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35 HOLIDAY-MAKERS MEET DEATH. PARIS. Sunday. Aa excursion train, travelling from ^rdeaux to Royan. the seaside resort at the mouth of the Gironde, cla/fehed into a SOode train at Saujon, the birthplace of Gaboria-u, which is but ten miles avay from the passengers' ultimate destination. The 001lision oauwed frightful havoc, the baftencer train being almost completely decked -No less than 35 of the unfortunate holida.y- makers were killed outright, and fifty others ved. injuries which, in many cases were "(>us and may in some cases prove fatal. The disaster occurred at 10.40 this morning. ■*toongst the victims are many ioung girls The two leading coaches of the excursion train were broken to matchwood. These s were occupied by a party of young fcirls who were members of an association kt Barsac, a town twenty miles out of Bor- Oeaujt. Tha greater number of them were *illed instantly DEATH ROLL INCREASING: PATHETIC DETAILS. BORDEAUX, Monday. Several of those injured in the Swujon ^taetrophe died in the course of the night. ,t«e official return of the dead to-day is 43. he oondition of a number of the injured ie 60 critical that they are not expected to Recover. The identification of the dead gave rise to '■^rowing scenes, many being mutilated pHost beyond recognition. A baby only a months old was found unhurt beside the j°dy of its dead mother, but the most tragic ^fcture of the accident is the fate of echool- who had been looking forward to two holiday at the seaside. They were :nging, and all were in high spirits as they Hearing their destination. In a moment ^verai were killed, and others maimed for while on the other hand there were miraculous escapes, some getting off h comparatively slight injuries. The richer in charge of the party is amongst Qe dead.Rente.r.

DEATH OF A WOMAN IN THE WREXHAM DISTRICT. „ -Another death took place ^ide'Sio Jetton -rWS tliree d6athe- Itinate person was a woman, the the of William Prifcchard, *• of Marley-road, Coedpoeth, a 1^ mining and lime quarry district four kileg from Wrexham. A daughter of the **jftchards is aisp seriously ill. ^REST ON BODY OF ENGINEMAN. tofO*coroner"s inquiry into the seocmd death to* place at Bhostyllen, two miles from H/"rtinm on Monday, the deceased being > fiagineman named John Evans, who had B.°*ked at Bersham Colliery. The evidence < £ >*ed that on Saturday night, the 6th inst., V^fcaed ate a pie purchased at a shop in aJ^ham. Next morning he began to eat J^her pie, but only took a little of it, jj'ing he did not feel quite the thing. Later n* the day he became seriously ill, and on Monday Dr. Davies wap called in, and vMed him up to his death. The medical *jJen°e was that death was due to some of ptomaine poisoning. Of this Dr. said that he had no doubt whatever. in accordance with the medical ^Qeoce was returned.

ORDERED EXPLORER MOURNFUL PILGRIMAGE TO HIS GRAVE. M'Leod, daughter of Sir Reginald 5 I«3d, the famous Scottish judge and former -ader-Secretary for Scotland, has just lelt r^Rlard on one of the most mournfully pilgrimages ever made by a lady. is on he'1 *ay to Central Africa to erect j^nibstone over the grave of her dead lover, rj^tenant Boyd Alexander, the well-known 5*Plorer, who was murdered by natives at v in April last. He lies near the grave of j4 brother. Captain Claude Alexander, in the Chad district. ^Accompanied by a British official and his 1Miss M'Leod is facing the perils of the journey to this centre of darkest Africa, ^deterred by the persuasions of her friends home. The journey will occupy seven Smiths, and is to be made from the coast of i»?w Guinea, and then northward up the

SEQUEL TO WILL FORGERY CoLoNEL PILCHER DISMISSED THE SERVICE. The "London Gazette" on Tuesday night retained the following announcement: "Wes- Command, Telegraph Companies Royal jflsineers. Army Troops— Lieuitenant-oolonel f^edk. J. Pilcher is removed from the Terri- J^ial Force, his Majesty having no further j^ftRion for his services; dated July 26, K*°- The award of the Volunteer Officers' retion to Lieutenant-oolonel Frederiok J. rOhr, announced in the London. Gazette' J the 20th May, 1902, is cancelled, and his is erased from the registry of indi- y,ldlials upon whom his late Majesty King y**ard VII. had been pleased to confer the °lunteer Offloers' Deooration."

