The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-11-26 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

The projected visit of the Shah of Persia to Europe
next year has been postponed till 1889.
Princess Christian has forwarded a second present of
books to the Bethnal-green Free Library. '
Mr. Plunket's.,,healkh hat so improve that-on Sunday
he was enabled to take a short carriage drive;
Mr. Gladstone has been 'Suffering from a slight cold,
and did not leave his house throughout Sunday.
f According_
to present arrangements Parliament is
not (says the ondena ,fillisho ") to be convened until
the third wee in Febrnaty. :
When Sir R. Thompson vacates his post as British,
Minister in Persia, it is rumoured that he will be suc-
ceeded at Teheran by Sir Henry Wolff.
Terrific gales are teported from the Western Lakes
Jf kmericis. IKiiiielrinsliiVe been lost, but there have
been few shipping disasters.
The Prince ot Wales presided on Saturday at a meet-
ing of the Council of his Royal Highness, held at the
w-of Cornwall.

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Sir Charles Warren contradicts the statement that
the result of the case of Messrs. Bennett, Burleigh,
Knight, and Winkes was due to police intervention.
At the West Bromwich Police.court on Saturday,
William Ensor, a brewer's traveller, was sentenced to
three months' hard labour for embezzling £4 is.
Sir R. Palmer, Bart, has offered 4s. in the pound
reduction, but the tenants refuse—till they recoive a
more substantial concession.

The Guatemalan Government has formally recog-
nised the debt due to the English bondholders,
whose agent in the Republic has secured a settle-
ment.

The Rev. Herbert Ben, minister of the John Knox
parish church, Aberdeen, threw himself in front of the
3.35 express train while passing Kitty-Brewster from
Aberdeen on Monday afternoon and was cut to pieces.
He went to Aberdeen from Perthshire.
About a quarter-past eieven o'clock on Monday
morning a painful scene was witnessed at King's-cross
(Metropolitan) Station. The platform was crowded,
and a well-dressed man, about forty years of age, who
had previously been walking up and down, threw him.
self in front of an approaching train. He was knocked
down, and several of the carriages passed over him.
When extricated he was conveyed to the Royal F,tee
Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, where life was found to be
extinct. In his pocket were some cards bearing the
name "U.. L. Baker, George-street. Luton."
The Canterbury city magistrates were on Monday
occupied in the investigation of the circumstances of
the recent rioting by juveniles at the Ragged School,
two of the youths, named Thomas Manooch, 15, and
Henry Drew, 13, being charged with assaulting Mr.
Walter Peirce, the superintendent of the school. The
defendants were fined Bs., including costs, in default
seven days' hard labour.
On Monday the Chatham stipendiary magistrate
(Mr. Athawes) sentenced Thomas Sullivan' a labourer,
of the Brook, to six months' hard labour for a brutal
assault on his wife by stabbing her in the arm with a
knife, knocking her on the head with a washing-tub,
and kicking her whilst she was upon the ground.
Charles Crawford, aged 34, died at the Walsall
Cottage Hospital on Monday night from the effects of
injuries sustained during a gunpowder plot celebration
on the sth inst. Be was shooting over a cannon when
It exploded, severely injuring his head and fa._ e.
James Parrott, 40, boatman, in the employ of Mr.
George Cooper, Peel-street, Birmingham, fell into the
canal at Greel-green, West Bromwich, during the
dense fog on Monday morning, and was drowned.
The names of Mr. Alderman Bantock, agent for the
Great Western Railway carrying department in Wol-
verhampton, and of Mr. Thomas Ironmonger, president
of the Chamber of Commerce, have just been placed
on the Commission of the Peace for the borough of
Wolverhampton.
The road to Latrigg, in the Lake. District, having
again been barricaded by Mr. Spedding, representatives
of the. Keswick Footpaths Society were sent on
Monday morning to reopen the road. The gates were
forced and other obstructions cleared, notwithstanding
the protest of one of Mr. Spedding'a servants, and the
party proceeded to the summit. Writs from the High
Court of Justice have been served on eight persons
in connection with the proceedings of the 31st
October, Mr. Spedding seeking to restrain them from
trespassing.
At a large representative meeting of chainmakers,
on Monday, at Cradley Heath, it was stated that one
employer had been charging at the rate of 2s. a week
for the loan of 4s. There were general complaints as to
trucking again becoming prevalent, and it was decided
to offer a large reward for the detection of offenders.
It was unanimously resolved to continue the strike
at the factories where the employers refused increased
prices.
Counsel for Dr; Cross, who stands committed for
trial at Cork Assizes for the murder of his wife by
poisoning her with arsenic, applied to the Queen's
Bench Division, Dublin, on Monday, for a conditional
order to change the venue of trial to whatever other
assize district the Court might approve, on the ground
that a fair trial could not be obtained in Cork. A
conditional order was granted, and will be argued
within a week.
At Glasgow Western Police•court on Monday, Jane
Watson, aged 25 years, pleaded' guilty to a charge of
stealing £2 from the collection plate of Adelaide-place
Baptist Church. Complaints were made of theft from
the church, and detectives, arrayed as elders, watched
on Sunday, and state that they saw her steal two El
notes just deposited by a worshipper. She attended
the church for years, and is respectably connected.
Sentence was deferred.
The Board of Trade have awarded a piece of plate to
Captain William James Boggs, of the steamship
Indiana, of Philadelphia, in recognition of his kindness
and humanity to the shipwrecked crew of the British
barque Lammergeir, of Belfast, whom he rescued at sea,
and conveyed to Philadelphia, declining to accept aub-
aistence money for their maintenance on board his
vessel. The Board have also awaraea a gold ohipwrock
medal to Henry y. Kauffmann, chief Mate, and silver
medals and a sum of £2 each to Joseph Wilding, Peter
Peterson, and John Anthony, Seamen of the Indiana,
who manned one of the two boats which effected the
rescue, the other boat belonging to the shipwrecked
vessel.
The revenue received from April 1 to the 19th inst.
bmounti to £49,766,250, or £361,369 less than the
250,1'z 7,619 received in the corresponding period ending
November 20, 1886. The expenditure up to the 19th
inst. was £52396,698, being £2,557,105 less than the
expenditure for the similar period of 1886. The balances
on the 19th inst amounted to 22,305,659, and on
November 1886, to £1,663,191.
Dauehill Church, Fletching, Sussex, caught fire on
Monday fi om overheating of a stove, and before the
Uck field and Sheffield Park Fire Brigade arrived the
flames had obtained such a strong hold of the edifice
that their efforts to extinguish the fire were not
successfuluntil the roof and tower fell in.

