The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-10-20 00:00:00

SAD FATALITY AT SEA.

A disastrous casualty Eas occurred off Shields. The
barque Undine, belonging to North Shields, arrived at
South Shields on Monday night, bringing intelligence
that seven of her crew, including the captain, were
drowned. The vessel was caught in a terrific gale,
and struck by heavy seas, which washed away
two men from the wheel, which was broke to pieces.
The whole of the watch on deck except one man
were washed overboard and drowned. The cap-
tain, Mr. Bristow, was found dead, jammed between
a watercask and the deck. The body of a seaman
named Cutlabertson was seen floating about the deck.
The bulwarks of the vessel were under water, the
water being up to the main batches. The vessel was
on her beam ends, and she sustained considerable
damage through being struck by heavy seas. The
greatest consternation prevailed among the survivors,
who worked zealously and managed to keep the vessel
afloat.

" It 'a all stuff," as the lady remarked when her hus-
band complained of having to pay for another new
dress. --I udy.

On September 25 there were 1,100 head of cattle in
quarantine at Quebec, moat of which were pedigree
stock, imported for breeding purposes.
The Hudson's Bay Company's steamer Diana has
arrived in the Channel with a cargo of fresh salmon
from Lsbrador, which is reported to be in excellent
condition, in a refrigerator fitted by the Bell Colman
Company.
The ferry boats Weehawken and Pavonia, both
loaded with passengers, came into collision in New
York Harbour on Monday evening. Five persons
were injured, and the boats were seriously damaged.
A bridge on the Mexican Central Railway near
Aquas Oalioutes fell on Sunday last under the we;ght
of a construction train, with two locomotives. Five
persons were killed,and the train was entirely wrecked.
The Brookfield Quilt Weaving Mill, Bolton, belong
ing to Mr. Samuel Entwistle, was burned down on
Monday morning. The damageis estimated at £6,010.
Lord Chelmsford, it is announced, will succeed
General Sir Arthur Borton in the governorship and
command of the troops at Malts.

A sad acoid.nt occurred an Friday night in last
week at the West Hartlepol Rolling Mills. A lad
nam,Ell William., whose father is employed in the
works, was, in passing some machinery, caught by a
cog wheel, drawn into the machine, and so mutilated
that his death was instantaneous.

The Government have c,mpleted the purehare of a
very large extent of land near Dover for harbour
works. It is expected that the works will give em•
ployment to three thousand convicts.
Mr. Thomas Coats, of Paisley, died on Monday
night. The deceased was senior partner of the firm of
J. and P. Coats, thread manufacturers, Paisley. Mr.
Coats was universally known as a philanthropist and
benefactor.
In acknowledging the receipt of a work entitled
" Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland," Mr. Bright
writes that he does not take so gloomy a view of the
future as many speakers and writers do. He believes
that within a reasonable period we shall see a change
for the better in Irish affairs.
The steamer Coptic has just sailed from San Fran-
cisco for Hong Kong with 1,200 Chinamen, the largest
number that has ever sailed. Nine hundred have
return certificates. Each takes from 500 dols. to
1,200 dole, savings with him.
In London, on Monday afternoon, as a married
woman named Mary Ann Bridges, carrying a baby in
her arms, was croaking Fleet-street, she was knocked
down and run over by an ownibns, whereby the baby
was killed and the mother's jaw broken.
The miners who have been on strike for nearly six
months in North Staffordshire resumed work on
Monday at a temporary reduction. After &fortnight's
work the old rate of wages will be conceded. They
will then give notice for an advance of 15 per cent.
Over £40,000 has been distributed to the men during
the strike.

Miss Muller—one of the representatives of the
Lambeth division on the London School Board—has
given notice to that Board of her intention to move
that arrangements be made for employing women as
clerks under the School Board.
The number of failures in England and Wales
gazeilied during the week ending Saturday, October 13,
was 167. The number in the corresponding week of
last year was 192. showing a decrease f 25, being a
net decrease in 1883, to date, of 358.
Steady progress is reported in the several depart-
ments of the Ustubridge Free Library. The additions
dining the past year comprise 1,388 volumes, of which
424 volumes were presented. The total number of
volumes in the libraries is 28,289. The issue during
the year was 79,578 volumes.
A great fire occurred at Nantes on Sunday night,
completely destroying the Magazin du Louv e, in the
centre of the town. The loss for the building alone is
estimated at 500,000 francs, while the value of the
goods consumed is far greater.
Early on Tuesday morning at Bury, Lancashire,
William Haslam, a fire-beater, of Chesham, cut his
wife's throat with a razor. Since Augtut, when the
wife obtair:ed a judicial separation, she has been living
with her seven children apart from her hus:band. On
Tuesday morning her son was awakened by a noise,
and on getting up found his father hacking at the
woman's throat with a razor. He interfered, when
Haslam ran away, but afterwards surrendered to the
police. The woman is likely to recover.

