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The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-07-16 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THINNING THE FOLIAGE OF TOMATOE.3.—By this time nearly all the tomato plants grown in greenhouses will require their foliage thinning as to allow a free circulation of air through the plants, to let in the light, and admit the sun, not only for these Turposes alone, which are of such great importance, but to concentrate the energies of the plant to the development and ripening of the fruit. If we add to this that it also acts as a preventive to the disease, it will be clearly seen that it is a point of considerable importance. Never cut off the whole of a leaf, but about half, and only cut those leaves that are fully developed. On no account cut off the whole foliage. DECORATING ODD CORNERS —When all the bedding plants have been put out, and all seems to be settled for the summer, there are apt to be odd corners left which look desolate for want of colour and freshness. Large old plants of scarlet geraniums are invaluable for these odd corners, if they have been brought on so as to be covered with flowers and buds as they should be at this time of the year. Yellow calceolarias, fuchsias, and many other plants may be utilised in the same way to fill odd corners, and a supply of hardy English ferns, in pots, if added where foliage is scarce, will set off the flowering plants, which can be taken up and replaced when necessary. WORKING Burrs& A frequently - recurring question is, Should butter be worked once or twice? If the butter is put away, and allowed to harden between the workings, t en the answer should be to work well and once; but if the butter can be kept at a temperature of 58 degs. to 60 degs., while the salt is dissolving, a second working will do no harm, provided the working is put off only a few hours. The difficulty is that the person manipulating the butter, in the majority of cases, does not know just what the temperature of the butter that is being worked over really is, and it often is several degrees too cold, and the extra power that is needed to work down the butter is liable to make it waxy, and destitute of grain. Apart from brining, there is:no better way than to granulate the butter and work in the salt evenly, give it a chance to dissolve, and then work over in the churn, or put into the worker and press out the water, and then make up into shapes.  Mr. James Sharp, junior, manager of the Springfield Paper Mill, Maidstone, committed suicide this week by hanging himself. The deceased had been in ill health for some time.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-09-17 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.  Ou Saturday afternoon a determined prize-fight, which had a fatal termination, took place at Durton, a village three miles from Northampton. .he principals were William Langley, aged 28, a shoe-finisher, married ; and Stephen Ctayson, a soldier. About 30 people witnessed the fight, which, it is said, originated about a mouth since in a public-house quarrel. It was arranged to decide the matter with fists, and it is stated that the stakes were £5 a side. The fight lasted about an hour and 40 minutes, a large number of rounds being fought. Langley was severely handled, and towards the close ot the encounter he could hardly stand. Notwithstanding this, however, he eontinned to fight until he fell insensible. He was removed to his home, where tie died early on Sunday morning without having recovered consciousness. His left side was a mass of bruises, and his face was badly disfigured. His opponent was also badly knocked about. The police on Sunday morning arrested the seconds and one or two other individuals concerned in the fight. The soldier Clayton absconded, but was arrested. At a special sitting of the Northampton Divisional Magistrates on Monday morning, Stephen Memory, a shoe finisher, of Northampton, and six other men were charged with the manslaughter of William Langley. The case arose out of the prize fight at Upton on Saturday. Police-Inspector Webster, who arrested all the men, said that Memory, when apprehended, said that it was all the fault of the seconds, who kept urging them on. The deceased was defeated half an hour before the fight ended. The prisoners were all remanded, bail being refused. Memory appeared to have received severe punishment, his eyes and face being black and blue.  At Ipswich on Monday a man named McCabe, a leather dresser, was remanded on a charge of killing his next door neighbour, named Francis. There had been ill-feeling between the two, and it is alleged that McCabe went into Francis's house and struck him on the head.  On Sunday, the dead and mutilated body of a young married woman' the wife of an ironstone miner named Mildred, living at Colbel Bar, near Staithea, was found at the bottom of a cliff, nearly 300 feet high. It is believed that the deceased committed suicide by throwing herself over the cliff.  The Leamington civic autbolities on Monday prohibited a parachute descent announced to be performed by Captain Orton and Mdlle. Bissett in the Jephson-gardens in that town. In the afternoon an eldetly gentleman named Cudworth, a visitor, dropped down dead in the gardens from heart disease supposed to be due to excitement.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-01-23 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE THROUGH LOVE.  