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The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-07-31 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

JNO. W. MORRIS, Secretary. July 29th, 1886.  Ahoy has been born in Chicago with cat's me. He sees much better, more clearly in the dark than ia the light. A telegram from Paris, on Wednesday, says: Thirty-two patients were to-day reeeived at M. Pasteur's laboratory, for treatment for hydrophobia. At Penzance, on Wednesday afteroon, a man named Hawke, shot dead his sister's husband and a woman named Gerard, and then committed suicide.  The Stateierd, of Thursday, says :—We are asked to state that the statementthat the work of the Afghan Commiseion is practically finished ie quite inaccurate. Major-General Reilly, Inspector-General of Artillery, died suddenly on Wednesdaymorning, on board the steamer Mistletoe, in which he wee having his annual inepectiou of ordnance in the Channel Islands. _  The Institute of Naval Architsebton Wednesday, sat in the Town Hall, Liverpool, under the presidency of the Earl of Bavensworth. There was a large attendance of members. An ' excellent paper was read by Professor F. Elgar, member of the Council, called "Notes upon losses at sea." Subsequently a visit was made o the Crewe Ely Works. The troopehip Assistance, with marines on board, arrived at Oban Bay, on Wednesday morning, and will probably start for Tiree in the 'afternoon, n company with the steamship NW, which conveys fifty police and civil officials. The pollee will endeavour to arrest the ringleaders, and if armed resistance is offered the troops will set immediately after the Riot Act has been read.  Ili charging Ih3 grand jury at Liverpool assizes, on Wednesday, Justace Smith congratulated them on the lightness of the calendar, considering the population. There were no came of murder, but two of manslaughter; but there were twenty came • arising out of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, and but for the p.eaing cf the Act, the number of such oases 'wonidhave been reduced by seventeen or eightnee at least.  A Paris telegram, on Thursday, says :—"The report to be read at the meeting of the Panama Canal Shareholders, to-day, shows that the net expenditure, from the beginning of the miternee to June 1886, amounts to 471,000,000 hams. The amount of shares and bonds is 712,000,000. The report says that traffic of 7,250,000 tons, and a rt-venuft of 108,000,000 francs rsay be courted on. Mr. Lettere pledgee himself to open the canal for Itraffic in 1889, and to keep within the cod estimated by the congrees of 1879.  Thou who make it their business to scan the , Ga:ette, wherein the misfortunee of trade are ' chronicled, will have noticed that latterly the majority of the Welsh bankruptcies recorded are those of tradesmen in the Cardiff and Newport district, while Swansea, Neath, and Llanelly have been exceptionally free from failures. Whether trade isbetter here is anothermatter, but it is an old axiom that the Swansea district is one of the last to feel the keemness ef trade a 0 prossion, and one of the first to experteese • trade revival.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-01-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

EXCITING RESCUE FROM DROWNING. There was an exciting scene on the Mersey the other day, when a young woman of respectable appeareace attempted to commit suicide. duet after the ferry steamer Sunflower bed left New Brighton (Chire)for the Liverpool side of the river the cry was raised, "Man overboard." Something was seen drifting down the river, and the steamer's engines were reversed, while the steamtug Sea King also followed. Meanwhile Daniel Gow, one of the Sunflower's crew, jumped overboard to the drowning person—a woman—whom he kept east until rescued by • boat from the tug. The woman was taken to the receiving-house at Liverpool,where she soon recovered. She gave her name se Annie Sullivan, residing in Egremont, and stated that .be did not care what became of her. She had been observed by peagers of the Sunflower walking shout in a dejected state, looking very pale and bigyard. A muff, containing • purse and • letter, was afterwards found on • seat of the upper deck. In the letter, which was addressed to "My dear friends all," she asked to be excused for the rash act ale was about to take, but she hat been "driven to it by a woman who has treated me so mean than I an stung deeper than any knife can cut me." After rambling charges against the woman, she concluded —" I will try to piok up courage, but then again my courage fails, and I do not oars if I was at the bottom of the sea." She is shout 26 years of age, and it is believed that she intended to sail to America by the dearnship Nevada. There wee great excitement among the passengers of the Sunflower, and so delighted were they with the gallant conduct of Gow that a subscription of 48e. was raised for him in a few minutes. '
