The Herald of Wales. — 1889-10-26 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ONE PENNY  GOSSIP AND GLEANINGS.  The fire which °warred at Maesmynan Gaerwys, Denbighshire, on Monday night, causal damage estimatol at about four thousand pounds. The mansion was eared from &atm). tion by the efforts of the fire brigade. Sir Robert Peel, K.G.C.8., Liberal, and Mr. Gerald Loden, private secretary to the preeiclenl of the Local Government Board, Gonmervative were on Tuesday nominated to contest Parliamentary vacancy at Brighton.  We learn that Major-general Sir Francs Greafell has left England for Alexandria in or. der to receive the Prmoe of Wales on hia ru-rivai to bid farewell to Prince Albert Victor on Lk for his Indian visit. deTha ;are Daily TelefrapA Paris correspondent I wrote on Saturday :—lt is a fact not generally , known that the inventor of the powder used foe the Lebl rifles is not the colonel of that name but M. Ville, a young engineer of great ability and Ironxlaa. The discovery of this mysterious powder, which is the subject of so rend cixinsity in military circles generally, took place at the very time when the pattern of the repeat. ' lag or magazine rifle had been selected definitely so that the two inventions fitted into and sup. pleats:Am' each other. At noon on Saturday the remains of the late Sir Daniel Gooch were laid to rest in the family vault, situated in the south-east earner of Cleave Churchyard, near Windsor. The directors ark' , chief officials of the Chest Western Railway were present at the obsequies, and to suit then convenience a spool I train lef t Paddingtor about eleven o'clock. On the plats of the handsome polished oak coffin, which cantatas the leaden shell enclosing the body was the in. aoription, "Sir Daniel Gooch, Baronet, ol Clevrer Park, Windier, born Aug. 24, 1818; died Oct. 16, 1889."  A miens aoeide.nt has just occurred al Irigny, situated on the banks of the Rhone The river has been swollen by the recent heavy rains, and the towing path—along which fin homes were plodding as they drew onward t barge laden with stone—was partially flooded. Suddenly, and without any warning, the grouni on which the team was standing gave way The horses and their driver, who was seated or the back of one of them, fell into the water, ant ere any help could come to them, they had all disappeared. A fatal accident has on....red through a man engaged on a chimney stack falling a distance of eighty feet. The name of the nufortanats man is Frederick Adams, who lived in Ickniehl Port Road, Birmingham. He was engagul Is making some structural alterations to a gal 1 belonging to Moms. Emery'a brassfoundry is I the Lichfw.id-road, Al4Oll. The precisecause ol the occurrence is not yetknown, butit nil-shaved that Adams slipped, sod, falling to the groimd sustained injuries of the most dreadfnl native, I With all haste he was taken to the lazneral Hospital, but plied before admission, from thi terrible injuries he had received. An alarming accident occurred on Fridsy ix Old Broad-street, London, close to the Roy& Exchange. The homes, yoked to two busses slipped simultaneously on ashphait, one of th,ao being entangled in the wheels of the othe vehicle uttering loud shrieks of pain. It wall extricated and unharnessed, bat immediatelj bolted through-the crowded thoroughfares, am! reached Cheapside before it stopped. Sevcri narrow escapes were witeesned and four persom were knocked down and injured. Two won taken unconscious to the hospital, but subs& queutly recovered. A murder has just occurred at a place canal Pulderbosch, wluoh is situated in the environs (X Antwerp. A gamekeeper named Joseph Jacobs In the employ of a Monsieur Anthony, whilst gong his_ rounds, was shot in the head and _ _ _