Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-06-26 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MOM. Lord Salisbury's agricultural tenants have again had a reduction of 1(1 per cent, on their half-year's rent. 'During May forty-three suicides were corn- I nutted in Vienna, a total which for that month I 1 has not been reached for many years past. *A man was perceived walking on the line near Inverness. A train was approaching. Deaf to the warning whistle, the unfortunate pedestrian : was literally cut to pieces. A fire broke out on Friday night at Heyers' firework establishment, 13oston, New York. Seven workmen were known to be killed, and two others are missing. A. girl named Richards, a weaver, was working at her loom at Radcliffe on Friday, when I her hair was caught in the workings, and her I neck dislocated. In America there is said to be a growing disinclination to employ women as clerks. It is I said that they want more frequent holidays thejs men, and in general much more attention. a Saturday's "Daily Telegraph" states. that Lord Dufferin, who is :staying at Eastbs,urae, is so far convalescent that he must take walling exercise on the seafront and drives mit daily. A Central News telegram from Vienna states that a fight between gendarmes and miners on strike at Kladno, Boheraiston Thursday, resulted in,two miners being killed and several wounded. ill The Queen's Bench on Friday granted a rule Mill{ calling upon Mr. Bridge, magistrate, to show cause why a mandamus should not I issued in the case of `Simms versus the Duke of Cambridge for assault, The "Daily News" corresspeadent at New York telegraphed on Friday that sentence has been pronouneedon W. E. Howard, the electric sugar swindler. Rio punishment is nine years and I eight months' penal servitude. I A " Times " telegram from Cairo, dated Friday, states that confirmatory information has been reoeived of the advance of the Erni Nejoami, on Wady Haifa by the westbank of thei Nile with a considerable force. I A Central News telegram from New York says that on Saturday Burke was formally identified at Winnipeg has the man who had. been hired to convey the furniture in the Cronin case. lIA cashier at Moss Mill, Rochdale, placed a hand bag containing three hundred pounds in a I railway carriage last night, and whilst he I returned to the platform the bag was removed by thieves, who substituted a similar one. 1 As a counterblast to the Giarduno Bruno celebration (says the "Chronicle" Rome correspondent), Catholics of Rome are making arrangements for a religious ceremony to be held in the Basilica of St Peters, on the 29th nat. Little Isabella Simpson, of Blackhill, a small place near Peterhead, was on her way home from school when die sat down upon a stone roller on the wayside. The roller moved, and the girl fell into a ditch. The roller fell above her, causing instant death. A Central News telegram from Paris says: —Terrible destructive floods have occurred in in the department of Meuse, by the overflowing of the river Naveton. Crops have been destroyed, and vineyards wrecked, and many houses and buildings ruined. Captain. Woodward, of the flagship Duke of Wellington, at Portsmouth, was on Friday, fined five pounds by the Queen's Bench, for contempt of courtin not making a return to the writ of Habeas Corp s produce the --deserter, 'Thompson.  Habeas Corpu., to  allege,'