As some misapprehension • appears still to exist
respecting the, dates • Axed * connection with the
allotment of space and the opening of the Melbourne
Centennial Exhibition, we are requested by the Agent=
General tor Victoria to state that, as at present
arranged,
.the opening ceremony will take place on
tbe Ist of August, 1888, and that applications for
space will be received up to the 31st of-December
next at the offices of the London Commission.
In London last week 2459 births and 1638, deaths
were registered. The death-rate was 20 3. There were
41 deaths from scarlet fever, and 54 from whooping
cough, but none from small•pox.
A gale prevailed on the Durham coast on Tuesday
morning, during which 50 Sunderland fishermen
narrowly escaped drowning. At an early hour 12
cobles left for the fishing grounds, and when the gale
came on there was the greatest anxiety on shore for
the safety of their crews. At length four of the boats
managed to gain the harbour through a heavy sea,
which threatened to swamp them every moment. A
steamer and the lifeboat proceeded to the assistance of
the others and brought their crews safely to shore. A
large quantity of fishing gear was lost.
On Tuesday the shoe riveters and finishers in over 200
factories in Northampton commenced a strike, owing
to the threat of the manufacturers of a general lock-
out. .
- A joint meeting of the committees having charge of
the
.Police Convalescent Fund and the Charing-cross
Police Testimonial was held In Leaden 'on Tuesday,
under the presidency of the Dike Of Noifolk. Res°.
Intions were unanimously adopted in : favour of amalga.
.
mating the two funds and applying the money to the
-formation of a Metropolitan; and City Police Convales.
cent Fund. • '-, .• •• .
- At the. Central:Crimin' al 'Court on Tuesday, Mr. A.
steam en absolute
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B. Cochrane, stockbroker; surrendered to take his trial
for perjury. The charge arose out of some Stock
- Exchange. transactions. - There. was no corroboration
of the evidence on the part of the prosecution, and the
defendant was acquitted.
' Daniel Francis Doherty, an American stockbrokecis
' under remand, charged with attempting to murder
-George" Michael Graham, another American, at their
"lodgings, in Woburn-place. Bloomsbury, by shooting at
' him *MI a revolver on Monday night. His stated
that the two quarrelled over -money matters; and thlt -
;;Dqherty deliberately shot at graham as he was seated
on a chaii. ' The Worded 'men itiVrieat'tlle* ;Univac=
'sit,i,',HoSPital, wlier sillangeOtikbperatiositaabadslo
be petformed. ' ' " 4=l' ..' ' . -' -' 4 444, '. .1 1%,. ~
' 'The Press AssoelatiOn is inforiiitie that Sir H.
Drummond Wolff will, early in - the • ensuing year,
been atßo4, top take OA 'system
assume the duties- of her • Majesty's Minister to the.
Shah•ef,Persicat_Teheten. 2.101. V, Wolff. who litis
rapidly regaining stieriitli..4 is reported to be
Earl, ydnel, has withdraw si- frOfif Ms' Ifilidetone ,
Farmer r Chib'' and Vhitinbet of Agriculture' in con 4: •
sequence of the tairotir °her& by • that body to the
Protectionist moveramtowe nuking slush headway in
Kent and Sussex. -..— ... -.• , •• • - '''
Canon-17E6k 13onOiciiliiiiiii;., Priest, of Olaremorrisi.
a distingeished Irish sohOlari died on -Tuesday at
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next morning the little girl was fouhd lyingigainst the -
door unconscious, anethe boy was in bed quite dead.
Iteetorativeshaidot bpenadministered`the girl revived.
After hearing'.nledial evidence, the jurr found that
deceased was "suffOcated by carbonic acid gait. •
A daring robbery of a registered letter bag from "one
of the Brighton mail =Hearts-is engaging the attention of
7 the -BoOt
~ litsairat .authorities 1 and the Post-office -
dettgctives.,'ltliunderatOod.that: the. bag was stolen
from the top of a cart whilst a insi was proceeding
his round. The bag has aintieorreen 4oliw4t but it,
contents, which are believed to be valuable, had been
abstracted. The authorities are reticent with regard
to the robbery, but it is thought the detectives have a
