... A Firegrate Displaced. During a thunderstorm last night the lightning struck a house at Rumblingwell, near Dunferm- line, and passing down the chimney lifted a grate out and throw it in fcha centre of the room. Great alarm was caused, but no serious damage. ...

... The hearing of the divorce suit, Workman v. Workman, was resumed this morning before Judge Warren and a special jury. The cross- examination of the petitioner continued. A number of letters were produced purporting to have been written by the petitioner to M. Kahme, containing strong expressions of endearment, which she denied were in her handwriting. She denied that any improper relation ...

... POLICE-OOURT PROCEEDINGS TO-DAY. At the Cardiff police-court to-day—before Mr D. Jones (mayor), Sir Morgan Morgan, Mr T. W. Lewis (stipendiary), Dr Paine, Dr Taylor, Mr Lewis Williams, Alderman Jacobs, Mr Archibald Hood, and Mr Peter Price-Piiilip John Osborne (22) was brought up in custody, on remand, charged on a warrant with that he, being the servant of the Great Western Colliery Company, ...

... SUICIDE NEAR NEWPORT. I About noon on Sunday a tragic occurrence took place at Llantarnam, near Newport. It appears that a married woman named Ann Holloway, the wife of John Holloway, a milkman in the employ of Mr James Knight, of Cider-mill Farm, committed suicide by hanging herself, The deceased, who was subject to attacks of religious mania and bad been confined in Abergavenny Asylum, was ...

... LATEST NFEWS. I , CGe THE COURT, &a m. Miss Anna Augusta Smith, sister of t'he right hag lion. W. IH. Smith, died at Bournemouth, on thh Sunday, afteralong nllness. Tb General Bonlanger visitd the ose of Corn- ':a1 rmans last evening, and for abot half an.hour =s asta a. comment figre in the distinguish straners' dol gallery, to vwhich he ws introduced by Xr. ; IO'EeU;I. Thfis being his 52nd ...

... DISTRICT SEWS. aubli- Diso n CARDIFF. risTBR ?? that the number of eases of e0 cmbezzlement, which arc b.efure the public in ?? ;f the diff at the present time will have the effect of giving those engaged in commercial, pur. suits in the town anything but credit foe xbibe hjonesty. The arre-st of two young mool .dThe frderbeyo od hc a asds ic ~dthe efiemno drn the pastyofgd wh ek, hascauseen ...

... SETTLE MENT OF AN OLD FEUD mN | CEN\TRAL ASIA. A recent issue of the Pikn Gazetc containsa long memorial from the Chinese Resident at Lhassa, report- insg the settlement of a long-standing fend between two tribes or petty kingdoms of Eastern Tibet. It seems that more than 100 years ago ecelesiastical dignitaries were placed by the Emperor of China over both tribes, the Chaya and Chamdo. The ...

... THE NEW UNIVERSITY RECREATION - GROUNDS. ai in, All lovers of outdoor sports will join in congratu. nt lating the students' committee entrusted with the ly acquiring and laying out of the new recreation ground in, at King Street on the sucecessful issue of the pro. 3a jjet. , The idea of a park orginated in 1884, when a 3y committee of students was appointed to consider what :'0 steps could be ...

... [CENTRAL NKWS TELEGRAM. 1 ^GRADE, Saturday. — When King Milan icated, every one assumed that the metro- Politan Michael, whom ho sent into exile, would ^°n return to Servia. For various reasons the Plate's return has been delayed, but it is now flounced, apparently upon the best authority, that he will arrive in this city at the commence. ment of May. All the priests who suffered for esPoUsing ...

... GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. MANY PERSONS BURNT ro DEATH. (BEUTKR'S TELEGRAM. 1 NEW YOBK, Monday.—Intelligence reached here this morning of a disastrous railway accident. A train from Chicago, crowded with pis-engers- chiefly excursionists—coming to New York for the Washington centenary celebration, ran off the line near Hamilton, Ontario. Two persons were killed outright, and before other passengers ...

... SLAUGHTER OF TWO RUSSIAN BEARS. A very remarkable affair occurred in the Forest of Dean on Friday evening, in which four French- men were subjected to very brutal treatment at the hands ot the colliers and others living in the neighbourhood of Ruardean Hill, near Cinder- ford, and two Russian bears that they led with them were killed outright. The Frenchmen arrived on Friday morning at ...

... SECOND E DITIONo BY OUR SPECIAL WIRE B.FAST Nr E5ws.LETTEP. OFFICA, 169, FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.a. Tu¢SDAY MORNING, SIX O'CLOCK. LAST NIGHT'S DEBITE. The Yivws says-3ost of the proposals made for reducing votes have no connection whatever either with national finances or with public grieyancte, they are merely pegs upon which the proprietors of a variety of nostrums manag-e to hang muore or ...