The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-09-03 00:00:00

Ell TOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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Two deaths from drowning whilst bathing are
reported from Woolhampton, in Berkshire. It appears
that two youths named George Nash and Albert Allen,
who were spending their holidays at Woolhampton,
went to bathe in the River Kenret, near the Row.
barge public-house, when they got out of their depth
and the stream took them off their legs. Neither of
them could swim, and despite the efforts made to
rescue them, they were drowned. Nash's father
resides in Barrett-street, Manchester-square, London,
Allen is the son of a widow living at the same address.
About six o'clock on Saturday evening a severe
thunderstorm passed over Buxton. At Dove Holes, a
h-eise was demolished by lightning, and six persona
were struck by the electric fluid, One William Boothby,
aeed 14, was instantly killed. The others were stunned,
and lie in a precarious condition.
A retired soldier named Frank Kinnerton, aced 50,
was found dead, with his throat cut, in Elswick-street,
Newcastle, on Saturday morning, A razor lay by his
side. It was next discovered that the landlady, Mrs.
Redhead, was lying upstairs in bed in an unconscious
state, from either having taken or had administered to
her poison. She died soon after being found, without
making any statement.
Mr. Devitt addressed a meeting at Bray, Clounfy
Wicklow, on Sunday, and said the fault of the National
League had been timidity. It had protected landlords,
and had received the reward of being proclaimed a
danger ms association. He urged the people to stand
firm, and declared his belief that thousands of Irish-
men would rally to the National League, even if that
course should lead to three or six months' im-
prisonment.

A special meeting of the managers of the Metro.
politan As !urns Board was held on Saturday, for the
of taking steps to provide additional accommo-
dation to meet the increase in the number of scarlet
fever cases. The Ambulance Committee recommended
the opening of the Northern Hospital, and a resolution
to that effect was moved, but an amendment was
carried empowering the committee, if necessary, to
open the Stockwell Hospital.
At West Bromwich Police.court,on Saturday, Henry
Cooper, of Smethwick, and Joshua Cosnett, of lir.-
mingbam, were charged, as the principals, with being
concerned in a prize fight at Handsworth on the 12th
inst., and 10 others were charged with aiding and
abetting the offence. The evidence showed that
cooper and Cosnett were fighting in a roped ring,
surrounded by a crowd. All the defendants were
ordered to enter into recognisances of £2O and one
surety of the same amount for six months.
A Lerwick telegram, dated Saturday, states the
fishing on the East Coast is breaking up. The total
catch of herrings off the coast from Northumberland
to Lerwick was 536,650 crane, against 645.150 last
year. Heavy fogs prevented fishing this week, and
stronger crews have left for the West Coast. 'fish
carers are holding out for higher rates.
A meeting of Norfolk farmers was held at Norw7ch
on Saturday, at which a series of resolutions were
Tr.geed almost unanimously affirming their belief that
the disaster and uin which have come upon the agri-
culture of the country were mainly owing to the tins
restricted foreign competition, and that the distress
in manufacturing districts is owing to the ruinous con-
dition of the agricultural classes. A centtal branch of
the Nitional Association for the preservation of sgri-
culture and other industries was then forme.3.