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-07-03 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE INQUESTS.  The inqueste on the bodies of the two little girls who were burnt at Swansea, the one on Friday morning, and the other on Sunday, were held at the Swansea Hospital, at eix o'clock lest: Monday evening, before the coroner, Mr. Edward Strick. The first cane which was inquired into , was that of Agnes Miriam Hopkins, of the' Brittavis Inn, Pewell-street, Swamies who died on Sunday, the 25th inst. John Hopkins, the father of the deceived, said he was a blacksmith, I living at Powell-atreet. He was now workingl at Gowerton ((Sower Road), and away all the 1 week and only rebutted on Saturday; to Swansea. Mrs. Pressley looked after the house when he was sway. The deceased was ten years of age. On Sunday morning at 8.30 he heard a scream. He rushed downstairs at once and found the kitchen full of smoke, with flames coining from the grate. He, fearing the fire would reach his two little children who were sleeping with him, immediately returned to the bedroom and took them to a skittle alley at the rear of his house. He then returned upstairs and partially dressed himself, came clown, Lind found his deceased child in the back yard, where she was all in flames, and then aided Mrs. Pressley and a policeman in taking off deceased's burning clothes. He then took I her upstairs and laid her on a bed. The police- l man got some oil from the chemist's, which was , immediately applied to the burns and a cab was called and the child soon afterwards taken to the I hospital.—Anna Maria Pressley said she was a ; widow, and managed the Britannia Inn for I Hopkins durine his absents at Gower , Road. The deceased always slept with her. She (witness) wont down on Sunday morning about eight o'clock to light the fire. Demand followed soon after. After the fire had been lighted she returned to her bedroom, and had not been there five minute, when she heard a loud report, and a scream. She ran downstairs, and found the kitchen filled with emote, whilst large flames issued from the grate. She, however, hurried to the back-yard, whence the screamingpri seeded, and found the deceased with her clothee in flames. She did her utmost to divest the child of her burning clothes with the assistSTRANGE SUICIDE AT tense of the father of the deceased, and P.C.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-08-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MILITARY FEELING AT BERLIN.  THE DEPOSITION ACCOM• PAN ED BY BLOODSHED.  THE PRINCE A RUSSIAN PRISONER. REPORTED SUICIDE OF THE PRINCE.  The Nornial Poet correspondent at Berlin, on Tuesday night, says —As a fair idea of the impression produced in this exceptionally I military empire by the news et the deposition of Prince Alexander, it may suffice to state that at yesterday's !mess dinners, at the casino, the Kaiserhof Uhlands, Langhlanit, and all other restauranta, and all the restaurants where officers were assembled, the health of Princa Alexander was drunk with enthuaism. The same journal says :—We have authority I for stating that thereis not the slightest foundstient kr the reports circulated by continental jouns&s that the deposition of Prince Alexander I has been effected with the connivance or the kaowledge of the Porte.  '1 he -1/esly TeleympA Vienna correepondent Nays :—Accounte from Puny repress:A Saturday's revolution to have bees aooompanied by a sanguinary encounter between the troops, resulting in a consideroble number being killed and wounded.  The nate journal rye Alexander Mena, is without dived news ot his we, who, with his brother, who had been on • 1.64 Sofia, peered Varna on Sunday, and were s. dented on Ncorlay to Nicepolis or Grallova, and thence to a phice unknown. 