The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-12-01 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

OF THE I' FIRST WATER."—Happy wife: "John's
been a gem of a husband since he joined the Blue
Ribbon Army."—Judy.
A TOWN OF FXTRAORDINARILY RAPID GROWTH.—
Albuquerque (Albukerky), the metropolis of New
Mexico, is one of the most phenomenal cities in the
United States, so far as rapidity of growth is concerned.
In April, 1889, the first train of cars reached the pre-
sent town site, which was then a body of farming
land. The town was laid out the following summer,
and the marvellous building boom began which has
rcsulted in a substantial town of fine business blocks
and pleasant residences, many of which would be a
credit to cities of 1(0,000 inhabitants. A large pro-
portion of its business houses are of brick. The old
Mexii,•an town of Albukerky is a mile or more distant
and at the time of the establishment of the new town
contained 3,500 inhabitants. It is estimated that
the two taken together now number in the neigbour-
hood of 10,000 people. No town in the West, with
the exception of Leadville, has ever experienced so
rapid a growth.
„striNSITIVE CREATURES—Lady Montressor : "Well,
J nornas, wua, x;
mlady, me and Jeames hopes as you won't want as to
go to church without the kerridge and Fveriee ; es
.I.l4;htti't do ouch harm ° in the City, Lot id the West
would quite tram pil on our religiuua ! "—Funny
Folks.

THE EXPLOSIONS IN GLASGOW.—The nine men who
are custody in Glasgow charged with being concerned
in the explosions which occurred in that town in
January last are to be tried in E iinburgh on the 17th
of December. In the indictment they are charged
with committing a breach of the acts relating to trea-
son-felony, and with being concerned in a conspiracy.
The details a the indictment refer to the three explo-
sions on the night of January 20, the first of which
was at the Tredeston gasometer, thg sacond at one of
the bridges on the Firth and Clyde Canal just beyond
the City boundaries, and the third near tne Buchan-
flan-street Station of the Caledonian Railway, By the
first of these explosions a _number of people were in-
jured, and the explosion at the canal bridge also re-
sulted in personal injury to several persono. By the
third explosion no injury to the person was occasioned,
but it was attended by destruction of property.
kIOT COPPERS.—Iet North Briton: "Why. Sandie,
who,' yer damn.' there, drinkin' in the burn?'-2nd
N. B.: "Making toddy."—lst B, : "But wha's
the whuskey ?" 2ad N. B, "1 t skket it yettareen !"
—Moonshine.

HORRIBLE MURDER IN MICHIGAN.—A horrible
crime is reported to nave been committed near Jack.
son, Michigan. Four persons, living in a farmhouse,
were found murdered. Jacob Crouch, farmer, bad
recently returned from Texas with a large sum of
money, the proceeds of the sale of a ranch. He, with
the other occupants, was murdered by robbers, The
murderers are believed to have followed Crouch from
Texas. The victims were chloroformed and then shot,
one woman, who made a desperate struggle, being slut
six times,
FATAL STABBING AFFRAY.--Abblit han.past eleven
on Saturday night, Thomas James Bridemalur, of
Parketone, Poole, was found lying in a dying state in
Coach and Hones-lane, Strand-street, Poole. On
examination it was found that he had been stabbed in
the chest and face. He died before assistance could
be rendered. From information received by the police
it transpired that a quarrel had, earlier in the evening
taken place between the deceased and two men named
Peter Frederick Stokkeburg, of Christiania, and
William Jesisen, a lad 18 years of age, of Copenhagen,
and belonging to the ship Juno, of Denmark, Captain
Carl Christian Kermausen. On boarding this vessel
the constables found the two men above described, and
charged them with the murder of the deceased. They
acknowledged a quarrel had taken place with the de.
ceased respecting a girl with whom both parties had
been in company, the yeunger prisoner advancing the
statement that the knife was used by his comrade, and
that he was innocent of the death of the man.
CHEM MYbTEßY.—Little Boy (to Chemist) : " Please
mother sent me back with the pills, and she wants to
know how she is to take one three times a day ! "
Aerooneltine,
A VIOTIM OF MONTE CARLO.—The Genoese news-
papers announce that the railway guards at Venti-
miglia, on the frontier, found in one of the carriages
a gentlemen who gave every sign of madness, He was
a Frenchman, and had lost all he possessed, 00,000
francs, at Monte Carlo. Entering the train un-
perceived by the guards, he had found an empty oar-
riage, and during the journey had thrown all his
clothes out of the carriage windows. The station.
master at Ventimiglia furnished the unfortunate man
with a suit of clothes, and conveyed him to the French
authorities on the frontier,
ATTACH ON A TRAIN IN NaW MEXIOO.—A despatch
publielsed at Now "York states that five masked men
removed some of the rails on the Southern Pacific
Railway, near Denning, New Mexico. On the arrival
of the approaching train at the spot the forward car-
riage swerved and ran into a ditch at the side of the
line' the engine-driver being killed. The marauders
went through the train, and after securing 600 dais.
from the express car, took to flight.
DISCOVERY OF A LOST COAL VESSEL—Iron says
that it is reported from Halifax ths t the wreck of a
coal ship has been discovered which ha: been miming
for more than ten years. The vvreck, too, was found
in an extraordinary manner. Some months ago the
English etearner Cedar Grove was wrecked near Tor.
bay, on the Canadian coast, several livss being lost. A
diver who was carrying on his operations at the Cedar
Grove recently, was garprised to come across another
vessel, whices was lying close to the Cidar Grove, but
in deep water. The name Rao Dominion could be
distinctly read on the stern G f the stranger. It ap-
t.ears that the brig New Dominion sailed from Cow
Bay, Cape Breton, in December, 1872, with a cargo of
coals for Yarmouth, 'United States. Since then nothing
has been heard of the veesel or her crew meal the die.
colierY Made by the diver. It is assumed the New
Dominion struck upon the same rock as the Ced,ar
Grove afterwards sliding off into deep water, and
taking down with her all on board.
FATAL ACCIDEIsT TO A WORKMAN.—On Saturday
Mr. Center, West Kent coreper, held an inquest on
the body of reauben 'Penny, aged 42, carpenter, of 17,
North•roaa, New-cross. The evidence showed that
for twelve years the deceased had been employed at
Messrs. J. and H. Robineons' flour wills, Deptford.
bridge, On Friday he was in the workshop teeaiug,
hy means of a steam running lathe, a wooden chuck
21t. 91n. in diameter, which lete had designed and made,
the wood being he;d together by bolts, screws, and
glue. While thp chuck was revolving, the wheel
making a thousand revolutions a minute, a report like
the discharge of a gun was heard by other workmen,
and penLy was Been to fall, and it was then found
that the chuck had flown into three pieces, one of
which had struck the deceased. When picked up he
was lifeless. The jury returned a verdict of "Death
from injuries received by the accidental giving way of
a wooden chuck on a lathe while in motion.