The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-02-17 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Royal Opera House at Toronto, Canada, has
been burnt. The loss is estimated at 75,000 dole.

The site of the notorious Black Hole of Calcutta is
to be marked by a monument erected by the Asiatic
Society of India to the memory of 146 British pri-
soners confined in the dungeon on June 20, 1756, when
123 of the number perished.

A splendid salmon, weighing 551 b., and measuring
47iin. in length, and 28iin. in girth, which had been
caught in the Tay, near Perth, has been exhibitei in
London. This fish is the heaviest salmon which has
been taken in the Tay for many years past.
It is stated that the Post Office authorities have
been in communication with the Lords of the Trea-
sury, and that it is now definitely arranged that the
new Parcels Post will come into operation on the let
of June.

On the beach between Chesil and Bridport a large
quantity of wreckage has been washed ashore, includ-
ing a portion of the deck of a vessel and oil and spirit
kegs.

Spain has been visited by floods, and much damage
has been done to the town of Padrou, in Galicia, as
well as the corn fields in the neighbourhood. In one
quarter the residents were got out of their homes by
means of long poles.
Peculiar illustrations of the "Canny Boot "—The
Château Scott, Cannes.—Punch.
The Glasgow Fire Brigade were summoned on
Sunday afternoon to a fire at the brass foundry of
Messrs. Adam Clark and Co., in Buchanan-street.
One of the number, named John Morrison, was over-
come by the smoke in the building, and although
quickly removed to the station, died.
On Saturday Mr. John Adams, tenant of Easter
Cowdon Farm near Dalkeith, was killed while out
shooting, by the accidental discharge of his gun. Mr.
Adams was passing through a gate when the trigger of
the gun was caught by shrubs, and he received the shot
in his forehead causing instant death.
The production of books and maps in Germany,
including new editions, during 1882 reached 14,794,
as against 15,191 in 1881. Natural science, law, and
theology are all more weakly represented. Mathe-
matics, philosophy, and modern languages show an
increase.

It appears from a report of the general direction of
the Crown lands in Italy that more than 60,000 small
proprietors have been expelled on account of inability
to pay the taxes. Several deputies, in consequence,
Ave prayed the Minister of Finance to bring forward
the Bill for the abolition of the quota mtnime of the
property tax,

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A Philadelphia telegram says that the stage coach
in Wyoming territory was snowed up on Friday in
last week, and the occupants started to walk to
Rawlins station. The driver Was found frozen to
death, standing in the snow. Thomas Scott, super.
intendent of the stage line, was also found, standing in
the snow, frozen so that he could not move. He will,
it is feared, lose his hands ani feet.

A melancholy accident occurred in the neighbour-
hood of Banbury last Saturday. Wbile a Mr. itogerg,
who had taken up his quarters for the season at Cul-
worth, a village nine miles from Banbury, was return-
ing from a meet of the Bicester Hounds, ha appears to
have got into deep water at Trafford-bridge, a some-
what dangerous place between Calworth and Edgcote.
His horse was unable to keep its feet, and both the
man and the horse were carried away and drowned.

Sir Wilfrid Lawson has intimated that he will, on
an early day after the meeting of Parliament, ask
what steps the Government propose to take towards
carrying out the resolution twice affirmed by the House
of Commons in favour of local option.

The clerk of the peace for Lancashire reports having
received returns from all parts of the county showing
the rapid spread of foot-and-mouth disease among the
herds. The disease is spreading most rapidly in
North, South, and East Lancashire. The most rigor-
ous measures are being taken to arrest the spread of
contagion,

A New York telegram says that the visible supply
of wheat on Feb. 9 was 22,300,000 bushels, as against
21,900,000 bushels the previous week. Visible supply
of Indian corn, 10,700,000 bushels, as against 9,600,000
bushels the previous week. The export clearances of
wheat for Europe during last week amounted to
860,000 bushels; the export clearances of Indian corn
for Europe during last week amounted to 1,240,000
bushels.

