The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-05 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The general election in Denmark resulted in the
return of 27 supporters of the Government, and 74
opponents.
General Roberts will make a tour through Be-
loochistan this month after his return from Burmah._

The Quetta railway line has been completed to the
vicinity of the Khojak Pass. The Pishin plateau
section is expected to be finished in a few weeks.
Major. General Scott has been appointed Examiner
of the London Water Supply, in the place of the late
Sir Francis Bolton. _ _

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The Theatre Royal, Swansea, and the Clough Mills,
Birkenshaw, near Bradford, were burned down on
Friday.
The late Lord Iddesleigh sat to a sculptor of Ken-
sington some few months before his death. The model
has met with the general approval of the members of
his family, and it will be executed in marble.
The ceremony of unveiling the bust, erected in the
crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral to the memory of Sir
John Hawley Glover, has been performed by Viscount
Wolseley.
At the inquest held at Sutton, as to the death of five
members of a French family named Vacherot, who
perished at the fire of the 14th of December last, it Was
stated that the only member of the fainily who sur-
vived—a youth who had remained in Croydon Hospital
ever since—would be unable to give evidence for another
fortnight.
The Rev. Robert Knowles was sammone3 for neg.
lecting to have scow cleared off the pavement in front
of St. Luke's Church, London. It was contended that
it was the business of the vestry to keep the footpath
before the church clean. The presiding magistrate
advised the defendant to come to an amicable arrange-
ment with the vestry, and adjourned the case.
Baron Pollock tried on Friday an action brought by
Mr. Foster, who claimed the fishery of Hadleigh, near
Sonthend, for an injunction to restrain Mr. Frost from
infringing his rights. It was said that the fishery
dated from before Magna Charts, and that in 1551 it
had been granted to Lord Rich, from whom it had
come to the plaintiff. The injunction was granted.
A large number of men were engaged for over four
hours on Saturday in removing the debris of the ware-
house fire in Duke-street, Liverpool, and in searching
for the body of a fireman named Richardson, who was
on Friday night discovered to be missing. The body
was found beneath the ruins of the wall which fell on
Friday. It had been covered by a great mass of bricks
and other rubbish.

At about two o'clock on Saturday morning the foot.
man who sleeps in the butler's pantry st Hawarden
Castle was aroused by someone trying the window of
that apartment. He gave the alarm and awoke the
other inmates, but the burglars escaped, without how-
ever, any booty.
Two men, "well known to the police," pleaded
guilty, at the Mansion House on Saturday, to the
charge of stealing a valuable gold watch from a gentle..
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Ba Tepee left London for East London on Jan. 19, and
it is feared that she has gone down with all hands.
She WAS built by Messrs. A. Hall and Co., of Aberdeen,
in 1869, and belonged to the port of Guernsey, her
owners being Messrs. W. L. Lacheur and Son. Her
gross tonnage is 677.
The British and Foreign Arbitration Association
have issued an appea in which they set forth the peril
to the highest results of civilisation arising from the
enormous and increasing armaments of Europe, and
the desirableness of having a standard system of inter-
natienal law, together with an international judicial
tribunal. They appeal to men of all parties and classes
in support of a movement in favour of the substitution
of arbitration for war, the reduction of armaments in
our own and other countries, and the establishment in
Europe of an international tribunal. The Earl of
Derby, a number of leading Englishmen, and some
foreigners have signified their adhesion to the associa-
tion.

