The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-08-08 00:00:00

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE AT TIP lON.

,! A fatal and melancholy accident occurred about
eight o'clock on 'Thursday morning, w:len Mr. Wm.
ida (2.-1). grocer, of Owen Street, Tipton, was si,ut
,ican b) his trienu an companiun, Mr. David l'ear.
sun, irunfoundcr, of the same pl, cp. Mr. Jusepn
a brother of the deceas,u, was present, fli.t ii
.tppcars that the party were pigeon-shooting in a
licid at the back of the Tip on (3laswork, Mr.
Pearson had shut once Lulu a duuble-iarreiled gun.
when Mr. WilliamitMills stepped forward to stait ii
bird. He:was not seen by Mr. real son, alai the
contents or the second oairet entered his lun,!s an
he wks kil.ed on the spot. Mr. rearscit at oneki
gave hunt:cif up to he police, and s.ooied grist
less of wind ii. bavi. g hcitn the caune of he
Math of a very intimate friend. The ~eee B•ii was
unmarried, and was the youngest partner in tire Jilin
or Messrs. Mills Brotuere, grocers and pro..i.i.uti
merchants, who in adoitii.n to the aloe in Owen
Street, 'Tipton, have establishments a the Pa; atle,
6Pritid Hill, and other parts of Birmingham. Mr.
k'ears'in is also unmarried, and very reTectably
..:onnee ed. He is of the firm of Messrs. Davies stud
Pearson, ironfounders, Tipton.
At the Pollee Court, later in the day. Mt . rearson
.vas taken before De. Underhill and formally !e-
-asaudad, bail being accepted.—The evident::: showcd
that a servant man, named Utit:rge Yates, accom-
panied the shooting party. The traps were lixed,
sad Josepn Mills fired at the first pigeon released.
i'tiarsou then fired at his bird, and missed. tie
waited for a second or so, and toeu hreu again, but
I:. tne very short interval Mr. M:lls had
,ixpptd iorward partially in frynt r .b.e. muzzle,
a“ki he received the wnole 01 the obar,ie in 1115 lungs
rates went at once for a surgeon, is hose service:, of
i...9tirse were of no avail. The sad evut as caused
painful sensation in Tipton an s the oistrict,
witere all the parties are well-known and t

A.GZ.NTS A.N .ED to Push -"la 's /14"1e1Y
Liberai Coax_ i _o 2. Posttiffi et
Laiveapoul.

COMMENTS ON CURRENT THINGS.
Trewhictory of strikes at A lock-onts contains the
record of many strange n.rd regrettable incidents,
last probatily of none arising from a cause mre
singular than that chronicled as haying occurred a
d 0.% or two ago at Carlton Aida tlolliery, in South
Yorkshire district. A young man died stridenly in
the pit. one of the most important in Yorkshire,
_tad in consequrnce the rn• n ceased vrorkin4 tor the
remainder ( f the day. When ;lay day came round
the ; it-manager deducted hal'-a crown each from
the wages of the men in respect of the lost time
From his action a dispute arose, the men demand—
ing the return of the am ant held btick, and tee
in,n.tgement refusibg to a etede. Therenpon en-ued
I a strike, throwing over six hundred persons out of
work. Such a misuoderstandingbetiveen workmen
and employer is not at all pleasaut to hear of
edpeciao3, when its occasion is so sad an event. It
would perha; a have teen too much to expect that
the owners of the mine would beat the e hole
amount of the loss of time occasioned by the death
of one of their workmen at the post of duty, if that
toss of time is jurly repiesented by the money
"stepped" out of the men's wages, but an arrange-
, ment, one would think, could easily have been come
to whereby a reasorahly long cessation of work in
I consequence of the painful event might have been
allowed withant pecuniary loss to the pitmen, even
if they had had to do a "shift" longer to make up
for the interval oslled by the relentless hand of
death.- Surely a new conquest be the Destroyer
who treats employers and employed all ke i not ah
I incident over which masters and men should quarrel.

