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The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-07-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF THE COMMANDER OF TICE LEAVE TO SET ASIDE A DAY FOR THE SARTRE. DEBATE REFUSED. INCREASE OF THE PANIC. In the House of Commons on Monday night, Mansunuts, Friday night.—A young cone- a motion was made by the Premier, in gian here, who arrived only yesterday from accordance with a promise made, that the orders Toulon, died this afternepn from cholera, after of the day should be set aside in order that the 15 hours' illness. Eleven deaths from cholera debate on the vote of eenstwo should be pro- ' took place at Toulon yesterday, and nine to-day• eeeded with. No sooner had the Premier sat Tonnes, Friday night.—The "Petit" Mar- down than Mr. Forster rose up, and said that a males, says that the French naval authorities now discussion on the agreement with France at preadmit that the cholera was brought from sent would be most inopportune. Mr. Goschen Tonquin. urged the House not to assent to the setting The Paris correspondent of the "Times" aside of the orders of the day, and, after a short on Sunday midnight, in telegraphing, gives the discussion, his advice was accepted by the following with regard to the character and Liberals, who voted against the Ministers, who origin of the outbreak of cholera at Toulon : had pledged themselves to make room for the "A grave rumour is circulating here, which I vote of censure. The Premier's motion to set give with reserve.—lt is asserted that the chief aside the order of things was defeated by a commander of the Sarthe has committed suicide majority of 42. The following are the opinions from remorse for haying entered Toulon port of the London papers on this remarkable contrary to the energetic protest of his medical division : staff.—lf this rumour be correct the character The " Times " says :—" The proceedings in of the cholera will be absolutely established. the House of Commons on Monday were proIdessmuss, Sunday night. —The situation bably without a precedent in Parliamentary here has improved, and there hey been only one history, but even greater practical inconvendeath to-day. The state of Toulon continues knees would not have been too high a price to bad. There have been nine other deaths there pay for the advantage that has been gained by to-day, and numerous fresh cases of seizure, preventing the House of Commons rushing pre. The panic here has been increased by a sudden maturely into a decision upon a policy on which apparition of genuine swarms of mosquitoes, it will be necessary to pass judgment soberly which is considered a bad augury. The insects and seriously hereafter. Mr. Goschen and Mr. were dispersed by a thousand bonfires in different Forster have done good service to the country by parts of the town. making their protest effective.  The" Daily News" says—" No precedent can be recalled in Parliamentary history for the course taken on Monday night by the majority of the House of Commons in voting against the proposals made by the Ministers to set aside a day tor a debate on a vote of censure on the Ministers of the Crown."
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-06-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

INHABITANTS. NTS. Eight thousand persons have left Toulon since the outbreak of cholera became fully known. A panic prevails at Marseilles in conseqaence of an outbreak of oholera at Toulon. It is even reported that same deaths from the disease have occurred at Marseilles, but have been kept I I V.Tho ." Daily News" understands that the while bathing in the Wye. treaty concluded by Admiral Hewitt with the By jumping over Newport Bridge into the state that five deaths from cholera occurred there King of Abyssinia concedes Bogos to Abyssinia river Usk on Thu.rstlay, a young married man, on that day, that is to say, considerably leas than and opens Massowah freely to imported goods. named Albert Aram., committed suicide. He A strike is threatened in the Tees shipyards was jealous of his wife. Later telegrams from Toulon on Monday 1 , ' I were recorded on Sunday. The consultative The masters are seeking to reduce the wages 10 At the instance of the Incorporated Law So- i Hygienic Committee of France mot on Monday . . , , , per cent, while the men only concede five per eiety Mr. Dodds, solicitor, of Liverpool, cent. The arrangement ends on Saturday. _ struck off the rolls, on Friday, for miaapproriatThe "Daily News" representative at Vienna ing: money of his clients. on Monday, telegraphs the following mournful The Union Company's steamer Spartan left news :—" A new railway bridge across the 1 Plymouth on Friday for South Africa. She has Vistula, near the fortress of Ivangorod, has been the members of the Transvaal deputation on was I to receive. the .communication of the information transmitted from Toulon. The conclusion arrived at by the Committee was that the disease is not Asiatic cholera, but radio cholera due to local causes and not capable of spreading beyond its local 'area. Dr. Brouardel, and Dr. Proust are about ex. entirely destroyed ny floods. Twenty persons board. were drowned. The 48th anniversary of Her Majesty's aeriesamining the disease on the spot. They started at once after the meeting. Macduff fishermen, on Monday seized a rims- siorl to the Throne was observed with the Still later details state that the deaths at preher of boxes of fish which had been landed from customary 'celebrations on Friday at Windsor the Aberdeen steam trawler. They also threw and the garrison towns, seat number 22. The Lycee studies are to be stones at the sie er's crew. This action was A Bill suppressing the practicesof the Morsuspended. The rumour is afloat the epidemic intended as protest against Sunday fishing. mons and reguliting the affairs of Utah in was brought by the Sarthe, which has just The "Pall Mall Gatette " publishes what it accordance with the laws of the country has returned from China. Consequently this transasserts to be the terms of the Anglo-French been passed by the Senate of the 'United States, port has been taken out of port. agreement. This agrees with the forecast pre- A crowd assembled on Thursday night at
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-06-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GENERAL GORDON AND KHARTOUM.  The correspondent of the "Daily News " at Cairo, on Sunday, sends the following particulars about affairs in the Soudan :—" A telegram, not officially authenticated, received here this morning, states that the Mithdi in person has arrived at Delbach, en route to Dongola. Another caravan has arrived at Sotuikim from Khartoum, via Berber. It left Berber on the 25th May, perfectly tranquil, and Khartoum was able to hold out for some time longer." A telegram in the " Standard " from Cairo on Sunday says:—lt is stated at Wady Haifa that General Gordan has collected and armed all the Egyptians from the towns south of the city, and that he has now about twelve thousand men available for the protection of Khartoum. The "Daily News" representative at Varna, telegraphing on Sunday, sends the following particulars concerning the Porte and the Soudan: —The Porte has telegraphed to its representatives abroad a notification that it proposes to take part in the re-establishment of Egypt, and that 15,000 soldiers would be held ready to leave for that country. It is proposed to disembark them at Red Sea port for Upper Egypt. This sudden resolution of the Porte is made entirely on its own initiative, and is due to the importance of he news received from Hedjaz and the imminence of the danger of the Mandi's movement spreading into that province. An Aasouan native rumour says that Sheik Shamyun, with 30,000 men, is marching by the direct desert road from Berber to-attack !sins, and carry the war into Lower Egypt.  The Bradford spinners' strike finally terminated on Tuesday, the majority returning to work at the old rate of wages.  A lad named Yates was remanded at Leeds on Tuesday, being charged with stabbing another boy named Marshall„who is in:a critical  Mat Murphey, stone cutter, murdered his wife at Ballyragget, county Kdkenny, on Tuesday morninw by cutting her throat, and then attempted to commit suicide. The prisoner was arrested.  From Berne on Tuesday we are informed that the debate on the question of the resivion of the constitution concluded on Tuesday morning. The Chamber decided by 88 votes to 40 to take into consideration all propositions for revising and refer them to the Federal Council.  A fire broke out at the Brittania cotton mill, Heywood, on Tuesday, destroying 13,00 spindles and doing damage to the amount of £lO,
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-11-01 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

REWARDS FOR GALLANTRY.  The committee of the Royal Humane Society has unanimously bestowed ita silver medal upon Mr. Thomas Allnutt Bromley, undergraduate of Balliol College, Oxford, for the efforts by which he materially contributed to the rescue from drowning of a boat's crew an Loch Cumin, Rosa-shire. On the recommendation of the Duke of Edinburgh, Vice Admiral Commanding the Channel Fleet, and the Lords Commissioners to the Admiralty, the silver medal has also been awarded to Lieutenant J. Startin, R. 1,4., her Majesty's ship Minotaur,for savinglthe lives of five persons who were capsized from a boat at Portland. Lieutenant Startin had previously received the society's bronze medal and clasp, and the Duke of Edinburgh, in writing on this case, says that "Lieutenant Startin incurred great personal risk in performing this very meritorious