The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-09-10 00:00:00

SHOCKING MURDER, BY A FATHER.

A dreadful murder was committed during i, the
early pow s of yes:erday morning by Arthur Lu
low, thirty •fur, Shoemaker, Nottingham. During
the last few days Ludlow has had considerabh
domestic trouble, and on Wednesday his wifu
ickening.,with typhoid fever was taken to the hos-
pital. since then he has seemed distre-sed in mind
yesterday morning at three o'clock he walked into
the police station and coolly informed the inspector
in charge that he had murdered one of his children
He wai detained, and the police visiting his house
diecovercd Ludlow's daughter, Helen Elizabeth,
lying in bed with her head nearly severed from her
body. A. shoemaker's knife, bloodstained, lay near
In an acjoining bed room another child, five years
old, wat sound unharmed. Prisoner, when charged
with wii *til murder, seemed suffering mentally, but
returned rational answers to the questions asked of
him

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IRON TRADE SUMMARY.
THE HOME IRON TRADE.
THE English iron market is quieter compared will!
what has been its conditien recently, and prices- ea"
not be said to be quite so firm as they have bee
This tendency had been specially noticeable in pigs
iron. The Glasgow warrant market has been less
animated this week, with more disposition to sell, as
a quieter tone has evidently come over business
circles generally, and more especially the various
branches of the iron trade. The demand for
Scotch makers' iron is also quiet, and prices are
rather easier. Closing buyers were on Wednesday
425. lid. cash and 425. 41. a month, sellers asking
one halfpenny per ton more. Middlesbrough and
hematite warrants have fallen 3d. per ton on the
week. In the pig-iron trade of the north, demand
has been less favourable, as somewhat weaker prices
hares ruled. The quotation for No. 3 has been
'u lug the week about 345. 3d. with sellers and 345,
with b ryers. With merchants the few transactions
recorded have been midway between these figures
for prompt delivery, 345. 6d. being quoted. forward.
Tee pis iron trade of Newcastle has been rather
quiet this week, hut experts to the Baltic and in
other directions do not much diminish. Prices,
following the decline in Cleveland and in Scotland.
are 41d. per ton lower, at 365. 41d. for No. 3 Cleve-
land and 345. 6d. for No 4 forge. In Lancashire
the besine.s doing ia pig-iron has been
extremely small, with prices in some instances
rathee easier. Quoted rates remain without
material change, and there is an apparently steady
tone ; buyers, however, are very chary about giving
out orders at current rates, and offers that are made,
of which there are a few in the market, are mostly
at about 6d. under the minimum prices that are
quoted, with the result that not much actual busi-
ness results. For La-tea-hire pig-iron, quotations
remain at 38s. 6d. for forge and 395. 6d. for foundry;
but these figures place local makes quite out of the
open market. The pig-iron market of East Wor-
cestershire is somewhat inanimate, and smelters are
not booking much new business. Current prices
are unchanged from the figures of 525. 61, 555.,
and 575. 61. for all-mine hot-air pig-kon, 425. 6d.
for part-mine, and 325. 6d. for common iron. Pig-
iron doss not improve in Staffordshire. There is a
very steady tone in the hematite pig iron trade of
the north-west, and nothing has tended to disturb,
but rather to accentuate, the very firm tone which
which makers and dealers generally have assumed
in eheiribusiness arrangements. Still, prices remain
unchanged, and pig-iron is selling at about the
same rates as were quoted two or three months ago.
Sellers ark 45r. 61 ft r parcels of mixed Bessemer
iron, and sales are noted at 445. 91., whle sales of
No. 3 forge and foundry iron have been made dur-
ing the week at 445, 3d. per ton.
There is not much change in the finished iron
market. Considerable activity is stated still to
prevail in the Scotch malleable iron trade, but com-
