The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-02-25 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. AT HOME.  Mr. W. R. Mitchell, the proprietor of two or three large grocery establishments at Southampton, commitred suicide on Tuesday morning by shooting himself. The employ& in the passenger department of the Midland Railway, woo presented a memorial bearing 500 signatures asking for payment for Sunday duty, have received a refusal. Pembroke Lodge, ascot, the residence of Sir George Pigot, has been entered by burglars while the servants were at supper and the family in the drawing-room. The thieves escaped with a jewel case containing several articles.  The Augustinian church in Limerick was broken into on Tuesday and about £.3 was steen from the offertory boxes. An attempt was also made by * thieves to abstract the contents of a small sate which is built into the wall, but they were evidently interrupted in their efforts. The police are pursuing active inquiries.  Coroner Baiter resumed his inquiry on Tuesday into the death of a male child, whose body was found in a trunk in Burdett-road,Limehouse, having been brought from Dialey, near Manchester, m London by rail. The mother, Johanna Wagner, said the child only lived 30 minutes, and the jury, without hesitation, returned a verdiot of death from misadventure.  On Tuesday afternoon, at the Penge Petty Sessions, Henry John Cooke, of Croydon-road, Inerley, was committed for trial charged with obtaining credit to the extent of £2O (money lent) from Mr. W. H. Walford, auctioneer, of knerley, io June, 1890, without disclosing the fact that he was an undischarged bankrupt. Defendant was formerly a partner in a firm of engineers at Westminster.  A united temperance conference, comprising delegates from 50 temperance organisations operat. log throughout the United Kingdom, met on Tues. day at the Memorial Hall, London. The conference passed a number of resolutions. One affirmed the need of a licensing suspensory measure; another asked 1.,e Government to support the English Sunday Closing Bill, introduced by Mr. Snape, and a further one protested against the combining of the questions of Sunday closing and the local veto. On Tuesd,y a diabolical murder was committed at a place called Kimmage Quarries in the county of Dublin. A woman named Bridget Knight was found lying in her bed. She presented a most ghastly appearance, life being extinct, several terrible wounds having been inflicted with a knife or some sharp instrument on different parts of her body. So far the affair is shrouded in mystery, as no motive appears to be suggested for the crime. The police, of course, are vigorously investigating the matter.  An accident occurred off Sheerness on Tuesday to her Majesty's ship Trent, which was returning to Chatham after carrying out gunnery practice at the mouth of the Thames. The Trent on entering the Medway channel must have taken a course too close to the shore, and ran into the floating gas buoy on Sheerness middle ground. She started a plate below water on the starboard bow, and the collision bulkhead had to be closed to confine the water to the fore part of the ship. The Trent was moored in the Sheerness Dockyard camber, and will be examined by divers.  The inquiry into the charges against the Rev. A. Harris, vicar of Stoke, Kent, concluded at Rochester on Tuesday. The Court found that defendant was drunk upon two specified occasions at funerals and once in church, and also that the charge of habitual drunkenness had been established. The findings of the Court will be forwarded to the bishop of the diocese, who will pati sentence. Incidentally, the President of the Court, Chancellor Dityclen, remarked that that case had proved the efficiency of the Clergy Discipline Act passed last year, for the complaint was only lodged on January sth last.  Several more shebeeners were convicted at Cardiff on Tuesday. Thomas Donoghue, of North-street, was charged with an illicit sale of beer on the 12th inst. and lined £2O and costa, with the alternative of a monili's hard labour. Johanna Donovan was charged with a similar offence in Mary Ann-street on the same date, and was fined £lO and coats, or committed to gaol for a month. Catherine Welsh was fined £lO and costa for shebeening in Stanley. street on the 12th inst. Mrs. Redmond, a respectably-dressed female, who pleaded guilty to illegally buying, was fined ss. and costs; while several other frequebtera of the shebeeas were fined 9.5. 6d. each and costs.