The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18 00:00:00

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JUMPING OUT OF A BEDROOM WlNDOW.—AnitEllieBt
has been held at Preston on the body of a woman
named Dimmock, whose death was caused by leaping
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from a window. The deceased, 65 years of age, and
addicted to drink, went home drunk. At three o'clock
the next morning she was found on the footpath in
front of the house moaning. In a frenzy she had got
up, opened the window, and jumped out, breaking both
her legs and arms. A verdict in accordance with the
circumstances was returned.

ACCIDENT AT THE GRAND CHARTREUSE.—A ftw days
ago, while the monk, forty in number, of the famous
monastery of the Grand Chartreuse, near Grenoble,
were taking their usual weekly walk on the mountain
terrace, near the monastery, which has been partly
hewn out of the rock, a large number of pima of rock
that had become loosened in some way come tumbling
down on them from the mountain overhead, burying
five of the monks in the debris. The noise of the fall-
ing materials was deafening, and the continuous slip-
ping down of fresh gravel and stones made it impos-
sible to do anything. When at last an effort oould be
made to extricate the buried men it was found that one
was quite dead, and the remaining four very seriously
injured.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday night gie pas
senger train which leaves Kilsyth for Glasgow reached
Lenzie Station in safety, but while several passengers
were alighting and others entering the carriages a goods
train which had been shunting in front came back and
ran into the passenger engine. Half-a-dozen of the
passengers were slightly injured. The goo 48 train,
previous to the arrival of the passenger train, had
crossed the road to one of the down sidings, and the
signalman in the box gave the signal to the goods driver
to come back again across the line, but inadvertently
forgot to set the points, and consequently the train,
composed of a few wagons, came back on the passenger
train. The shock was not sufficiently violent to throw
either the engine or any of the wagons off the rail, but
several passengers in the front carriages were more or
less severely bruised. After a detention of about half
an hour the train proceeded to Glasgow, all those who
complained of injuries being sufficiently well to walk
home.

WELLINGTON COLLEGE.—The report ta her Majesty-
by the governors of Wellington College states that
during the year 1883 the average number of founds—
tioners being educated at the college was 80, the
number on December 31, 1883, being 83; that the num-
ber of non-foundationers attending the college, during
the like period was 346, of whom 266 were admitted at
the full rate of charge, and 80 were admitted at the
reduced rate of £BO per annum; and that the number
of boys on the foundation has been increased from 82
to 83. The governors also repert that during the past
year they have had extensive works carried out for im-
proving the water supply and the sewage arrangements
of the college, it having been found on inquiry that
some of the sewers were defective, ard that the water
supply had to some extent become contaminated. The
works were carried out under the direction of Mr. Bald-
win Latham, C.E., at a cost of over £12,000.
THE PonT OF LISBON.—The Portuguese Goversiment
has just issued proposals of an extensive scheme for the
improvement of the port of Lisbon, which will take the
form of a long quay, extending from the railway
station, alongside the Tagus, as far as the Tower of
Belem. The whole of this distance (nearly si/r miles)
will be furnished with basins of different sizes, swing
bridges, railway swings, and, in fact, all the parapher-
nalia of a first-class commercial port. From its geo-
graphical position, Lisbon ought to be able, with these
facilities of trade, to intercept a considerable share of
the transatlantic commerce. The estimate of this large
undertaking is 84,000,000 f.
DANGEROUS CONDUCT.—At the Cheshire Quarter
Sessions on Tuesday George Fetch, alias Jemmy Mike,.
labourer, and W. 11. Hodgkinson, wire worker,
were charged with stealing railway cushions, window
blinds, and carpets from a first-class carriage on the
London and North-Western Railway. The prisoners
were going from Crewe to Sandbach, when French com-
pletely rifled the carriage and flung all the furniture
out of the window, the Liverpool express to London
having a narrow escrpe of being wrecked by the
cushions which were strewn all over the track. The
jury gave Hodgldnson the benefit of the doubt. Fetch,,
who is a ticket-of-leave man, was found guilty;., and the.
Court sentenced him to seven years' penal servitude.