service." On the recommendation of the Secretary of State for War,the silver medal has also been conferred upon Major A. E. Goodyear, lit Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, for a gallant attempt to save the life of a stowaway lad named Jones, who fell from the steamship Nubia in the Red Sea. Though it was well known that sharks abounded in that part, Major Goodyear plunged into the sea without divesting himself of any of his clothing,and swam about for 33 minutes in the vain search for the lad, his head exposed to the mid-clay sun. The vessel waa running 11 knots an hour at the time of the occurrence, with all her canvas set. The silver medal has also been 'awarded to J. M'Cluskey, • boy, aged 15, of the industrial training ship Wellesley, lying in the Tyne, off North Shields, for saving D. Bonnor. aged 13, of the same vessel, who fell from the bowsprit into the water, • height of 30 feet. On the recommendation of the Field-Marshal Commanding in-Chief (the circumstances of the caws having also been laid before her Majesty), the bunsze medal has been awarded to Pavia' H, Loraine, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, now serving in the Camel Corps in the Nile Expedition, for plunging off the bridge which ex tenda over the water in Kensington-gardens, and rescuing • man named Pope, who attempted suicide. The dive was • high one, 23ft., and as the water is only between five and six feet ieep, the risk of 'staking the, bottom was considerable.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-08-16 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MARRIAGES.  ,--------. August 2, at St. James' Church, by the Rev Hugh Williams, curate, Joshua Owen, of St. Thomas, to Sara Lilian, third daughter of the late Mr Wm. Haines of Brunswick street, Swansea. August 11, at the Parish Church, Swansea, by the Rev John "I holism, David John Davies, to Margaret James, daughter of the late Mr John Williams, both of Swansea. August 11, at the Parish Church, Swansea, by the Rev J. T. Martin, Rasmunsin Webber of Deumark, to Mary Anti Thomas, of Swansea. August 11, at the Parish Church, Swansea, by the Rev J. T. M otto, Cornslius Williams, to Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Mr Thomas Bowland, both of Swansea.  Grouse 'hooting for the season has commenced in earneet. In Scotland the supply is plentiful. The South Pevon election has taken place. Mr Tremayne, Conservative, was the only candidate nominated, and he was elected. At Walsall, two men have been committed for trial on a charge of the manalaughter of a man killed in a prize fight. At a fashionable dancing tetiort at Margate, a young girl named Clara Jardine, while dancing, fell down and expired.  _ The name of the gentleman who committed suicide in & railway carriage is A. Croker, of Weymouth.  _ Two of the burglars at Rompney Castle has been captured and a portion of the stolen goods recovered.  At a lunatic asylum in Prague one lunatic strangled another lunatic before the attendants ould interfere with them.  Mr W. H. Smith arnYed at Queenstown on Wednesday from Dartmouth, in his steam yacht Pandora.  A volunteer named Twat, at Weston-supermare, blew out his brains in the room where his wife lay ill. She is not expected to recover. The Duke of Wellington dropped down dead at Brighton Station as he was about to enter the train for London. He was 77 years of age.  'rho sentence of death for the murder of her cousin, passed on Catherine Dooley at the last Galway assizes, has been commuted to penal servitude for life.  )t a meeting ot silk weavers' delegates held at 61am:1u-field, it was decided to suspend for a month the trade union framed nine months ego. with the view of testing whether the trade will improve by allowing men to make their own term with employers.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-11-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ALLEGED A'ITEMPTED SUICIDE. _ _ _  IFrederick Fry. a commercial traveller was charged with attempting to commit suicide by taking poison at the Royal Hotel last evening. The chamber-maid at the hotel said she heard the bell of defende nes bedroom ring twice and she went up-stairs but found the door locked, She buret the door open and found defendant with his boots ' and coat off. He asked her to send for a doctor. 1 She asked him what was the matter and he said he was "bad all over." She gave him water, which he drank. A doctor appeared 'in a short time. 1)r. Gaiffiths said he went to the Royal Hotel last evening after receiving an urgent message, as a gentleman had tried to poison himself. When he arrived in the bowie, he found defendant held down on the bed by five or six attendants. The defendant was unconscious. In the room he found a ' tumbler containing a greenish liquid about 114 ounce of VIC QXtr;.