The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-06-06 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EPITOME OF NEWS. The yearly list of European suicides Includes 2,000 boys and girls. The Paris waiters are keeping up their In favour of beards and monstaohioa. The revenue derived from the liquor traffic in the Whole United States is tle Oid. per inhabitant. A (Raeford labourer was killed br lightning the other evening while engaged in drawing some sheep. The production of coal in India during the year 1890 shows a large increase over the output of 1880. The peEtions to the House of Commons this year In favour of Sunday closing numbered 4,635, bearing 890,740 signatures. Mrs. Mary Grover died at Tooting Gravene7 a few days ago. She was (according to the Christeta Globe) the mother of thirty children, twenty-five of whom were baptised. A dispatch from America states that en attempt has been made to rob the. grave of P. T. Barnum. The body-smatchers were, however, frightened off by the watchmen. Reports from various parts of Ireland state that the potato crop has been attacked by frost. Many persons are beginnning to apprehend a repetition of last year's partial failure. -  agitation 1  Arthur Ed-ward Ellis, a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, commi.ted suicide in his room the other night by shooting himself with a revolver. He had been studying hard for the  .. approaching Tripos. . An agricultural labourer, named Bruty, has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment at Sitting. bourne for neglecting his child, age four s.nd a-half. The little one was in s fearfully neglected state, emaciated, starving, and nearly dead. _ .  A young Russian lieutenant, by nsane Raohmostoff, is trying to emulate the feat of Captain Pyeshkoff, by walking all the way from Wadivoatook to St. Petersburg, sooomps.nined by his dogs. Baohmostoff has already walked over 7,000 miles.  John Fraser, the ten-year-old son of a Glasgow cabinet-maker, caught up a revolver lying in his father's hones, and began rubbing it with a cloth. It suddenly exploded, and the bullet killed his little brother Gordon, a lad of four. The father of the children was not aware that any of the chambers were loaded. The black currant crop in Kent this season will be a failure. Reports from nearly all the plantations show that the recent cold wind, combined , with spring frosts, have caused the currants to run off to an alarming extent. Gooseberries will also be a poor crop. The bicycle race from Paris to Bordeaux between Messrs. Mills and Holbein, arising out of the latter's challenge to the winner was postponed from Sunday last until Sunday next. Kansas, with 100,000 more people than Texas, has only one penitentiary, with 996 prisoners, under prohibition. Texas, with less population and • liquor traffic, has two large penitentiaries, with 5,000 convicts. The Society of Friends is about to take steps to utilise more fully its boarding schools, and especially to make it easier for the artisan portion of its members to send their children to these schools. .  A serious accident occurred in connection with the restoration of the tower of St. Lawrence's Church at Ludlow. Four men were descending the structure by means of a lift for the purpose of getting their breakfast, when the wheels of the drum broke, and the lift fell a distance of 50 feet. The men had several bones broken and were otherwise seriously injured. A serious explosion of gas by which three men were injured has occurred at the Accrington Gas Works. One of the gas pumping engines suddenly ceased working, and an explosion followed almost Instantly. At Chester John Tyrrell has been fined £5O and costs for selling beer retail without a Hoene" to navvies employed on the Manchester Ship Canal works. Defendant had previously paid £BO in fines for siipilar offence.. Susannah Millward, aged 21, a domestic servant, Wolverley, was charged before the county magistrates at Kidderminster with the wilful murder of her illegitimate child. The body of the child was found in a brook. Thinking to avoid arrest by suicide the girl drank a quantity of petroleum, which only had the effect of making he; very ill. She was remanded. On Saturday evening George Wood, • potter, of Fenton, and Thomas Daniels a drayman, quarrelled in a public-house at LOngton, Staffs. It is alleged that Daniels struck Wood in the face with his fist, knocking him back on his seat. An all events, Wood fell upon the floor unconscious, and died ten minutes afterwards. Daniels was arrested. It is understood that the German Emperor and Empress will visit the Crystal Palace during their stay in London, and, that the Emperor will then review the volunteer fire brigades, with their horses and engines. It is stated that the christening of the infant daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Fife will take plaos privately in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, close to Marlborough House. The daughter is to be called Alexandra, with the title of Lady," end the family name of the Dukedom of Fife. The method of purifying water invented by Dr. William Anderson, and now employed at Antwerp the • through