The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-11-12 00:00:00

It is stated that his Royal Highness ihe Duke of
Cambridge, K.G., who is at present Field-Marsha
Commending. in-Chief, will be appointed Clommander-
in-Chief by Patent on the occasion of his completing
50 years in the army. The last Commander-in-Chief
by Patent was the Duke of Wellington.
The remains of the late Sir George Macfarten were
interred in Hampstead Cemetery on Saturday. They
were followed by a large representative gathering of
musicians. In the afternoon a memorial service was
held in Westminster Abbey, at which the music was
selected from the works of the deceased composer.
Dean Bradley conducted the service, and spoke of the
loss which music had sustained that week by the death
of Sir G. Macfarren and Madmen Lind-Goldschmidt.
The remains of Madame Lind-Goldschmidt were
interred in Dlalvern Cemetery on Saturday afternoon.
The Queen was specially represented, and had sent a
wreath; and floral tributes of affection had also been
forwarded by the Princess Christian and other members
of the Royal family.
A desperate attack by poachers on policemen took
place early on Saturday morning at Brooklands, near
Manchester. The pdice received information that a
number of men had been stealing ducks from a pond
in the eeighbourhood, and a sergeant and two constables
proceeded along the railway in pursuit. On reaching
a cabin standing near the line they discovered that
some of the men they were in search of were inside.
The men thus trapped set about removing a portion of
the cabin roof, but finding there were only three con-
stables present, one of the poachers called out "Let us
murder them." The whole gang, 18 in nuteber, sallied
out and attacked the policemen with sticks and
bludgeons. They inflicted such severe injuries on one
of the constables that they left him lying in a ditch
for dead. The sergeant was also badly wounded about
the head. The whole of the poachers got away.
James Jones, 22, living at Eigtehdl, WM charged
before the livreford City Bench of Magie4rates cn
Saturday, wan the burglary at The Knolls l'upsley,
and with murdering Mr. Philip Ballard, on October 20.
Evidence was a ‘luced that the prisoner admitted to
Detectie9 Donovan that he and a mate came out of
prison together on the 18th, and walked to ledbury,
where he bought a screw lever for his mate. They
then took a train to Withington, near Hereford. Jones
admitted returning home on the following Saturday,
and when asked by the constable about his mate, ho
said, "Have not you arrested him?" A screw lever
was found in the bed of the murdered man. It was
intimated that the police had important evidence forth-
coming, and a remand was granted.
In Newcastle, on Sunday, the unemployed workmen,
in company with the Social Democratic Federation,
held a demonstration. They marched from Quayside
to St. Nicholas Cathedral, where several policemen
were guarding the entrances, and other officers'
were placed about the sacred edifice, but there was no
disturbance of any kind. In the afternoon a large
meeting was held in one of the open spaces in the
ceutre of the city, and a resolution was passer' calling
upon the municipal authorities to find employment lot
the five thousand unemployed of Newcastle. Red flsgs
were displayed, and there was a force of policemen
present, but everything passed off quietly.
Arthur Ludlow, a shoemaker, was at the Nottingham
Borough Assizes on Saturday charged with the niuraler
of his daughter, aged 11. On the morning of the 9th
of September prisoner 'vent to the Nottingt.am Police-
station awl gave himself up as a murderer. He gave a
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while she was asleep. He added," I intended murder,
ieg both of them, but spared the boy on account of his
mother." Under the direction of Mr. Baron Huddle-
stun the jury return° I a verdict of "Guilty," accom-
panying it with an expression of their belief that pri-
soner was insane. The prisoner was ordered to be
detained during her Majesty's pleasure.
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Mr. rirarles Middleton Cox a bookmaker, known in
sporthig circles, committed suicide at his residence,
Catford, on Friday, by shooting himself with a shot
gun, his head and face being shattered beyond all
possibility of recognition. He was awaiting his trial
at Shrewsbury Assizes on a charge of fraud, and
on Saturday he should have proceeded to that town
to report himself in accordance with the terms of his
bail.

A conference between Messrs. Mansfield and Wood-
ing, shoe manufacturers, and Mr. Inskip, General
Secretary of the Men's Union, has terminated so
satisfactorily that there is ground for belief that the
difficulty of classification has been surmounted, a
middle way having been suggested which is acceptable
to employ era and employed.
The following letter has been received from Lord
Salisbury in reply to a resolution passed at a meeting,
held in Dartford, on Nov. 1: "Foreign Office, Nov.
4, 1887. Dear Sir,—The Prime Minister has received
the resolution passed at a meeting hold at Dartford on
the Ist inst., it ccpv of which you have been good
enough to forward him. His lordship desires me to
convey to you his deep appreciation of the value of
the ex p:essions of confidence in the Government which
ire used in the resolution in question.—l am, dear
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Sir, faithfully yours, HENRY Maragnui."
(nn cf the trawlers in Weynaouth Bay succeeded on
Sunday in recovering the body of one more of the un.
fortunate men who perished in the -"recent yachting
accident—namely, that of Elijah Thu!ger, one of the
two metropolitan police detectiveslitA, had been
stationed at Weymouth. Five of thrr missing bodies •
have now. been recovered. Thurgei was found in close
proximity to where the yacht foundered.
The new public library at Fulham was formally
opened on Saturday afternoon by the vicar of the
parish, the Rev. F. 11. Fisher. who is also chairman of
the Library Oommissione.rt. There was a largo
attendat ce, and several tongratulatory addresses were
eelivr-red. Letters of sympathy were read from the
Bishop cf Lendon, Mr. Hayes Fisher, M P. for Ful—
ham, and Mrs. Webster, who for many years repro-
sented Fulham on the London School Beard.

A remarkable occurrence took place recently at
Warminster. It appears that a tramp epplied to the
rwl,ce for a lodging, and was placed in one of the cells
benra.h the Town Hall. The constable who locked
him in forgot him, In the morning the tramp, finding
that no one came to him, shouted for assistance, but
the person who hesrd took no particular heed, coming
to the conclusion that the sells proceeded from a
person locked up prior to his removal to an asylum.
Not until seven o'clock in the evening of the following
day (when his appeals caused the police to be com—
municated with) was he liberated, and then he was in
a very exhausted condition, having been in the cell
about 4,) hours without food or warmth:. The Superin-
tendent did all he could, and gave the poor man a
good breakfast before he quitted the town the follow-
ing morning.
In the French Chamber on Saturday a debate took
place on the report of the committee recommending
that a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the
recent scandals should be appointed. It was ulti-
mately decided that the inquiry should be general, and
should extend back as far as the 16th of May, 1887,
when the Ministry of the Due de Broglie came to
power.
Count Kalnoky, the Austro-Hungarian Minister for
Foreign Affairs, made a speech •on Saturday in the
Foreign Committee of the Hungarian Delegation.
Referring to Bulgaria, he said foreign interference bad
been averted hitherto, and he hoped for ever. With
regard to Russia, Count Kalnoky said he still hoped
to induce her to join in the pacific efforts of the
Central Powers.
A telegram from a Calcutta correspondent states
that a great fire occurred on Sunday at Ailababad,
by which a large number of official records were de—
stroyed.