The Herald of Wales. — 1889-05-11 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

HORRIBLE MURDERS IN INDIA.  SLOWLY ROASTED TO DEATH. A-terrible murder for supplied witchcraft is =I from India. At a village in Cliennar, certain shepherds were suspected by the villagers, and these suspicions were accentuated in consequence of a severe epidemic of cholera. The nmes Correspondent at Calcutta says two of the suspected men were seized, solemnly tried and condemned far witchcraft by the willage comrxission, and sentenced to be tortured to death. There, in presence of sa the villagers, their teeth were extracted with pincers, and their heads were shaved. Subsequently they were buried up to their seeks, wood was piled round their heads, a fire was kindled, and the skulls were roasted into powder. Some thirty persons have been convicted and sentenced to various terms of impriscmment. Another case of murder for supposed witchcraft was recently tried at Bombay. The accused imputed the death of lie father and mother, and the Shwas of certain =embers of his family, to the arts of an old woman, and beat her to death with a thick, heavy stick. These cases, adds the correspondent, are common, but are rarely brought to the notice of the British authorities.  A boy named llamas Edward Prince (12), of Aleaster Street, fell down in Deritend, near %.sningham, on Thursday afternoon whilst in poor *xenon of an earthenware jug. The vessel was smashed, and the lad falling on the broken r ime.% .emsuetaitiod a very serious cut on the right . The guides were severed, and blood was flowing copiously from the wounds. Several members of the Police Ambulance Corps were announced, and successfully rendered first aid to the injured boy. He was afterwards removed to the Queen's Hospital. A bill has been brought in by Mr. Quitter, Six Edward Birkbeck, Baron Drimsdale, Mr. Heneago, Viscount Wolmer, Sir Henry Setwin Ibbeitem, Mr. Herbert Gardner, Mr. Francis Stevenson, and Mr. Gurdon, for better securing the purity of beer. It provides that every person who sells or exposes for sale, by wholesale or retail, any beer brewed from or containing any ingredient other than hops or Malt from barley, shall keep conspicuously posted at the bar or place where such beer is sold or (epees& for sale legible notices stating what other in. gredieu.s are contained in such beer. Noncompliance with this enactment is to be visited with a fine of ib for the first offence, and £2O for any second or subsequent offence. The term " beer" includes beer (other than black or spruce beer), ale, and porter. Strange things often determine the placing of a vote, but a story has just been told haw an eleetion was won at Tyneside. It was a school board election, and one of the canvassers knew how to utilize the hobbies of his fellows. Calling Aspen one elector known, to have strong "fanny" leanings, he said, "Who's thoo gen te vote for?" "Wry, ,to be sure." "Na 7 lad, thoo should vote for Joe naming another candidate, and the one for whom he was sating. "What for r "Wey man," was the reply, 'bee's gat some o' the best tummler pigeons and hull terriers thoo ivor saw." "Byg was the immediate "sal giv him a roal; and as the ountafive vote rains in a denicns, and Joe--- got in by nine votes, Lhe "turnmkn Piteous" and "Isal,lterisa" did la/quick.