The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-06-13 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Technical Committee of the Sanitary Conference
sitting at Rome has approved of precautionary measures
to be adopted to prevent the propagation of cholera by
travellers coming overland from the East.
Disturbances have broken out in Crete. When Sawas
Pacha, the new Governer,arrived off the island, a Coro.
mittee, nominated by the Assembly, informed him that
his appointment was not consonant with the wishes of
that body.
The scheme suggested by the leaders of the Silver
Party in New York to replace the present compulsory
Coinage Law is now attracting much attention.
Continued desertions are said to be taking place
among the followers of Osman Digna and the Mandi,
owing to the scarcity of food and the spread of small-
pox. The rebels besieging Kassala are said to be retir-
ing for the same reason.
A disastrous fire has taken place in the Stamboul
quarter of Constantinople. Three hundred houses, in-
cluding three mosques, were destroyed. One person
was killed, while several others were injured.
Fresh cases of cholera have occurred in Spain, the
epidemic having apparently spread to the neighbouring
provinces of Castellon in the north, and Murcia in the
south. In Valencia there has been a very large increase
in the death rate.
Several thousands of working men assembled at
various points in London on Sunday afternoon, whence
they walked in procession to Hyde-park. There meet-
ings were held round seven platforms, and a resolution
was passed against the enhanced beer and spirit duties
nropo3ed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Joseph Best, solicitor, and Josiah Bates, were en
Satureay, at Liverpool, convicted of fraudulently obtain-
ing a large sum of money by spurious advertisements.
Best was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment,
and Bates, previously convicted, to five years' penal
servitude.

A gentleman named Nigel Younge, of Jermyn-streel-,
London, was a short time ago ordered to find a surety
in fifty pounds for behaving in a disorderly manner at
Hatcbett's Hotel, Piccadilly. On Friday night he was
at the same hotel, where he broke six images belonging
to an Italian. On being remonstrated with he became
violent, and in a struggle with a policeman a glass
barrel full of the best brandy was broken, and a marble
table was knocked over and smashed. Younge was
brought up at Marlborough-street Police court on
Saturday, when his recognizances were estreated, and
he was ordered to find further sureties, himself in one
hundred pounds, and two others in fifty pounds each,
to keep the peace for three months.
Lord Randolph Churchill spoke twice on Saturday at
Cambridge. In the afternoon he attEnde4 a meeting
held to protest against the increase in the beer and
spirit duties, and said that the amended proposals were
more unjust than the original. A tax on beer was vir-
tually a tax on barley. His lordship expressed an un-
certain sound with regard to import duties on corn and
foreign manufactures. In the evening Lord Randolph
presided at a banquet of the University Carlton Club.
He described the Radical party as the thoughtless
party, and said that any amount of poisonous stuff was
being poured into the ears of the agricultural labourers.
He believed in the much-tried common sense which was
the attribute of the English people, and that was the
-faith of the Tory democracy.
Kullmann, who attempted to assassinate Prirce Bis.
marck in 1873, has been guilty of a new offence in the
Bayreuth Prison, and has just been sentenced to five
years' penal servitude for a grossly libelous attack on
the Bavarian Minister and others.
A collision has °nem-red in the roads at Cronstadt
between the torpedo boat Kassa-Ma and the war
steamer Fonta.ka. The latter was seriously damaged,
and nearly foundered. She was, however, run on
shore. - The Kassatka seems to hare escaped injury.
The health of many officers of the Guards who have
been lately employed at Souakim is causing consider-
able anxiety. Several of them, who are very ill, were
specially prayed for on Sunday at the service at the
Guards' Chapel, Wellington Barracks.
It is reported from Rangoon that M. Haas, the new
French Vice-Consul at Mandalay, has premised to
introduce rifles into Burmah through Tonquin ; and
also that he removed his boots at his interview with
the Prime Minister, but declared that he would not do
so again.

General Crook states that the Apache raid is at an
en I, and that the hostile Indians are moving to the
south. He has been informed of 17 murders
committed by thorn, and it is believed that others
have bee kt perpetrated. His troops closely pursue the
retreating savages, who are mr king for the Mexican
border.

A discovery of dynamite was made on Saturday at
Dux, in Bohemia, near the wood of Oaseg, where the
Socialists lately convicted at Prague used to meet.
Behind a bush in the churchyard six large dynamite
shells and some dynamite cartridges were found, with
an electric apparatus for exploding them.
The medical profession has lost one of its oldest
members in the person of Mr. James Moncrieff Arnott,
F.R.S., of Chapel, Fifeshire, who died a few days ago
at his residence in Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, at the
age of 91 years. The deceased gentleman was a son
of the late Mr. Robert Aruott, of Chapel, and was born
in 1794.