A romantic suicide was that of a fair young Parisienne, who was friendly witk an Englishman, the son of a noted horse-dealer and livery-stable keeper. The girl, says the Daily Telegraph, had been in America for about 18 months with her lover. They returned last week to Paris, and the lady went to live with her mother in the Avenue Truds.ine. In the meantime the young man was ordered by his father to break off his liaison, and when he announced his intention of obeying the paternal injunction to the girl she seems to have been beside herself with grief. She was seen wanderingdejectedly about the Champs Elys4es. At length she hailed a cab and directed the driver to take her to the residence of her lover. There she asked for the young man, but saw his father instead, and, according to some, the girl used the words, Vous etes un miserable !' in going away. She next drove home to the Avenue Trudaine, procured a revolver, re-entered the cab, aad went to a café in the Boulevard Haussmann, where she wrote a .letter to the livery stable-keeper asking pardon for the scene which she had with him, and begging him to give his son permission to accompany her to her last home. This was at 9 o'clock in the evening, and the epistle being finished, the girl took it with her and drove to the Rue Jean-Goujon, where her friend's father lives. She gave the letter to her coachman, telling him to t.ke it upstairs to the person for whom it was intended. While the cabman was performing this service for his fare the young lady took out her revolver, and fired a bullet through her right temple. She was dead when the driver came back.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-01-23 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

REMARKABLE TRIAL IN BERLIN.  A remarkable trial took place at Berlin, on Tuesday. The judge had been regularly stormed for weeks for tickets of admission to the Court, and on the Bourse they were bought and sold at high prices. A well-known jurist, Dr. Prager, between whom and his wife a divorce case was pending, was son.e months ago attacked in the night and seriously wounded by a shot from a revolver. It turned out that the assailant was his own brotherin-law, who at the instigation of his sister, Dr. Prager's wife, had committed the deed. Frau Prager denied the intention of having her husband murdered. She only wished to get possession of a packet of compromising letters which her husband threatened to use against her in the divorce case. Her brother told the same tale, and tried to free his sister from all guilt by taking the whole crime upon himself. Their statement, however, that Mrs. Prager had known nothing beforehand of the attempt on her husband's life was proved to be false. The cross-examination revealed the fact that the brother, with the female prisoner's knowledge and assistance, left Berlin for Hamburg in order to be able to prove an alibi, btit that he returned secretly with a wig and false beard, and was hidden by Mrs. Prager in her husband's bedroom. She herself slept in an adjoining room. In the night when the whole house was alarmed by the shot and by the cries of the seriously wounded man she remained quietly in bed. When the servants entered her room Informing her of what had happened, she coolly answered, " Well, I suppose he has attempted suicide,' and she even refused to leave her bed when the police officers entered. When, however, her brother's cloak and hat were discovered in the bed she at last got up and followed the officers of the law. The brother, who, as it appears, really committed the crime out of love for his sister, fled, but afterwards gave himself up to the police. After long deliberation the jury found Frau Prager and her brother Schweitzer guilty of attempted murder. The Court sentenced her to six years' hard labour, and Schweitzer to five years. A distressing scene took place when the accused heard the sentence. Frau Prager completely broke down, and cried bitterly. Her husband approached her, and did his best to console her. Everybody felt that a sad domestic tragedy had come to a still sadder end.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-01-23 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MYSTERIOUS POISONING OF A FAMILY.  A post-mortem examination has been made of the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Weare and their child, of Wood-Green, near London, who a few days ago were found dead in bed from poisoning. In an interview, Dr. Wiles, who, with Dr. Campbell and Dr. Chamberlain, had made the examination, said in the stomach of each of the victims there was the smell of prussic acid. The prussic acid, which was supplied to Mr. Weare by a local medical man, for mechanical experiments, was extremely strong, being a 5 per cent. solution. Dr. Wiles said that the fact that prussic acid had been employed made the case more interesting and more mysterious from a medical point of view, for both he and his colleagues were utterly unable to explain how it was possible for Weare, after taking the poison himself, to have had time to even put the glass back on the chair, not to mention to arrange the bed clothing and put the'pillow over his face. Had a lodger been sleeping in the house on that night the most terrible suspicions would have fastened on him, for neither he nor, he firmly believed, any other medical man would have gone into the witness-box and said that it was possible for Weare to have himself taken the poison and afterwards perform the operation that had been gone through. At the inquest on the bodies Police-inspector Barnett confirmed the evidence as to the finding of the bodies. While he was searching the house Dr. Campbell came in and said he had known Weare, and had visited his house to examine various inventions. About three weeks ago Weare said to him that he required some strong prussic acid, as he was going to make a recording barometer, and ho required prussic acid in the process. A fortnight later he said he had made the barometer, but was then engaged in making a thermometer, again asking for prussic acid. The doctor supplied him with an ounce bottle of 5 per cent. prussic acid. Papers were found showing that the deceased had been endeavouring to negotiate a large loan, and to obtain a partner with money, in both of which he was unsuccessful. The witness also found several unpaid accounts and also some dishonoured cheques. —Dr. Angus Campbell, of Woodgreen, said Weare told him he had lost over £35,000 in the City of Glasgow Bank, and also other sums in different ways.—Dr. Frederick William Wiles, said the woman appeared to have had by far the largest dose ; hut from the position of the bodies when found he should think the man was the last to take the poison, and that he administered it to the others.  The jury returned a verdict that Eliza Were and Sidney Weare were murdered by Francis Weare, who afterwards committed suicide, and that the cause of the act was financial difficultie&
