The Herald of Wales. — 1887-02-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CARDIFF.  Principal Virtainu Jones lute been appointed °runnier in the Honours School of Nati, nal Svience in Oxford.  On Friday intelligence reached Cardiff that part of a pilot-cutter had been washed ashore at Lhantwitt, on Friday night. The name of the boat is not ,yet known, but the wreckage bore the mark "ho 2" upon it. Mr W. Bowen Rowlands, Q.C., M.P., and Mr R. T. Reid, Q.C., M.P., were present at the Philharmonic Hall Cardiff on Wednesday evenlaw on the occassion of a dinner to eelebrato the fir•it anniversary of the Cardiff Junior Liberal Association  On Monday, a young man named Vowles, a carpenter, was charged at Penarth police-court, with attempting to comtnit suicide by poisonine, on Tuesday, the let inst. He was disehargod on promising not to attempt so foolish a thing again, mud his master undertaking to look sh.trply after him Mr. r. Htrry Riches, M.1.M.E., read the firer paper of the season of the Cambrian Slciety of South Wales and Monmouthshire, in the Town Hall, Cardiff. The parr was entioled "ily Views of the Necessary Range of Technical Edit. cation Desirable for the Better Instruction of the Artisan Population of this Country." Ou To aday afternoon the infant daughter of Samuel Ingram, of 60, Janet-street, East Moors, w..tt burnt to death. It appears that whilst the mother was upstairs, the child played with the ' fire, and somehow its clothes caught, and the child was soon enveloped in flames, which the mother immediately extinguished, and the little rer was conveyed to the hospital, but died eon afterwards.  On Tuesday evening, at Cardiff, an inquest was held touching the death of a newly born child, which was found in Broadway on Monday evening. From the evidence it appeared tbut the body was found under a stone, and that death had resulted from exposure. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder againyt eenie person or persons unknown.  At the Cardiff Infirmary, on Tuesday evening, an inquest wan held touching the death of Lewis Williams, aged 30, of Llantrissant, who, an already reported, wan run over by a train on Sunday. The jury brought in a verdict of accidental d ath. Evidence was given thawing that deceased, just after the accident, "smelt very striagly of drink." In • case heard at Cardiff Police-court, Friday, in which the captain of the steamship Portugalete was summoned for overloading his v.esol in • Spanish port, it was proved that, in consequence of damage to the ship's bottom' the cargo had become saturated with 8 per cent, of water, which caused the disc on the ship's side to be submerged. The case was dismissed.. . . .  It has now been definitely arranged that the B dchelor libel ease will not come on for hearing at the 'Glamorgan assizes before Monday at the earliest. The indictments on the assize calendar are as follow :—" Henry Lascelles Carr (bailed 30th August, 1886) ; Thomas Henry nsot (bailed 30th August, IBB6)—unlawfully and moliciously did publish, in the Western Matt newspaper, a certain defamatory libel of and coneerning one John Batchelcr, deceased, at Cardiff, on the 24th July, 1886." At the Cardiff Town Hall, on Thursday, Mr. , E. B. Reece, borough coronet., held two enquiries ioto drowning fatalities at the Cardiff Docks, and in each ease a verdict of .Found Drowned" was returned. In the first case, Julius Theodor John Weik, aged 17, a sailor on board the German ship, Palmerston, accidentally fell ieto the dock and was drowned; the other case was that in which the body of Daniel Daly, a foresee man, of Newport, was discovered in the W. at Doak.  • Oa Friday evening s serious explosion ot gas took place at Kings road, Cardiff, it the house of a man named William Preston. It appears tint some one detected an (escape of gas, and a .runtig man named Morgan went to see where it was, and, lighting a match, he thoughtlessly mitered one of the parlours whence the smell proceeded. Immediately upon his entering a loud esploaion took place, smashing 'several doors arid windows. Fortunately Morgan escaped n%injured. At a meeting of the Cardiff Liberal Five Hundred, held on Thursday, at Cardiff, a resolution was unanimously missed thanking Td! Dillwyn, M.P., for again bringing forward his diseetablishment motion, and requestiirr the English, Sootch, and Irish representatives who may be opposed to the establishment of a State , Church in Wales to give him their h-arty support in the debate and division, and confidently trusting that the leaders of the Liberal party in tho House of Commons may not refuse the unanimous and emphatic desire on this point of the Liberal party in Walet(andjMonmouthshire. At Cardiff Police-ocurt on Friday. Albert William Cook, 23, residing at 4, Westgate. street, was charged with attempting to commit suicide, by cutting his throat, on the 28th of Jumary. Prisoner had been out of work for some time, and became depressed in spirits. He and his wife quarrelled over monetary matters, and he exprnieed his determination "to do away" with himself. His landlady RAW him sharpen a knife and go upstairs. Being suspicious, she followed, and saw him draw the knife across his throat. He was subsequently conveyed to the Infirmary. The wound be inflicted exposed his windpipe, and he is still in a very, weak condition. The caw was remanded Alai Monday.