On Monday night the steamer Grink7e, from Shields
for Mulgrave, struck twice on the Hendon Rotk,
south of Sunderland. The master put back fur the
Tyne, but she made water fast, and in endeavouring
to enter Sunderland harbour she failed to clear the
no-th pier, which she struck heavily, afterwards
drifting ashlre. The crew were ultimately saved,
though with much difficulty, by the coastguard.
During a gale on Wednesday morning a chimney
stack at the chain manufactory of Mr. J. Wheway,
and a newly-erected iron foundry in the occupation of
Mr. Dalby, both at Walsall, were 1-"hwn down,
Through the upsetting of a spirit lamp at 255,
Bethnal•green-road, London, Mrs. Sarah French, aged
thirty one years (wife of Mr. J. J. French, an assistant
officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade), was so badly
burnt as to necessitate her removal to the London
Hospital, where she expired.
Last week's number of beasts entered for consump-
tion at the Metropolitan Cattle Market was 3,610; in
the correponding week of 1882, 3,370; 1881, 4,900;
1880, 4,700; 1879 5 860 ; 1817 g 5.180„,• 'l-77. 3,510
18 ;
loin, 7,U ; ; and 1874, 6,WOU.
The village of Allegno, near Brescia, has b.)en
almost totally destroyed by fire. Several hundred
dwellings were burnt down, and about a thousand
villagers are now homeless, and are, moreover, in
great distress for want of food, their stores having
been all consumed. No lives, however, are reported
lost.

From April let to the 13th instant the Exchequer
receipts were £42,228,940, as compared with
£41,549,783 in the corresponding period of last year.
The expenditure has been £46,994 160. On Saturday
last the balance in the Bank or England was £924,275,
and in the Bank of Ireland £641,352.
Upon the arrival of the ship Thirlmere in the South
West India Dock in London last week, Captain
Adolph Windeman, the master, informed the coroner'',
officer for the district that the body of his little son
Adolph, who died on October 15th, 1882, was still on
board, having been preserved in spirits since death.
The body had been taken nearly all round the world
in the manner described, in order that it might be
buried in England.
A school, cc.ntaining 600 children, at Waterbury,
Conne 'tient, caught fire on Monday The children
rushed out to escape, wildly trampling on each other
in the stairways, with the result that six were badly
hurt, three being expected to die. The teachers finally
quelled the panic and prevented further injury by
marching the children out in an orderly manner.
A French inventor, who has patented a machine for
the use of concentrated solar rays as a general motive
power, has set up three of his machines in Algeria for
the French Government. He is now carrying on ex-
periments at the island of Porquerolles, near Hyeres,
in France, where he is threshing Indian corn and
raising water by the action of the sun's rays.
Five vessels, all British, were wrecked off the
United Kingdom last week, and 27 in other parts of
the world, the total haying been 21 foreign vessels and
eleven British, making 32 for the week and 1,480
actual wrecks for the present year. The number of
lives lost were 95, ehowing a considerable increase on
the previous week and also on the corresponding period
of last year.
John Clayton, milk-dealer, was terribly gored by
an infuriated cow on Saturday morning at Stockport.
The animal was rushing down the street, when Clayton
tried to stop it. He was tossed to a considerable
height, and tell on his head. He was taken to the
infirmary, in a critical condition.
A strong alio* of earthquake, lasting fully eight to
ten seconds, has been felt at Chios, A few old houses
were destroyed, and several people were injured. The
shock was telt at Syra, on the Dardanelles coast, and
at Smyrna. Much damage, attended by loss of life,
is also reported to have been done in the town of
Aivalik, in Asiatic Turkey.
At Utrecht on Monday the statue of Count John
of Nassau, brother of William the Silent, founder cf
the Union of Utrecht, was unveiled with much cere-
mony by the King of the Netherlands. The Qoeen
, was also present. The King himself placed a wreath
of laurels upon the statue.

A married woman named Grosvenor, of White-
heath, near Rowley, fell through a bedroom window
whilst cleaning it, the framework by which she was
holding gave way, and she fell into the street and
dislolated her neck. Deceased was the mother of six
children.
The Liverpool Courier says :—A marine monster,
apparently half a mile in length, is reported to have
been seen going down the Bristol Channel towards
the Atlantic, at the rate of about twenty-five miles
an hour. Another paper reports that accounts from
various parts of the north coast of Cornwall corrobo-
rate the description g:ttn. It adds that the monster's
head was clearly see?l4 and that it left a greasy trail.
A New York telegram Pays tirat the visible supply
of wheat on Oct. 12 was 28,500,000 bushels, as against
27,000,(K0 lourhels the previous week. Visible reapply
of Indian corn, 13,400,000 bushels, as against 14,100,0 C
bushels the previous week, The export clearances of
wheat for Europe during last week amounted to
980,0030 bushels. The export clearances of Indian corn
for Europe during last week amounted to 1,40),000
bushels.

On Monday an inquest was held at Manchester on
the bady of Fredc•rick Roe, draper, SaPori, who corn-
mitt, d suicide on Sunday in a cell at the Manchester
Town-ball. He was arrested on Saturday on a charge
of receiving stolen 'goods, and as ha was not well was
allowed to walk in the corridor. He took advantage
of his liberty, and hanged himself to the top of the
cell door. A verdict of suicide while temporarily in-
sane was returned.
While three men were blasting rock at Law Hill
Quarry, near Dundee, a charge of powder exploded
prematurely. One man, named David Carr, was
blown into the air, and, falling into the quarry, a
distance of about 50 feet, was killed instantly. Two
other men—John Stewart, overseer, and David Bruce,
quarryman—were sever-ly injured by falling stones.
Carr was aged 53, and leaves a widow and family.
The "United States Supreme Court has decided that
the first and seouud sections of the Civil Rights Act
under which coloured people now sustain actions for
denial of accommodation and privileges equal to those
accorded to white people in inns, hotels', railways,
public conveyances, and theatres are unconstitutional,
Congress having no right to pass such sections. This
decision will not apply to the territories or to the dia.
triot of Columbia.

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