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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-03-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE COPPER TROUBLES.  MORE FAILURES EXPECTED. A leading metal broker, who predicted the failure of the syndicate, but whose words were anticipated by the suicide of the secretary of the French company principally concerned in the business, informs a npresentative of the Sund,y Tones that the kading brokers on the metal market seriously fear that at least four or five firms will fail to meet their engagements. It is also believed by the brokers in London that, provided the holders in Paris of the 160,000 tons (a quantity which represents the entire supply of the world) be firmly held, the price of copper will remain certainly at or above its present value. It is well known that no copper-producing company in England ran live at the present price. As a matter of fact Devon Great Consols, the greatest producer of copper in the [country, which was the world's supplier not 80 long ago, is, so far as selling mineral is concerned, shut down. It may be added that among the subjects of talk between principal members of the Metal Exchange it is seriously believed that M. Secretan, the orginator, has not only sold his very valuable gallery of pictures, but that he in utterly ruined, utterly discredited, and no longer associated with that society which, supposed to be so strong, terminated its existence on Thnrsday.  A rather serious football accident happened OM the Swansea football ground on Friday afternoon about 0 o'clock in the course of a match between Trinity and the Young Men's Christian Association Ramblers. The match was the semi-final tie in connection with the District Challenge Cup competition. Arthur Wolfe, a Trinity three-quarter, was running with the ball along the touch line when, in attempting to tackle him, Robert Davies, of the Ramblers team, collided with another player of the same side. As the three fell his right leg was twisted under him and, it is feared, was broken just above the ankle. The injured limb was at once bound by some of the players, and a stretcher obtained whereon Davies was conveyed to the general hospital. After this unfortunate accident the match was not proceeded with. Upon inquiry at the hospital our representative learnt that Davies had sustained a simple fracture of the leg.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-03-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MURDER OF THREE CHILDREN.  A shocking case of murder iincl suicide occurred at Haltwhistle, in Northumberland, on Sunday night. A labourer, named John Nicholson, went on a visit, and left his wife and four children and a niece of his wife at home. About six o'clock Mrs Nicholson dressed her eldest boy and sent him and her niece to chapel. Some little time after that the woman was seen leaving her home, carrying her youngest child, age, .> months, and the other two walking alongsiue of hor, going in the direction of a stream which flows into the Tyne. Although Mrs Nicholson, some four years ago, had been an inmate of the , County Lunatic Asylum, her conduct did not arouse any suspicion. The woman seems to have gone direct to the stream, which was very full, owing to the recent rains and in one of 'he darns which supplied water to a mill it is ~uppos‘xl she first east her children and then drowin I herself. When the husband returned home slant 9 o'clock and found his wife and children absent, with no clue to their whereabouts, he sought the aid of a police inspector, who sent out search parties, but without finding any trace. The stream was dragged, and, after a ' long search, the body of the youngest child was found, and in another dam further down the hat of the little boy, aged four. Later in the day Mrs. Nicholson's shawl and skirt were found, but the bodies of the mother and the other two children are still undiscovered. There is not the slighest doubt that all four are drowned, and it is surmised that the bodies have been washed into the Tyne, and will probably be recovered in the lower reaches of the river.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-10-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE ALLEGED PARRICIDE.  A MYSTERIOUS CASE.  