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

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN•

According ta a Reuter dispatch from Simla' the
special attention of the Indian Government is just now
directed to the increase of the native army, which it
is proposed to effect by adding two companies to each
infantry battalion and one a luadron to each cavalry
regiment.
Major-General Grenfell has telegraphed to Cairo that
an Arab, arrived at Korosko from Berber, reports the
death of Osman Digna, whose forces attacked Kassala
on June 15 and 16.
It is announced horn Ottawa that eight whites have
been massacred by Indians at Cypress Hills. Forty
police left for the scene of the murder, and forty more
for Medicine Flat.
Despatches received at St. Petersburg from Tash-
kend and Verny announce a severe earthquake at
Belvodsk and Karaboltz, by which 54 persons have lost
their lives.
Property to the amount of 1,000,000 dols., besides
several steamers and sailing vessels, has been destroyed
by a vast conflagration at Toronto, Some loss of life is
also reported.
A petition, signed by nearly all the inhabitants of
Stellaland, praying for Imperial rule and protesting
against annexation to Cape Colony, has been forwarded
to the Imperial Government.
While an inquiry was in progress on Monday Into
certain occurrences at St. George's Infirmary a painful
sensation was created by the announcement that Dr.
O'Connor, one of the witnesses in the case, had died
suddenly.
A deputation of Aylesbury Liberals went to Waddes-
don Manor on Monday, and presented an address to Mr.
Gladstone. As the right hon. gentleman's voice was
still weak he deputed Mr. Herbert Gladstone to express
his thanks.
Great disappointment was felt by it body of West-
minster Conservatives who went to Hughenden on
Monday, when it was announced that neither Lord R.
Churchill nor Mr. W. H. Smith was able to be present.
A terrible accident has happened at St. James's-end,
Northampton. The children of St. James's School had
just finished their annual treat, and had commenced
singing "God Save the Queen," when a hansom cab
horse dashed into their midst, scattering them in all
directions. Fifteen were seriously, and two fatally
injured.
Saturday was the anniversary of the battle of the
Nile, which was fought on August 1, 1798, when Nelson
defeated the French fleet.
The bobbin manufactory of Mr. Nixon, at Claughton,
near Garstang, Lancashire, was discovered to be on fire
on Saturday, and, though the fire brigade was soon on
the spot, the building was totally destroyed, as also were
one or two adjoining cottages.
The confirmation of Prince Adolphus of Teck and
Princess Mary Victoria of Teck took place privately on
Saturday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, in
the presence of the Prince of Wales and a number of
other members of the Royal family.
Meetings of shareholders of the Munster Bank were
held in Dublin and Cork on Monday, at which volun-
tary liquidation was resolved on, in view of the esta-
blishment of a new company.
rJoseph Tucker, a shoe-finisher, was executed at
Nottingham on Monday for the murder of a woman
with whom he cohabited.
Mr. Balguy, at the Greenwich Police-court, on
Monday, imposed a sentence of three months' hard
labour on a ruffian for biting a kitten's head off.
The trial of the action brought by Mr. T. Harrington,
MI., co. Westmeath, against Mr. T. P. Carr, county
inspector of constabulary, for £5OO damages for an
assault alleged to have been committed upon him in
Mallow, on the 13th April last, on the occasion of the
visit of the Prince of Wales to that town, took place
on Monday at Cork, before Mr. Justice Andrews and a
special jury. The case for the plaintiff was opened by
Messrs. D. B. Sullivan and T. M. Healy, M.P. Evidence
in support of the charge was given by the plaintiff, Mr.
J. O'Connor M.P., and Mr. J. C. Flynn. The case
lasted eight flours, and in the end the jury were dis-
charged without agreeing to a verdict.
At an early hour on Monday morning a murder was
committed at Sheffield. A policeman, whilst upon his
beat, was accosted by a young man, named John
Thomas Sims, who asked him to come to his house,
saying that two men were murdering his wife. The
constable and another policeman went at once to the
house, and upstairs found Sims's wife lying in bed and
bleeding profusely from some terrible wounds on the
head, inflicted with a hammer that was lying near, and
covered with blood and hair. In answer to the police-
men she said John (meaning her husband), had inflicted
the injuries. She was removed to the infirmary, but
died soon after her admission. Sims was apprehended.