plaints are made that prices going are quite unremu-
nerative. Finished iron is no better in eltmand in
the north, and prices have been tending lower.
Bars are £4 7s. 61. ; ship plates, £4 7s. 6d. ; angles,
£4 ss. ; sheets, .25 15s. Dulness and low prices
still rule in the manufactured iron trade at New-
castle. Tyne shipbuilding firms are baying iron
p'ates and angles pretty extensively, but there is
keen competition amongst manufacturers for orders.
Ship plates are delivered at £4 7s. 6d. to £4 10s,
angle iron at .24 55., common bars at .24 10s., and
boiler plates at £5 10a. In the finishtel iron trade
of L oicashire the home demand is still only very
indifferent, but most of the forges are being kept
fully employ( d with shipping orders, and in some
instances rather better prices are obtained, although
list rates are not quotably higher. For delivery
into the Manchester di-trict, £4 17s. 6d. remains
the average price for bars, but hoops are firm at
£5 5s , and for sheets ,26 7s. 6d. to £6 10s. is being
obtained. The manufactured iron trade of East
Worcestershire is scarcely so firm as it was a week
or twoleigo. Tim o shipping trade is qui-ter, and
home requirements are rather more unsteady.
Teere is a general improvement in the finished ircn
trade of North St -ffordshire. Medium bars are
sold at from .£5 to £5 108., best
sorts being higher in proportion. Sheets sell at £6
to £6 10s, to £6 158. ; medium plates command from
£5 103. to £6 15s. Manufactured iron continues
strong in South Staffordshire at more than late rates,
and in sheets there is a heavy out-turn, nearly all
tl e mills being still fully employed. Prices, how-
ever, keep low. Buying in neerly every branch of
the finish-el hardware iedustries does not increase
' to any appreciable ext. nt, and the orders placed on
,he books) of manufacturers generally are com-
p ratively small in bulk, with no improvement at all
in pric: s. Tinplates areifirm ; coke tins I.C. being
13s. to 13s. 61 ; Bessewer steels, 13s. 3d.; to 13s.
9d. ; Siemeas (cnke 13s. 61, to 14s. 3d.;
best, 15s. 6d to 184 6d. ; terries, 28 by 20, 265. to
275. per do :he bx. Makers adhere stoutly to the
above quetaeioue, aud the pressure for deliveries is
grea or than evr,r, buyers freely offering a premium
for ex' r- deliveries over September and October.
The a eel market continues in a state of activity.
'I lie nor h.w,stern steel trade remains very active
iu alt departmente, and there is no falling off in the
demand for any of the steel products of the district.
The era rs offering for steel rails are still very large,
and makers are so busy that they cannot accept
much new work except for delivery well forward.
Price-s are fire) all round, and rails of 50-Ib. section
are quoted at from £4 2s. 63. to .£4 7s. 6d. Blooms,
and bars are in good demand, and the mills
in al these departments are fully employed. There
is more business doing in steel seipbuilding
material, and the prospect of a good trade is offering.
The northern steel trale is very fairly maintained,
and prices are steady at .24 2s. 61 for rails, and
£6 2s. 6J. for plates. Business in steel for ship-
building purposes keens improving at Newcastle,
plates [asking .£5 2s. 6d , and angles, .25 12s. et.
Several Sheffield firms producing marine and war
castings keep actively engaged. Foreign govern-
ments are ordering cranks, shafting, and propeller
blades pretty freely for new war and other ships
being built in this country-chiefly on the Tyne
and the Clyde-and woik is also in hand for new
Atlantic liners now being constructed at Glasgow.
Railway material in WLeels, axles, and springs has
again been in request. Lighter goods are but
languielly sought after Shipbuilding is depressed
on the Clyde, but shipbuilders on the Tyne have a
b tter winter prospect than they have experienced
for come years past. There are very few vessels
1 id up now, and otcleri and enquiries for new
ste -me- s are receiv«l now and again. Engineers
are b. ttsr off fer work--/rsn

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