The Herald of Wales. — 1887-05-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SALE.  A sale of frsehold and leasehold propertytook place at the Stepney.Arms Hotel, on Monday afternoon. Messrs. Powell and Gourrh were the auctioneers, and bleier'. Rees and Edward' the solicitors. Lot 3, the freehold borate, togaether sold w oth e Davidfie l d i ojf rich pad, Swansea-road, Llanelly, for £635; lot 7, a double-licensed public-house known as the Duke of Wellington, was sold to Mr. D. John, Felinfotl, for £705; lot 13, five freehold oottogs' opposite Capel Newydd, was knocked down to Mrs. Williams, Trebean, for £455. The Rev. Edgar Williams, Swansea, and Mr. James Pryor, Llanelly, were the parchasers of several other lots.  We are informed that Mr. Gwilym Evans, F. 0.8., Llauelly, has been elected te • seat on the Pharmaceutical Council. Mr. Evans enjoys the enviable distinction of being the first Welshman upon whom this honour has been conferred. .  A middle-aged lady, named Miss Annie Howe, vras burnt to death in her bed, in her house at Hounslow. The unfortunate lady, it I presumed, had been reading in bed.  Charlotte Dodd and Fanny Goldby, mother and daughter, have been committed for trial, charged with the murder of the illegitimate infant daughter of Goldby, at Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire. The child's dead body was found in a ditch with ite akall amaehed.  In a voyage from Clyde to Cowes, on Saturday, the racing yacht Thistle picked op three men in an open boat, who were the only persons saved out of a mew of 30, on board the steamship Harkaway, which suddenly foundered when off the Smalls the previous day.  At the annual meeting of the Royal Geo. graphical Society, on Monday, General Strachy, the newly appointed preeident, in his address, referred to the value of the eervioN given to the society by 'Lord Aberdare, for several years past. For spitting in the facie of Mary Price, Mary Ann Keefe was fined 2s. 6d. and costa, at Tre. dew police court, on Tuesday. For retaliating, by striking Mary Ann Keefe in the face, Mary Price wee also fined is. Gd. and costs. The alternative in both cases was 14 days' *Piton' ment. Both women went to prises.  The Daily Telegraph corrospo- ndent at Berlin, on Sunday, says :—The result of the operation Dr. Meekenzie performeden the Crown Prince's throat, yesterday, is most encouraging. A microscopic examination was made by Professor Virchaw, and the opinion of this eminent authority is that there is nothing in the part examined to lead one to believe that the malady is of a serious nature.  A fatal trap rcaident occurred at Brampton, Cumberland, on Wedneeday. A farmer named James Murray, accompanied by his daughter and a lady friend, were driving in a gig to mar. bet, when, in nearing town, the reins broke, and immediately the horse bolted. In jumping out, Murray fell on his head. Miss Murray was thrown out before the horse had proceeded far. Her companion. Miss Lowthian, essayed to leap from the vehicle, and broke her ankle. Mr Murray died in a wayside public-house, in a few hours.  A French doctor named Grimonillet sorsa time ago took a fancy to one of his patients, a French lady. After seducing her, the docter forwarded her a specially prepared poison, which left no trace behind it, for the purpose of doing away with her husband, who, however, intercepted the parcel and submitted the same to a chemist for analysis, with the result that the plot was disclosed. On the wife beiug accused of the attempt to murder her husband she admitted everything. Grenouillet has been sent to prison for two months for circulating the poisonous powder. On Tuesday afternoon, a man named Thomas Prosser, a butcher in the employ of Mr Smals, New Oxford-street, was engaged in aiding I horse that is training for the trotting match st the Vetch Field on Whit-Monday, and when is the neighbourhood of Rhyddings Park-roasl, the home took fright, and rushing along at' tremendous speed, overthrew its unfortutuite rider. Prosser, who was picked up is an us. conscious state, was taken to the Hospital. where he was examined by the resident medical officer, and found to be suffering frogs were *lurks to the head.  V