, 1894-05-23

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duced one of those educated female prisoners.
whoevery now and then, maketheir appearance
throughout ala criminal history. Madame
Joniat&, wife of chief engineer Of roads and
bridges. has been arrested on a charge of poi
sonlng her brother with morphine, which has
been found In his body when exhumed; but
when the trial commences many more charges
viii be reduced against her. The belief of
the police, as represented in the kilograms. is
THAI Madame Jouiaux, dissatisfied with her
husbands income--which was insufficient to
maintain the Ian &c house they lived iu-de-
termined TO increase it by insuring lives, and
then killing tie insured. She selected rs
her victims e~latives only and though the FREE
duent deaths in her house caused comment
she was not even suspected until her brother
died within three days of the policy being
signed. Then the Insurance Office moved
and the police, though most reluctant to act
against the wife Of an official, we're compell
ed to make strict inquiries, ending in the ar
rest. The defence Wit Ne, it is said, that
the deceased persons were victims to the NOR
phine habit, and that Madame Joniaux did
not benefit by the assurances, which she al
lcges were ali Effected to pqy debts or other
Oh igations. Inquiry in Belgium. as IN France,
is in all such cases slow, rs the prosecuting
off GERS desire for their own credit to bring
out the whole truth. 1t is a good process
where the guilty are concerned, but it is a hor-
rible ore for the innocent. Madame J%oniaux,
for example. is condemned by opinion all over
Europe before her defence has been heard.
Or thp evening Of Saturday last, the Lon
don police nude rather an important arrest.
Inspector Melville and his plain cloth es men
have been lately on the lookout for an Italian
Anarchist named Polti, and on Saturday
night at $50 they captured him in Earring
don Street, and took from him a parcel con-
tanning "a cylinder Z in, lone by : IN. broad,
perfectly hollow in the centre, with All iron
screw knob at one end. The bomb was,
however. not charged, and it is not known
whether its billet was in England or on
the continent. After Polti's arrest, his room
was searched, and bottles containing various
fluids were found, as we'll as the usual pack
cts Of Anarchist literature We're discovered.
In addition, there We're papers and letters
(which may be Of service in tracing other
Anarchists"
Mr.. Horace Pmmkett M. P. for South
Dublin county, who has taken 80 active a
part in organising the great dairy interest
in Ireland, in helping the farmers to test the
quality of their milk and butter, and to sell
to the best adv ntago, addressed a meeting
In Dublin for the purpose Of urging the ex-
tension of this agency TO other agricultural
products and operations. He desires to form
an association to he called e"Irieh Agricul-
tural Society, Limited" to register the
Society under he Industrial and Provident
Societies Act, 1898" and to devote the
S~ociety's operations to the object Of pushing
forward the propaganda Of the tue principal
of commercial cooperation. 1t will engage
il no business itself, and viii not undertake
any financial resr'nsiblljly,o r lendiany fnan-
cial assistance. 1t Is intended as a soci ETY.
for teaching the Irish farmers and labourers
how to organise themselves in cooperative
efforts for the production of good food, or
other raw material of which the quality can be
adequately tested, and for the Improvement
ans cheapening of the distributing agencies,
as experience has shown that what has al
ready been done for dairy produce may easily
he done for other products of Irish agricul-
ture. All political craftsmanship is to be posi-
lively forbi den.