The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-03-12 00:00:00

SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1887.

It is reported from Lisbon that the Sultan of Zan.
zibar has appointed General Matthews Commissioner
for the delimitation of the territory in dispute between
the Sultanate and Portugal. It is added that rela-
tions between the two countries will shortly be re-
sumPd.

GeorgelDueret, the murderer of Bidrae. Chauvilier,
wife of Mdme. Fould's coachman, gave himself up to
the Paris police on Sunday night, after having wandered
about three days without any means of subsistence.
The only regret he expresses is that he did not succeed
in snding the money for which he committed the
murder

In connection with the disturbance between soldiers
of the Border Regiment and civilians at Galway on
Sunday night it appears that three of the military
were injure i seriously, two having their faces cut and
one his head injured with stones, besides being badly
kicked. - - - - - •

A meeting- of the Nottingham Town Council on
Monday authorised the signing of a guanntee by the
Mayor and Town Clerk, by which the Corporation
become responsible for expenses attendant itpon the
Royal Agricultural show next year. This practi.
cally ensures the visit of the Society to Nottingham
in 1888.

There has been no renewal of the disturbances at
Lurgan, and the police, who were drafted into the town,
have returned home. The 16 prisoners sent for trial
are all Nationalists.

From the annual report of the South London Shoe.
black Society; just issued, it appears that the total
earnings of the boys during 1886 were CB9l 12s. 91.,
gwing an average of 168 94d. earoed per boy per week.
Tne society have secured premises in Bath-terrace,
Borough, for use as a Shoeblacks' Home.
Mr Justice Chitty on Monday afternoon refused,
with costs, a motion, made on behalf of a Mr. Condon,
a solicitor's clerk, to commit his wife to prison for an
alleged breach of an undertaking not to bring tin their
child other than as a Roman Catholic. and to allow the
father reasonable access to her Mr Justice Chitty did
not see that there had been any breach of the under-
taking.

At Birkenhead, on Monday, Peter Gregory, Super in.
tendent•Registrar of Births, Marriages, and Deaths,
and late Clerk to the Birkenhead and Wirral Guar-
dians, and who is now bankrupt, was chargtd with
failing to discover to the trustees of his estate sums
amounting to £B4. He was also charged with larceny
by depositing trust deeds with the North and south
Wales Bank as security for an overdranght of his owe.
He was remanded.

The men employed at the Pontymister Tin; late
Works, Rises, who have been on strike for five months
against a proposed reduction, resumed work on Mon-
day. There are still ten works standing idle m
Monmouthshire, owirg to the men resisting the reciun-
tion.

The Marquis of Salisbury, according to the "Daily
News,' has undertaken to adjudicate betwetn the
Right Hon. H. 0. Raikes, Postmaster• General, and the
permanent officials at St. Martin's-le-Grand, regarding
the differences which have, unfortunately, ariFen
The Budget will, says the "Standard," be brought
n by Mr. Goschen on the 4th proximo

WlMali Wright, a painter, was charged at the
Marlboreugh Police-court, London, on Monday, with
disorderly conduct in Hyde-park, while a Socialist
meeting was being held on Sunday evening, and was
ordered to find a surety to be of good behaviour.
Mrs. Berry, who has been sentenee.d to death for
poisoning her child at Oldham, and who has been
found guilty by a coroner's jury of poisoning her
mother, was visited at Walton Gaol on Saturday by
the officials of the Oldham Workhouse. She said to
them in reference to her child's death: "How cen
people invent such a paltry motive for so great 7.
crime? I have very little hope of a reprieve, and wher.
the time comes for me to accompany my namesake tc
the scaffold I shall be ready. I feel as Longfellow
describes 'Resignation' in his beautiful poem of that
name." She then read the poem in qnestion in en im-
resolve manner, and continued: "I look upon transi-
tion from this world as stepping into a train from which
I shall alight shortly in a far more beautiful and better
place."

