MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6076, 13 July 1897, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

' A terrible outrage w.ia committed on May Brd, a small houso lit Dela, near Smiswall, bwodon, being blown up with dynamito, The wife of the tunaut, their daughtor aged 18, and a son aged six, were kiiled outright, and three otlmr children of the fimily wore wounded. Advices from Kingstown, Jamaica, report that a wow;in named Margaret Edwft da who formerly lived in London, has been tried on a charge of murdering her son, aged ono your, by holding him under water until bo was drowned, Sho was found guilty, and contooced to Gualh. A rich Russian gontleman, namod ZinkoiT, who has live J in t'aris for many years past, committed suicide on Way 2, in an extraordinary fashion. lie first shot himself with a revolver, emptying all six clumbers, und then placed a rifle undei 1 hia chin and almost blow his head to pieces. He was -to yoara of age, and lived entirely alone, lie was often heard to deplore that ho had neither frienda nor relatives, and to deolara that in spite of all his woalth ho never know what huppiness was. On a pii-co of p»m>r found rioar the body was written, " I kill myself of my own free will."

At the Manx General Gaol delivery in Douglas, on May 4th, Lord Ilennikcr presiding, Laura Corrin, a married woina-i, living apart from her husband, pleaded " Guilty " to the manslaughter of hor sister, Margaret Clugas, on l'"cb. 11. In the oourso of ft quarrel about money the prisoner took a lighted parailin lamp and threw it at her sister, | who was terribly burnt and died at the hospital. The prisoner was sentenced to penal servitude for three years. A fatal accident occurred closo the Peterborough station on April 28th. The Scotch express dashed into a gang of men relaying ballast, killing two, named respectively Green and Watson, and injuring others. Several had miraculous escapes. A dence fog prevailed, and the men had stepped out of tho way of a slow train, when tho express, proceeding at a speed of 50 miles an hour, ran into them. Tho bodies wcro terribly mutilated. Tho boiler of a motor-car exploded on April 28th at Charing Kent, and William Brakefield, an engineer who manufactured it, sustained terrible injuries. A Llanolly correspondent says :—The performing elephant belonging to Sanger's circus, at present touring in South Wales, which recently created considerable excitement by attacking a Metropolitan policeman, distinguished itself in a similar way during Easter while at Glynncath. The animal chased a local constablo'and savagely attacked the Oak and Three Cranes public-house, besides smashing tho windows of a town councillor's residence. It was at Llanelly, however, that the brute chiefly distinguished itself. Mr Jones, Oefor farm, Llwynhendy, was driving in a trap containing several large cans full of milk, and when passing tho elephant the wheel of tho conveyance accidentally touched its foot. Tho animal, snorting with rage, picked up tho trap with his trunk, and threw the horse, trap, and driver with great force into the hedge. The unfortunate farmer was badly cut on the head, the trap was much damaged, and | the milk cans smashed. The horse was not injured. At Leamington on April 26th, Thomas Moore, described as a phrenologist, was charged, under the Vagrancy Act, with unlawfully protending to tell fortunes by means of palmistry at tho Assemblyrooms, Loainington, on tho 22nd. The usual evidence as to defendant having promised girls various :l christenings, " and generally " two mothera-in-law " having been Jgiven, the defondant, in aDswer to the charge, treated the bench to a long lecture on the scientific basis of palmistry. He said ho had many appreciative notices from cf'ents, including one from Mr Clouiont Scott, who said, " The dalineation of myself was like ■ listening to the voice of my inner con,J,s»ioii3nrv'J " .".aughlar). IT- fA the phrenological pxaminations and not I for tho palmistry. Ho always made this I clear to his clients, and it was pointed I on all his bills, " Palmistry free to every j clinent. "—Tho Bench imposed a hue of £2 2s and costs, in all £3 14s.