NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2024, 25 March 1890, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

PEINCE BISMAECK AND THE EMPEe6e. Daily incidents strengthen the impression that there is a serious divergence of views between Prince Bismarck and the Emperor, or those having the immediate confidence of the Emperor, upon the proper course of the Government in some important internal concerns. The prince's objection to the speech from the throne has been commented upon for some days. The fact that the objectionable part was the reference to labour troubles, and that Von Berlepsch has been appointed to a place in the Ministry, giving him control of those things practically in place of Bismarck, seems to imply that the Emperor intends that those things shall be in the hands or one in sympathy with the ideas set forth in the speech. CHARGE AGAINST AN EARL. The Earl oi Galloway was charged on bail at Glasgow on January 23 with acting in an improper manner in the public streets, especially with regard to a girl named Margaret Brown. The prosecutrix stated that the defendant spoke to her as she was looking into a shop, but she could not tell what he said. As he continued to follow her she spoke to a constable. Two police officers corroborated her to the extent of saying that the earl looked in her face. The stipendiarv found the charge not proved, and the defendant was discharged. COLLIERY EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIPE. A terrible euplosion occurred early on January 23 in the Glyn Pit, near Pontypool, the property of the Ebb Vale Company. A fall took place in an old road; there was a rush of gas, and this exploded, setting fire to the timber. The collieries were worked on the continuous shift principle, and over a hundred men were in the pit at the time, but the fall gave a timely alarm, and those who ran to the pit's mouth saved themselves. Five men who disregarded the alarm were, it is feared, overtaken and killed. The bodies cannot be recovered, as the timber is still burning fiercely, and has ignited the coal in the seams surrounding. Eight or ten horses also had to be left to their fate. KOBE DEATHS FEOM ELECTRICITY. A singular and fatal accident from electricity occurred at Newburgh, New York State, on January 20. a' man tied hij horse to a post while he entered a shop. The horse, happening to touch the post, fell as if he had been struck by a poleaxe, A stalwart laborer went to help the horse, and, happening to touch the post, fell down dead. A second man, who went to help the first, was stunned, though not killed. The explanation is that an electric light wire became slack under the weight of the rain, and rested on the frame of an iron awning, whence the current was conducted through the post to the ground The horse's nose being damp, he became part ot the deadly circuit; the horse, however, was not killed. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ATTEMPTED POISONING. J A curious case of attempted poisoning has come before the Paris Assize Court _ One evening last October an Anarchist, named Prevost, presented himself in the shop of a second-hand dealer, offering to ■ ae ll some copner f ffi Th ° eat »bli B hment was kept by Mdme. Silhet, who asked the man into a back parlor to examine the sample Prevost had no sooner entered than he produced a small bottle, which he said was a sample of some excellent wme he could sell cheap. Ihis and two other samples were tas ed and then Prevost drew another httle bottle from his pocket, which be declared was superior to any of the others, but that to thoroughly appreciate its bouquet it must be drunk fii j So Madame Silhet ™ d , hls instructions, but the liquid ™t er8 ° terribly that she rushed ill I T rOOHI trough the shop, and 'mL ru Dg with a S° n y on the Pavement. Ihe man had tried to prevent her escape, but had been pushed aside by Madame Silhet, who declared in court that Prevost had attempted to poison her with the object of stealing her money and valuable old curiosities. The jury took the same view, notwithstanding the protests of the prisoner, who was sentenced to 10 years' hard labor.