Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1870-01-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDER OF A WOMAN IN MEATH.  A pier woman, named Margiret MC ontack, who kept a petty huxter'e shop on he roadside leading between Drumconra, County Meath. arid liingscourt, in the county Cavan, was murdered in her house last Friday night. The house in which the deeeas d lived is a low thatched cottage, which consisted of two rooms, in one of which another woman named Clarke lodged. This wontan states that very early in the morning, before daybreak. she wits awakened by a scream proceeding from M•Cortnaek's room, into which she endeavoured to get, bet found it barred against her. She then tried to get out by the front door, and this too was fastened, She states that the murdered woman did not shr:ek a second time, and her subsequent appearance leads to the conclusion that she Wa d at once strangled, and the bloody deed completed by the use of an iron weight, which was found in the room stained with blood. The presumption is that the murderer entered the house by tnalcieg a hole in the thatch, and after completing the dreadful act, he pulled down the roof on the dead body to make it appear that it was hy the falling in of it the poor woman was killed. Four men have been arrested on stispcion, and have been r mended until brought up at the inquest. It is said that there was a bad feeling entertamed against the deceased, bee two she was on friendly terms with a family in the neighbourhood who are, from some cause or other, very unpopular. A wholesale attempt was made three months since to destroy this whole family by entre; ping them into the tieing el arsenic, which was mixed up with a quantity of flour and other materials, as if intended to make a cake, and in this manner was made up in a parcel, and, as it were, accidentally dropped on the road where it was known soma of the family would soon pass. The flour was picked up, brought home, and that very night converted into a cake, of which the whole farni), partook, end three of them, bridbere, afterwards died (ruin the effects of poison thus insidiously administered.  Another lamentable shipwreck is reported. The Leah, a collier from Cad3l, foundered in the English Channel during the gale of Ft id ty, and of those ou board thirty-five persons were saved, and these had been (hating for nearly three days and a halt* on a piece of the wreck.  The Princess Mary of Teck, daughter of the Duchess of Cambridge, was safely delivered of a 8011 on Sunday night. her royal highness, in company with her husband, had been present at one of the Lundin theatres on the previous evening. Both she and her infant are reported to be going on well. A startling affair has occurred in Paris. Prince Pierre Bonaparte has killed Victor Noir, a writei on the Matseiltaise, Rochefort's paper, under the following circumstancest—The day before yesterday a brutally insulting article against Prince Bonaparte appeared in, the A/arse/Arise from the pen of Victor Noir. Ile challenged Rochefort. Victor Noir called upon him to-day, and explained that he, not Rochefort, was the responsible party; and on the Prince declining to fight. threatened to assault hint The Prince replied that if be did he would shoot him. Victor Noir proceeded to carry out ilk threat, when on the Prince took up a pistol and shot him dead. Prince Pierre Bonaparte was a member of the Republican Assembly in 1848, and has lived in retirement ever since. This affair is causing the greatest excitement. Leeds Mercury, Jan. 11.  _ A