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Seven waggons of a goods train from Sparding Vale
to Fleetwood ran off the metals at Blackburn on Satur •
day ,eight, through one of the drawbars breaking, and
they were completely smashed; but there was no per-
sonal injury.
The death is announced, in his 77th year, of Mr.
David Balfour, of Balfour Castle, the largest landed
proprietor in the Orkneys. He died at Edinburgh, on
his way to London, where he has spent the winter for
several years T.ast.
General Boulanger is still leading a very quiet and
unobtrusive life in his hotel in Paris, although his
name is heard often enough on the boulevards, and
highly coloured presentments of his well-known
features continue to decorate shops and kiosques.
The Rev. H. G. Ryle, M.A., Fellow of Kirg's
College, has been elected Hulsean Professor of Divinity
at Cambridge. He is a son of the Bishop of Liverpool,
and has had a most distinguished career as a Theo.
logical scholar at Cambridge.
Mr. Wilfrid Blunt has addressed a letter to one of
his supporters at Deptford denying that there is any
truth in a report—circulated, apparently, for political
purposes—that evictions have taken place on a small.
eetate held in trust for Lady Anne Blunt, near
Birmingham.
A trustworthy spy reports that Wadi-el-Injumi
recently ordered the advance of the whole Dervish
force against Abkeh, ten miles south of Wady Haifa,
but gave orders to stop the forward movement on
hearing that reinforcements were being despatched to
that place.
M. de Wangen, who was wounded so severely by the
German soldier Kaufmann at Raen l'Etape, is pro-
gressing favourably towards recovery. He has at last
been removed to Nancy, but he suffered so much from
the effects of the journey that a specialist had to be
called in.
A West Bromwich coal haulier and provision dealer,
named Edward Smith attempted to cross the line at
Spon.lane Station on Saturday, as shunting operations
were proceeding. Before he could get clear of the line
he was caught between the buffers of two waggons
and killed.
General Tremenheere, chairman of the Brentford
julltioes, on Saturday presented the vellum testimonial
of the Royal Humane Society to Mr. Richard Kent
Jones, for rescuing a woman from drowning in the
Thames, near Isleworth, on July 31.
A fire broke out early on Sunday morning at Danl.
ington, Messrs. Todd Bros., drapery establishment
being burnt down, and an adjoining building greatly
damaged. The York City and County Bank was for
some time in danger, but escaped. Tho damage is
estimated at £6OOO.
The Guernsey brigantine, Prince Eugene, Roden
master, belonging to Messrs. Manuelle, of London,
which left Guernsey granite laden for London, has
foundered off the island of Alderney, having sprung a
leak. The captain and crew took to the boat and
landed at Alderney.
After twelve days' interruption, the Vienna Opera
was reopened on Sunday night. The arbiters declare
that the bursting of the boilers, which threw the whole
of the electric lighting installation out of working
order.was attritorable to the fact that the water hitherto
supplied was impure.
The Rev. Charles Spurgeon on Sunday morning read
a letter from his father, who is at present upon the
Continent, addressed to the congregation at the
Metropolitan Tabernacle, in which it was stated that
his "release from public service was greatly needed,
for he had felt great prostration since last he had
written."
A private of the King's Own (Scottish Borderers) ie
ander arrest at Aldershot, on a charge of highway
robbery. It is stated that meeting a gentleman on a
road near Ash, Surrey, he demanded his money. The
•
gentleman had to hand his watch to the man, who was
subsequently captured by a sergeant of the mounted
military police.
Some: excitement has been caused at Bridport by
reason of several recent burglaries in the neighbour.
hood. Two young bakers, named Brown and Davey,
both respectably connected, were on Saturday corn-
mitted for trial for burglarionsly entering provisicn
stores and abstracting a large sum of money from a
code.

