The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-10-22 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

John Hughes Noscoe, cashier to the Liverpool
United Gaslight Company, was charged before the
Liverpool stipendiary, on Saturday, with embezzling
£lOOO, the money of his employers. When arrested
and charged with the fraud, he said he supposed it was
right. He did not know the exact amount. Formal
evidence was given, and the prisoner was remanded.
The Rev. William Powell died at his residence,
Glenwood, Llangollen, on Saturday morning, aged 80.
The reverend gentleman, who was a popular and
powerful preacher, had been pastor of Welsh churches
in London, Manchester, Liverpool, and many parts of
Wiles.
A. Reu'er's telegram from Malta states that her
Majesty's Indian troopship Euphrates passed there
recently going East.
The efforts at the Landore Siemen's Steel Works to
avert a strike proved fruitless, and the works were
closed on Saturday. Twelve thoueriod men are thrown
out of employment.
Lord Elgin addre,sed a number of secondary school
teachers in Gla.gow on Saturday, and said secondary
education should be supported by the State and be
given in schools set apart. His countrymen his lord-
ship said, would not alloy the study of classical
literature to die out.

The Orient steamer Ormuz, which left Plymouth for
Australia on Saturday at 12.5) midday, has been
telegraphed as having passed Gibraltar on Tuesday at
5 a.m. The Ormuz has thus accomplished the distance
from Plymouth to Gibraltar in 64 hours 10 minutes,
the shortest time on record. _ _ _

The donation made in response to Lady Dufferin's
special appeal in connection with the Queen's Jubilee
for further assistance to the National Association fot
supplying Female Medical Aid to the women of India,
amount to £l7OO received from England and 478,000
rupees subscribed in India.

Mr. 0. 0. Lewis, the South Essex coroner, on Tues-
day resumed the adjourned inquiry touching the death
of Martha Bodger, 24, a married woman, who was
found dead in her bed on Tuesday morning, the 11th
inst., under circumstances which led to the arrest of
Joseph Morley, a blacksmith, who now stands re—
manded on the capital charge. Further evidence was
given as to the finding of a razor beneath a strip of
carpet and a pair of prisoner's socks in the oven, while
Dr. Jameson gave the result of his post-mortem
examination giving it as his opinion that deceased
received a sharp blow on the head during lila. She had
not been violated. After a lengthy summing. up by the
coroner, the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder"
against Joseph Morley, who is in custody.
At Shrewsbury Quarter Sessions, held at Shrewsbury
on Tuesday, the grand jury returned a true bill against
George Grice, 34, puddler, for unlawfully assaulting
Catherine Scrap( in a railway carriage, between Wel-
lington and Shrewsbury, on the 27th August, with
Intent to commit a felony. liledical evidence was
given to the effect that Grice's state of mind was not
such as would fit him to plead, and the recognisances
were conseauently extended to the joint assizes to be
held at Stafford.

The local police are investigating a burglary which
has been committed at Tortworth Ocrurt, Dursley, the
residence of the Earl of Ducie, Lord-Lieutenant of the
county of Gloucestershire. It appears that the thieves
carried a ladder from the nearest farm buildings, and,
placing it against one of the windows, gained admis-
sion to Lady Dude's; room. They were, however,
disturbed, as only her ladyship's deepatoh•box, eon.
taining £lO, was stolen. Some housebreaking tools
were found on the lawn.

The inquest on the body of Dr. Hutchison' of
Kineton, was resumed on Tuesday before Mr.
Couchman, coroner. Dr. B. Hill, county analyst, gave
the results of his 'analysis uf the contents of the
deceased's stomach. He found a considerable quantity
of potassium, and also what he believed to be traces of
morphia, but not the smallest trace of laudanum. It
was proved that the deceased's medical attendant Dr.
M`Vicos, who was under arrest, was drunk the night
before hit patient died, and that he administered large
doses of opium and bromide of potassium shortly before.
The jury returned a verdict of "Death by misadven-
ture," strongly censuring Dr. M‘Vicos for his conduct
during the treatment of his patient. Dr. WlTicos was
charged with manslaughter by the police on Wednes&y.
The Secretary of the Admiralty announces that the
following telegram was received on Tuesday from the
Commodore at Hong-Kong "Leander returned;
thoroughly searched Paracels. Telegraph ship Recorder
arrived; searched coast of Cochin China and Hainan;
no trace of Wasp."
The Michaelmas Quarter Sessions was opened at
Brecon on Tuesday, Sir Joseph. Bailey, Bart. M.P.,
presiding. The chairman said although the politics of
the past year chiefly concerned Ireland, ten Acts had
been passed which were of interest in that country,
and these he proceeded to enumerate, commenting on
the Truck Act, Mines Regulation Act, and Boundaries
Act.—Henry Jones, 63, labourer, pleaded guilty to
charges of obtaining 2s. by means of false pretences
from Frank Travers; and to attempting to obtain
money from Mr. R. D. Cleasby, a magistate, by falsely
representing that he was a resident in Brecon 13 years,
and had apetition written and signed for him by the
vicar. Prisoner, who had been convicted seven times
previously at Shrewstury and elsewhere, was sen-
tenced to six months' imprisonment, and to forfeit his
ticket of leave, whereby be will go back to penal
servitude.

