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The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-01-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

PRODUCE MARKET.  Lownox, Thursday.—Sagar, Pans, dull and gain lower; New lock, easier; London pieces n quiet demand at about previous raters; dried roods steady as follows—Mite's and Duncan's übes, and Martineau's cut leaf 20s, Martineau'a übes ; Titler's 18n; Schwartz's cut loaf 19s 0 19x 6d; Paris loaves 168 to 178; Dutch crushed on; beet sugar dull at 108 to 108 Id ; cane sugar Lactive.—C ffee, New York, firm; Continent 'taut; London, unchanged—Tea stesdy.— 'etroleum and turpentine flat.  Kr. Gladstone did not rise until noon on Mureday, and it was reported that be seal much tronger for the prolonged rest. In the London Bankruptcy Court on Thurs. lay Henry !Beaman, merrhsnt, ot Litner-steet, atMclon, and Birminghste, was a judged bankopt, liabilities £20,000.  A fire broke out on Tliprivlay morning, in a onfectioner's shop, Fligb-atreet, Berwick, courted by a widow named Lyael, and her eon. Vhen the flames were subbued and an entrance ffected both were found dead, the widow downtairs and the son upitta irs. A Dunbar telegram says :—A party of Boors row Northen Zululand rode down to the coast our days ago, and marked off a strip of territory obe divided into farms. The territory selected ly them borders immediately on the Reserve. rho Boers appear to regard all Zululand beyond be Reserve as their own property. From Madrid, on Thursday, we are informed hat earthquake shocks occurred yesterday at Velez and Negri. The houses were damaged, ut the people escaped.  Rae Monla, general of King John or AbysNinia, has commenced a campaign against the Habbah tribe who have lately attacked and pillared the villages in the neighbourhood of Hassowah.  A "Daily News" telegram, dated Cairo, Wednesday night, sap, :—The Khedive entertained Lord Ripen, Sir E. Baring, and the principal officials at dinner this evening. Fifty covers were laid.  Aecordine to a "Daily News" telegram from Geneva, on Wedneiday night, we learn that a shock of earthquake was felt there that morning. Shocks have also been felt during the last few days in the Grieons and Haut Savo% A telegram from Paris, on Thursday, save: 'About midnight, two police officers entered the officers of 'Cri du People' and severely assaulted the Editor, who Bred three shots at his assailants, disabling one. It is supposed the constables were mono., their father having been murdered recently, tha murderer escaping. A New York telegram Faye that Edward Orion. who recently arrived at San Francisco from Austrelia, has ju-t told an interviewer that o bile in Australia he saw his brother Arthur Orton in alunatie asylum at Sidney. He, therefore, believes that the Tiehismae Claimant is really the rightful possessor of the title ard estates.  Two extraordinary cases of suicide have occurred at Lincoln. In one ma:, a chemist's apprentice, named Pepperdine, who had been in Low spirits for some time, poisoned himself by taking four drachma of pripsic 'acid. In the Dther, a patient in the County Hospital swallowed a quantity el carbolic acid, which had been lepoiited in a closct for dilinfecting pur[
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-04-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTENSIVE LETTER-BOX ROBBERIES. On Tuesday, at the Central Criminal Court, Charles Ireland, 41, woo indicted for breaking into a warehouse and stealing a number of letters. It appears that for some tblie past very extensive rots mines 01 letters have t ken iilace from wareheit,es within the City. The .an adopted was for the [hod to Mice an entrance nti the warehouses y at ter the morning deioenes and to plunder tie ! lets! Imam Two or tlxite complaints were rec. in a mottling, and in one case letters cofltiii iiit! cheques and securities to itho amount of MU me • stolen. One of the cheques was paid in noteii, two of which bore the prisoner's hand, Ming. A few I day, since a lad named °ram, employi•d by Co :iros ! -motors, on going to the warehouse, tound the iriso-er inside forcing the letter box open with n chisel ran away, but was pursued and seized by 0. am. istiner throdened tho lad with the chisel, bid irstn eibrageously retained his hold until the arrival ot the The prisoner was identified as having puilis.d -ique of the stolen cheques. Since his wrest there M.• 110. been a single letter box robbery in the City, Abiro;,h, but a very short space of time previimmy 'hot had been at least 50 complaints.— The jury totiiirl the prisoner guilty, and be was sentenced by the Recorder to 18 months' hard labour.  