The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-06-12 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The death is announced a Mrs. Charles Dillon,
widow of the well-known actor.

Prince Luitpold of Bavaria is about to assume the
Regency of that kingdom, and Lcke measures for
placing King Ludwig under control.
It is announced from Bombay that the Indian rainy
season has set in.

At the instance of the Prince of Wales arrangements
are in progress by which every working man, woman,
and child may have an opportunity of visiting the
Colonial and Indian Exhibition on all week days except
Wednesday, after the middle of August.
The Select Committee on the Archbishop of Canter.
bury's Church Patronage Bill have reported in favour
of passing it into law with some amend oe9.
Lord Wemyss proposes, after the Whitsuntide
holidays, to call attention to the "Socialism of the
Session."

As Roumania has refused to glut the "most
favoured nation" treatment to Ottoman commerce,
Turkey has considerably raised the duties on horned
cattle, grain, and many other articles imported from
Roumania.

Several earthquake shocks were felt in Chios and the
Erythrian Peninsula on Saturday night.
Mr. Charles E. Tinney, of St. Paul's Cathedral and
the Guildhall School of Music, has been appointed
principal teacher of singing at the New Encland Con-
servatory of Music, Boston, United States of America.
He will entet upon his duties on September 9, and will
sail from England about the third week in August
The booking office attached to the Erith Station of
the South-Eastern Railway was broken open on Satur-
day afternoon, and a considerable sum of money was
stolen.
The revenue of the Dominion of Canada for the 11
months ended the 31st of May was 29,65,856 dole. The
expenditure during the same period was :,2,018,874
dole. After deduction, however, of the outlay on
account of the rebellion in the North-West Territory,
amounting to 2,802,071 dole., there is a surplus of
469,053 dole.
On Saturday afternoon the expreas from Man-
chester to Buxton came into collision with a Loudon
train at Stockport Junction. Both wet() running in
the same direction, and the collision took place at a
crossing. The Buxton train was crowded with pas-
sengers. Several of the coaches were smashed in and
thrown off the metals' some being nearly overturned.
One man bad his leg broken, and other persons were
slightly injured The line was blocked for some time.
About five o'clock on Sunday morning a serious fira
broke out at the residence of Mr. W. H. Richardson,
Monkton Lodge. Jarrow. The whole of the library,
which contained between 3000 and 4000 valuable books,
was destroyed.
An inquest was held on Saturday on Michael Larkin,
who on Thursday night was attacked by two brothers
named O'Donnel, and killed with stones, near New-
castle West, county Limerick. A verdict of "Wilful
murder" against the O'Donnells was returned.

On the petition of Lord Ardilaun, a creditor for
£lO,OOO, Mr. Justice North, on Tuesday, made an order
for the winding-up of the Commercial Bank of South
Australia.

Ten men charged with being concerned in a prize-
fight in Paradise-street, Lambeth, London, surrendered
for trial at the Surrey Sessions, on Tuesday. The
defence was that it was merely a glove fight. All the
prisoners were acquitted; but the presiding magistrate
told the police that they had acted very properly in the
matter.

At the Marlborough-street Police-court, London, on
Tuesday, the cabman Wilson, who recently fired off a
pistol in Regent-street while Lord Mandeville, to whom
it belonged, was dining at a restaurant, again appeared
on remand. His lordship had been summoned to
attend, but was not present, and the magistrate cha-
racterised this as highly disrespectful to the Court. The
cabman was fined 40s. for firing off the pistol in the
street.