The Henry Martyn Memorial Hall,-which has been
built to commemorate the life and work of a Cambridge
man, and is intended to provide a place of meeting for
the valour; missionary and religious societies in con-
nection with Cambridge University, was opened on
Tuesday by the Master of Corpus.
A singular chapter of sensational occurrences took
place at Coventry on Tuesday. Early in the mon:Ili-1
the police rescued a Woman who had accidentally fallen
into a pond. Later on the body of a dead tramp Was
found in a brickyard, death being due to exposure. A
boy in the afternoon had his hand nearly blown off wi h
oxalic acid, which exploded, and the tame evenirg a
woman and child were twice tossed by a wild cow in
the streets.

William Stevens, a respectably dressed young man,
who was driving a trap on the previous day, out of
which a person was thrown and seriously injured, was
charged before the Hastings ro3gistrates on Tuesday
with being drunk, and with furious driving. Prisoner,
who was staying at an institution for London postmen
requiring rest, conducted bimFelf in a strange way and
banded the magist ates•a letter in which be said his
offence was brought about by a lack of work. He
Further asked the justices to give him emplosmunt.
He was fined 20s. and ces,a, ti d then pulled out a
cheque book, but the chief constable declined to take
ans thing but ready money. One of the magistrates
then asked what bank the cheque was upon, and the
prisoner replied, "What interest is that to you if you
won't take it?" Eventually he btained the money
from two women who were in the court.

The Rev. Canon Catni4e, M.A., was on Tuesday
consecrated Bishop of Bathurst, Australia, in West-
minster Abbey, London. The ceremony of consecration
WAS performed by his Grace the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, who was ass'eted by Canons Prothero and
Rowsell, the Rev. S. Flood Jones, the Rev. Mr. Price.
and the Rev. Mr. Cheadel. The consecration sermon
was preeched by Canon Hudson, vicar of East Gi
Her Majesty the Queen has forwarded throu h
General Sir Henry Ponsonby her annual donation .uf
100 guineas. The Hon. and Rev. Edward Pant:nip,
Tracy has bequeathed to the college his three stalls in
the Royal Albert Hall, and £l5 to provide for the
annual rent of the same. Mrs. Charlotte Elizabeth
Thomaeina Holmes, of Kensingten, has also bequeathed
a legacy of £5OO, free of duty, to the college. The
London Musical Society, on kts dissolution has pre-
sented the college with 100 guineas to form an annual
prize for singing.
Frederick Johnson, secretary of the Wokingham
Foresters' Society, and formerly a town councillor, was
charged at the Becks Quarter Ses•ions on Tuesday
with obtaining by fraud and embezzlement the funds
of the society to the amount of £283. The pris ,rer
admitted obtaining £l2 as funeral nay in the mi.- e
a person not a member of
.the court. The chairman,
in passing sentence, said it was the duty ot the Court
to protect the savings of the poor, and to pass such a
sentence as would be a warning to the prisoner and
others The sentence of the Court was 12 months'
hard labour.

The passengers who landed at Queenstown on Toes.
day from the National Line steamer Egypt, from New
York, reported that on Sunday week, the day after the
steamer left New York, a steerage passenger, who was
in charge of some hones belonging to Mrs. Langtry,
jumped overboard and sunk before a boat could reach
him.

