The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-08-29 00:00:00

'rHE CHOLERA ON THE CONTINENT
THE STATE OF GRANADA.
A Madrid correspondent, telegraphing on the 23rd
Inst., says:
The state of Granada is considered so serious that
the Home Secretary, Seiior Villaverde, has gone there,
taking with him £4OOO to distribute in relief, and to
, orgauise the hospitals and cemeteries.
' The authorities have had to compel the medical
men to attend the sick among the lower classes, be-
cause such animosity had been shown to them by the
inhabitants in several streets that they refused to go
when called unless protected by the police. The poor
people fancied that the drugs and even the
, water were poisoned, and a large proportion
of the victims of the cholera died without
any medical aid, refusing all medicines. The
Minister and authorities have decided to clear
out the worst dwelling-houses, and to form open-
air camps, which have proved so beneficial to Murcia.
Ambulance carts have been provided, and burials are
to be carried on with the assistance of convicts. All the
officials who have deserted their posts will be prose-
cuted. The Gazette of Saturday and Sunday morn-
ings shows that there have been 9950 cases of cholera
and 3400 deaths in twenty-four provinces, and 80 cases
and 41 deaths in Madrid. No doubt this high pro-
portion of deaths confirms what the Press says, that
many families successfully conceal eases that do not
end fatally. The heat has been great during the
week, the thermometer daily being 34 to 39 Centi-
grade in the shade.
(Through Renter's Agency.)
MADRID, August 23, 3 a.m.
The cholera bulletin issued this morning, states
that 5073 cases, and 1723 deaths occurred in Spain
yesterday.

.me contest in connection with the Oxfordshire Rifle
Association has been concluded in splendid weather,
and the shooting was unusually high. Colonel Hall's
prize was won by Corporal Andrews, of Oxford, who
made the highest possible score at 500 yards scoring
seven bulls in succession. Sergeant Bennett, Bedding.
ton, was second with 34; Corporal Bond, Oxford, made
33; and Private Thompson, Banbury, 32. Colonel
North's prize was won by Private Pentycross, Colonel
Morrell's (for Yeomanry) by Trooper Cousins, and
Colonel Morrell's open prize by Private Venables.
Selikovitch, who originated the story of the assassina-
tion of Olivier Pain, has written a letter to the
"Biotin," in which he maintains in the most absolute
manner his previous statements. The " Intransigeant "
continues to publish the wildest and most scurrilous
attacks on the British Embassy at Paris and the British
army.

Te master cutler elect of Sheffield, Mr. Charles Belk,
has received acceptances for the Cutlers' Feast, which
takes place on September 3, from Lord Randolph
Churchill, Mr. Stuart-Wortley, M.P., Mr. Ashmead.
Bartlett, M.P., Mr. E. J. Phelps (the United States
Minister), the Duke of Rutland, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord
Scarborough, Lord Denman, the Lord Mayor of London,
Mr. Samuel Plimsoll, and many others.
The Moorish Embassy has left Italy in the Italian
ironclad Castelfidardo, after forwarding to Signor
Mancini the sword of hcnour and the other costly
presents sent by the Sultan of Morocco to King
Humbert.

The Paris " Liberte " publishes advices from Mada-
gascar reporting that great agitation prevails at Antana-
narivo. It is added that there is a strong peace party
in the Hova capital, but that it 13 opposed by the
American merchants.

The " Breuz Zeitung " contradicts the statement
made by Lord Hartington in the House of Commons,
concerning Field Marshal Moltke's criticism of the
English troops in the Soudan. It asserts that all he
sgid was, that the English soldiers fought heroically in
Oat campaign, but he added that the task allotted
them was necessarily doomed to failure.
As the Dean of St. Asaph and Mrs. Bonner were
driving in the neighbourhood of Trefnant the other
afternoon the horses shied at a tricyclist, overthrowing
the carriage and throwing out the occupants. The dean
escaped comparatively uninjured, but Mrs. Bonnor and
the coachman were somewhat severely hurt, the latter
having been kicked by the horses.

