... EVIDE NCE BY SIR W. HARCOURT. Sir WVain. H{rcourt orilhlis tv gave evidenn55 before the Select Committee of tt e House 4l Commons on the telephone system Cf the country. The right hlon. gentlemi an, who was Charcefllr of the Exchequer between lt92 and 1895, said hoe WvO surprised at the statement made by Mr Luanb Oe the Post Ofliec, to the effect that bothf Mr(3ucjee and Sir William Ilarcourt ...

... SEQUEL TO TH1E BAD CHEESE CASE.I CHARGE AGAINST AN ABERDBEN FIRM. U 41 Before Baillie Taggart, in Aberdden Police l Court yestardayJamea Marshall and Thomas Mar- L shall, produce importers, Regent Quay, were charged with having, on the 6th August, in a lobby in their prnmises at Regent Quaby, L buid in their possession 41 bioxes of fi, cbeese, each box containing one cheese, yA said cheese ...

... COURT 01T SESSION. BILL HA1:ER-Friday; Augost19.t -, . ( . Before Lord Fearaonj . 'TUEX COLLAMSI 0f AN DiNBUR2GE nE-Msr: I * 14& Persn tadA beica him in ,te Bill OCamber a bill rosented by David Goldsaton, .c5ver inaigilder, 105 Nicolson Street, Edinurgh, for letters of inhibition .an'ainst JohnD rever, draper, SO0 Nicolson..Street, It-cinhurgh, to inhibit himn fbr parting.in any-wa.y.with any ...

... I COURT OF -SESSION. OUTEZ HOUSE-Wednesday, gA 34 (Befo ord KyEllacy.) CLASGOW DECURANTaR.Q MMIAM CASE. Judgment was given in the action 70y 3Irq Mathieson. Connel or icks, '13 pialar- Dennistoun, Glasgow, against Wilhin Rie lately carrying on business as a Photographeraa accountant in Union Street, Glasgow, and elm against John Hicks, residingtat 261 par.ae, tary- Road, Glasgow, and James ...

... ANGUS ANDMEARNSR FLEM ETINc. I I . . , - I I t'~he thirty~ninth annual' prize meeting 'of the ~'Atgus amnd. Mearns Rifle'As4soolation was held on Friday and Saturday on Montrose Links. The g weather throughoutt both days was favourable, al- at4houghr rein had 'fallen heavily during Friday ' night. The wind in *h'e morning was blowing bu nStudywsnic aer. Many ple ewee ae adi oe cases even ths ...

... CRi.MIS AND CHARGES. EXECUTION AT SWANVISEA-AN EXTRA- O-RDINARYCONFESSIGN. Joseph Lewis was executed in Swansea Jail yesterday morning for tho murder of Robert Scott, gamekeeper on Miss Talbot's estate at Margan, whom he shot whilst engaged in poach- ing in June. Scott was found shot dead and with his head battered in. After several persons had been apprehended suspicion fell upon Lewis, who ...

... I ME AND CHARGES. SHERIFF STRACHAN, ON PERJURY ce PROSECUTIONS. - -se At Glasgow Sheriff Criminal Court yesterdaye -before Sheriff Strachan and a jury-a young Ci man, named Dugald Macdonald, residing at 193 tm Kent Road, was charged with having, on 5th 1, May, in Glasgow Sheriff Small-Debt Court, he or having been sworn as a witness in-an action at against him at the instance of William Philip ...

... BXTRAORDINARY CRIME IN ARKANSAS. A MUflDER AND SUICIDE-FOUR BLACKS LY!4 ViED.. (aEUTER.'s TELEiGRAM.) Clarendon. August 1O. 'A mob last night took out of jail here three ucroes and one neg-ess and hanged them on neighbouring trees. They had been imprisoned' in-connect-ion with the assassination of a man named Orr, a yosng white merchant. Orr's i wife, who was charged with having instigated' ...

... 4 EXECUTION AT CARNARYON. Thomas Jones was esecuted at Carnatrvon yes- terday for the murder of hie paramour at Fes- tiriog. Since his trial Jones had behaved in the most callous manner, and showed indifer- ence to the ministrations of the prison chaplain. Last Saturday, however, he became more serious, and appeared to realise more fully his awful posi- tion. Jones was an illiterate masn, .and ...

... ALLI1(64' 1HiULRD1{){t AT L4!SH A IIA(,'OW. AN APEllRMEENSHIRE MASON KILLED. David Cowan, miner, Lesmahagow, was yesterday morning brought to Lanark, the charge against him being that of causing the death of a stone-miason. A man, name un- known, was found in an unconscious condli- tion on the pualic road, near Milton Farin, Lesmahagow, on Sunday morij ing. and upon being conveyed to the ...

... CREES' AND CH-ARGES. -!HE INSUIRANCE FRAUDS. .eENTiENCEGN MONSON, HONOUR, AND METCALFE. Mr Justice-La-eancaecontinued on Saturday -the searing of the-charge- against' ictor Honour-(40), grant; Alfred-John Monson (36), of no ocupam- tion; and Robert Ives Metealfe (36), agent, in- ?? for conspiracy and for obtaining by false- ?? a policy for'£1000'in the Norwich lnica -Lfe Assur'ce3 Compapny. ...

... 'RZPORT OF SELECT OOWMflTEE. (Fatos Oust OWN RtEPORTER.) Loudon, Tlntivday. Theo report of the Select Committee of the House of C'orermios-uf which fits Solicitor-General was chairman and Hon. J1. E. Gordon, one of tire roam- bers-waaitsueod Ite-day as a. Parliatmentary paper. The Curemittee's a ttontion has beent called to car- fain grievances alleged to exisel. These grievances sniglte be ...