The receipts on account of RAVPMII3 from the Ist of
April,lBB7, when there Was a balance of £5,950,107, to
Oct. 15, 1887, were £41,074,4 0, against £41,579,378 in
the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which begariwith a balance of £5,625,944. The
net expenditure was £47,101,206, against £49,154 924
to the same date in tbe previous year. The Treasury
balances on Oct 15,1887, amounted to £1,139,321, and
at the same date in 1886 to £1,032,473

A large representative meeting of wrought-nail
makers belonging to the South Staffordshire and East
Worcester districts was held at Rowley, on Monday,
when it was reported that upwards of 15,000 operatives
were out on strike for a substantial advance in wages.
It was unanimously decided not to accept the em-
ployers' offer of on advance of 10 per cent., but to
remain out on strike.

Two fatal accidents were reported to Mr Tbelwell,
Denbighshire coroner, on Monday. Ellis Jones,
employed at lisfodybwch Colliery, near Rhos, was
killed, about two o'clock, by a fall of coal at a crossing.
The other fats ity occurred near Wrexham, a waggoner,
named Thomas Jones, of Orcesvowel, being knocked
down by a passing train and run over. Each man
leaves a.widow and family. _ _ _

Douglas Thompson, a clerk in the employ of Lindsay,
Jamieson, and Haldane accountants, Edinburgh, was
accidentally shot dead on Monday afternoon by a
fellow, clerk, named W. S. Ross, who was examining a
pistol, when it went off. Deceased was marticd, and
has left several children.

Charles Findlay, farm servant, of Forffarty, near
Forfar, was fatally shot on Monday afternoon. He
had been out shooting, and was crawling through a
hedge, when the gun went off, wounding him in the
breast. Dr. Cable, of Forfar, was sent for, but the
man died before the dontor's arrival.

Two Germans against whom decrees of expulsion
were made last February have returned to France.
They were at once arrested, and will probably be
imprisoned for a term before they are again sent across
the frontier.
A committee has been appointed by the Secretary
of State to report upon the accommodation for pri-
soners awaiting trial at Police-courts and Courts of
Petty Sessions; and also on the question of providing
food for destitute prisoners who are tried there. The
committee consists of Mr. Justice Wills, Sir Robert
Fowler, Bart., M.P., Sir Thomas Evans Bart., Sir
Edmund F. Da Cane, K. 0.8., and Mr. H. J. Bushby.
Mr. J. S. Sandare is appointed secretary.
Mr. Rawson, the millionaire, and President of the
Union Trust Company, on leaving church at Chicago
on Sunday, was shot at five times by his stepson, Ralph
Staymaker. It is feared that Mr. Rawson's wound will
prove fatal. Personal vengeance is assigned as the
motive for the crime,

The Lord Chancellor of Ireland has appointed Mr.
Henry L. Reily, ex-President of the Incorporated Law
Society, to the office of Taxing Master in the Supreme
Court, vacated by the death of Mr. Archibald
Robinson.

For stealing a quantity of carpet belonging to Messrs.
Maple three men who had been employed by the firm
have been committed for trial at Bow•street. Samuel
Busey, a woollen and carpet merchant, of Castle. street,
Oxford-street, waa also sent for trial charged with
receiving the carpet, knowing it to have been stolen.
In his case bail was allowed.

An attempt was made the other day to upset a train
on the Great Northern Railway of Ireland at Carty-
nan, county Armsgh. As the goods train ft m Belfast
was passing about half-past two in the afternoon a
number of sleepers wee found tied across the rails
with the evident object of throwing the train off the
line. Fortunately, the outrage was discovered in time
to enable the train to pull up.
At Belfast three men believed to belong to a gang
of burglars have been arrested by the police. They
gave their names respectively as King, Wild, and
Fatter. When a detective officer entered the room
where the prisoners were sitting King drew a freife.
and ordered the officer out. The latter, however, drew
a revolver, and, covering the man with it, kep• him
quiet until assistance arrived. A bag was f, ,y 1 in
King's possession contaiwrg L1(0 in gold are ..oteo,
a complete set of housebreaking tools, and 18 skeleton
keys. Farrar had about £4O in his possession.
According to ad vices received in Bombay, Ayoub
Khan has been seen at Kacban•Sur in Baluchistan A
telegram from Mery states that his partisans are pre-
paring for a general rising in the province of Herat and
in Afghan Turkestan.
Cecil Richardson, a young man who was until
recently employed as a ledger clerk in the surveyor's
department of the vestry of St. George, Hanover-
square, London, was committed by the Westminster
magistrate, on Monday, to take his trial on charges of
forgery, falsification of accounts, and embezzlement in
connection with his duties at the vestry.
Several men were sentenced at the Hammersmith
Police- court, London' to various terms of imprisonment
for being concerned in a riot at Notting-hill, and
violently assaulting the police.
The case in which Mr. T. J. Barnes, a photographer
tarrying on business in the Mile-end•road, London, was
charged with causing the death of his wife, came before
Mr. Saunders at the Thames Police-court, on Monday.
A coroner's jury had returned a verdict of "Death
from misadventure," and the magistrate now discharged
the a rutted.

