Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-05-08 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

HORRIBLE MURDERS IN INDIA.  SLOWLY ROASTED TO DEATH.  A terrible murder for supposed witchcraft is reported from India. At a village in Chennar, Jaluho, certain shepherds were suspected by the villagers, and these suspicions were accentuated in consequence of a severe epidemic of cholera. The Times Correspondent at Calcutta says two of the suspected men were seized, solemnly tried and condemned for witchcraft by the village commission, and sentenced to be tortured to death. There, in presence of all the villagers, their teeth were extrgcted with pincers, and their heads were sletved. Subsequently they were buried up to their necks, wood was piled round their heads, a fire was kindled, and the skulls were roasted into powder. Some thirty persons have been convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Another case of murder for supposed witchcraft WWI recently tried at Bombay. The accused imputed the death of his father and mother, and the illness of certain members of his family, to the arts of an old woman, and beat her to death with a thick, heavy stick. These cases, adds the correspondent, are common, but are rarely brought to the notice of the British authorities.  A Central News telegram from New York, on Monday, says the centenary of the French Revolution has been celebrated by French residents throughout America.  Edward Meek belies his name. He was caught poaching at Penarth, and his conduct was so far from gentle that;thamagistratesbefore whom he was brought hare decided that he must give seven day's labour to the state. The Home Secretary looks like making another huge blunder over the Rock Ferry murder business. The committee and judges nominated by him to inquire into the guilt of Bobert Travis, who had beeen sentenced to death for the crime, made a report which ended lin the respited convict's liberation. But the man was broken in health and bankrupt in purse, in consequence of the awful ordeal he had passed through. Mr. Matthews now refuses to compensate him in any way. This is surely a shameful injustice. If the evidence accepted by the committee of judges was strong en/nigh to secure the wretched man's liberty, lit is certainly strong enough to entitle him to a I handsome compensation as far as money can compensate for what be has undergone.  A bill has been brought in by Mr. Quilter, ;Sir Edward Birkheck, Baron Drimadale, Mr. Heneage, Viscount Wolmer, Sir Henry Selwin Ibbertson, Mr. Herbert Gardner, Mr. Francis I Stevenson, and Mr. Gordon, for better securing the purity of beer. It provides that every per I , son wise sells or exposes for 'sale, by wholesale: 'or retail, any beer brewed from or containing any ingredient other than hops or malt from barley, thall keep (xinspicueusly posted at the bar er place where each beer is sold or exposed for sale legible noticee:stating what ether ingredients are contained in such beer. Noncompliance with this enactment is to be visited with a Elle of £5 for the first offence, and £2O for any second or subsequent offence, The term " beer" includes beer (ether than black or spruce beer), ales and porter,