... Death of General Franklin Butler. WASHINGTOI,, Wednesday. -General Benjamin Franklin Butler died last night at the age of 74 The deceased, who was a Democrat, took a promment part in politics. At the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the Union Army, and was placed in command at Baltimore. General Butler commanded the land forces which assisted Farra- gut m the capture of New Orleans, May ...

... I COLLAPSE OF A STORE. I Three Men Killed. The upper floor of a store in Milford, near Letterkpuuv, on which was stored about 90 tons of loose meal, suddenly collapsed on Monday morning. It was frir day, and about 16 horses belonging to visitors were stabled on the ground floor. Six of the animals were killed and several badly hurt. It was at first thought that no human beings were i. n the ...

... FOUND DEAD ON THE ROADSIDE I About seven o'clock on Friday 'night, wMe I'fturmnsr from Haverfordwest, and when near CHa.u Forge, three miles from Fishguard, a ma.n Cilau FDoragvei, d Richards, a driver of the Great Western omnibus, had h]S attention drawn bv a yr)ung girl to an object lying against the hedgre. It proved to be the dead body of Eiizubeth Davies, it widow, about 60 years of age, ...

... I No New Works to be Got. Wi rSgitit to learn that the ne?o?Rttonawith I Bn??h C?pQ?M for the ptaaue?66 ...

... The Lpw Courts will be re-opened for the Hilai-y Term on Wednesday n°xt, and these sittings will continue up to Wednesday, March 29t.b inclusi ve. In the two Courts of Appeal, the Chancery Division, and the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division the Courts will sit con- tinuously but in the Queen's Bench Division the sittings will! be interrupted in February by a majority of the judges ...

... Bodies Washed Ashore. Tne steamer ino, of btavanger, sailed from Ardrossan on the 17th inst., for Stavanger. Within the last three or four daye a quantity of wreckage was washed ashore on the coast of the Orkneys, as also were dead bodies, supposed to be those of foreign seamen. On one of them a letter was found addressed to the captain of the above steamer. The bodies found had life jackets ...

... The coal exports for the week ending last (Wednesday) evening were 55,767 tons, and four cargoes (weight not given) 33,207 tons being foreign experts, and 22,560 tons, four cargoes exported coastwise. The other exports for the week insluded :—Iran, 60 tens steel rails, 1,214 tons tinplates, 170 tosis and 12 oargoes (weight net given); tin, 50 tons and one cargo • Ferro manganese, 20 tons; ...

... Tht Man About Town. A magnificent game, stubbornly fought, and well won,has made Saturday memorable in the football annals, not of Wales only, but of Great Britain. The International Match is credited by some of the most com- petent critics as being the finest of its kind on record. It had all tho best features of good play, dash, vivacity, alternation of fortune, and excitement; and, as in ...

... YSTRAD LOCAL BOARD. I The Representation of the Rhondda Faoh, I At the last meeting of the Ystrad Local Board, Mr W. Jenkins, J.P., presiding, a discussion took place upon the proposition of Alderman W. Mathias, Porth, that the representation of the Rhondda Fach be increased in proportion to the rateable value and population of the district, compared with the other sections or wards in the ...

... CARDIFF PUBLIC IMPRO MENTS. Local Government Board fnqu At the Town Hall, Cardiff, this mo& Local Government Board inquiry wlUld before Major-Greneral Crozier, R.E.. to dhe desirability or otherwise of granting Fto the Corporation for the borrowing of £ or the Roath Park completion; P,5 for isli Moors police-station, and 9950 for the Gardens. Evidence bearing upon thftt schemes was given by ...

... Liberal Conference. The NewcastieProgramme. Enthusiastic Gathering. Tiie fifteenth annua conference of the National Liberal Federation opened this afternoon at Liverpool, when a large num- ber of delegates attended from all parts of the country. Dr Speno Watson presided, and was snpported by ajnumbr of members of Parlia- ment, The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, said they met in ...

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