The Prince of Wales having appointed the Earl of
Easton to succeed the Duke of Manchester as Grand
Master of the Province of Northamptonshire and
Huntingdonshire his lordship was installed on Monday
at a Masonic ceremony marked by exceptional 6clat.
There was a large attendance at the Grand Lodge,
and the ceremony of installation was performed by the
R.W. 13 to. General John Studholme Brownrigg, 0.13.,
Provincial Grand Master of Surrey. He was assisted
by the Lord Mayor of London, who is the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Bouverie at Delapre.

A stesm tramway, connecting the North-Eastern
Rail way system with the fishing village of Flamborough,
is about to be constructed by a private company, of
which the Earl of Londesborough is one of the prin-
cipal promoters. Owing to the difficulties in the way
of rapid transit the fishing industry has greatly
diminished of late years, and it is anticipated that
when the tramway is completed the villaze will become
the chief port on the East Coast for landing herrings,
it being the most contiguous to the fishing grounds.
At the Penkridge Petty Sessions, on Monday, a
butcher, named George Arch, was committed for trial
for stealing a flock of 15 sheep, the property of a
farmer named Arblaster. The prisoner stole the sheep
out of a field near Shareshill, and disposed of them
at Welverbampton Market, through an auctioneer, for
26, which he received in hard cash. The real owner
afterwards claimed the sheep, and the purchaser gave
notice to the bank not to honour the cheque he had
given the auctioneer in payment.
The Channel Fleet, which has been in the Downs
since Saturday, weighed anchor and proceeded west-
ward on Monday afternoon, a despatch having reached
Admiral Hewett in the course of the morning from the
Admiralty. The weather being fine, a large number of
visitors put off in boats in the early part of the morn-
ing to inspect the vessels. The vessels, on weighing
anchor at four o'clock, were headed by the Minotaur
and Agincourt. Owing to a thick haze settling over
the Oteamel, the vessels were soon lost sight of.
Mr. Edward Edwards, a large woollen manufacturer,
of Upper Mill, Glyn, Denbighshire, met with a shock-
ing death on Monday at Ohirk Railway Station. He
was enlarging and irop-oving his mill, and went to
Chirk insthe morning to look after some machinery
which he expected by train. It is supposed he
attempted to cross the line between some trucks that
were being shunted, when he was caught between the
buffers, dragged for some distance, and killed.
A verdict of "Wilful murder" was returned by a
coroner's jury at Bradford on Monday against Charlotte
Come, aged 17, who on Thursday attempted, with a
female companion, to drown herself. Corne, when
rescued, said that a man had thrown them both into
the water, but letters pinned to the :dress of Simpson,
the other girl, who was drowned, proved that the act
was premeditated. Both girls were servants out of
employment belonging to Graveley, Hunts.
At a special meeting of the Warwick Town Council
on Monday night, Mr. Brabazon Campbell, solicitor,
of Warwick, was, by a majority of one vote, elected
town clerk of the borough, in succession to Mr. George
0. Greenway, who tendered his resignation in con.
sequence of the failure of Messrs. Greenway, Smith,
ar.d Greenway, bankers, in which firm he is a partner.
The salary is £325 per annum. Mr. Campbell was the
partner ot the former town clerk.
Edward Pilkington, gun finisher, was committed to
the Assizes at Birmingham on Monday, charged with
burglary. EaTly the other morning, the prisoner, with
two other men, gained access to the Birmingham
Brewery Company's premises by carefully extracting
a r umber of bricks from the cellar wall. They helped
themselves to the wines and spirits, and ultimately
left the premises with two boxes of spirits and a gallon
of bitter beer.