The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-03-22 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

UNSEMMT CONDCCT AT A WEDDVG.—At Swaffhara Petty Sessions, on Monday, six labourers were charged by the Vicar of FonMen with disturbing the celebration of a marriage Berme in the Parish Church. One of them—William Billman—went to the church dressed in female clothes, and was accompanied by the other defendants, who kept their hats on in the church, and laughed, talked, and struck the floor with their umbrellas while the marriage ceremony was being performed. Billman and another were sent to prison for a month without the option of a fine, while the other defen• dante were each fined 19s. 3d., or fourteen days' imprisonment.  At the Glamorgan Assizes on Monday, Thomas Allen, aged 35, a native of Santa Crnz, was indicted for the murder of Frederick George Kent, landlord of the Gloucester Arms, Swansea. On February 10 the accused entered the landlord's bedroom with the object of securing a cashbox that contained £2OO. Mrs. Kent, startled from sleep by the prisoner's movements, aroused her husband, and the two men had a fierce struggle. The landlord was so seriously injured—the accused savagely attacking him with • razor—thathe died four hours after the encounter. The prisoner, though Mrs. Kent tired at him with a revolver and managed to lodge • bullet in his leg, escaped from the inn, and hid himself in a.disused boiler, where be was caught. The jury found the man guilty of "wilful murder," and Mr. Justice Grantham sentenced him to death. A horrible discovery was made on Monday, at a house in Lime-street, Oldharn-road, Miles Platting, by a man named Mannion, who resided there with his sister, Sarah Maiinion, aged 23 years, a sizgle woman. • Meunier' went to bed at 10 30 last night. Between lour and five o'clock this morning on awaking he found his bedroom full of smoke, and going downstaiss he discovered his sister with her face hanging over the kitchen fireplace. The tire was out. Turning the woman round be found her to be dead, and the face and neck burnt to a cinder. The woman has been subject to fits, and in the habit of getting up in the night time. It is supposed that in a fit attack she got up as usual and while sitting on a chair fell into the lire.  The Exchange Telegraph Company has received from a well-informed correspondent the following account of an incident of the Queen's sojourn at Biarritz. The Queen during one of her walks at Biarritz this week met a nursemaid and a baby. Her Majesty stopped, and made some pleasant speech about the baby, whereupon the nursemaid- . . _ _  ao ovOrwhelmed with awe  and onntusion that she turned and fled, leavingthe baby with the Queen, who had to send her gentle. man-in-waiting in hot pursuit. When the maiden had been induced to return the Queen asked her to whom the baby belonged. "Dr. M.," replied the nurse, naming the English doctor in Biarritz. " Then tell Dr. M. that I think he has a very pretty baby," said the Queen.  A man of respectable appearance was lodged in Wicklow Jail on Saturday on remand under the following circumstances. The individual referred to went to the police barracks on Thursday night, and made an extraordinary statement to Sergeant O'Reilly and Constable Welly. He gave his name as John Alexander Fitzrnaurice a native of Cardiff, and declared that he was the real 'Jack the Ripper." He then deposed to murders which he had committed in London and elsewhere. The statements were taken, and afterwards signed by the self-accused murderer. On Friday morning he went back on the written statement, and woul.l only admit that he was guilty of one murder, which took place in the year 1886, the victim being l'tlary Jane Wheeler. The prisoner was subsequently brought before a magistrate, who, having heard the evidence of ,the police, and also the statements of the accused, remanded him for further inquirie.. Fitzmaurice appears by his languare to be a man of some education.  A FORETASTE OF TrIE