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The Board of Trade inquiry into the stranding of the
steamer Acacia off Macroe Point, near Sydney Island,
Cape Breton, oa. J one 9, was concluded at Suaderland
on Saturday. The court held that Captain John Dixon
had gone too near Ike shore, and had not used the lead
to feel his way, and suspended his eertificate for six
months. The vessel belongs to Sunderland.
The new French coinage is being carefully designed,
in hopes that Parliament will sanction the alteration
directly the Chambers reassemble; Nickel will defi-
nitely replace bronze, and every coin will show the
amount of its value in large distinct figures on either
side The obverse will show the effigy of the Republic,
with the date, and on the reverse will be the national
motto, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity."
A certain number of German troops, especially
aesongst those stationed in the fortresses, are now
making trial of velocipedes for orderly service. The
experiment has so far proved very successful.
Dr. S. P. Neklevitch has just died at Loeki, in the
Novogrudsky District, Russia, in his 109th sear.
His death occurred quite suddenly, as about a quarter
of an hour earlier he wrote a prescription for one of
his patients.
It is now quite certain, the "Academy "says, that
Baron Nordenekjold will, owing to the work he has at
present in hand, be unable to undertake any explora.
tion for the next two years.
The Twentieth Congress of authors and scholars
interested in the preservation of the Dutch language
and literature, will be held at Amsterdam ftom the
15th to the 17th of September.
Next May there will be an exhibition of the work of
Berlin apprentices in all the prieeipal industries, and
of the pupils of the various technical and trade schools
of Berlin.
Cremation has so grown in favour in Berlin that a
c-ernai °dam is to be builein the principal cemetery,
Hitherto Berliners desiring to cremate their dead have
been obliged to go to Goths.
On Saturday afternoon a London express train
running slung the Midland Railwaysthroueh Wath on-
Deerne came into collision with a number of coal
wagons. Several of the passengers are stated to have
been badly shaken. The train was the 12 20 train from
Sr. Panrras to the north, known as the midday Scotch
express' and it had a marvellona escape.
The death of the Rev. James Hildyard, of Ingoldsby
Rectory, Grantham, took place on Saturday, somewhat
ruddenly. The deceased was a well-known writer,
and had held the same living since 1846. Christ
College, Cambridge, is the patron of the living, which
is cf £6:50 gross value. The rev, gentleman had been
ailing for some time, and he had been confined to his
house, but rfea'h came unexpectedly.
Mr. O'KellY, Secretary of the Ballyran League,
publbloes a contradiction of Mr. Balfour's statement
that a Denis Murphy, who hired out a mowing machine,
was arraigeed before the League for mowing a bay,
cotted meadow. He says this statement Is absolutely
falsa. Mr. Kenealey, Secretary of the Kilkepny
branch, also says there is not a particle of truth in Mr.
Bailout's statement as to Patrick Ryan and Thomas
By an.
A heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by a downpour.
of rain, vhited Armagh on Saturday. The atmosphere
bad been previously very oppressive-
A collier named James Bibby., of Barney, was killed
on Saturday night during a quarrel at Wigan. Thloby
and two other colliers, named William and Joseph
Tinsdale had been drinking t -gather, and whilst at tile
house of Willhm Tinsdale, whose mother•in.law was
Bibbs's paramour, some words passel, and shortly
afterwards Bibby was found dead on the floor. Ths
brothern Tinsdale have been appreheaded.