The wrriage of the linnourabe Francs ItnwelL of the late Earl Russell, with M:sa A:ice LOelfrey, of Balderton Hall, Notiingharns.ore, was solemnised on Tuesday morning at St. Auguetine's Church, tjueen's.gate before a fashionable congregation. A man named Smith has been murdered by hie brother at their residence at Harewood End, HeraThree men were badly injured at Bournemouth on Toetday.niorniiig ny the fall i:f wall. They sere en4a4eu building new premises for the Young Men's (2:11. etion Aaruciatiou' and the wall which fell was one dividing the property from that adjoining. E.ely on Tnewlay morning an army pensioner, rime'? Bolton. living at Haudsworth, near Birinia.,— ham, made a dreadful attack upon his niece, a gi.l als.ut jft team old, with a coal hammer and to-ot knee. The girl'asktill was fractured in several places, and her throat was shockingly cut. She had given offence by looping company with a neighbour. The would-Le murderer escaped, and is believed to have L committed suicide.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-04-18 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MOTI9EII-01-IAW.  . . Penelawdd, was summoned aged mother in-law, for as,. 3rd inst. It appeared that bellows, a Limp, and a stool -use, and it uck her thrice, :.tent his iakiug the things ./efendant was fined £l, in eMayor (W. Williams, EF.q) (J. C. Fowler, Esq.), E. R. a Hall. L. Tulloch, ant.Juhn  • seaman on board the sat. lizard with ts ing drunk and d-street, on Saturday hat. ring the Gefendnnt rolling . Fined h.. and meta. rFED brlelDti.  , a tailor, living at Sketty, rtsmpting tc commit suicide. at seven o'clock on Saturday r • man out by the fishing was standing up to hi s waist in utly be threw himself into the nd another me n rsn and pulled r said be was chtermined to :melt as Fe had that day got rd lf. The prisoner's r had suffered frcm fits for -cl been under the care of Dr. •er completely overpowered `let prisoner had a fit in his .41 fell to the do T. His face Both prisoner and his father 7.ir mots, the first to be of d the other to take care of  a seaman, was fined ss. the Strdnd ye-terday morn 4, puddler, Morriston, was ek'simpnsonmeit. for beim g ly exp-.oiog himself in die ye.terday evening.  cutter, Tontine street, mil ',filar, Powell street, were stealing a guernsey, from igh street. Prosecutor gave ng seen th- guernsey ssie in •o 29th of Mareh. Detective 6ernsey front Hr. Goldberg. riling on business in High 'Jar night be arrested the ,T -Meredith, assistant to Mr. the guernsey was pledged by enlian J.,nes, of Lamb-street. :s.,seci that on Thursday last, risoner in the White Swan ,y gave her the Guernsey, a .handkerchief, and she  . She gave the 'ticket to •ey b..gan to bully her for cy and she was glad to leave ,it taking a glass of beer. 'was then ilischavged. Ashley thiv court, pleading DA 17, the Guernsey, he said, on om a eailor. The bench conWent evidence to convict, .son for tine calendar month  tas Alfred Wallace, a Stafil repute, wn. charged with pocketa and with frequenting tt for an unlawful purpose. id that on Saturday. at noon r ultry market, and saw the ie coat, produced over his a went amongst a group of down at their pooketa. Pri.. .  other parts of the market r. himself in the same manner. up and witnesael his operaetween two woman who were tog his left band from beneath o the pocket of Mrs Jones a . was forthwith Liken into -g charged at the Town Hall ado " You'll have to prove In of the left-band pocket of .rn, and tho prisoner could dund through them.—Mrs  ‘t she was in the Swansea 4sy, between twelve to one ;a Gill came up to her, but ie bad not aeen the prisoner, ,rthing at her pocket. Dace. "rated the latter portion of the ective Gill. That was the atim. Prisoner said that a . d been ree, iv,l from the of Stafford Prison by the at he (prisoner) was to come to 1 having attempted to pick r as he knew that the police im. The bench found the  f frequenting tbe wful purpose, and sent him calendar months with bard said it NM a ammo and a do.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-02-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

