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Troged!es and Disasters. Robert Irons, nineteen, a shoe operative, c? Northampton, became jealous, it appeared at the inquest on Monday, because me sweetheart, when they were at a concert together, nodded to another young man. He atterwp.rds shot C> himself in the head with a revolver. After stabbing himself thvee tim.es in the neck with a, knife at a, j.'eligiou.s service, a man Darned Donald, aged twenty-eight, lias died air the Edinburgh Royal Innrmary. After trying to drown himself in the river Leen (Notts), Horace Phillipe, of N.<v Bashfoid, is alleged to have. walked to the Midland Rail- way near by and killed himself by lying down in front of an .approaching goods train. At the Batt-sraea Coroner's-court, on Monday, the suicide of John William Smith, an engineer, wa.s attributed to grief at the death of a. pet bird. At the inquest at Huddersneld on Monday, on George Hclroyd, an engineer at the Colne and Holme. Valley Isolation Hospital, it was. stated that he drew a razor across his throat and leaped into a, reservoir. He scrambled out again, .and .sat on the. bank until he was taken to the. inSrmary, where it was discovered that he had swallowed salts of lemon. One white miner and sixty-seven KaSrs were killed or drowned as a result of 'a heavy fall of rock at the Driefontein Deep Mine on the Rand. Five white men were. injured. Mr. George Smith, a local station-master, was knocked over and killed by a train on Saturday at King's Lynn. Three tramps r, had "just sought shelter in a kiln at West Hapton brickworks, near South Shields, when four hundred bricks suddenly feli on them, killing one outright and injuring another. The third man escaped unhurt. Whilst Alexander Gordon, a railway guard, was holding on to a shunting wa.ggon at the Highland station, Backie, on Saturday, his head came into contact with the shed, and he received fatal injuries. Henry Wallace, miner, 42, of Riddings, Notta, quarrelled with his son-in-law on Saturday night, and was afterwards found dead. Th'e sou-in-law gave himself up, and &aid he struck Wallace, who fell, with his head on a table corner. Jes.si.a Smith, nve years old, wajs fatally .burned in a small fire which occurred in Sendall-street, Bermonds-ey, on Sunday. Leaning out of a carriage window on th'e Great Eastern Railway on Saturday night, William Weston, a .goods guard, had the top o! .his head) smashed by collision with a signal- post, and on the arrival of the train at Bishops- gate Station he was taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he died- Commercea! end tndustnc! The Hull City Council hav.a decided to pro. ceed with their scheme to erect a pier and 'wharves at a cost of j,,215,000. Electricity is to be used on & greatly increased scale by the. North-Eastern Railway Company. not only for power and signalling purposes, but also for the lighting of their largest passenger stations and goods warehouses. 0 Up to the present 370 witnesses have been examined' by the Tariff Reform Commission, which ha.s also taken the oral and written evidence of 15,000 firms of manufacturers, etc., in the United Kingdom. To inquire into the possibilities of the industrini development of the Black Country a -commission has been appointed by the Dudley Chamber of Commerce. Unusual luck attended a young Milford fisher- man on a, malcLen trip in a. boa.t he had pur- chased for Y,4-1-O. He picked up a d.eeerted 'barge on' St. Anna's Head, ajid towed her into Milford Dock. The salvage earned will pro- 'bably cover the cost of his new vessel. The. Finance Committee of the. London County Council has submitted a report warning the Council against the financial responsibilities attached to the proposal that the central authority should take stepa to supply electricity in bulk in London. For withholding the funds of a Battersea pro- Tident society, whose members are mostly work- ing men, Edwin Trayford, aged fifty-eight, a library assistant, was fined :E10 at the South- western Police-court, and ordered to refund his defalcations (about £70), or go to prison for two months. Joinera' apprentices who prove themselves of sufficient merit in the Royal dockyards, are in future to be given a. free course, of instruction in drawing and designing. Military and Nova! It is rumoured at Malta, ,says the "New York Herald," that Lord Charles Beresford will suc- ceed Sir John Pi-sh.er as Senior Naval Lord of the. Admiralty in January. The Black Prince, the Largest, fastest, and 'most powerfully equipped cruiser built on the Th'a-mes, arrived at the Nore. on Monday night, and proceeded to the English Channel for omcial (Steam trials. The Srst basin of the new dockyard extension at D.evonpca-t was