The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-05-15 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The German Emperor has paid 24,000 frame for the
original manuscript of Schneckenburger's " Wacht
am Rhein," the property of a forest manager at

Burgdorf.
At Creareagh granite quarries, near Newry, on
Friday evening, two men named O'Hara and Megan
were killed by an explosion occurring prematurely in
blasting a well. A quantity of stone fell upon the un-
fortunate men, killing them instantaneously.
In Kerry tenants are said to be purchasing their
holdings whenever opportunities are given them to do
so, and some of them have done so at a fflll3l equivalent
to about 21 years' purchase on the basis of Griffitha's
valuation.
On Sunday afternoon a man, who gave the name of
Robert Duff, of 49, Pall mall, London, was found in one
of the lavatories at the station in this city in a weak
condition. His throat had been cut in several places
with a pocket-knite, but the wounds are not of a
serious character. The injured man, who is about
50 years of age, was removed to the York County

Hospital.
A number of barbarous murders are reported from
Nagy Egrery, in South-Eastern Hungary. Three
young peasants seized a band of gipsies whom they
suspected of theft, and while passing through a forest
killed the gipsies, two of whom were women. The pea-
sants have been arrested.
A private soldier, named O'Connor, of the 18th Royal
Irish Regiment, was making his escape from Waterford
Barracks on Friday evening without leave, with a com-
rade, when he fell from the top of a wall on his head and
was killed.
On Sunday night a large spinning shed, occupied by
Messrs. Rhodes and Brierley, woollen-yarn spinners,
Kirkheaton near Huddersfield, was burnt down, doing
damage to the extent of £5500. The machinery was

nearly new.
Two sisters, named Jackson, aged 12 and 18 years,
were found drowned on Friday in a pool near Bacup,
and a paper found on the bank pinned to the hat of the
younger sister stated that the elder girl committed
suicide on account of a quarrel with the master ot the
mill where she worked. No motive was assigned for
the suicide of the younger sister.
A verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind" was
returned on Friday night in the case of the Rev. Henry
Hunnings, aged 43, chaplain to the South Hants Royal
In&Taary, who, in consequence of being informed that
he would either have to resign his appointment or be
discharged, took cyanide of potassium, which he had
been accustomed to use in amateur photography.
According to news from Lublin, in Russian Poland,
all the officers cf its garrison have been placed under
court-martial, accused of having sold important plans
of fortifications and manner of mobilization to a foreign

Power.
Those who grumble at restrictions of the liberty of
the press will no doubt consider themselves better off
here than if they were in China. According to the
" Pekinger Zeitung," a Chinese writer named Wongtzi
was recently sentenced to be quartered because in one
of his scientific works he had enumerated the names
of several of the departed Chinese Emperors, which is
strictly against the Court etiquette. At last his punish-
ment was mitigated to decapitation. His children are
allowed to live until next autumn, when they also will
be executed.
On Saturday morning the driver of an express train
on the Norths Western Railway between Dudley and
Birmingham saw a number of children trespassing and
walking between the metals. He blew his whistle,
but they did not hear it, and the buffer of the engine
struck a girl named Elizabeth Wilkinson, and hurled
her down an embankment. She was subsequently
found unconscious, and shockingly injured about the
head and body. The others had miraculous escapes.
On Saturday, at the Manchester Police-court, eight
men, arrested in connection with a procession of un-
employed, were brought up on a charge of begging and
obstructing the footpath. Six of them, named Robin.
son, Taylor,Booth,Cooper,Bergin,andTennay,werefined
2s. Gd. and costs, and the two leaders, Thompson and
Waddington, ss. and costs. The fines were paid by
sympathisers in court, and the prisoners were at one,
discharged.
As a result of the memorial presented to Mr. Jerome
Murphy, the local director of the Southern and
Western Railway, by the porters, the strike has come
to a close, and all the men resumed work on Saturday.
They are to receive the old pay, and no one will suffer
through participating in the strike.
During the hearing of a cause in Mr. Justice Chitty's
Court on Saturday, his lordship called attention to a
gross impropriety on behalf of one of the parties in
addressing a private letter to the judge. His lordship
said that such improprieties were too usual. The pre-
sent letter commenced with "A thousand pardons for
my bold intrusion." This rubbish was all he had read
of the letter. Ms lordship, however, added that in the
present instance he would not visit the gentleman in
question with consequences.
At the Tiverton County Court on Saturday, Judge
Paterson was engaged for a considerable time in hear-
ing a case in which Edward Williams sued " Captain "
Blackburn of the Salvation Army for damages, and
sought LAI injunction prohibiting the army meeting in
the busy thoroughfare known as Angel-bill, where the
plaintiff resides. The judge suggested a settlement,
and the defendant undertaking, without prejudice, not
to again assemble on the hill, proceedings were stayed.
No order was made as to costs.
On the arrival of a train at Stafford on Saturday, a
man was found riding between the buffers of one of the
carriages. He had attempted at Penkridge to cross
between the carriages when the train started, and,
being unable to jump off, he seated himself between the
buffers and rode to Stafford, a distance of rather over
six miles.
At Ashford, on Saturday, a single woman named Jane
Buss was charged with complicity in the murder of her
illegitimate child. The prisoner's mother was alleged
to have put the child, soon after birth, under the bed,
suffocating it, the prisoner being present and inciting
her. She was committed for trial. The mother and a
sister of the prisoner are also awaiting trial at the
assizes.
A prize fight between two well-known pugilists,
hailing from Jarrow and Sunderland, took place near
Framwellgate-moor, Durham, on Sunday morning.
The encounter was kept extremely quiet, and beyond
the two combatants and their seconds only five or six
others were present. Forty-two rounds wete fought,
the contest lasting about one hour and a half. Both
pugilists were severely punished, and could fight no
longer, the battle ending in a draw. The fight was
for substantial stakes, and this is the second encounter
between the same two men, both of which have.ended
in chaws.
The case of " Giraud and others v. France" and
others came before the Appeal Court on Saturday on
appeal from a decision of Mr. Justice Lopes, who held
that the defendants could use a large room at the top
of what was known as the New French Church in
Brick-lane, Seitalfields, as a lodging-house dormitory.
The court reversed this decision, holding that under
the covenant of the lease no part of the building could
be used save for the purposes of worship
On Sunday information was received in San Francisco
of a great fire at Hinolulu, by which 8000 persons have
been rendered homeless
The annual meeting of the members of the Roya
Yacht Squadron was held at Willis's Rooms on Satur-
day afternoon, when the chair was taken by the Marquis
of Ormonde, Vice Commodore, in the absence of the
Prince of Wales. roae business was transacted, and the
meeting adjourned to August to meet at Cowes.
A resolution proposed by the Hon. W. S. Fielding,
Premier and Provincial Secretary, in favour of the se-
cession of Nova Scotia from the Canadian Federation,
has been carried in the House of Assembly by 15 votes
against 6
The Emperor William attended the review and field
manceuvres of the Ist Foot Guards near Potsdam on
Saturday, remaining in his carriage during the opera-
tions. On Sunday afternoon his Majesty was present
at the West-endßaces.
The International Agrieultural Exhibition in Rome
was opened on Saturday by the King and Queen of
Italy, who met with an enthusiastic reception from
the crowds who had assembled to witness the cere-
mony.
A young man who assisted to pull down the coat of
arms at the German Embassy in Madrid during the
popular agitation last year regarding the Caroline
Islands question, was brought up for trial on Saturday,
and sentenced to ore year's imprisonment.
Sentence of eigh,een months' hard labour was at the
Central Criminal Court passed on Osborne C. V Aldis,
a club proyrietor, for forging a power of attorney,
whereby the Bank of England was defrauded of nearly

