The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-05-21 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Queen is expected to leave Windsor Castle On
Friday for Balmoral, whence the Court will return
about June 17 to the South. Her Majesty comes from
Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace on June 20 to
attend the Jubilee State Thanksgiving Service, which
is to be held on the following day at Westminster
Abbey, and on June 22 proceeds from the metropolis
to Windsor Castle.
Information comes from Berlin that the Governor of
Astrachan has been mortally wounded by a Nihilist
student.
A memorandum has been issued by Admiral Sir
George Willes, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth,
relating to the arrangements for the Naval Review in
July.
For sending a threatening letter to Mr. G. Pitt,
Lewis, M.P., a man named Edward Lewis has been
committed for trial by the magistrate at Hammer-
smith.
At the Middlesex Sessions, the appeal of Police.,
constable Kavanagh, against a conviction and sentence
of one month's imprisonment for exceeding his duty
was dismissed. . .

Mr. Corcoran, Washington banker, pays taxes on
over 9,000,000 dols. worth of property.
It is stated that the petition against the return of
the Hon. P. Allsopp for Taunton has been abandoned.
Alderman Brown, a well-known Sunderland Liberal,
has joined the Liberal—Unionist Association in that
town.
A serious strike has occurred among the Belgian
miners in the Bassin du Centre. The movement is
spreading.
Baron Connemara of Connemara, is the new title
granted to the Right Hon. Robert Burke, Governor of
Madras.
The native Indian officers who will represent the
Indian Army at the Jubilee will receive per day in
addition to their ordinary pay.
A great strike has occurred at Connelisville, lenti
sylvania. The number of men thrown out of employ.
merit will reach scores of thousands.
Another bed of salt has been discovered at Middles-
brough, at a depth of 1344 feet. The boring is almost
in the heart of the town.

The Belgian Chamber has passed bills abolishing the
stamp duties on policies of insurance, and increasing
the import duty on vinegar.
Tha Croydon women, or, rather 7262 of them, have
contributed £4OO 4s. Id. to the Women's Jubilee Offers
lug—an average of about is. lid; each.
The Balloon Society has asserted the patent laws of
Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Colonies and
Dependencies, should be assimilated.
When the schooner Shearwater was about 30 miles off
Falmouth she passed a considerable amount of wreckage
evidently belonging to a large vessel.
Sir Roper Lethbridge has not accepted an Indian
appointment, and thus does not intend to resign his
seat for South Kensington.
Thomas Goody was passing the Great Eastern Rail-
way at Stowmarket Station the other day when he was
knocked down by a passing train, death following
shortly after.
Four men, found guilty of assault and highway
robbery, have been sentenced at Liverpool Assize& to
imprisonment and the "oat," varying from 18 to 20
lashes.
The City of London Volunteers possess 1200
bayone's. Six hundred of them have been tested. The
result shows a large percentage of exceedingly defective
weapons.
Aldershot tradesmen are dissatisfied--and that at the
action of the Local Board of Health, who have decided
to prosecute all who expose goods on the pavement in
front of their shops.
There are considerable arrears of work in connection
with the Land Act of 1881. With a view to clearing
them off, the Government have appointed three addi.
tional Sub. Commissioners.
The present House of Commons has been erected
about 40 years. Mr. Gladstone, a member of the
Assembly long before that, took dinner in the dining-
room for the first time the other night.
If a statement in the Berlin" Post "is to be accepted,
the Czar has decreed that after August Ist Russian
shall be need as the language Of instruction in all
German high schools in the Baltic provinces.
The Germans have expelled French subjects from
Alsace-Lorraine. Now, the "France," a prominent
Parisian journal, denounces several Germans domiciled
in Paris. The game is one that two can and may play
at.
The new Detective Branch of the Inland Revenue
Department has, it is said, now scattered its forces in
the provinces with the object of ascertaining how far
the dilution process of adulterating beer is carried on.
A notice of motion has been served whose object is
actually o prevent the Corporation of Windsor
decorating and illuminating the Guildhall of the Royal
town, in celebration of the Jubilee, out of the borough
rate.
A German manufactory near Luneville, which is
engaged in making children's dolls, and thus employs
a large number of German workmen, is, so a Stras-
burg paper says, about to be suppressed by the French
authorities.

The female telegraphists in the employ of the Post
Office have been consulting as to how they may im—
prove their position and get their grievances remedied.
They want more pay, fewer hours of work, and longer
leave.

