The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08 00:00:00

SATURDAY, JAN. 8, 1887.

James Gordon, the wheelbarrow man, returned to
Dundee on Saturday night, after wheeling his barrow
to London and back. He was quite fresh and in good
condition. He received an enthusiastic welcome from
thousands of spectators, who went out several miles on
the road to meet him.

General William Loring, formerly a Confederate
officer, Dud also known as Loring Pasha in the Egyptian
service, has died in New York, aged 69.
The Duchess of Sutherland, on Saturday, unveiled
the statue erected by the inhabitants of Stoke-on-Trent
in memory of the late Mr. Colin Minton Campbell,
formerly MT. for North Staffordshire, and Lead of 'be
famous china works known as Minton's.
The revolt of the prisoners at the Gallon Gaol at
Rouen has come to an end. About thirty of the
leaders have been confined in cells, and will be trans.
ferred to other prisons. A Government Inspector has
been sent to make a searching inquiry into the causes
of the revolt.

During the year 1886 the Paris Savings Bank received
deposits amounting to 48,664,010 f., and reimbursed
43,439,375 f. The number of depositors at the end of
the year was 532,270, and the total amount deposited
117,216,115 f.

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The Queen has approved the appointment of Colonel
Sir Owen Tudor Burne,K.C.S.l., C.1.E., to be a member
of the Counr,l of Inia, in succession to Sir Frederick
Halliday, K.C.8., who has resigned.
Mr. R. T. Bush, the owner of the Coronet yacht, is
azxious to improve on the Queen's Jubilee Yacht Race
at New York. He therefore challenges all American
keel schoo,.ers to race across the Atlantic, arriving in
time to enter for the English event, the entrance to be
10,000 dols each.

Mr. Bernard Kelly, M.P. for South Donegal, died
suddenly on Saturday morning at Mountcharles, whilst
paying a series of visits to his constituents. Mr.
Kelly, who was secretary to the local branch of tho
National League, had sat for South Donegal since
185.

--A—sericus fire occurred at the historical ddesealchi
Palace, on the Piazza Senti Apostoli, Rome, on Satur-
day night. A great portion of the two flcors w
destroyed, including valuable objects of art. The fire
raged for four hours, owing, it would seem, to in-
efficient service by the fire engines and the want of
water.

The arrivals of live stock and fresh meat at Liverpool
last week from American and Canadian ports amounted
to 1056 cattle and 6588 quarters of beef, against the
arrivals of the preceding week of 533 cattle and 5231-
quarters of beef, showing an increase in the imports of
both live stock and fresh meat.

The dead bodies of two men were on Saturday found
on a cinder heap in the brickyard of Mr. H. Boys, of
Walsall. They had apparently been Buffocated whikt
asleep on the mound, which is much resorted to by
vagrants. One man was identified as Thomas Bawson,
a resident in the neighbourhood.
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When returning t& Newry on Sunday evening, after
visiting the Bishop at Violetlan], the Rev. Mr.
Magennis, one of the Dominican Fathers, was attached,
and struck on the head with a heavy stick. His asdailant,
a yormg fellow, named M'Evoy, was arrested.
A case of sruall•pox occurred on board the Norddeut-
sober T-Icyd steamer Preussen durieg her voyage from
Southarrt pton to Adelaide, and on her arrival at Mel-
bourne she was accordingly placed in quarantine.
Twenty-four cases subsequently developed, and it is
stated that thirty persons who landed at Sydney are
sickening for the disease:
A boy named Frederick Holland, about three years
of age, was burnt to death on Saturday night, at Bolton.
During the temporary absence of his parents from the
house, he appeared to have attempted to light a candle
at the fire. His clothes became ignited, and he was so
burnt about the head and body that death almost im-
mediately ensued.

