The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-11-07 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS:

IRITISH AND FOREIGN.

OF( Saturday evening the Prince of Wales presided a
I banquet given by the Fishmongers' Company on the
eccasion of the presentation to Mr. Birkbeck, M.P.,
Df a testimonial subscribed for by the fishing com-
munity.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Edinburgh and
Princess Louise, on the occasion of visiting Brighton on
Saturday, to attend a conced at the Dome in aid of
the Royal College of Music, were publicly welcomed by
the town conned and entertained at luncheon.

A memorial having been sent by the International
Arbitration Association to the Queen, praying for the
reprieve of Louis Riel, a reply has been received to the
effect that the power of pardon or respite of any
person sentenced in Canada rests with the Governor-
Lieneral sad the Privy Council of the Dominion.
A notice has been issued by the Scotland-yard autho-
rities intimating that all stray dogs found in certain
parishes south of the Thames will be seized by the
police.
Sir Thomas 33ateson has been raised to the peerage as
Baron Derail lore of Belvoir. His bi,ther, Mr. Bateson
de Garburgly will inherit title—if he out-lives tho
first Baron.

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At Skipton the Bishop of Ripon addressed a meeting
in advocacy of the sub-division of the diocese of Ripon
the other day, and in approval of a scheme for the
Wakefield bishopric. It was stated that about £90,000
would be required, two-thirds of which had already been
raised.

A confidential agent has, it is stated, been sent by
the ex-Empress Eugenie to consult the Pope with
respect to her line of conduct in the present position
of French affairs. It is believed at the Vatican that a
large portion of the Bonapartist party would become
supporters of the Count de Paris if the Pope would
recommend that course.
The magistrate at Marylebone Police-court recently
made an order on Mr. George Felton, a contractor, to
abate a nuisance =wed by the sifting of dust, refuse,
and ashes at his wharf, which is in close proximity to
St. Mary's Hospital. It was alleged that the dust and
germs blown into the hospital hindered the healing of
the patients' wounds.
The prisoner Casey, who was apprehended while
making an attack on the house of a farmer named
Doyle, at Killorglin, a few nights ago, has been
remanded under the charge of attacking the house, in
company with others not in custcdy, also with firing at
Doyle with intent to kill him. Bail was offered and
refused. It is believed that the accused will turn in-
former against his associates in the outrage.
M. Pasteur, a Paris correspodent states' is more than
ever certain of the efficacy of his method of curing
hydrophobia, and when he has made 10 or 15 cures
will ask for some island,access to which can be watched,
to be placed at his disposal, so as to demonstrate, after
a time the disappearance of all trace of hydrophobia.
England, being an island, might, he thinks by a com-
pulsory inoculation of dogs, and by watching arrivals,
extirpate the malady.
Major-General Sir Andrew Clarke, Inspector-General
of Fortifications has inspected the Submarine Corps of
the Ist Lancashire Engineers at Liverpool, and in some
remarks that he subsequently made pointed out that
the corps had shown what volunteers could do, and
the movement, having been successfully begun, had led
to the formation of similar crops at all great ports.
He thought that this great national defence might
safely be entrusted to local forces.
A traction engine was the other day drawing a heavy
boiler up a hill at Halifax, but when part of the way
up, ran down again. Efforts were made to obstruct its
progress, and it ran off the road into a park entrance,
where it did much damage, and the man who accom-
panied it was greatly injured—it is feared fatally. A
gentleman had one leg badly crushed, and it will have
to be amputated. The boiler fell from its waggon, and
knocked down the boundary wall of a school,

The total voting strength of the City for Parlia-
mentary elections is now 29,152, inclusive of duplicates,
that is, persons having votes in other divisions. It
Es computed that the Conservative majority is 6006.
In a statement just issued the Marriage Law Reform
Association say that close upon 700 candidates in Eng-
land, Scotland, and Wales have alreadygiven assurances
of their sympathy
..with the object of the Deceased
Wife's Sister Bill.