'The ileasilerd Bertha eorreinowdent tehnirsples I , Ist he Ms asi• • B•obiraset baps.  Rims   WMWM  soil, sad rewind by lb, harda authorities, who &eland hira a stale primmer.  no Daily News correspondent at Vienna, on Tuesday, mays :—A private telegram received here states that Priam Alexander has shot himself, but the statement is unconfirmed, and is regarded as a mere Bonne invention. .The Seamiarri Vienna oorreepondeat refers briefly to the same rumour, adding that the place of the alleged suicide was Widdin. The Deily News understands that diplomatic circles had been made acquainted with 'patdeniers of an attempt made, sosse tw3 or three months ago, to kidnap Prince Alexander. This plan, carefully elaborated, was prevented in time, but it prepared foreign ministers for the event of tart Saturday. The Timm Buchnest correspondent says : Prinoe Alexander is a prisoner on board a yacht, of which the caws are devoted to Russia. It pared Giurgiwo at two on Tuesday morning, on the way to Beni, Russian Baserable He will probabkv be kept in confinement there some time. The moverrent of Hoiden troops towaids Rani in reported. Wednesday's Thin says :—lf it be true that Prince Alexander is detained in Russia as a prisoner, civil war in Bulgaria can hardly be expected to restore him, even though the Bedgarian nation shoakl demand his restoration with practical unanimity. But it may re-open the whole Eastern Question, and in any ease the melba of Russia will have to be submitted to the tribunal of the Great Powers.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-08-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ON THE SWANSEA SANDS.  ELFRAORDENARY OONDUCT OF • . WOMAN.  Oa Friday afternoon Mew'ss one and two o'ikek, • moot istarmitted attempt to moral suicide was mails by • womaa Irma Fa York on the Swamis Sands, by taldag ikgvemslity 4 lead poison. The unfortunate wombat wet Se. mimed Dear the Slip, in an aneseby asitier girauldhedady, who, with great mews of pink t to the Si mi maim for ri.uirileli 104 on J 0..., who kmset; Arrived upon the scene. He at smos Mineided to the woman, and had her oafMad ig • tetb to the hospital, whim he yokelniabored aa onetio, whist' indeed h r to vomit body. Pertioular show that the affair has !mil deal of the romantic about it. The , as alr.tady stated, was Wide u1)541 lvreneas Saud.. The followiag are the terasmeleneas that led lip to it,. The name of th• woman is Badly Mann, mad it appears that • few weeks ago, she same from London with a mats named Job. Taylor, alias " Swatters look," Me apellation by whit* Tke familiarly known. The maple lived ati .th• Working Kee's Chht the Arlol4 in W 4449.4704 Swansea lath'." wile "i-tipeott ' "Swan.,. ere • ammo, sad " Jack " retained to London her, Tha sena% Lally Mean well rod* . That, at any rota, would ap to pear be Jae from dm free that have militieueollf Game to light. On Friday, at 12.30 p.m., PAL Gammost was relied I. "the ands by • Mr. John Griffith., livisy at 40. Aoia•pulmw4,,, mooted that Zmily Yana WS Ulm The Mater, oa going to ills sem the yummy as desceited, es the tomb mar Vivian's Stream. Dr. diem loam, UPON mime at 1, the hospital, wet ales Share, blioiggp sent for. Tha paw 1064•11 •• 181.11 rbospital in a Imp itslooskyr to Yr. Nair,. =, ke., Wskorkimeteest an empty bottle labsile& +poison' • bp the womem's MILS, wit& betook eharps Id& Mate Letssa, on. at toil:Jaho.. —"Th. num Tir At Jtutodoe, London. woo as I maireilisi ep • ab. God. ana-araat 4, lOW I 1411,416 the I  .  mirmisirodlle taw" 7. blimp is;  -sau dab pion hewn hay Frago no doubt Imelda g graat Odin% ,bilt whoa 4114 lo trouble. Oda is •-i vhf. tads I or Indio, this - Nowa roughs will rayon usano Jig. own mita, and God is # how I haw panyad." • Vas 4A abloppy w bora, weal be Naha soh dr. It. sd . The ilitepori as imbed  t 110011 111103097 W.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-08-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN SWANSEA.