Nearly one hundred and fifty million cords of wood
are burned every year in the United States, this
amount being valued at three hundred and twenty-
one million dollars. In North Carolina alone there
are fifteen million acres of unimproved land, nearly all
of this vast territory being covered with valuable wood
of some kind. In fifteen countries there are said to
be now standing five million feet of long leaf pine
alone.
Salmon fishing opened in the North of Scotland on
Monday. The prospects were good, but the swollen
state of the rivers operated against large takes. As it
was, however, good hauls were got, especially in the
Don, 200 fine clean salmon being taken out of one
pool. On the Dee and Deveron also the prospects of
the season are unusually good. The fish are in fine
condition, there being no indication of disease. Large
supplies were sent to London and the South. Salmon
is:selling in Aberdeen at 2s. per pound.

"The world is poorer by another great man.
Richard Wagner died on Tuesday at Venice, in his
seventieth year; ani thus suddenly, almost without
warning, and in a city which, however, full of
poetical associations, is entirely alien to his genius,
the greatest musician of our time disappears from
the scene of his struggles and his triumphs."—Leader
in Wednesday's Times.

In London, on Friday evening, a man entered the
St. John's-wood Station of the Metropolitan Railway,
and passing quickly through the booking office' went
on to the gallery over the line, turned his back to the
hand-rail and threw himself over on to the down line,
falling about 40 feet. The man was speedily removed
to the hospital, where he expired at two o'clock on
Saturday morning. He was formerly a ticket-collector
in the service of the company.
The Mayor of Reading, Mr. Blackall Simonds, cele-
brated on Friday in last week the formal opening of
the Reading Free Library, &c., by entertaining about
1,000 of his fellow-townsmen in the new suite of
buildings recently erected in Reading, at a cost of
nearly £60,000. The Free Library, Reading-room,
and Museum, and also Schools of Science and Art,
are attached to these buildings, and as each depart-
ment has been completed it has been opened at once
to the public.
On Monday an inquest was held at Burnley on th.-
body of Peter Shaw, whose body, together with that
of the young woman with whom he had kept company,
was found in the canal at that town. The jury, after
full consideration' came to the conclusion that both
persons had been blown into the water by the high
winds which prevailed. An open verdict was re-
turned.

While hunting on Monday with the Vale of White
Horse hounds at Foes-bridge, near Cirencester, Mrs.
A. Elwes was thrown from her horse, and kicked
violently in the face. The unfortunate lady (who is a
daughter of Mr. Octaviue Coope, M.P.) lies in a
critical condition.

The trial of Mr. William O'Brien, M.P., on a charge
of seditious libel, ended on Saturday in a disagree-
ment of the jury, and they were dpcharged. As soon
•as the news of the result of the trial reached London,
Mr. Parnell despatched the following telegram to the
new member for Mallow :—" I congratulate Tou most
heartily upon your virtual acquittal, which is of the
utmost importance to the cause of freedom of speech
and writing in Ireland.'

Speaking at the Sheffield School of Art on Monday
night Mr. Mundella, M.P., referred to the necessity
if England was to compete with foreign makers of
combining art with manufactures. He believed that
in these days cheapness was not so important as beauty
in form, colour, and texture. He urged workmen to
attend schools of art not merely for prizes; but for the
advantages a knowledge of art would give, and said he
should be thankful if some effort was made to retain
the splendid offer Mr. Ruskin had made to the town,

Madame Christine Nilsson has returned to Cihiciggo
She has thus far given 36 concerts with unchanged suc-
cess, the total receipts amounting to 160,000 dollars.

A steam boat has been burred near Seattle
Washington territory. Five of the persons on board
perished.
The official return of the expenses incurred by the
candidates at the late Cambridge University Election
has just been issued. The expenses of Mr. Cecil
Raikes are returned at £1,448 6s. 4d., and those of
Professor Stuart at £BB4 Os. sd.

Under the head of "Conscience Money" the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer acknowledges in The Times
the receipt of the first half of a £lO-note from " A. 8."
on account of income-tax.

The principal fissure at Peterborough Cathedral has
increased in width, the heavy gales probably being the
cause.

A St. Petersburg telegram says that the settaity of
the season has produced some remarkable effects in
exposed districts. The village of Rajewski, an iso.
lated spot, has during a whole week been besieged by
wolves.

It is stated that the late M. Gambetta's father, who
has kept every letter that his son ever wrote to him,
even in early childhood, contemplates publishing the
entire collection at no distant date.

Last weeks receipts of cotton at all United States
ports were 164,000 bales ; since Ist September, 1882,
4,447,000 bales. Week's exports to Great Britain
79,000 bales; week's exports to the Continent, 48,000
bales. Total since Ist September, 2,941,000 bales.
Stack at all ports, 924,000 bales.