Information has been received at Berwick that
Jeckhouse and other wreckage have come ashore at
Farne Island. On the deckhouse is painted," Certified
to accommodate twelve seamen," showing that it must
!lave helot:iced to a vessel of large tonna&e,

/Still another death from hydrophobia. The latest
victim is a page- boy at Ealing named Butcher, who
was bitter: hy a, mad dog about five weeks ago. For
thirty hours before he died be was kept under chloro-
form, owing to the violence of his struggles. At the
inquest, Dr. Diplock declared his conviction that some
special measures were becoming necessary, in conse-
quence of the steady increase of hydrophobia.
A warrant has been issued for the apprehension of
Henry Allpass, F.R.S.L., late chief librarian and
curator of the Derby Free Library, Museum, and Art
Gallery, on a charge of alleged misappropriation of
moneys and falsification of accounts. Allpass met hia
committee at their last meeting, and wa3 to have
appeaved before that body again later on last week;
but he failed to do so, and it is under stood he has
absconded. At the adjourned meeting he was formally
dismissed from his post, and at a further special meet-
ing of the committee, Mr. W. Crowther, board school-
master, and for many years hon. secretary of the local
choral union, has been appointed his succesor. Allpass
held a similar appointment at Cardiff, prior to his going
to Derby, some three years ago, when he succeeded
Mr. Thomas Heath, F.R.H.S.
At the Dorchester Petty Sessions, Miss Sansom, a
lady of independent means, was summoned for keeping
a ferocious dog. The principal witness was Mrs.
Watson, the wife of a clergyman, who on going to call
on Miss Sansom was attacked by the animal and bitten
on the shoulder. Other witnesses also proved having
been bitten by the dog. When told by the policeman
that she would have to kill her dog or keep it muzzled,
Miss Sansom exclaimed, " What ! kill my dog? I
would rather kill anyone else in the village." • The
magistrates ordered the dog to be destroyed, with a
penalty of 20s a day in default.
The county coroner has held an inquest at Ports-
mouth respecting the death of Henry Allen, landlord of
the Black Dog, Gosport. The evidence showed that
the deceased's employer had discovered some dis-
crepancies in his accounts, and although the employer
had not spoken to him about it, the deceased was aware
that the matter had been found out. A verdict of
"Suicide whilst of unsound mind" was returned.
During the course of the enquiry one of the jurymen
asked if he might smoke. The coroner replied that he
did not think it would add to the dignity of the court,
and the juror said if it was against the law he would
not do 80.

Thomas Edwards, belonging to the schooner
Chyftndor, has been accidentally drowned in the South.
Dock at Swansea.
A labourer named Austin has been severely injured
whilst at work at Messrs. Robinson's tar works at West
Bromwich. He was emptying one of the furnaces when
some gas, which had accumulated, exploded, burning
him in a serious manner about the face and arms, and
necessitating his removal to the hospital.
Cardinal Manning and the Roman Cathorc bishops
of England have adopted a series of resolutions con-
demning secular irreligious education which is opposed
to the traditional Christian system of England, and ad-
vocating the multiplication of voluntary schools.

Thomas Palmer, a farmer, and a parishioner of the
Rev. John Sutcliffe, vicar of Germansweek, has
been fined £5 at Dicton, Devon, for having horse-
whipped the vicar outside his own church on Sunday,
the 27th of September. The irate farmer alleged that
the clergyman had been circulaang a false report that
three policemen were after him.
At the Leicester and Derbyshire Assizes, two
hawkers, named Joseph Leman and William Crossley,
were found guilty of highway robbery, with violence,
at Chesterfield. The judge said Leman had behaved
with great violence, and had perpetrated the very
offence for which the Legislature provided a special
punishment. He was therefore sentenced to 15 months'
imprisonment, and ordered him to receive 33 lashes
with the cat; and Crossley was sent to 13 months'
imprisonment.
An alarming fire has occurred at Jarrow-on-Tyne
The premises of Mr. George Pearson, grocer, were com-
pletely gutted, and the stock of furniture and clothing
destroyed. Pearson jumped from an upstairs window
into the street, and the servant and daughter were
rescued at the back by naeans of a ladder, and in their
night- dresses.
Numerous cases of cholera have occurred at Laredo,
in the province of Santander. Seyeral cases are also
reported from the mining districts in the province of
Biscay.
At Boston, George King, aged 41 years, of Swines-
head Fen, has been committed for trial, on the charge
of manslaughter of his wife. On the 21st ult. L.s the
prisoner was driving hr me with his wife, an accident
occurred, and she was killed. The allegation is that
the accident was caused through the prisoner being in
a state of intoxication.

