The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-12-09 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ROMANTIC FRENCH SUICIDE.  EPITOME OF NEWS.  A romantic suicide has taken place at Montpellier, in the south of France. Frangois Ronland, a fancy draper of that town, had the misfortune to lose his sweetheart, who died as long ago as 1886, and ever since then he had suffered from melancholia, and had frequently been heard to say that he wished he was lying beside her in the St. Lazare Cemetery. The other night a grave-digger was passing through the cemetery, when he saw a great semi circular opening in front of one of the private graves. On examination he found that a great stone had been taken out of the structure, and that a body wr,s lying on top of the coffin within. The police authorities were communicated with, and a number of officials were soon on the spot with lanterns. A strange sight met their gsze. Upon a coffia wAs tic uu :y of a man, clad lin black. In one of the hands, which were covered with black kid gloves, was a heavy revolver. It was evident that the deceased, who was none other than the dtiip„r, had proceeded with great deliberation. Having stuck a pair of scissors in one of the walls, he hung his hat and watch upon them, and then lay down and shot himself in the head. Under the head were a umnber of bank-notes, t together with a letter stating that they were for I the expenses of the funeral.  AAnsohrahaekr Ratfooardaretrialisuadeeadw—aaMrf.elGt G. a tMoQ.pinDeotriwadteale:.e . well, s ih. ercei:rprn.d:rettr ,oyouff gNoeel:wdebfteruodraylp. Cr President ecn t, 1 .ci, if, ythdea during arge French -Two men were killed at a wreck off Ilfracombe. Sunder. Three men were killed &A a fall of rock at the o Kirsten Stone Quarry near Dresden. 1 Repuelie, six year a ego oil Seeday. Of the twelve large cities in thu world three are ! month of November amounted in velae to £559,000. presence of an enornio is couceurse of people. in Mx"! atfo.llll Burns, M.P.; has been confined to his; Khedive Abb„, of Eopr, formally bed with a severe chill. 17,439 locomotives of all types, of which 83 per I Ismailia-Pore Said Railway on Saturday in the Two workmen were killed by a gait explosion in , the workshops of the State railways at Budapest. cent. are in use in England and Wales. 1 Teere are on the eeilways Of the limited Kingdom depth he igareaabtaebs: 3d2septflatarteacroradae.ai-soixf tlzetanktehMaficahimgaeile.is 870 feet or alinionithfemSelibryteirofeaf hruisilea.ge.ThHe emeeman. The assassin of the Mayor of Moscow—the deetardly deed was committed in March—as b. en i declared insane. Ose oftthheeßmereay.trLioqatianecentynGreirstideieidu recently Untnlyitedat Statistics show that there are 3,804 public 1 an Swedenborgteoveror 4°of libraries in the United Sm. es, with 50 books to each 100 of the inhabitants. M. Portebois, of Charleville, has been murdered i states— in his own house. His head was battered in with 1 bprtai!hedfolitiphohenk4.o jpoinhionuallooyfd,Eauinuet: some blunt instrument. George Augustus Haines, a Monmouth letter. years ago. I he deceased, who was appointed only two months carrier, has been sent to gaol for three menthe for stealing 168 letters, two containing postal orders. New Brueswick, died suddenly on Sunday night. The decree nisi obtained by Mrs. Carew (Miss Edith Chester) against her husband, on the ground ago, was very popular among all classes of the of cruelly and adultry has been made ateolute. population. During a quarrel among some drnoken miners Henry Everatd Hunt, electrical engineer and at Charleston (West Virginia) over it game of mariager of the Taunton El, ctrio Light Works, poker, pistols cud knives were free'y need, with was remanded at Tauuton on Saturday charged the result th t five men wore killed and five others with forging a proiniebory note for £233 with seriously injured. i intent to defraud. The body of Mr. James Simpson, of Inverboynd The health of the Queen of Roumania is againie ; was found lying near Banff face downwards in the said to be far from satisfactory, the symptoms of snow, with an overturned vehicle across his p Aelysis, which had diminished last summer, shoulders. When driving home from town in the I,„,,i„ig <awe more developed with increased midst ot a severe sterm his trap overturned, the severity. shafts pinning him down in the snow and suffocatThe youegest eleetrical superintendent in the ing him. Uuiteil Stets is Edmund id. Perry, of Bloomfield, A fatal accident has occurred on the Rjasan and New Jersey. Thought but 15 years of age he is Kosloff railway, close to the Kosloff station. Owing roiforied asquite an authority on matters relating to a mistake in regard to the points two goods to electricity. trains came into collisiou, one of the engine-drivers A Berlin telegram states that, although the sobering killed and two guards seriously injured. ceptance by the Government of the motion Fourteen partly laden trucks were smashed and abrogating the Anti-Jesuit law ia not to be reckoned r'i:en statement, who the freight destroyed. upon, the proposal will. it is expected receive imThere was a meeting near Pares between M. portant support in the Bundeirath. Millerend, of the Petite Republique, and M.M. Rochefert in his journal L'Atransigeant, Etienne, an incensed member of Parliament. Toe repeats the charges he made against M. Consume, duel was fought with swords, and at the expiretioncudaggivatinn caitedseansialidstoinmfornizotbMefo. Mirini off three minutes the journalist received a wound has in the chest. M. Constane, it is said, declines to take any notice The Paris Gautos& announces that the betrothal of the accusations. of the Czarewitch and Princess Alia of Hesse in an In a conversation at the Vatican ehout the state accomplished fact. It vouches for the authenticity of his health, the Pope expressed an opinion that of this smtement, and adds that the official his death would be a midden one. " When my announcement will be made within the next fort- room is entered one morning," he Imarked, "1 night, shall be found dead." The prevailing depression of trade has reacted Van Reber% of Rush Hill, Montana, has been most unfavourably on the finances of the Middle- rewarded for an am of bravery performed 20 years sex Hospital. A sem of £il,ooo is now owing to ago. About 1873 he saved the life of John Bennett the bankers, and to meet this debt and current from drowning, and the latter, who died recently expenses the board have been compelled to recone at La.{ Vegas willed him 600,0045 dole mend a sale of Stock to the extent of