The ship Eliora, 1,125 tons, Captain W. Haffenden,
chartered by Sir Saul Samuel, IC.C.M G., Agent.
General for New South Wales, sailed from Plymouth
for Sydney on Friday in last week, with 852 emigrants,
under the supervision of Dr. R. Scot Skirving, as
surgeon superintendent, with Mies Bent in charge of
the single women.
Wild cats still haunt South Germany, although their
existence was not suspected till the recent floods
drove the creatures from their homes. One hunter
shot two in an hour, each cat being the size of a well-
grown fox.

A walk from Rome to Paris in twenty•eight days
is shortly to be undertaken by a practised Italian
pedestrian for a wager. The winnings will be given
to the victims of the floods in France and Italy.

The new order relating to vagrants is working most
satisfactorily in Yorkshire. The tramps, it is said,
complain bitterly, and their numbers have decreased
50 to 70 per neat.
An inquest has been held at Preston on the body of
a youth named John Blundell, son of a Fleetwood
fisherman. On Monday in last week the deceased fell
on some spikes, wounding his thigh. The wound was
healing, but lockjaw set in, and the poor lad died. A
verdict of "Death from natural causes" was returned.

Her Majesty the Queen was married on Feb. 10,
1840, to the late Prince Albert, of Saxe-Coburg Gotha.
Thus, Saturday was the forty-third anniversay. The
Prince Consort died Dec. 14, 1861.

The supply of live stock and fresh meat from the
United States and Canada during last week to Liver-
pool showed a very slight increase in cattle, and a
somewhat large one in sheep. The quantity of fresh
meat landed also showed an increase on the previous
week's supply. The total shipments for the week
amounted to 963 cattle, 2,014 sheep, 8,069 quarters of
beef, and 1,638 carcases of mutton.

Statistics of the Russian prisons show that thiring
the six months ending with the year 1880 no fewer
than 1,52 prisoners of all sorts effected their escape
from the various prisons, police stations, disciplinary
companies, and military convoys on the road to their
destinations.

Sir Alex. Galt, High Commissioner for Canada,
speaking at the annual meeting of the Liverpool
Chamber of Commerce, said England would find it to
her interest to develope her Colonial Empire as rapidly
as possible, and that if obliged to part with our surplus
population, we must use every effort to retain them as
customers in the British Colonies, and not let them go
elsewhere.

The system of using oil In stormy weather at sea is
evidently a great and useful discovery. The captain
of the steamer Stannore, from Swansea to New York,
ascribes her safety during a storm entirely to the fact
of her towing a leaking bag of oil when running before
the wind.

The morning service at the Wesleyan Chapel,
Burslem, was brought to an abrupt termination on
Sunday. The preacher had just given out the text
when a flame was seen to burst from the floor near the
heating apparatus. The chapel was speedily cleared,
and the fire was isolated by cutting a hole in the floor
The damage was not great.

The Berliner Press Verein gave a ball on Saturday
night, at the Central Hotel, Berlin, for the benefit of
the sufferers by the Rhine floods. Nearly 50,000 marks
were collected. Many members of Parliament, as
well as most of the leaders of politics, art, science,
and literature were present.
The blacksmiths and carriage-makers of Vienna
have struck work. They ask for 10 hours' daily work,
holidays on Sundays and other days, and a weekly
wages minimum of 10fl. The association of masters,
at a meeting, agreed to offer 10 hours as the limit of
daily work, but the request for a cessation of labour
on Sundays was rejected.

On Tuesday the large twisting mill in connection
with Messrs. R. F. and J. Crofthead's thread works,
near Milston, Renfrewshire, was totally destroyed by
fire. The premises were seven storeys in height, and
contained much valuable machinery. About 500
persons will be thrown out of employment. The
damage is estimated at £50,000.

The Marquis of Lorne, in delivering the inaugural
speech in the Dominion Parliament, congratulated the
country on the prosperous state of the finances, and
exrressed the expectation that the Pacific Railway
would reach the Rocky Mountains before the expira-
tion of the present year. During his trip in the
United States he rejoiced to observe evidences of the
regard of the American people of the British Empire.
He also referred to the expediency of assimilating
the electoral franchise of the different provinces of the
Dominion.