IFurther particulars state :—Great excitement has been caused in the colliery district of Mid Derbyshire by solos extraordinary circumstances which have attended the death of James Jacques, a framework knitter, living at Hodsley Woodhouse, near Ripley. Deceased, who was sixtynine years of age, had lived alone since 188.5. He had two sons, named William and Joseph, who lived together at Clay Cross, near Chesterfield, and worked in the coal mines there. Last Sunday morning a woman named Woollins went to the house of Alderman Jacques as usual with milk. Getting no answer to her knock at thel door, she pushed it open, and was horrified to see the dead body of Jacques lying upon the floor near the foot of the stairs. Information was given to the police, who found that the old man had died from the effects of wounds in the throat, and as there was a blood-stained knife in his hand it was at first assumed that the case was an ordinary one of suicide, but some remarkable statements made by the elder son William, induced the police to arrest his brother Joseph on a charge of the wilful murder of their father.  The prisoner, who is a man about 2.5 years of age, was brought up on Thursday at the Ilkeston Petty Sessions, before 15(r. H. J. Wood and other magistrates. After a statement by the pollee superintendent, William Jacques, prisoner's brother, said that about two months ago his brother (the prisoner) had been drinking, and one night, when going to bed, he said, "I have been thinking how I can bent my mother-in-law out of the money." Witness had been talking about unfairness, and he did tuty to the prisoner that ehe wanted to cut them off without anything. Prisoner had been talking about going to Australia, which had been in his mind some time. Prisoner said, "I will tell you hew we could do the job." Witness said, "Well howi" and he replied, "If we were to go late some Saturday night, when everything was quiet and still, we could take him 111111.WItref+, and either cut his throat or knock him senseless and rob him, without anybody knowing." Witness said" Don't mention anything of the kind to me." He never spoke of this until now, because he never thought his brother would do anything of the kind. He ahould go on with the case and have three more men apprehended. He could not find any stains on his brother's clothes, but he might have employed some desperate character to do the deed and pay him for it.  --After medical evidence had been heard, the accused was remanded till Monday.  A
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-06-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GENERAL NEWS.  "Sitting Pull, the well-known chief of the Sioux Indians, is dying. Mr. Parnell writes he will receive the freeof the city of Edinburgh on the lttth July or on a later day. A Shark over In ft long was caught in the mackerel nets of Fentnor on Friday morning. A New York telegram says :—A large portion of the town of Seattle hah been burned. The damage amounts to 5,000,000d015. • Great damage was done by hailstones in Margate and neighbourhood on Thursday morning, hundreds of windows being shattered. •  'Woodhull Farm, near Hatfield, was sent on Tre by lightning on Thursday night. The Hatfield lire Brigade could only save part of furniture, the house being consumed.  The Daily Chronicle'; Paris correspondent,] telegraphing on Thursday. says :--M. Floquet is stated to be seriotetly ill with an attack of  rnut. iThe "Times" correspondent„ttelegraphing nn Cairo onThursday, says: The govertunents of Great Britain and Germany have given their consent to the conversion of the preference loan. The " Standard " correspondent, telegraphing from Vienna on Thursday night, says The Emperor Francis Joseph will, on Tuesday, pay a visit to his daughter, Princess Giseld, at Munich Serious damage by the storm is reported from Cambridge and neighbourhood Many roofs have been struck and smashed, the lotMl telegraphs interrupted, and a number of animate killed.  Ladies' cricket is in great favour in Ceylon, and the Kandy feminine Cricket Club has gone on a tour, challenging other local cricketers. Herr Julius Loewy is a picturesque journalist of Vienna. He has decided to drive all the way from the Austrian capital to Paris in a fourwheeler. . .  A subscription "Bier-Italie" is to be established in Berlin. For the annual payment of £3O the thirsty soul may drink as much beer as ,he pleases. ' Parasols ornamented with beetles, boards, and various fantastic creptures crawling about amongst and lace, are being used in Paris by some eccentric fashionable dames. A retired farmer named Richard Davies' has committed suicide by jumping from a railway bridge spanning the Ogmore Valley, South Wales. He is known to have lost heavily on the turf, and this fact is supposed to have led to the act. .  A treaaure too rare to be exhibited, but kept under lock not key at Mr. Quaritch's private house, is Schoeffer's "Psahnoram Codex," priced at £6,250. Mr. Quaritoh bought this unique copy in 1884 for £4,930, and calculating interest at 5 per cent., his loss, allowing for the £3OO of profit expected, will be almost £l,