i. 2000. -
The installation of the new Maharajah of Cashmere
was performed on Monday with great ceremony. The
Maharajah announced his intention of introducing re-
forms in his dominions, and affirmed his unswerving
loyalty to the Queen-Empress.
The new French loan has been subscribed for more
than 20 times. A Paris correspondent states the
Rothschilds subscribed for 190,000,000 fr., and tat
three offers were made by " agens de change," each to
cover the whole loan.
The Marquis of Salisbury, in acknowledging the
receipt of resolutions adopted at a recent meeting in
Edinburgh against the Irish proposals of the Govern-
ment, says: "The development of Scottish opinion on
this subject has been highly satisfactory. and is of great
promise to the efforts of those who hope to maintain
the empire."
A man named Coles was liberated from prison at
Leicester, on Tuesday, after 'having undergone seven
days' imprisonment for refusing to have his child vac-
cinated. The defendant was received by a large crowd
of spectators, who loudly cheered him, and a meeting
was afterwards held, at which resolutions were passed
denouncing the Cowulsory Vaccination Act.
In Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, s monument has
been erected to O'Donnell, who was hanged for the '
murder of James Carey, the informer on the Invincibles
who assassinated Lord F. Cavendish and Mr. Burke. '
It bears the inscription, "Died for Ireland." The cost
of it was subscribed chiefly by Irish Americans.
At Gateshead, on Tuesday, Major Palmer, the
managing owner of the Usworth Colliery, was fined
£2O for permitting shot firing in the colliery on the
cccasion of the explosion there, by which 42 lives were
lost. The Bench remarked that the penalty, which was
the full one, was ridiculously small.
General Roca, President of the Argentine Republic,
on entering the Chamber to open the Congress on Mon-
day, was struck on the head with a stone by a bystander,
who was arrested.
The 7en-pts on account of revenue from April 1,
1886, when there was a balance of £5,625,944, to May
8, 1886, were £9,958,337, against £11,192,605 in the
corresponding period of the preceding financial year,
which began with a balance of £4,993,a07. The net
expenditure was £10,469,855, against £11,117,411 to the
same date in the pre,ious year. The Treasury balances
on May, 8, 1866, amounted to £4,497,476, and at the
same date in 1885 to £5,100,981.
An action for breach of promise was concluded in
the Aberdeen Sheriff's Court on Tuesday. The pursuer,
named Tosh, sued John Hall, a grieve at a farm in
Echt, for £2OO dananes. The parties were servants at
ths4 same farm, and courted for a considerable time.
The defendant seduced the pursuer, and a child was
born. In January last the defendant wrote to the
pursuer, saying that he would have nothing further to
do with her. A decree in absence was granted for
£2OO.

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