The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A block of houses in Rangoon, bone ded by Lewis.
street, Sharks-street, Fraser-street. and Dalhousie-
street, has been destroyed by fire, which is believed to
have been the work of an incendiary. _ _

According to the latest particulars of the fire at the
cotton docks at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, 20,000
bales of cotton were destroyed, and the total loss
amounted to 900,000 dollars.
The passengers of the Russian mail steamer Czaritza,
which was wrecked while on the voyage to Alexandria,
have been landed at Syra. The vessel was blown,
during a gale on to the rocks at Anata, six miles from
Syra.
It is estimated that the Russian securities which
have been bought back by Russia from the Berlin
Bourse since the commencement of the year amount
to more than 200,000,000 roubles.
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The " Citizen " hi informed on the best authority
that Lord Randolph Churchill will shortly rejoin the
Government as Secretary of State for India. The
London correspondent of the " Leeds Mercury "
writes: " Lord Randolph Churchill's attitude to the
Government is beginning to soften, and it is not im.
possible that he may rejoin at no distant date. It is
said that he would not be unwilling to resume the
Indian Office, and Lord Cross, having now got his
pension could be easily shunted. The return, how-
ever, of Lord Randolph Churchhill would make Mr.
Goschen feel very uncomfortable."
On Saturday William Jenkinson. a railway porter,
aged nineteen, was charged as Warrington with causing
the death of Elizabeth Jenkinson, agei twenty-two, his
eldest eister. The accused found an old gun, on which
he placed a cap, and, the weapon going off, the charge
went through a window and entered the temple of
deceased, causing immediate death. Prisoner was re-
manded. _ _ _

A Balaclava hero named Richard Fisher was buried
at Jarrow with military honours on Saturday afternoon.
Deceased joined the 4th Hussars on the 4th of April,
1848, went through the Crimean war, was present at
the battles of Balaclava, Inkerroan, Sebastopol, and
Alma. When discharged he was a corporal holding
five good-conduct badges, the highest number obtain-
able, and was in receipt of is. 6d. per day pension.
Deoeased died from inflammation of the lungs.
Mr. Gladstone left Hawarden Castle on Saturday for
Penmaenmawr; At Rhyl be spoke a few words,
pointing to what happened in Parliament last week, as
showing that there could be no le- islation until the
Irish question has been got rid of. He therefore urged
Welshmen to assist in nettling that question
General Matthews has " arrived at Zanzibar from
Kesmayoo on board the Akola, in company with the
German corvette Olga, and reports that the Somali
p oved to have been guilty of the murder of Dr. Karl
Juehlke has been shot.
Mr. Tanner, United States Consul at Chemnitz, has
been recalled at the request of the German Govern-
ment. Some time ago he sent a report to his Govern.
ment in which he commented unfavourably upon the
trade and commerce of Chemnitz.

The Earl a Haddington was successfully removed
on Saturday from the farmhouse of Eccles Tofts, Ber-
wickshire, where he has lain since the severe accident
in the hunting field on February 1, to Langton House,
near Dues, the seat of his brother, the Hon. Robert
Baillie Hamilton.

In view of the possibility of political complications
in Europe requiring a concentration of troops at Pishin
and other places on the North-West frontier during
the spring, the military officials are actively consider-
ing the requisite commissariat and transport arrange-
ments.

The Queen has been pleased to approve the appoint-
ment of Lord Balfour of Burleigh to be a Lord-in-
Waiting to her Majesty, in the room of the Earl of
Onslow, now Under -Secretary of State for the
Colonies.
Mr. L. H. Phillips, of Upper Bedford-place, was
summoned before the Bow-street magistrate for non-
payment of the police-rate. It was stated OD his behalf
that he had several times complained to the Police
Commissioners of the absence of police protection at
his residence, which had been broken into by burglars.
He did not appear, and the case was adjourned.
Resolutions have been passed at a meeting in the
Crystal Palace affirming the desirability of maintaining
the Palace as a national institution, appointing a com-
mittee to consider the best means of obtaining national
support during the Jubilee year, and approving the
formation of another committee to devise a plan
whereby residents around the Palace may engage to
Eu poor t the institution by taking seasou tickets
Sir Edward Clarke, Solicitor-General, presided over a
complimentary dinner given by members of the Bar
to Me. Mentagu Williams, at the Holborn Restaurant,
on Saturday night.
The Emperor of Austria presided over a Military
Council at which the Minister of War and the Chief of
the General Staff were present on Saturday.
The Lower House of the Hungarian Diet has unani-
mously voted the grant of 7460,000 florins proposed by
the Government for military tirevarationa.
A doctor living near Marßate marnea on Tuesaay
the cook who inherited £60,000 a few months ago. A
vast concourse of people witnessed the wedding.
The woman and three children who mysteriously
diappeared from their home in Lambeth the other day
have been traced to the house of a friend
At a special meeting of the Cambridge Improve-
ment Commiagioners on Tuesday morning, Mr. J. T.
Wood, of Liverpool, was elected surveyor for the
bor. ugh, at a salary of £4OO. There were 167 candi-
dates.

