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

ABROAD.  Steamers arriving at New York report having .sperienced violent weather in the Atlantic, the seas running mountains high. The cold at the same time was intense, and the vessels became covered with ice.  The Bucharest police have arrested a man named Nikolai Bazgan and his sister, Marie Merischanu, on the charge of forging and uttering £5 notes of the Bank of England. The plates and presses used by the prisoners were seized.  Great excitement has been caused in Warsaw by a case of murder and suicide which occurred on Tuesday last. An actress, named Hrjesidska. was shot dead by her lover, a man named Sadovaky, who subsequently destroyed himself.  A telegram from Quebec reports that there was a "rough-and-tumble " fight i Parliament House on Monday between two members of the Opposition,. Messrs. Fitzpatrick and Turgeon. The quarrel arose out of a bill introduced jot, Parliament by Mr. Fitzpatrick.  A telegram from Tangier states that the Sbereef of Wazan arrived at Fez on the 14th inst. in order to do homage to the Sultan as his spiritual chief, and not in order to discuss the question of French protectien, his right to which, in succession to his rather,, is acknowleOged. Two milling accidents attended with loss of life are reported from Vienna. At Skala', in Styria, 17 miners are believed to have lost their lives and seven sustained serious injuries in an explosion of fire-damp, while near Carlsbad six men were drowned by the sudden flooding of the Roudolf Mine. During the artillery practice at Gibraltar on Tuesday, one ot the Maxim guns slipped from its fastenings, and rolling backwards, continued firing. The shots rebounded from the rock on which the gun had been fixed, and severely injured &company sergeant-major of Artillery, besides inflicting slight wounds on two other soldiers.  On Saturday and Sunday last the worst snowstorm occurred in Canada that has been experienced for many years. It was accompanied by a high wind, and intense cold prevailed generally throughout Ontario. The railroads were blocked by the heavy snowdrifts, and the traffic greatly delayed. Travelling on foot or in vehicles was impossible in the country and difficult in the towns and cities. Correspondents from Fielsingfors and other places write that the distiesa and sickness in Finland, in consequence of the de-truction of the crops last summer by the frost, is terrible. In the north and eatern poitions of the Grand Duchy there are at least half a million people—mostly hard-working peasants—who will hardly have sufficient to exist on through the winter. Bea des these, another 200,000 persons are entirely dependent on charity for their very existence. An official denial is given to the reports which gained currency in Constantinople about a week ago, that the American college at Marsovan, fn the Vilayet of Sivas, Asia Minor, had been burned by a Moslem mob, and that on the same day sanguinary conflicts had occurred between Turks and Christians at Cesare*. The statsment that the local authorities had supplied arms to the Mussulmans is also denied. In diplomatic circles It is thought that, while there may be some truth in the repoits, the facts have been greatly exaggerated. The formal induction of Cardinal Vaughan into. his titular Church of St. Andrew and St. Gregory took place in Rome on Tuesday. A large congregation was present, including the Duke of Norfolk. Archbishop Macdonald of Edinburgh and St. Andrew's, and other English and Scottish Bishops now in Rome, all the British pilgrims, and leading members of the English colony. Cardinal Vaughan, in his address, spoke mainly upon missionary labour, and said no race was more fitted to convert those countries which were still heathen than the English, who had spread themselves throoshout the world and were full of generous enthusiasm. A serious riot occurred at Pittsburg on Monday at the Cataburg Company's mine between the men who are out ou strike and the non-unionlats employed by the company. Operations at the mine were partially carried on for several weeks with ' the aid of negro labour, and the strikers were greatly discouraged in their contest with the company. On Tuesday about 150 of the strikers, composed principally of Italians, Hungarians, and Frenchmen, assembled at the mouth of the pit, and upon the appearance of the nevem, who numbered eo, the strikers opened fire. The negroes were also armed and returned the fire. After about 100 slots had been exchanged the negro.' gave way and ran for home.