opened. The entire work is 'expected to be completed by next autumn. It hal taken nine vea-rs to carry out, and has cost ?6,000,000. A Government Bill is being prepared for the -purpose of creating a London Trame Board as recommended by the. Royal Commission. At Bedford, on Saturday, a tablet was un- veiled in memory of omcers and men of the Bedfordshire Regiment who fell in the South African War. An amu&ing dispute, has arisen between two French generals, owing to one having failed to return the other's salute. Important experiments .are to be carried out at Devocport with a. newly-designed automatic self-closing valve to be ntted beneath the ven- 1ílátors of submarine vessels. Cases Toad !n the Courts. Giving evidence in a case at Wo'rces'ter on Monday, a. doctor said it did not follow that if a man was not sdber he' was' drunk. A decree ni&i was granted to :Mi6 Lilian BraTthwaite on the ground of the desertion and 'misconduct o.f her husband, Mr. Gerald Law- TeE.ce. the well-known actor. Two pa-triobic Irishmen denned Irnsh. whisky in the North London Police-court'on Monday as 'made by I'riBhmen from Irlah. grain in an Irush pot-i5Itnl in Ire'la.nd. Ex-Police-Inepector Kirhy was arrested on a charge of attempting to murder a bailiff by shooting him. "Another case where magistrates are power- less to put this class of oSence down was the remark of the presiding Alderman at the 'Guildhall, on Saturday, in Suing a clerk n&med NichoH.s £5 for street betting. "The maximum is totally inadequate." Quarrelling with hiB wife in the Markot-placa at Sonthend, on Saturday night, Alfred Cooper, <& cutler, is alleged to have stabbeD. :b>er in the neck with a knife, and was arrested on a charge of attempted murder. At Brighton, on Saturday afternoon, Emily Cason was committed for trial on a charge of murdering an infant. When questioned she said she was tempted by Satan, who urged hsr 4o ao something desperate. C, Police-constable Javens was so seriously assaulted th&t he -was incapacitated from duty II)r twcnty weeks. On Saturday, at the Bedford '.Assizes, four men were severely dealt with for <th& assault. The Wortd of Sport. Several miehapa to motor-cars occurred during the week-eiML c Women form a considerable proportion of the .crowds Who now flock to watch football matohee. Three foxee together were suddenly viewed as .,the Quor.n Hounds were entering Quorn Village ;on Saturday. The first one jumped into the ¡River Scar and was drowned, the second waa t1>;ie<l. by the pack on the river bank, and the kftlurd manag()d to gave bis brush. _j, n t l 1 Mus!c and the Drama. Miss Mary Moore has retum.ed to the cast of "Captain Drew on Leave" at the New Theatre. "Gwenevere," a mew opera by Mr. Vinc.Gnt Thomas and Mr. Ernest Rhys, was produced successfully at the Coronet Theatre. A large portion of the receipts at t!.e Kennington Theatre, on Monday night, when "Romeo and Juliet" was revived, were handed over for the benefit of the Child'c¡'3 League of Kindness. The Bishop of Southward who is president of the league, waa present at the performance. Miea Elsie Fogerty gave a dramatic before a large audience at the Steinway Hail on Saturday, and wa.s especially applauded in "The Rose and the Wind," which she recited to music." A number of royal personages were present at Covent Garden at the performanca of "An- drew Chenier," a. new opera dealing with the period of the French revolution. Social. British exhibits at the International Art Exhibition which was recently held at Venice fetched the second highest price of the eleven countries represented at the sales, the total of which amounted to C20,000. The dinner of the Gimcrack Club will be held at York on December 5. Her Highnese Princess Alexandra—as sba is now called—the Princeaa Royal's eldeut daughter, will not make her debut until the midsummer of 1907, when she will have com- pleted her sixteenth year. Sir Frederick Trevas has been elected Lord Rector of Aberdeen University. Two of General Booth's granddaughters, Mary and Miriam Bramwell Booth, who are still in their teens, made fifty-three converts as the re- sult of two meetings they conducted in the Croy- don Theatre. Residents in Cambridge a.re demanding that the university authorities shall take, steps to pre- vent the "rags" that are becoming increasingly coanmon. In a remarkable address at a meeting called to discuss Christian Science the Bishop of London gave personal testimony to the healing efficacy of faith and prayer. The Marquis of Hertford has been appointed lieutenant for the county of Warwick, in suc- cession to the late Lord Leigh. For the management of the Subordinate Schoo] at Rugby by the governing body of Rugby School, an application for a special Act will be made in the next session of Parliament. In reply to a congratulatory telegram which he sent to the King on his Majesty's birthday, a Dublin gentleman received the following reply "The King thanks you very much for your good wishes.