The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-05-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO.  A teleram from New York states that. 114 week's, imports amounted to 7,322.000 dole., incieding +by goods to the value of I,lrake,oo dols. Mr. Frank Robert; Reuter's speeml correspondent with General Graham's forces died from typhoid fever at Suakim on the I.sth inst. A deputation of Scot Ads distillers had a private interview on Monday afternoon with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in opposition to the increase of whiskey duties. The Govern:og Body of the Winohester Cidlege have ecla ..2d into a contornt for the construction of aor sanitorium foe t'he College at a coat of ali,loo. The committee appointed to consider M. Areharie Bill for a railway +seer the Channel from France to England repeats against taking it into censideration. A telegram from Halifaxon Tuesday morning says .—The sentry wito was on duty on Garnet, when 'Paul Boyton affixed a clammy torpedo ship in New York Harbour, has been sentenced to forty-two days' confinement. From St. Petersburg an Monday evening we are informed that it is thought the Nihilist .arrested at Kharlsoff is Dokteuroff, the individual who circulated the revolutionary proclamations in aerral places. The strike among Paris tailors continues. Intimidation has been resorted to, and attacks necessitating the interference of the police have been made upon men who have gone back to work. The misery among the families of the strikers is described as dreadful. It was stated in Rome on Monday night that the occupation of Souakim is the subject of active negotiations between the English and Italia Government's, and that orders have been issued for several regiments to hold themselves ready to leave for the Red sea. The Vienna correspondent of the Daily 21-rao telegraphs that one of the moat terible storms ever witnessed there took place on Friday night. The cold was so piercing that six persons were frozen to death in toe outakirts of the city.  In the first four months of this year the tonnage of vessels built in the kingdom was 130,500 tons, or about 3,/ ter cent. less than in the corresponding months of last year. If this continues it should by and by stimulate the freight market by lessening competition.  Tuesday's London Daily _Yews says —"The failure of the negociations with Spain places it in the power of the Government—if they should decide upon any amendment of the Budget proposals—to revise the wine dut!es. At Oldham Police Court, on Monday morning thirty men, eight of whom were bookmakers were charged with a breach of the Betting Home Act. The police captured them on Friday, in Booth's Club, Oldham. Some have good positions in the town. The case was adjourned until Thursday. The case affects many other clubs.  The Rev. Joseph Davies, rector of St. Anna's, Haughton, has been sentenced by the Bishop of Manchester to suspension from his duties and to deprivation of all emoluments of the rectory for the term of five years in consequence of offences against the ecclesiastical laws. A number of charges of drunkenness were preferred by pariehoners, and the rector admitted in writing that he was guilty. A disastrous fire broke out, on Tuesday morning, in the lame mohair warehouse attached to Messrs. Mitchell Bros.' manufactory, Bradford. The fire we, caused through the explosion of a gal engine on the upper storey, just as the works were about to atart. In half-an-hour the roof fell in and the two upper storeys were gutted. The fire-proof floors tended to prevent the fire spreading. The damage amounts to £150,000. _  An inquest was held at Crewe on Monday en the body of Ellen Potts, aged 70. The deceased's daughter-in-law, with whom she resided, mid that the deceased's mind was deranged, and ahe seemed under the impression she was being continually pursued. On Thursday she went up to her bedroom, and opening the window jumped Into the yard below, a distance of 12ft. Har skull was fractured, several of her ribs broken, also her arm and none. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity. On Monday morning the execution of James I Lee was duly executed at Her Majesty's prison, I Springfield, Chelmbford, at eight o'clock. The las-words which eama from him were, "I die innocent." The wife's last interview was on Saturday last, when she tried to get another week for him to live, but of enure° of no avail.. She then returned to London. There were a large number of people outside the prison gates during the execution, which conducted themselves in a very quiet manner. A telegram from Madrid on Sunday night says :—A fresh cholera scare has been created by the Madrid Pre-s publishing intelligence of fresh c tees of sporadic cholera having occurred in the same villages and towns of Valencia, where the epidemic firet appeared in April. The Government has ordered stringent precautions to be taken, and has sent several physicians to report on the outbreak. Dr Ferrer and other medical men are actively inoculating the inhabitants of the infected districts, and not one innoculated per son has yet been attacked, even at Alcira, where fifty cases are reported. Two men, named Armoult and Gagny, were convicted at Troyea, on Saturday, of a triple murder, at a liouy.e, formerly a monastery, and etill called Gloire Dieu. The owne". M. Delabathe, his paralytic mother, and the m Aid- servant, being all the inmates of this sequestered dwelling, were found murdered one morning in January by at shepherd, who daily brought the letters from the peat. Suspicion fell on a notorious pearlier, G..gny, who began spending money somewhat lavishly, and in his cottage M. Delahache'e watch was found., as also was a shirt, stained with blood, and identified as the property of Armoult, a sawyer. The latter confessed that they had called at Gloire Dieu on pretence of selling fir plants: that while M. Delahache was uncorking a bottle to give them wine they struck him down dead; that they called the MUM, who was upstairs, strangled her at the foot et the stairs, and then despatched the aged mother, who was in bed. Gogny to the last denied his guilt, and thereby lost the beneti4 of the extenuating circumstances which the jury somehow discovered in Arneuit's case. The latter was sentenced to hard labour for life, while Gagny, unless reprieved by M. Grevy, will be executed.