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The Board of Trade have intimated to the promoters
of be Channel Tunnel that if the bill whi.th has been
recently deposited by them in the Private Bill Office is
persevered with, it will be the duty of the Government
to npose it in Pariiament.
Mercantile failures to the number of 10,563 for an
aggiegase liability of 113,648,000 dols., occurred in the
United States in 1886, as against 11,116 failures for a
total of 119,120,000 dole. in 1885. In Canada 1183
failures are reported for 1886, with a liability of
11,210,000 dole., as against 1246 failures for 9,210,000
dols. in IPBS.

American papers report that the sepulchre of ono of
the ancient Hapoteca Kings has been discovered near
the city of Oaxaca. Only the skull and a few of the
Larger bones remained, and to judge 5y these the man
must have been of much more than or:Unary size. In
the vault there were several small state:as of agate, and
one hideous idol, weighic g 501 b. of pure gold.
On the Pennsylvania Railway on Saturday night, at
a grade crossing near Forte Wayne, Indiana, a largo
sledge, containing 20 young people, was being driven
carelessly across the line, when an express train at high
speed came along and crushed the vehicle. The men
on board the sledge escaped by jumping, but the ladies
were less fortunate, two being instantly killed, and
seven badly injured.
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Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Dart., M.P., on Saturday
evening opened a Conservative Club at Hurlow.
Speakiug at a meeting in the Great Hall, he sald that
the Conservatives had done well on the first day of the
Jubilee year to form a club. They were, of all parties,
particularly attached to the Throne, and it was now a
momentous time, seeing that the question of the Union
was still before them.
A number of men employed at the Ribblesdale Lime
Works, near Settle, on Saturday, were engaged upon
an enormous piece of rock weighing several tons, when
an overhanging portion of the stone suddenly fell,
causing a heavy bar of iron which the men were using
to recoil, striking a man named Robert Alcock on the
head and killing him instantly. IV!lliam liTilthn sus.
tamed a fracture of the shoulder, and several men were
thrown dorm by the force of the recoil

The People's Chapel in Birmingham ha a been de-
stroyed by fire. The fire was prevented from spreading
beyond the chapel, all hopes of saving which were
abandoned when the organ gallery was destroyed. The
roof fell with a heavy crash, and several of the firemen
had narrow escapes. It is supposed that the wood work
of the organ was first ignited by one of the hot-air flues
used for heating the building which ran alongside it.
An inquest was held on the body of a young woman
whr,se remains were found in the snow on the hills near
Bath. She had evidently died from expomre, and a
verdict was returned to that effect
During the fog two girls named Tonge, living a
Stab, bridge, were sent by their parents to fetch some
coal. They bad to pass by the canal, and in the darkness
—it was almost as dark as night—they walked into the
water and were drowned.
Two dangerous brigands the brothers Solda,tovich,
were captured last wfek by the Servian gendarmerie.
One who was wounded in offering a desperate resist-
ance, has since died, the other is in prison. Consider-
able importance is attached to this capture, as the two
men were political brigands, acting in the Panslavibt
cause.

An extraordinary scene was witnessed at Yonghal,
owing to the arrival of a procession, consisting of a line
of carts and horses carrNing turnips and hay from the
farms on the Ponsonby Estate. The produce was sold
at bad prices to victuallers in the town, the tenants
having haPtily removed it, as they were under notice of
eviction.

Alfred Defuisseaux, a wealthy Belgian Socialist
agitator, who, by the publication of an incendiary
pamphlet "Le Grand Cat6chisme du People," contri-
bued to provoke the riots of last March, has been sen-
tenced at tbn Brussels Assizes to four years' imprison-
ment and 1001. fine Defuisseanx has taken refuge in
France. Two printers, who published respectively a
French and a Flemish edition of the pamphlet, were
sentenced each to two months' imprisonment and 500 f.
fine. _

At the Connaught Winter Assizes, before Chief
Baron Palles, Mr. Bodkin, referring to the prisoners
convicted of having obstructed the sheriff at the
Woodford evictions, said there was no suggestion
reflecting on the character of the prisoners, but would
ask his lordship to consider that the prisoners were
under the impression that they were not breaking the
Jac, but defending their homes. The chief baron saU4
he would do so.