Mr. Osborne Morgan, addressing a Friendly Society's
meeting at Trevor, ltuabon, said he considered these
societies were established on a good basis, and that they
promoted thrift mid co-operation amongst working
men. They were living in hard times, but there was no
need for despair. Hard times had come and gone
before, and had been succeeded by better times, and he
trusted that they would soon come again. These
societies taught combination, but working men were
only just beginning to learn this lesson. Political
power was now placed in their hands, and he Loped
they would realise their responsibilities and doe that
power well.
Shortly after four o'clock, a shocking accident hap'
pened in the n&ghbourhood of the Woodside Race-
course, resulting in the death of Mr. William Butt, a
cabman, in the service of Mrs. Graves, Croydon. He
was privileged to ply for hire at East Croydon Station,
and was returning to the races, driving his horse at a
walking pace, when another cabman named Thomas
Carlyle, who was going in an opposite direction,
brought his vehicle into collision with Butt's cab, which
overturned, the driver being instantaneously killed. A
medical examination revealed the fact that the man's
neck was broken.
An armed and disguised party entered the house of
a farmer named Patrick O'Donnell, at Inch, county
Clare, on Sunday night, put out the lights and fired
shots, one of which struck O'Donnell, wounding him
slightly on the leg. He is unable to identify any of the
party. O'Donnell had been expelled from the member-
ship of the Irish Branch of the National League for
buying a meadow from an obnoxious landlord.
At the Leeds Assizes, William Swallow Whitehead,
assistant gas engineer to the Bradford Corporation,
has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude for
embezzling various sums of money amounting to £4OOO.
The prisoner's defalcations extended over six years. He
confessed his guilt, and as he had saved the money, he
repaid the corporation in full. The judge, however,
held that to be no mitigating circumstance.
The death is announced of the Countess of Albee
merle. Her ladyship was the daughter of Sir Coutts
Trotter, and was married to the Earl of Albemarle in
August, 1t331.

SATURDAY, AUG. 3, 1885.

Two excursion trains for Wales came into collision
near Chester on Monday. Considerable damage was
dope to the carriages, and sevetal passengers were

injured. _
Lammas Monday holiday was favoured with fait if
somewhat dull weather, and the customary resorts Of '
holiday makers were well patronised.
Sergeant Price, of the Cardiganshire Militia, who Ivo -
sentenced to death for shooting his wife, has been -
respited.
At Devonport, on Monday, the Hecla court-martial
found that the charges against Captain Markham and ,
Sub-Lieutenant Nicholson were not proved, and fully .
acquitted them. The officers and crew were also corn'
mended for their promptitude in saving life.'
A deliberate case of the theft of an infant child b 1
some woman unknown was
sreported to the Marl-
borough-street police magistrates on Monday. The
infant was in the care of a girl of ten, whom the woman
sent into a shop with a pretended message while she
herself effected her escape.
The Queen has been pleased to confer the honour Of ,
a Knight Commandership of the Order of the Bath
(Civil Division) upon Captain Gosset, Serjeant-at-Arins'
and ales:" upon Admiral the Right Hon. Sir Jol2'l
Dalrymple Hay, Bart., 08., M.P. .
A telegram has been receired from Major Cherinside .
contradicting the reported death of Osman Digna. '
The Lord Mayor of London has distributed the prize;
won during the past year by the pupils of the
Naval School, New-cross, and afterwards addressed
boys, pointing out the advantages of the present Byste°l •
of examinations as compared with that of patronage io• ,
bygone days.
A fearfully destructive cyclone has passed over the
Delaware, near Philadelphia, and has raged with re"
violence also in other States. Five persons are knotvo
to have been killed, and 100 others have been injured. • • -
The losses are estimated at about 1,000,000 dols.
The Rev. J. W. Horsley, who is about to retire from
the position of chaplain of Clerkenwell Prison, owing, -
to its approaching abolition, has accepted the post °' •
clerical secretary to the Church Society for Providing
Homes for Waifs and Strays in succession to the Re• , -
J. O. Bevan, who has resigned upon being presented to
a living. ;
A general order by the Field-Marshal Commanding- s _
in-Chief, just issued, states that "her Majesty the ,
Queen has teen graciously pleased to approve of the e
19th Hussars being in future designated 'the 19th '
(Princess of Wales Own) Hussars,' in recognition of '. ,
the distinguished services of the regiment in Egypt and
~
the Soudan."
Mr. Thomas Shortridge, estate agent of Wigan, VW'
found dead on Tues lay morning in Eis garden, with a -
gunshot wound in the head. The deceased left his
house carrying a gun stating that he intended to shoot
some rats. The report Of a gun was subsequently heard
and the servants shortly afterwards found the body 01
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their master lying near the door of an outbuilding.