EARRISTER.  - --On Friday an inquest was held on the body of Mr. Thomas Nash, barrister, who committed suicide M Ids Comber' in the Temple by shooting himself. Mr. William James Nash, solicitor, mid the deces•ed was his brother. Witness last raw blur alive in November, and had not beard niH him chine. From lettera he had written to his parents witness guthered that deceit/id wart err melancholy and despondent, owing to bad I o lila). lie had said that the " nights were a t nor to him." Overditmly arid hard work had broken down his Ilea th. He was in the habit ol being in the court all day, and was afterwards enin studying at his earn! HI. woo also much  lllVlested I.IILICRI qlcs 11,114. :at Ms ciromsatances: that  irre was nothing would have led .  1,111 to 0,11113.1 E Inlicsde.—Eduardl Erhys-r711,' li.s, • Twee/ that be was junior clerk to tt. dot, se, d. He heal hien iit his service :Mont six he 0 In the clay 01 the ”Ccurrellee the witness went at tt hi 3 diener and len. Mr. Nash in his chantlien, • Witelt he returned abut a ritutrtsr to 1, In si tot° nettling of the decent.ett, he knocked at tb,'a r, but receiving re. 10011 Cr, entered the ' ittelei.t. ie fouled tee deems. d sitting to his arm • chair. In his .riuht hand  h. Vratiptl.l a revolver which had iimt hen dt.churo d. hiding that he was dead, the  wit t.,•-s t for m.eist2ince. A doctor pronounced lits exiioct. Mr. I:II/Igo Williamlaiolford. al.srrintee, so.il Irk•ic, the ticenned as a member of ths Nor  eirrxrt, and !old frequently been &mono ht into t.et wit., him. The With. ~c uiied drimbers aiiji.;lling tree, iiiel by the drora•ed. He was a 7oo:1 I:1 r:1141l ity for work,aod did not mare I mhe td • en tilt of lw.alth for sonic tint- past, or irg to thii strsin of iustained work, and this I very touch on his mind. Dr. Boyle Thompson h. ill xlist the Intliet from the pistol had pawed  the batk of the riglit ear through t.skull into the brain. The injury had death, an I was evidently self•intlictid. The j.c returned e verdict of suicide while temporarily
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-05-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

AND FOREIGN.  Meson. lames R. Omood and Co., publishers,l of Bostoa, have suspended payment. Colonel Mewrant has been appointed to the I command of the 47th Regimental district. The Fanny Nora, from Cardiff for Oari, has put into P4mouth, making water. The steamer Stanmore, from Swansea for Baltimore, ha,. arrived at Queenstown with her machinery damaged. On Sunday evening at Sr. David's Church. Merthyr, the Dean of Bang r _preached a funeral Sermon on the late Rector of Merthyr. A considerable number of coastguarilsmen left Aberdeen on Monday to join the Ajta at Chatham. The Mamien House turd for the provision of C national nusnorial to General Gordon amounts now to over £16,000. The Rev. G. F. Clarke, vicar of Upton, near Leamington, has been found dead ii. i. lvd. The Eastbourne Liberals have peitam.l a vote of perfect contidenrn in Mr Gla&tone's Govrrnment. The Arehbishop of Canterbury has been preveered with a Primate's Cross in the library of islimbeth Palace.  of Wake will hold a levee at St s es the litbtMt. sloe ewer sits in the presence of es ordered to do so. - .  - reign of Sing James i. not one s thouosnd 1101.0 .to lingo. of tbe teeth is the hard, at tisane nd contains only 2 per cent of  1 Guion Liner Abyssinia arrived n Saturday morning in tow. with s on board. from New York on Saturday. says Earrison. one of the United State. at, is dead. Itber of the locked-out miners in colliery districts are leaving for the tis of Lorne has signified hie willmine president of the Royal Geoiety. Parton. an ex. • con.mitted suicide at Wolverhampng himself. who wan shot at Seven Oak. on a very critical condition. Douglas, has not yet been apprehended.  Xore es eek., of swine fever are reported to bare brolan eat in Chrehire. Twenty-tor animals Lace been ordered to be slaughtkrid at Wilmslow.  • . t. . from Brindp+ on Ssturrlay morn-4r Homo. Rumbold, BArt., left ,wr at two tido& this morning for  , A telegram from Berl:11.1m, Sweden, atates that the steamer &rpm°, of Newport, is grounded on a shoal eli Oland Island. Viscount flampden (late Speaker of the House of Commons) a ill preside at the Fe-tivol of the Cabdrivers Benevolent Assoeiatien at Bourns, on June 27. The failure is announced at Bradford of Messrs. Thomas Dewhirst and Co., worsted spinners at d manufacturers, with liabilities estimated at £BO,
