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TERRIBLE DOCELE TRAGEDY. I MURDER AND SUICIDE. A terrible double tvagniy was perpetrntod at '•«rlton Road, Ivontisli Town, early on Fri<lav morning, tlie vietiuiw homg :i yonng man. who resides; with liis parents, and a, young woman. At eight, o'clock the yotilig man's bedroom was en- tered by one of the persons in the house, when a giiast-lv sight presented itself. The young woman was discovered dead, with her head battered 1 II, while the young man was also lying dea.d on tin' floor covered with blood. On the arrival of the police an examination showed that the young woman had apparently been gagged by some rags being THRUST INTO HER MOUTH, while death seems to have been caused by shock- ing wounds inflicted with some blunt instrument. She is described as having been a. tall young woman of prepossessing appearance. Almost every article of her attire was new. No injuries could he fonnd on tlw body of the young man, and the supposition is that in his case death was due to poison. The police are making an enquiry as tn the ident'ty of the deceased woman. It IS stalwl that the yonng woman was a total stranger in tlif neighbourhood, and that the young man. who mi- ll draper's assistant, had been out of employment

THE LATE MR. CORBETT'S ESTATE. Letters of administration of the personal estate- find effects of the late Mr. John Oorbett, ol Impney, Droitwich, who died on April 2211d last, have been granted to Mr. Thomas Corbett, of Severn House, Droitwich, pending the action of Corbett v. Corbett, in the Probate Court, eon- corning the validity of the will. The late Mr Corbett's esta te has been valued at E412,972 gross including £ 399,420 net personalty.

BIRMINGHAM LICENSING SESSIONS. The licensing magistrates for the city of Birm- ingham sat on Friday at the Victoria. Courts to boar applications for new licenses. There were in the list, but, apart from those which were only for wine, and which the magistrates had no power to refuse, no new licenses were granted, despite the fact that in several cases substantial surrenders were offered. Mr. Arthur Chamberlain presided over the court.

FOR HEROISM AT COLENSO. The decoration of the Victoria Cross is to be confeired on Captain H. N. Schofield, of the Royal Fiplrl Artillery, for a conspicuous act of courage at the battle of Colenso on December 15th. 1S99. W hen the detachments serving tho guns of the 14th and 66th Batteries Royal Field Artillery had all been Iiilled, wounded, or driven from them by infantry fire at close range. Captain Schofield went out when the first attempt was made to extri- catethe guns and assisted in withdrawing the two that were saved.

TOWN CRIER SHOOTS HIMSELF. William Myatt, who had acted as town crier at Stoke, attempted to murder his wife by shooting her with a revolver. Although severely wounded by being struck in the head with a bullet she man- aged to escape from the house, and when the con- stables went later on to nrrest Myatt they found he had locked himself in the place. After re- peated knocking Myatt put his head out of the bedroom window. On being told by the officers that they wanted to speak to him Myatt closed the window, and immediately a shot was heard. When the constables got inside they found that the man had blown his brains out.

SAD BATHING FATALITY. While a visitor to St. Ives, Mr. Tiffin, an np. holsterer, of Camden Town, was bathing with his children at Porthmeor beach, his two-year-old son was carried out of his depth. The father went to the boy's assistance and was bringing him back to shore, but just as another visitor had relieved H m of the child Mr. Tiffin was carried out to sea again by the underflow. He was picked up by a boat and brought ashore, but all efforts to restore animation failed.

EXCITING STREET INCIDENT. An exciting affair occurred at Ramsgate on Friday, when a horse attached to a covered van belonging to George Sanger's circus bolted from a field and careered down the High Street for a quaater of a mile, the runaway's gallop being finally checked by his going through the windows of a drapery establishment near the Market Place. The van was overturned and the horse badly cut. In the effort to raise the vehicle the folding doors flew open, and then the crowd of helpers and sightseers were astonished to behold two magnificent tigers, whose growls caused the crowd to fly in all directions. Fortu- nately, some of the circus people were present, and they quickly took measures to secure the ani- mals, which, indeed, seemed too astonished to emerge from the van. The vehicle and its contents were eventually safely lodged again on the circus ground.

