Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal. — 1895-10-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO.  "We cannot do too much to make the Volunteers efficient," remarks Lord IVolseley, "for the more efficient they are the safer England will be.,,  During a fog a passenger train near Selby ran into a thrashing machine at a level-crossing. The machine was smashed and the wagoner nearly killed. , , Estate duty Ihas been paid on £33,471 as the net value of the personal estate of the :ate Lord Donington, the gross value having been entered at £76,520. "Fiasco" means a bottle or flask. When the Italian glass-blowers detected flaws in the vase they were blowing they made an ordinary bottle of the failure, and. hence the name.  It is said that there are in the State of Kansas 20 well-built towns without a single inhabitant, and that Saratoga in that State, now absolutely uninhabited, has among other build:ngs a fine theatre.  A newspaper train on the New York Central at:d Hudson River Railway on Thursday ran from Albany to Syracuse, a distance of 148 miles, in 130 minutes. It. is said that this is a record for the distance.  George Rushbrook, painter and caretaker; of 37, St. Mary-axe, neglected his work, and was given notice to leave. This prayed upon his niiad and he poisoned himself. The jury returned a verdict of suicide during temporary insanity.  The Rev. Canon George Robert Winter, M.A., Rector of Welborn, near East Dereham, died at his rectory, on Friday night. He was appointed Honorary Canon of Norwich in 1886.  A man, named Egan has been arrested near Ballinasloe, county Gaiway, on the charge of having murdered his brother-in-law, a farmer named Branelly, whose body was found in a small stream near his residence. Egan had only recently returned from America. James ThomFon, 25, son of Mr. Alec Thomson, ironfounder, Dumfries, was found drowned in the River Nith, near the old bridge of Dumiries, on Saturday morning. It is not known bow he got into the water, but he was seen in the neighbourhood of the river late on Friday night. John Johnstone, a driver, of the Annanvale Arms, Moffat, went boating alter taking a party to St. Mary's Loch on Saturday. Suddenly be rose in the boat and jumped overboaid, and was drowned. It is believed he had received a sunstroke.  Disastrcus bash fires have swept over Nicolet and Artbabaska counties, in the province c.f Quebec, and one hundred farm buildings and numeroui mills have been burned. Many farmers have been ruined owing to the destruction of their crops. The "Politische Correspondetz" learns from St. Petersburg, that the Czar has sanctioned an arrangement whereby 125 Chinese army officers of different arms are to be attached for three years' regular service to various Russian regiMents in Europe, and has further authorised the admission of f',l chinese officers into Russian military institutions, A Japanese paper states that the villagers of ,Kocht have been honoured with the sum of 100 yen by the Imperial Household Department 'far their unusual good conduct as a body. For over 200 years perfect friendliness has reigned among them, and neither quarrels nor law suits have occurred. No crime has been committed, taxes have been paid before the expiration of the appointed term, and whatever calamities have overtaken them the villagers have helped each other and have not troubled the authorities.  Am9ngst the numerous congresses now meeting in Rome particular attention has been attracted to that of the Ita:ian Co-operative Societies of Production, which opened on Thursday, and was presided over by the Finance Minister. Two hundred members were present, including some of the most distinguished economists in Italy. A proposal for the foundation of a co-operative bank was submitted to the congress, and after being discussed at length. was adopted. The congress wi:l continue to sit for several days.  A young man and woman took a boat and rowed towards Rock-a-Nore. Soon-afterwards a fisherman saw the body of a -young woman in the water, which was immediate:y brought ashore. Artificial respiration was resorted to, but this was of no avail, and the woman was conveyed to the mortuary. The young man has not yet been-found. The young woman was Identified as Lilly Fitt, of Tottenham, London, who was staying down there for a holiday. The whole affair is a complete mystery, as the boat was not overturned, and came back perfectly dry, and all spars and fittings intact.  News has been received that the crew of the Spanish gunboat Marques del Duero, have had a fierce encounter with the rebels of Tatau, in the Philippine Islands. Eighteen of the insurgent., were killed and the remainder were taken to Manila, where they were tried. One non-commissioned officer and six soldiers were sentenced to death and shot. Anoth(r fall in the n ages a the South Wales and Monmouthshire colliers was announced on Saturday as a result of the audit of the colliery books, which necessitates a reduction of 21 per cent., or 121 per cent, above tile standard of 1879. An outbreak of tire occurred at a private house at Castl Douglas, and on the flames being extinguished, the charred remains of a widow named Janet Patterson were discovered. •  A boy and girl have died at Glasgow from In juries sustained while swinging in the Recreation Grounds,  At Ashford, Emma Shaw, a lady of independent means belonging to Streatham, has been charged with wounding a telegraph clerk at the South-Eastern Station. The prosecutor said she stabbed him over the eye with a pen. The man narrowly escaped being blinded. The prisoner was remanded.  The body of Wil:iam A. Hotley, a lance-corporal in the Oxford Light Infantry, has been found hanging to a tree in the grounds of Netley Hospital. He was admitted to the hospital suffering from melancholia, and after going into the grounds was missed. His body was found by a prTv at e oldier.