The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-03-03 00:00:00

A DYING MAN LOCKED UP.

The City of London Coroner was on Tuesday
informed that a man named Williaim MacDonald, aged
52, living in Whitechapel, had died in a police-cell. It
is stated that about half-past one o'clock on Monday
afternoon MacDonald was seen reeling about in Liver-
pool-street. A constable, thinking he was drunk,
apprehended him and took him to Bishopsgate
Police-
station, where he was placed in a cell. He gave his
name and address, and appeared to talk distinctly ; but
he was unable to stand without assistance. He
remained in the cell until six o'clock on Monday night,
when he was found to be lying apparently asleep on
the floor; but it was discovered that he was-dead.
The police assert that the deceased was visited several
times in his cell, and was apparently all right. He
only complained of pains in his legs. The wife states
that her husband, who was a sober industrious man,
fell down the steps at Aldgate Station a few weeks
ago, and injured his head so badly that he had to be
admitted into the London Hospital, from which he had
only just been discharged.

BURIED IN AN AVALANCHE.

There has been a terrible disaster in North Italy,
where masses of accumulated snow, forming two vast
avalanches, fell upon the village of Valtorta, near
Zogno, north of Bergamo. One avalanche was com-
paratively harmless, but the second buried the greater
number of the houses. Parties of rescuers started
from Bergamo to the scene. Many sufferers were
found still alive in the ruins, while from under the
fallen buildings over twenty dead bodies were taken
out.

FREE FIGHT IN A CHAPEL.

The Welsh newspapers on Monday reported extraordi-
nary scenes at Hermon Independent Chapel, Conwil,
where large congregations assembled on Sunday in
anticipation of the services being again ccnducted by
the ejected minister, the Rev. J. D. Owens. The re-
ts state that the reverend gentleman's opponents
took possession of the chapel at nine o'clock in the
morning, and held a service of their own. • At ten
o'clock, however, a congregation of some two or three
hundred of the minister's supporters assembled out-
side the chapel. An attempt to enter the edifice for the
purpose of ejecting the " Oppositionists " created a gen-
eral scuffle, and a disgraceful scene ensued. The service
which had been conunenced was given up, and fierce
fights took place in the chapel. A member of the
chapel writes :—" Despite the dreadful mauling which
some of the Oppositionists received, they stood their
ground, and eventually the weaker had to give way to
the stronger; but, though I am a member of the
chapel, and merely an impartial eye-witness of the
scenes, I must own that the proceedings were of a
scandalous nature. The consequences of the struggle
would have been very serious had not four police-
constables of the county put in a tilnOly appearance,
and quelled this unseemly combat. Names of half a
dozen of the ringleaders were taken by the police, and
it is said charges will be preferred against them before
long. The combat lasted but a few minutes. The
minister did not enter the chapel at all. Services were
subsequently held by the Oppositionists 'in llermon,
and by the Ministerialists 'in an old building hard
by the same church."

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