The Herald of Wales. — 1888-02-18 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ADJUI CATION. Gorge A. PLidips lately Llanetly, now Pertridge-road enr: Whyndham-areade, Cardiff, jeweller.  The steel cruiser Porpoise MU formally commissioned at Port.mouih on Monday. She will replace the ilt-taTed Wasp on the China station. Luring a fibt beta,. en some drunken Hungarians in a lionwnear Hassleton,lPetneyivania, • lamp was thrown, a. Ding the room on fire. Pen of the ,imiates p rished in the flames, and several ctber. acre Berions!y injured. A Central News tele4ram from Parita,on Wednesday,say. : - A firs broke out this afternoon in the Great Central Poultry, near the Louvre. The fire is still b ming and threatens serious destruction: According to the Daily CAroniele Madrid correspondent. he Duk •de Montp-nsier was on his way to -Tata to take part in • family council at Ser We, to divouss the prospects of the Bourbon re., oration after ,he overthrow of the Queen Regent, when he was re-piested by the Spanish Alai's,, idor in Paris not to proceed to Spain.  Wedne.day 'a Daily Nam mays :—We regret to learn that Mr 31i tw-Lefevre, M.P., Las sought a revere chill in returning I 'from L uictrs. anti was consequently enable to be in his an in the House ,of Commons on •Tuesday night, as Ile had fully intended. He hopes to ii iu Me plane to-morrow evening. At Wolverhampton, on Wednesday, a man named Charles Hdland, at one time occupying a resipectlble posi.ion in the town, was oom• mated for trial at the emotion% for attempting to hang hint! iu the police cells whilst waiting his troll tor another charge. During the time that nod sine., the prisoner 117(141 first taken Mtn cuetoty, his eldest daughter, overcome with et,tur, at the position in which her father was placed. had committed suicide by taking poison. The batty Aeles 0 loess correspondent,tele• graphing .4.1 Tuesday, 'says :—The Russian South Wereerit #tai.way Company, pursuant to Government ine•ruetiou, has, for the present, withdrawn .I.;nt.ly every freight wagon onJ its system ui be service of thd commercial public. Tne ,ebole locomotive department is ! held at the ,T at ion of the Government. It is ' stated her, it a large contingent' of Ural Cossacks at, I.t,in w,..stward., This has been repeated to me by a militaty utHcer, but I give iqunder ro serve.  _ . WAnt•sday morning, the Nottingham borough magistrates committed for trial a man named Wm. Booth, a fitter, in custody on his own coi.festdon, charged with murdering his six.y.ar.oli daughter, by cutting her throat with a razor, ou that 7th inst. The child's mother died in SePtember laid, and pritoaer married again five weAs later, but a separation soon took piece The prisoner drank heavily, but was in work when the crime was committed. The medical evidence went to prove that the .prisoner's brain I unetims were at the time in a perverted condition, due to alcoholic irritation, but that they were now sound. The Standard's report is as follows extraordinary and shocking accident occurred at Brooklyn, Now York, on Tuesday. An elevated railway is in process of erection, similar to the one in New York city. A steam derrick travels along the structure upon a ponderous platform. The girders in Broadway cross the tramway above which the elevated railway is being built. The derrick, the platform on which it runs, the workmen, and four girders, each weighing ten tons, fell just as a tramcar was passing beneath. It contained twenty-five passengers, three of whom were instantly killed and many of the rest frightfully crushed. It is believed that the derrick, being topheavy. swayed under the ezneseive load it was lifting.