The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-05-26 00:00:00

SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1888..

Colonel F. G. Berkeley, half-pay, has been selected
for the command of the 47th Regimental District at
Preston.
The Princess of Wales, who was accompanied by the
Prince of Wales and Princesses Victoria; and Maud,
formally opened the Royal Naval and Military Bazaar
at Charing-cross, in aid of the establishment and main-
tenance of Soldiers' and Sailors' Homes in various
naval and military stations at home and abroad.
Numerous State conventions have been held in
America for the purpose of selecting delegates to
attend the conventions at Chicago and St. Louis. The
Democrats have apparently all endorsed the re-election
of President Cleveland.
Mr. H. Sutton, who for over a quarter of a centurY
has been the secretary of the Sevenoaks Savings Bank,
was taken into custody on a warrant for embezzling
upwards of £2OOO, the moneys of the bank. The
accused held other important positions in the town.
Mr. Milner, Chief Private Secretary to the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, who was despatched on a special
mission to France to inquire into the probable effect
of the increase in the duties on foreign wines, has
returned to London. He has supplied the Chancellor
of the Exchequer with a report, but it is understood
that his mission is not completed, and that he Will
return to France on an early date to make further
inquires.
At the Epsom Police-court Charles M. Yarhain, Rose-
cottage, Tadworth, was charged with burglariously
entering Tadworth Court, the residence of Sir Charica
Russell, Q.C., M.P., on the night of the 25th ult., and
stealing therefrom a silver teapot and stand, two save!
sugar castors, 10 knives, a silver trowel presented to Sir
Charles on laying the foundation-stone of the Chathant
Reform Club, two damask table cloths, two coats, &r.
The evidence showed that on the day mentioned Sir
Charles's residence was broken into, entry being gained
through a water closet window, which could only be
approached from the scullery roof, and the articles
mentioned in the charge abstracted. Prisoner was at
the time employed as odd man, and was suspected t°
have had something to do with the robbery, bily
nothing could be proved against him. Subsequentll
the teapot, castors, and table-cloths were found undet
an old coat in a cupboard in the lamp-room, and as the'
coat in question was recognised by a groom as belonging
to prisoner, he was at once placed under arrest. Fri"
Boner, who denied that the coat was his, and said he
knew nothing whatever of the burglary, was remanded.
For burglary at the house of the Chief Superin-
tendent Liverpool detective force, four men have been
committed to the assizes. One on being irrested said,
"As fly as he (the chief detective) is, he didn't think
he could be taken down like that."
An exciting scene was witnessed at Sheffield Infir-
mary the other morning. A patient, named Thomas
Crossland, clad in his night shirt, emerved from the
top Story window and threw himself to the ground, a
distance of 50 feet. On being picked up he was found
to be fearfully injured, and is not expected to survive.
When he first appeared at the window, tffo nurses were
endeavouring to hold him back, but he succeeded in
releasing himself from their hold, and then leaped
out.

There is a slight improvement in the takes of salmon
and trout in the Tweed, and a few grilse are still being
got. At Crabwater fishery some 30 fish have been had
at one tide. On Saturday prices were is. 7d. per lb,
for salmon and is. 9d. for trout, as compared with
is. sd. per lb. for salmon and is. Bd. for trout on the
corresponding date of last year.
The Dungannon magistrates on Saturday refuted a
claim for £6O for the burning of a barn, believing that
the occurrence was accidental, though the police had
returned it as an outrage.
Paris advices of Saturday state that wheat has beeil
rather sparingly offered upon the French country'
markets, and that prices have been well maintained,
At Paris the supply of wheat brought forward has beeri
rather limited, and trade has ruled firm. There ha. 4
been a good demand for wheat in the French ports.
Plantations of roses on a large scale are to be estab-
lished in the province of Kutais of the Caucasus, so
that there may be an extensive.native manufacture of
the essence of roses. At the present moment this is
largely exported from foreign states, principally Bul-
garia and Turkey, into Russia, and it is the object of
the Minister of Domains in promoting this enterprise--
which, it may be mentioned, is only an expansion of an
earliv experiment at Baku—to oust the foreigner and
substitute a native industry.
A gentleman named Warburton, residing at Gorton,
Manchester, met with a shocking death at Birmingham
on Saturday night. Earlier in the day he and a brother
came to P4rmingham on a visit to their brother-in-law,
Mr. Dickenson, locomotive superintendent of the Cen-
tral Tramway Company, and at night accompanied him
to one of the depots. The party rode on front of tho
car next to the engine, and in attempting to jump off
while the car was in motion, the deceased was knocked
down by the step and crushed to death, his knees being
driven into his stomach.

The tenants on the Vandeleur estate who are under
notice of eviction are barricading their houses, and are
determined to offer as violent a resistance to the
Sheriff's officers as that which was made at Bodyke.
It is stated that considerable forces of police and
troops are proceeding to Kilrush to assist at the evic-
tions.

