The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-07-16 00:00:00

SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1887.

Tne steamer tlerrimao, from Halifax, N.S., foe
Boston, with 100 passengers on board, ran ashore
during a fog on Little Hope Island. All the pas'
sengers were saved, but the vessel has become a total
wreck.

The officers of the Indian contingent arrived at
indsor from London on Monday afternoon, accom-
panied by Captain 0. W. Muir, and had an audience of
the Queen previous to their departure for India.
On Monday morning a labourer named Harding, em-
ployed on the building of the new Baptist Chapel.
Northcote-road, New Wandsworth, was seized with a
fit and fell from a scaffold. The height from the
ground was only three feet, but his neck was broken,
and death was instantaneous.
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On Monday, the annual delegated assembly of the
Nottingham Ancient Imperial United Order of Odd
-
fellows commenced its sittings at Sheffield, under the
presidency of Dr. Powell, Acting Grand Master, who
delivered the opening address. The order numbers
50,000 members...

At Jarrow Police-court on Monday, John James
M 'Ewen' manager of the Jarrow branch of the North
Eastern Bank, and secretary to the Jarrow Permanent
Building Society, was charged with embezzling over
£9OOO of the society's money. Mr. George Johnson
deposed to having received on Saturday a written con-
fession of the prisoner's guilt, and asked for a
remand for eight days, which was granted. On Mon-
day, in the Dublin Police-court, Patrick Dl`Gowan, aged
64,was returned for trial for having struck with a hatchet
Lieutenant J. Uharleton as he was proceeding through
James-street in charge of the 2nd Battalion Welsh
Regiment. The prisoner, who had been in a lunatio
asylum for 15 years, stated that he wanted to get
back again. Lieutenant Charleton, though stunned at
the time from the blow, is not seriously injured.
According to Russian official Custom House returns,
just published, the export of grain from Russia during
the present year is considerably in excess of the
quantity exported last year within the same period.
lip to June 14, 1887, there was exported 12,816,387
quarters of grain, as compared with 7,277,845 quarters
in 1886. The point of greatest export continues to ha
Odessa, 4,049,976 quarters.
The town of Hurley, Wisconsin, where a large fire
occurred last week, when 100 houses were burned
down, has been the scene of another great conflagra-
tion, by which half the business portion of the town
has been destroyed. The fire broke out in the Variety
Theatre, where 17 persons, mostly actors, perished,
including seven women. The loss of property is esti-
mated at 500,0( Odols.
The sloop yacht Mystery, of New York, while re.
turning there on Monday with a party of forty holi-
day-makers on hood, capsized in Canarsee Bay,
twenty-seven persons woody women and children,
being drowned, including the crew, which consisted of
only two men.
Slight shocks of earthquake are reported from
different points Lower South Carolina.
Two brothers named John and Homy Simkiss, the
one 10 and the other 12 years of age, were drowned
while bathing in an old colliery working at Bradley,
near Wolverhampton, on Sunday afternoon. Both the
lads were unable to swim, and the place where they
were bathing was, in one part of it, of considerable
depth.
The Italian Government is said to be preparing a
measure for excluding foreigners from Government
examinations.