DEATH FROM EATING COAL. A verdict of death from misadventure was re- turned at an inquest in London on Friday on the body of Mary Ann Fay, who was found dead in her bedroom. A post-mortem showed that in the windpipe and stomach THERE were small pieces of coal.—The Coroner asked for what purpose persons ate coal, and a juror replied that it was supposed to be a cure for heartburn. The stomach also contained undi- gested food and smelt of alcohol, and the liver was much enlarged owing to alcoholism. A doctor said there was no doubt that the deceased had fal- ten down whilst under the influence of drink, ot as the result of an epileptic seizure, and vomited the food and pieces of coal which got into the windpipe and caused death by suffocation.

KILLED IN A MINE COLLAPSE. Through the fall oC a, roof in one of the mines of the Uridgewater Trustees, Mosley Common Col- lieries, Walkden, near Manchester, on Friday, a young man was killed. His workmates were going to his rescue when a second fall took place, and they had to fly for their lives, seeking safety in a manhole. Three colliers have been killed this week by mine collapses in the Manchester dis- trict.

NOVEL LICENSING PROPOSAL. At Watford Brewster Sessions, Messrs. Ben- skin, brewers, in applying for a full hotel license, made a novel proposal. They suggested running the hotel on a system similar to that of Earl Grey, with the exception that they took five per cent. of the profits, the remainder being devoted to benevolent objects. The application was opposed by Earl Grey's Trust and by the temperance party. The Bench refused the I application.

GOLF CLUB HOUSE DESTROYED. The Wimbledon Park Golf Club's premises were totally destroyed by lire on Friday evening. The fire was noticed at five o'clock, and by six o'clock, despite the energy of the Wimbledon fire brigade with two steamers, nothing but ruins remained. The building was erected 18 months ago at a cost of £ 7,000. #