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-08-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FIGHTLNO. the importance of the ease, reserved judgment. is charged with comrnittMe I ste by fighting. R.,0 Arnold, I It is announced that a new monster ironclad, teentwit-rood, saw defendant , which wil.l have the name of Humbert I. is to be cent fighting iii fiflainorganegreet. I structed at the arsenal of Venice. rook at the time I A despatch from Nice announces the suicide there si seeing bleed en defen lavit's of a Eamdan Prince, Alexandre Gagarinet da con. stein raid tluit the defendant, i sequence of enormous losses at Monaco. Thia makes r, mil her husband were Se- I the twenty-ninth suicide since the commencement of et (who was wituess's brother) the year irom the same cause. big to her husband aseindting Thin dead body cif a woman unknown has been Atop the 'Seise, then her hiss found at Whitefield railway station, near Briton, in a I. lilt, and offer a while slit), terribly mangled condition, one portion of the corpse being found at sorne distance from the other. t Fined lb-. ana mats. Some of the clothes she had worn were afterwards TING THE PoLICE, found entangled in the machinery of a locomotive, n. aline Holly, won charged It. was impossible to identify the body, hut it is beRestd, is di here w.ttt hoved to be that of • tramp.  1 a woman of tvil f,me, was I pig a brothel at 9, Church- ' ut aid uot appear to swayer bench ihautd a warrant for  [TORT TERMINATION 14ney-etre-t, wri4 eummoned w smelt. of Ibn Faw e. Mr. . Compla.nant alleged that 'toned u. "b 4 lier, and e was bodily afraid oi Mead on deten lent Fromieing iro children, who were really !Anal, to be taken eare of by  rn for is...mating P.C. John A girl only 17 years old, a Paris telegram says,• utiiin of his duty.. Frani the has just been condemned to 20 years' Renal servitude 7.1 that defendant was fighting in Ls Vendee for having murdered her father in s P.C. Ba ties aa.terfe. ed and most brutal manner. It appears that the girl irc.who at:fends-it ticitight him quently quao relied with the deceased because toe was ried is eiaoke Lion. In order averse to her going out to service and to her keeping i or bad to bretic the hand el .company with a young man whom she *anted to Defendant was very viol,r.t, marry. Eventually Ass beat his beams out with a . this office D. fendant said woodoa beam used for carrying buckets. I r. r, he had a sumstroke and. at The Hungarian IWoister of Finance has published tie t ..Eh. , B his accounts for the quarter ending June lath. The "-, ' revenue during the three months amounted to a. in ior am inontn9s 11711,1.1.m0, ft2,458,270f1., or Lifil,B2lifl. more than in the coerce' in defau't of pitying a fine of ponding quarter of 1,48.1. On the other hand, the a.r assaulting th.a police. A -rin expenditure Came to 17,242,2'0ti., or 611;37.4920. more er-iiisMw of def,,daant, w"..9 I than in
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-05-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

NEC PITWOOO.-155 9d to 168 per ton into trucks nett cash, 30 days. Messrs Burgess and Company, steamship owners, have furnished the foilowing freight list on 'Change: Steamers to load this week : Maine, .for Philadelphia and Baltimore; Liendaft City, for New York; City of Dialogs, for Mamburg ; Thunder, for London. Steamers excr..cted for next week's loading: —Mithigan, for Philadelphia and Baltimme; Brooklyn City, for New York; Rhine, for Genoa and Leghorn; City of Dortmund, for Hamburg.  To-day's freight quotations; are as follows: Lisbon 78 6d, Cartnegena 9s 6d, Bszeelona offer, Algiers 13)fcs, Oran 13if02, Arxew lace, Liesto 118, Aslant 12s, dyrscuse 12e, Bastin offer, Geoos lie 9d or 12s (fuel), Legborn 128, Naiime 12s, Omits Vecchia 12a lid (fuel), Venice 12s, Alexandria lOs 9d, (Dronstadt 6s, Copenhsgsn es, Stockholm Us 3d or fos 6d.  On Sunday afternoon, Mr James Jepson, of the Commercial Hotel, Ferndale, is alleged to 01 bay. attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a pocket-knife. He had driven to Hawthorn Village, a little below Treforest, to runt a relative, and it was there that the deed was done. Dr. Dickson, Pontypridd, attended to the injuries, but faint hopes are entertained of the patient's recovery. Mr Jepson is a married man with one child, and is a member of the firm of Jepson Bros., contractors. An inquest was held on Saturday evening, before the Nottingham coroner, on the body of Lucy I3onithy, eight years of age who died on Thursday. Dr. Herbert Taylor said he had attended the child fer a fortnight before her death, and had made a post-mortem examination of the body. He attributed death to over work at school, which had caused tubercular inflammation of; the membrane of the brain, the organ having originally been delicate. A verdietrm acoordance with the medioal widows was retuma.  -MR K.D. BURNIK_A.CANDI
