The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-05-24 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CUZZPS 'CAPTURE CONPTRMED. The "DailylNews" correspondent at Aoyaian The Tapachoag yarn mill, at Worcester, Mae- The on Monday states that the reportedeachusetts, was burnt down on Friday night ; capture of Mr. Cuzzi is confirmed by bluetaphi the loan amounting to 150,000 dollars. It wae running at the time when the fire broke out, and mohomod, who escaped to Korosko. He left Berber a few days ago with:Mr. Cozzi, and the many of the operatives jumped from the upper Sheik H n'lslahja. The party were surroun• windows. Twenty of them--chiefly girls—were dad at Sheng, two and a half days from Br rber. badly injured, and several, It is feared, will die. We bear that there is not likely to be any divi- They attempted resistance, but desisted on ti e idealom the Second Reading of the Merchant advice of Sheik Hassan, who tried negociations. The commander of the Arabs exhibited a litter Shippicg Bill. The real opposition will arise from the Mandi's Vizier, orderinrOhe stoppage on the motion to refer the Ball to the Standing of all communications with Korosko. Sheik Committee on Trade : bit it is expected that in Hassan wrote to the Vizier asking to be allowed consequence of the large concessiomi made by Mr. Chamberlain the resistance to that proposal to proceed. An answer came directing his will not be s strong as was expected. release, but Mr. Cuzzi and the others were a detained. A fire, involving loss of life, occurred on The "Tunes" correspondent atAlexandriaon Sunday evening at 18, Stopford road,Walworth. Monday says : —After repeated attempts I have It originated in the explosion of a benzoline found a Greek, who, knowiag the country lamp, and the ignited spirit set fire to the bed undertakes to convey messages to Khartoum, clothes and furniture of a room, but the flames and bring an answer in about two months, were extinguished before the engines arrived. provided £lOOO be guaranteed to him, payable on A little boy, six years of age, the child of Mr. the delivery of replies, and nothing payable on James Steward, was found in the apartment. failure. He was quite dead, and had apparently been suffocated.  At the Liverpool assizes, on Saturday, John Black, 23, a labourer, was sentenced to death for murdering his wife, by throwing a lighted paraffin lamp at her, thereby setting her on fire, on the 25th of February last. The jury fousad the prisoner guilty, but recommended him to mercy, as both he and his wife were under the influence of drink at the time, and as she hid given him great provocation. A shocking accident is reported from Nancy. At St. Nicolas du Port four children were playing on the banks of a canal, when the youngest, aged three years, fell i. His brother, aged seven years, trying to rescue him, fell it, too. The mother, who was en an advanced state o pregnancy, attracted by the cries rushed to the spot. In endavoneng to save her children, she was drawn in by the current and drowned with her two children.  A telegram from Paris, on Sunday night, says: —M. Juudt, a very eminent painter, who was in the frcnt rank of his profession, financially pros• porous, and a great social favourite, has committed suicide. He was unmarried, suffered from gout, and had nobody to take care of him, but the concierge. Sitting at the window of his apartment' in the Rue d'AS3II9, and smoking a long pipe, it I appears te have all at once occurred to him that life without the enjoyments he had been aeonstomed to was not worth living. He jumped out and was picked up dead on the pavement. A determined attempt at murder has beau msde at Manchester. A police-earjeaut in Ancoats saw I • man in a state of alarm running across the sir :et shortly before four o'clock in the morning, and stopped him. In answer to the serjecnt's inquiry why he was running, he replied that he had murdered his father. The man, whose name was found to be Joseph Saxon, a moulder by trade, took the seri eitut to the house of his father, who was found to be bleetliuft profusely from a wound in the head, which he said had been caused by his son. The ze:ations betw,en the two have lately been of tie most unhappy character, the on being a man of evil labits and welldtnown to the police.  A desperate affray occurred on Friday afternoon between two men named Straker and Cannon, in a third-class carriage of an express train from Liverpool to York. Both men arrived at Liverpool on Friday morning from Madras, and before entsring the train provided themselves With a quart bottle of whisky. On the areval of thy train at Bury Cannon was bleeding profusely from a wound in the face, the compartment was bespattered with blood, and Straker was stripped for fighting. Both wore arrested, but were too drunk to give any account of the struircle.  The " Standard " correspondent at Paris on Sunday night says :—The present prospects of the Conference look less promising than ever • Stripped of dramatic phraseology, the ease stands thus : —France refuses to attend unless England virtually agrees to surrender her position in Egypt. There is an impression among diplomatists here that the Prime Minister and one or two of his colleagues are quite repared to yi,ld to France, but the rest of the Cabinet decline to approve. All the information that reaches me concurs in the conolusion that M. Ferry will not give way. On Her Majesty's Government making one more surrender the chances of the Conference meeting hang.  IA mysterious case is engaging the attention , of Mr. Fenwick, the chief constable of Chester. ; A man named Ciancey lies in Chester Infirmary much battered about the head and body. He ! was suddenly assailed by several men, armed with heavy clubs, whom he believes are Invin. cib!es. Claneey was stispected of being a Centre I in the Fenian rising on Chester Castle, and the magistrates refused to renew the lieenss of his inn. He afterwards left Cheater for Manchester, but recently returned having apparmtly °ban, dcned hia old associates. In revenge for his defection, the police believe Inv incibles were set • to maltreat and murder him. Since Dabulamanzi's attack before daylight on May the 10th no further encounter has occurred between Mr. Ostort e's tomes and the L'sutes. On that occasion hundted Vautus wore killed by the volleys fired by the native police. Dabulamanzi'a horse was found killed, and the chief's hat and revolver were lying near. The ber3er watchers on the banks of the Umhlatosi have leen attacked by a large force of Undabuko'e men. Refugees from the Reserve ,Itave messed 11 e Tugela. Confirmation has been received ef the rumour of Tebro's &has. Tho measures taken by Mr. Pretorius to protect I district have so far proved fitment ul. 1