The Herald of Wales. — 1888-03-24 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

HEREFORD.  GFNERAL NEWS  Scarlet fever has broken out among the lads on the training ships Shafteabury and Exmouth on the Thames. The ex.cution of the two men, Jonee and At a !special meeting of the French Ministry S, andrett for the murder of en old gentleman it wee deoided to dismiss General Boulanger named Ballard, rst Hereford, took place on from his command. Li this the first blow in Tuesday morning within the precincts of the the war of French revenge! Hereford Gaol. Berry conducted the extant- Metiers Edwards and Hookway's ironmontion, and there were present the under•sheriff, ge--ry warehouses have been destroyed by fire. the prison chaplain and surgeon, and other The damage is estimated at £,OO. One functionaries, and • few representatives of the fireman was seriously injured. press. Both men oonducted themselves {with Sir Morell Mackenzie has received a number much firmneea, and the execution pained with- of threatening lett.rs since his arrival in Betout any delay or unusual incident. Death in lin. The Emperor has ordered special both Cilirli was inetantaneous, a drop of Fix measures for his protection. .14 et being allowed. -The crime foe whiah the says : seen suffered was the murder of a retired enA New York telegram, on Friday, rinser; by striking him on the head with a It is reported that the Canadian and Pacific Ksteliet, they hsving-broken into his house at Railway Company will consent to waive its night for the sake of plunder. It had been monopoly for twelve million dollars to be paid by the Dominion Government anti Manitobs. expected that the men would make some staterueut in regard to the matter, but they re- Richard Bruce, aged 33, an accountant, was 'maned throughout silent in tie matter.— charged at Bow-street, on Friday, with Miss Ballard, the niece of the gentleman who embezzling £1,400 belonging to the London , School Board. It was stated that he had been was murdered, and one of those sleeping in the house when the crime was ttommitted, sent • speculating. He war remanded. bench of violets to each prisoner, as well as a A serious epid..mia of yellow fever is raging i letter, in which the says she freely forgivesn the French convict colony in Guiana, and a them their wickedness, and hopes they have number of convicts who were to have been tent made their peace with God. there on Saturday have atioordingly been shipped ' I A sensation has been caused in Hereford by to Noumes. I the suicide of one of the prineipal witnesses at A middle aged man, respectably dressed, on the Tupeley murder trial. George Parry, a Saturday night committed suicide by jumping postman, who deposed that he saw the from Clifton Suspension Bridge. The victim prisoners crouching under a hedge on the night is nearly the 20th who has adopted this means e crime was committed, had been deepondent of self-destruction since the erection of the h : for ;some time, and on Sunday night, after bridge at Clifton. returning home from chapel, be drank a quail- The reported arrangement between the tity of laudanum from the effects of which he Dominion and Maniteban Governments for the died, payment to the Canadian Nei& Railway of At the inquest in Hereford Gaol on Tuesday twelve million dollars, in return for the curmorning, on the two men Scandrett and Jones, render by the company of its monopoly in the a letter was read from the chaplain in which north-west, is denied from Ottawa. he stated that both men had made a confession By the strike of engineers on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, the traffie on asto how the crime was committed. &Andrea t struck botbeislowa, which caused Mr Ballard'sen thousand miles of line has been paralysed. The movement is in opposition to the advice of death, Jones being close by at the time, and an eye-witness. Scandrett bad the hatchet the Mr Arthur, the leader of the Brotherhood of whole time. The chaplain believed both men Engineers. were penitent. A great scandal is (says the Civilian) under investigation at, the Was Moe. A con'