, attached to a motoring paper, who was taken ill at the Holborn Sta- tion of the Piccadilly Tube, and died in King's College Hospital from prussic acid poisoning. At the hospital he was found to be wearing a false beard. In his pocket was an indiarubber tubing with a glass mouth- piece at one end and a pneumatic bulb at the other, and a bottle labelled "Poison," which had apparently contained prussic acid. The widow said when he left home on the morning of the day he was taken to hospital, he said that he would return by the 9.30 p.m. train. She had undergone an operation for her eyes, sn-d that worried him. Also he got in some difficulties about a patent. He had never threatened to do away with himself. Thei house physician at King's College Hos- pital said death was due to prussic acid poisoning. He should say it was adminis- tered by inhalation by the tube. Mrs. Lucas (recalled) said she had seen the tube before. Her husband told her it was for use in connection with a flyiner machine and a moijor car. He had alwaytbeen ex- perimenting with chemicals, and she took no notice. The jury returned a verdict of sui- cidfl during temporary insanity.

Bearing many tattoo marks, including a pea- cock on one arm and a snake and palm tree on the other, the body of an unknown man has been found in the sea at Clacton. By order of the King the Bank of England Rifles have ceased to exist. This corps, which consisted of a single company, was composed exclusively of employees of the Bank., Successful trials have been made of the de- tonating fog-signal apparatus at Cape Spartel Lighthouse, and the inauguration will take place on May 1. Well known as a bridge builder who had carried through many contracts on both sides of the border, Mr. Thomas Telford died at Langholm. Mr. Balfour will preside at the annual de- monstration of the Primrose League, to be held at the Albert Hall on the afternoon of May 3 next. It was announced in Liverpool that the blua manufacturing business of Ripley amd Sons had been amalgamated with Reckitt and Sons7 Limited. The members of the National Union of Teachers attending the conference at Oxford assembled in the Sheldonian Theatre to witness the ceremony of conferring the honorary de- gree of M.A. on the president, Mr. A. Pickles, Mr. Yoxall, M.P., and Dr. Macnamara* M.P. A Board of Trade Court of Inquiry found that the stranding of the steamer Clavering a Tweedmouth on January 31, whereby nineteen passengers were drowned, was due to tbt wrongful act and default" of the Ernest Harrison, who was ordered to pay toward the costs of the inquiry. e I IM.