A 3IAN who gas suspected of having stolen a horse,
being arrested, said: I should like to know what I am
taken for.—' take you for a horse, said the officer.
—Very well, then act like one, said the man, as he
kicked the policeman over and ran off.
NOT ron Jcansee.—Johnny, here you are tet the
breakfast-tabl and your face is unwashed, said hie
mother.—l know it, ma. I saw the animalcule+
tt.rou4b pa's microscope in the water last night, and
I ale' c vine to have those things crawling over my
freeaui thou fenny little legs."
Mr. W. O'Brien, M.P., presided at a meeting of the
National League held in Dublin on Tuesday, when Mr.
T. M. Harriegton submitted lists of gentlemen in
England and Scotland who wish to become members.
During last week there was not one death from
ensallpox in London, nor (with the exception of Shef-
field, waere there were 5 deaths) in any of the great
provincial towns. The births in London were 2521,
and the deaths 1490. The death-rate, which had been
23.3 and 21.2 per 1000 in the twa preceding weeks,
further declined last week ,to 18 5. There were 36
deaths from scarlet fever.
The receipts into the Exchequer up to last Saturday
were £31,603,471, against £31,73,290 in the corre-
sponding period of last year. The expenditure was
£34,442,436, against £35,471 997. The Treasury
balances were L 2,798,142, against £2,169A21 at the
• corresponding date of 1886.
The new twin-screw torpedo gun vessel, Grasshopper,
was launched on Tuesday, at Sheerness. The christen-
ing was performed by a daughter of Sir Robert H. M.
Molyneux, Superintendent of the Dockyard. The
Grasshopper is sister ship to the Rattlesnake, which
war attached to Admiral Hewett's squadron during the
late naval macoeuvres for scouting purposes. She will
be fitted with machinery of 3000 horse power, which is
estimated to propel her in a rough sea at 19 knots per
hour. The armament of the Grasshopper . will consist
of one 4 inch steel breechloading gun and six 3-pounder
quick-firing guns. She is also fitted with three torpedo
tubes for discharging 14-inch Whitehead torpedoes.
The total cost of the vessel is estimated at f:35,963.
Two more vessels of the Grasshopper type—the Spider
and the Sandfly—will be launched in a few weeks.
George Bartlett, jeweller (address refused), was
charged on remand, at the Richmond Policescourt, on
Tuesday. with breaking and entering St. John's Church,
and stealing the contents of alms boxes, and committed
for trial. A large number of burglar's tools, together
with various articles telieved to be stolen were found
in his posaassion when captured in the above °birch
early on Wednesday morning last. The latter in-
cluded a stamp marked Emmanuel Church, Gunners-
bury, and this now enabled the police to prefer a
second charge against Bartlett. Evidence was given to
the effect that Emmanuel Church was brokers into a
few nights ago, and among the articles stolen, in
addition to the stamp, were an altar napkin, a walking
stick, and a bunch of keys, all of which were found
upon the prisoner. He was committed for trial upon
this second charge also.
During the progress of the Tenby Regatta in Car-
marthen Bay, on Tuesday, in the open sailing boat
contest, a collision occurred between the Joseph and
Mary, belonging to Mr. Joseph Davies, of Tenby, and
Mr. Thomas Root's Mistletoe, also of Tenby. The
Mistletoe foundered almost instantly, and the crew,
consisting of Joseph Howell and John Brooking, boat-
men, and Mr. J. W. Vachell, solicitor, of Cardiff, were
rescued in an exhausted condition by the Joseph
and Mary. It was blowing a gale from the west.
south-west at the time of the accident, which occurred
as the vessels were rounding the mark-boat of the
Wool House Beacon, and considerable excitement pre-
vailed on the Castle-hill, which was crowded with
visitors.
A serious carriage accident is reported from Brid-
port. A party of six persons were returning from tho
neighbouring village of Burton Bradstock, where they
had been paying a wedding visit, when in turning a
corner their vehicle overturned. Four of the six were
rendered insensible, being severely injured in the face.
Mrs. Long, a visitor from London' was internally in-
jured, and there is some doubt of her recovery.
Should this apprehension prove unfounded, it is feared
she will lose the sight of one eye. Mrs. Ackerman a
ledy FO years old, was also so seriously hurt as to render
her recovery doubtful.
At Wednesbury on Tuesday the magistrate com-
mitted for trial a young man named Samuel Harper,.
for attempting to wreck trains on the main line of the
Great Western Railway between Birmingham and
Wolverhamptcn. It was shown that in the presence f
several boys, the prisoner placed a piece cf wood on
one set of mile, and two bricks on the down line. The
latter were discovered just prior to the arrival of an
express passenger train. A goods train passed over the
wood, which caused the engine to :lump.
The steam ship Scotland, from Montreal for London,
with cattle and a general cargo, arrived in the Victoria
Docks on Tuesday evening.. Her maater reports having
met with bad weather during the whole of the voyage,
having on one occasion had to lay before a gale of wind
for 36 hours. Ninety head of cattle and a large
number of sheep died during the passage from the
violence of the sea or from suffoeation, caused by the
'retches being battened down to keep the water out of
the 'tween decks, where they were stowed.