THE WRECK OF pm WASP.—The following telegram
from the district officer at Ratmullen was received by
Admiral Lethbridge at Queenstown on Saturday; "The
bodies of Brond, ship's steward; William Davey, A. 8.;
Samuel Fletcher, stoker, of Saltash, Cornwall; J. H.
Heal, A. 8., recovered yesterday at Sheephaven. Will
be interred to-day at Dunfanaghy. Seven bodies have
been washed ashore at Innisboffin. Three have been
identified—namely, John Bosworthick, leading stoker,
Belfast: Frederis.k Frost, stoker; and Albert Styles,.
A.B. Four bodies cannot be identified. The limn will
be buried at Killult."

OUTRAGE BY SOLDIERS.-At the Windsor Quarter
Sessions, William Wilkinson and William Sheldon,.
soldiers of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, were
indicted for a robbery, accompanied by considerable
violence, committed on the 11th of July in Windsor-
park. George Hyde, a plumber's apprentice, living at
Eton, and a young woman named Kate Millard were
sitting about ten o'clock in the evening in the Long
Walk, when they were molested by the accused.
Sheldon forced the young woman away from her com-
panion, while Wilkinson attacked Hyde and robbed him
of a silver watch and chain, which he threw in the
direction of his comrade. Both prisoners, after ill-
treating the prosecutors were arrested, and Wilkinson
while being taken to the station assaulted a constable.
The watch and appendage were ultimately recovered.
Wilkinson was sentenced to twelve months' imprison-
ment with hard labour for the robbery, and six months"'
for assaulting the police. Sheldon was acquitted with
regard to the robbery, but sentenced to six months'
hard labour for assaulting Kate Millard.
A NEW PLANBT.—Vienna papers announce the dis-
covery by Dr. Palisa, Director of the Imperial Obser-
vatory, of a new planet, of the apparent intensity of a
star of the 13th magnitude. Its position was about 34h.
45m. R.A. and 15deg. 29min. S. Decl., with a daily
-etrograde movement of Bmin., and lmin. towards the -
south. It has received the number 243 in the series of
the asteroids. This is the 45th discovery of a planetoid'
made by Dr. Palisa.

TICE 'FORESTRY EXHIBITION,-EDINBIIRGIL-011 Satur-
day evening the Forestry Exhibition in Edinburgh was
formally closed. From the opening of the Exhibition
on July 1 to the close there were 500,000 visitors
admitted. Sir James Gibson Craig, in the course of
some remarks, stated that the Exhibition had been a
great success.
FATAL FIRE —A sad accident happened on Saturday
morning at Downall-green, near Wigan, by which two
young children lost their lives. The wife of a collier
named Samuel Gingall left hev house for the purpose of
visiting a neighbour. There were three children in the
cottage, two little girls, aged respectively six years and
seven months, who were in bed, and a lad aged about
five, who was up. The mother had opened a flock bed
in an upstairs room with the object of cleaning it, and
the loose flock was lying about. The boy, it is said, got
together some waste paper, struck a match, and set fire
to the flock. The neighbours upon seeing smoke.
issuing from the house ran in and found the two girls
lying dead in bed, suffocated by the smoke from the
burning flock. The husband was away at his work at
the time, and the mother returned too late to be of any
ser lice.

ROYAL MASOWIC INSTIru LION FOR GIRLS. - The
quarterly court of the subscribers of this ingtitution
was held on Saturday in the large room of Freemasons'
Tavern, London, Mr. R. Grey, Past Grand Deacon, pre-
siding. On the motion of Mr. Fran,: Richardson, Past
Grand Deacon, seconded by Mr. Henry Smyth, Pro-
vincial Grand Secretary of West Yorkshire, the sum of
£lO was voted to the mother of a candidate who was
successful at the April election, but who died before
the date of her admission to the school. The other
business was merely formal, and the brethren then pro-
ceeded to elect 14 girls into the school out of an
proved list of 29 candidates.