... On Sunday evening the body of an elderly named Dumphy was found in the kitchen of a house in Peel Street, Belfast. The head was terribly smashed, and the body bore other evidence of murderous vielence. Later in the evening the police arrested the husband and a grown-up sou of the dead woman, and charged them with her murder. ...

... PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR. SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. At an inquest held at San Francisco on a Russian named Ivan Demiswiteh, two of his fellow-countrymen testified that he was a wealthy man professing Nihilistic views, and that he had been chosen by lot from among the members of a Nihilist organisation, to which he belonged, to go to St. Petersburg to assassinate the Czar. He had not complied with the ...

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... I 9 9 A LOCAL RETROSPECT. In another part of the paper will be found a brief review of the year's history from a national standpoint. It has also been our practise to cast a retrospective glance at the events of the year so far as they have more especially affected this locality and district. While no untoward or epoch making event has characterised the year locally, its history may be none ...

... AMERICAN PIT DISASTER. TWELVE BODIES RECOVERED. Twelve bodies have been taken out of tha Braznell Colliery, Brownsville, and at least twelve other bodies are within sight of the rescue party. Lord Ludlow succumbed to an acute attack of influenza on Sunday morning at the age of Seventv-t 'Xliespis: the greatest mimic the world ever saw. Merritt: With the exception of Death. Sooner or latter ...

... WORRIED BY A DOG. In a civil action at Sal ford William Callaghan, of West Gorton, sued Messrs. Judge Brothers for injuries his three-year-old child had re- ceived through being bitten by the defendant's dog. It was stated that the child was play- ing in the street, when defendants' dog got the youngster on the ground and worried him a most ferocious manner. When rescued the child was ...

... LARGE PROPORTION OF KILLED TO VOUXDED. A Daily Mail correspondent says: From reliable native sources, I hear that tho enemy's losses on Friday were fully 200 killed, the wounded being few, as all the loss was probably due to the lyddite. This disproves the currently acce pted theory concerning the ratio of lulled and wounded by the results of the explosive. Considering the enemy's impregnable ...

... SIR W. MACCOUUACO COMMENDATION. A wire from Cape Town says Sir William MacCormac reports that 800 wounded have passed through Chieveley Hospital, and that the field was cleared of wounded by five o'clock on the evening of the battle. He adds that the Volunteer Ambulance Corps did splendid work, and the field hospitals completely and promptly met a great emergency. Trains full of wounded left ...

... THE MAGIC LETTER. There was a little maiden once, In fairy days gone by, Whose every thought and every word Always began ivitli I. I think, I know, 1 wish, I say, I like, I want, I will; From morn to night, from day to day, I was her burden still. Her schoolmates would not play with her, Her parents tried in vain To teach her better, and one day Poor I cried out in pain. Help me, 0 ...

... RAID ON CANADA, SERIOUSLY PROJECTED BY BOEROPHILES. The Morning Leader correspondent at Wash- ington wires: The agitation by Boer sympathisers for an invasion of Canada by an army raised in the United States has gone so far that the authorities here have become alarmed, and are watching developments closely. It is now known here that an attempt to raise such an army is an actual fact, and the ...

... CHIEF EVENTS OF THE PAST YEAR. JANUARY. AT HOME. 2—Duke of Northumberland died. 3 -Fearful Gale-Great loss at sea. 5-Explosion of dynamite at Liskeard caused death of a storekeeper.—Premises of London Stereoscopic Co., Cheapside, burnt out. 6-Shocking boiler explosion at Barking, eleven persons killed and many injured. 7—England defeated by Wales at Rugby Foot- ball. 12—Furious gales—Many ...

... WATCHING THE POOR FEED. LATEST FAD AMONGST THE FASHION. ABLES IN NEW YORK. The society fad of making the chief feature of Christmas entertainments consist in watching free banquets to the poor reached a limit on Monday. Crowds of fashionables made rounds from the newsboys' dinner in the Lyric Hall to Senator Sullivan's feed to tramps on Bowery, and finally to Madison Square Garden, where a ...