A Cabinet Council was held on Tuesday at the
Foreign Office. The Ministers present were: The
Marquis of Salisbury, the Right Hon. W. H. Smith, the
Lord Chancellor, Earl Cadogan, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Right lion. H. Matthews, Sir H.
Holland, the Right Hon. E. Stanhope, Viscount Cross,
Lord George Hamilton, Lova John Manners, Lord
Stanley of Preston, the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, and
the Right Hon 0. T Ritchie.
The destruction of British trade in Cochin China by
the action of the French authorities at Saigon has
caused great inconvenience and loss in the Straits
Settlements. A British merchant at Singapore has
telegraphed home countermanding a largo order for
manufactured goods.
It is believed that Mr. Chamberlain's appointment
as principal Fisheries Commissioner will necessitate his
departure for America soon after the close of the see.
sion. In this case his visit to Ulster would have to be
abandoned. Mr. Chamberlain returned to town on
Thursday.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will visit Man.
cheater in November and not in September, as has been
stated. He is expected to arrive in that city on the
morning oi November 8. In the evening he will address
a Unionist meeting at the Free Tr -de Hall. On the
following day he will be entertained at the Conserva-
tive Club; and on November 10th he will take part in
a Unionist meeting at the Skating Rink, Ashton-under-
Lyme, returning to London the same evening. During
his stay in Manchester Mr. Goscheu will be the guest
of Mr Henry Samson.
A supplementary estimate of £37,575 in respect of
the Irish Land Commission was issued on Tuesday.
Tho amount includes £23,900 for salaries of Assistant.
Commissioners, clerks, &c., for the five months ending
March 31st, 1888, as provided under the Irish Laud
Law Act recently passed.
Mr. J. J. Cartwright has been appointed secretary
of the Public Record Office, in the place of Mr. John
Edwards, resigned.
The mobilisation operations of the 17th French
Airily Corps commenced on Wednesday.
The annual British Pharmaceutical Conference was
begun on lnesdav in Manchester.

The ship jlritish Princes from Akyah arrived at
Queenstown on Saturday evening and reports that in
the momi, c, when off the Daunts Rock lightship a
seaman fell from the foreyard on to the deck and
sustained injuries of A serious nature. On the arrival
of the ve,sel in port the 'unwed seaman was conveyed
to the hospital. The Tiritih Princess reports when off
the Western Islands she passed a barque lying on her
beam ends.

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The wary to property in the Cheshire salt district
has of late become so enormous that a movement for
ob aining compensation from the brine pumpers has
been resuscitated. A deputation of p,operty owners bad
an interview with Mr. Brunner, M.l" , on Saturday,
when he promised that he would endeavour to get a
Royal Ookamission appointed to enquire into the matter.
Instructions were received at Sheerness Dockyard on
Saturday, directing another disaharge of boiler makers
from that establishment.
Orders have been received at Sheerness directing her
Majesty's ship Redwing (four guns) to sail on Aug. 30,
for Lowestoft for fishing protection duty in the North
Sea. The Redwing was removed from the steam basin
on Saturday upon the completion of a thorough over-
haul and repair of her hull and machinery.
Tha strike amongst the labourers at the terminus,
Glasgow Harbour, has been settled, the stevedores
allowing the men to resume work at the old wages-
7d. per hour. The employers wished the labourers to
work for ed. per hour, but they refused.
The Volga is to be connected with the Don this year
by a ship canal, undertaken by French engineers. This
will give a great impetus to the expanding commerce
of the Donetz basin and RostofT.
At Oroydon. on Saturday morning, George Thorny.
son was committed for trial charged with wilfully
setting fire to two stacks on Mr. Martin's farm, at
Weed Mansterne, which resulted in damage to the
extent of £155. The defendant was discharged from
Mr. Martin's service, and next day, as alleged, be set
fire to the stacks and sat in a hedge watching the fire
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Mr. James Fisher, a member of the well-known firm
of Messrs. Theft., Page, and Fisher, solicitors, Birs
mingham shot himself in his office the other evening.
He was found lying on his office floor with a bullet
wound in his right temple, and a revolver lying
his hand. Medical assistance was procured, dhenweaars
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Her Royal Highness travelled, via Utrecht, to Neuwied,
to pay a visit to the Princess of Wied, her aunt.
It is ent.ounced from Hamburg that a severe outbreak
of "trichinosis" has just occurred. In one house
alone nine persons were suffering from the disease.
The authorities seized a number of living hogs, Rs well
as a quantity of pork, believed to be infected with the
dangerous parasite. The outbreak is due to the
derman habit of eating uncooked ham, and often fresh
pork, in a half-raw state, while the trichinzo are all
killed if the meat be thoroughly ccoked.
A serious accident occurred to two Nottingham
firemen on Sunday morning A fire had broken out
on the premises of Draper and Co., printers, Robin
Hood-5 ard, about seven o'clock. As the place was
gutted, the brigade devoted attention to eavine adjoin-
ing property: but a one-storey .buildimr caught alight
and the roof suddenly fell in, burying two firemen
named Wright and Willis. Willis escaped unhurt, but
Wright had to be dug out. He was so severely injured
that he was removed time, where he is now do:rig as
well as could be expected. The clamage to printieg
mrobixtry is coasiderable.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 3, 1887.