A Reuter's despatch of Monday night from the
Spanish capital says:
The official bulletin reports 5791 cases of cholera
yesterday and 1897 deaths.

The official cholera bulletin issued at Madrid on
Tuesday morning reported 5913 cases and 1509 deaths
in Spain on the preceding day.

Of 88 deaths which occurred at Marseilles on
Monday, 44 were from cholera, and in the Pharo
hospital there were eight deaths, four discharged as
cured, 10 admissions, and 88 under treatment. The
Municipal Council having been asked for a grant of
300,000 fr., in aid of the sufferers from the cholera,
voted the provisional sum of 50,000 fr., to meet the
most pressing needs.
At Toulon there were 12 additional deaths from
cholera, two of which were in the suburbs. The
population are leaving the town and the roads were
covered with carts removing furniture.
A telegram from nyeres states that four deaths
from cholera have occurred on board the French
squadron of evolution.
From Gibraltar it is reported that two cases of
cholera have occurred on board a coal-hulk in the
Bay, and a woman has died of the disease.
At Constantinople, where it is reported that some
cases of cholera have occurred in the neighbourhood
of Genoa, it is announced that all arrivals from that
port whose data of sailing is subsequent to the 20th
inst., will, until further notice, have to undergo
quanntine in the lazarettos.

The Ova, with the Czarina and other members of the
Eussian Imperial family, arrived at Kremsier at noon
n Tuesday. The Emperor of Austria and the Crown
Prince Rudolph went an hour earlier to meet the train
conveying the Czar and his suite at HuHein, whence,
after an affectionate greeting, they proceeded with
their guests to their destination. The two Emperors
were cheered as they drove frcm the railway station to
the palace along the route lined with troops.
According to intelligence received at Teheran from
Merv, three battalions of Russian infantry, 700
cavalry, and eight guns left that place for Penjdeh at
the end of last mouth. It is stated that 4000 labourers
are now employed on the fortifications at Herat, and
that some houses there have been purchased on British
account.

