The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-09-11 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AN]) FOREIGN.

A murder was committed in Cheapside, Birmingham,
early on Sunday morning. A mechanic named William
Cawley, 19 years of age, of Adderley-street, quarrelled
with his sweetheart, a young woman of the same age.
named Mary Ann Murphy, of Cheapside. He struck
her a blow with such violence that she fell to the
ground and died immediately. Jealousy is supposed to
have originated the quarrel.
The Charity Commissioners, at the request of the
Goldsmiths' Company, have issued a scheme for the
administration of the funds held by that company for
benevolent purposes. The funds amount to nearly
£12,000 per annum, besides the interest upon another
capital sum of nearly MOO.
Nearly three hundred pigeons, belonging to the Sans
Peur Societo. of Laeken, were released on Sunday
forenoon at Westminster-bridge for a race to Brussels.
In the last race of a similar character, from Dover, on
the 30th ult., the winning birds covered the distance of
180 miles in four hours.
On behalf of the rector of Llanarmon another seizure
of cows for unpaid tithe was made on Saturday on
the farm of Mr. J. Lawton. The bailiffs went to
another farm to inspect some animals which they seized
on Thursday, and were received by the labourers with
a shower of rotten eggs.
The Government of India contemplate sending an
exped:tion, as soon as the cold weather sets in, to
punish a tribe known as the Bone-rivals for making
predatory incursions upon British territory from the
Punjab frontier._
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The Duke and Duchess of Connaught on Saturday
took leave of the Queen at Balmoral, on their departure
for India, where his Royal Highness is to assume the
command of the division at Rawul Pindi.

The committee of the National Liberal Federation of
Scotland have issued a report, in which they urge that
Scotland should return 60 Liberals willing to give a
statutory Parliament for Ireland, for unless the Irish
question is settled, they say beneficial legislation fot
Scotland is hopeless.
Mr. Lynch, surgeon, and churchwarden of St.
Gregory, was fined at Sudbury the other day for
acsaulting a child, aged five years, with a walking-
stick. The little boy was one of three who had thrown
stones at some glass, and the defendant inflicted on
him for this offence bruises which required medical
attention.

The men in the carriage department of both the
Orewe and Wolverton works of the London and North-
Western Railway Company commenced working full
time on Monday, after a dreary term of short hours.
A convent, founded by the Duchess of Norfolk for
the Order of Poor Clare, was formally dedicated on
Tuesday by the Bishop df Southwark. The buildings
have been erected at a cost of several thousand pounds.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, Lord Edmund
Talbot, and the Ladies Mary and Margaret Howard
were among those who attended the service. The
Duke of Norfolk subsequently entertained a large
party. It was the seventh anniversary of the birth of
his only child, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey.
Mr. William Summers has been appointed one of the
Whips of the Liberal Party.
A project is on foot for the establishment in Dublie
of a penny evening newspaper to advocate Unionist
principles.
Sir J. West Ridgeway is to come to London after his
return to India, in order to give necessary information
on the question of Kham4e.A.b.
The Government have satisfied Mr. Bradlaugh that
the Truck Act will be strictly carried out in Scotland,
and that any infractions of the law which have occurred
will be rigidly dealt with.
The London Committee of the Irish Loyal and
Patriotic Union met on Tuesday at their offices, Palace-
chambers, and resolved on a campaign in England and
Scotland against Home Rule during the months of
November, December, and January.
The Nottingham Town Council has accepted from Sir
John Smile Lumley, British Ambassador at Rome, a
collection he has offered to the local museum of speci-
mens of classical antiquity, which he has made on tho
site of the Temple of Diana, near Rome.
Sir Thomas Clark. Lord Provost, stated at a meeting
of the Edinburgh Town Council on Tuesday that Mr.
Oarnegie had increased his offer for the provision of a
free library from .C 25,000 to I:50,000.
The farmers at Ruthin have resolved to form an
Anti-Tithe League.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 11. 1.