The South Sligo- election nomination is fixed for
Monday, the 7th, and the polling for Saturday, the 12th
inst.
There were heavy snowstorms in Birmingham and
Cheshire on Tuesday morning.
A telegram from Wellborn, Texas, states that a shock
of earthquake has been felt at that place.
The death is announced of General Krzyzandowski,
a prominent Polish revolutionist, who also served in
the War of Secession.
By the death, announced on Tuesday morning, very
suddenly, in his 64th year, of the Rev. George H.
Heslop, an honorary canonry in Carlisle Cathedral has
become vacant, and likewise the living of Oakley, near
Basingstoke, Hants. It is in the patronage of '
Queen's College, Oxford, and of the value of £350 a
year.
The new comet which has lately been visible at Mel.
bourne has disappeared.
There have been an unusual number of publicans
ecently fined in the metropolitan policescourts for
adulterating beer.
A diver who arrived in Guernsey from Weymouth on
tunday, has been engaged in endeavouring to recover
'he thirteen mail bags which went down with the
learner Brighton off Guernsey on Saturday morning.
The man Hugh Brooks, alias Maxwell, who was sew.
terced to death for the murder of Mr. Preller, has
securtd a further respite until April 1, pending the
decision of the court with regard to his appeal for a
rew trial.
Ada Carter, 17, a machinist, who some time ago was
charged at the West Ham police-court with attempt..
lug to commit suicide, was on Tuesday remanded at the
Stratford petty sessions on a similar charge. She had
attempted to drown herself. When being dragged out
of the river she begged to be allowed to die, and on
her way to the court she remarked that there would
be other chances.
The Council of Ministers has approved the purchase
for the Spanish navy of 95 guns of heavy calibre.
Intelligence from Tacoma, Washington territory,
states that during a hurricane in the mountains near
that place, a tree under which several Chinamen were
encamped, was blown down, killing nine orthe men
and injuring twelve, while others are missing. A
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and Alfred Lawrence were committed for trial on the
charge of obtaining goods by false pretences from
Oxford tradesmen, by representing that they belonged
to the University. Langdale is connected with a
wholesale chemist's business in London. Bail was
allowed.
At Manchester on Tuesday a man named Buller was
committed for trial for a brutal assault on his sister.
Shti had got into disgrace and was turned out by her
parents. She expected to be confined, and went home
to get some clothing, when her brother seized her,
thrOw her down, jumped on her, and then threw her
do ii a flight of stairs. She was unconscious for several
• hours. The doctors say the child is dead, and that the
-mother will probably succumb.

SATURDAY, FEB; 5, 1887.

In the Lord Mayor's Court on Saturday Miss Clomp-
son, of Brompton.square, sought to mover damages
from Mr. Getty, a stockbroker, for alleged detention
of mining shares. The plaintiff, who admitted she
had speculated on the Stock Exchange, was asked by
counsel if the defendant speculated for her to the extent
of £lBO,OOO without security, and she replied that he
never asked for "cover." Before her examination had
concluded a consultation took place, which resulted in
a juror being withdrawn.

-Mr. W. O'Brien, addressing a meeting on Sunday at
Bodyke, called to protest against some threatened
evictions, declared that if the Irish people had the
power to meet the police man to man and rifle to rifle,
in the open field, he would cut short his speech-making,
and the next speech they would hear would come from
the mouths of the people's guns.
Processions of the unemployed started on Sunday
morning from central rendezvous in several districts
of London, and went to church, where they hissed the
names of the Royal Family and interrupted the sex.
moos with expressions of approval or the reverse. After
Divine service meetings were held and violent speeches
delivered.

A boy named Robert Perry Stopford, aged 14, who
lived with his parents at Gorton, committed suicide on
Saturday night. He had been discharged from his em-
ployment in a Manchester warehouse, and on Saturday
night he told a companion "that he would be be
Heaven or Hell that night." Soon afterwards he was
found in the road dead, with a pistol by his side,
having shot himself in the stomach. Upon him was
found the following note in pencil :—" Dear Mater,—
I've gone to meet the Great Mystery face to face.
Sorry for what I have done, of course. Good-bye. Tell
my brother I curse him with all my heart.—R.
STOPFORD."

Steam freights during the first month of the year
have shown no real improvement.
A school girl named Wharnby, who had been re-
proved for incurring a debt for sweets, has committed
suicide at Little Hulton, near Bolton, Lancashire. Her
clothes and a cake were found on the banks of a pond
near her father's house, and the discovery of these led
So the recovery of the body.
The steamship Benarty, which lately arrived in the
East India Docks from Japan, was observed on
Monday morning to be in a sinking condition, owing, it
is believed, to one of the stop-cocks having been left
open. A steam pump was got to work and quickly
lowered the water, but a portion of the call° was
seriously damaged. _ _

Recently a large quantity of counterfeit coin has
been passed in Manchester, and several people have
been arrested. On Friday, some detectives went to the
house occupied by an old man named Ascroft, and
found him engaged with a battery, moulds, and other
appliances in the manufacture of counterfeit sixpences.
There were also a number of bad shillings, which had
been recently cast.
The Borough Funds Bill, which has been re-intro.
duced by Mr. Woodall, is backed by Messrs. Kenrick,
Howard Vincent, AN oodhead, and Picton. The object
of the bill is to give local antholities the power of
raising funds for local improvements without summon-
ing a meeting of the ratepayers or taking a poll upon
the subject.
_ _ _