A sister of the Sultan of Zanzibar and her family,
who have for some years been residing in Berlin, have
now arrived at Zanzibar on board a German man-of-
war, and Rear-Admiral Knorr has put in a clams to
some personal property on her behalf to the Sultan,
and demanded from him the conclusion of a new CJlll-
mercial treaty advantageous to Germany. The admiral
also claims the River Juba. It is stated that the Italian
flag has been hoisted at Port Johnes, in the northern
part of the Sultan of Zanzibar's dominions.
The order for the departure from Alexandria of the
Ist Battalion of the Royal Irish, the 2nd Battalion of
the East Surrey, the Ist Battalion of the Royal Sussex,
and the Ist Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders has
been countermanded.
The 16th Bombay Native Infantry have been ordered
to proceed to Souakim to relieve a portion of the garri-
son there on October 2.
The Birmingham Triennial Musical Festival began on
Tuesday morning in the Town Hall with a successful
performance of "Elijeb," under the conductorship of
Herr Richter. In the evening Mr. Cowen's new cantata
The Sleeping Beauty •' was the chief item of the mis-
cellaneous programme.
Mr. Parnell, M.P., addressed a meeting of tLe
National League in Dublin on Tuesday, and, referring
to the selection of candidates for the general election,
said that a pledge had been formulated, and he would
urge constituencies to refuse to support a candidate
who would not take it. He expressed his conviction of
the near approach of the triumph of the national cause.
If they used their recent victory with judgment and
moderation they would have the two English parties
vieing with each other in the settlement of the Irish
question, and he believed that the settlement they
It has been decided that a strong contingent of the would be able to obtain from the Tories would be as
Egyptian army will form part of the "Frontier Field valuable and important for the interests of Ireland as
Foroe, ' under Major General Grenfell, with heads that which they would get from the Whigs or Radicals.
quarters at Assouan. A depot battalion for the regie The shareholders of the Munster Bank, at a meeting
ments of the Native army serving with the force has at Cork on Tuesday, re-appointed and strengthened the
accordingly been formed at Abbasseyeh.
committee who had been appointed to reconstruct the
The Belgian Ministry will decide Lefore the Ist of
bank, but had resigned. Those present promieed to
large
sum towards the preliminary expenses.
port at Bruges.
November next whether a concession is to be granted
take 5000 shares in the new bank, and subscribed a
arge
to the English syndicate for the construction of a sea-
A man described as a fruiterer's assistant, and giving
I The death is announced of Mr. Alderman Smith, of the name of Thomas Goedwin, has been charged at
Reigate, who was elected four years in succession as
Lambeth Police-court wi h obtaining ls. by false pre-
Mayor of the borough. The deceased, who had practlsed tenets from Thomas Allen. The prisoner went to a
as solicitor for 7 years, was highly respected.
demonstration of boiler makers at the Crystal Palace,
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and stated that he was a representative of the Daily
Another heavy failure is reported from Bradford. In
consequence of the death of a relative, Mr. Henry
, Chronicle." A shilling was given to him by the prose-
I Bottomley, manufacturer and spinner, of Shelf, near cutor. Mr. Biron said the prisoner had just escaped.
Bradford, finds himself in financial difficulties, and has
It was a disgraceful system of cadging, and he cautioned
i
called a meeting of his creditors to decide upon the the prisoner and others with regard to such a pro-
best course to realise the estate. The liabilities are ceeding.
between £70,000 and £BO,OOO. At Colchester, Robert Hay, 60, has been remanded
Signor G. Vecchi, well•known as a writer on naval for attempting to murder his barmaid, Alice Aslington,
questions under the psenclonymic of "Jack la Bolina," early that morning, by shooting her in the head with a
revolver. Prisoner, it appeared, is a widower, and it is
has, it is said, been arrested at Leghorn, where he was
the crime was prompted by jealousy.
professor at the Naval Academy, in connection with the said
late arrests for high treason.
A curious scene occurred in the Liverpool Police-
Great complaints are rife at Antwerp with regard to court on Tuesday, when a young woman named Sarah
the quality of the water supplied there by the Water-
E. Butler was charged with deserting an infant, which
works Company.
she left at the Child's Nursery. Her mother now
alleged that the child was not the prisoner's, and that
A programme has been issued of the meeting of the
Emperors at Kremsicr. A Vienna correspondent tele-
she was not perfectly sane. Prisoner loudly denied
graphs that for 20 years the Austrian Court has not this,and was led from the court in a hysterical
travelled on such a scale as for this meeting. Very su""'
! minute precautionary measures have been adopted for At Croydon, Gabriel Ogilvy, described as an author,
his wife, Hortense, and daughter Gabrielle, have been
the protection of the Czar and Czarina during their
charged with being concerned in stealing 2s. 6d. from
journey.