A mutiny of an extensive and extraordinary character
took place on Sunday at the Warwickshire Reforma-
tory for Boys, near Leamington. After evening ser-
vice, the gates being opened to allow a hospital patient
to pass through, about 40 of the boys rushed out and
spread themselves over the country. They were-
promptly pursued, and 10 of the runaways were soon
captured. The majority of the others went on to
Coventry, and after assaulting one or two policemen
and robbing some gardens, a number more were
arrested, and during Monday were b:ought up at the
police-court and dealt with.
The Limerick Corporation have resolved to present
Mr Gladstone with an address and the freedom of the
city, in recognition of his labours to obtain Home Rule
for Ireland, the presentation to be made at Hawardeo
along with similar addresses on the 21st inst. At the-
Dublin Corporation meeting on Monday, it was pro-
posed to prepare an address to the new Lord-Lieutenant
on his arrival, but as no notice of motion had been
given, the subject was allowed to drop.
The weaver Peter Coregan, of Blackburn, alleged to
have kicked his wife to death in that town on Saturday'
night, surrendered at the local police-station on Monday.
A verdict of manslaughter was returned against
Thomas Payne, a baker's assistant, at the inquest con-
cluded at St. George's Hospital on Monday on the body
of Albert Edward White, hatcher, lately residing at
3, Willowbrookegrove, Peckham. The two men quar-
relled and fought together. Deceased, who was badly
injured, was talon to the hospital. where he died.
The Khedive of Egypt has distributed honours and
decorations amongst the officials who are appointed to
receive the Duke and Duchess of Connaught on their
passage to India.
The American yacht Mayflower beat Lieut. Henn's
Galatea in the first course for the American Cup.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
reading of the barometer last week was 29.88 in.; the
variation was from 29.79 in. to 29.95 in. The mean
temperature of the air was 66.5. Rain fell on three
days of the week to the aggreiate amount of 025 of an
inch. The duration of registered bright sunshine was
49.6 hours, against 54.4 hours at Glynde.place, Lewes.
At the Lambeth Police, court, on Tuesday, a surgeon
practising at Walworth was committed for trial
charged with assaulting Jane Onley, about 16 years of
age, while he was attending her for a bad finger at his
surgery.
A collection which was being made at the gates of.
the chapel at Killavullee, on Sunday, in aid of the
Irish Parliamentary Fund, was objected to by Father
Ahern, who alleged that an intimidation of the
parishioners was being <tarried on by the members or
the National League wht were making the collection.
The priest's action has secured for him the hearty dis-
like of the League.
The Pontardawe magistrates on Saturday cencluded.
the hearing of an important minime prosecution, in
which a charge was made against John Phillips and
John James, firemen at the Graencoegurwen Collieries,
of firing a shot in the mine when there was an accumu-
lation of gas. Mr. Cleaves, agent, and Mr. Meredith,
manager of the collieries, were also charged with
knowingly allowing the said irregularities. The Bench,.
after a protracted hearing, fined the agent and
reanagrr £5 each and the firemen £1 es ch and costs.
The Chicago "Daily News" says that Mr. Michael
Devitt is being followed through Michigan by a steno-
grapher in the pay of the British Government, who is
taking down the speeches delivered. The journal
remarks, however, that Mr. Davitt's speeches have been
temperate.

