The Telegram. — 1896-01-28 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A BALLET GIRL. The police receivej information on Thursday night that a young woman had been found shot in • house in Charing Cross Road, London, where she resided in a flat. The woman's name is stated to be Maggie Laing. She was 19 year, of age, and was a ballet girl, and had recently fulfilled an engagement at Antwerp. The girl was found in her rooms with a revolver by her side. It has been ascertained, that she bought the revolver a fortnight ago. An action which is likely to prove of special iflterebt to cyclists has been remitted from the High Court for trial in Bath, and • special County Court sitting will be held for the purpose on Thursday, February 6th. The parties, it is said, both resided in Wiltshire, and the case is one in which the Plaintiff sues for £250 damages for personal in. jurieii, alleging that through the defendant',, negligent riding he was injuried and incapacitated for further work. The plaintiff is an elderly man, being, it is stated, close upon 60 years of age. A TREMENDOUS Swaim has been raging in Canada. The telegraph wires are down in every ihreetion, and the train service is paralysed. In Toronto itself the sleet and wind broke down the telegraph, telephone, and trolley wires in all parts of the city, causing an almost complete stoppage of street trailic owing to the danger caused by the broken wires. Two men and several hornet, were killed by contact with live wires. The storm is the worst that has been experienced for several years.  Considerable consternation has been caused ill the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, by the sudden disappearance and supposed suicide of Henry Bartlett, the messman. He was fifty-two years of age and he had held that responsible posifor nearly twenty years. On Saturday evening Dr. Sheehan, his medical adviser, received a note in Bartlett's handwriting, which concluded with the words :—" By the time this reaches you I shall be no more." It IVIIN ascertained that Bartlett had left Portsmouth for Hyde. A Hyde telegram states that after the last boat left Portsmouth for Hyde a well-dressed man jmoped overboard and although the steamer was slopped the body could not be recovered.  The Venezuelan Commission has requeated Mr. Olney to call upon Great Britain and Venezuela to furnish evidence of their respective claims on the boundary question.  _ Another expedition to the South Pole will be abortly fitted out under the command of Lieutem ant Ale Gerlach., of Brussels, who will be accompanied by several well-known Belgian savants. The Flying Squadron left Spithead on Monday mostiing for it inn round the Isle of Wight, and returned to the anchorage later in the day. The Squadron took its departure yesterday (Thursday). Vice-Admiral Frederick Charles Bryan Robinson, brother of Sir Hercules Robinson, died on saturday last at life residence, RIMS Hill, Char!wool, Surrey, after a very short illnesss, at the age of 59.  iiiRACH OF PHOIIIMIL —At the Kent Assizes On Townisy, the care of Harriet Elizabeth Palmer, the daughter of a well-known farmer of East Church, Sheppey, who claimed £l,OOO damages frorn Harry Masted, a farmer, of Bobbing, near Bittingliourne, for breach of promise of marriage, (1.,w0 fur hearing. Mr. Dickens, Q.C., who was for the informed the court that his client h.,di,greed to accopt Judgment for £6OO, including wits.