LIGHTENED INTO BIGAMY JURIED A WOMAN "TO KEEP HER QUIET." 1.0,4. virions excuse for "bigamy was given at London Police-court on Wednesday 1v Harry Harding, of Fiirlight-road, Lower gating. answer to Mr. Plowden, the defendant "Well, I suppore I really did it through j^ttle bit of fear." Plowden: Do you mean you married £ you were afraid of the women?— to k«?ep things quiet. Plowden: To keep her quiet?—Yes, sir. did you marry number one to keep <luiet too?—I was rather young then, I ^><5 ^:D'ew ^hat things meant in those mean you were ratiher young when married the first one, and you were fop of number two—they were too much in faet?-Y&, sir. 6 magistrate ordered a Temaand.

^REWORKS EXPLOSION. POUR EMPLOYES KILLED IN SPAIN. J MADRID, Monday, "i. a.n explosion in a fireworks factory at of Benaguaoil, eleven miles from r^° alt' 'our employes have been killed and have been seriously injured.— w News.

GLISH TOURIST KILLED T^q CHAMONIX, Monday. ^OeyyT^Sj^sh tourists sustained a fall while P^ftTfr.^he Glacier dee Boesons alone, and th-u k!Ud. The other WM badly k'

LEICESTERSHIRE CLERIC WITH TWO WIVES. WHY HE WED THE SECOND TIME. A remarkable story of a second marriage contracted by a vicar of the Church of Ens- land while his first wife was still alive is revealed in a letter publiehed by the Rev. Edmund Christopher Hudson, vicar esutton.! Cheney, Leicestershire. The letter is addressed by the rev. gentleman to his dioceean, the Bishop of Peterborough, and betide proclaim- ing the fact that he hae contracted a marriage according to the Scotch form with a lady he has taken to live with him, sete forth some strong views on the question of increased facilities for divorce and the rela- tion between the divorce laws and im- morality. Five years ago the Rev. Christopher Hudson, vicar of Sutton, Cheney Vicarage, was deserted by his wife, and iast month he maxried another woman in the presence of three witnesse!, after ilie Scottish manner, in n private louse a.t i.incljley. The result of this was that hia bishop inhibited him froir taking further service 11 atil sentence had been parsed upon him at Peterborough. This crder the vicar refuses to obey. He deoia.r& THE ATTRIBUTES OF A BULLY. I have resolved not to obey this imperious mandai 1, for I am conscious that in the sight of God—and, I believe, also of the majority of educated and enlightened men —I have done nothing but what is honour- able in the highest sense of the word. For preaching The Christian Welcome I was once tried by a bishop, who showed me none of the gentleness of a bishop. but all the attributes of a bully, and I refuse to be so tried again. He argues that nowhere in the Bible is it allowed the Church to make laws to coerce or to forbid the natural contract of marriage. St. Paul, he says, plainly allows freedom from a marriage contract which has failed to produce the contracted end, for God in marriage has not called us to bondage, but to peace." DIVORCE AND IMMORALITY. The vicar proceeds to say:- In answer to those who affirm that easier divorce would lead to greater immorality, I reply that in my opinion they are mis- taken. Men of oommon-sonse wajit more than beauty. "Beauty is only skin deep," but what men and women want is love. Beauty may be present without■!<"«• ve love oannot be present without adds such a charm to life f it makes the pl^ne«tv^e^a^uL^ love not beauty that makes a woman writte* to the bishop repudiating the dhSSarf Conduct, Mr. Hudson says:- For more thaai five years I have endured desertion, namely, since May 18, 1905, when I wae a curate at Sheffield, and for more than four years my boy, the only child of my former marriage, who was given up to me on July 7, 1906, after an unopposed writ of habeas oarpus, which I had taken out to secure his rel.e,ase fTom my mc'ther-in-law's house in Hull, has been in need of one to t,a-ke a mother's place, while I have needed a wife. No human being bag a rig-ht to force the eontinuajioe of an uuhappy uruofl upon his fellow cweatTires. This is plainly the teach- ing of St. Paul in Gartwtaidans 7-15, where he saiye, "U the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or sister is not under bondage in euch cases, but God hath called us to peaoe." We are told, and the Lord God said, it is not goOd. that man should be alone. AFTER THE SCOTTISH MANNER. The vicar continues:- Therefore, I take no shaane to myself, but gladly acknowledge that on July 9, at Hinckley, and in the presence of three witneemm, after the Scottish manner, in a private house, I married my present wife, a. wedding which I hold to be as eorip- turally honourable and moral as any wedding in the United Kingdom, even if taken by a dozen priests and- bishops in a cathedral. It is true our Saviour says, What God hath joined together let no man put asunder." But the time has come when the preposterous superstition that every act of a priest is an act of God must be exploded, for God is a God of love. Therefore, thoee whom God joins together are joined together in love. But. as Milton says, Love in marriage cannot live or subsist unless it be mutual, and where love cannot be there can be left of wedlock nothing but the empty husk of an outside matrimony, as undelightful and unpleosing to God as any other kind of hypocrisy. DIVORCE JUDGE QUOTED. The vioar quoted Mr. Justice Bargra-ve Deane's evidence before the Divorce Commis- sion, that desertion for four years should be an absolute ground for divorce, and goes on- Though many, perhaps, will think four years' desertion is too long a period to require a husband or wife to undergo before granting a release—and I, who have suffered it, consider that six months of such living death is enough for any human beiug-l have no doubt that the majority of the bench and of the legal and educated world will agree with Judge Deane that after a certain period of desertion the wedding ought to be dissolved. Therefore, I hold the opinion that when, on July 9 last, my present wife and I made and signed a declaration of marriage in the presence of witnesses, I had a moral and perfect right to do so, and neither the Reverend Bowers—who so distinguished himself in his recent attack on free speech —nor any other human being has a right to cast either a stone or a slur at me for having done so. REPROACH TO THE LAW. Mr. Hudson proceeds to argue that any reproach cast upon him should really be cast upon the laws of the country, and that all that Scripture requires is that a man shall be the husband of one wife and the woman the wife of one husband. Addressing the Bishop of Peterborough in the frankest manner, the vicar says. your lordship has neither given me my living, and I deny your right to take it away. Having done nothine but what is honourable, I refuse to be treated and punished as a criminal. I deny," concludes the vicar, that there is any just occasion for anyone to soandahse at my marriage, and, as I need the £150 of my benefice for the support of my wife, my boy, and myself. I refuse to appoint anyone else to conduct my services for me, but shall offer to perform them myself, and any monetary loss you may cause me, or any violence you may set in motion against me, T shall hold recoverable from the revenues of your bishopric, which, with those of every other in this realm, are undoubtedly the pro- the ba~ teoctas of th. llo<* (rich STSril « poor) in th., adddta; ««. «t the past instead of its Christian feeling. Mr. Hudson was a B.A. and wrangler at Cambridge in 1893. He wa* ordained deacon inl896, and wao for three years curate of St. Andrew's. Brypool, Yorkshire.