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-04-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMTED SUICIDE.  On Wednesday morning an extraordinary attempt to commit suicide was made by a farm bailiff named William Wood, at Pernithon, near Newtown, where he was employed by Mr Haigh..toor two or three weeks pit his conduct had been somewhat strange ,and on Wedneaday morning he got up and seized a bottle of laudanum and some phosphoi us, and attempted to swallow some, bat was prevented by his 11 wife and son. He then got a rasor and made I a frantic effort to cut his throat, but was again I frustrated, though he inflicted several wounds on his face. Mrs Wood raised an alarm, and he was overpowered. It was then found that he had bitten his tongue severely, and he now lies in a critical oondition. Mr Wood is 42 years of age, and has ten children. Anxiety, caimel by business matters, is said to be the comae of the melancholy affair.  On Wednesday, at Leioester, Alexander Vitch, a police °lnstable, was brought up in custody charged with having committed bigamy. It ia alleged that the prisoner married Ms first wife at Morpetb, Northumberland, and went to Leicester a few years ago, and married a relative of a licensed victualler. A few days ago the first wife wrote enquiring after the children, hence the present prooeeiings. Fie was remanded.  ----Mr J. L. Sullivan, the celebrated American pugilist, sailed for Boston on Thursday mornmg, by the Cunard steamer Catalonia. The 'l.nAing stage at the time of Mr tinllivan's departure was crowded, and several round, of cheers were given. Sullivan obtained his championship belt from the Liverpool Customs Authorities. The belt was detained on the refusal of Sullivan to pay the duty claimed on it as being worked silver.  An alarming discovery was made on Wednesday morning, in the Queen's Bench Court, No 4, where Baron Buddleston and a special a libel action. One of the rairrei wb=rfilicfch sup the rcof was found to shrunk or wsredlo such an extent that It had shifted its position about four inches. His Lordship, oa pareeiving the danger, I iaiedla°y adjourned the mina.  the. e. moved E:
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-10-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO. The eardmal say. he ad& his mits to enable the Iri-h party partly to defend itself agsimit the vile asper.ime which the enemies of Ireland have sought to cast upon it. The MasseAe Naehrichton states that thi , eipher code placed at the late ithiperei Frederick's disposal for correspondence wit) the chief functionaries of the Empire in missing. This oode was in the late Emperor'e oom at the time of his death, but no trace of it an now be found. The journal adds that there is little doubt that it ham been stolen We understand, says the Sportsman, the, a return visit to that paid by the bid amateurs to America will be made by a Philadelphian aide next summer, the combination also visiting England. We have also received confirmatory news of the likelihood of t further visit from India next aummer, contra. dictiona that have appeared notwithstanding. The brig sane, of Aberystwith, was towe into Dover Harbour, on Thursday morning, having sustained extensive damage to her hull through stranding on the Goodwin Sands. The men feared that their veesel would go to pieees on the Baud'. The schooner Physician of Oar-, uarvon also put into Doverom W edneediynight,l with damage to Belie, having encountered severe weather.  At the otratford Polio. Conrt,Frederiokßass„ 35, described as a gilder, of 5, Charles.terrac , Walthametow, has been charged on his own oonfeseion, with attempting to N'son his wife Emma and his three abildrea (Ada Emily, aged 10, Harry William, aged 9, and William Frederick John, aged 4,) by administrating a quantity of oxalic and. was remanded. A shocking accident has occurred at Ear Granville's blasting furnaces, Stoke-on• Trent A man nemed WhitehousP, in endeavouring to cross one of the furnaces filled with hotfell ' inside. When refereed he presented a terrible opeetscle, his clothes, with the exceptiot of a leather belt round his waist, having been completely burned off his body. He received such serious injuries that his recovery is extremely doubtful. At Dublin, on Saturday, Quarter-toaster Edward Higgins, of I.enehall barracks, aged 45, committed suicide by poisoning himself ai hie quarters, where his wife and four ohldrai ro.i.ie. He seemed disturbed in his mind, ane on Friday his sister-in-law talk his razor from him. lie had been over twenty years in the rmy, serving with the thirteenth regiment. He recently had the position of mees-eergeset. The Daily Telegraph chronicles the de ill, after a long illneas, of Mr. J. M. Levy, ono oi the chief proprietors and one, also, of the most active directors -since its foundation—of The I ally Telegraph. Mr. Levy passed away paeoefully at his seaside residence, Florence cottage. Ramegate, surrounded by his children and various members of his family The &camel gentleman was in his seventyseVenth year, having been born in London is