Weekly News. — 1891-01-08 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SUICIDES AT MONTE CARLO.  The large increase in the number of persons who have this season committed suicide or attempted to put an end to their lives in consequence of losses at the gambling tables of Monte Carlo has, says the Times Nice correspondent, created a very marked impression upon visitors to the Riviera. Many influential English people have (pressed their determination never to enter the rooms again, in consequence of the action of the Casino management with regard to one or two recent cases. The British Consul in Nice is making a thorough investigation of the case of the late Mr. Bour, an English subject. He has asked the authorities of Monaco to explain the doings of a person, now proved to be in the employment of the Casino, in coming over to Nice to search the rooms of Mr. Hour for papers, taking an inventory of the contents of his boxes, and reporting what he saw to the police of the Principality. The same individual, continues the correspondent, also took possession of 1111 V card, which was left upon the table of Mr. Boer's rooms on the occasion of my interview with his mistress. After obtaining my address be came, in company with another person, to demand whether I was the author ot the accounts of the suicide appearing in the Times and other papers. They said they were friends of Mr. Bour, and wished me to correct the statement that he had committed suicide through losses at the tables, and to state that he had suicidal mania. Being in possession of the exact facts, I reported this proceeding to the British Consul, and, after the necessary inquiries he has come to the conclusion that this Individual was acting in behalf of the Casino of Mouto Carlo. The Monaco police in their reply to the Consul's letter upon the subject, deny that this man has any connection with them, and an effort is made to draw a distinction between the police of the Prince of Monaco and the agents of the Casino. The report, however, admits that Mr. flour's rooms were searched, and, as no other person except the agent referred to visited them for that purpose, the British Consul is satisfied that he supplied the Monaco police with the details, and he intends to make Mr. Hour's lanientabic case the subject of a report to the Foreign Offie.. The mysterious death at Mentone of Count Alfred von Quadtisny, and the secret removal of the remains to Bavaria by his relatives, has caused inquiries to be made, and as the result it is affirmed that the Count died from the effects of an overdose of morphia. The night previous to his death he stated that he had lost all that he possessed at the Monte Carlo gaming tables. This statement is confirmed by several guests stopping at the Hotel Mentone, where the Count's death took place.  Why is a god constitution like a money-box?— Because it's full value is never known until it is broken.  Wife: "What makes you so happy? Does that letter contain a cheque?" Husband: "No; but it doesn't contain a bill."  "I shouldn't care so much about the bugs," said a thin, pale lodger; "but the fact is, ma'am, I hain't got the blood to spare."  A gentleman said of a tragedy, he wondered it was not hissed. A friend said, -People can't yawn and hiss at the same time."  lICONTEMPORARY