TESTIMONY FROM THE PATRON OF HIS LIVING. The Rev. J. Talbot, patron of the living of Sutton Cheney. Leicester, the vicar of which, Mr. E. C. Hudson, has been inhibited by the bishop for marrying after the Scottish fashion a second wife while his fit is alive, said recently: "Mr. Hudson is a Socialist and holds strong views, but not detrimental to Christian principles so far as I know. I have always considered him to be a sincere, upright man. I know his goodness in many ways. When he was a curate in Sheffield he would give anything he had to the poor. I remember,once that he gave his last sovereign when it was needed at home. I know that his wife believes in him sincerely. I always thought him so happy with hia boy, whom he loves very dearly."

DIVED 135 FEET. NEW YORK. Tuesday. For a wager of 100 a man has dived from Brooklyn Bridge into the East River. After his drop of 135ft. he was able to swim ashore, where he wa« promptly r rotted on a charge i of afctemptfcne raiade.—5c jb.

BABY THROWN FROM BRECON TRAIN. An inquest was held at the Castle Hotel, Abercrave, on Tuesday on the bcdy of a female child pickell up on the hne near there. It was reported that Cissy Moore, of Brecon, had been arrested, and that she was a single woman, who was ioi-merly in service at the Talbot Hotel, Swansea. Previous to her arrest, it was stated, she was quite well, but she subsequently collapsed, and now lies in a serious condition at the home of her father. Dr. W. R. Jones conducted the inquiry, and William Moore, father of the girl, was present, his daughter being too ill to appear. Mr. Lewis Jones, solicitor, Brecon, appeared I for the gin Dr. Richards said that death was due to synoope, caused by hemorrhage of the neck I and mouth and shock. A wound on the neck was inflicted before death. The child had had a separate existence. George DodJ, platelayer, said that on the arrival of the ten to five train last Saturday he saw a parcel thrown out from a carnage 1 window about the centre of the train on the left hand tide. He picked it up, opened it, and found it contained a child's body. As far as he could see, the parcel was thrown out of the train by a young woman with dark brown hair. Two females stood at the window, and there were more people m tne j compartment. The female who threw parcel out appeared to be between twe and 25 years of age* He thought he know her, but would not like to swear 1.0 George Packe, guard, said he was in charge of the train and saw a parcel thrown out of the train. He did not report the incident until Monday, but he told the stationmaster at Ystradgynlais on Saturday night. Police-constable Niwells also gave evidence. The Coroner said that a person was already under arrest in connection with the orun but he did not think she would be able to appear for about three weeks, and he would, therefore, adjourn the inquiry until bep- tember 8.