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-06-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC  CHURCKGREENHILL.  Whit-Sunday wee celebrated with great solemnity at St. Joaeph's Catholic Church, (ireenhill. The beautiful communion rails have just been extended beyond the chancel arch, an that they reach from side to side. The chancel and side chapels were beautifully decorates' with ferns, hut-house plants, and exquisite bouquets of flowers. At the 11 a.m. Mass the mimic was Haydon's lath Mass, except the Crido and Aquae Die, which were Farmer's in G. The , mimic was rendered with splendid effect, under the leadership of Mr. Gibson. The solos were taken by Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Davis (soprano), Miss Annie O'Brien contralto), Mr. W. Clancey (tenor), and 3dr John O'Sullivan (bass), respectively, and were all SIM VSAILny rendered. The Gloria " was especially well executed, the beautiful quartette " QUOULUIII to solus," being rendered with charming taste. The Rev. G. lied° Cox, 0.5.8., presided at the line organ, and his exquisite accompaniment more than compensated for the absence of any orchestra. The choir of St. Joseph's is certainly developing very creditably, and its performance on Sunday was wed ' worthy of highly trained singers. The Rev George Bede Cox, 0.5.8. occupied the pulpit, 1 preaching on the work of the Rely Spirit on the great day of Pentecost, and in each individual : soul in the present day. At the evening service the singing VMS also very good, the altar boys and children doing themselves great credit in the singing of psalms and in other choral pares of the service. The Very Rev. Canon Richards occupied the pulpit, expatiating inn special way on the work of the Holy Spirit iii the Church.  Dr. Paine, of Cardiff, is lying seriously ill. Mr. H. Worlcott Thompson has rreleuted a oheque for £6OO to the Cardiff Infirmary. A movement is on foot at Merthyr tor the purpose of providing public swimming baths. At Cardiff, on Friday, Edward Vaughan was remanded on a charge of wounding Margaret ' Murphy, and attempting to commit suicide. ' Twenty-five persons were fined sums ranging from a shilling upwards at Cardiff on Friday for keeping dogs without a license. At the election for a guardian for the parish of St. 'Mary's, Cardiff, the Rev. Father Butler. Roman Catholic priest, headed the poll. The Newport authorities are doing all that in them lies, to stamp out furious bicycling. Two young men were fined 5s and costa on Friday.  Sir Arthur Stepney has chartered a special train to convey his agricultural tenants to the Jubilee Show of the Royal Agricultural Society, at Windsor, on June 28.  Information has been received at Llanidloes that eleven natives of that place were drowned in the Johnstown disaster and nine were saved.  The men engaged at the Aberaman colliery, who have been on strike for three weeks, have come to a settlement with the masters and have in tined work.  The Cardiff Rounders Club played Gloucteter on Saturday before a larbe, assembly at the Cardiff Arms Park. The st.nres at theconclusion of the game were Cardiff )04, Gloucester
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-11-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ILL-TREAT-INO A HORSE. Edward Davies, an elderly haulier, was charged with working a horse in an unfit condition. Inspector Lase,'lles said he saw the defendant in Neath-road, driving two horses. The leader was very lame, and in a bath of sweat. The lameness was due to a gathering on the hoof. Defendant said he did not know the hots was so lame, or he would not have worked it. A penalty of £1 was imposed.  Intelligence recieved from Mexico states that General Corona, Governor of Jalisco, and formerly Mexican Minister to Spain, while proceeding to the theatre hi Guadalajara, was fatally stabbed by a discharged policeman' who committed suicide immediately after the deed. The man was deranged in his mind. Mr. John H. Cuthbert, a well-known medical man of Lilly Oak, near Birmingham, was on Wednesday committed for trial, charged with improperly admimistezing a drug to Nora Graham, a nurse, who alleged that he had been intimate with her. Doctor Cuthbert denies the whole story, and alleges conspiracy. The steamer Libby Whatcom, with a cargo of lime for Portland, has been burned and has founded at sea. During heavy weather waves broke over the vessel, the cargo became slaked, and fire broke out. Fifteen passengers who were on board and the crew escaped with difficulty from the burning ship. They took refuge on rafts, whence they were rescued by a passing schooner. . .  