The Herald of Wales. — 1890-02-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GENERAL NEWS.  Lead poisoning has within the last few days caused the death of a London white-lead 1 worker:. 4 A New York telegram on Saturday says: lifanitoba, Dakota, and Minnesota have been visited by • blizzard. t Drabble, the football player, who was injured by • mob at Scarborough recently, died at Whitby on Saturday morning. ''.. A bulletin issued on Saturday morning skates that Earl Sydney's condition haft slightly improved, and be ban gained some strength.  If- The Queen's Bench on Friday struck Charlie Rivers Drake. solicitor, of 56 Chancery-lane. was struck elf the rolL4 for having misappropriated /5 belonging to a client. s, The Russian physician, Dr. Bopcbie.ati, &t-rews:ea that he bas discoveved a care for diphtheria. Ile says the disease is easily curable by inoculation of ery,ipelas. A man, tame unknown, low been knocked down and run over by a heavily-loaded van in Fectioirch Street, London. 'rte wheas peened ever his howl, anithe was instantly killed.  The jcuraah .La Pima, pahlishee a telegram from °beck statieg that the members of the Ina& uarerms.which_warr attacked by Somalia near that Owe Ast the 14th ult. leave since all ' been massacred. A telegram from hiew York on Saturday rove fight has eoeurreelbetween white and black railroad lab-maces at Bibs County, Alabama. Two whites N,Cre killed, and three injured. The megrims have fled to the wood.. John Wceloy Mies, of Des Monies, lowa, a led.of 14, murdered both hi* father and mother. JEle gars as lie motive that he luul deeired to leave home and shift for himee'f, but his parents bad objected. The Channel mita racket WriN e nariowly tempt oelleunwiah aimam week rive miles off rho. &amok coast. on Trudalay night. The moon, suddenly becoming unclouded, dirclosed the d,relect just ahead, floating bottom upwards. .  Lord Liunington's aoaditien onuses greet anxiety to his family. A bulletin Mined states that the noble privies temperature is Mill high, and the weigh about the some. Lady Leamington is airibing fair progress, but she is still yolk_ . . • ' "  A mail from Azores has arrived at Madeira, but brought no nein, of tbe steamer Erin, which Meow forty days out-from New York to London. She is reported to have -had no passengers on board beyond cattle-tenders. There were ieventy-two souls on Le rd. According to a despatch from Constantinople a telegram he. been received at the Porte announcing the sadden departure of Sir Henry Drummond Wolff from Teheran. It is added that his Excellency left withent aoquainting • single pollen at Ms intended departure, and hn destination is equally unknown. The execution of a widow named Weber has taken plaosrat TOsitthe culprit being beheaded. Weber, together with her husband, whose third we ,she was, vas sentenoed. to death at the recent assize% for poisoning the latter's second wife. nu man committed suicide by hanging himself in kis sell. The British steamer Thanerooor has arrived at Boston from Lendenbringing the captain and seven of the crew of the Josephine. Five others of the crew were swept overboard by a huge wave in the Atlantic and drowned. The vessel I/. abandoned. .  -71 b-ere has been a rent rash of water into the Broughton Boor Colliery, near M Twenty homes are entombed, and have Mune food once Tuesday ; but all the miners have been got out, in satiny. Active measures have been taken for seeening the home, bat this gannet be dune until the water is pumped out. Mr. Parker Smith, Unionist, and Sir Charles Tennant, Glalstonien, were duly nominated for Partiek, Glasgow on Thursday. Both candidates were loudly cheated. Mr. Edward Boutledge, publisher, of London, hen been selected is Liberal candidate for Ayaburgh, and has wasted ,o Wand. A beak in Texas recent y remitted, through an express company to a bank in St. LOUIS, the syllll of 15,000 dollies in gold, and bills to the value of 55,000 dollars. The grid has beer duly maned, but the bills have not come to hand, and the cleat of the express company is A miner, named Malone, was softening some dynamite cartridges by the first at his house, at Burradon Colliery, Newcatale-ou-Tyrie on Wednesday night, rhea they exploded, tens*. lug his and two adjoining houses. Xalone was knocked down, and his child thrown from his knee,. but they escaped with mere:y superficial injorses. Several other persona rsoeived hurts. The Dsay Kern Cairo aorrespondenteays : Miss Merrick, the London artist, who last year had the honour of painting a portrait of her highness the Khedivialt has received a oommiesion from Sir George Eliot, Bart,