DASTARDLY ATTEMPT TO WRECK AN EXPRESS. PARIS, Tuesday. According to the Bayeux correspondent of the "Journal," a dastardly attempt to wreck the Transatlantic express from Cherbourg was frustrated last evening. The driver of a goods train along an adjacent line noticed an obstruction on the rails, which he knew the Cherbourg express was just about to traverse, and, realising the urgency of active, jumped from his engine and stood in the middle of the express line waving a red- flag in front of the approaching train. He succeeded, fortunately, in stopping the express, and the employes on the two ftraine united to clear the line of the obstruction, which was formed of about thirty large iron bolts stolen from the railway stores. An inquiry into the affair has been opened.—Central News.

TOKIO FLOODS. « WIDESPREAD DAMAGE IN JAPAN'S CAPITAL. A telegram which has been reoeived at the Japanese Embassy in London from Tokio, giving details of the disastrous floods which hav ooourred in the Japanese capital, says: So far as is known, the personal casualties are 880 dead, 160 injured, and 500 missing. Of houses 3.700 have been swept away or other- wise destroyed, .2,200 partially destroyed, and 393,000 have been submerged or damaged by water. In Tokio alone 200.000 people are requiring relief. It is now fine weather, and no further disasters are expeoted. Railway traffic has been re-opened."

SEQUEL TO SAWMILL FIRE OWNER GETS TEN YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE. At Glasgow High Court on Wednesday Edward Boyd was sentenced by the Lord Jus- tice Clerk to ten years' penal servitude for attempting to defraud the Phoenix Assurance Company, London, by setting fire to his Glas- gow premises, the Victoria Patent Sawmills Company. A Pol ioe-inspector stated he found on the premises a lighted wax candle fixed in an iron nut, surrounded by a lot of waste saturated with paraffin oil. In the macihine- room he found another candle. He also dis- covered two barrels of paraffin oil, the tap of one being turned on. and gas jets were also turned on. A licensed valuer stated the premises were over-insured by fully 95,000.

HUNT FOR A "JEMMY." SMART LABOURERS AID AN ARREST. A comedy in which a jemmy played the principal part caused much laughter at Highgate Police-court. Two labourers stated that whi.1,3 they were working on waste land they saw Robert Gray and William Bright enter the land, and either Gray or Bright took something from his pocket and planted it in the ground. Then both of them hurried away- The labourers went to the spot and found a jemmy." wrapped in a stocking. They removed it, and resumed work. Later Samuel Barmore, wearing a silk hat, entered the land and went to the spot where the jemmy had been found. He turned over pieces of paper and turf, and seemed perplexed. At length he left, to return with Gray and Bright. All three! began to search every inch of the ground, and when the comedy had lasted two hours the labourers informed the police, and the three searchers were arrested. They were remanded on a charge of being suspected persons.

JUMPED BEFORE A TRAIN. LADY'S REMARKABLE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. A lady, who refused all information about herself except that her name was Alice Morgain, was remanded by the Lisoard (Cheshire) magistrates on Friday on a charge of attempting to commit suicide by throwing herself in front of a train. It was stated tha.t for the past three weeks she had been in Hoylake Cottage Hospital. Leaving there on Thursday, she went to West Kirby Station, and suddenly jumped in front of an approaching train and lay down on the line. Part of the train passed over her, but she escaped injury. At the police-station JE60 in notes were found on her. The prisoner told the magistrates her friends would not come to court, and it was no use troubling them. L

HONEYMOON IN CELLS. SENTENCE POSTPONED IN DIA- MOND RING CASE. The case of the young married couple who were arrested on their wedding day wae again mentioned at London Sessions on Fri day. On Thursday the two defendants, Leopold O&ve (24). a salesman, and Bessie Lois Cave (19), were found guilty, the girl of having stolern a diamond ring, worth about £70, from William Haywood, of Hammersmith, a man of independent means, and her husband of receiving it knowing it to have been stolen. When the case came up the Chairman informed the prisoners, whose sentence was postponed on Thursday, that they would be further remanded until the next sessions, for investigations to be made into the state oj tto eldVJusaitfc.

A NATION'S TRIBUTE. ¡ ,n.1 JOHN BULL: Her fame is one of my greatest assets.