The Standard Rome correspondent, writing on Wednesday, says :—A contract haa been signed between the Cominute of Rome and the Anglo. Roman Gas Society for the illumination of Rome and suburbs by electric light. One hundred and sixty-seven electric lights will take the place of seven hundred and six ga, lights at an increased expense of nearly twentyRix thousand francs emainally. •  Tlic, Pair, Xe,, Paris corespondent on Tuesday reports that the Republics of Central America were contemplating the decisive step of uniting together into one nation on a federal basis, appears, from what I have learnt to-day to be well founded. A few days ago, the representatives of Guatemala' San Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, assembled at San Salvador and signed a draft of a Treaty of Union.  The Daily ..1'; tea Corntantinoplo correspondent writes: The Czar has declared to the new Turkish ambassador that he intends to visit the Sultan neat Suring. It is now recognised on all sides that the visit of the German Emperor, while entirely successful as a mark of friendship and hospitality, has been without political results, and the intimation of the Czar's intention will be regarded as a confirmation of this view.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-10-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SAD END OF A SHIPBROKER'S CLERK.  A sad affair occurred at Newport on Wednesday. A young man named John Hay, 25 years of age, employed as book-keeper by Mean,: Mordey, Jones, and Co., shipbrokers, Dockstreet. committed suicide in a very determined manner at his apartments at the residence of Mr. Young, Cardiff-road. It seems that on Tuesday afternoon deceased was questioned cloaly by one of the members of the firm as to the accounts, and could not give satisfactory replies as to a deficiency rumoured to amount to between £460 and £6O. He went home, and retired to rest as usual. Early in the morning the other inmates heard a noise, proceeding, as was imagined, from the telescopic portion of a gas chandelier in the parlour suddenly lengthening out. The real cause of the noise was, however, of a very different character. Deceased had in his possession a six-chambered revolver, which he loaded with ball cartridges after he had retired to his bedroom. Between three andfonr o'clock he placed the revolver on the pillow beside him, and tired one of the chambers. The ball pierced the brain, and death appeared to have resulted instantly, as the bedclothing was not disturbed when the other inmates, finding that deceased did pot appear as usual at breakfast time forced open the door. On examining the bedroom, it was found that deceased had left behind letters addressed to his father, his late employers, and to his landlord. He told the last-named that his employers had discovered discrepancies in his accounts, and had asked about them. He could , not give satisfactory answers, and could not face it out or "stand" it out. Deceased himself had been intheemploy of the tirmof MordeyandJones for five years, and was trusted in every respect. He was a young man of some promise, and fond of athletics. He had won several prizes at . amateur race meetings at Cardiff, Newport, mad Swansea.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-07-31 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ROMANTIC DOUBLE SUICIDE.  INQUEST ON THE BODIES _ •  On Tuesday night ,Mr. E. Docker (coroner) held an inquiry at the Brickmakers' Arms, relative to the death of Elizabeth Bates (20), 56, I Eel-street, whose dead body was found in Titford Canal on Monday. William Bates, the father of the deceased, deposed to being with his daughter and her young man at Stourbridge on Sunday night. They left by the eight o'clock tram, both being in good spirits. He I followed the next day, and on arriving at his home was surprised to hear that his daughter was not at home. He made linquiries, and learnt that the young man was not at his home. He was returning home when a roadman accosted him with "Will, I should not go that road, it's dangerous, they're pulling young men's and women's hats out of the cut. Upon that he went to Pollee-constable Bayliss, who showed him two hats, which he identified as belonging--one to the young man and the other to his daughter. He afterwards heard of their bodies being drawn from the canal. The inquiry was adjourned until Friday morning next. An inquest was subsequently held at the INavigation Inn, Titford, touching the death of Joseph Harvey (21), of Titford-road, whose dead body was found, with that of his sweetheart, in the canal on the same date. George Harvey identified the body as that of his son. His son enjoyed good health. He last saw him alive on Saturday evening, when the young man left home for the purpose of going to Oldbury. 