%t Of Windt/MA, In the chailhe.i lie Luna a piece of paper with the " Extract of Belladonna " upon it, The patient was apparently suffering from the symptoms of bellationnie poison, and he immediately ordered him an emetic of mustard and water, which he failed to administer to the patient. He then sent! out to the chemist shop, for another emetic. He; also sent for his friend Doctor W. Davies, who shortly arrived. By this time he had given the patient the chemist's emetic, which appeared in produce good effects. After this the patient's stomach was washed out with warm water, and afterwards some laudanum Was given to him. Witness left the patient in charge of Doctor W. Davies, and he was glad to see the patient alive this day. In reply to the Chief-constable, Dr. Griffiths said chemists ought to label belladonna as poison. Dr. W. T. F. Davies, M.D., said he received a note from Dr. Griffiths, yesterday evening, about ten minutes past seven. He stopped with the patient until 8.45, and called again at ten, when the patient waits° well thathe ,wuldaronse him. He then left him for the night. This morning the prisoner told him that he had been in the habit of using it to relieve pain, as well as a narcotic. He said he also had used it as an external application. The ease was adjourned until Monday. Defendant said he was accustomed to take the drug to help him to sleep and for an internal disease. Ile did not intend committing suicide. The bench wouldjakehail, himself in £lOO, and two in XBO each,  • - . ALLEOLD Nitre Of A sovsarioU. 1".! Thomas Sconffioid, licensed hawker, Marineraireet, was charged with stealing a sovereign from off the counter in the bar of the Harbour Hotel, the property of Win. Wilcox, last night. Alter hearing the evidence, the bench discharged the prisoner. :
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-04-04 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MRS. WELDON'S TRIAL FOR LIBEL. The trial of Mrs. Weldon on the charge of libelling M. Rivilire Ives resumed at the Central Criminal Court on Friday. M. Rivil-re was again called into the witness-box, and Mrs. Weldon was about to recommence reading the coirespondence which had visaed between them, when the Common Serjeant, addressing the defendant, said that the previous day she had elicited important information from the prome. utor in regard to some parts of her defence; but he was of opinion that she could not legally prove it by merely reading the correspondence mat had pees- d between them. She must do that by evidence.—The jurs mid they were of the same opinion, and tliey add. d that they dui not think the readingof the letter wil assist them in the inquiry.—Mrs. Weldon sub. 1-t d that she should be allowed to take her dwn curse and if the jury did not think the In tern of any importance they must forget them. The defendant tb ii proceeded with the correspondence, stating that her object was to chew that the prosecutor had endeavoured to chest her in regard to her engagements at his co:meas.—On the jury saying that they did dot want to hear any more of the correepondence, Mr.. Weldon asked if she was to understand they considtred she had made unit her case.—The jury said they did not mean that. (A laugh.)—Mr. Besl- y asked the learned judge to decide formally that Mrs. Weldon had no right to waste any more time in leading correspondence which was entirely irrelevant. The Common Serjeant said that a great deal of the correspondence was certainly irrelevant, and he ruled that Mrs. Weldon must not proceed with the reading of the correspondence—Mrs. Weldon I must prove my case in my own way., and you cannot stop me—The Common Serjeant But I will stop you.—Mrs. Weldon: Then I shall step here, and not proceed further .with my defence. —The Common Serjeant : If you do this I shall consider the case closed and ask the jury to give their verdict,—Mrs. Weldon then said that she would routine herself to reading those portions of the correspondence which she considered to be relevant. —The mule had not concluded when the Court rose.  A young man named James Dlscintyre has met with a shocking death at Sodden Spindle Works,:Oldham. He was employed grinding a casting at a composition stone, when it flew into several pieces, one of which struck him on the right side of the head, dislocating his neck and causing instantaneous death. Colonel Peel has committed suicide in London by shooting himself lie had been suffering from insomnia. A general abstract of marriages. birtha, and deaths registered in England in 1884 was issued aa • Parliamentary paper on Friday. This chews that up to the middle of 1884 the estimated population of England was 27,132.449, against 25,974,499 enumerated by the census of 1831. The number of deaths last year was 511,951; of venous married, 408,410; and of births, 908,684.