—Knollys." Accidents. Some delay to traffic was caused on Monday by the insulator of an electric train on th'e London District Railway catching nre at Victoria; Station. Twelve horses were burned to death on Monday in a stable fire at Clydebank, Bear Glasgow. From Other Lends. An adventuress who came sobbing in widow's weeds to a Paris gentleman, saying she was his brother's widow, robbed him of P,400. A serious conniot be'tween. the Independeucs and the Socialist parties, in which the latter used revolvera .amd haG acCwrI;?ç!,in FueniÏkircher, in HtLngarY. The public executioner has been nned <S'4 for cashing a disdainful gjance at the judge of the Supreme Court of Darmstadt. A new Japanese loan, amounting to -250,000,000, is to be raised internation&lly. It will bear interest at four per cent. The United States Consul at Calcutta advisee American ma.nufa.oturers to take advantage of the natives' boycott c'f British goods brought about by theparti-tion of Bengal. c Servia is deeply moved by th<& reported de- termination of King Edward not to allow Britain to be represented at Belgrade until the regicides are punished. The French Cabinet has been reconstructed by the transfer of M. Etienme to the Ministry of War and of M. Dubief to the Ministry of the Interior, while M. Trouillot has accepted the portfolio of Commerce. Further details are recorded of the mystery aurrounding the "West African Missionary As- sociation, which issued the summary of the re- port on the Congo administration. King Leo- pold's secretary has denied any knowledge of the source of authorship of the summary. National and Potit!ca!. The annual conference of the National Union of Conservative Associations is being held in Newcastle. At a meeting of the Grand Council of the Primrose Lea.gue confession was made of apathy in the party and the need for reorganisation. One speaker declared that Captain Wells had merely resigned because of inexperience. Mr. H. S. van Laun has d&nnitely decided not to contest SaSron Walden in the Conservative interest. Mr. Balfour, opening the new dock and piers at Seahatin Harbour, spoke in 'affectionate terms of the long personal friendship existing between himself and Lord Londonderry. The Premier's remarks are of special interest in view of Mr. Chamberlain's recent attack on the President of the Board of Education. England has obtained satisfaction from the Porte with regard to the delimitation of the Aden-Hinterland boundary, but the Aden rail- way questtion is yet to be settled. Five Conservatives, three Liberals, and two Liberal Unionists have be-en added to the Jus- tices of the Peax*e for* Leicester. Sir Henry Wiggin, Bart., formerly Liberal M.P. for EII.3t. Stanbrdshire, died suddenly at his Birmingham residence on Sunday, at the ago of eighty-one. Mr. H. F. Compton, of Minstead Manor, New ForpR't, has been chosen Conservative candidate for the New Forest Division of Hampshire. Addressing a. crowded IrMh demonstration at MotlMrweII (Lanark&hire), Mr. John Redmond s&id that Ireland wag as neglected as if it wore governed by the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia. Other Interesting Stems. Author of many of Mieo Vesta, Tilly's gop,,7,3, including "AIgy" a,nd "Brigh.ton, JJ Mr. Harry B. Norris, ille, we.ll-knowa composer, has' died in Chelllidle Asylum. A white sparrow has be<Mi seen. during the last few days in the Town Hall-park, Wood-green. The Bishop of Liverpool declared that .modern par&n'ts were too busy to care for their children. Lord Roberts opened on Saturday a. new indoor rifle range adjoining the range of the Borough of Wandsworth Rine Club at Garrett Park. Ea.rMeld. With a box of gunpowder in his breast pocket, Cecil Kernson, a farmer, was lighting his pine at the fire in the Rose and Crown Inn at Hard- wick (Norfolk), when the powder exploded, and he was seriously injured. Celebrating Guy Fawkes' Day the students at Cirencester Grammar School lit a, larg,a bon- fire and burnt various figures representing, the problems in Euclid.. It is proposed by the Street Noise Abat.em.ent Committee to bring forward a, Bill in Parlia- ment next session to give'the police power to suppress organgHnding ui the streets. By the 0 admission of wrongly-diagno&sd' patients to hospitals, the Metropolitan Asylums Board estimates that an average expenditure of £3,20D per annum is incurred. An institute, built entirely by a young men's Bible claas, was opened on 'Saturday at North- wich.

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