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-07-09 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CONGRESS OF CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.  The delegates to the second Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, together with their friends, accepted the invitation of the chairman and directors of the Victoria Steamboat Association to a trip on the Thames on Tuesday on board the Mermaid. The trip, which under ordinary conditions would have been a pleasant one, was spoilt in two ways—the weather was of the most wretched description, and the guests were unable to visit the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich (oermission for which had been specially obtained from the Secretary of State for War). On account of it being polling-day at Woolwich, the arsenal was close 4 at 1 p.m. Among those present on board the Mermaid were Sir F. Young, Sir Thomas Fraser, Mr. E. F. Algae, and others. As an alternative to the visit to the arsenal, the delegates inspected the Royal Albert and Victoria Docks, by invitation of the London and India Docks Joint Committee. The party returned to London-bridge at half-past 6 p.m.  An order has been issued by the military Governor of Paris, referring to the recent fatal duel, and urging officers to preserve a calm demeanour.  A well-known Paris diamond dealer named Maurice Lcewy has committed suicide, after coin. milting defalcations to the amount of £130,000. At Windsor, on Saturday, 14 mem era of the Salvation Army, and three yuung men who had been attracted by their proceeding-4, were fined for causing street obstructions. A stoker named Greaaney, of Doncaster, met a terrible death on Tuesday afternoon on the Great Northern Railway, near Grantham. The deceased was missed by the driver of an express after patsdog through a tunnel. When picked up it was found that his head was smashed to piece.% and one foot and one arm were torn off. As a Roman Catholic funeral party was returning from the cemetery at Leamington on Tuesday, the Rev. Father Bradshaw, brother of the deceased, was suddenly taken ill, mid was removed from a mourning coach in an unconscious condition. He died in a few moments from cardiac affection, from which he had been suffering for a long time pat,  01 I .m..0ul
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-09-03 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ROMANTIC SUICIDE OF A  QOMESTIC SERVANT.  The coroner for East Surrey held an inquest at Streatham on Tuesday night on the body of Eliza Johnson, aged twenty years, a domestic servant, who committed suicide by shooting herself with a revolver at The Hazells, Manor Park, Streatham, on Friday last. Elizabeth Wills, a nurse at The Hazells, said that deceased had been in service there for the last five months. Deceased was in good spirits until she received a letter from her young man, who told her that he did not wish to see her any more. Deceased took it much to heart, and said she expected another letter, which, however, did not arrive. Witness was upstairs about three o'clock in the afternoon and heard the report of firearms. She called down to deceased, who was in the kitchin, and asked her what she was doing, to which deceased replied, "I've only shot it in the sink." Deceased then came into the passage, and said, "I'm not hurt." Feeling alarmed, witness ran upstairs and locked herself in the bedroom. Deceased came up and tried the door. Almost immediately afterwards witness beard another report and deceased cry out, "Nurse, Nurse." Thinking something w.ta wrong, she ran to the front door and sent a boy for a policeman. The following is a copy of a note in deceased's handwriting found in the room :—" I cannot help what lam about to do. May every one forgive me. With fondest love from E. Johnson." A police•constable stated that he found deceased lying on the bed room floor in a pool of blood. A medical man was immediately sent for, and pronounced life extinct. Witnegs afterwards found the revolver lying on the bed close to where deceased lay. The jury returned a verdict of suiciie whilst mentally deranged.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-06-04 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SAD SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN AV  BLETCHLEY.  An inquest was held at Bletcliley on Monday on the body of a young woman who was engaged at Bletchley Post-office as a telegraph clerk, and who was found on Friday night dead, with her throat cut, in an outbuilding adjoining her lodgings. The evidence went to show that recently she had been very much depressed in spirits, and had been unwell for several days, and was much worried in respect to her work. On the morning of her death a young man ns,med Turney, residing at Woburn, whom the detedied had been previously engaged to, received a letter from her, in which she wrote : " Have had a bad cough and cold, w:lich has hung about me for some time. Indeed, it has knocked me up altogether this week, so that for two days I have had to stop away from the office. I have felt as though my mind was affected, and I have been so low spirited. I try to shake it off, but it comes over again and again. I pray God to help me, as I feel more like committing suicide than anything else. I feel as if I had come to the end of everythiag." The jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane.  