A NOTABLE JEWISH WEDDING.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4978, 30 May 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)

A NOTABLE JEWISH WEDDING.

A very interesting marriage took place recently in Glasgow I —that of Miss Lily Barnato to Mr Samuel Garcia Asher. The bride is tho only daughter of Mr Henry J. Barnato tho elder brother of the late Mr “Barney” Barnato, while tho bridegroom is tho son of a poor Glasgow lad who studied at the university at nights afteu his day’s work was done. By dogged perseverance. Asher senior, took a medical degree, and going to London, was employed by tho Jewish community there to attend tho sick poor of the congregatloln time he became private almoner for the Rothschilds, the secretary to the Groat Synagogue, St. James’s, and finally the secretary of the United Synagogue, the great Jewish intercongregational scheme which is tho standing tribute to his genius. Tho history of Miss Barnato s millions is interesting, too. Years ago, before the diamond fields of Kimberley were heard of, her fafcher was a sleight-of-hand performer in London. His younger brother “Barney” was his assistant. The latter was the first to grow tired of his narrow life in the Jewish quarter of London; and he ran away from home to South Africa. Soon his elder brother joined him; and since those days the name Barnato has been a synonym for millions. In honour of his daughter’s marriage Mr Barnato has given £SOOO in donations to various London charitable institutions. A WELSH LOVE TRAGEDY. At Glamorganshire Assizes at Cardiff recently Thomas Lewis, collier, aged. 21, was sentenced by Mr Justice Phillinioro to 15 years’ penal servitude ior the manslaughter of his sweetheart, Ethel Ad lams, at Pontro, Rhondda Valley, on the night of December 27. The trial lasted over two days. Lewis being arraigned for murder. According to tho evidence, Lewis had quarrelled with his father, whom he accused of having murdered his mother. The prisoner, his sweetheart, and her mother were all at prisoner’s house jit the time, and after the latter left the two sweethearts wont out together, deceased trying to soothe tho angry lover. Wheu at midnight she had not returned or been heard of, her mother became anxious, and a search was instituted. Lewis was under alien-coup behind his House. He then told those who found him that his sweetheart had thrown herself into the river. There her body was found, but the state of her clothing tho fact that she was covered with ashes, and that she was found in a sitting posture, pointed to foul play, although it was well known that Lewis and Adlams were a most affectionate couple. The doctors stated that death was due to drowning, but the water at the spot was only ten inches deep, and the doctors said it would be impossible for anyone to drown a conscious person in that depth. For the defence, it was urged that, in .order to frighten her lover, the girl threatened to commit suicide, and ran into the river. After a struggle with the prisoner there she fainted, and, Lewis being unable to pull her out, she died. To the jury Mr Justice Phillimore pointed .put that if the young woman ran into the river in fear that her lover would criminally assault her, her death was an act of manslaughter. After an hour and a half’s absence, the jury returned with a verdict of manslaughter, and a strong recommendation xo mercy. Mr Justice Phillimore, in passing sentence of 15 years’ penal servitude, said ho had taken the recommendation into account, though he could not understand ou what it was based. A VERSAILLES TRAGEDY. Considerable mystery overhangs a tragic affair which has happened at Versailles. Two weihdressed gentlemen, one about 50 and the -other much younger, dined at the Hotel Terminus, and left after having paid their bill. Just before dawn O'n the following morning a lamplighter found what is supposed to be the same couple fymg in a side street. One was dead, whilst the other expired a few' minutes afterwards. No due could be obtained to their identity, as their pockets were empty, the only indication being the name of Brussels on some ready-made yellow shoes. It would appear from the fact that a revolver lay by the side of the younger man that ho shot his companion and then committed suicide. IN THE PHILIPPINES. , The town of Surigao, in the island of Mindanao, was captured recently by Ladrones, who killed ConstabularyInspector Clarke and several of his men. Thirty men of the 10th American Infantry Regiment, under Lieutenants Patterson "and Brown, were summoned from Iligan in the transport Reilly to recapture the place, and in this they succeeded. It seems that 80 bandits and 10 escaped convicts, who led* them, participated in the attack on tho town, armed with twenty rifles and 40 bolos. The constabulary barracks Were completely surprised and rushed, and tho constabulary stampeded. The bandits captured 80 rifles, and the American officials, with the, wounded foreigners, took refuge in tho Government building. UNPRECEDENTED SPECTACLE AT NIAGARA FALLS. >.<, A telegram from Niagara Falls states that pedestrians crossed tho river bed where human feet have never before trod. An ice jam near Goat Island had diverted the water to the Canadian side and almost dried np tho American Rapids. Even residents thronged to witness a sight that they bad never imagined possible. Above tho ioe jam the water was three feet higher than usual; below it it still ran close to tho mainland, hut practically the entire river bed was bare. Men, w'oraen and children romped about regardless of the possibility that the breaking of the ice jam might submerge them at any moment. Manx mementoes were taken from spots not likely to be visited again for ages. Between Green Island and Goat Island and between Goat Island and tho mainland people walked at will, while the glory of the fall was reduced to a thin trickle. Something similar happened on the Canadian side in 1848.