The Paris " Figaro" reports a great movement of
troops in Central Asia. "It is expected that Russia
will profit by the present state of Europe to make
another step towards India."

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Owing to the improvement of the iron trade two of
the largo smelting furnaces at the Barrow Steel Works,
• which have been standing idle for some time, are being
put in order for working again.
A Reuter's telegram from St. John says the New. foundland Legislature has unanimously re-enacted the
hill prohibiting the sale of bait to French or American
fishermen.

An elderly lady named Alkook had just ceased
praying at a meeting in the Methodist Chapel, Ilkeston,
on Monday night, when she fell forward and instantly
died.
Au Exchange Compiny's telegram from Paris states
that adviees from Obock urge the necessity of
strengthening the station at Dunkali, one of the
tribes having attacked the French marines, who lost
two men in the fight.
On Tuesday morning, at eight o'clock, a special fare-
well service and Holy Communion was held in the
Chapel Royal, Savoy, prior to the departure of the
Rev R. Raikes Bromage for Egypt, to undertake work
at the Gordon College, Cairo.
The Dewsbury police have captured a man named
Harding, described as a clerk, of Bristall, near Leeds,
on a charge of stealing a small lamp from a furniture
shop at Batley Carr. In searching the prisoner. Bank
of England notes and gold to the value of £859 were
found in his possession.
The Londonderry Corporation decided, at a special
meeting, to confer on Mr. C. E. Lewis, M.P., the free.
dorn of the city, in commemoration of his 14 years
representation of the city. The ceremony will take
place on the occasion of the forthcoming presentation '
en him of a service of plate, value 400, from the
Loyalists of Derry.
The receipts on account of revenue from the Ist of
April, 1886, when there was a balance of £5,625,944,
to February 19, 1887, were £78,475,868, against
£76,41.,295 in the corresponding period of the pre.
cedirg financial year, which began with a balance of
£4,993,207. The net expenditure was £77,666,065,
aga'nst £79,482 469 to the same (lite in the previous
%ear. The Treasury balances' on February 19, 1887,
amounted to £5,907,771, and at the same date in 1888
to £5,613,342.
In consequence of a military conspiracy which has
been discovered in Russia, a number of officers have
been arrested, and one of their number hanged as a
ringleader. Among the objects of the conspirators
°tie was, it is said, to arouse discontent in the army and
the fleet on account of the peaceful policy of the
o v ern mee t.
The Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin two years
ace withdrew a diploma for dental surgery granted to a
Mr. Partridge, whose name was thereupon removed
from the register by the medical council, the reason
being that Mr. Partridge had advertised his business.
Oa the ground that the Dentists' Act did not prohibit
advertising, counsel on Tuesday applied to Justices
Denman and Mathew for a mandamus directing the
council to restore his name. Their lordships
granted a rule.
Benjamin Terry, collier, was on Tuesday executed at
votringham for the murder of his wife. Death was
instantaneous. -

A meeting of the Mansion House Committee,
recently formed for aiding the Imperial Institute
scheme, wiis held on Tuesday, when, after cap-mations
from the Lord Mayor and the Governor of the Bank
of England, a resolution was passed providing, in
accordance with the recommendation of the London
Chamber of Commerce, that all subscriptions except
whe:e otherwise directed by the donors, should be
divided in the proportion of 70 per cent. to the
Imperial Institute and 30 per cent; to the pro Posed
Commercial Museum in the City.