The Appeal Court of Aix, overruling the judgment of -.41
the Marseilles Tribunal in the matter of the seizure bY
France of the Italian ship Solunto, has decided that as
a mail packet it was privileged by the postal convex'.
tions between the two countries. This decision closes or
rather awkward diplomatic incident. We alrea'3Y
learn from Rome that it has been received there with
great satisfaction.
The revenue received from April ; to the Ist instant
amounts to £26,614,112, or e 40,520 less than the
£26,654,632 received in the corresponding period ending
August 2 1884. The expenditure up to the Ist inst. vros°
£3e,210,516, being £4,358,861 more than the expendi-
ture for the similar period of 1884-5. The balances on
the Ist inst. amounted to £2,086,973, and on August 2r
1884, were £2,453,426.
Over GOO persons e ere on Tuesday thrown out of
employment at Carlton Main Colliery, one of the most
important in South Yorkshire, owing to the strike of
the horse drivers and pit lads, who alleged that the-
company last pay day stopped some portion of their
earnings. Most of the mieers descended the workiegs"
but had to be drawn out, causing serious loss to the
colliery company.
In honour of the marriage of Princess Beatrice the
tenantry and servants on the Royal estates of Balmoral,
Abergeldie, and Birkhall were entertained at a dinner
and bail at Balmoral Castle on Tuesday night, The
company included Princess Frederica of Hanover, wh°
arrived at Abergeldie Castle on Saturday.
At the Wesleyan Conference isi Newcastle, 00
Tuesday, an important debate took place on the no°
movement to meet the spiritual destitution in London.
Sir William M'Arthur pleaded for an enlarged schereee
which should carry with it the sympathy not ones 0'
Wesleyans in the metropolis, but throughout the
country. Sir William advocated raising the amounteo
£lOO,OOO. Mr. Geo. Sidgett and several leading ministers , ,
spoke in favour of the movement. Ultimately the
conference, by a unanimous vote, accepted a proPosal ',
to raise £50,000 for this object. 0 • "
A remarkable case of pocket picking by a child le'
years of age has been disclosed at Lewes. The prisoner. '
a school girl, confessed to several robberies from per-
sons. Owing to her frequent appearance in the market
detectives watched and saw her pick 50 pockets, 10
many instances securing money. She appears to havee
watched children leaving factories on wage days, a'au? .
entering into conversation with them, contrived to
possess herself of their wages. The magistrate se°
her to prison for 10 days, and to a reformatory for foar '
I
years.
It was stated in Aberdeen on Tuesday, on offielai
authority, that Lord John Manners has decided to CO
cede to the north-eastern districts of Scotland the mail
connections recently refused by Mr. Shaw Lefevre in
his reply to a deputation from the counties of Aberdeen'
Banff, and Elgin. The adoption of the scheme will be
announced in a few days. The effect of the concessiono
will be to give the important commercial districts be-
tween Aberdeen and Elgin the full benefit of the ace'
lerated mail service from Aberdeen to the north. The
matter has been the subject of much public agitatio°
and anxiety.
The inquiry into the recent fatal railway collision at :
B;negar has been resumed before the county coronel:re
Dr. Craddock. It was stated that when Colonel 1-10°,"
the Government Inspector, passed the new double see
Til.;
tion, he suggested alterations in the lockieg gear. ls.
work was commenced, and the locking bar wha v
removed. After the colllsion the signalman said,
dear! I forgot :he locking.' The railway officisw::
however, expressed the opinion that the accident vill e
due to the wrong levers having been pulled and th'e .
the alterations in the locking gear would not ha° '
affected the safety of the main line if the proper level ,
had been pulled. The enquiry wa; further adjourn
for the attendance of Colonel Rich. tea
The Chamber of Deputies in France has aa°Psee '
without debate the Commercial Treaty conc10" s ,
between Free ce and Burmah on the 15th of Februare ,
last. AA Or
At a meeting of the Munster Bank Sharehclerr f
Committee in Dublin on Tuesday, on the motion °
Mr. Kennedy, seconded by Sir George Penrose, a roo'
lution was carried similar to that at Cork Cu elons°7_
that Mr. R. C. Hall be named liquidator in the event,
ooal
the three directors adopted not being approved of "4
the Court. Proposals have been received for slor
under the reconstruction scheme to between £300)
and £400,000.