Owing to the movement among the Cleveland Iroo
masters for restricting the output of pig iron by 20
per cent., the North Skelton Ironstone Mines were on
Saturday closed and about 230 men dismissed. The
same firm (Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.) has
commenced to blow out its furnaces at South Bank.
On Saturday the Cleveland mine owners met a deputa.
tion from the Miners' Association and promised to*
consider their request to divide the work at the mines
between the men rather than dismiss a rumber.
A sad accident occurred at the -V4ctoria Dock Timber
Pond, Hull, on Saturday. Henry Wild bore, aged nine,
Harold Williamson and Harry Salvidge, each aged
seven, got on some pieces of wood, which formed a
frail raft. As soon as they pushed off into the pond
the planks parted, and all three were immersed in 10
feet of water. A fourth boy, who refused to accompanY
them, procured help. The bodies were recovered in 10
minutes, but life in each case was then extinct.
Consequent on numerous burglaries in the centre of
Liverpool the police of that town made a raid on a
thieves' den early on Saturday morning, a short distance
from the head police-office. They captured the land-
lord and six others, five of whom they detained for
charges of burglary and other offences.
Several East Kent sportsmen report the losing of
their dogs through the great heat while partridge shoot-
ing during the last few days. In each instance apoplexy'
is described as the cause of death.
The barque Mary Graham, of Maryport, arrived in
the Tyne recently, having picked up the two Nor-
wegians who attempted to cross the Lt/antic in a small
boat.

The Prince of Waleearrived in Lordon on Monday
afternoon from the Continent.

The Japanese Government are now arranging ta
place very large orders in England for the engines,
rails, bridges, and plant required for the railway de-
velopment which they have decided to execute imrae•
diately.
The Khedive has conferred the First Class of the
Medjidie Order upon Mr. Edgar Vincent, Financial
Adviser of the Egyptian Government.
On Saturday night, as a train from Penarth tO
Cardiff was passing over Ely Viaduct, a man was seen
to jump from one of the carriages. Information was
given to the officials at the next station, and on their
going to the spot they found the man lying on the line
terribly injured. He was removed to the infirmarj,
but died shortly afterwards. His ...rot, was John
Home, and he resided in Cardiff. He had a ticket for
Cardiff, so that his fatal freak is inexplicable.
The herring fishing season proper en the east ccast
of Scotland closed on Saturday. The gross catch from
Berwick to Shetland is about 640,000 crans, against
840,000 last Near. Some days no fish were caught, and
on other days more herrings entered the nets thee
could be brought ashore. At Stonehaven alone nets of
the value of £9OO were lost in one week owing to the
extraordinary number of fish which had been caught.
An unusually large number of stowaways, men and
boys have been landed at Dover lately from outward
bound vessels. Dqying the last fortnight no fewer than
10 have been landed. They were found in different
parts of the ships after the vessels had left port. On
arriving off Dover they were put in a boat with a pilot
and sent ashore. Some of them, who came from the
North of England, set out to tramp their way back.
A Board of Trade inquiry into the stranding of the
British ship Wendaw on Calf Bock, Clonakilty Bay.,
last month, and the abandonment of the vessel, wag
concluded on Monday before Mr Starkie, stipendiarYt
and Captains Castle and Kennedy, nautical assessors.
The Court decided to suspend for three months the
certificates of the master, Mr. Harrison, and the chief
ofiicer, W. Webb, who held a master's certificate. Both
officers were allowed mate's certificates.

A serious riot occurred at Corunna on Monday, some
of the inhabitants protesting against the payment of
the local taxes The rioters burnt the tax-collector's
books and threatened to set fire to his offices. The
military were called out, and, after some resistance,
succeeded in dispersing the mob, a few persots on both
sides being wounded.
The Afghan Boundary Commissioners are expecte.]
to return to India in the course of the present month.
It is expected that the British members of the
Anglo- Chinese Commission for the demarcation of
the frontier between Eurmah and China will assemble
in December at Bharno, and that Mr. Colquhoun Will
be appointed. c,hief of the British section.
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A -tareadful murder was committed at Moulmein on
Saturday ni6ht. While Father 13iet, a Catholic priest,
ani a man named Ramos were mated together in the
latter's house, two Burmese and a Chinaman entered
and stabbed both to death The motive of the crime
is unknown, but it is supposed that the assassins only
intended to kill Ramos, who is a money lender, and
murderel the priest to p:event him being a witness
against them.