The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-04-05 00:00:00

KILLED ON THE RAILWAY.

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

General Oyama, the chief of the Japanese mission
now on its way to Europe for the purpose of studying
and reporting upon dockyards and other naval and
military matters, has ordered a large number of fans
and tea services of Japanese make to be given away as
presents during the tour. The articles are stated to be
of excellent workmanship.
A shock of earthquake has been felt throughout
almost the whole province of Kostambol, in Asia
Minor, its effects being most marked at Kostambol, the
capital of the province, Tchangri, and Sinope. Some
damage was caused to property, but there was no loss of
life.

A St. Petersburg telegram says that twenty-one
peasants charged with being concerned in the anti-
Jewish excesses, which took place last year at the village
of Orlowstschina, have been tried. The jury returned
a verdict of guilty against twenty of the accused. The
Court sentenced nine of them to terms of imprisonment
varying from eight to eighteen months, and left the
remaining eleven to be dealt with by the local magis-
trate.

The Sultan has ordered an annual exhibition of domestic
animals to be held in Constantinople. The first exhibi-
tion will be opened on April Ist, 1885.

In lecturing at Cardiff- on Saturday, E. P. Weston re
ferred to the subject of training for athletic exercises,
and recommended for breakfast beefsteak or eggs, anu
for dinner beef or mutton, which should be rather
under-cooked. The cheapest and most wholesome
drink was oatmeal and water. He had frequently
walked ten or fifteen miles on no other sustenance.

The partial failure last autumn of the crops is now
beginning to make itself felt in various parts of India.
Last week's imports into the United States amounted
to 8,711,000 dols., of which 2,105,000 dols. were dry
goods.
During the month of February there were only 58
agrarian outrages reported in Ireland to the police, and
of these 39 were for sending threatening notices and
letters. . _ _ _ _

A few days ago it was reported from Lemberg that
three deserters from a Russian Dragoon regiment, in-
chiding two officers, had crossed the Austrian frontier,
and that a Russian gendarme had fired after them,
wounding one slightly. It was now stated that the
three fugitives were Nihilists, escaping from arrest.
The scheme for tunnelling under the Straits of
Messina has met with such difficulties that it has been
rejected in favour of a long ferry boat capable of carry-
ing twenty-four railway carriages; it would run between
Reggio and Messina. The plan has been laid before
the Italian Government._

The steamship Duke of Buccleuch left Plymouth on
Sunday for Queensland, having on board 18 second-
class, 219 single men, 39 single women, and 230 adults,
making a total of 602 souls, equal to 505 statute
adults.

Statistics show that last year over 1500 murders were
committed in the United States, the legal executions
being 93.
Two parcels were found in the mud of the Union
Canal, Edinburgh, on Saturday. Each contained the
body of an infant.
The City of Paris has just been presented with a
unique collection of Oriental idols, some 12,000 in
number, by M. Emile Guimet, of Lyons. The gift in-
cludes a library of 12,000 volumes, principally in Chinese
and Japanese.
A telegram from Longhoke, Orkney, states that a
fishing boat was upset on Saturday by a tidal wave, and
that two men, a father and son, lost their lives. The
accident was witnessed by another boat at the lobster
fishing at the same time, but the fearful breakers raised
by the tidal wave prevented them from approaching
near the spot. The names of the deceased were Samuel
and George Johnston.

Ta Aschakowa, Albania, alarming events have taken
place. Three thousand armed Mahomedans entered the
city and threatened to murder the commander and gar-
rison if they did not march off immediately. ...
As an instance of the value placed upon trotting
stock in America, it may be stated that at a recent
sale of the Horse Exchange, fifty-three head brought
22,400 dols., or an average of 422 dols. 64 cents each.
Two boys have been committed for trial at Newport
(Mon.), on a charge of having entered the Baptist and
Bible Christian Chapels in the town, and stolen 30s.
from the missionary boxes.

The " Graphic " says that decorating bald heads is
the latest freak of fashion across the Atlantic. At a
recent Nqw York party three bald gentlemen appeared
with elaTiorate pictures painted on their bare scalps,
one choosing a copy of Meissonnier, another a battle
piece, and the third a group of fish.
Mr. Alderman William Fawcett, J.P. for Salisbury,
father of the Postmaster-General, completed his 91st
year on Saturday.
The West Hartlepool steam foundry, with all its
stock of valuable machinery was destroyed by fire on
Saturday.
The Exhibition at Bradford, opened by the Prince of
Wales last year, in connection with the Technical
Schhrl, net profit et Doorly .e7cbou
The Sago Public Library, which has just been
opened and handed over t'. to authcLitles of Bay City,
Michigan, is reported to represent a cash value of
550,000.

Messrs. Cassell have in preparation a work entitled
"Working Men Co-operators: What they have Done
and What they are Doing," being a handbook giving
an account of the artisans' co-operative movement, by
Mr. A. H. Dyke Acland, Senior Bursar of Balliol
College, and Steward of Christ Church, Oxford, and
Mr. 13. Jones, honorary secretary of the Southern
Section of the Central Co-operative Board.
A case of somnabulism has occurred in the neigh-
bourhood of Birmingham. The only ....,ughter of a
family was, early the other morning, missing from her
bedchamber, and on the servants instituting a search,
they found her standing at the garden gate, clad only
in her night-dress, and fast asleep.
The latest census shows that the numerical increase
of population during a period of nine and a quarter
years has been twice as great in New South Wales' and
nearly twice as great in New Zealand, as in Victoria.
With the exception of Tasmania, Victoria is shown to
be the colony in which the increase of population is
slowest.

A New York telegram says that the,visible supply of
wheat on March 28 was 29,600,000 bushels, as against
30,200,000 bushels the previous week. Visible supply
of Indian corn 17,600,000 bushels, as against 17,009,000
bushels the previous week. The export clearances of
wheat for Europe during last week amounted to
400,000 bushels. The export clearances of Indian corn
for Europe during the week amounted to 800,000
bushels.

There has been an important movement of grain to
the American seaboard. The exports in the first week
of April are expected to be six times as large as those
in the first week in March.

The General Board of Sticdies at Cambridge announce
that no less than twenty-five readers and university
lecturers will be appointed next term. Of these, five
are to be in mathematics, five also in history, four in
different departments of biology, two in comparative
philology, and two also in botany.
The "Sanitary Engineer" of New York says that a
bill has been introduced into the New York Assembly
to compel stamping on canned goods the date on which
they were put up, and preventing the sale of goods
more than a year old.
At the last meeting of the London School Beard a
motion was carried to appoint a lady to teach Swedish
exercises (gymnastics) at a salary of £2OO a year. This.
is the second appointment of the kind.
Countess Granville has recently passed the examina-
tion for a vellum certificate in connection with the
nursing classes of the St. ,John Ambulance Association.
The Duke of Connaught had a day's pig-sticking re-
cently with the 13th Hussars. The duke got a first.
spear after a very long gallop of over three miles. The
boar was quite beat, and tried to shelter in a small
nullah, where the duke struck him. The Duchess of
Connaught saw the sport from an elephant.