The Rangoon newspapers are beginning to discuss
the advisability of procuting the separation of British
Burroah from India, and of making it a Crown colony.
This proposal, which has the support of the Rangoon
Chamber of Commerce, is founded upon the belief that
the province is starved, and that its interests are neg-
lected by the Indian Government, while its surplus
revenue is drained away to meet the wants of other
provinces. It is also urged that neither in language,
religion, nor people has British Burmah anything in
common with India.

Another English fishing-smack has been seized for
illegally fishirg in the vicinity of the island of
Nordeney, in the North Sea, and towed into Wilhelms-
haven.

A Basle telegram states that a boat containing 15
persons, while returning from a river excursion to
Rheinfelden, was upset by striking against the pier of
a bridge, eight of the occupants being drowned.
The Royal Geographical Society held its annual
meeting in London on Monday, at which the modals
awarded to distinguished explorers were distributed.
Lord Aberdare reviewed the progress of geographical
knowledge during the past year. In the evening the
members of the society dined together at Willis's
Rooms, and speeches were made, among others, by Sir
P. Lurnsden ar.d Mr. H. M. Stanley.
The Show of the Bath and West of England Society
was on Monday opened in Preston-park, Brighton.
The entries were more numerous than at either of the
three preceding shows, the cattle classes being espe-
cially well represented.
At Sheffield, while Charles Alcock, one of the shop
assistants to Messrs. Bingham and Co., was engaged
fixing up a blind in a shop window, he overbalanced
himself and fell off the stool, coming in contact with
Mr. Robert Bingham. He sustained such spinal in-
juries as to cause his death.
Captain Cox, a visitor from the Midland counties of
England, fell over one of the cliffs on the Kincardine
coast, near Bluebell's, on Monday, and was killed on the
spot. He resided at Elswick House, and was on his
way to church when the accident occurred. This is the
second fatal accident which has occurred at the same
place this season. _

The baths of Schienberg, which had just opened for
the season, have been totally destroyed by fire. The
conflagration spread rapidly, and the adjoining chapel
and casino were likewise burnt to the ground within
two hours of the outbreak.

After nine hours' deliberation the Supreme Court
has confirmed the sentence of death upon Wattmann,
who, by systematic cruelty, murdered his little girl,
seven years told. The prisoner, who has lost all the
hardihood which he showed at first, pleaded pneously
for his life. It is many years since the penalty of
death has been inflicted in Switzerland.
Advices from Bellinzone state that two days age a
young man and a lady, having tickets from Milan to
Paris, arrived at Airolo by train. There were several
persons in the compartment with I hem. Just as they
reached the station the young man drew a revolver
from his pocket and shot himself through the head.
The lady was overwhelmed, and the other travellers
aghast. The young man, who was an American, had,
it appeared, bvn visiting Monaco, where be bad met
with ill-fortung

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By the bursting of a waterspout near Lag°ll;
Mexico, one hundred persons are reported to
perished.
The Prince of Wales on Tuesday attended the oerresi
mony ef unveiling the Darwin Memorial in the Nate
History Museum. After an address by Profess%
Huxley, his Royal Highness said it had given him EMIL
pleasure to learn that the memorial had reeeiveu4
much support in foreign countries, whilst the fact in
persons of every condition of life had contributed to
afforded remarkable evidence of the popular interestla
the discussion of scieutific problems.
Sir M. W. Ridley, M.P., on Tuesday presided at„n
meeting of Old Harrovians and Harrow masters, ie_Am"
resolved to raise a fund to commemorate the be
mastership of Dr. Butler at Harrow. le
On Tuesday a very large number of musical Peg+
and others attended the funeral of Sir Julius Ben'
which took place inKensal-green Cemetery.
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On Tuesday the fifty-eighth anniversary festival
Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, Old Kent-road, was hal°
at the Crystal Palace. Mr. Henry Adolphus Simondt
chairman of the Country Brewers' Society, presidea'
The announcement that the Ministry had resigned
received with loud cheering and the waving of haul'
kerchiefs. Subscriptions and donations amounting °
£4500 were announced.
Kassala is reported to have fallen at the end of lust
month.
A Treaty of Peace between France and China vial
signed on Tuesday.
A levee was held on Tuesday at St. James's False:
by the Prince of Wales, on behalf of her MajestY,
which the presentations numbered 430.
At the Royal Observatory, Ureenwich, the raelin
reading of the barometer last week was 22.879 in.
mean temperature was 62.6 deg. and 4.8 deg. above ",
average in the corresponding weeks of twenty you 1
The mean was below the average on Monday,
showed an excess on each of the other days of
week. The duration of registered bright sunshine
the week was 69.6 hours, against 671 hours at Glyauv
Place, Lewes.
In London last week 2409 births and 1521 deatho
were registered. Allowing for increase of populatiauf
the births were 236, and the deaths 1, below
average numbers in the corresponding weeks of
last ten years. The annual death-rate per Inf,
from all causes, which had been 19•9 and 19.6 in LP
two preceding weeks, further declined to 194.
From April 1 to the 6th inst. the Exchequer receiq
amounted to £15,417,023, as compared with 5115,003,8°
in the corresponding period of last year. The expel'
diture has been £15,401,620. On Saturday last the
balance in the Bank of England was £3,547,147, and ill
the Bank of Ireland £1,593,242.
News only reached Dublin, on Tuesday, of a dreadful
affair which took place near Moat e, county Westmeattr
the Thursday night previously. A! company of sisteee„
persons were drinking in a publichouse, when a disputv
about a farm arose. The parties divided themselves 01
two sides, and a free fight ensued, in which knives we°
freely used, with the result that eight of the combs'
tants were stabbed, two very seriously, their lives bells
despaired of. On Monday evening a private police
vestigation was held at the scene of occurrence, wile,
three persons who had been previously arrested
brought up, and after some evidence had been bea'"
they were remanded for eight days.
On Tuesday, Thomas Heeley, who refused his act'
dress, was committed for trial at Wednesbury, for coal'
mitting a daring burglary at Darlaston. The prieorie:
was detected in the act of committing a burglary fo ,
tradesman's establishment. He was shoeless, and
ceeded in making his escape for a time, but was chase'
by a policeman, and eventually captured. Upon heir);
removed to gaol, the prisoner was identified as a ruin
who was convicted of various offences several years se'