—THE PRISONER BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. Emily Mena (48), married, 37, Waterloostreet, was charged with attempting to commit enioide by taking poison on the Swansea sands on the 28th inst. Prisoner wee brought into the dock crying bitterly. She leaned her head upon the dock rail, and was apparently unable to stand. She was therefore accommodated with  a chair. John Griffiths, fisherman, said that at 12.15, on the previous morning, he was on the sands between the iron bridge and Vivian's steam. He saw the prisoner lying on the sands, and went up to her, sooom_ panied by ladies. The ladies spoke to her. Witness went at once for a doctor. He also assisted in taking prisoner to the police-test:ion. Dr. Nelson Jones stated that shout one o'clock, he was sent for, and went on to the sands. He there saw the prisoner lying down, in an helpless condition. He wee shown a bottle, labelled "sugar of lead" Be adtrinhstered an emetic which look effect, land also used the stomach pump. Prisoner then came to herself, and she admitted taking the I poison with some gin. She said she would do the same thing again,if sholhad the opportunity. Witness, thereforejbad her watched. Prisoner, in reply to the usual question, had no statmnent to make. P.C. Gammon said he was called to the sands at the time mentioned, and saw the prisoner lying down. She admittiAl having taken poison. Witness assisted in takmg her to the polioe station. Mr. Yomth, chemid, St. Helen's-road, said that on the previous marring the prisoner same to his shop and asked for some sugar of lead, which she purchased in a packet, and at the same time asked whether or not it was a deadly poison. The prisoner, who seemed to feel meet acutely the position in which thaws. placed, was committed to the ensuing quarter WISSIORS for trial. She was removed 'below still crying. CILLEGE Actium •
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-02-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LLANELLY NOTES.  John Richards, Oaemain , was fined M. and coats for cruelty to a hone. At the half yearly meeting a the LW:telly Railway and Doek Company, held yeetetday in London a dividend at the rate of eix per cent was deciarell.  At the polioe-cottrt, on Wednesday, ft cagnaj inmate of the workhouse, named Margaret Faillips, was charged with stealik.g therefrom a pair of drawers, and Dent to gaol for a month.  The Welsh Methodist Church at New Jewin, London, has unanimoualy invited the • fev. J. E, Davies, MA., B.Sc., of Llanelly, to become their pastor, and he has accepted the call. Mr. DlViee Will commence his duties i July.  1 The remains of Mr. W. Isaac• who, gum the formation of Llsnelly info 11 Local Board of Health district in 1850, had been rate oolleetor I for. the borough, were intered in the cemetery of the pariah church on Wednesday, the curate, the Rev. J. Davies, in the abseuee of Canon Williams, officiating. The viear, curates, and chur3b wardena of St. Lialielly, issue an urgent appeal for £4,400, in order to erect a church and miesionroom for New Dock, Cwm Machytip, and to enlarge St. Peter's Church, besiding building a miaion church in connection with it at the 1 Isesaide. It is intended to commence binding' the church in the summer.  The following -student'a of the Aberstwyth University College have passea succemfully the Matriculation Examination recently held by the University of London, viz :--J,Mo Y. Evans, Dowlain; Thomas Humphreys, Bala; L. M. Jones, Llanelly.  Two navvies wme knocked down by a tramway engine at Birmingham on Wednesday and Mlle&  , Mr. Wood, wbo was on Satur.lay deslared a defaulter on the Stock Exch mire, committed suicide on Wednesday at Ramsgate. The three passengers by the balloon which ascended from Brest, and has not since been heard of, have been landed on the coast of Normandy. Smallpox of a very virulent type has broken out at the workmen's huts in connection with the Forth Bridge works, and has also spread to the burgh, in which several cases have occurred, The disease is supposed to have originated amongst some of the foreign workmen. The dead body of a man was found on Tuesday on the Derbyshire moors, about eiukt miles from Sheffield. Ile paned through Csstleton on Monday, and it is supposed that he perished in the sever esnowstorm which rated that isfkrooons