Owing to the serious disturbances that have resulted from the Kensit crusade in Jersey, outdoor meetings are now prohibited. The epulemic or typnoid fever at Kaunds, Northamptonshire, is gradually abating. Thirty- three sufferers are still reported to be in a critical condition. George Garwood, a young man of Colchester, was struck by a Great Eastern engine and killed, while working on the line at Bury St. Edmunds station. At a meeting of the Maidstone Guardians it was reported that 639 casuals had been admitted to the workhouse during the past week, compared with 359 for the corresponding week of last year. According to the London correspondent of a Paris journal Lord Salisbury will this autumn spend some weeks at his villa at Betlllieu, Nice. The Premier's arrival there is expected in the third week of September. With a. view to commemorating the Royal visit to Capetown the city council has voted 9,500 to the South African colleges for the encouragement of students who have adopted mining engineering as « Profession. -=- Ox k begins to wonder how long election by slaiiuo.r is to continue. It has already had a fair run, and under Ministerial patronage has met with considerable success. Election by It had a General Election all Slander. to itself last October. Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Balfour both attempted to divide the nation into pro- Boers and anti-Boers, making out that votes given to the Liberals were votes giyen-or was it sold ?—to the Boers. The pity is that these unworthy tactics should have met with so much success. They have lately re- ceived a check. Mr. Balfour's modified slan- der at Andover did not work particularly well, although it had the assistance of a body of energetic bill-stickers. That statesman merely declared that "to weaken the Government is to encourage the enemy, and to encourage the enemy is to prolong the war." It was a mild paraphrase of Mr. Chamberlain's "votes given to the Liberals are votes given to the Boers." The bill-stickers reverted to the original version, and plastered the walls and, it is said, the footpaths and even the door-steps of known Liberals with placards containing that downright statement. Andover seems to have keut its head very well, and the Tory majority fell by over 1,200 votes. The fact is that electioneering extravagance of this sort fre- quently overreaches itself. In several con- stituencies at the General Election, where the slander was particularly outrageous, it proved to be unavailing. In one Northern division the Liberal candidate was pictorially repre- sented as offering £ 20 to President .Kriiger, going on his knees to do it. This work of art warf considerately pasted on the plate-glass windows of Liberal shopkeepers. But the electors stood firm, and increased the majority of the slandered candidate by over 600 votes. BY the fifteenth cf the present month the war will be rea'ly "over." Fighting may con- tinue a little while longer, but it will not be 1 "war." It will be "rebel- „ lion," and those who partake Banishment.. T, m it will be "reoels. lhat seems to be the meaning and intention of the proclamation which will come into force at the date named. It may be assumed that the Government has some ex- pectation that this procedure will have the effect of bringing the war to an end. The proclamation is to work b}? banishment. It tells the leaders of the Boers that if they do not come in and surrender they will be banished—after capture, of course. If they come in, pile arms, and surrender to military authority, then the policy of the proclamation will be justified. If they still stand out, and continue fighting, then it will have failed in its immediate purpose. So far as presently appears, they prefer fighting to surrender. Unless they alter their intentions by the fifteenth, they will be liable to capture and banishment. But the purpose of our policy in South Africa should not be to banish the leaders of the people. When peacn is restored the men it is proposed to banish are just the men who would be of most use to us. They have the confidence of their own people, for whom they have sacrificed all they had. In the social and political reorganisation of society, which must necessarily be taken up after the war is over, the proscribed generals would be able to render the greatest help. They are evidently not to be forced into the position of British subjects by a threat of banishment. If they could have been induced to surrender by the offer of fair opportunities of serving in the government of their own country, the prospect would, indeed, have been hopeful. Instead of that, the Govern- ment persists in its demand for unconditional surrender. They apparently think to conclude the business by repeating: "Never again," "Not a shred of independence," and other phrases of like character. "Banishment" is the inevitable consequence of the policy in- dicated by this phraseology. Banishment is an old method. It was tried in Ireland. The best use we could think of to which the Irish rebel might be put was to send him to a penal settlement. Some of the Irish exiles became Cabinet Ministers in Australia-oue even Prime Minister. In the second Ireland we are creating in South Africa banishment will play an even more disastrous part. WE may take a lesson from France. Our neighbours of the Republic have a little diffi- culty with Turkey. Abdul shewed something of his native obstinacy. France Gladstone has broken off diplomatic rela- Justified. tions, and Turkey has already surrendered on the main point. This incident inevitably calls up our own pitiful and abject surrender of duty in con- nection with the Armenian atrocities. One cannot forget how Mr. Gladstone sallied forth from his retirement, an 1 propounded a policy for bringing the Turkish Government to some sense of the claims of humanity. Mr. Glad- stone's advice was: "Break off diplomatic relations. Send the Turkish Ambassador home, impound the Cyprus tribute, and seize one little port." This was a plan simple in itself, easy of execution, and likely to be effective in its results. It risked a little to gain much. The people of England were ready to try it. The Government was understood to be screwing up its courage. But the cold breath of a chilling criticism came from the North; Lord Rosebery spoke, the popular courage oozed away, and the Government dropped its screw. The nation has not yet recovered from the moral lapse which attended that humiliating incident. It feels it now more than ever. France has adopted Mr. Gladstone's policy, in a matter far less urgent, involving no such humanitarian considerations as were involved in the Armenian question, and she will compel the Sultan to yield. We shrank from duty, from sacrifice; we yielded to a moral cowardice which would take no risks for others. We were truly & "Little England," weak and feeble where we ought to have been strong in great purpose and noble endeavour. We lost an opportunity of playing an Imperial part on behalf of the weak and the suffering. Again there comes to us the sound of distress. Murder is again abroad. Atrocities in Albania as well as Armenia recur to remind us of —hat we might have done, but did not do. This time we may repent of our Little Englandism, and despise Z, ourselves. But it is only just that we should remember Gladstone, and recognise that ho was right. b SHE (passionately) Will you ever love another, dearest r He (weariM No, never—(aside) if I get out of this affair alive. 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