The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-07-31 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WOW. ded by having to make and receive so many payMerits abroad in English money. The new bank is to be established with a capital of 60,000,01 Xi marks 'The Standordof Monday says :—There is reason to think that the larouretensions put forward by the Rissian Government, as to the extent of pastures to be left to Afghanistan in the %Loin aaloli diastase, clover a • differ‘nt purpose. he acquisition of territory on the Oxus andat Meru,ohak is believed to be the real object of Russia'a desire, and the probable suggestion of the Russian Government will be to yield' the whole of Khoja Balch from Meruchak.  The lieu's( Toler sph, of Monday, says The Piselan organ, Fars,.of Cabal, states that the Rua. slum are advancing their outposts towards the Indian frontier, not in the direction of Herat but of Tiirkestan. A courier from Faisabad arrived yesterday, and brought the Ameer news that a Russian agent had come to Fench and Turjen to negotiate with the Druish tribal chiefs to induce them to follow the example of their Mery brethren and submit to Russia.  At Shvewsbury on Monday morning, in the prison for the counties of Shrewsbury and Dioutgomery, Wan. Samuels was executed far the murder of Wm. Ilabbott, a grocer's assistant at Welshpool,.wlmin he poisoned by placing a quantity of strychnine in some stout which he gave the dammed man to drink. Samuels, who , slept badly during the night, and partook of a poor breakfast, had to be supported while being pinioned, and also on the drop. fle miule a fall , confession, and ampreased his deep contrition for having taken the life of an innocent man. Berry WaB the executioner. The drop was seven feet and death wee instantaneous.  The trial of Mazy Ann Britland, a young filotlry operator, who is charged with the mueder of a woman nanied.Diran, and of her own hue band, by poisoning with vermin killer, in May last, was resumed, on Friday morning, at Manchester Assizes. Evidence was given by a numbenof people who were present when deceased died, who described the very similar manner of the deaths. Several witnesses spoke to being questioned by prisoner as to the effects of mouse powder on the body, and whether it emild be detested if given in tea and after death. A eerions maidenly which will probably, end fatally, occurredat the Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham, on Friday morning. The theatre was c osed far alterations, and the workmen wore raising an iron girder iorty-three Met long, six tons weirdit, as support for the new roof to the stage. When seventy feet high, the guide rope of the derrick broke. The girder was swung acrowithe Maga and over the wall OM the raw, and the &crick breaking the girder was dropped sixty feet on to the roof of the office of Mown Linder,merchants, who owspied ,the adjoining pitmans/to. The office WM entirely wrecked, and Mr. Linder's partner was struck on the heed by the falling debris. He kinot expect& to live. There were many narrow escapes. The girder fell four feet oatside workshopcontaishig about fifty min.  tthe  111111111116. j  Mr. Michael Domitt, publishing hie t=i of th the distribution e relief fund fblithe on the Itioh western seaboanis, says.: —No exceptional dieing, now re111.911:10, boat the termhutticauf the relief wcaire does, net eels% the grave problem that a wet or stormy treason at • critical harvest period next year may canoe more throw the Islands upon public, beimvolenee. And, aches willing to abide the stigma of be- 1 coming a mesodinant nationality, idega must be ' taken to,premet the re-occur:sum of thsdistress. Pendhig a complete solution, their oceditim would he materially itnproved by the development of the isheries, and the promotion of cottage industries. He asserts that thirty per cent of the relief subseriptions ends its way directly or indirectly inta the mews of Irish landlords.  At Birmingham, on Wednesday, bin. Maria Clarke, of Madeley, Shropshire, committed suicide, and caused the death okher infant child. Mrs. Clarke was seen walking on theplatform at Snow Hill Station with bet baby in her arms; but as them was nothing strange in her demeanour or appearance an empicions were awakened on the part of tha railway officials, who taw her. As the expose train from Wolverhampton,due inßlrmighsni at a few minutes before twelve o'clock, appeared in sight, Mrs. Clarke wan noticed to walk quickly towards it, and when the engine had approached to within a few yards of her she jumped from the platform ix! the four foot, immediately in front of the advancing engine, and quickly placed her child acmes the instals, and them threw herselfdovrn be aides hisn. The engine driverapplied the brake, but the wheal' of the engine caught both the woman and the child, and dragged them along for some distartee. Upon the stoppage of the train the II bodies pesented an awful spectacle. The child's legs and one of its arms were severed from its I b ; the foot of tho. mother was cut off, her 'mad was almost, smashed, and her body was otherwise much mutilated. It appears that 1 lire Clarke has for some time past been staying in Birmingham, where she had come so that she might get the best medical treatment for her ' infant,who was deformed.