The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-07-15 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ETIS. A butcher's assistant, named William Cannon, a native of Hatfield, and employed by Mr. %V. Sheppard, of High-street, Barnet, was carrying a quarter of beef from his master's slaughter house to the shop, when he slipped and fell forward. The huge piece of meat pitched on his neck, and he was removed in a critical state to Barnet Cottage Hospital, where he has since died from fraoture of the cervical vertebras. Martha Sallows was charged at Colchester with having attempted suicide by throwing herself in the Come. She attributed the act to the bretality of her husband, who was brought before the magistrate" and sentenced to a month's hard labour. The woman was granted judicial separation and allowed to have the custody of the children. The husband, it is asserted, called the reenter of his wife a fool because he did not leave her in the river. A shocking negro outrage is reported at Peoria (Illinois). Elizabeth Smith, a young woman of 16, was assaulted by two negroes in a lonely spot near East Peoria. The negroes seized and bound and gagged her, and afterwards lighted a fire and burned her arms and wrist. One of the miscreant' has been captured, and will probably be lynched. The holism warship Eridano, lying at Barry Dock, Cardiff, has on board a marine charged with murder. It is alleged that the prisoner wee reprimanded by a superior officer for insubordination while on a voyage from Baltimore to Barry. The accused felled the officer with a terrible blow, and then beat and kicked him brutally. The injured man having died, his assailant is under arrest on the capital charge, and will be tiled when his vessel returns to Italy. Confirmatory intelligence has been received from Kenechek that M. Grosgrain's Camboßian interpreter was taken prisoner in the recent actice between the French and Siamese at that place The inquiry into the allegation that M. Growth was treacherously murdered by a Siauiene mandarin is proceeding. The evidence so far adduced is said to be strongly in favour of the Siamese contention that he was killed while fighting. Nikita, the well-known prima-donna, is bringing an action for slander against Dr. Ziegfield, the owner of the Trooadero, at Chicago. The damages are laid at 25,000d015. It is alleged that Nikita refused to sing at the Trocadero. Dr. Ziegfield accused her of intemperance, and declared the** had sung in a biergarten. Annie Millar, an unmarried woman of Man. cheater, is under remand on a charge of grcm neglect of her child. The girl, two years old, was stated to have been discovered in an attic, and more resembled a bundle of filthy rags than a human being. The body, besides being emaciated to the bones bore evidence ot most revoltisg neglect. When washed it somewhat brightenel up, but it is not expected to recover. The child weighed • little over 111 b. An inquest was held on the body of Femme Baker, of Francis-street, Birmingham, who was fatally injured by falling down the cellar steps. k verdict of accidental (math was returned, and • similar verdict was also recorded in the case el Thomas Dahill, aged 25, of Lower Essex street, whit fractured his skull by falling down some steps a the workshop where he was employed. The magisterial inquiry into the shooting of Mr. Weldon C. Moloney, at Miltown on Jane 1 leak concluded on Saturday afternoon. Three of tbs accused, named, William M'Namara, Jos* Wlnerney, and Denis Vaughsm, were dieohared• and two others, James Morey, aged 17, and Pavek Clune, aged aged 24, were returned for trial et the next Clare Assizes. A Siberian Exhibition is to be held in Mono in 1895, with the Intention of making knowntoth! public the enormous natural resource' of ' little known country. The exlduition, promises to be of great interest, will c mineralogioal, botanical, archeological, and departments, and samples of Russian and ' goods bought by the natives. theAcosinogur wedding efolatprfeoot to n ctok place etteveeethhe he fe. other day a inmates, who is sentenced to hard labour for complicity in an assassination that took in 1880, wished to legitimstiee his natural d and preliminary measures were taken a few ago. On the Ist icuitant the marriage of vat with the mother of his daughter took the Governor's room. The mother was panted by her daughter, and the brother convict was also present. A moving scene All parties burst into tears, embracing each and the parents were most deeply moved , °ailed upon to recognise as their daughter the Marie Antoinette, and when, shortly after, had again to separate—for life At Dover, on Sunday morning a yoml named Stone, connected with Dover was drowned whilst bathing. A Liverpool named Bulcock, and a youth named Barker, were found dead on the sands at Ile am one oftheSaturday. treacherous Th ey h had d evidentlypoints were drowned.—On Monday a young. man Morris was drowned while bathing in the o tMedway, at Halting, near Rochesr teat° r. . rim young men were bathing on Sunday in the Oakhatn, when they were seized with r and two of them, named Peet and 1 . drowned. The other was rescued with difficulty. The body of a lad, named Pothecary, was discovered in the canal at Mowbray having apparently been in the f , since the previous evening. John Pocknell, a French polisher, of A square, Camberwell, committed suicide by a dose of oxalic acid. The comets is alleged  domestic troubles.  a  tt 114 .31  al ho ea bo  w 4:14 ly m  ta $e ti st  • I a • 111* omit/ a d. farelP a • egieUis river, aei swig Rhe Thro rivii crealP, 814 Horde gal Alfa Mello walor Adli% bo  Arc,