On the arrival of the Guards from Cyprus, the 3rd the room'of Margaret Cummings, at Wilford-road. It
Grenadiers and 2ad Scots Guards will be stationed at appeared that the accused met Cummings in the street,
Wellington Barracks, and the Ist Coldstreams at and asked for lodgings, whereupon she let them have
Chelsea. The battalions at home will also move to her own room for the night. Early next morning she
fresh quarters. met them in the street, having missed her money from
By the running down, in the Sound of Mull, on *hc the room. The male prisoner now denied the charge,
• West Coast of Scotland, of the yacht Kalafish, Mr. and said that he and his family, who had just come
Crossman, a London solicitor, his wife, and three of the
over from Dieppe failing to meet their friends at
crew have been drowned.
Croydon, asked Dieppe,
lodgings, when they were in-
For some time grave fears have been entertained for veigled into a house of ill-repute. The case was dig-
the German corvette Augusta, which was known to have 4lissed.
encountered a cyclone in the Indian Ocean, and now all At the City of London Police Summons Court, on
hope of her safety is abandoned. She carried a crew of Tuesday, two men, named Lmenwizth and Vorzanger,
238 men. were summoned, the former for letting a warehouse at
Early on Sunday morning a fire broke out in a '
Houndsditch as an unlicensed theatre and the latter
crowded tenement in St. John's-road, Heaton, and
with using it as such. It was stated that this ware-
before
assistance arrived a man named Person (who is house, although ostensibly a working men's club, was
used as a place for the performance of stage plays.
believed to have caused the fire) and two children were
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burnt to death. A gentleman was also fatally burnt in lderman Cowan came to the conclusion that on the
his house in Stepney the same morning, day upon which the offence was alleged the eetertains
ment going on was a juvenile performance, and dia.
During the progress of some excavations near
Hasler Hospital, a large number of skeletons have been missed the summons against Vorzanger, but fined the
disinterred. They are believed to be the remains of i other defendant 405., and costs for allowing other than
French soldiers who died in prison during the wars at members of the club to be present.
the beginning of the century. The Queen has conferred the honour of knighthood
Several witnesses have been examined at Solihull upon Mr. R. Lethbridge, C.I.E.
Petty Sessions in support of the charge against John A baronetcy of the United Kingdom has beenl
ranted to the Right Hon. Michael Morris, of Spiddal,
Duff of murdering an Irishman named Gateley in that g
neighbourhood in December, 1880. Another adjourn-
county Galway, Lord Chief Justice of the Common
assent was granted.
. Pleas in Ireland, and also .o Mr. James Porter Corry
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At the London Guildhall John Coulbertt, physician's
M.P"f Bnraven, Belfast.
HenryH Holland, Bart., M.P., Financial Secretary
assistant, of Holborn, has been committed for trial on Sir
a charge of taking a girl under fourteen years of age to the Treasury, has been appointed Vice President ofthe Committee of the Council on Education.
from the custody of her mother.
At the Lambeth Police-court on Saturday reference An occurrence took place on Sunday morning on the
was made to the case of the young Englishwoman shot Dee, at Chester, which, had it happened a few hours
dead by a man in Mexico, and the magistrate expressed earlier, might have resulted in great loss of life. A
his belief that the English lady to whom she was swimming gala was held on Saturday night, at which
apprenticed, and who was present in court, had treated there were 260 persons present. At daybreak next day
her pupil most kindly, it was found that the baths had from causes unknown
On Saturday morning, while a number of men were sunk no less than six feet, and that the water was
employed upon the alterations at Holbeck Railway nearly up to the roofs of the dressing cabins. Mr.
Station, Leeds, some of the props of the roof gave way, Jones, the city surveyor, and a large staff of workmen
killing one man, whose head was crushed between the were on the spot with pumping apparatus, but after
timbers, and injuring several others, though not twelve hours of incessant work the east side was only
serioosly. raised shout six inches, whilst the west side sunk as
William Millington Guy, 36, traveller, has been, at much lower.
Birmingham remanded on charges of extensive em- keeuerai sir Frederick FitzWygram' Bart., M.P., who
bezzlement from his employers, Messrs. Anton, Kufeke, entertained the employes of his estate to dinner at
and Co., flour merchants, Liverpool. The defalcations Leigh Park, near Portsmouth, on Saturday, strongly
are alleged to amount to £lOOO. The prisoner was impressed upon them the necessity of joining friendly
arrested at Cambridge. societies which would provide annuities for old age. So
At Castleblaney Petty Sessions five men were corn- anxious was he to recognise the services of those who
raided to the assizes for trial, three for shooting at had worked on the estate for forty years, that he
parties with intent, and two for riot when returning, offered to every one of them a cottage rent free for the