REMARKABLE OUTFIT FOUND BY DETECTIVES. wPolice-court on Monday, oa' two men, Arthur Wallace r< ir"11 T,aylor, and a woman named Snow Collins were brought up on charges of taXfd^. f" id on « !»»<» Wiliem oil SatardM. D^tSv^J Western Mail on Monday. alW?2«^William Gough «"<* aoout 12.45 p.m. 0 Saturday, in company went 'L^tfand ofher officers he Prisoners i"n ^fld^n-terrace. He saw the j front room on the ground /t1. 10 them: "We are police officers, and I have Scod j^son for supposing that you have recently been uttering coun- terfeit coin and that you have been making it here. Taylor said: I am only a friend. A NONCHALANT REPLY. Wallace, who reading gomctMnar. took no notice. Witness s- «i■ you un^prstand what ,1 W-Mlle,,e said y 'I sleep 'w'i' here.. Witness ased who had the key of the next room, which locked, and Wal- lace said: It's about here somewhere," and he Mid Collins begun to look for it. As they oould not find it, witness burst the door open, and, with the other officers, took the prisoners into the room. He found a. packet of eleven 4s. counterfeit pieces dated 1889^a L «iS" pieces dated 1887. and alw fifteen counterfeit florin* d#d 1900- A third packet contained geven c<#terfeit florins dated 1887, sixteen dated 1900, and one dated 1901. There waTa fourth paiiet with six counterfeit florins dated 1887, and six of the date 1900. There were two bent florins in a paper dated 1900. Cu.£R'g OUTFIT. He also found two moulds one dated 1S87 and the other 1900, for the making of florins. One broken mould for florins was also found. He took possession of a ladle containing metal, a bottle containing cyanide of potassium, a packet of plaster, a saucepan containing sand, a screw, a candle, a packet of alum, several files," a saucer, and a rent book. Taylor again said: "1 say that I am a fnend of Wallace's. I saw him yesterday in Shored itch and came here with him. I have known Wallace about three years. I have met him before, and he asked me to come." Wallace said: I live in the front room. My missus, I am living with, is the landlady of the house. I see what has been found, but it has nothing to do with me. Taylor is a friend of mine. We use the room when he comes sometimes. That's all I know about it." Collins said: "I am a machinist, and rent 2. Baldwin-terrace. Wallaoo is living with me. The room in which the coins have been found I don't know anything about. The ma.n Taylor is the man Brown' who rente the room. The two rooms downstairs and the kitchen are mine." Wallace told the court that he was not looking for the key, but for the rent book. Prisoners were remanded for flight days.

CAPTURED A CANON. —4- RANSOM DEMANDED FOR HIS RETURN. MXE, Monday. Five brigands who donned the uniform of Carabineers have captured Catnon Andrea Appeddu, and at the same time stole three thousand lires of the moneys of the cathedral at Oziori, Sardinia. The canon was carried off to the mountains and the brigands demand a ransom of twenty thousand lires from the Bishop of Sassari prior to the release of their captive. -Centa-ai News. =-

DEMENTED MOTHER'S ACT BABY ROASTED ON KITCHEN FIRE. At Birkenhead a coroner's jury returned a verdict of Wilful murder" against a middle-aged woman named Mary Ellen Windsor. On August 7 the woman's seven- months-old baby girl was found on her kitchen fire. The woman appeared to be almost insane, and had no notion of the tragedy. Later on she told the doctor that she had been brooding Over the case of a young woman sentenced to death for the murder of her baby. "To think that I could do it," she added.

BOOKMAKER SHOOTS WIFE Revolver shots disturbed the quiet of Lower Broughton, Salford, on Tuesday night. People hurried to the scene, and it was found that Mrs. Green, the wife of Edward Green, better known as "Ted Green, the Diamond King," a bookmaker, well known in sporting circles, had been shot in the neck. It is alleged that, following a quarrel over money matters, Green fired at his wife. While Mrs. Green was being attended to. prior to being removed to the hospital, the crowd sighted Green, who turner and ran. He was chased for some distance, the police joining in the pursuit, and just aj aji officer was abon t to sei&e him Green shot himself in he temple. He was taken to the hospital, where his oon- dition was discovered to be critical. She, it is said, was a second wife, and the parties had only been married about a month. Green died during the night. MrL. Green's wound, though serious, is not dangerous. She remains in the hospital. —1

I MURDER AND SUICIDE. At Ashton-undeir-Lyne on Wednesday the wife of. a labourer and her sixteen clys old child were found dead with tfr_ir throats cut. The coae is supposed to be one of laordeor eari- ^nktie.

