The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-15 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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for cases of " long firm" swindling in Cardiff, Bristt.-1
and elsewhere. The police stated that there were 150
, additional complaints, and that there were officers
waiting to arrest them for forgery at Cardiff. Both
prisoners pleaded "Guilty " to several indictments.
A distressing CSBO of suicide is reported from
Batycliffe, a village near Ulverstone. A man had been
out of work since Whitsuntide, and all his efforts to
obtain employment proving of no avail, he hanged him-
self.
Some roofing covering a path leading to Shrewsbury
Stition suddenly collapsed, killing Mr. William Heath''
a coal merchant, of Shrewsbury, and injuring a boy.
'The accident is attributed to the weight of the snow on
the roof.
On Saturday night a fire occurred in St. Vincent..
street Unitarian Church, Glasgow. It originated in
the heating apparatus. The damage is estimated at
£3OO.
On Saturday night a gentleman, who is suppoied to
have belonged to Linlithgowshire, entered a cab in
Renfield•street, Glasgow, with a woman and drove to
Mary hill, three miles distant. On the cabman stopping
there to get his fare the gentlemen was found to be
dead.

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The screw steelier Violet, of and from London, has
arrived at Shields, having on board Captain Rackham
and four of the crew of the fishing smack Rippling
Wave, of Lowestoft, sunk in collision. The smack was
returning from the fishing ground when the Violet
came into collision with her and sunk her. The crew
took to their boat, and were rescued by the steamer
and landed at Shields.
Sir Edward Clarke M.P., speaking on Saturday at
the annual dinner held at Plymouth in connection
with the West of England Press Itund, said the law of
libel was 'being notoriously traded upon, and recent
decisions pat newspapers in very difficult circum.
stances. He hoped that when Parliament had time
for practical, as apart from purely party matters, to
play his part in assisting to improve and codify the
law in this connection.
An interesting ceremony was performed at St.
Lawrence Church, Reading, on Sunday morning The.
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window to the late Dr. Wells, who filled the position of
churchwarden for many years. He also took a promi-
pent part in Promoting the welfare of the town and
in the establishment of science and art schools, and
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on
Tuesday the
day the Royal
Fire and Life Insurance Company sued the Westmin.,
stet Fire-office for ,Lll3 claimed as the share due of
tho latter ot paid to Messrs Hurter, of the Tivoli
Restaurant, for damage done by fire to the stained
gla!s roof in that building insured under a special
policy with the plaintiff company. The jury were dig.
charged, as the points involved were of law, and Baron
Pollock decided that the ornamental roof not being a
necessary part of the " building," the defendants, who
had paid £440 for the damage to the building, were
not bound to share in the insurance of the ornamental
roof. He therefore gave judgment for defendants.
At the Central Criminal Cou, t on Tuesday John
Garrard pleaded guilty to having, while in the service
of the I),M-office, committed forgery and falsified the
accounts of the office in which he was employed. He
had been promoted to the position of clerk at the
Post-off cc Savings Bank in Queen Victoria-street and
had falsified the ledger so as to draw out money for
his owns account. He was sentenced 11-.1 seven years'
penal seivitude.
The revenue received from April 1 to the Bth inst.
amounts to £62,367,098, or £1,438,259 more than the
£6048,839 received in the corresponding period and-
inf(Tinuary 9, 1886. The expenditure up to the Bth
inst. was £7O 688,632, being £1,560,546 less than the
expenditure for the similar period of 1885-6. The
balances on the Bth inst. amounted to £1,784,428, and
on January 9, 1886. to £1,515,102.