Mr. Fulton's bill, curtailing the power of the water
companies is put down for second reading on February
16th. It will provide that in cases where the landlord
unertakes to pay the rates, and fails to do so, the
water supply shall not be cut off, rid the debt to the
water company shall become a first charge on the
property:

- Mr. Clode has retired from the Secretaryship
of the Registrar-General's Department, after a service
of 47 years, during which period he took an active and
responsible part in five decennial censuses.
At Bow-street, on Monday, Mr. Bridge committed
Mr. H. Felberman, proprietor, and Mr. 0. Wilkinson,
publisher, of "Life," on the charge of publishing a
malicious and defamatory libel on Mr. Thomas Bird,
one of the co-respondents in the Colin Campbell
divorce case. Ha also granted a summons against Mr
Durant;printer of the paper.
The mangled remains of a respectably dressed
young man were discovered early on Monday morning
lying alongside the down line of the London and South-
Western Railway, near Fulwell station. The deceased
had evidently been knocked down by a passing goods
train. The head was almost severed from the body,
which is terribly bruised.

It is understo-od that tile:Secretary of State for India
has finally arranged with a syndicate of English
capitalists for the construction of the Bengal-Nagpore
Railway. The terms granted will be similar to those of
the Indian Midland Railway.
Richard Insole, 24, a fisherman, was found guilty at
the Lincolnshire Assizes. on Monday, of the murder of
his wife at Grimsby, and was sentenced to death. The
prisoner was separated from his wife, and, suspecting
her of infidelity, he followed her into her mother's house
and deliberately shot her five times, twice whilst she
was lying helpless on the floor.

At- an assembly of Progres-sist Republicans held in
Madrid, a resolution approving the conduct of Senor
Ruiz Zorrilla was passed by 93 votes against 23.
Mr. T. Fry, M.P., described to his constituents at
Darlingtos on Saturday what he had seen while evic.
tions were being carried out at Glenbeigh. The meeting
condemned the evictions, and called upon the Legisla•
ture to alter the law so as to render the occurrence of
such barbarities impossible.
_ . .

An inquest was beld at Thurleston, near Barnsley, on
Monday, as to the death of Henry Morley, steel
worker, 22, who was shot by his brother under singularly
painful circumstances on Saturday. The principal
witness was the twin brother of the deceased, who said
they were out pigeon shooting together. Witness had
a loaded gun at full cock in his hand, when a small
terrier dog jumped up in play, striking the trig er.
The gun exploded, and the charge lodged in his brother's
side- Death ensued an hour afterwards. Shortly
before his death he said. "Father, I am going to die,
but don't fret; it was partly my own fault." A verdict
of "Accidentally killed" was returned.
The first division of the current session was taken on
Monday evening in the House of Commons between
four and five &clock. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, objecting
to the early issue of a new writ for the Hanover-square
Division of Westminster, moved the adjournment of
the debate. On a division, the motion was negatived
by 173 to 93, and the writ was ordered. Among the
members of the late Government who voted in the,
majority were Mr. Childers, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Sir Lyon
Flay fair, Mr. A. Morley, Mr. Spencer, and Mr. Broad-
hurst.

On Monday in Ihe Queen's Bench Division, Baron
Pollock concluded the trial of the action Elliott Lowery
and C/o. v. Dobell and Co., for £127 for freight of timber
which defendants had paid into court, making a
counter claim for short delivery. His lordship gave
judgment for the defendants for £65 2s. 4d. on the
counter chime, but stayed execution, as the case was
said to be of importance to the trade.
In Dublin on Monday an application was made to
Judge Monroe to appoint a receiver over the IN aterford
estate of Sir Joseph Neale M'Benna.
M.P., for £5OO
arrears of interest due on £5OOO put in settlement on
his daughter's marriage. The owner alleged a set off;
but Judge Monroe directed the appointment of a
receiver, putting a stay upon the order for six weeks,
to enable Sir Joseph to pay half the demand, with
costs.

The schooner Annie, of Inverness, from London, fcr
Inverskeith, with cement, was in collision on Monday
morning off Palling with the brigantine Flora, of Yar.
mouth, bound to that port with coals. , Both vessels
were sunk. The crew of the Flora took to their boats,
and rescued three of the Annie's crew, but the master,
mate, and one seaman of the latter vessel were
drowned.