'lle did not return, but that was not unusual, he being in the habit of stopping at Baths's house a night or two occasionally. Witness heard of the occurrence on Monday morning whilst at work. Witness added that the girl with whom his son kept company, one day, about six months ago, visited his house and represented that she was in trouble. His son then said if that was the case be would get her out of it as soon as possible. That, however, blew over, and deceased then said that that statement was only made as a trap by her father and herself. She had, nevertheless, bought material and commenced to make clothing for a child. This I inquest was also adjourned to the same time as I the other.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-07-31 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

INCENDIARY VILLAGE FIRES. whose chief duty consists in drawing and serving writs and summonses, is missing fr,mn NUMEROUS ASSASSrNATIONS. Perim since Friday last, and it is supposed tu'at A telegram from Constantinople on Tuesday he has been made away with by a man who, in says :—The latest news from Crete is of a outward appearance, resembled himself. It is ~.ore serious character. In some districts not pate a case ef a double or dual self, for the the neopie are in a state almost of insurrection. supposed niurdertr was a much younger man Inc village fires have occurred, and thanthe lousier who has vanished; but the nuinero.us ansaasivations are reported. oircutnatancen of the disappearance as they have em"liar3' been set forth by the police are dramatic enough to inspire a sensational novelist with a tolerably strong situation. The missing man had an appointment on Friday evening to inset a friend at his favourite raj, in the Boulevards. At half-past seven he left that place, saying that he was going to dine, not at home, but in a re.taorant, and that he had sent his daughters and his servant to dine also out of doors. There was no one, therefore, in the rooms of the hnissier—who is a widower --on Friday evening at eight o'clock. About that hour, however, on the evening in question , the concierge of the house saw a man going up 1 the stairs who, as regards dress, height, and ' build was exactly like the and who ascended the stairs, taking two steps at a time. just as was his lodger's habit. In about half an hour or so the man came down, and the roncieigc, still thinking that he had to deal with his lodger, went out to give the lietimier some letters. To the great stupifaction of the door-keeper, the person whom he met was a young man of thirty-five or thereabouts, whereas the " limb of the law" was of middle age. Accosting the stranger the concierge asked him by what right he had gone upstairs, whereupon the fellow replied that he was one of the clerks of the liniviicr, and, making a suecomful bolt for the door, escaped. This is all that is known at present of the mystery. The missing man has not been seen by his daughters since Friday, and there is no reason to suppose that he has committed suicide, as he was of a lively disposition, and was doing a good business in his locality
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-01-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

HIS HOMER.  Edward Clampsou, driver of a luggage en- gine on the London and North-Western Railway, was driving some trucks near Dunkirk Bridge, about 300 yards from the Albion station on Tuutday. Be imagined ihe engine had passed over aon.ethiug, and on reaching tha Station he stopped, and seeing Alfred Morrie and Thomas Breeton, both pointemata in the employ of tl 3 railway company, he asked them to go down the line and see what it was he had • driven over. 1-pon doing so they found the body of a young MEW, with the head out clean off, on the left hand side of the line. The I poiice were communicated with and the body was removed to the mortuary. Subsequently the body was identified as that of Arthur Norman, age 15, residing at 44, Sand street, Great Green, West Bromwich, and as far as can he ascertained the facie points to suicide. It had been stated that the previous day deceased asked his mother to buy him some new clothes, and she refused to do so, and it is thought this led him to commit the rash act. He left home about 6 30 a.m. to go to work at the Albion Iron Works, and it is thought he must have gone strait to this spot, for it would not be the way to his work, there being a nearer one on the main road. In • his pocket was found part of a note written in penal which said :---"Dear Mother, againat you read this 1," and here the note ends, and it is supposed that he must have been writing the ' note when he heard the goods train approaching and put it in his pocket before placing himself the hue. The driver was not able to see him owing to the fog.