... SPORTING ITEMS. College Green made his debut in a hanter' flat race at Hamilton Park yesterday, and showing some approach to the speed which characterised his two year old career in Ireland, but was sadH missing afterwards, he won in the commone3- of canters. A. E. Wetherall. who is laid up in the Root Memorial Hospital at Newmarket, as the result of his accident with Pisa last Thursday, is ...

... A Coroner's inquest was held yesterday after- noon at Weston-super-Mare ou the body of Kate Palmer, domestic servant, who fell from an upper storey window whilst cleaning it in Church- road, and died soon afterwards from a fractured skull. Deceased had been in one situation for oight years, and her emplouer, Mr Cann, said he did not instruct her to clean the windows, and did not see her on the ...

... THE PARIS'S NARKOW ESCAPE. Whilst being towed from the Manacles to Falmouth on Wednesday night the Paris nearly went ashore again on the ridge on v/hich the Mohegan foundered. One of the German aalving boats cast off the hawser through a misunder- standing, and the liner commenced drifting towards the dangerous shoal. The Falmouth tug Victor, however, responded to the shouts of those on the ...

... SERIOUS RIOTS IN NEW YORK. I Hand-to-Hand Fights. UPWARDS OF 100 ARRESTS. I New lork, Thursday.—Serious rioting occurred here last night, and scores of people were severely injured. Crowds of men, women, and children stoned every car in the Second-avenue, aDd all kinds of missiles were thrown from the housetops and windows. The rioters barricaded the streets and spiked the cable slots. There ...

... Alleged Assault by a Sweetheart. I Eliza Mears, of Hackney Wick, London, the young woman who on Sunday night week received serious injuries alleged to have been in- flicted on her by her sweetheart with a heavy hammer, died last night. The young man named Preston will now be charged with the capital offence. ...

... THE WEATHER. I In Cardiff a pleasant breeze modulated the strong effect of the sun to-day, and made the da.} somewhat more bearable than Weduesday. Messrs Spiridion's thermometer at 3.30 p.m. registered 86 degrees in the shade. ...

... DEATH OF A CYCLIST. On Saturday Mr John°.on, jeweller, of Bir mingham, rode on his bicycle from Birmingham to Llangollen throughout the day in the hot sun. On arriving at Vroucysylltan, in the Vale of Llangollen, about 8 o'clock in the evening, he fell from his cycle and was conveyed by passers- by to the Britannia Inn, where life was pro- nounced extinct. A Coroner's inqnest was helet this ...

... FIGHT WITH TRAIN ROBBERS. New York, Tuesday.-A n exciting fight occurred yesterday in New Mexico between a band of train robbers and a sheriff's posse in pursuit. Thopur- suers overhauled the robbers, who offered a des, perate resistance. The sheriff was killed, and two of the posse were wounded. The robbers even- tually got away after one of their number had been killed and another wonnded. ...

... LOCAL PROBATE SUIT. EVANS v. ROWLANDS. London, Thursday—In the Probate Division to-day, before Mr Justice Barnes, the case of Evans v. Rowlands was further heard. This was a suit to test the validity of a will dated 27th of November, 1897, of Mr Edward Evans, Mill Hill, Michaelstone-le- Pit, Glamorganshire, who died on the 6th of April, 1897, leaving property amounting to about JM50 to the ...

... I often wonder that people do not devote their energies to the making of rugs more than they do tbere..is hardly any item of furnishing so expensive, and yet so essential to the comfort of our rooms. Oftentimes a bedroom or a bathroom presents a comfortless appearance simply because the owner cannot afford to purchase adequate floor-covering. I told you all about how to malre Smyrna rugs a few ...

... SINGULAR FATALITY. David Fleming, 10 'years of age, son of Mr David Fleming, farmer, Balkesrio, near Blyth, was accidentally hanged on a cherry tree on Monday. The boy, who had a short time pre- viously put his bag over his back, intending to go to school, had climbed the tree in order to take some cherries. It is believed he must have slipped in the tree, and in falling the stump of a branch ...

... RIOTOUS STRIKERS. New York, Wed ties '-&Y.-Serious rioting oc- curred yesterday in connection with the tramway strike at Brooklyn. The strikers derailed a tram. car and badly injured a. motor man and a police- man. The police dispersed the rioters, shooting their revolvers in the air. An attempt was made this morning to blow up with dynamite a portion of the elevated railroad structure at ...