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-10-24 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDERS BY INSANE MOTHERS.  Mary Catherine 13ickneil, 28, married, wits charged before Mr. Justice I,pm; and a jury at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, with murdering two of her children at Elmetreet, Stockwell, by smothering them, and af b.rwards putting them in a bath full of water.—Mr. Poland, who appeared for the prosecution' said the case was a most melancholy one. No doubt the prisoner was insane at the time she committed the terrible act, but at preseut the prison doctor was unable to say that she was not in a condition of mind to plead or to understand the proceedings.—Several medical men were called, who all depoaed that in their opinion' prisoner was suffering from brain disease, and the jury subsequently found that the prisoner at the time she committed the act was not in a condition of mind to understand what she was doing. The learned judge ordered the prisoner to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. . . _ _  - - . At the same court on Wednesday, Martha Howard, 27. warned, was brought up on an indictment for the wilful murder of her infant child, five mor.the old, Gertrude Minnie Howard, on the 2nd October lost, at Forest Hill. The mother, who has lonz ben , strange in her manner, nearly. cut off her child's head with a chopper, and Immediately told her neighbours she had done so, saying," I have killed Daisy and I want to be hung out of the way." It , appears that prisoner's uncle had committed suicide, and that two of her great aunts had died in lunactic asylums. Mr. Poland, who appeared for the prosecution with Mr. Montagu Williams, said from medical evidence they had there could be no doubt that the unfortunate woman was insane, and therefore not in a fit state to plead or give instructions for her defence. It was therefore proposed to follow the canal course in nob cases. formal proofs haying been adduced as to the prisoner's state of minl, the jury returned • verdict of insanity, and the learned judge ordered prisoner to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure.  A fire occurred on Wednesday at Church).ane Colliery, Dodworth, near Barnsley, which not only destroyed 900 safety lamp., but damaged the head gm'r of the upcast shaft and the engine-house. The fire Was supposed to have originated horn a light accidentally dropped on the floor of the lamp cabin, which was saturated with oil. Six hundred wo:kmen are temporarily thrown out of employment.  Go to the "Cambria Daily Leal,2r" Wrk lea Cheap Printing of every description
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-10-24 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  Martin Mahoney, a young labrurer, 11, Bargaman-row, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the half tide basin of the South Dock on Saturday. P.C. 86 said that at half-paq twelve last Saturday he saw prhoner near the dock. He was then wet. —Hr. Williams, commission agent, Goat-street, said he saw prisoner jump into the basin, with all his clothes on. He had to drop 10 to 15 feet into the water. Prisoner could swim, otherwise he would have been drowned Witness could not say that prisoner was in drink He was rescued by means of a rope. Prisoner's mother acid he had been invalided borne front the militia, He wee unwell, but never drank intoxicants in his life. He was remanded for euquirieirfor one day.  Elizabeth Davies, a single woman, of Morriston, summoned John Davie*, I. carpenter, for assault. Plaintiff said that prisoner, on the 10th inst., came to her and struck her in the face without saying a w ,rd. She fell to the ground nd her nose bled. Thomas Isaac saw defendant strike complainant, and she would have fallen only thst FORII3 women held her up. Hannah Maria Jenkins said prisoner had been kicking 5... p a row in her mother's kitchen, and she had to Fond him out. Sarah Davies said she saw prisoner strike complainant. She prevented her from falling. Prisoner denied the offence, and said that complainant's brother-in-law had offered to &due the matter. He had no time to produce witnesses, the PIIIIIITIOLIS being 'erred on Saturday. Case adjourned for a week. Ruth Davis summoned David Jones, a blacksmith, Carmarthen-road, for assault last Mon• day evening. Complainant said she owed some money to defendant. His wife and her scuffled, when the wife ran in. She then broke the window, and defendant came out and struck her in the eye. Mr. T. G. Richarda defended. Charles Hill, harmerchant, said he saw the two women fighting, and saw the panes of glass broken, and saw the defendant push the complainant away with the flat o the hand. Defendant did not strike complainant who was using vile language. Another. witness corroborated. Plaintiff was opined to repair the window, and the case was dismissed with costs amounting to Its 6d.