The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-08-23 00:00:00

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THE LYDIAN MONARCll.—Lloyd's agents at Yew York,
in a telegram dated Saturday, announce the arrival at
New York of the disabled steamer Lydian Monarch.
ACCIDENT TO TIM SPARTAN.—The Union Steamship
Company's Royal Mail steamer Spartan, with the home-
ward Cape of Good Hope and Natal mails, which left
Cape Town July 30 and Madeira August 15 for
Plymouth and Southampton, broke her main shaft, on
the evening of the 15th, off Porto Santo, an island to
the north-east of Madeira. The company's agents at
the latter island immediately despatched their steam
tug to assist the Spartan back to Funchal, where she
arrived and anchored at eight a.m. on Sunday, all
well.

SUICIDE AT OAOL,—A man named Barrett, under-
going a short term of imprisonment for robbery, hanged
himself in his cell at Galway Gaol-on Saturday night by
a chain suspended from the cell window. This is the
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DEATH FROM THE HEAT.—lnforrnation was received
at Canterbury on Saturday of a sudden death in the
harvest field, caused, it is believed, by the intense heat.
An old man named Jordnn, while at work on a farm at
Ickham, was suddenly sezied with illness, and in a few
moments died.
KILLED ON THE RAILWAY.—At the Soho Station of
tie Great Western Railway, about 9 30 on Sunday
night, a young man named William Bromwich was in
the act of crossing from one side to the other by the
line instead of by the footbridge when the down express
from Birmingham to Wolverhampton overtook him and
cut him to pieces, completely severing his head from his
body.
RAILWAY AccrpENT.—An accident which occurred at
Bamham Junction Station and blocked the Portsmouth
and Isle of Wight traffic on the Mid-Sussex Railway
for two hours, caused considerable inconvenience. A
truck heavily laden with fruit had been left on the
down line while the train to which it had been
attached was shunting to take on more carriages from
a siding. The line being on the decline, and the truck
not being secured, it ran down the line and collided
with the train which was shunting. Three or four
trucks were displaced, and the up and down lines were
both blocked. A breakdown gang was sent on from
Brighton.
BERIOVS SHIPPING UOLLISTON.—LIoyd's agent at
Malta telegraphed on Saturday that the British steamer
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injured, but the latter vessel sank: 20 of the crew and
passengers were landed at Malta, but five are reported
to be missing.
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the population of Florida during the decade following
1870, and the gain since the census year has been at a
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