ALFRED EDIEONDI, of Halesowin, has been the
hilder, it seen.s, if ideas as to the rights of man
which the mat,iritrates of the town v.ry proper y
reg.ird as irregul r and not lightly to be allowed.
His mistaken views have, in short. obtained for the
man the privilege of a month's hard tabour in one
of her Majeot3'd gaols, to be followed by twelve
mon, hs in wuieh the pulice Wilt accord to him their
special s.ipervisiog care. Edmonds systematically
ill-tremed and ass:.ulted the woman he had sworn
to cherish, turni-ii he; into, the street's, and on
..everal occasions elm- St kill d her. At length,
being detected in an act of brutal outrage, Edmonds
defiantly informed the oustotiiacs of tie peace that
he claked the right to d.. as be pleased with his
own wife It is only to be regretted that the period i
of pr. batiou which he has now entered upon sto be
ot so short duration. A lengAly term in which to
6tndy law, justice, and humanity under the disci-
pline and tuition of prison waq!ers, vi it an- occa-
sional reminder ot the unpleasantness of corporal
punishment in the shape of an application of the
tilii2ht serve to thotoughly convert this brute
from his het i rod')K persuasiovs as to the tights ot
man. mad further at as a warni g to othirs of his
inhuman sort.

BIEL'S pracical ream ul frAn the arena of poli-
,ieal anitipnblic 1 fe—though an appeal is spoken
of—by th verdici of the ju y whLi, trieit him, and
th, 82ntenee that he be n iuged at Regina eat
utou , rids C.ln..da of the sturdiest troubler she h s

nail for many a year. Since t e tin{ling of '•Guitty"
was aoc•mipanied by a" iecnmrnndaiion to mere r,
it is not iwprohal•le tha? ere (he date fixed if rth
arch rebel's execution urn-% es a commutation of
the death sentence to one_ of life•loug imprisonment
will take plape. We do not think that an appeal, if
persevered in would,succeed in affecting the er-
diet ; md it is tit)t at all likely that judicial clem-
ency will go fur( her than abovein&caled. So Louis
Rid's oareer is over. Wh titer
,he be insane of a
religions fanatic, as his depoitmeilt bi'peson would
seen; on the face of things tuindieate, we know n t.
His tieing against order and government Ins been a
roost complete failure, and the fierec efforts 1:e rut
forth may have unmanned Lim and transform-,
the once fearless, if unscrupulous, guerriia lea or
into a ctingerous monomaniac. At qny rate, hi,
part in history h-s I,e, n playeri. The Half-Breeds
cud Ind Lit chit fs who w,re at one with Rid in his
iuthless raids, should le..rn less ns from his in-
glorious fate, and recogois the sperior fore a•
well as the beneficial off eta of c viised euverri.
merit, and peacefully adapt themselves to the rule
of tight.

Now that the fields all a- ound are white unto
harves ,' an .eat•et ate ot the y:eld can be made
aih telelehle likelihoed of aecuracy. The "sound
of tee I cap: r is herd in the lone" from end to end,
and in a few dupe berever cut.ing has not already
actually cofene need operations will begin The
corn leirvest is, of cotnee, our chief care at all times,
and &though large cups have been generally ex-
pected, judging from the pr mists of blade and ear
preeented for we ks past, tne "full corn in ear" it
somewhat disappoireing. Tee abz,eece of rain for
z,uch,a ltnethy period in most districts, the drought
and scorching sun, while ripening the grain have
pievented tee swelling of the ear, which the farmer
looks so anxiously to &e in the weeks preceding
the harveet. The ruler of the day has prematurely
uyed the corn the golden 3 elk,w saade wli!eh sows
telt the time for tee ingattvring is here. A few
showers woald have made all the difference, but is
it is, oats and betley have !suffered severely, and
wheat as well, though in a lesser dearee, The high
boees o th farmers ef a month b-c"k bre thus cons
side! ably discountenanced; indeed -a,u author Or on
the subje.t estimates a reducton ot thirty per ce,nt.
on the yield probable some six weeks ago. But toe
much. sun is to be preferred to too.much rain, and,
with a favourable time for getting in the cer a!s,
the crops of the year %%ill n,t be at all bad. Wheat
will in all probability, be well above the average,
taking the country threugh. With later rein ewe 'es
a.ud mengol.;s may yet do well, and fruit has al: eady
yielded a rich retie n in many districts, to be fol-
lowed, so far as can at preLent be seen, by a good
autumn her vest of apples and pears. The hops ,ire
looking beautifully clean in many grounds; and an
early pocket has been seld in London in splendid
cenei:iou from a K,snlidn gmden.