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-05-29 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE NEWINGTON TRAGEDY.  Oa Handal the coroner fee Fret Stymy ooncladed Ile inquiry into the death of Annie Ultham. otherwise Burke, and James William Clarke, who were discovered dead with their beads nearly severed from their bodies, in a home in Newington. —Susan Robb., the eervaat who could not give bee evidessos on the previous ocomeioi in consequence of being seized with hysterical his, was now recalled, end mid that on the evening f Sunday, the If Lb, Clarke left the house about 7 o'clock and went to public-house, where he reinained drinking the whole of the evening. He returned shortly after 1.1 o'clock, witness and Ultham then below in convereatiat together in the kitchen. Ultham was sober, bat Clarke was the worse for drink and out of tamper. Clarke asked witness to fetch some pickles, which ski did, and on her return Clarke and Ultbam had ROOS up to their room. Witness took the pickles to their room, when Clarke &eked Ul them to have some supper, but she refused, whereupon Clarke took up a table - knife and sharpened it on the fender. He then ccado a mist Ultham, caught hold of lare and drew the knife across her throat. She fell to the door. Clarks thca knelt down by the side of her and exclaimed, "I have done it," He then drew e knife accost his own throat and witness bec •wing alarmed rushed out of tho room. odm.Ceorge Frederiok Fun% polio. eargebu, deposed that he wee called to the scene of the tragedy and, found Clarke and Ultham lying on the door in • pool of blood. Clarke'. throat was cut from ear to ear. Great force must have been wed to inflict the injury, and death must have been instantaneotn. The woman bad re• oeived a wound its the throat of a aimilar character. —The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against James William Clarke, and found that he had committed suicide while in • state of temporary insanity brought on by drink.
The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-08-02 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ARREST OF 280 PERSONS.  Many arrests have been made at Warsaw, but no dynamite or firearms have been found in possession of the guilty or suspected parties. The story of the plot appears specially invented to keep the Czar from Warsaw. The public in Austria and Russia are losing their fear at the mention of the dynamite party. Among 14 members are persona belonging to the upper circles, but it is practically without organisation. There is now no doubt that the reports which have passed from the Polish press through the European papers, respecting the plot against the Czar, are utterly unreliable. Altogether about 280 arrests have been made at Warsaw during the past fortnight in connection with the Bordowski plot. Of these the greater part are Russians. An additional stimulus was given to the excitement on the 19th by the murder and suicide respectively of two young cflicers, who were bosom friends, and who were found dead, from pistol shots, in a oom belonging to one of them, and the door of which was locked from inside. It is thought that they preferred to die in thia way than to be arrested let oompliaity in the plot.  lays, by  And ip U who  t  Y re. ke at Very,  et at Hee 'tar. that  lam 1 on is er with trey.. be to. Lever  The Nonconformist Churches.  robs that a of eacte  saw, id in -nee. sited , the . its PPgr item. hieh the singe  wihe. 050. the ionid edt 'two 111! and • in • r 0 be  tbe Wesleyan Conference, xty - five condiimicete +tempted for the zniuiztry, and three 4";-• declined.  iv Rey Jan Evens (E rwysbneh) who reogy took pert in the opening seeviees of the wash Wesleyan Chapel. Swansea, hne wowed one of the Legul Hundred of the fibrin 3!ethodist Conference.  6,yoncliy evening' a lecture was delivered Am, gon_qegational Chum:ll,C ar marth en.road, on 'General Garfield," by the Rev. Ball, of Bodmin. The attendance was ioy 1,1 E.. .and the lecturer was listened to with aft sitenaou. . .  we regret to announce the death, at Egre. _, Liverpool, of the Rev. Richard Lumley, ;Tees for many years also in business in eeeees as a draper. His burial will take place 74,,eihi1l Welsh Chapel Churchyard, on Lae?, text, at half-pest 3 o'clock in the sc-wee. Deceasrd was a popular preacher ideh the Calvinistio M sthodists. pi pridqs the Wesleyan Conference considered emege of a minister whose views on future rment were not in harmony with those held de denomination. The offending minister wiloved to make his defence. After a prowled discussion, in which the leading mini ate iss d the denomination took Part, the offending sweet .sras forbidden to exercise his functions eiminidir in the chapels of the body, but was owed tv /come a supernumerary. we are pleased to notice that the