Messis Ransome, Bouverie, and Co., bankers, on
Tuesday brought an action to foreclose certain pro-
perty upon which an equitable charge had been given
by Mrs. Yorke, wife of a solicitor, to secure £3OOO ad-
vanced to her husband. Vice-Chancellor Bacon said
thore wag no defenro to the plaintiffs' claim, which
must be allowed with costs.
A Pimlico cab proprietor, named Holland, on Tues-
day sued Mr. Parks, of Brighton, to recover a horse,
which, after being used for the conveyance of people
from Chichester to Goodwood Races, was sold by the
driver to the defendant. Mr. Justice Smith, who tried
the case without a jury, said it was clear the driver had
no authority to sell the horse, which must be returned
or £2O paid as its value, with £lO damages for its de-
tention.
The question of the mode of expending six thousand
pounds collected fifty years ago by the late M.
Gourrier, on Tuesday came before Mr. Justice Chitty,
who considered that the best way of giving effect to
the wishes of M. Gourrier was to apply the fund to the
erection of a church in the Rue des Bassins, Paris, on
the understanding that the English service should be
performed in the Frenchlanguage once every Sunday.
Two French war vessels, with troops on board, have
sailed from Noumea with the intention, it is believed,
of occupying the New Hebrides. They took with them
a three months' supply of provisions.
The annual meeting of the shareholders in the Suez
Canal was held on Tuesday in Paris. The report stated
that the completion of the first portion of the improve-
ment works would be equivalent to the creation of a
siding along the entire length of the Canal. The
traffic in 1885 was nearly half a million tons in excess
of the previous year; and recent developments of
enterprise in Tonquin, Burmah, Oceania, and else-
where in the East led to the belief that the Canal
would be still more profitable in the) future.
All danger from Mount Etna is p.m believed to have
ceased, and the people of Nicolosi ake allowed to return
to their homeo. Earthquakes' however, continue in
the district, and in one r,lace have caused the fall of
some houses.

A Ministerial Bill making provision for the widows
and orphans of military men has been submitted to the
Austrian and Hungarian Parliaments.
The Court of Appeal gave judgment in the matter of
the arbitration between Messrs. Kirk and Randall and
the East and West India Dock Company involving
claims of about £.600,000, the decision being in favout
of the contractors.

Mr. H. M Stanley, speaking on Monday night at
a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society expressed
the opinion that a railway concession from the chiefs of
the Congo tribes were absolutely essential to the
welfare of the Congo Free State.
Sentences varying from eight years' penal servitude
to six weeks' hard labour were passed upon several
persons at the Central Criminal Court for indecently
assaulting young girls.
For stealing several articles from the Great Hall at
Euston Station, Frederick Wharton, a clerk, was sen-
tenced on Monday at the Middlesex Sessions to six
months' hard labour.

Cardinal Jacobini, by command of the Pope, has in-
formed the Prussian Minister to the Vatican that
hencef3rth all Roman Catholic ecclesiastical appoint-
ments in Prussia will be notified to the Prussian
Governments.

Having rejected various other schemes submitted to
it, the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the
Expulsion Bill have, by six votes against five, adopled
the proposal of M. Floquet in favour of a bill banishing
all Princes without distinction. Prince Nap,'leon has
issued a manifesto on the subject of the expulsion,
in which he protests against being classed as a pre-
tender, and states that the exile of the Princes will not
improve the present Constitution.
Renewed rioting has occurred at Pest, in which one
person was killed, several were injured, and 31 arrested.
Damage was also done to property.
The Princess Louise, accompanied by the Marquis of
Lorne, paid a visit on Monday to Upton Park, Essex,
and laid the foundation-stone of a church to be erected
in memory of Elizabeth Fry, the philanthropist.
A sculling match for £2OO was decided on Monday
afternoon over the Thames championship course,
between David Godwin, of Battersea, and Neil Matter-
son, of Australia. The former was favourite, but
Matterson won very easily at the finish.
At Belfast on Monday three men, named Rice,
Stewart, and Beattie, were charged with taking part
in an attack on navvies at the Alexandra Graving
Dock on Friday, and feloniously killing James Curran.
The prisoners were remanded, and a number of persona
were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment for
riot.

In the French Chamber on Monday M. Develle, the
Minister cf Agriculture, stated in reply to a question
that only two cases of foot-and-mouth disease had
occurred in France during the past year, and that be
hoped, in view of this fact, the British Government
would ramove the restrictions it had placed upon the
importation of French cattle into England.
Lloyd's agent at St. ohn's, Newfoundland, tele-
graphed on Saturday that the British steamer Gertrude,
from New Orleans, with grain, has been totally lost at
Cape Pine. The Gertrude was an iron-screw steamer
of 2291 gross tons, built at Sunderland in 1882, and was.
owned by Messrs. Gordon and Stamp, of Loudon She
left New Orleans May 21 for Copenhagen.
Mr Justice Kay was asked on Saturday to grant an,
order to wind up the Suburban Benefit Building Society,
which was described as one of the first socieves estab-
lished. Twenty-five years ago it was ascertained that
seven out of the 13 members were dead; but the exist-
ence or whereabouts of the others could not now be
discovered. His lordship ordered the petition to stand
over.

