Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal. — 1895-09-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GEO. H. HEMMEN, Manager. Rutland *treat Terminus DlaT 27th, 1195  GENERAL NEWS,  Charles Leclercq, the actor, has died in America.  The new French cruiser Pathuan has been launched at Havre.  Saturday is the centenary of the formation of the London Missionary Society. A child, named Lizzie Fine, five years of ago, has been burned to death at Hendon.  A society to introduce phonetic qpelling has been started in Melbourne.  No arrest has yet been made in connection with the theft of Mrs: 14angtry's jewels. Mrs. Goschen ,ojl.l launch he battleship Victorious at Chatham Dockyard on October 19, A regular line of steamers is to be opened between Hamburg and, Antwerp, and china and Japan,  An extensive, fire has oceurrect at a farm near Doncaster. About 50 fowls and ducks were roasted alive.  Stephen Amery, of Northampton, described as a boxing man, has been discovered drowned in the River Dart, at Totnes. Charles Clarke dropped dead at Leicester, on Thursday night, stepping from the platform after addressing a religious meeting.  France has 7,842,053 houses, of which more than half have but one storey, 221,7-90 three stories, and 03,487 only four stories or more. Two men have been seriously injured by the collapse of some buildings in Drury Lane, Loudon.  Maurice Read says there is no foundation for the report that he has retired from first-class cricket.  The French Army manceuvres concluded on Thursday with a review of the troops by presideut Faure.  Richard Wingrove, charged with the wilful murder of Jane Eagle, at Kensal Green, has been committed for trial.  Richard Hammerton, a waterm an, has been committed for trial on a charge of killing his wife by striking her on the head with, a kettle. Two Glasgow bookmakers, who lost heavily over the Ayr races, have committed suicide in the Clyde.  'A hop drier has been burned to death at Troyle near Farnham, by the accidental upsetting ot a lamp.  .A7passenger in an up London train jumped out of a carriage near Croydon, and -met a terribl end; The case is supposed to be one of , . From a return issued, it appears that the totai receipts on account of proceedings Under the Companies (Winding-up) ..Apt, 1890, in • the year ended March 31 last amounted to £33,010 10s.  Joseph Egan has been at Glasgow final £5 for arranging a prize-fight between . Daniel Creely and Jem Lundy 14 a champion belt. Qreely was fined £l.O, and Lundy £3'3s. William Harvey pleaded guilty at Croydon to attempting to obtain money from 13,4r0n Rothschild, by means of beggii4 letters. This year he had Written 900 letters and received 550 replies and £34.  A magazine containing two hundred and forty pounds of an explosive called petralit has blown up at the Petralit Explosive Factory at Alt Ofen, in nuncrary. The magazine was elltiroly destroyed. There was no loss of life, as the workmen had not yet arrived.  It having come to the knowledge of the Turkish Embassy in London that Mr. Gladstone's speech delivered at Chester on the Armenian atrocities is being printed in London in the Armenian language for circulation in Armenia, the Porte have issued orders to the Turkish postal authorities for its suppression.