At the Dublin Police-court on Tuesday Ellen Marti"
aged 30, was remanded on a charge of having, slag,.
with her father, aged 74, who was too ill to be brouglP,
up, wilfully murdered Susan Monahan, a fellow occ!lA
pant of a tenement house. The prisoner and deceasT,
quarrelled on the 25th ult., and Monahan was strge;',
with a poker on the fo..chead, from the effects of Wh
she died.

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The Bishop of London paid a visit to Winchester 011
Tuesday, for the purpose of preaching the anniversarf
sermon of the Central Hants ChurcliMissionary
ciation. His lordship subsequently spoke at a meetifl
held in the city, over which the Dean of Winchesn
preeided. The total funds subscribed by the I°'
assoeiation during the past year were £O6O.
The bell presented by Mr. Gladstone to St. Seiri°,,rse
Church, Penmaenmawr, was hung on Tuesday in tto
tower the erection of which at the cost of
parishioners the Premier made a condition of his gift,
While running at a great speed through Aber, sort.,
Wales, on Tuesday, the engine of the Irish OR:
suddenly broke down. No inconvenience, however, Wt
sustained by the passengers, beyond a delay of half 3'
hour. A luggaee train took the mail on from 1.110;
dudno Junction to Chester, where the train arrive'.
shortly after two o'clock.
The house of a widow woman named Hamilt, rola"
ing at Market-hill, near Newry, was maliciously set
fire early on Monday morning. Some men entered
premises and rescued Mrs. Hamilt at the risk of be
lives, but the house and its contents were entirely de;
stroyed. The woman holds some land, and an atten3l)_"
has been made to torce her to give it up, but she refilse'
to leave.
The steamer Earl of Lonsdale, belonging to Nertbt
Shields, bound from Alexandria to Portishead, virel
ashore at Scilly. All the crew were saved, but the yew'
became a total wreck.
At the Portsmouth Police-court, on Monday, liar°
Lane, an artist, and a member of the local TO
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Council, was brought up on a charge of forgery.
was stated that he went to the office of Mr. Lincy,f
money-lender, and asked to borrow about £3O.
soner was advanced =7 15s. on an acceptance for i3v,
purporting to be signed by his father, Robert Lane, s
butcher in a large way of business in Landport. VI •
signature of prisoner's father was proved tb be
forgery, and the prisoner was committed for trial °l3
this and another charge.
A terrible fatality happened on Monday afternoon to,
a young labourer named Josiah Blakey, of Brea:xi'
who was employed at some brickworks at
near there. A large chimney, 140 ft. high, has
been completed, and Blakey ascended the inside to tu
top to obtain a view of the surrounding country
to
had not been there a moment when he was Seen el,
disappear, and fall down the chimney to the greecoj
His body was terribly injured, and although
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aid was at once rendered he died in an hour. J-Le
25 years old.
Emily Chappell, aged 17, the daughter of a liarrh
gate draper, died on Monday, it is alleged, throng;
eating Vanilla sandwiches, purchased in Leeds.
Chappel and her youngest children, Annie and Char,7o",
also became ill after partaking of the sandwiciu
The latter soon recovered, but the others remain
a dangerous state.
A correspondent at Uairo states that Lord Wolseleit
and Sir E. Baring have had a very pleasant meetilig:t
Suez with the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. bef
report has been telegraphed from Dongola that Rit_tai,
Oen, who had gone to swear allegiaece to the ISl'.,ee
had been executed. He had been of great assists'..„
at Korti in procuring supplies for the troops.
port, however, is doubted. The Mudie of Dongola"
he could have held the province for Egypt.
The Transvaal Volksraad has passed a resolution (roe
qualifying all the persons who signed the petitions
annexation to Great Britain and against retrooes!j,
from holding office or being members of the VolksZer
The debate was characteiised by unrelenting WA to
ness against the loyalists. It was even suggegteiloo,
extend the disqualification to the tenth genera
Mr. Joubert has accepted the chief command 01
Transvaal forces. Mal fli'a
The scheme for the navigation of the Sea of op
the river Oxus has now been completely drawf.let•
The Government will cede gratuitously to the con'„' tts
ing company the Aral flotilla; the company, for
side, undertaking to make all necessary proviseoe
transporting every month 6000 passengers and luv
ponds of cargo. mg Of
The Grand Duke Vladimir has started upon st,
of inspection through the military districts
Petersburg and Moscow. His Imperial HighueSS._.o,
extend his journey to the extreme northern pro'
and, among other places, will visit Nova Zembla- ,;00.
The Port of Archangel is now or n to navigr
Two English vessels have already arrived there. vroclr
The Cunard steamer Anrania, which left Neff
on the 30th ult., arrived at Queenstown at midnigo" 00
Saturday, her passage being somewhat protractlier
account of having taken a southern route to avel veti
ve
bergs. Notwithstanding this precaution, fi,.tods
large icebergs were passed on the 2nd inst. in IsAltbees
4048 north, longitude 4820 west, distant but
miles. z.,e0111

