Weekly News. — 1890-04-10 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

BUD. Every care was taken of Satizede by his employer. In order that lie should want for nothing, and be better attended to, he was, on the advice of the doctor, brought down from his room at the top of the house, and installed very comfortably in a room in his master's apartment. His condition had so greatly improved that it was expected he would be able to resume work iti a few days. At a little after 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon Sanzede suddenly jumped out of bed, and, in a tit of raving madness, seized a hatchet which he had found in the pantry. Clad in nothing but his night-gown, he rushed about the apartment, screaming and slashing at everything he found in his way. Hearing the uproar Madame Poitevin, whose husband was absent front home, Game out of her room and tried to calm the madman. Sanzede, without recognizing her, went on slashing away, and wounded his mistress very seriously with four terrific blows on the head. She fell to the ground, shouting for help. By this time several persons in the house had come to try to disarm the madnian. Rushing upon them, dean first struck Josephine Bon two blows on the bead with the hatchet,and then clashed open the cheek of the concierge and cut rtf two of his fingers. The screams of the victims and the shouts for help of those who witnessed this terrible scene only increased the fury of the madman, who, throwing down his weapon, seized Eugenie Danny, the cook, in his arms, and, carrying her, jumped out of the window into the courtyard. Fortimately, the apartment was on the first floor, otherwise the madman and the cook would base been killed on the spot. As it happened, Eugenie Danay wits set lonely injured. Her bead was cut open,and she was very much broiseii and greatly shaken. Jean Sla o vies sealed) hurt at ad. but, strange to my. the fall had the effect of rendering him perfectly calm and docile. lioxever,he did not stun, conscious of what be had done, and was greatly astonished at the commotion ot the people around hint. He was taken back to his hod, and watched by two policemen till he could be transferred to the Lariboisibre Hospital. The condition of two of the madman's victims, Madame Poitevin and Eugenie Danay, is very critical. The wound. of Josephine lion and of the concierge are less serious. Since he reached the hospital Sanzbile has been petfectly calm.  It ~ pears from information given by a Portuguese foreman of public orke, who has just arrived •t Lisbon from Iduzanibique, that Lieutenant Valadin's expedition was betrayed and massacred while having friendly interviees mitt, the chiefs of Mamas. After undergoing frightful tortures to make him divulge the object of the expe. ditiun, Valadin was befiedu ii lv he chief's sou, and the rest of the expedition, numbering 'AM were all murdered with the exception of al, who escaped.  Two boys, Suutpton, son of a farmer at West Buckland, near Wellincton. Svmerset, and Brown, son of one of Mr. Sunapton's labourers, were playing with • gun on Saturday, when Brown, pointing it at Sunipton, said, " May I shoot at your Sumpton answered, "Yes." The gun was loaded; Brown discharged it, and Suniptou recen ad what soca Proved to be fatal injuries. . _  - The influenza epidemic continues to spread through India. Hitherto in Calcutta it has been almost entirely confined to the native quarter, but It is now raging there to such an extent that most t.flices are short-handed. The flrebporelingin.eiirg College, on the opposite aide of the river, has been closed for three weeks, as 70 of the students seer. attacked. The disease seems to be of • mild type, rarely hinting longer than three daya. Now that the letters of the late Admiral Schesta. how (who tbrtl ,tuldonly iii Sebsstopol s nit two years ago), which had been withheld from .he Czar, have come into his Majesty PI pellafeleioll, important changes in the Czar's Ministry are inuninenL. The correspondence contains the most condemnatory evi• dance against the Russian Opritsehina (high bureaucracy), and is said to prove the head of the Opritsehina, the heretofore all-powerful Senator Fubedonoszeff, to be guilty of bribery and corm'. Win. Other high officials are seriously implicated. The dismissal of M. de (lien+, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, anti Senator Fehedenoszeff is only delayed lot nose the Czar is mitt prepared to Deilke their 411001Pelall at the present tint..