Messrs. T. and 0. Debossay visited Kildysart on
Tuesday to receive the rents arising out of the estates
of Clonola, Coolmeen, Birin, and Coolnieen Beg. The
tenants, who were headed by Father Gleeson, the parish
priest, demanded a reduction of 25 per cent. Notwith-
standing that the estates are held at 5 per cent, under
the Government valuation, the agents agreed to
concede the reduction demanded, and the town was
subsequently illuminated in celebration of the event.
The decision of the arbitrators in the Elswick Works
dispute was given on Tuesday. Two reports have been
prepared by the umpire (Lord Ravensworth) and Mr.
Hall, who maintain that the charges against Mr.
M‘Donnell have not been made out, and another by
Mr. Joseph Cowen, who demurs to this statement. The
award, therefore, is in favour of the firm, the ruling of
the umpire being against the case of the men.
John Kew was found guilty 'at Derby Assizes for
stealing £6O, the property of the members aud five
trustees of the Marpool Peace and Goodwill Lodge of
the Order of Pure United Britons. The prisoner
received the money as secretary, and instead of invest-
ing it be went off to America. The offence was com-
mitted in 18S2. Ile was sentenced to six months' Lira
labour. _ -

An action brought by Mr. cicratton, a graduate of
Oxford, against the R3man Catholic Hierarchy, to
recover damages for wrongful dismissal as secretary to
the Catholic University, to which he had been ap-
pointed by Cardinal Newman, was on Tuesday tried
in Dublin before Mr. Baron Dowse and a Special Jury,
and resulted in a verdict for £3OO damages.
The October return of the Cleveland Ironmasters'
Association shows the following as the month's makes
of pig iron, namely, 156,000 tons of Cleveland iron and
48,000 tons of other kinds; a total of 204,000 tons, or
2090 tons more than in September. There are 95 fur-
naces blowing, 73 of which are making Cleveland pig
iron. Stocks increased 14,000 tons in October.
In view of the fact that the prices of hops have in
many instances fallen below the cost of production,
the Vicar of Ash-next-Sandwich (the Rev. E. S. Woods)
has announced his intention to remit this year the
extraordinary tithe due to hi a on the hop land LI his
parish.
Just after the arrival on Tuesday morning at Killa-
marsh, Derbyshire, of a train from Sheffield, a young
woman was crossing the railway when a Midland goods
train knocked her down and killed her, her head being
almost severed from the body.
At the Brompton County-court on Tuesday Mrs.
Langtry was summoned for an account of £l4 for goods
supplied by Mr. Day on tho order of Mrs. Langtry and
her servants six years ago. Mrs. Langtry did not
attend, but was represented by a solicitor. Evidence
showed that a previous account was paid by Mrs.
Langtry. On that occasion the char.ge from the
cheque was handed over to Mrs. Langtry. Plaintiff
stated he had called for his account, and that Mrs.
Langtry had sent him a message that she was sorry she
could not pay, but would do so when she could. No
evidence was called for the defence, and judgment was
given for the plaintiff.
In bicterly cold weather, and with snow on the
ground, the Queen, accompanied by the Duke and
Duchess of Connaught and a lady in waiting drove on
Tuesday afternoon in an open carriage to Braemar.
The streets of tho highland village were up with
drainage operations, and the drive of the Royal party to
Glenclunie had to be made by farm roads and the
private approaches to Kindrochit. The drive back to
Balmoral was made by the Queen's Drive and the
Lion's Face.

The President of the Local Government Board has
appointed Miss Me.f!on, who is well-known in connection
with philanthropic works on behalf of poor children, to
be an Inspector of Poor-law institutions under the
Board.

The Queen has forwarded, through General Sir H.
Ponsonby, her annual subscription of £5O to the Army
and Navy Pensioners' Employment Society, of which
her Majesty is patron
The station-master at the South Acton station of the
North London Railway, Mr. Bingham Hodson, died on
Monday night from the results of an accident at the
station on Saturday night. As a through train from
Richmond was about to pass he pressed the people
back, but fell himsBf backwards on the rails. He was
drawn aside by a porter before the train came in but
he sustained injuries to the spine which resulted fatally.
Advices from Singapore report that the Flying Cloud
steamer foundered in :six fathoms of water, about four
miles off Palo Remo, at midnight, on Sept. 18. In.
eluding crew and passengers, it is supposed that there
were 53 persons on board of whom 25 are missing.
On Tuesday the Queen's Bench Court made further
p-ogress with registration appeals, some of which were
decided. In the case of the owner of a plot of land at
Swanage, which had been bought for £75, the -tame had
been removed on the ground that the land was pro-
ducing nothing, but it was argued tlitat the question •
was not what it had produced for the qualifying year,
but what was its value. The appeal was allowed, and it
was said that 39 votes depended on it.
The King and Queen of Italy entertained Signor Tag-
liabue, a member of the Italian Exploring Society, to
dinner on Monday. Signor Tagliabue has a prosperous
commercial concern at Masao with, and has travelled
through much of the Soudan. After a two hours'
conversation with the King, he left, much impresed
with the knowledge of Africa displayed by his
Majesty.
Ellen Bryan, 43, and Kate Donovan, 34, were con-
victed at the Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday of stealing
a roll of flannel from the shop of a draper in the
Kentish-town-road. Bryan was sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment, and to complete an unexpired
term of three years' penal servitude. Donovan was
sent to prison for eighteen months.
Between the Ist April and the 31st October, the
Revenue receipts amounted to £44,807,330, as compared
with £45,193,783 in the corresponding period of last
year. The expenditure amounted to £53,655,874,
as against £49,180,601. On Saturday last there was a
balance in the Bank of England of £1,044,588, and in
Bank of Ireland of £943,580.