A telegram from Bombay reports a most destructive
fire by which 500 persons are said to have been ren-
dered homeless.
The pear crop in East Kent this season will, it is
stated, be the smallest within living memory. Several
varieties of pear trees do not put forth a single blossom'
in many orchards and gardens.
A Newry telegram states that a man, whose name is
supposed to be Shortsinger, a German, was found
strangled in a wood outside the village of Rostrevor
on Monday morning. He was a stranger to the dis-
trict, and how he came to be in the wood is a mystery.
The body must have been there several days.
The pensioned Naib Dewan of Baroda has been
appointed Minister at Indere.
The Irish Land Purchase Commissioners notify that
they have received applications for advances to an
amount exceeding the £5,000,000 available.
Lord Stanley of Preston, the new Governor-General
of Canada, has selected Captain the Hon. C. R.W. Colville
(Master of Colville), of the Grenadier Guards, for his
Military Secretary, and Lieutenant A. H. M`Mahon,
also of the Grenadiers, for his Aide-de-Camp.
Acknowledging a protest against coercion signed by
1200 members of the Society of Friends, Mr. Gladstone
says that apart from this definite evidence it would be
difficult to persuade him that ,any large number of
Friends approve of the coercive policy now pursued in
Ireland.
The London Cart-Horse Parade. Society held its
Whitsuntide show at the inner circle of Regent's-park
on Whit-Monday. The parade was exceptionally good,
and was witnessed by many thousands :of persons.
In the afternoon the Baroness Burdett-Coutts distri-
buted the prizes.
The weather was exceptionally favourable on Whit-
Monday for the Bank Holiday, and many thousands of
persons availed themselves of the opportunity to make
excursions by rail, 'bus, tram, and steamboat to places
of interest in and near London, while holiday-making
was also general throughout the provinces. Nearly
63,000 went to the Crystal Palace, 26,000 to the Zoo,
9700 to South Kensington Museum, 4500 to the Natural
History Museum, 8500 to the Tower, and 8300 to
Windsor. Thousands also visited Hampstead-heath,
Blackheath, the Alexandra Palace, Kew Gardens, and
Hampton Court Palace.
It was stated at the Oddfellows' "A. M. C." at
Gloucester on Whit-Monday, that the membership of
the Order has increased by 10,000 during the year.
Dr. Schweinfurth, the African explorer, in a letter
to a friend at Brussels, expresses the opinion that Mr.
Stanley will not have ventured further eastward
without his rear guard, which was to bring him the
greater part of the provisions left at the camp on the
Aruwhimi, and without which his arrival at Wadelai
would have been valueless. Dr. Schweinfurth thinks
there is no reason to be uneasy respecting Mr. Stanley's
fate.
Much practical work was performed on Whit Monday
by the, volunteers who had gone into camp for the
Whitsun holidays. A feature of the day's proceedings
was a reconnaissance made by a number of sergeants
in a district immediately north of Hampstead.
One of those scenes which are, fortunately, seldom
witnessed in connection with athletic sports took place
immediately after the presentation of the prizes at the
annual meeting of the Hitchin District Harriers on
Whit Monday. London athletes had entered, as usual,
in fairly strong force, and had proved, perhaps, even
more successful than on previous occasions, and it is .
supposed that the scene referred to was the outcome of
the chagrin on the part of a strong contingent of thin
local roughs at seeing the strangers carry off so many ?
prizes. Shortly after Baron Dimsdale M.P., had dis-
tributed the prizes amongst the successful competitors..
the Londoners were suddenly assailed by a gang of,
something like thirty of the roughest element of the
district, who showered stones and struck out withstieks
right and left at the visitors, inflicting some severe •
wounds. The attacked party tried all they knew to
return the compliment, but found that bare fists were
not a match for sticks and stones, and the result was
that seven or eight of the competitors returned to town
with their countenances considerably disfigured by cuts
and bruises. The brothers Alletson, T. H. Bisgood,
W. T. Young, and A. B. George all showed more or
less the effects of their opponents' handiwork.
A terrible occurrence was reported on Whit Monday
afternoon at Hawarden. John Rogers, a malt with one
arm, to which a crook was attached, was holding a
horse when the animal suddenly bolted. The crook
became entangled in the reins, and the man was dragged
along at a terrific pace by the horse. Rogers sustained
such severe injuries that he died almost immediately
on being released.
An old house, situated in Grange - court, Clare
Market. at the back of King's College Hospital, fell at
an early hour on Whit Monday morning. Fortunately
the building was unoccupied at the time. The first
portion of the house fell at a quarter to three and at a
quarter past five the main part of the structure came
down with a crash, and disturbed the neighbourhood.
Confidence, however, was restored on it being dis-
covered that no lives had been lost.

A young woman named Sheed, who was married on
Whit-Monday morning, whilst indulging in a boat-
swing at Clapham-common in the afternoon, was thrown
out and pitched upon her head. A doctor could not
be found to attend to her, and she was removed to St.
Thomas , Hospital, where the house surgeon pro-
nounced her to be dead.
The Admiralty have ordered her Majesty's torpedo
cruiser Mohawk, recently built at a cost of £lOO,OOO, to
be prepared to take part in the approaching Naval
Manceuvres. The Mohawk is armed with six 6in. guns,
eight quick-firing guns, and three torpedo tubes.
There was a grand fête on Whit Monday at Eaton
Hall, the seat of the Duke of Westminster, and the
number of visitors was very large, the delightful
weather bringing out many thousands of people. The
fête was organised by the Committee of the West-
minster Museum of Science and Art, the Duke of West-
minster placing the grounds and hall at the service of
the committee, and the proceeds are devoted to the
liquidation of the debt on the Museum. Most gratify-
ing results were obtained, alike in the amusement of
the visit ors and the amount realised. The State apart-
ments and gardens were thrown open, and the celebrated
racers Bend Or and Ormonde were on new. There
were also musical performances by the pipers of the
Scots Guards, the band of the Lancashire Fusiliers, and
other bands' ' organ reoitals, military tournaments foot-
ball, cricket, and other sports. A circus and balloon
tscent were also in the programme. Between twenty
thousand and thirty thousand people were moat.
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