LONELY WIDOW GAGGED AND ROBBED. J Mrs. Outbuah, a widow, who keepe a shop at Denmark Hill, London, was found on Tuesday morning gagged a.nd bound on her premises, which had been ransacked by burglars, who took .£18 in cash and a quantity of valuable jewellery. Mrs. Cutbueh lives alone in the house, and she stated that a6 she was leaving her bed- room at 7-30 on Tuesday morning she was met by two masked men. She immediately screamed, and was at onoe seized by the intruders, a desperate struggle lensuing. Although a delicate woman, Mrs. Catbush defied her assailants until they got her two or three steps down the staircase, when she was overpowered, thrown down, and had her hands tied. As she still screamed "Murder," one of the r men thrust a. piece of dirty rag into her mouth. iShe remained in this plight until found by a shop boy, who forced the entrance at nine o'clock, The burglars had entered I through a window.

RAID BY UNEMPLOYED AT MANCHESTER. A gang of unemployed, numbering about 200. seized a disused church, known as St. Martin's, in Manchester on Sunday evening and remained in oooupation throughout the night. On Monday when the church was visited, it was found they had made attempts to make it habitable by removing the accu- mula.tions of rubbish. Until late on Monday morning the police had no authority to remove. tho invaders, but when this was obtained and presented the gang departed rapidly without making any demonstration.

I MR. JOHN FINBGHAN, Wihose death took place a day previous to that of the late Miss Florence Nightingale, whose orderly he was during the Crimea, j The tfuneraJ. of the 1a.te veteran, took place at Oamberley. [G.PJ?.

INQUEST IN ISLE OF MAN DOUBLE TRAGEDY. A oorooer's jury, inquiring at Rameey, Isle of Man, on Monday, into the circum- stances of the tragedy at the Crown Hotel, returned a verdict that John Pearson, the landlord, wilfully murdered the -barmaid, Ellen Jane Laugharne, by shooting her with a gun, committed suicide by the same means while temporarily insane. The only new feature revealed was that the girl and her master were 'not on the best of terms, a.nd that she. left, but was persuaded to return. Soon after this the fatal shots were fired. •

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER. MEET AGAIN AFTER FIFTY YEARS1 SEPARATION. At the Humberside village of South Ferriby an inhabitant, after a lapse of 50 years,; has met her mother for the first time. Mrs. Thompson when a few months old was left in the care of her grandmother by her parents, who emigrated and were not heard of again until recently. Through a notice in a newspaper the daughter, now over 50 years old and married, oommunioated with a woman in Australia. The sequel was that Mrs. Thompson went to Australia and there had the pleasure of meeting her parent. It is expected that they will both return to Eng- land in November.

INSANE MURDERERS. -aR,ONTO. Monday, Two insane murderers escaped from Hamil- ton Asylum this morning, one being Private Moir, who some time ago shot and killed an o in htrracks A London. Ontario, A hiA-^ied peOBie lrwr jcdned in th* seaaob.— paator% .<

A RAILWAY CLERK'S LOVES. 1 LOOKING FOR THE "RIGHT SORT OF GIRL." Miss Edith Woodbridge, of Campden Hill- square, Kensington, suing in the Sheriff of london's Court on Wednesday Frederick A. King. a railway clerk, Ledbury-road, Bays- water, for damages for breach of promise of marriage, said she was 27 years of age, and met King at a dance at Shepherd's Bush. They became engaged within three months. They were going to be married in August last, but the wedding was put off until Christmas, and afterwards it was again post- poned until August this year. La.st April King went to Penzanoe for a holiday. They were to meet on his return, but as he did not keep the appointment she went round to his house to see if he was ill. He answered the door, and said he had intended to write to her. She asked what he was going to write about. He replied it was to tell her he was going to marry some- body else. PREVIOUS BEST GIRL. Mr. Draper (the plaintiff's counsel): Do you know whether he has anticipated matri- monial adventures before?—Miss Wood- bridge: He told me that two years ago he was engaged. He gave the girl up; he said he knew she was not the one he wanted. The Under-sheriff: Do you know why she would not suit him as a wife?-He said he knew when he became engaged to her that she was not suited to him. I suppose he knew the same about me. (Laughter.) Mr. Draper: Did he tell you anything about his position?—He told me he was a clerk employed by the Great Western Rail- way Company, and that he got 30s. a week. He said his mother owned two houses in Led- bury-road and two at Swanley. King stated he was 22 years of age. He admitted the breach, and said his salary was only £00 a year, out of which there were various deductions for superannuation, insur- ance. and fidelity guarantee. His mother had the property mentioned, but she wae partly dependent upon him and his elder brother. NOT THE RIGHT GIRL." The Under-sheriff: Why didn't you marry the plaintiff?-King; We got engaged in less than three months, and no one can get to know anybody properly in that time. It was & silly thing to do, and I found she was not the right girl. Our temperaments did not match. We did not get on well together. What made you change your mind at Pen- zance?—I saw someone else I had known years before. Mr. Draper: Are you engaged to the lady at Penzance ?—King: Yes, I am. When are you going to marry her?—I can- not say. (Laughter.) The jury assessed the damages at £m.