--At Kiel the International Astronomical Congreee
was opened on Monday, delegates attending from
Austria, France, Sweden and Norway, and the 'United
States
In Afghanistan telegrams from Simla and Bombay
report the situation to be extremely unsettled, although
fOMe of the Ghilzais have returned home and refuse to
fight against the Ameer any longer.
Another duel has been fought in France, this time
between two deputies, one being wounded in the
hand.
Mr. Raikes on Monday received a petition signed by
1900 London postmen, and presented on their behalf
by Mr. Lawson, M P., asking for an increase of pay, a
reduction in the hours of labour, and other chaniieg.
The Postmaster-General promised that the subject
should receive his immediate attention.
Over 30,000 Foresters and their friends congregated
at the Crystal Palace on Monday to celebrate the 32nd
annual fete in aid of the benevolent and as)lum funds
belengiug to the order.
On Monday the 15th annual show of donkeys and
ponies belonging to London costermongers was held at
the People's Palace, and proved the most successful on
record. Nearly all th- animals were in excellent cons
dition, and will be entitled to the certificates which are
given instead of prizes.
Orders were received at Portsmouth on Monday for
the discharge of 450 dockyard workmen.
!' Early on Monday morning a destructive fire occurred
on the premises of the. General Steam Navigation
Company, at St. Katharine's Wharf, on the Thames.
Three warehouses and their contents were severely
damaged.
George Still, a builder, of South Norwood, was sum-
moned before the Highgate magistrates on Monday. for -
not complying with a previous order for the payment
of arrears of wages due to four workmen. The
deft- -Aaet did not now appear, at.d the bench said he
wou:u pt committed to prison for six weeks on each of
the four summonses.
The body of a young man was found on South Hay-
hng beach on Monday morning. All the flesh on his
face bad been eaten awls, , and the body appeared to
have been in the water for some weeks. The remains
are those of Mr. H. Gtiffiths, 25 a joiner, of 12, Wa:-
grave-terrace, Earl's court London, who left Fresh
Wharf on Sunday morning, the 31st of July, for
Southampton, on board the Lady Olive, belonging to
the British and Irish Steam Packet Company. A large
number of excursionists were on board, and on the
Monday morning, at about two p.m. between Durge-
nese and Brighton, a passenger named Moncur observed
something fall from one of the boats secured to its
davits. Hearing a cry for help he made the fact
known to Captain Wstte, who stopped the boat, and
endeavoured by lowering boats to rescue the unfortu-
nate man. All efforts proving futile, the captain con.
tinned his course, and has since made a report to the
officials of the Company. _

An inquest was opened at Lancaster on Monday on
the bod of Albert Kirkham, aged four years, who died
on Saturday night, presumbly from hydrophobia. The
deceased and two other boys were bitten on the 18th
July by a dog suffering from rabies. The three boys
were sent to Paris for treatment by M. Pasteur, and
they returned to Lancaster on Thursday night of last
week. The deceased was still unwell. On Friday
symp‘oms of hydrophobia manifested themselves, and
on Saturday the boy died. The results of a post-
mortem examination were consistent with death from
hydrophobia. The inquest was adjourned for a week,
and in the meantirrig experiments will be tried on
rabbits with marrow from the spine of the deceased, in
order to ascertain whether death really resulted from
hydrophobia.
Mr. Osborne Morgan, M.P., and Mr. W. W. Abraham,
M.P., on Monday addressed a mass meeting of miners
at Rhosllanerchrugog, near Wrexham. Mr. Morgt.n
said the Mines Regulation Bill, if passed by the Howe
of Lords as amended, would relieve the barrenness of
the present Session. He looked upon it as a good
measure, calculated to improve the condition of miners.
Mr. Abraham said no amount of legislation would do
much good for miners unless they were united. Let
them organise and be determined to act together, and
they would achieve the objects they desired. Union
among themselves was essential to their improvo-
ment. _ _

