Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-06-04 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DESPE RATE LOVER'S CRIME.  Tragedies continue to occur in Prance with an alarming rapidity in the abnormally warm weather, and every day brings a new crime. The latest sensational event after the "affair of the Rue du nether " is that of the Rue de Berri, in the Champs Elys6es district of Paris. Albert Conor, a younz man, had long been paying his addresses to Blanche LavaLa person who lived in rather sumptuous style in a flat in the locality mentioned. Collor, being deeply in love with the womAn, viewed her movements with suspicion, and was annoyed at her luxurious mode of living. She took certain criti. cisms of his with contempt, and hinted that if he was so jealous he had letter give her up and allow her to do as she pleased. Thee remarks rendered the lover desperate,and taking a revolver out of one of his pockets he fired at the woman, wounding her severely in the breast. Hearing the steps of the concierge and others who had been startled by the shot and the cries for help which followed it, Goner turned his weapon against his temples and blew out his brains. Blanche Laval, or as she was professionally known, "Mdlle. Eleline," was conveyed to flie Beaujon Hospital. Although in a very weak and precarious condition she wag able to make a brief statement about the tragedy, which she recounted as described above. She said that she had known Conw for about five years, but she wanted him to give her up lately, as he had lost his situation. She, however, permitted him to visit her from time to time. The dead body of the too. ardent admirer has been sent to the Morgue.  CONVERTS TO THE HOMIER CliUßOil. The new Archbishop of Westminster is arranging to confirm a considerable number of notable converts from Anglican:. Amongst these may be mentioned Lady Somers, wife of Lord Somers (not the Countess of that ilk, as inaccurately stated by the World) ; the Baroness Sherborne ; Lady Edith Cecilia Howe, daughter of Earl Howe and sister of Lord Curzon, M.P. ; Miss Evered, Of Wadhurst Castle, Sussex; Mr. J. L. Pearson, the ecclesiastical architect; Mr. Paul Lawrence Huskisson, grandson of the well - remembered economist and statesman of that name ; Mr. Gilbert Firebrace Marshall, Furness Lodge, Southsea; Major Walter Cotton, R.A. ; Mr. John Long, the Firs, Walberton, Sussex (late 10th Hussars); Mr. Nevillo Taylor, of Rock Abbey; Mr. Laurence Kip, grandson of a Protestant bishop; Mr. Waugh, son of the Rev. Benjamin Waugh; Messrs. Coleman and burant, members of the Anglican brotherhood, and Mr. Donald Arbuthnot, son of the Hon. Donald Arbuthnot. The two great Universities have recently con`sibuted some "recruits to Rome," one of whom has left the Isis to enter the novitiate of the learned Order of St. Benedict. Seven or eight clergymen of the Establishment who have submitted to the old Church are now preparing for the Catholic priesthood, but amongst recent accessions occur the names of the Rev. Howell Lloyd, M.A., a gifted member of the Cambrian Archveologi cal Society; Rev. Ilowi 11 Patti on Lewis Blood, M.A., rector of West Bergnolt, Celchester ; Rev. F. Besant, M.A., of St. Michael's, Slic"editch ; Rev. Hugh Lean M.A., a nephew of the Rrw. Mr. Coles, chaplain of Pusev House, Oxford; tha Rev. Dr. James Field Spalding; the Rev. Herbert lkothy, M.A. Members of High Church Sisterhoods f gure, as is frequently the case, somewhat largely LI the list. The Archbishop of Westminster has realved an entire community of these ladies icto the Catholic Church. —Neentny Leader.  A telegram trom srmagar, Cashmere, states:that the epidemic of cholera continues to rage there with unabated severity. Nine hundred and ninety deaths have occurred in four days out of 1,731 cases. James Smith, a nearo,was lynched by an excited mob at Huntingdon, °West Virginia, on Sunday. He murdered a boy named Charles Serpella, aged 12, and afterwards stole the few trifles from the lad's Pockets.