In Tuesday's sitting of the Netherlands Second
Chamber a Ministerial bill was brought forward for
amending the Constitution in regard to education. It
enacts that in place of requiring that adeouate primary
education shall everywhere be provided by the State,
each commune shall deal with the question of
primary education according to the needs of its popu-
lation. Primary education will only be provided by
the State where private initiative may fail. The bill
maintains the non-denominational character of public
schools.
Quarantine is now abolished on arrive./s at Alex-
andria, from Calcutta, Marseilles, Gibraltar, and Italy,
except Sicily. It will, however, be imposed on arrivals
from Tonquin.
A telegram received from St. Thomas of Tuesday's
date reports that in consequence of the bad treatment
of foreigners by the Haytain Government the repre-
sentatives of England and I%ance have applied to their
Gevemments for the desrAch of war vessels.

Prince and Princess Albrecht of Prussia made their
formal entry into Brunswick on- Mondity,-whither the
the Prince has "gone to assume the regency of the-
Duchy. In addressing the Council of Regency,Prince
Albrecht promised to-maintain Edoa-relations with the
Emperor and Empire of Germany.
A deputation from the council of the Evangelical
Alliance had an interview on Monday at the Foreign
Office with Mr. Bourke, the Under Secretary, with
reference to the persecutions of Christians in Turkey.
Mr. Bourke, after hearing the views of the deputation,
promised that the additional information presented by
them should be forwrrded to Constantinople with in-
structions to make inquiries, and he felt quite sure
that her Majesty's representative there would do the
best in his .power.
According to the present arrangements, her Majesty
the Queen, accompanied by the Prince and Princess
Henry of Battenberg, will arrive at Windsor Castle
from the North on Tuesday., Nov. 24.
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Lord Salisbury arrived in London en Monday from
Hatfield. He still wears his arm in a sling, but
otherwise appears in his usual health. His lordship
remained all the afternoon at the Foreign Office, where
he had interviews with the Russian and Italian
Ambassadors.

A woman named Ann Roberts, 65 years of age, has
met a terrible death at Edinburgh. Going to a window
in the roof ot the house, she divested herself of most of
her clothing, and then leaped headlong into the street.
She died almost instantaneously. She had for a long
time been in a low frame of mind.
Subjoined is a telegram from the Governor of Gib-
raltar to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated
ov. 2, 1885: "No cases of cholera at Gibraltar for 20
days; inform press."
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It has been definitely arranged that Mr. Gladstone
will leave Hawarden for Scotland on Monday, the 9th
Inst.

The judges in the Queen's Bench Division on Monday,
reversing a deci,ion of the Revising Barrister for St.
Pancras, decided that shop assistants who singly in-
habited furnished bedrooms belonging-, to their employer
were entitled to be placed on the register.
At North Shields, on Monday, Captain Dundas, of
the steamer Ecosiaso, of Aberdeen, was fined £5 and
costs for allowing his vessel to be overloaded. The
Board of Trade prosecuted.
On Monday afternoon a boiler exploded at Messrs.
Deaville Brothers, provision and general stores, at
Stockport. The premises were completely wrecked,
and the three members of the firm, Messrs. George,
Joshua, and Isaac Denville, were buried in the ruins.
They were rescued with great difficulty and conveyed
to the hospital, where it was found that they were
severely injured. The ruins caught fire, but the flames
were soon subdued.

William Baker, the man who was apprehended in
connection with the burglary at Netherby Hall and the
subsequent murder and outrages, has succeeded in satis-
fying the police as to his whereabouts at the time in
question, and was discharged from custody at Carli sle
on Monday. Several persons have identified the remain-
ing prisoners as three of the men they saw making off
about the time of the robbery.
At Birmingham, on Monday, a coroner's jury re-
turned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against some
person or persons unknown in the case of Alfred
Hartley, an ironworker, who was found kicked to death
and robbed at Smethwick.