An explosion occurred on Monday morning in the
Beaumont seam of the Low Walker Colliery, near
Newcastle.on.Tyne, whereby three hewers. named
Dixon, Stewart, and Harle, were injured. 'They were
firing a shot, and the explosion took place before they
bad time to retire. Dixon was most seriously hurt.
Work was not resumed till night, as the foreQhift
declined to work immediately after the explosion,
although the pit was declared free from gas.
rgMr E. H. Edwards, of Shoreditch, was on Monday
drowned on the North Beach, Yarmouth. He was out
with others shooting gull, and waded into the sea to
get one that had been shot, when he was overpowered
by the waves and sank.
An explosion of gas took place on Monday morning
at the Ann Pit, Walker Colliery, near Newcastle, by
which three men were injured.
A Renter's telegram from Berne reported an explo-
sion on Monday morning in an ammunition depot at
Pay erne.

On Sunday an elderly man was run over and killerl
by a train on the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail.
way between Nunhead and Brockley. The police have
issued a description.
One of the offices of Priest-vicar, in Exeter Gather;
drat, worth £.:80 a year, is placed at the disposal of
the bishop owing to the death, announced this
morning, of the Rev. John Charles Rowlatt, at the .
ago of 71 years, and who had held the said office since
1852.

--Tyoung man, 20 years of age, named Samuel
Mager, residing at Tucking Mill, was instantly killed
at South Crofton Mine, Camborne, on Moaday
morning through an accident to the skip when
ascending to the surface.
At Ramsgate Petty Sessions on Monday seven local
bakers were charged with selling bread otherwise than
by weight. The bread was sold to a constable, who
proved the cages. It was shown to be from one to four
ounces short of the standard weight. Fines varying
from 2's. to 30s. with costs were imposed.
Oa Sunday evening a lad, named Jahn Fitzgerald,
was arrrsted by the police at Doolaig,near Castleisland,
on the Charge of tearing down a proclamation which
had been posted on the barracks proclaiming the
National League. He was taken before the magistratAta.,.
and remanded.

Mr F. U. Padwick, of Thorney Manor, Emsworth,
whilst loading cartridges on Saturday nignt, met with
a sad accident. One of the cartridges suddenly
exploded, shattering the prklm of his right hand in a
shocking manner, and tearing asunder the two
middle bones. It in feared that amputation will be
necessary.
The Carlton Club closed its doors on Monday morn-
ing for a period, it is expected, for about three months.
In a notice issued by the secretary and affixed to thh
doors of the club, it is announced that extensive
alterations are necessary in the drainage of the club,
and that while it is closed the memters will be the
guests of the Junior Carlton Club.
At Birmingham on Blonday Amos Harrington was
committed to the sessions for wilfully smashing a plate
glass window at Messrs. Lewis and Co.'s, Bull•street.
The prisoner was sentenced to gaol for four months
some time ago for a similar offence at Messrs. Lewis's,
and once before he was convicted of breaking windows.
Altogether he has -done damage at Messrs. Lewis's
establishment to the extent of Lon
The death was announced on Monday of Sir Francis
H. Head, second baronet, of Rochester, Kent, at tho.
age of 70 years He was educated at Haileybury
succeeded bia father, the Right Hon. Sir Francis, in
1875; and served in the Hon. East India Company's
service from 1835 to 1846. Sir Francis, who was a
magistrate for Surrey, married, in 1843, Mary Jane,
dau.2.hter of Mr. R. Garnett, of Wyreside, near Lan,
caster. by whom he had issue six sons.