A courageous rescue was effected at Portsmouth on
Saturday evening. A man named George Brewer,
labourer, threw himself down on the railway line at the
Connor crossing, just as a fast train was approaching.
Seeing that it would be impossible for the driver of the
engine to stop the train in time to save the would-be
suicide, a man named Clarke, who had been previously
talking to Brewer, rushed across the metals, and at
great personal risk dragged him from his perilous posi-
tion just as the train was upon him. 13:ewer was
arrested on a charge of attempted suicide.
A shocking tragedy took place at Chalons on Friday.
Monsieur de Fourville, a gentleman of noble family,
and an officer in the army, made the acquaintance of
Bossang, a concert singer, and she became his
mistress. During a quarrel through jealousy. M. de
Fourville shot her through the heart, and then blew
out his dwn brains,

Lady George Hamilton on Saturday afternoon
opened the new rooms of the Cambridge Uziversity
Cannon Club, and in a short address sp(4ke of the us ces.
sity for helping in tha task to uphobi the national
unity. The annual dinner was held in the evening at
the Guil ,hall, under the presidency of Mr. W. H.
Wilkins, of Clare College, when addresses were given
by Lord G. Hamilton, M.P., Earl Cadogan, Mr. H. O.
Raikes, M.P., Mr. Penrose Fitzgerald, M.P., Mr.
Charles Hall, Q. 0., M.P., Mr. Gilbert Ainslie, the Pre-
sident, Mr. Vivian, and others.
An action for breach of promise of marriage, brought
by Maud Blankeley, daughter of an army pensioa
agent, against Frederick A. Marks, bandmaster of the
Lincolnshire Regiment, was tried before Mr. Justice.
Johnson and a common jury, in Dublin, on Saturday.
The plaintiff claimed £lOOO damages. The parties
met first at a dance at the Curragh, and the defend.
ant's alleged offer was accepted by the plaintiff, subject
to the approval of her father and mother, which was-
granted. The defendant denied the promise. A vetw
dict was given for £2OO.
A despatch has been received in New York by the
friends of Mr. Nourse, who mysteriously disappeared.
in England, stating that he is alive, It is explained
that Mr Nourse left the train at a station between
London and Liverpool, and carefully concealed his
whereabouts, in order to make his friends believe that
he was dead. His object in doing so is unknown. lila
friends are reticent, but believe the story.
A gentleman named Marsh, of Manchester, has had
a narrow escape while on a mountaineering expedition
in the Lake District. Accompanied by a friend, he had
been over High Raise to Langdale Pikes, and return-
lug by way of Silverhow, he fell over a precipice
nearly 50 feet deep. Marvellous to state, no bones
were broken; but he suffered severely from shock and
bruises.

On Saturday night a mass meeting of the members
of the Northumberland Firemen's and Seamen's Society
was held at North Shields, when a resolution was unani-
mously carried protesting against the compulsory
medical examination of seamen as being practically
useless, so far as raising the moral standard of seamen
is concerned, and also as being an insult to seamen as
a class. A resolution was also passed urging the neces-
sity of union of the various seamen's societies in Eng-
land in resisting the proposed measure.
Renewed rioting has occurred in Belfast. The
funeral of the navvy Curran, who was drowned in con-
sequence of the disturbances on Friday, took pl3ce on
Sunday, the deceased being followed to the grave by
about twenty thousand people. As they passed through
the Protestant district they were stoned by a hostile
crowd. Shots were fired, and one man was stabbed,
but the police, who were present in large force, suc.
ceeded in keeping the parties in chock.
A large gathering of Orangemen was held in the
Rich Hill demesne. Armagh, on Saturday, and passed
a resolutiom declaring that while they owed allegiance
to th Queen, they owed none to "Messrs. Gladstone,
Mcrley, and Co."
An inquest was held on Saturday touching the death
of a man named Tagney, who was shot by moonlighters
in his own house near Killarney on Thursday night:
The jury returned a verdict of "wilful murder "against
some person unknown Other moonlight outrages are
•epected from county Kerry