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

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A National Native Congress has assembled at
Calcutta, and is attended by about two hundred dele-
gates of the various Hindu) political associations. The
Mahometans refused to join the movement. _

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Seventeen hundred men employed at Port Richmond
by the Reading Railway Clompanx' have struck work,
being dissatisfied with the way in which the recent
rettenntimpnt was effected.
At the rpeciat service r.,.
Abbey on Innocents' Day, Archdet‘con Farrar delivered
an address, and pleaded the CMISO of the starving
children in London streets. Collections were made
in aid of the funds of the Destitute Children's Dinner
Society.
The receipts on account of revenue from the Ist of
April, 1886, when there was a balance of £5,625,941, to
Dec 24, 1886, were £58,183,394, against £57,166,181.,in
the corresponding period of the preceding financial year,
which began with a balance of £4,993,207. The net expen-
diture was £60,535 463, against £63,585,102 to the same
date in the previous 3 ear. The Treasury balances on
Dec. 24, 1886, amounted to £3,097,241, and at the same
date in 1885 to £2,844,174. _ _
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A collier named Terry, at Nottingham, on Tuesday,
deliberately murdered his wife by strangling her, and
then gave himself up to the police.
Sir W. M. Call, Lieut.-Colonel De Sandoval, and Mr.
G. Baird again appeared at the Bow-street Police-
court, on Tuesday, on the charge of unlawfully fitting
out a naval expedition against Venezuela. Some
further evidence having been given, it was contended
for the defendants that it had not been proved that an
eapedition had been fitted out here, and that all the
arms were shipped within the jurisdiction of the
Belgian authorities. The defendants were committed
for trial.

A granite monument, inscribed simply "Gough,"
has been placed over the grave of the late well-known
temperance orator.

H'aciuheLoyer, of Gatineau Point, Quebec, a
basket-maker, has been left 100,000 dols. by an uncle
in France. Layer has been La poor health, and has
lived a life of poverty for years.
A Wesleyan minister named Dent, residing at Black-
burn, preached twice at Bolton on Sunday. Hurrying
afterwards to the railway station, he was taken ill, and
expired in the waiting-room.
The Christmas letters received by the Liverpool
postal officials show an increase of nearly a quarter of
a million, the total being nearly 1,900,000. The increase
In the parcels post is 30 per cent.
Jim Cummings and his accomplices, who rifled a
railway express coach in Missouri recently, have been
captured in Chicago. The robbers carried off a sum of
over 5000 dollars, part of which has been found upon
them.

Deaths by alcoholism, the "New York Herald"
asserts on what it declares to be authentic statistics
that make the fact clear, have decreased throughout
the United States during the first 15 years from a ratio
of 111 to 45 in each 1000 from all causes.
Kent and Sussex farmers are being urged to cultivate
apples more extensively than they do at present. Two
leading growers in the latter county are trying to get
the idea practically taken up by agriculturists as a new
departure iilelyto prove profitable.
Michael Byrne, two years orage, died on Monday at
the home of his parents in Dublin through havingleen
forced to drink intoxicating liquor. This is the second
death of the kind that has occurred in Dublin this
Christmas, the other case being that of a boy whose
father gave him too much whisky.
A passenger train ran off the line between Dudley
and Dudley Port the other morning owing to the points
having become clogged with snow, and the signalman
being unable to use his signals. Fortunately, the train
was proceeding slowly, and the passengers thus escap.d
without serious injuries.
Berkshire has lost one of its oldest magistrate;; by
the death of Mr. Henry Mill Bunbnry, which occurred
at his residence, Marlstone House, near Newbury, in
his 77th year. The deceased was a member of the
Bench of Magistrates for the Newbury division, and a
deputj -lieutenant for the county.
On the 25th of January will come on at Cairo the
cause of the Government against the Public Deb*
Commissioners, who politely declined to honour the
cheque given in settlement of the judicial claim on the
ground that the legal advisers did not defend the
Government Interests properly before the Tribrinale.
The house of a farmer named Michael King, living at
.Freemount, comity Cork, has been attacked by an
armed and disguised party of men. King had been
accused of "land grabbing." After being beaten by
the Moonlighters he was forced upon his knees, and
made to swear that he would surrender the land.
Just before noon on Monday an alarming accident
occurred at Beckenham Railway Station. A special
train had arrived at Caton's Yard crossing, near New
Beokenham, when a second special train from
Addiscombseroad ran into it with great force,. smashing
the guard's van, and two or three carriagea. A number
of passengers in the first train were more or less
severely shaken, and one of them was badly injured
about the head.

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Day charges heard at the variourt metropolitan police-
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at Salth;ll, Clitheroe, on Sunday
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afternoon. He was skating on a pit ten feet deep when
the ice gave way, and he wan iramersed. A number of
other youths were about, buG were unable to render any
assistance, and the young wan was drowned.
In the Dublin Police-court on Monday-a man named
O'Brien was, with his mother, ctiarged with murdering
his wife. Evidence was
given showing that on the
night of the 23rd inst. there was a wake in the lodging..
house where the prisoners, with deceased, were living,
and that a quarrel arose between them, with the result
that Mrs. O'Brien VMS PO eeverely beaten by the
ice accident occurred at Bolton. A young man named
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Menden, aged 18, gallantly went into a mill lodge to
rescue a man named Thompson, who was drowning,
when he fell through, and was drowned before
assistance arrived. The man was afterwards rescued
with a clothes line, and the body of Marsden was rer
covered by the police.

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