On Monday afternoon a deputation of social and
temperance reformers waited upon Dr. Cameron hi. P.,
at Glasgow, to ask him to introduce into Parliament
a Bill giving effect to local option by means of repre-
sentative boards. Dr. Cameron was not prepared to
introduce the measure for Scotland, because the
temperance reformers were not all agreed upon the
subject of representative boards; but he was willing
to support a measure embracing their desires, if it was
introduced by some other member.

A Calcutta telegram says that a determined attempt
to escape has been made by a large number of convicts
at Rangoon Gaol. Forty or fifty prisoners over-
powered the warders and tried to force their way out,
but were stopped by the police guard firing on them.
One man was killed and four or five were wounded.
A farmer in Douglass County, Nebraska, writing to
a friend, says :—" I have had a visit from the Marquis
of Lorne. Along with him were the Princess Louise
and suite. They came up to my house and stayed for
three hours, and the Princess took a sketch of my
whole place—farm-house, stabling, wire fence, and all
the trees I had planted myself about three years
since. The Marquis and Princess both shook hands
with me when they came up, but did not say who
they were for more than an hour."

Her Majesty's ships forming the squadron on the
West Indies and North American station are about to
visit Puerto Cabello, off which place the body of Sir
Francis Drake; enclosed in a lead coffin, was dropped
into the sea. Vice-Admiral Sir John Commerell is
said to have taken up most heartily a suggestion made
to him while the fleet was at one of the islands that an
attempt should be made to recover the coffin upon
the ships reaching Puerto Cabello.

The Solicitor• General for Scotland, speaking at
Peterhead, said it might be found that self•govern-
ment could not be carried out in Egppt, but in justice
it ought to be tried. The route to the East by Egypt
might be held as being one of the most substantial of
British interests, and this justified our intervention in
Egyptian affairs.

According to Bradstreet's, the estimated output of
coal in the United States last year was 86,259,000 tons
gross. This shows an increase of very nearly 10,000,000
tons upon the gross total for the preceding year, the
greater part of which falls to the bituminous coal of
Pennsylvania. In 1880 the total production was
fully 20,000;000 tons less than that of last year, and
the total outputs of 1870 was only 33,111,000 tons, or
about 38 per cent. of the figures for 1882.

A contest for the 50 miles professional walking
championship and a stake of £5O took place on Mon-
day at the Prince of Wales's Ground, Bow. The com-
petitors were J. Hibberd and A. Hancock. Unfortu-
nately the weather was so unpropitious as to preclude
the possibility of their making fast time. Hibberd led
throughout, and his opponent retired after walking
16 miles; he was then a mile in the rear. The winner
walked his first eight miles in 1 hour 2min. 35sec., 15
miles in 2 hours 50 sec., and 17 miles in 2 hours 19min.
Hancock's 16 miles occupied 2 home 20m1n. 30sec.
Mr. Osborne Morgan, M.P., replied, at a Liberal
meeting at Bath, to a resolution of confidence in the
Government. He said that as a result of his own ex-
perience there never was a time when England stood
so high in the estimation of Europe. Our position in
Egypt was gradually becoming well defined; we
desired to see its Government safe from internal
anarchy and foreign domination until Egypt could
take her place among free Governments. No one
could regret more than the Liberals that Ireland
could not be governed by ordinary law. Ever since
they came into office the Ministry had been striving
to give good government to Ireland, and it was now
time to take up the dropped thread of English
legisla-
tion.

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Harrovians will hear with sorrow of the death of
Mrs. Montagu Butler, wife of the Headmaster.
Daughter of Mr. Edward Francis Elliot, of Madras,
and granddaughter of the Right Hon. Hugh Elliot,
sometime Minister of the Court of Frederick the
Great, she had inherited her full share of the social
charm of that gifted family. Her devotion to Harrow
and to all connected with the School was unbounded.
Her last token of affection for the school was to pre-
sent it, on Founder's day, October 12 of last year,
with a new bell, the old one bang worn out and
broken. She was able, with some effort, but with
keen enjoyment, to welcome her guests on the even-
ing of that day, but since then her strength rapidly
declined, and she died on Sunday of a painful illness,
just as the boys were going to the early morning
chapel, in the 45th year of her age.
Speaking at a dinner in the Nottinghamshire
Chamber of Agriculture and the Nottinghamshire
Agricultural Society, Lord Galway hoped the session
would produce practical benefits for the agriculturists.
There were plenty of agricultural theorists, but he had
not faith in them. County boards were one scheme of
theorists, but such boards would not work more
economically than those who had a large interest in
the taxation of the country. He did not think the
law of distress inflicted grievances on the bulk of the
agriculturists. He hoped for something from the
relief of taxation,

