... A Ghastly Tragedy. Wife Murdered at Cannock Chase I SURRENDER OF THE ASSAILANT A Press Association Lichfield COLT, PENDENT telegraphs that a terrible murder was committed at the smell hamlet of Woodhouses, near Barnt- wood. on the confines of Cannock Chase, early this riiorninp. It is alleged that a man named Edward Green, a blacksmith, hacked his wif. to death with a knife, and afterwards ...

... got (Crisis in ?? V?ilivpfilcs THE situation in the Philippines has been going from bad to worse. An insur. GENERAL OTIS In Command of the American Forces in the Ph.lippines gent army, number. ing over 20,00, concentrated round Manila, and some severe fighting en. sued. The American troops, un der General Otis, seen to have behaved very well. The fighting took place over a vast area, the Ameri ...

... RAILWAYMEN. AND, THE7 | BEER.:! !, J FREE DRINKS AND A SORRY SEQUEL A charge of stealing a, kilderkin of'beer was preferred at Newport Borough Police-court against seven railway men named George Morley, 10, Bath-street; George Norvinl, 26, Pugsley-street; Thomas Albert Evans, 27, Mer. chant-stree ; Lewis Perryman, 12) South Mar- ket-street; Charles Somers, 18, Harrow-road; Charles Martin, 21, ...

... I Lee -at lse hei leg lid ox, 4.11 lie ter ble ud the he be snt sot 01 ed (3 'ho Lir ?? the nt rut :es, to of fir -as ien 'die id6: ter [S et); to !h.- ile Uis sed sill or- T tyl, iyr oen ive wry ret .rd' irk -ed en- 'ig. or Its ;ti- 'tel ng,7 a.n 'ry ek bed iffj2 Dk-' ..il ed thu .nd- cal ar- VgD :A A S,,A 336 or- ion on- are ing Ich nit ry- il- o3 ,7 iry aal a sue red nloe les QIn Oho; h.- ...

... I . d According to a Penarth paper, there i' E. g 'Ohamben of Music Society over there. r, Once more a tin-plate strike has been. e settled at Llanelly. The next is due about. Lr midday. Y Lord Bute will he the Commissioner for n Rothesay at the meeting of the Convention of Royal Burghs to be held in Edinburgh in April_ Only two Welsh members voted for Mr. Johba ?? amendment. As might have ...

... | h BAYONETS IN RUSSIA AND HYMINS ii IN CANADA. h b The London friends of that persecuted people tho Russian Doukhobortsi have just received Wj details as to the arrival of the first shipload of omigrants to Canlada. The scene at Halifax . where the pilgrims first touched Canadian soil, i seems (says the Daily Chronicle') almost to n su~ggest the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New ...

... i PRESENTATION - TO MR. S. H. . JONES, WBITCHURCH. The succes which has attended. the efforts was of the officers of the Loyal Treoda Lodge of and Oddfellows (Manchester Unity), Whitchurch. boro during the past few years in considerably im- of L proving the status of the lodge was celebrated their on Saturday evening in the lodge-room, when vert4 the members and a number of friends partook ...

... CARDI FF RAILINGS DISPUTEL rne the DOCUMENTS RELATING TO chl THE CASE,.oc 5th den WHAT THEY DISCLOSE. cxp cv' PLAINTIFFS' STATUTORY put RIGHTS. no The copy of pleadings, interragatolrics. corre- and spondetricL A-c., ire the action broughit by the wol Cardiff Railway tomupany asgainest thle corpo- bad tior ration of Cardiff, asked for onl the matronS Oitr Air. Edward 'Thomas at the last ...

... I _ Beantort goes with Breconohire in Parlia. snenitary matters, and with eorusouthshire in L1Sunday drirking. Alderman Leeder says that the greatest1 o luxuries they have in Swansea are doctors, And 0 this from a solicitor! ` ?? ought to be bonfires all ever Carmar. * the.bshire to-night. The county has at last ;L been exempted from the swine fever order. e Lord Windsor will unveil the statue ...

... FjIijINTOS ASK FOR A TRUCE. OENIjRAL OTIS DECLINES r TO AiqSWVER- C lS TRIlS A REBEL RUSE ?C SLTCCESSFUL AMERICAN RE- C, CONLNAISSANCE. -- Pl netr'3 C.Cgtr'll fronll Wilashlillgton Onl dE WedtcsehY 5iVS:I'llo following hitls been re- ed froeel ci Maclila of to-day's date: tI, 9S~trl,.timn is ranidpy improvintg. A r DassaaatO wllis metle yesterdiay several. siles to tic sontit a's filr ais ...

... THE, LAND OF THE BOERS: MR. KRUGER AND MR. RHODES AS POLITICAL FACTORS. PRESENT OUTLOOK DECIDEDLY 9 -BRIGHT. VIEWS OF A WELSH MINISTER d- s Welshmen at home fee deeply interested in e the affairs of the Transvaal, on account of the, X great number of their compatriots from all parts of the Principality residing there. ?? Western Mail representative on Sunday q night had the good fortune to ...

... THE COIQMPENSATIO,'qN A.CT-1 MlIr. Aithur Gladsltone, hinowner, of Westt Ilartlepcol, has written Mir. CLh.imberlaill statillg I tOitD, i his opinion t.he Workmen's Comupen- .attion Act, in spita of chat wvas said to the contrary. would conse to be recounted amongst thecmostl beneficial measures passed during her Allajesty' s rci~n, and (ieclarinic that nas ship- owner, with fhill- knoeledge ...