The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-12-24 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MYSTERIOUS DEATH ON THE R AIL WAY.  The guard of a North-Western train which .101 t Lime-street Station, Liverpool, for Wines at 20 minutes past 3 the other afternoon heard an explosion, and on stopping at Ed.ehill Station two or three minutes later it was found that a third-class compartment was wrecked, aud that a man was on tue floor of the carriage in an uncontcious state. The window was blown out, and other damage had been caused. The door also had been flung open. There were no outward sign. of injury to the man, except that his clothes and hair were slightly singed. A box of matches lay by his side, and there was also a handbag in which were some drawing materials. He had on him some periodicals with insurance to the total amount of £2,350. From the appearance of the carriage it is supposed that the explosive which caused the damage was dynamite. The man was carried to the Royal Infirmary, but he died on the way. He was identified as Elias Hughes, frtia Colwyn Bay, and an inquest was held. The evidence showed that the deceased was behind in his amounts as rate collector to the Colwyn Bay Local Board to the extent of over £lOO, and during the past few days he seems to have been in fear of arrest. Some marks on his penknife showed that he had used it to mix gunpowder, and there seems to be little doubt that he committed suicide. The uquiry, however, was adjourned.  The Russky Invalid, the organ of the Russian War Office, publishes an Imperial Order directing that from the local troops stationed in the Transcaspian territory two new reserve-battalions shall be formed for litishk and Geok-Tepe, together with a company of fortrers-artiliery for the former place:.  A Melbourne telegram states that petitions were formally granted winding up the MlYreantile Bank and the English and Australian Mortgage Bank. The Victorian Gavernment is being urged to prose cute the directors, the manager, and the auditors of the first-named bank.  Early the other morning a fire occurred at the Tullichewan Temperance Hotel near 13allooh railway station, at the foot of Loch Lomond, and by five o'clock the building was completely gutted. The construction of the hotel was of the Swiss chalet type, and it had a picturesque appearance. It is said that the erection, about three years ago, coat from £3,000 to £4,060. "Accidental death" was the verdict returaed at an inquest on the body of Abraham Streetpeed, • platelayer, aged 35, of Palmer's-cottages, Merton. Unable to see a train approaching on account of the steam from an engine, Streelpeed was knocked down and instantly killed near Wimbledon-station! Last week Mrs. Savage, aged 61, residing at Lincoln, in a fit of depression swallowed a whole razor. On Monday the surgeons at the Lincoln County Hospital operated upon her. They made an incision in the stomach and removed the razor, the bone handle of which had been considerably acted upon by the gastric juices. The operation lasted fifty minutes. The patient is apparently doing well. Joseph Allsopp, who murdered two fellow inmates of Winson-green Lunatic Asylum on Saturday night week, will be almost immediately removed to .B' roadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Should he recover his mental powers before the time for holding the makes at Birmingham, he will be brought back for trial and then discharged after evidence has been given of his insanity at the time the crimes were committed.  The Committee who have itquired into the manner in which the monkeys ant scribed in response to General Booth's "Darkest England ' appeal have been expended have issued their report. They review in detail the work which has already been carried out, and come to the conclusion that (with the exception of an expenditure on barracks at Hadleigh, where the Farm Colony has been established) the fund has been devoted o—ly to the the objects set out in the appea' ; that the methods employed, so far as can be at present judged, are business-like, economical, and prudent; that the accounts are properly and clearly kept; but that adequate legal safeguards do not at ;present exist to prevent the misapplication of the property. A number of suggestions are made by the Committee.