The receipts on account of revenue from the Ist of
April 1887, when there was a balance of £5,950,107, to
May 14, 1887, were £10,793,481, against 211 030,811 in
the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which began with a balance of £5,025,944. The
net expenditure was £11,313,116, against £11,368,584
to the same date in the previous year. The Treasury
balances on May 14, 1887, amounted to £2,806,069, and
at the same d?,te in 1886 to £4,747,251.
The wife of a dairy.farm keeper named Whitby, who
was injured by some fireworks at the Crystal Palace,
brought an action against Mr. Brock to recover damages.
The case was tried on Tuesday, and the jury awarded
the plaintiff £25. Mr. Justice Grantham said the find-
ings of the jury did not make the defendant liable,
though they might make somebody else liable. He,
therefore, gave judgment for the defendant, but granted
leave to the plaintiff to move the Court.
It is understood that at the laying of the foundation-
stone of the Imperial Institute by her Majesty on July
4 a full State ceremonial will be observed. Arranges
m nts will be made for the accommodation of a very
large number of spectators.
A Conference of the British Dairy Farmers' Asso-
ciation, including representatives from England and
Scotland, was held on Tuesday at the Royal Dublin
Scciety's house. Lord Powerscourt presided. An
address of welcome having been presented to the
visitors, and responded to by the President of the
British Dairy Farmers' Association, Mr. Carrel, Super-
intendent of the Albert Model Farm, Glasnevin, which
was visited, read a paper on the dairy industry of
Ireland.
Over 300 men were on Tuesday thrown out of em-
ployment in Messrs. Macilmaine and Lewis's shipbuild-
ing yard, Belfast, owing to the principal belting in the
works having been maliciously destroyed the previous
night. At the police court, on Tuesday, an employe of
the establishment named Kaeown,who was discharged
on Monday, was remanded in custody on the charge of
destroying the belting
In Dublin, on Tuesday, a man named Howlet was
charged with loitering on the Lord Lieutenant's
grounds. The prisoner, who is believed to be insane,
had a cheque for nearly £3OO upon him. He said he
bad just returned from the Sandwich Islands, said had
suffered from sunstroke. He was remanded. This
is the second lunatic arrested at the Viceregal Lodge
within the last month. _ _ _ -

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A Loughrea telegram states that Patrick Madden,
estate agent to Lord Olanricarde at Loughrea, who
was boycotted by a resolution of the National League,
on Tuesday signed the following document: "I have
now given up the position of estate bailiff held by me
under Lord Olanricarde, and will not allow my son to
go to the office."
As a train wad approaching Lydd Station, on
Tuesday, Mr. Francis Finn, the father of the Mayor
of Lydd, and one of the best known inhabitants of
Romney Marsh, fell on the rails and was killed.
Archdeacon Farrar, speaking on Tuesday night in
support of the funds of an institution for the education
and maintenance of the sons of poor clergymen, said
English Churchmen were strangely illiberal and callous
towards their clergy, and contrasted their conduct in
this respect with that of the Nonconformists.
William Holt Brandt was before the Lambeth magis-
trate, on Tuesday, accused of murdering his brother,
and was committed to take his trial on the' capital
charge.
At Lowell, Massachusetts, a meeting was held on
Monday to protest against the Irish Crimes Bill,
Governor ALVA and General Butler being among the
(Team.

A special meeting of the Windsor Town Council was
held on Tuesday, to consider a notice of motion served
on the clerk, at the suit of the Attorney-General
upon the relations of Mr. Bolton, M.P., a member of
the Corporation, restraining them from decorating
the Guildhall out of the borough rate. The original
resolution sanctioning the expenditure was unani-
mously rescinded, the amount required for tne
adornment of the building having been voluntarily
guaranteed. Mr. Bolton has consented to stay pro-
ceedings upon payment of his costs and the Town
Clerk was authorised to bring the action to a speedy
conclusion,

At the Killarney Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, before
Messrs Roche and Butler, resident magistrates, a
countryman named Fleming, residing at Kilcummin,
one of the most disturbed districts in Kerry, was
charged with having in his possession on the evening
of the 10th inst. two locks of double-barrelled guns,
which he was getting repaired at Killarney. Timo
accused, who was one of six prisoners first arrested
and detained in prison for the murder of Murphy.
near Killarney, last February, was pursued snd
arrested by the police whilst going home. He had
no defence, and was sentenced to three months' im-
prisonment.
At a meeting of the Ramsgate Town Council on
Tuesday the annual report of the gas and water under-
takings which belong to the town, was presented. A
profit of £2684 was shown on the gas, and of £335 on
the water. It was resolved that the profit on the gas
should be divided between the consumers and the
General District Fund. To the former it will mean an
abatement of 41 per thousand feet of gas consumed
during the year ending March 25, and, as far as the
General District Fund is concerned, it will represent a
sum equal to a threepenny rate.
At Newtown, North Wales, a butcher named John
Prsce was en Tuesday engaged in cleaning some
benches in the market hall. He went to a neighbour-
ing tanyard to get a bucket of hot water out of the vat,
and, in lifting the bucket out, he overbalanced and fell
headlong into the vat of boiling water. On being
pulled out he was in a dreadful condition, all the hair
falling from his head. He was conveyed to the Mont-
gomery shire Infirmary, where he died shortly after-
wards in great agony.