Fashions for sumnagr.—Excursion trains.—Cheap
literature.—A Volunteer Boyle w.—/Ifoonahine.
A boiler exploded on Friday at some file works
at Taylors Ville, Illinois, five men being killed and two
Injured.

Mr. Morgan Lloyd, Q. 0,, M.P., has prepared a bill,
which he intends to introduce in the forthcoming
session, to render it unlawful for persons to be pos-
sessed of or to carry revolvers without a licence.
Lord Tredegar, who owns extensive estates in Mon-
mouthshire, Breconshire, and Glamorgansbire, ethic
rent audit on Monday, granted his tenants an abate-
ment of 10 per cent, on the amount of their rents.

Up to the Bth inst., money remittances, on behalf
the victims of the Rhine inundations, to the amount of
580,853 m. had been received at Berlin from the
German citizens of the United States.

The Panama Star and Herald of the 18th nit. speaks
of a comet being visible there from nine to ten p.m.,
directly overhead.
The ship Duke of Devonshire, Captain Long, left
Plymouth for Brisbane on the sth inst., having on
board 228 families, 199 single men, 59 single women—
equal to 562 souls.

Durfpg.the gale at Plymouth on Monday, while the
Italian brigantine Querinti Stampalia was making the
port, a tremealous wave broke over her, carrying
away three of the crow, who were immediately washed
out of sight.

Sir Saul Samuel, agent-geneol for New South
Wales has been informed by telegram of the arrival
in Sydney of the ship Elute7e, which sailed from
Plymouth with emigrants in October last.
A large Norwegian barque has struck on the rocks
at Sumburgh Head, Lerwick, and it is Isupposed that
aU hands have perished. Papers floated ashore showed
that the vessel belonged to Arendal, Norway.

On Saturday night, during a terrible storm, the
Jahn Gustave, a French trading schooner from Dun-
kirk for Brest, went ashore in Bandown Bay and
became a complete wreak. The crew of four men and
a boy took to the rigging when the vessel struck, and
with the exception of one man who was drowned,
were rescued by the coastguard.

The London Clothworker's Oompany having plaoed
the sum of £250 at the disposal of Lord Woleeley for
any military charity he considered it would be most
worthily bestowed upon, his lordship recommended
the "Cambridge Fund for old and disabled soldiers
as being, in his opinion, the most deserving of assist.
'ince, and the above amount ha l accordingly been
placed by the company to the credikof this Fund.
At Newbury, on Monday, about sixty persons,.
agricultural labourers and others, left their homes,
North Hant 3 and West Berks, and proceeded by rail
to Plymouth en route for Queensland. In confe-
quence of the continued wet weather and the floods
agricultural operations have been stopped in the above
districts for some time past, and numbers of mm n aro
out of employment.

An inquest has been held at Birkenhead on the
body of Ann Lunt, widow, who was burned to death
at Neston, near Birkenhead, The deceased had been
ill for a few days, and on Friday evening in last
week was left alone in the house for a short time. On
the return of the nurse, the deceased was found lying
on the floor burnt in a shocking manner. A paraffin
lamp had ignited her clothes, and life was extinct.
The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."
The Cambridge crew met with an alarming accident
while practising on the Ouse on Monday afternoon.
The river was very high and the wind strong, and the
boat when near the railway bridge, about 200 yards
from Appleyard's, was swamped. All the men could
swim with the exception of Mr. Hunt, the coxswain.
Mr. Fairbairn went after him, and after much diffi-
culty both reached the shore safely.

A singular accident happened at Stockton on Mon
day. A mourning coach, with four occupants, was
being driven over Stockton Bridge, when the horse
rushed upon the footpath and leaped over the parapet,
breaking the shaft and part of the harness. The horse,
carrying with it portions of the shafts and the funeral
trappings, fell into the river thirty feet below, and
swam nearly 500 yards down stream, landing on the
river bank little or none the worse for its leap.

