The Herald of Wales. — 1888-06-30 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

AWAYS.  At the Bristol Police Court, William Evans and Patrick Doyle were charged with being stowaways upon the s.s. Llandaff Qty. Capt. Gore said that the accused ooncealed themselves amoug some fireworks and petroleum barrels ,at Swansea, and had travelled to New York and back. Doyle had given them great trouble all the time, and refused to work. When at New York he escaped horn the ship and they had to employ a detective to bring him back, as the owners had been laid under penalties .of .£lOO for their safe keeping. The priaoners had cost the owners £lOO. Evans worked sell land gave very little trouble. Doyle was sent to prison for four weeks, and Evans for 14 days with hard labour.  At the Inquiet, held on Wednesday, on tbe body of Mr Tillerd, stockbroker, London, who shot himself at Chertsey, the jury returned a yerclict of suicide whilst temporary insane.  Colonel Protheroe, C. 8., has been appointed Quartermaster General of the Madras Army, and Colonel Hope, Deputy Adjutant-General for Madras.  A telegram from Gothenburg reporth that a fire broke out on Tuesday night, at Lila &let, some eight miles from Glothenbsig. Sixty houses were destroyed.  A telegram fron Newport, New York, announces that the Duke of Marlborough is about to marry the widow of Mr Hooker Hamersley. Her husband left her an annuity of one hundred thousand dollars.  We regret to record the death of Mr George landlord of the Beaufort Arms, Pwll Ddn, which took place on Monday evening, at his hotel at the sea end of Bishopton Valley. Mr Jones was up till a week or two ago a hate, hearty and vigorous man, but he took cold, which developed into inflammation of the lungs, to which he succumbed on Monday evening, as stated. Mr Jones was well- known to tourists throughou the kingdom.: In the Queenre Bench. ou Wedneetrrlimtioe Charles commenced hearing the case of Vigliano Brothers v. the Governor of the Bank of England. Plaintiffs are foreign merchants in the city of London, and seek to recover from the Bank £71,600, the amount of 43 draft., recently forged by a clerk, who was sentenced to penal servitude. The Bank paid the drafts and debited plaintiffs, who hold the Bank respousible. Sir. Charles Russell, Mr. Finlay, Attorney General, and other leading counsel were engaged. The Daily Telegraph gays :—Mesers Cox head Goldsmith and Co, merchants, chiefly connected I with Italy, Bpain, and Russia, have euspendtri payment, with gross liabilities estimated at about £300,000, a large portion of which,•it is hoped, will ran off. These lifficulties, which may be followed by other stoppages, are understood to have bem caused b 7 a fall in the value of produce and looses in freights. The firm was originally established in 1440 under the title of Fordati, Coxhead aud Co. The present house was formed in 1853.  At hatf-pavt stz on Wednesday OVettllllit two men, named Richard Northall and Henry Johnson,were ascending the shaft at the Gawne Colliery, belonging to Messrs B. Hhiglry and Sons, when the rope slipped of the drum and npuit the bowk. Both men fell to the bottom of the shaft, and were killed instantly. The bodies were removed to the White Lion Inn. Each of the men leaves a wife and faintly. Shortly after 11 o'clock on Monday morning, shocking accident occurred at the No. 2 pit at Fochrldw. A boy of thirteen, named Walters, went from the stall in which be was working to talk with a man named Vaughan in another stall. Vaughan retired for a Jew minutes, and almost immediately after he left the stall the lad was buried beneath a heavy ' fall of coal. On Monday night he died at his residence in High-street, Galyfaeiog.  •ITNIVERSITY COLLEGE 00k