GREAT FOREST FIRES. 1 SETTLERS SURROUNDED BY FLAMES. SPOKANE, Sunday. Forest fires in Northern Idaho are growing hourly more serious. Reinforcements of troops are being rushed to the district, and hundreds of civilians and soldiers are despe- rately fighting the advancing flames. It is feared +he village of Taft. consisting of 200 houses, is doomed. A supply train, with 35 men, is missing. A party of settlers, men, women, and children, has been surrounded by fire at Squaw Creek, and it is unlikely the rescuers, who are hastening to the spot, will be able to reach them in time.-Router

WILTSHIRE TRAGEDY. SEQUEL TO A BROTHERS' QUARREL. At Wootto Basset, Wiltshire, on Saturday John Franklin, labourer, was charged with the murder of his brother Jehu on the night of August Bank Holiday. The evidence stated that; the brothers quarrelled, and the accused took a gun, loaded it blank, and fired. He then loaded it again, leaving a wooden ramrod in the weapon, and fired. The ramrod pierced the man's left breast. He fell, and the body was left there all night In the morning the prisoner told a farmer what had happened, and then went to the local policeoo n stable and was taken into custody. Accused said he only wanted to frighten his brother with the gun. The Bench reduced the charge to man- slaughter, and committed the prisoner for trial.

LEEK LAKE MYSTERY. The body of Mr. Rowland Frank Baddeley, solicitor, of Leek and Hanley, and a member of the firm of Bennett and Baddeley, was discovered on Tuesday in a lake near Leek, six feet from a boat which he had engaged and in which he had rowed his daughter up the lake, where he there left her in order, he said, to see a client. He was not seen again until 9.30 sum., when a stationmaster eaw him alight from a train at the Rudyard Lake station. He said he was rowing down the la" 3, but his body was afterwards found as stated. • Later the coroner opened an inquiry, and after hearing evidence of identification adjourned the proceedings until September 6 for further evidence.

DOCTOR HANGS HIMSELF. Dr. Johnson Herbert, aged 62. at one time medical officer of health for Whitby, was found hanging on Wednesday morning in an attic of his house by his daughter. He had been suffering for a long while from Bright s disease. At the inquest held later on Wed- nesday a verdict was returned that t deoeaaed buctd himself whilst of TEUBouad %*AaA.

