The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-11-04 00:00:00

EPITOME OF Ni*l,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. I
In 'gm:Won, on Monday, a man named O'' _
was charged at the Westminster Police-court with havhige
murdered his wife at a house in Rawlings-street, Chelsea. It
was stated in evidence that the prieoner went to the house of
a neighbour with whom he had previously lodged, and, after
some conversation respecting his wife which aroused sus-
picion; the police were communicated with. O'Donnell's
lodgings were entered, and his wife was found dead, appa-
rently from injuries inflicted on the head by some weapon.
According to the medical evidence the woman had been dead
about three days. The prisoner, who was stated to have been
imprisoned for six months for assaulting his wife; and also to
have been in Coiney-Hatch, was remanded. e
One of the Dundee whalers just arrived reports that
. while in Baffle's Bay a boat from the ship was attacked by a
I whale and capsized, one man named James Abbots being
; drowned. The crew had succeeded in harpooning the fish,
which turned upon the boat, and the rope that wa3 attached
.to the harpoon getting entangled about it, capsized the boat.
Vaptatn Walker reports that the rummer in the Aretic
-regions was one of the finest he has ever experienced, the
thermometer at times being as high as 70 degrees,
The
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The other day the Zoological Gardens of Cologne.
were the scene of a light, between the. pair 'of polar bears,
i which had hitherto been leading a quiet life, though not
Without occasional quarrels All at once the male bear com-
e enced a serious attack on his mate, which ended in a fearful
eitnbat for life_ He first le 11 tcted severe wounds on her fa
dragged her to the basin, and kept her under water until
was drowned. After this he threw her about his prison, and
It was with much difficulty that the dead bear was taken
away from the den.
On Monday evening a shocking railway accident
occurred at Brierfield, near Burnley, by which four men were
killed and several persons badly injured: A goods train from
Skipton had just finished shunting on to a siding, and was
about two hundred yards from the station, when a passenger
train from Colne cunt) through the tunnel close at hand and
dashed into it. The goods train contained a large number of
cattle and sheep, and in the guard's van In the rear there
were seven drover', two of whom jumped out before lite
expuisenger train reached them, and were, uninjured: three
Ohm were killed on the spot, and one ham died in a few hours
The fore part of the passenger engine and the guard's van
and two waggons were completely empLehed one into the
Other, rising to a height of over 2011. .
Mr. Malcolm D,mglas, one of the proprietors of the
Chelnuforel Chrcrniol4. vies killed on Saturday fast on the Gr - at
Easter.' Railway. His ruled was deranged, and, haviug
*reaped from his keeper, he entered a trete' at Chelmsford
Wh..n near Harrolds we Station, and while the train-was
travelling fifty miles an hour, he Jumped :rpm the carriage'
1 into the six foot away and was kill d by a disen goods tram,
the body being terribly mud atEd. At the inquest Hr.
Carter, surgeon, of Chelmsford, detailed the means by which
the decease-1, whom he wee treating for harrelese delusions,
contrived to elude the vigilance of his attendant aud to
travel alone in a first-class compartneent ;of the aftierhoon
express from Chelmsford to London, an.! evidence was given
to show that the deceased was frequeitly in the habit of
Calling on a friend at Harolds Wood, about three-quarters of
a m,le trom which station his remains were found his con-
jteared that Mr. Douglas, finding the train pass the station,
attempted to alight, not-being aware of the terrific speed at.
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which the train was miming at the tinle. The jury returned
a verdict of' Axidentel death.'

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