on 6th inst., from Castleblaney, where they had been rest of his life. Sir Frederick also expressed himself
working as emergency men on a boycotted farm, to in favour of small farm holdings, and said that he would
Monaghan. Bail was accepted. undertake to find a farm for any labourer on his estate
At Yougbal, on Friday night, several men belonging who had saved a small sum of money sufficient to
to the Suffolk Regiment, who, it is stated, were under stock it.
the influence of drink, were about to be arrested by a M'Sorley, one of the men who was so dreadfully in.
picket when they made a determined resistance, in jured by an explosion of gunpowder at the Bessbrook
which they were assisted by some civilians. A number Quarries, near Newry, on Friday, has died, after suffer.
of police were soon on the scene, and succeeded in dis- leg dreadful agony. He leaves a wife and a large
persing the civilians and arresting the ringleaders. family. The other injured man, Lambe, lies in Newry
The Press Association is officially informed that Mr. Hospital in a precarious condition. He has lost the
F. 0. Adams, C. 8., her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary i sight of both eyes, and his face is burnt and disfigured
and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berne, and Mr. J. H. in a shocking manner.
G. Bergne, superintendent:of the Treaty Department of Dr. Thomas has held an inquiry as to the death of
the Foreign Office, have been appointed British dele- Walter Robert Branch, a wheelwright, of Barnsbury,
gates to the International Copyright Conference to who committed suicide on the 19th inst., by cutting his
meet at Berne on the 7th Sept. next. throat. The widow stated that her husband had en-
The police at West Bromwich have in custody two 10Yed fairly good health until lately, when he became
women, named Ann Townsend, 44, of Sans-lane, West despondent owing to monetary difficulties. On the
Bromwich, and Emily Hemming, 22, of Heath.street, body being searched, a Bute, containing the following
Birmingham, the former charged with using unlawful words, pencilled in a bold, firm hand, "Now for the
instruments for the purpose of procuring abortion, and grand secret," was found. A verdict was recorded of
the latter with aiding and abetting. The arrests were "Suicide whilst of unsound mind."
brought about by the confession of a victim. On Saturday afternoon a 9.in, wall, about N ft. long
Head-Constable Phelan, of the Royal Irish Constabu- and 7 ft. high, enclosing a yard in which were left some
lary, Cahir, has committed suicide at Tramore by cut- hundreds of tons of scaffold poles fell across a lane at
ting his throat. He had been but a couple of days there the back of the Portsmouth theatre, smashing the win-
on a month's leave. does of that building, while a number of the poles
Early on Saturday morning a fire broke out at rolled over the debris. There were several people in
Meadowside, Dundee, on premises belonging to Mr. the lane at the time, and among them a woman named
Norril, and tenanted by Messrs. Lipman and Co. The Simmons was buried, and when extricated it was found
Ore raged fiercely, and in a couple of hours the pre- that her legs were broken. A boy named Leaver had
noises were completely gutted. The damage is very his elbow smashed, and a portion of the wall fell on a.
heavy, much valuable machinery and cloth being de- perambulator in which were two children. The peram-
stroyed. The loss is covered by insurance. A large bulator was broken to pieces, but the children were un-
number have been thrown out of employment. injured.
On Saturday morning a Southampton gentleman and An extraordinary scene was witnessed lately on
his daughter who had been staying at Dover awaiting Westminster-bridge, almost immediately under the
favourable opportunity to prcceed to the Rhine in a Clock Tower. A van of furniture was passing. over the
small steam-launch left Dover, steering out to cross bridge at a quarter to four in the afternoon, when sod-
the Channel for Calais. There was a good swell in the denly the furniture caught fire, and in a moment the
Channel, but the owner of the boat considered hie whole of it was one mass of flame. The canvas of the
small craft would be safe. He anticipated the worst vehicle was instantly enveloped in the blaze, and for
part of the passage would be in crossing the Scheid. several minutes the whole of the van had the appear-
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has ance of a great bonfire. As soon as the driver recovered
visited Sligo, and received a very loyal welcome, his presence of mind he got the horses detached, and
Addresses were presented by the various public bodies, the burning contents were thrown into the roadway,
and, in the course of a long speech, his Excellency where they continued to blaze until they were nearly
thanked the people for their expression of loyalty to all consumed. Curious to relate the vehicle itself was
the Throne, and he expressed the hope that law and
I almost unharmed. The unusual in a few minutes
I brought thousands of peor:Je 4esether in that busy
order would prevail throughout Ireland, and that the
Irish people would be prosperous and law-abiding. thoroughfare.
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