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RETIRED SURGEON-MAJOB FATALLY STABBED. ALLEGED MURDER BY HIS ELDEST SON. Eady on Tuesday an elderly man, iinmed Nicholas was murdered by his son at King- sand, a Cornish seaside village, near Ply* mouth. Some alt-ercuiion seems to have arisen between them. and the son, seizing an Indian knife, savagely attacked hia father, cutting his throat and inflicting other shocking injuries. Neighbours arriving on the sowie found the father lying dead on the floor. The son, who is believed to be dentally weak, is in custody- It traji-spires that the victim of th8 tragedy was Major James Hamilton Nicholas. Royal Army Medioal Corps, retired, who, with his wife, one eon, and two daughters, arrived at Kingsand about three weeks ago from Croydon, where he resideJ, and took Clitf House. A week after their arrival Major Nicholas was joined by his eldest sen, James Hamilton Nicholas, aged abJut 26, who had leoently returned from sheep farming iM Australia. James had been strange in his manner at times, and on Monday night was refused p&r- mission to bathe by his parents. He was seen in and out of Cliff House ihe whole of the evening. SOMEONE PROWLING ABOUT. At 2.30 on Tuesday morning Major Nicholas was arou&ed by the sound of someone prowl- ing about the rooms. He got out of bed. and in the adjoining corridor, which was tblia-ly studded with Indian and ether trophies, chiefly krisses and swords, found his SOB James. Within a. moment or so the demented young man had snatched a weapon from the wall and inflicted a terrible wound on his father's head, causing almost imme- diate death. An aLrm was raised, and Police-constable Mitchell quickly arrived, and with the add of a young man named Mayther secured the son and conveyed bi-m to Millbrook Police- station. The rest oi the family were in bed when the tragedy occurred. CHARGED WITH MURDER. On Tuesday evening the accused man. James Hamilton Nicholas, was charged before the magistrate at Torpoint with wil- fully murdering his father at Cliff House. King-sand, Cornwall, on Tuesday, morning, Polioe-constable Mitchell -depose& to being called to tie house at three o'clock, finding the deceased's body, and charging the accused, who made no Teply. On the application of Superintendent Gard. a remand was ordered until the 24th inst. The inquest will'be opened at noon to-day &t Cawsand Institute, and will probably be conducted by the deputy-coroner, as Mr. Glubb, the coroner for the district, is at brother of Mrs. Nicholas. The lady is a native of Looe, Cornwall, where the accused was born. Further particulars of this remarkable tragedy show that when his father and mother, roused by a noise as of someone desoending the stairs, appeared at the head, of the staircase with a lighted candle, the deceased's elder san was discovered in the hall downstairs. As his father approached him he snatched from the wall a Hindoo hunting-knife with an ivory handle and straight blade, and without a word aimed a fierce blow at his father. The blade was exceedingly sharp, and, entering the lower part of his chin, penetrated the throat and windpipe. Mrs. Nicholas disarmed her eon, who at once went to his bedroom and locked himself in. The lady was partly dressed, and at once went down to the village for medical assistance. This necessitated a journey to a neighbouring village, Anderton, for Dr. Cheves, who upon his arrival could only pro- nounce life extinct. I SUPPOSE THIS MEANS BODMIN. Meanwhile Police-oonstable Mitchell had arrived at the house, and after satisfying him- self that Major Nicholas was dead left to get assistance before attempting to force the bedroom door. With the village sexton he returned to the scene of the outrage, but was unable to open the bedroom door. Mrs. Nicholas then spoke to her son, who must have quietly unfastened the door, for when the constable tried it again it opened. The young man was dressed in his pyjamas, which were covered with blood, and on eeeing the police officer he remarked. "I suppose this means Bodmin." He quietly submitted to being dressed by the two men, and during the process made observations about his head being wrong, but said nothing about the tragedy. THE INQUEST. A coroner's inquiry into the death of Major- James Hamilton Nicholas was opened on Wednesday. Deceased's daughter said the family left Croydon, where they lived, on July 28 for Kingsand to spend a holiday. Accused accompanied them at the time. Shortly before three on Tuesday morning they were awakened by the noise of someone falling over the stairs, and witness from the landing saw her brother coming down. In reply to a remark by her father, he said, "Coming." Her father asked for a light, and witness subsequently followed the other members of the family into the drawing-room, where she Faw her mother wiping blood from the face of the deceased, who was lying on the floor, with the aocused bending over him, fiddling with his throat. The accused appeared to be trying to throttle the deceased, and when witness suc- ceeded in pulling his arm away she notioed a Hindoo dagger in his hand. RELIGIOUS MELANCHOLIA. The aocused, who remarked "That is done," looked dazed, and appeared as though in a dream. Witness added that her brother was 24. and since he was nine years old had lived on a ranch in New Zealand. He had suffered from sunstroke, religious melancholia, and brain fever, and for some time was placed in an asylum at Auckland. Last year the deceased went to New Zea- land to bring him home, but he was unfit to travel. In February last witness brought him home in the oare of a keeper. Witness had no doubt tha.t her brother had been insane since his return from New Zealand. The family had been afraid of him, but the deceased would not allow him to be put under the control of a keeper. Dr Chevea said there appeared to have been a struggle in the room I When seen bz the police-officer accused Isughed and replied: I believe I have done it." Later, when he was formally charged with murder, he said: Yes. I did it." The jury returned a verdict of WilfuJ murder against James Hamilton Nicholas, jun. and expressed their sympathy with the widow and family.

SEQUEL TO MURDER TRIAL PRINCIPAL "WITNESS SEEKS POLICE PROTECTION. There was a sequel to the Wood Green murder case at the Wood Green Police-court on Friday. Early in the year a woman named Watson killed her mother-in-law with an axe at Wood Green, ajid at the Old Bailey was ordered to be detained during his Majesty's pleasure. The principal witness was a Mrs. Bird, a neighbour of the parties. On Friday Inspector Collins, on behalf I\f hEm. Bird, sought the protection of the bench against a daughter of Mrs. Watson, who had annoyed and threatened her. Mrs. Bird stated that she had been tryot ever since the murder. She did not wish to take proceedings against the daughter of Mitj. Watson, bet the latter had called her a thief, had said that she was prepared to hfoDg for her, and had further alleged that Mrs. Bird went to the Old Bailey to get as much money as she could for hanging Mrs. Watson. The Bench ordered the police omcer to caution the young woman, and added t-het, in the ove= of thea Dvowma W*Ceetzve, she be rwjoeouted.