The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-08-28 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

-BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes left 'Averpoui for New
York on Saturday.
Sir John Lubbock has been invited by the Govern.
merit to be Chairman of the Royal Commission on the
Currency question.
A great strike has just bee' commenced in Hamburg
among the bakers. About -JO3 journeymen employed
in the trade have struck work. _ _

The Ministerial whips acting upon the instruction
of Lord Randolph Oh-A:hill, have blocked" all the
bills put down for ser..ind reading by private members.
The Queen arrival at Balmoral Castle, from Edin-
burgh, early on F.o.turday morning. At Ballater ter-
minus, where ILA. Majesty left the train, she was re-
ceived by a guard of honour of the Seaforth High.
land ere.

For 80133 j time past the Vatican has been in negotia-
tion with the Balkan States, with a view to the settle-
ment of the Catholic hierarchy in those countries.
Mcnsigoor Palma, Archbishop of Bucharest, has tele-
graphed to the Vatican stating that Roumania had
accepted the proposals of the Holy See.
The Metropolitan Extension traffic of the Lr,ndon,
°Dothan), and Dover Company was almost completely
etopped for some hours on Saturday night by a portion
af a train running off the metals at the new junction
south of Blackfriars Bridge. Fortunately, no one sus-
tained serious injury.
A diver from Portsmouth Dockyard has been ordPred
to proceed to Selsey Bill, to investigate the reported
discovery of the store ship Elephant, which went down
there two or three years ago, with machinery for the
Impereuse on board valued at £70,000. The zoastguard
recently discoved a heavy obstruction at the spot where
the vessel is believed to lie.

The strike at Denaby Colliery, South Yorkshire, was
settled on Saturday morning. A deputation saw the
manager and agreed to resume work pending arbitra-
tion on the wage question. One thousand two hundred
men and boys are concerned in the settlement of the
question. The strike lasted only a week.
In consequence of the decision of the Cleveland iron-
masters to restrict the production, a large number of
blast furnacemen, ironstone miners, and colliers re-
ceived a fortnight's notice on Saturday to terminate
their engagements. One large ironstone and colliery
will be laid idle.

A hurricane passed over Kingston, Jamaica, on Aug.
19 and 20, and various coasting craft have been sunk
or stranded. The Northaide is supposed to have sus-
tained damage.
An attempt is being made in France to form a new
political party on the basis of a strictly Conservative
Republic rejecting equally monarchical and extreme
Radical tendencies.
It is stated in Paris that the Council of State have
entertained the Due d'Aumale's appeal, and have
resolved to cancel the Ministerial decree striking his
name off the rolls of the army.
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Announcement is made of the intention of her
Majesty's Government to subsidise a line of first.class
British mail steamers between Vancouver and Japan
and Hoag Kong, to run in connection with the Canadian
Pacific Railway.

The Audubon Society for the ',protection of birds hs.i
just been incorporated in New York. The object is to
protect American birds not used for food from destruc•
Um

At a banquet given to Mr. render during his visit to
Denmark, Mr. Tietgen, in proposing that gentleman's
health, paid him the graceful compliment of offering
him the telegraphic championship ot the world.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. the mean
reading of the barometer last week was 29.91 in.; a d
that the variation was from 30.10 in. to 29.67 in. The
mean temperature of the air was 59 8. Rain fell on
four days of the week to the aggregate amount of 0.36
of an inch, During the week 37.9 hours of bright Ann.
shine were registered, against 374 hours at Glynde
place, Lewes.
Two deaths from poisoning have been investigated
by the coroner for Nottingham. A man named John
Whitworth, aged 33, purchased some mushrooms of the
description known as "Dime buttons." fter he and
his little daughter had eaten some they were seized with
violent sickness, and both d;ed. A post-mortem ex
amination showed that death was caused by an irritant
poison, and the jury returned a verdict of "Death from
eating poisonous fungi."
John Joyce, the keeper of a public.house in ClaN tnn.
equare, Liverpool, was summoned for keeping a lottery.
Evidence was given to the effect that tickets were pur-
chased at the defendant's house for the Leicester Cop
and the Stewards' Cup. One ticket turned out to be
the winning number, but when the holder went for the
money Joyce, he alleged, " did him out of it," upon
which he informed the police. The defendant was
fined £25 and costs. He had previously been fined
for a similar offence. _ _ _

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Confirmation has reached Berlin from Mogador of
the report that Sidi Ben Haschem, the most powerful
adversary of the Sultan of Morocco, has been poisoned
by one of his own wives.
On Bendrigg Farm, near Kendal, on Monday, Mr.
William Fleming, farmer, was killed by a bull. He
Was taking a cow into a field where the hull was pus.
turing when the latttr attacked him in a very wild
and vicious manner. The recent hot weather made the
animal exceedingly excited and uneasy. Mr. Fleming,
who was upwards of 70 years of age, was alone, but had
a dog with him. He seized the bull's horns, and
fought for a considerable time with extraordinary,
strength. The bull, however, soon gained his freedom
when he again attacked Mr. Fleming in a mo,t
ferocious manner. The dog took his master's part and
attacked the bull. Mr. Fleming, despite his severe
injuries, was able to crawl home. Medical attendance
was procured, and it was found that he had several
broken ribs, besides severe internal injuries, from
which he died on Monday evening.
A commission has been given to Mr. E. J. Physick,
sculptor, to execute the memorial of the late Sir
Charles E. Trevelyan, which is to be erected over the
grave in Cambo Churchyard, near Wallington, Nor-
thumberland.