The newly elected Mayor of Wolverhampton,
Councillor Jones, who is also deacon of a local Con-
gregational church, was on Sunday accompanied to his
own place of worship by his colleagues in council and
Corporation officials. The preacher was the Rev.
Charles A. Berry, who has been selected to succeed the
late Henry Ward Beecher.
At Guernsey, on Saturday, Charles Frederick Wake-,
barn, late under-boots at Gardner'a Royal Hotel, was
sentenced to four months' imprisonment, every alter-
nate day at hard labour, and the remainder In solitary
confinement on bread and water, for having stolen a
cash-box belonging to the head waiter of the hotel, con-
taining about £l4O.
Three young men, named Charley, Markland, and
Cartmell, went to slide oil a frozen pond at Pen.
wortham, near Preston, on Sunday afternoon. They
had not been there long when they discovered that the
ice was unsafe. They were leaving in a group, but
when near the side the ice gave way. Cartmell saved
himself aftei: a severe struggle, but Charley and Mark.
land were both drowned.

At a-meeting of the Northumberland Miners' Ass°.
elation, on Saturday, it was resolved to rescind the
late decision of the county, by which the payment of
the salaries of Messrs. Burt and Fenwick would have
been stopped. On the same occasion it was resolved,
by a majority of three to one, to abolish the present
sliding scale at the end of the year.
Lord Stair, Chancellor of Glasgow University, has
given his casting vote for the Lord Rectorship in favour
of the Earl of Lytton, our new ambassador to France,
who did not secure as high an aggregate at the polliog
as Lord Rosebery. Each of the candidates hal a
majority in two out of the four constituent naticnalites,
however, which left it to the will of the Chancellor to
determine the appointment.
Intelligence horn Cabul states that the Ameer has
held a grand Durbar, at which the principal Sirdars
from all parts of the country were present. The Sirdars
took publicly on the Koran an oath of friendship to
the Ameer. Further fighting between the Ameer'e
troops and the insurgents is reported to have occurred
at Abistsda on the 15th inst., the losses being GO killed
and wounded.

The German iron screw steamer Sorrento, about
1800 tons register, from New York to Hanbury, where
she belonged, with a general cargo,Pgrounded during a
dense fog on Saturday morning near Lydd Coastguard
station. She had GI passengers -on board, in addition
to 29 crew, and considerable excitement prevailed, but
Captain Muller maintained admirable discipline.
Shortly after noon the vessel floated, and proceeded on
her voyage.
On Sunday a Deegan& fishing boat landed at
Dartmouth Captain Barron and the crew of five men
belonging to the Fowey Digger Louie, which was run
down twelve miles south-east of the Eddystone at
midnight on Friday by the German brigantine
Frederick Hietmoller, The wind was light at the
time of the collision, and the lugger, it is alleged, bad
no lights. The men clambered over, the bows of the
brigantine, which transferred them to the Beesands'
boat.
At the Liverpool Assizes, John More, fifty, a chemist,
having shops at Liverpool sad Bootle, were oharged
on seven indictments under the Criminal Law Amend-
ment Act with indecent assaults upon children, whom
he decoyed into his shops. The eldest girl was fifteen.
Only one case was proceeded with, and the prisoner
was found guilty of attempt. Mr. Justice Day said
that if the prisoner had been convicted of the full
offence he would have sentenced him to penal servi-
tude for life. He must undergo two years' imprison.
ment with bard labonr.—At the same assizes, two
women of a disreputable appearance, one called Graham
and the other Reilly, were charged under the Criminal
Law Amendment Act with procuring a girl named
Mary Milligan, aged fourteen. The girl, who is in a
situation, was met by Reilly, who beguiled her to a dis.
reputable house kept by Graham, where she stayed for
some days, and was visited by men. Graham was Ben.
tended to six weeks' and Reilly to twenty-ono days'
imprisonment with hard labour.