The Council of the Geologists' Association hale
determined to devote a summer holiday to an explores:, ,
tion of the valley of the Meuse, so interesting from tlr,
geologist's point of view. The members who have_
determined to join the party will leave town in time 1..1
be in Brussels on Mouday'afternoon, where they
be received and conducted over de Royal Eluseure
that distinguished geologist M. Dupont. The ee_eex"B"-
sions, for which special arrangements have been rav',`..nee,
will extend over the week, and will inclnde stesanh;et •
trips csn the Meuse, drives in the valley of that rico°
visits fo Givet, Dinant, Namur, and the famous grocee
of Han-sur-Lesse, with facilities for visits to the Wee.
of the Ardennes and other spots in the neighbourlorie,
A private letter written by an English officer a biota,
1
position in the Soudan says. "What a difference,. fe,
man's life may make! Ido not think there eats icese
doubt that had Burnaby lived to take command 19"00
- Stewart was wounded, Khartoum would have llies
saved. Never was there an occasion on which auf,-,e,
petuous commander was so much required as there lei.e,
Burnaby missed his chance by twenty-four hours- afhe
it is, we mourn him as a friend, as a man of gleet '
energy and pluck. Had he lived another forty•enee
hours I am sure the nation would have mourned
as a great commander.
At Wednesbury, William Wheeler, ironworker, lifilel
ereso
been remanded for maliciously wounding Pernseelr
Savage, by stabbing. While celebrating the Pnet .
Holiday the prisoner and prosecutor quarrelledesooll
subsequently prisoner met prosecutor in a lonelY Piot
and saying that was the place to settle a aneog
stabbed him in several places, and left hira ble the
and unconscious. Prosecutor was removed towel
hospital, where it was found his nose was n 41
severed. pig
Glanders has broken out among the horses belonebis
to the Royal Artillery Regiment at Shorncliffe. ;eels
disease being so dangerous to the men they haTeesse°
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ordered to proceed to Lydd, and take up their slxtes
there while the contagious disease lasts. The ,0
are left under canvas stables, which have been er- -
on the open ground.
An inquest was held on Tuesday at Yardlelegrth
Birmingham, respecting the death of Mr. Frankgreiel
Britten, surgeon, of Stockton-on-Tees. On
week the deceased was on a visit to his sieter, of
Weston, Gough-road, Edgbaston, and later ila the
Oorp'
went to take tea with her brother-in.law. N' *leere
nag he was found dead in a field at Yardley. sect'
was no money or anything else found in deeesie 00
pockets, although it was stated he had £7 l° g°stigfe
the afternoon in question. After a searching ierrf 00 I
tion, the medical evidence showed no trace of Iles 0
marks of violence, and the jury found a
"Death from natural causes." Gle
At the Leeds Assizes two young womens die .
Isherwood and Isabella Gardner. sisters, were I°os tire
for the wilful murder of the illegitimate 000lelegre
former by drowning at Slaidburn, the object, so, eP
by the prosecution, being to conceal the child Os Os
tence from Isherwood's husband. The defene'd tlle
that the boy had been accidentally suffocated, ?"1/clestie
body placed in a brook to avoid further
Prisoners were acquitted.
The charges arising out of Bank HolidaY, !stseele.rl
metropolitan police-courts, bore favourable colls PstrailPse
with the lists presented to the magistrates 130 ; et
previous occasions. There was nothing Ore eajtl°'
serious character in any of the cases heard all"
bet
cated upon. cieactl .
Two men lie in the Cottage Hospital at e 4ess One
Cheshire, suffering from terrible wounds inale‘joac7e
stabbing affray. Cheshire on Tuesday vra° eeelreee
by a large number of Lancashire holiday , mile
among whom was a gang from Liverpool, name 0%
Burns McConnell, and Crichton, Just outsvieltisece
comb: these men commenced to quarrel witheis Osect
Shute who was with them. McConnell str%sen Pee
on the mouth with his fist, and then Orneetll le
Burns rushed upon him and stabbed him Weed lid
the breast, the knife penetrating his lungs,
_., for tlie
new in a very critical state. The prisoneris„efore.,.'o
were all arrested afterwards and brought UP left tit'ef
Cheshire magistrates and remanded, thelLe eePeef
dying companion, and went off to a cook otut;ies neo
a tradesman named Bowker, whose 3O
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immediately began to steal. B'fiwker seise ,s, fell old
men,
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in the back, the knife penetrating °'''kee sysseoV,
glancing off at the shoulder blade. 110003b0
carried away in a fainting condition to P*6'''''
tage Hospital.


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