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TO-DAY'S WEATHER 4.30P.M !

... TO-DAY'S WEATHER 4.30P.M TO-DAY'S FORECAST FOR JSKGhAMB, AND isOTJTR WALKS. Igsuedat ...

Published: Wednesday 22 June 1898
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 51 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SIMS REEVES IN NEED,

... Margam Tragedy. THE SUSPECTED MURDERER. It is stated on good authority that the suspected murderer, Joseph Harris, who has admitted coming from Carmarthenshire, and has owned. his real name to be Joseph Lewis, is the son of Mr John Lewis, collier, Drefach, Llanarthney, village lying in the Llandilo direction, five miles from Carmarthen. His mother's Christian name is Letitia, hence the name ...

Published: Monday 20 June 1898
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 161 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FRENCH I- -MINISTERIAL CRISIS. I

... HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS AT OSTEND. OSTEND, Sunday.—This afternoon the King laid the first stone of the works that have just been commenced for the deepening and widening of Ostend Harbour. After performing the cere- mony his Majesty made a short speech in which he prophesied that Ostend would become one of the foremost harbours of Western Europe. The work will take about three years to complete.- ...

Published: Monday 20 June 1898
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 66 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

INTER- UNIVERSITY SPORTS. I

... Oxford and Cambridge athletic sports took place on Wednesday afternoon at the Queen's Club grounds, West Kensington. Result-. High Juinp.-I, Adair, Oxford, 5ft. 9m.; 2, Paget Tomlinson, Cambridge. Putting tho Weight Snowball.—1, Oxford, 37ft. 4in. 2, Bulloch, Cambridge, 36ft. Min. 100 Yaxds.-I, Thomas, Oxford 2, Harrison, Cam- bridge; time, 10 2-5sec. One Mile.-I, Danson, Oxford; 2, Hunter, ...

Published: Thursday 30 June 1898
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

:YE OLDE CHESHIRE CHEESE. I

... YE OLDE CHESHIRE CHEESE. I Surprise Vis!t of Mr Chamberiam and Par?y. There is qaite a. happy nuggestion. of ancesti&l titnes in the scene which took plae on Sa.turda.y afternoon in the cla.SHic thoroughfare of news- pa,per land. Like Dr. Johnson, the Colonial Secreta.ry seems to have remarked to Mr Asquith, Sir, let us tp.ke a walk down Fleet-street, a.nd the famous hostelry, Ye Olde ...

Published: Monday 13 June 1898
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 382 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

OUR NEW BATTLESHIP,I

... HAVANNAH INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. I The 43rd annual report of the Cardiff Certified Industrial School, better known as H.M.S. Havannah, has just been issued, and its state- ments and statistics bear eloquent testimony to the good work that is being quietly and unosten- tatiously accomplished by the old ship. Of the 60 survivors of the lads discharged from the Havan- nah in the years 1894,1895, and ...

Published: Monday 13 June 1898
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

IA NEWPORT COMMERCIAL'S LAPSE

... TINPLATE WORKERS. Conference at Birmingham. The annual conference of the Tinplate Workers Amalgamation of Great Brit&in was resumed at Birmingham to-day. Mr C. H. Robertson, Edin- burgh, presiding. New rules were adopted alter- ing the society's constitution. Previously the Amalgamation would only admit thoroughly constituted societies, but now ithas been decided to include branches and groups ...

Published: Friday 03 June 1898
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

GALLANT RESCUES AT TREDEGAR

... DYEING AND CLEANING BY POST.—CARRIAGE paid and way; price sent by return of post; best work- manship moderate charges Company well known —Minny-street, Cathays, Cardiff. 4569-22ge THOSE WHO CAN'T AFE6HD A NEW CYCLK should get a second-hand one. Special. Gent's Ameri- can Humber (Dunlop tyres), jE5 15s. New Cycles. £ 110s. Catalogues Ire e.-Griffiths, 57, Queen-street. SPMNG CLEANING.—Carpets ...

Published: Friday 03 June 1898
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

WASHING THE TIGER. I

... A good story has been copied in the papers from La France du Nord about a Cossack, igno- rant of the French language and equally ignorant of fear, who was hired at Moscow by the lion- tamer Pezon to clean the cages of his wild beasts. Their understanding—or misunderstand- ing-was arranged by means of gestures and dumb show, as that unfortunate Tower of Babel hindered intelligible speech ...

Published: Friday 24 June 1898
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

r A FAMILY OF LUNATICS

... Quite a, family of lunatics has taken itself off, and nobody knows where it is to be found. It is an odd story (says a Paris correspondent). About a week ago the tenants of a usually quiet house were awakened in the dead of night by loud cries of Help Murder which were repeated again and again. They roue in alarm from their couches, and proceeding totbe door of the flat whence the screams ...

Published: Friday 24 June 1898
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

IBIRTH IN A TRAIN

... BIRTH IN A TRAIN. The wife of an Accrington policeman gave birth to a child whilst travelling home in a passengei train on Thursday. On the train arriving at Accrington the mother and baby were conveyed home in the ambulance van. Both are doing well ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1898
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 44 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

ANOTHER MURDER-IN PARIS. I

... ANOTHER MURDER-IN PARIS. PARIS, Friday Night.—Another murder, re- sembling that of the Turkish dentist, M. Banderly, and his lady cashier, has caused much excitement in Paris. M. Leprince, a well-known feather merchant, living at 119, Rue Saint Denis, left Paris for Meaux yesterday, and after having collected some accounts returned in the evening to the ware- house, where he had left Madame ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1898
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News