During a violent storm on Tuesday afternoon, a man named George Walton, who was walking in a field at Sheldon, near to Bishop Auckland, was killed by lightning. An ingenious experiment to protect pigeons against hawks has just been made. A small whistle is fastened under the wing of the bird, end the sound preserves the lsird from attack. It has so far proved very successfuL Last year 22,08,0 patents were issued in America. At Leeds Assizes, before Mr. Justioe Charles, Harry Pickering, a mechanic, was indicted for the murder of his wife, Jane Pickering, at Hi. Pickering, who was of a jealous turn of a. attacked his wife with a bread knife, and cut . throat. He never denied the murder, and whoa found guilty and sentenced to death, he to," ou• lated "Hear, hear," to the judge's solemn exhortation.  Her Majesty's uniform is gradually becoming a badge of respectability. Publicans who shall hereafter refuse to supply reasonable refreshment to a sober and well-behaved lad in re,' will run the risk of non-renewal of licence. At all events this will be the case in Middlesex, where a presiding magistrate and an eminent Q.C., Mr. Littler, has determined to give Tommy Atkins in uniform the uniform privileges of civilians—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the public-houses.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-04-02 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DEEMING'S JOURNEY TO ALBANY. SCENES OF GREAT EXCITEMENT.  The prisoner's journey from Perth to Albany was attended by scenes of great excitement. Large crowds awaited the arrival of the train at every station. At York a particularly hostile demonstration against the prisoner took place. A rush was made for the carriage in which he was travelling, and in the tumult the windows were broken. During the whole time the train was drawn up at the station the air was filled with hisses and groans, and loud cries of "Lynch him" were raised again and again, the women forming by far the most violent section of the mob. Similar demonstrations on a smaller scale occurred at other stations along the route. Shortly after leaving Beverley Deeming fainted. The train was stopped, and bucketsfull of water were thown over him. When he recovered consciousness he kicked and writhed like a madman, and the detectives in charge of him found it necessary to put on the handcuffs. At subsequent stages of the journey he was seized with fresh fits, during which four men were required to hold him down, but the detective Cawsey expresses the belief that these fits were nothing more nor less than an extremely clever piece of acting. On arriving at Albany the prisoner was taken into the gaol, where he was searched. To this process he submitted quietly, remarking that he liked to give the authorities all the assistance in his power. "I thought," he added, "I was going to peg out [die] last night." He was taken on board the Balladrat on Sunday and securely lodged in a cabin, which will be carefully guarded night and day, so as to guard against the possibility of suicide or escape. The Balladrat is timed to reach Melbourne on April 3rd.  WILL THE PRISONER BE BROUGHT TO ENGLAND?  It is stated that a Scotland-yard detective has already sailed for Melbourne, so that if Deeming escaped conviction in Australia he will be rearrested and brought to England. Photographs of Deeming, hie wife, and children have  been forwarded to Scotland-yard to be sent to Melbourne for identification.  It was intended on Tuesday to inquire in the House of Commons whether, in the event of Deeming being found guilty in Australia of the capital offence, he could then be taken to England and tried for the Rainhill murders, with which his name has been associated. The question was to have been addressed by Mr. P. O'Brien to the Atsorney-General, but in the absence of Sir R. Webster it was postponed until a future day.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-08-06 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

HOW TO MAKE IDEAS FLOW.  Dr. Lauder Brunton has made an invaluable discovery. He has solved the problem of making ideas flow almost at will. One night, after a lung day's work, this eminent physician was called upon to write an article immediately. He sat down with pen, ink, and paper before him, but not a single idea came into his head, not a single word could be write. Lying back, he then soliloquised : —"The brain is the same as it was yesterday, and it worked then; why will it not work to-day?" Then it occurred to him that the day before he was not so tired, and that probably the circulation was a little brisker than to-day. He next considered the various experiments on the connection between cerebral circulation and mental activity, and concluded that if the blood would not come to the brain the best thing would be to bring the brain down to tbe blood. It was at this moment that he was seized with the happy thought of laying his head "fiat upon the table. At once his! ideas began to flow and his pen to run across the paper." By and bye Dr. Brunton thought "I am getting on so well I may sit up now." But it would not do. "The moment," he continues, "that I raised my head, my mind became an utter blank, so I put my head down again flat upon the table, and finished my article in that position." But how many are there, who, after a long day's work, would not go_to sleep in this position?  The steamer City of Paris has just made the fastest passage on record from Queenstown to Sandy Hook. Her time was five days 15 hours and 58 minutes. The Lord Mayor's badge of office contains diamonds to the value of £120,000, and the temporary owner of this costly bauble has to give a bond for it before he is sworn in.  At South Shields Catherine Stewart, a widow, of Sunderland, was committed for trial charged with attempting to kill her child and commit suicide. She placed herself and child in front of a train, which, however, was pulled up soon enough to avert fatality.