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Clutha Leader, Volume XXII, Issue 1096, 23 August 1895, Page 3

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— <p> Prince Francis of Teck lost Llo,ooo on the Curragh races. Lord Ardilaun offered to pay his debts, but the Queen interposed and paid them herself and, i then ordered the Prince to India. Thomas Phillips, who was one of the surviving members of the famous, ' Six Hundred,' died •at Woodville, Michigan, on July 5, aged 76. By this death the remnant of Cardigan's heroes is reduced to three,, who live in England, supported by a pension from the/ British, Government. ..-.'• At a national convention in Tyrone on June 8, called to select candidates, Mr Healy accused Mr John Dillon of selling Tyrone to the , English party.. Mr Dillon retorted by calling him an infamous liar and traitor. There was a tremendous row, but it soon quietened down. One hundred men and women, all in evening dress, were captured by the I police in a raid on the London Palace Club on July 18. Among them were a United States Senator, a Congressman, a prominent law official of an Eastern American State, and an American police official on leave. Robert Hudson, who murdered his wife and child on Helensly Moor, Yorkshire, recently, in order that be might marry again, was sentenced to death. At the time of killing his wife and child, whom he buried on Helensly Moor, he was advertising under the : name of Hunter for another wife. Oscar Wilde, now doing his time in Pentonville, has been taken off the treadmill and put to picking oakum, with making matches to follow. The doctors absolutely refused his being continued on the mill, He is in good health. Lord Alfred Douglas has bought and furnished in a most luxuriant manner a residence not far from Sorrento, Italy. He has declared openly that his avowed object is to await the release of Oscar Wilde, when he will at ence transport him to the . Italian coast. The rumour that Lord Rosebery is to marry one ot the Prince of Wales's daughter is revived, and it is said that he may relinquish politics altogether. It is understood that the Queen would not offer any opposition to the match. Lord Uosebery continues to be her great personal favorite, as her bestowal upon him of the late Duke of Hamilton's order of the Thistle indicates. Lord Rosebery already possesses the Order of the Garter, and it is extremely rare for anyone not of the Royal blood to hold both orders, the only other instances on record being the cases of the Earl ot Aberdeen and the Duke of Argyle. A serious of outrages and murders o£ little girls, the victims' ages ranging from seven years, has created great excitement among the working classes in the district of Welthamstow, seven miles north-east of London. , Within a month five little ones have been decoyed from their homes, and have vanished completely. Search parties subsequently found their bodies in fields, stripped of all clothing, and giving evidence of most outrageous treatment. The immediate cause of death in every instance was strangulation. The police inquiry points to a well dressed man of 30, but there the clue ends. Only one of the many victims has escaped death. She was only four years of age, and was unable to describe her assailant. Several halfwitted men were arrested on suspicion, but they established alibis and were liberated. The London police authorities received an unsigned letter purporting to have been written by this Welthamstow monster to the effect that he will be in the neighbourhood again shortly. He laughs at the police, and tells them they are on the wrong scent and never w. ; ll be able to find him. • He admits the outrages and niurdera already done.