... ELECTION OF A FEMALE MAYOR. I [KEUTER'S TELEGRAM. NEW YORK, Tuesday.—In the municipal elec- tions at Oskaloosa, Kansas, several women have been elected members of the municipal council, and another woman has been elected mayor by a majority of 66 votes. ...

... SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE LINES. Considerable excitement was observable the other afternoon in the neighbourhood of ? fashionable church at the west end of Edinburgh. A crowd hung around the door, waiting as if for the exit of a wedding party from church; but it was noticed that the church door was open, that no party was within, and that the officials, who were all on the outside, had an ...

... The quarterly meeting of the above association was held on the 11th inst., at Bethel Chapel, Nantymoel, Ogmore Valley, the Rev D. G. Rees, Whitchurch, presiding. Grants from the Jubilee fund to the amount oi L310 were made to various churches, being the last instalment of the series. A petition to Parliament was adopted against the compensation clauses in the County Government Bill, and also a ...

... SWINE FEVER IN SOUTH WALES The London Gazette of last night states that the area comprising a portion of the parish of Frey- strop, Pembrokeshire, which was declared to be infected with swine fever, is now free from such infection. The Gazette also states that the area, comprising the whole of the parish of Crickhowell, Brecknockshire, which was declared to be infected with swine fever, is now ...

... EXTRAORDINARY ;BIGAMY CASE. SELLING A WIFE FOR X2. At the Southw&rk police-court, London, yester- day, Rosina Eleva Lang, 23, a well-dressed and pretty-lookinsr little woman, was charged with hav- ing feloniously intermarried Geo.Dawson whilst her husband, James Lang, was then and is still alive.— George Dawson said that he had known the prisoner for some years as an unfortunate, and had taken ...

... A TOLL BAR TEST CASE, At Tredegar police-court on Tuesday-before Dr Coates, Dr Brown, and Mr C. B. Holland- Mr Mark Lewis, assistant secretary of the Tredegar Chamber of Trade, was charged with refusing to pay 6d toll on driving through Wanny. pound turnpike-gate on the 6th January last. Mr Evans, Cardiff, appeared to prosecute on behalf of the Glamorganshire Turnpike Trust, and Mr J. A. ...

... A meeting of the Cardiff Waterworks Com- mittee was held to-day, Alderman Lewis presid- ing, and there being also present Alderman Waring. Councillors Riches, R. Price, P. J. Bevan, Mildon, and Sanders.-According to the engineer's report the total amount of water in store at the present time is 361 million gallons, being an increase on the week of 11 million gallons. Ltanishen reservoir is 91 ...

... The Central News telegraphed this morning that the lady who shot herself in Piccadilly Circus last night died in St. George's Hospital, at three o'clock this morning, having never recovered consciousness from the time of her admission last night. The deceased has not yet been actually identified owing to the fearfully disfigured con- dition of her faoe, which is covered with blood. The clotbes ...

... Wishing Well, Brayfey, Eva Jeanie, BisbQps Wood, .'Wansbeck, Givendale, Waverley, SUverstream, Navy Slue, Firewater, Probms, Saunby. ...

... DUNN AND HILL, Turf Commission Agents DUNN AND HILL, Turf Commission Agents Bath.—Starting Price Commissions executed daily.— Telegraph Address.; Dunn, Bath. el MOOR15 & WAINWRIGHT, TURF COMMISSION AGENTS, EXETER. I Bi-weeklies forwarded free on receipt or address. Registered Telegraphic Address Despatch, Exeter. 620 ...

... I TO-DAY'S POLICE, f CARDIFF. A JovumE FORTY THIEVES. -At the Cardiff police-court this morninz-before Mr T. W. Lewis (stipendiary), Dr Paine, and Dr Lewis—James Tracy (15) was charged with stealing a quantity of India ruhber and other articles, value 20i, from a stable at the back of Llanbleddian Gardens, the property of Mr Elliott, on the 26th instant.-The psisoner was found in the loft ...

... THE WAITRESS AND HER TWO BABIES. CHARGE OF DOUBLE MURDER. The hearing of the chapge against Sabina Tilley, for the murder of her two children, was resumed yesterday, at Brighton. The prisoner's demeanour was calmer, but at times she burst into tears, espe- cially when evidence descriptive of the appearance of the bodies at the mortuary was given. Mrs Hawkins, the female searcher at Deptferd, ...