On Saturday afternoon a meeting was held in leJ
for the purpose of considering the proposed enl7o
meat of the parish church of St. Peter's, at Gov't% 0.
amongst others present was Dr. King, the Bishesrlii
Lincoln. This was the first public appearance e'
lordship in the city since his enthronement, and b
heartily greeted by those present.
On Saturday afternoon the funeral of Dr. 3:
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Bunny, who died at the age of 86 years, took polio!'
the Newbury cemetery, and was attended by the
of the medical practitioners in the town and nis%af
the principal residents. The business establishteee
along the route were partially closed. The dee• bl
had spent his whole life in Newbury, and was blgrat
esteemed. He was a warm supporter of local lit'cis
and philanthropic institutions, and for 35 yell aIE
borough coroner. Dr. Bunny was a magistrate se
trustee of various charities. lad
At the Pontypool Police-court on Saturday de
Swan, ironworker, was brought up on the ratolBloo
charge of stabbing his wife, Emma Swan. The eclu
showed that the two quarrelled, but made it 111'100,
went to bed. There the differences were renewe",;o9l
the prisoner stabbed his wife so badly that fee tbs
days her life was despaired of. Prisoner declared...
ho .was using the knife to loosen the tobacco Ito' b
pipe, and he said to her, " Emma, when are we ge
better friends?" She replied that he could go se
friends elsewhere, and that he then struck bee„,. f 0
the knife. The magistrates committed prison.'
trial.
A cork cutter named Cantrill, of Moor-ere- 'at Di
mingham, believed to be insane, attempted to 011 j b&
wife with a revolver on Saturday night, but wi,g/ grs
the bullet lodging in the wall. He was about tt_e a9l
second time, when he was overpowered and 100,stearcis
The couple had been living apart, but met on
at the husband's request. Alfre,
At the Crewe Police-court on Saturdayl
Bowyer, Thomas James Hutchinson, and Peoterfli
Cooke were charged with conspiring by false Pet'to,o
to obtain goods from various firms, with iriter;,*oll3l
fraud. Witnesses were called from London,
ham, Sheffield,Glasgow, and other towns to d. erost
they had sent goods to Bowyer in the belle', in rt
was trading in the various articles set fortlbat
memorandum, evidence being called to sbuff 0 of
other prisoners had replied favourably to letteloitte
quiry as to his character. Prisoners were Ow
for trial.
The Derby Master Bakers' Association 9.1 2‘l-
reduction in the price of bread and flour °
stone.
_d at
'A novel case of swindling has occur'''.
Charles a-
Thomas Smith deserter from the 3r,
Royal Artillery, represented himself slu
public-houses as being commissioned to
billeting a number of soldiers and by I
exempt certain houses obtained food and

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