Henry Ilud 'le-, landlord of a beerhouse in White-
chapel, was charged at the Thames Police-court on
Tuesday with being concerned with others not in
custody in breaking into a warehouse, and stealing a
large quantity of cigars. Ile was committed for

The "Liverpool Journal of Commerce" says that
Canadian cablegram received on Monday states that
tariff charges on iron are already being enforced. This
makes a very serious outlook for this industry, as
already thousands of tons have been stopped in transit
in Liverpool alone. In Scotch pig iron 'the increase Is
1100 per cent., and in bar iron 150. This will practieallY
stop the exportation to Canada. As this is not neede3
for revenue, it is a further step in the direction cf
Canadian protection.
A Swansea telegram states that Mr. Gladstone has
accepted the invitation of Sir Hussey Vivian, MX., to
spend the latter portion of the Whitsuntide recess at
Singleton Abbey, Swansea. Mr. Gladstone will make
no public engagements, except the reception of
addresses of welcome from the inhOitants of South
Wales.

We regret to announce the death (from fever), at
Men, after a short illness, of the hon. lon Keith Fal-
coner. Lord Almoner's reader of Arabic at the Univer-
sity of Cambridge, and only surviving brother of the
Earl of Kintore. He was educated at Harrow, and
afterwards went to Cambridge University to complete
his studies, where he graduated M.A. He was born the
sth of July, 1856, and married, in March, 1884, G wen-
dolen, daughter of Mr. Robert Cooper. Lee Bevan,
of Trent Park, Herts.
Sir John Peter de Gex, Q.C., M.A., died suddenly on
Saturday at his residence, 20, Hyde-park—square. Sir
John, who was a Bencher of Lincoln's-inn, Hon. Fellow
and late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, was 78
years of age.
Sir Roper Lethbridge's deputation on the afiairs of
Ceylon to the Secretary of State for the Colonies haze
been postponed at the request of the members of the
deputation, as they wish to await the result of the
forthcoming conferences on railway extension between
the Governor and planting associations in Ceylon.
The Board of Trade have awarded a binocular glass to
Mr. Thomas Dale in acknowledgment of his valuable
services in connection with the rocket apparatus at
Seacliff, and more especially his services in rescuing the
crew ot the Russian brig Gitana, on the 11th of March,
by means of the apparatus, of which he was at the time
in charge.
A Vienna correspondent sends what are reported in
that capital, on receipt of a telegram from Cowden.
tinople, to be the bases of the Anglo-Turkish agree-
ment on the Egyptian Question. One of these is the
evacuation of the country by the British troops in
three years, the officers to remain two years longer.
The Suez Canal is to be neutralised. _ _

