The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-11-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RAD/0113111111L—Mr John Williams Vaughan, jun., of the Skreen, Llanelli° Graban ; Mr. Frasoie Lyndon Erelya, of Carton, tresteign and Sir Herbert Edmond Fraakland LeWii, of limpton Court.  The Royal College of Music has moseyed from an anonymous donor the ainn of 100 guinea*, to be applied t the benefit of Madame Lind-Golctsohmidt' scholars in the °Wiese, as she and the directors may think fit.  Forty-one candidates for the scholarship* o I'2o each, offered to boys between 14 and 18, by the Royal Agricultural Smiety of England, were on Wednesday examined in chemistry aa applied to agriculture. The railway war in Amerioa relating to passenger ;area continues. It is reported that the issue of Lake Shore Ronda has been delayed until a more favourable time; meanwhile, Mr. Vanderbilt is advancing cash. The Mayor of Cambridge has presided at a representative meeting at the Town Hall to establish a local association for the furtherance of the movement to bestow the Parliamentary Franchise on duly qualified women householders. The Marquis of Rim, who is the Lord High Steward of Hull, is to receive a" Welcome Home" on hie approaching return from India, 'Ltd the inhabitants of Hull intend to join with Leeds and other Yorkshire towns in the proposed demonstration on that occasion. The Supreme Court of New York has affirmed the judgment of the court upon claims in di,. missing the petition of the Great Western Insurance Company on the ground of want of jurisdiction, for 300,000 dote, from the Alabama fund.  It is semi-officially announced that the French Csbinet has pronounced itself in favour of levying a duty on foreign ooni. The amount of the proposed duty has not been fixed; but the prin. is to give agriculture a protection as nearly as possible equal to that granted to other Industries. The "Daily News," referring to the prospects, of the Franchise Bill in the House of Lords, says—" We should prefer in the interest of peace that the Bill should be let through, and that the whole question of reform should be dealt with , and settled by the present Parliament, but we have no reluctance to enter on longer oonflict. Th Franchise Bill would soon be forgotten in the question whether Lords or Commons should Ilia, in England. No such question has stirred 1 the preseta generation, but if &rood upon us we give such account of it as our forefathers gave of earlier efforts to resist national will." John Lowther, his wife and mother-in-Nw (Mrs. McCracken) were on Wednesday arrested at Belfast for the wilful murder of • child ten days old. It appears that en Sunday night Mrs. McCracken called upon Wm. Spent*, gravedigger of Knock Cemetery, and said she had a 1 child which she wanted buried at once. The gravedigger arranged to have it interred at eight o'clock the following morning. At the appointed hour Lowther' who is the father of the child, proceeded with Spence to the graveyard, where they placed the coffin in • hut at the gate until they oould get implemente to dig a grave. They then returned to Belfast and had drink together. The gravedigger went back at noon and heard the child moaning in the coffin. He then went for Lowther, and told him so, but Lowther said it must be buried, and did so himself. At eight o'alock the same night the gravedigger went back to the cemetery, taking a friend with him. They raised the coffin, and found the child still alive, but it afterwards died. The police communicated with a medical mat, and the result of the inquiry is that the three prisoners were