Mr. Fitzgerald, President of the Irish National
League in America has telegraphed to Mr. Paenell
that 30,000d015. will be sent as soon as the committee
of the League has been summoned.
At Doncaster, on Monday, Percy Fanshaw Spencer
Robinson, described as a gentleman, living at 10.
Lancaster-road, Westbourne- park, London, was charged
with forgery. The prosecuting solicitor said the
accused issued a cheque for £lOOO, purporting to be
drawn by James Montague, Melton-park, near
Doncaster. The accused was acquainted with James
Wilton Morgan, Queen's Hotel, 15, James-street,
Paddington, and borrowed money from him, promising
to find security. He took to Morgan a forged cheque
for £l,OO, at the same time saying that he had received
that amount from Montague as part of a legacy due to
him. The alleged fortuity was discovered at Doncaster,
the cheque being drawn on Messrs. Beckett and
Company's bank. The prisoner is a distant relative of
Montigue's. He was committed for trial.
At the Maidstone Assizes on Monday, before Mr.
Justice Cave, Henry Humphrey, farm labourer, aged
62, was charged with the murder of his son by shoot-
ing him at Hadlow, near Tunbridge, a week earlier.
The evidence showed that the prisoner and the deceased
had been quarrelling just before the occurrence, and
the jury found a verdict of manslaughter. The
prisoner was sentenced to 23 years' penal servitude.
A marriage is arranged between Commander Van
Koughnet. R.N. and Lady Jane Alexander, only
daughter of the isle Earl of Caledon.
Sir V. Kennett-Barrington has left England for the
Continent, having been appointed foreign delegate
under the Victorian Exhibition Commissioners to visit
the capitals of Europe in connection with tfillt Melbourne
Centennial Exhibition of 1888.

Mr. Andrew Carnegie on Saturday afternoon laid
the foundation stone of the Free Library for Edinburgh
for which he gave £50,000 conditionally on the city
adopting the Free Libraries Act.
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dwing- to the outbreak of cholera at Catania, there
have been 40 cases and 15 deaths among the troops.
The death of three persons who recently arrived at
Palermo from Catania has caused great alarm among
the inhabitants at Palermo.

As the result of a successful expedition under
Lieutenant Bl'Swiney against a body of dacoits near
Ba w, in Burmsh, two Bohs and eight dacoits were
killed, and one Bob and 19 dacoits taken prisoners, 93
guns and 64 Dabs being captured, and 120 head of
dacoited cattle retaken.

An inquest was held on Saturday, at Crosshaven. a
fashionable wateting.place in Cork Harbour, on the
body of a young lady named Henrietta Mulcahy, who
was drowned the previous day while bathing at Church
Bay. She was an expert swimmer, but when nearing
shore a heavy sea overwhelmed her, and she was taken
out with the receding wave,

At Milford Have; on Saturday the captain of a
ferry steamer, named Evans, and two lads named
Harris and Davies, started for a cruise in a sailing
boat, which it is believed capsized during a thick mist.
On Sunday morning the body of Evans was discovered
on the beach.

William Saunders, amployed as a constable at the
Earl of Shrewsbury's Brereton Collieries, near Stafford,
has been accidentally killed by another policeman by
lowering the hammer of a grin which he did not know
was loaded. Saunders, who stood a short distance
away, was struck by the shot, and died in a very short
time. He has left a widow and six children.
The Booksellers' Provident Institution Jubilee Fête
celebrated its 50th anniversary on Saturday, in the
grounds of the Retreat, at Abbotts Langley, Herts.
The trade was well represented, among those present
being Mr. C. J. Longman, Dr. John Evans, Mr. W. H.
Miles, Mr. J. Vernon Whitaker, Mr. E. Marston, and
many others who have shown the warmest interest in
the institution. Mr. W. H. Smith wrote regretting
that a Cabinet meeting prevented him from attending.
Air. C. J. Longman presided at the banquet.
The mountain fires in Wales have been causing
increasing alarm. A body of 0O or 400 agricultural
labourers and workmen wore employed throughout
Saturday night and Sunday beating out the flames and
digging tenches on the outskirts of the great fire on
the grouse moors of Sir W. Williams Wynn, at Ruabon,
North Wales The fire has taken deep hold of the
peat bog, and many days, if not weeks, must elapse
before the conflagration is wholly extinguished. The
present fire is supposed to have been the work of
m licious persons, and a large reward is offered by Sir
Watkin Williams Wynn for the apprehension of the
incendiaries. Upwards of 3000 acres of pasturage and
moorland, together with an immense nz.-2,..ber of grottse
raid cAlbits, are destroyed.