A Berlin correspondent notes the statement of the
semi-official press that the Government do not intend
to propose a protective duty on cereals or other agri-
cultural produce, and says that this might now be
readily passed by the Reichstag. He attributes the
decision to Prince Bismarck's desire to maintain the
friendship of Russia, for which he thus makes an im-
portant sacrifice.
The Queen on Monday received at Windsor Castle
addresses on the occasion of the Jubilee from deputa-
tions of the Society of Friends (one a whom was Mr.
John Bright), from the Presbyterians, the Indepen-
dents, the Baptists, the Lord Provost and Corporation
of Edinburgh, the University of Edinburgh, and the
University of London.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Princesses
Louise and Victoria and the Crown Prince of Denmark,
were present on Monday evening at a costume ball
given at Prince's Hall, Piccadilly, London, by Sir James
Linton, President, and the members of the Royal
Institute of Painters in Water Colours at which several
fine historical tableaux ware represented by the members
in appropriate costumes.
The Prince and Princess of Wales' with Princesses
Louise, Victoria, and Maud, and the Crown Piince of
Denmark, visited the London Horse Show at Olympia
on Monday, and saw a parade of prize winners, followed
by a jumping competition.
The Princess Louise, who was accompanied by tbo
Marquis of Lorne, on Monday, in the name of the
Queen, opened the Liverpool Jubilee Exhibition. Her
Royal Highness also visited the School of Cookery, and
subsequently opened the Deaf and Dumb Institute.
An application was made on Monday to the Lord
Chief Justice and Mr. Justice A. L. Smith, sitting in
Divisional Court of Queen's Bench, for a writ of
"habeas corpus" to brine up the Rev. James Bell Cox,
with a view to his discharge. The Court granted a
rule nisi, the argument being arranged for Friday.
An application was made on Monday to the Queen's
Bench Divisional Court to make absolute a rule nisi
recently obtained to estreat the recognisances of Col.
Sandoval, who had been sentenced to a month's im-
prisonment, and to pay a fine of £5OO. The sureties
pleaded that they only became sureties for the colonel's
appearance at the trial, and were not responsible for
costs. The Court ordered the recognisances to be
estreated unless £234 were paid within seven days.
Mr. William O'Brien, editor of "United Ireland,"
was on Monday nominated for the representation of
North•Eaat Cork. He was proposed by the Rev. Canon
Wigmore, P.P., and seconded by Mr. William Fitz-
gerald, solicitor. There being no other candidate,
be was declared duly elected in the roam of Mr. E.
Leamy.

A young lady named Lloyd, of Liverpoo/, met with
a shocking death at Capel Betts, North Wales, on
Sunday. Whilst watching a water wheel at work at
Feliufawr, she became giddy and fell beneath the
wheel. Her body was crushed into a shapeless mass,
death being instantaneous.
The dispute between the Kentish fruit growers and
the railway company has been amicably settled by a
reduction of 20 per cent, in the railway rates for the
carriage of fruit. This produce will therefore be for-
warded to London by rail instead of by water.
An Odessa correspondent, telegraphing on Sunday,
says Mr. Robinson, the Englishman who has been
imprisoned in Kief for the last 12 months, was released -
to-day, and leaves the town this evening. he will be =;
escorted by the police to Odessa, and will then be
expelled from the country.
A sad accident occurred on Monday morning in the
Central Arcade, Corporation-street, Birmingham. A
girl employed by a firm of upholsterers fell from a
balcony above the glass roofing of an arcade, a
distance of 50ft. crashed through glass, and fell on to
the stone floor of the arcade. She was picked up in an
unconscious condition, and taken to the hospital.
On Monday morning a portion of the 10th Hussars,
stationed at Hounslow, left that station for Aldershot
for musketry practice: A large party of the Royal
Engineers have left Aldershot, with a considerable
number of horses, for Chatham, for duty at the head-
quarters of the regiment.
William Gittins, private in the 3rd Battalion of the
Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was charged on Monday at the
police-court, Wrexham, charged with stealing a £5
note, the property of his lieutenant, Mr. Myddelton
Biddulph. The prisoner took the note from Mr.
Biddul ph's pocket book, placed it in a drawer in his ~
bsdroom, changed it at a local bank, and went on the
spree. The prisoner, who was with the Black Watch
in Egypt and Afghanistan; was fined 405., or one
month's imprisonment.
The committee appointed to inquire into the ques-
tion of electrical communication between light vessels
nod the shore met again on Monday at the Board of
Trade offices, and concluded the examination of wit-
nesses. The Earl of Crawford presided.
In consequence of the notice of motion received by
the Town Olerk of Windsor restraining the corporation
from paying for the decorations and illuminations of
the Guildhall during the celebration of the Queen's
Jubilee out of the borough rates, it has been decided
to defray the cost of its adornment by subscription,
and a era cient sum has already been, it is understood,
guaranteed.

- We are requested to state that the various arrange-
ments for opening the Queen's Hall at the People's
Palace and laying the first stone of the Technical
Schocls devolved upon Mr. Arthur Snelgrove. The
"Queen's Fund has also been organised by Mr. Snel-
grove.
Pennington House, the seat of Mr. E. H. Maxwell
Blair, which is situate within a few miles of Newton
Stewart, was almost totally destroyed by fire on Mon-
day night. A large part of the valuable contents of the
building were saved, but many pictures and other
articles of great value were destrqed.
Lord Wolseley, Adjutant-General to the Forces, has
consented to preside at the United Service Institution,
when a lecture on "Tactics, as affected by Field Tele-
graphy," will be delivered by Colonel Lonadale Hale, -
sate R E. and Major C. Beresford, R.E.