Mr. Macßrayne's West Highland steamer StatTa,
which left Glasgow for Inverness on Monday afternoon,
went ashore at two o'clock on Tu€sday morning on the
western coast of Kintyre. The numerous passengers
and crew were all safoly rescued.
An International Union Congress held its first sitting
in Paris on Tuesday, and discussed the political and
economic situation of working men in the various
countries of Europe A Belgian delegate gave some
detail's of the deplorable condition of the labouring
classes in his country. Seven delegates represented
the Er glish Trades Unions.
The receipts on account of revenue from the Ist of
April. 1886, when there was a balance of £5.625,944, to
August 21, 1886, were £50,668,361, against £30,451.983
in the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which began with a balance of £4,993,207. The
net expenditureiwas £34,474,097, against £36,537,223 to
the same date in the previous year. The Treniurp
balances on August 21, 1886. amounted to £2,046,492,
and at the same date in 1885 to 1!2,520,059

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A numerously signed petition from the parishioners of
Llantysilio, Llangollen, who have for some time been at
variance with their vicar, has been presented to Sir
Watkin Williams Wynn, the patron of the living, pray-
ing that be will be pleased to take such steps as he
may deem necessary for the purpose of removing the
Rev. John Samuel Jones from the cure of souls in
the parish, as there are no prospects whatever of
a restoration of peace during the remainder of his in-
cumbency.
The grand military manceuvres in the neighbour hood
of St. Petersburg, which comnesuced on the 19th inst.,
were concluded on Monday, after which the various
foreign officers took leave of the Emperor and Emp: ess.
Their Majesties subsequently left Krasnoeselo for
Peterhof. The Emperor was present at a naval review
at Cronstadt, in which 56 vessels took part.
Traffic on the Broadway Railroad is suspended owine,
to a strike of the men employed on the line.
Advices received from Honduras state that the in-
surrectioeary movement has been suppressed Morey
and several other insurgent leaders hew been killed,
and peace has been restored.
A new park has been opened at Leicester. The park
is 36 acres in extent, and the Corporation have spent
large Bums in beautifying it and providing adequate
means of recreation.
H.M.S. Bellerophon, carrying the flag of Vice
Admiral Clanwilliam, while off the pilot station at
Rimouski, and during a thick fog, grounded on a sand
bank, but fortunately came off very soon afterwards.
Subsequent examination showed that she had touched
the bank so lightly that she had sustained little or no
damage. Next day the Bellerophon proceeded to
Quebec.
At a competition of choral societies at Liverpool foe
a prize of £lOO, four societies competed—the Liverpool
Cambrian, the Burslem Tonic Sol-fa, the Manchester
Philharmcnic, and the Nottingham Philharmonic. The
adjudicators—Mr. Henry Leslie, Dr. Joseph Parry, and
Mr. Walter Barnet-awarded the prize to the Nottingham
choir, and placed the other competitors as follows :
Burslem second, Liverpool third, Manchester fourth.
At the Westminster Police-court the Perseverance
Benefit Society (Southwark) and the Vellum Binders'
and Machine Rulers' Pension Society have been each
fined £5 for having neglected to send to the Registrar
the annual statement of accounts required under the
'friendly Societies Act.
Since the last quarterly communication of the Grand
Lodge of Freemasons the Prince of Wales has granted
warrants for the holding of 15 new lodges, thus raising
the number of lodges on the roll of the Grand Lodge cf
England nominally to 2173. Out of the 15 new lodges
ten are for the colonies.
Five hundred men have gone out on strike at Blaine
Collieries, Rhondda Valley, against "The Billy Fair.
play "coal cutting machine.
Notices have been issued for a discharge of workmen
from Sheerness Dockyard on Saturday. This is the
only reduction of the Sheerness staff which has
taken place for many years.
Rieard Allen, a Plymouth publican, quarrelled-with
his wife and subsequently attempted to commit suicide.
He discbareed a revolver into his neck, the bullet passe
ing out at the back.
A fine of £4 18s. 4d. was imposed on a painter at
Louth for stealing a purse containing 4s. from a
railway carriage where it had been left by a yeung lady
travelling from Skeguess to Wainfleet.
On the farm of Francis McCormack. who replaced
an evicted tenant named Hanly, at Limerick Junction,
the right shoulder of a bullock was smashed into pulp.
The injury was apparently inflicted with a sledge
hammer.
The" World" says: The accouchement of Princess
Beatrice (Princess Henry of Battenberg) is expected to
take place at Windsor Castle towards the end of
November, prior to which the Court will have removed
from Balmoral.
The forms of entry for the Cambridge Local Examina-
tions, to be held in December, 1886, may now be ob-
tained from the local secretaries. The latest day for
returnina forms of entry is October 1.
The Coroner for Merionethshire held an inquest OR
Tuesday on the bodies of the wife and sister of Captain
Pennington, who were drowned in the river Dovey
when returning in a boat from a sketching excursion.
Mrs. Pennington, it seems, fell into the water, and
Captain Pennington and his sister jumped in to her
rescue. Mts. Pennington was brought to the shore
alive, but died shortly afterwards. The body of Miss
Pennington was not recovered until life was extinct.
Captain Pennington hied a narrow escape, be baying
been nulled under water he the ladice.