A public meeting convened by the North London
Radical Association was held on Saturday evening, to
protest against the continued exclusion of Mr. Brad-
laugh from the House of Commons. - Mr. Bradlaugh,
whe addressed the gathering, stated that if it were
true, as had been announced, that the Cabinet intended
as a Government measure to introduce an Affirma-
tion Bill, he should feel it his duty to wait ant* such
a measure had been dealt with before be exercised his
right.

Forty•one theatres were burnt down last year in dif-
ferent parts of the world, according to a Hamburg
statistician. Of these the United States claim the
largest number, 17, England comes next with 7, and
Russia follows with 5 theatrical conflagrations. Four
theatres were consumed in German, 2 apiece in France
and Spain, and in Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria, and
Roumania.

Last week 2,888 births and 1,631 deaths were regis-
tered in London. Allowing for increase of popula-
tion, the births exceeded by 44, whereas the deaths
were as many as 376 below the average numbers in
the corresponding weeks of the last ten years. The
annual rate of mortality from all causes, which had
been equal to 204 and 211 per 1,000 in the two pre-
ceeding weeks, was 21'5 last week.

The body of a respectable man, named Carmichael,
was discovered floating in the dock at Kirkcaldy, on
Tuesday. It is supposed that he was blown into the
harbour by the fury of the gale.

At the Forth Bridge Railway Company's half
yearly meeting in Edinburgh on Tuesday, it was
stated that the contracts for the erection of the bridge
had been entrusted to Sir Thomas S. Tankard, Am!,
and Co., who undertook the completion of the work
within five years from the 21st December last, the
contract price being £1,590,000. The connecting lines
will be constructed only as the bridge approaches com-
pletion.
A meeting of the Council of the Nottingham Liberal
Union was held on Tuesday night in the Masonic
Hall of that town. A resolution was adopted affirm-
ing the claim of a duly elected representative to take
his seat in the House of Commons without reference
to any question of his religious opinions, and urging
upon Parliament to reform the existing practice by
the substitution of the affirmation for the oath now
required from members of the House of Commons.
A Times' telegram says that a negro living in Paola,
Kansas, on Wednesday night in lad week, assaulted
and brutally ill-treated a little negro girl. The man
was arrested on Thursday. The same night a mob
attacked the gaol, intending to lynch him. The
Sheriff, however, with his assistants, beat them off,
killing one man, while the Sheriff's son and two others
were wounded. The mob made a second attack on the
gaol on Friday, and forced an entrance, battering
their way on to the negro's cell. Hearing them coming,
he killed himself. They thereupon dragged the corpse
out, and hung it to a tree.
The Journal de Rome narrates that a strange inci-
dent occurred during the requiem mass for Pius IX„
in the Sistine Chapel. Shortly after it began one of
the Pontifical chamberlains, accompanied by a Swiss
guard, requested two ladies, very correctly dressed in
black, with black veil.', to leave the chapel, and
politely conducted them to the door. The abolition of
the ticket of admission hitherto required has not met
with unanimous approval in the Vatican.

Seventy•four British and foreign actual shipwrecks
were reported during last week, making a total of 351
for the present year, or an increase of 136 as compared
with the corresponding period of last year, the in-
crease for the week being 40. British-owned vessels
numbered 41, eight were steamers, with an aggregate
tonnage of 4,327 tons, four being British steamer,,
with a tonnage of 3,047 tons. Total tonnage lost for
the week, 17,183 tons. Total number of lives lost and
missing, 134.

Dr. Thomas has held an inquiry at the University
College Hospital, London, as to the death of Arthur
Joseph Brown, aged 23, of Watford, who died from
injuries received on the London and North Western
Railway, On Thursday in last week, which was
stated to be the deceaged's birthday, he was standing
on the platform of Watford station when the 4,15
down train arrived. After the passengers had alighted,
this being one of the suburban stopping trains, the
station-master directed it to be shunted out. Whilt.
it was prooeeding along some iron clamps that had
been put on the luggage van fell off. Deceased went
on to the line to pick them up, and while running to
put them back into the luggage van he fell over a box
and one of his legs went under the horse-break next to
the van and was frightfully crushed. He was imme-
diately placed in a carriage and taken to London and
carried to the above hospital, where he died from his
injuries three hours after admission. Verdict, "Acci-
dental death."