At Monday's sitting of the German Reichstag the
Army Bill was again introduced by General Bronsart
von Schellendorf. Herr von B nnigsen, the National
Liberal leader, spoke in favour of the bill, Dr. Wind-
thor, t gave it a qualified support, and Herr Richter
opposed it. Other Deputies spoke, and the debate on
the first reading was closed.
A circular signed by Mr. S. Smith and about 50
other M.P.'s of all political parties has been issued. It
points out that a strong feeling exists in the country
that some restriction should be placed upon the pub-
lication of offensive details of divorce cases invites
further signatures, and states that if the response be
adequate a private conference of members favourable
to their views will be called in order to consider what
fJI ther steps should be taken.
Monday being the anniversary of the elevation of
Servia to a kingdom, a Te Deum was sung at the
Belgrade Cathedral, the service being attended by the
members of the Diplomatic Body. In connection with
the event Colonel Topalovich, Minister cf War, and
001(130 Bogitschevick have been promoted to the rank
of General, and many public officials have received
decorations or promotions.
A building in Canning Town, London, in process of
erection for a coffee tavern, fell on Monday morning,
and overwhelmed two men, whose bodies were disin-
terred several hours later. Two other men were
injured.
A Frenchman named Dyroff, was convicted at the
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London,on Monday,
fl swindling. He had obtained from wine producers in
France 55,000 bottles of claret and other wines, of the
mine of £5OOO, which he sold as he got them, for sums
amounting in the aggregate to less than .t2OOO. He
was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.
Herbert P. Freund, who has been repeatedly charged
at the London Mansion House Justice-room with
creating a disturbance in St. Paul's Cathedral, was
again brought up on Monday on a similar charge in
regard to the services on Sunday week. On its being
certified that he was sane, the Lord Mayor discharged
him, he having been remanded for inquiries. He there •
goon produced a roll of manuscript, and wanted to
read his defence, but his lordship refused to permit
him. - - - • _ _ _

" dy Randolph Churchill arrived in Dublin on Mon-
day on a visit to Lord and Lady Londonderry, and,
with the Dowager Duchess of Montrose, accompanied
them in opening the Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian
Academy.

The Roman journal " Tribune " publishes a telegram
from Massowah, stating that the Negus with*lais army
is marching towards Goggiatn sad that he has sum.
moned a portion of Ras Aluia's forces to j in him.
Ras Alula is stated to have renounced all idea of an
offensive movement agiiinst Massowah.
A supplementary Army Estimate, amounting to
£459,000, was issued on Monday night. Of this sum
nearly £2OO 000 is needed in consequence of extra
demands from the navy, and £44,000 on account of the
troops in Egypt. Under the head of " Rewards, &c.,
to inventors," is £30,000, instalment of £llO,OOO pay-
ment for the Brennan torpedo.
A fire broke out on Monday evening in the extensive
mansion of Mr. Morrison, at Garlcosh, seven miles from
Glasgow. The city engines were on the spot as FOOO
as possible after the alarm had been raised, but by the,
time they arrived the house was almost totally de-
stroyed. The library was, however, saved. The
damage is estimated at £3OOO.
With the cordial approval of Mrs. Fawcett and the
Duke of Westminster, it has been resolved that the
Fawcett memorial in connection with the Royal
Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind
shall take the form of a playground with such special
arrangements as may induce the blind to take outdoo
recreation It is found, however, that, in addition to
the amount received from the memorial ommittee
£1682 Hs. 5d.), a further sum of £lBOO is required. Dr.
T. R. Armitage has promised £3OO, on condition that
the remaining £l5OO is subscribed.
An explosion occurred on Monday at the large steam
roller flour mills of Messrs. Bowyor and Priestley at
Buckden. The end of the mill and the enginehouse
were blown out, and the two houses adjoining were
partially wrecked. The debris was thrown to a distance
of 600 or 700 yards. There were 30 men in the mill at
the time, but no one was hurt. Mr. Priestley himself
had a very miraculous escape, as he had only just
passed the enginehouse as the explosion occurred.
On Monday morning an alarming and destructive
fire occurred at Messrs. Aitken and Mansell's ship.
building yard on the north bank of the River Old e.
A sawmill and a joiner's shop, 100 ft. long and three
storeys high, were burned.