A farm labourer, named Owen 11`Gi11, of Wood
church, Birkenhead, is in custody for the murder of
his wife, who had apparently been kicked in a brutal
manner.

Ernest Payne, a barman, has been charged at the
Thames Police-court, with attempting to murder a
young woman, named Oharlotte Douglas, by cutting
her throat, and also with attempting to commit suicide.
After evidence had been given by the prosecutrix, the
prisoner was remanded.
The hunting season opened on Monday in favourable
weather, and the Quorn, Craven, Meynell, Old
Berkeley, and other meets were largely attended.
Foxes were quickly unearthed, and capital runs
afforded in several instances. The prospects of the
season are very encouraging, and almost all the hunt-
ing lodges in the shire are already tenanted.
The prizes awarded to the boys and girls who were
trained at the homes of the National Refuges for
Homeless and Destitute Children, for keeping their
situations, have been distributed by Sir R. W. Carden,
M.P., at the Albert Palace, Battersea-park. The prizes
consisted of desks, work-boxes, and medals, three of the
latter being of silver
Mr. Frank mock, an accountant, went to a mill in
A.shton-urtder-Lyne on Monday to induce voters
working there to go and poll for one of the municipal
candidates, and was killed by a hoist while going from
one part of the building to another.
A largely attended conference of union and non-
union delegates from the leading collieries inYorkshire
assembled at Barnsley on Monday. After considerable
discussion, it was resolved that the officials be em-
powered to demand 15 per cent, advance, and abide by
whatever resolutions rt,e carried at the Manchester
Conference. Mr. Piolrard was instructed to write to
the secretary of the West Yorkshire Colliery Owners,
requesting an early interview. The conference also
resolved that no colliery owner wishing to make
arrangements for advrne.. fineve.l te do so unless on
rearranged pric,-s. nal able until Mar next.
At Leicester. on Monday, before Mr. Justice Denman,
between 20 and 30 men, and one woman, were indicted
for being concerned in the recent unionist riots at
Ilkeston. A dispute ocaurred at the colliery, and the
defendants tried to prevent the non-unionists frotri
working, destroying much property. The Judge gpoke
of their cowardly conduct, and they were bound over to
come up for judgment when called upon.
At an influential meeting ef Manchester ,citizens,
convened by the Mayor, and attended, amongst others,
by a large number of leading Nonconformists, it has
been unanimously decided to erect a statue to the late
Bishop of Manchester in some conspicuous position in
the city. A Representative Committee was formed to
give effect to the resolution, and it was stated that, as
tho funds promised so largely exceed the amount
required, a further form of memorial would probably be
considered.

At Spalding Police.court on Monday, William
Kit chin, aged 35, was charged with the wilful murder
of Harriet Hoe, aged 19, his stepdaughter, on Saturday
night. The prisoner was quarrelling with his wife,
when the girl, hearing a disturbance, got out of bed,
went down and interfered. The prisoner became
enraged, and, it is stated, threw a paraffin lamp at her.
It struck the wall behind her head, and broke in pieces.
The oil was scattered about her clothes, which ignited,
and she was barned in a terrible manner in every 'Part
except her head and face. She died on Monday morn-
ing. The prisoner was remanded.
The Indian delegates now in this country spoke on
Monday night on Indian affairs at a meeting held at
the Albert Hall, Swansea, at which 3000 persons were
present. Mr. Dillwyn, M.P., presided. The audience
adopted resolutions expressing the opinion that Indian
affairs should have a bearing on the general election,
and that the Indians were entitled to a voice in the
government of their country.
A sentence of five years' penal servitude was on Mon-
day passed on the Exeter accountant for embezzling
between £4OOO and £5OOO belonging to a building
society, of which he was the manager. He had been
large speculator in a mining business, and said that a
good deal of the money had been applied to keep a mine
going.
The number of visitors to the International Inven-
tions Exhibition last week was J 09,892, the total siIICO
the opening being 3,596,254.
Mrs. Weldon, in alighting from a carriage on Satur-
day, slipped and sprained her ankle. Some reports
state that she "fell heavily" to the ground; but that
is surely ungallant.
It was reported at a meeting of London HospitaiSatur-
day Fund delegates on Saturday evening that since the
previous meeting £3OOO had been paid into the bank.
So far the workshop collection has not realised expec-
tations. This is attributed to the widespread .depres-
sion in trade.