The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-12 00:00:00

SATURDAY, FEB. 12, 1887.

'The Cerman Emperor is obliged to decline all per.
sonal addresses of loyalty, as he requires rest, and h
obliged to avoid fatigue.
In the French Chamber on Monday there were
further discussions on the financial policy of the
Government. A proposal that the eight million francs
saved by reducing the interest on savings banks
deposits should go to the reserve fund of the banks,
instead of to ordinary revenue, was carried against the
Government.

Sir H. D. Wolff has had an interview of two hours'
duration with Kiamil and Said Pashas.

An earthquake shock has occurred in the States of
the Union to the west of the Mississippi.
Some clothing manufacturers of Philadelphia have
locked out their cutters, numbering about 1000 men,
upon whom 10,000 other operatives are dependent for
employment.
The Local Government Board have directed an
inquiry to be made into the cause of the recent out-
break of diphtheria in Baling.
Four members of the "High Rip Gang" of Liver.
pool are under remand on several charges of stabbing.
An inquest was held on Monday on Mr. John Calde.
cott Cavell, J.P., late Mayor of Oxford, and a verdict
was returned that he accidentally fell out of his bed-
room window.

A Sheffield sharebroker named Armstead recently
left the town and was declared a bankrupt. The
creditors met on Monday, ant the official receiver
informed them that Arrastead's liabilites exceeded
£12,000, while his assets were just over £3OO.
The Shrewsbury corporation have resolved to petition
against the Liverpool Water Bill. The Mayor de-
nounced the conduct of the Liverpool Corporation in
departing from the arrangement made in 1880, and
concealing an arrangement made to sell water to five
other districts besides Liverpool.
In his presidential address to the members of the
Society of Engineers,Professor H. Robinson discussed
all the most recent occurrence 4 of interest to the
engineering world. He anticipated the early introduc-
tion of railways into China and the extension of the
existing railway in Barmah.
Mrs. Castiglioni was summoned at Clerkenwell on
Tuesday for keeping a number of retrievers in the back
of her premises, whose barking and howling disturbed
the neighbours. The magistrate ordered that the
nuisance ehould be abated forthwith, and that the de-
fendant should pay the costs.
Alfred Weller, a Government clerk, who at the last
Surrey Sessions was convicted of encroaching on the
public highway at Caterham-valley, appeared on
Monday to receive judgment. In the meantime:he had
put back his fence to the lice required. The magistrate
discharged him.
At the Liverpool Assizes on Tuesday, Samuel
Dalzell was indicted for the wilful murder of George
Newton, a priest, in the Rainhill Lunatic Asylum.
Both men were patients at the institution, and during
a quarrel Dalzell inflicted the- fatal injuries with a
brush. The prisoner was evidently insane, and he was
ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure.
Miss Booth. the eldest daughter of " General "
Booth, was on Tuesday married to "Colonel" Clibborn,
also of the Salvation Army. The ceremony took place
at the Congress Hall, ()lepton, and was witnessed by a
numerous assemblage.
Elizabeth Witting, wife of a shoemaker, of 70,
Prince's-road, Bermondsey, was charged on remand at
the Southwark Police-court on Tuesday, upon her own
confession, with murdering two of her children, aged
eight and two and a half years respectively. Prisoner,
who was in a very weak condition, had nothing to say,
and was committed for trial.
At the Surrey Sessions, London, on Tuesday, Michael
Myers, who had for some time held an auctioneer's
license, was convicted of feloniously stealing a large
quantity of goods, and it was shown that in many cases
previous to the matters mentioned in the indictment
he had been guilty of fraud. He was sentenced to five
years' penal servitude.
A solicitor, from Detroit, named Anderson, was
committed for trial on Tuesday from the Marlborough-
street Police-court, London, for obtaining large sums
of money from &Pennsylvanian farmer, named Deakin,
on the pretence of forwarding a claim by the latter to
some valuable property in London. A part of the
supposed estate was No. 21, Cock-lane, City; and the
magistrate elicited that it was the house celebrated by
the well-known ghost story.
A man named John Morris, who took part in a pro.

cession of the unemployed to Bermondsey Church a
few Sundays since, and interrupted the service by hiss-
ing and waving a newspaper, was on Tuesday sent to
gaol for three weeks by the magistrate at the South.
wark Police-court.
The receipts on account of revenue from the Ist of
April, 1886, when there was a balance of £5,625,944, to
Feb. 5, 1887, were £72,357,554, against £70,599,061,
In the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which began with a balance of £4,993,207. The
net expenditure was £75,223,099, against £77,112,543
to the same date in the previous year. The Treasury
balances on February 5, 1887, amounted to £2.391,223,
and at the same date in 1886 to £5,276,062.
Thomas Rotson, a labourer, was on Saturday sen-
tenced by the Worship-street magistrate to a month's
hard labour fur assaulting the Rev. Septimus Buss,
'dear of Shoreditch, near the vicarage at Heaton.
square.
Within less than a month seven persons have been
stabbed in the st, eets of Madrid, between 11 and one
o'clock at night, by an unknown assailant.
An attempt was made to wreck a train on Saturday,
near Alkington, Salop, by placing a sleeper across the
metals. Fortunately the obstruction was discovered in
time, and removed just before the Cambran mail arrived
at the spot. The police are endeavouring to trace the
person or persons who committed the dastardly offence.
, Mrs. Miller, who was attacked by her husband with
a 'carving-knife, at Ballingry, Fifeshire, expired on
Saturday from the injuries inflicted upon her. The
man, who had just been released from a lunatic asylum,
cut his own throat.
An affray took place on Saturday night at Manches-
ter, by which a young man named Joe Brady lost his
life. Brady was followed home by some men with
whom he had been drinking, and, after refusing to
fight, be was stabbed so seriously on his own doorstep
that he died shortly after being received in the infir-

mary.
Benjamin Terry, a collier, was found guilty, at the
Notts Assizes on Saturday, of the wilful murder of his
wife at Basford, and was sentenced to death.
In consegoence of indisposition, M. Waddington, the

French Ambassador, was unable to preside at the anni.
vereary dinner of the French Hospital in London at
Willis's Rooms, St. James's, on Saturday night, and his
place was taken by the Count d'Aubigny, of the French
Embassy. The subscriptions announced in aid of the
hospital amounted to about £2OOO.
Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg visited

Portsmouth,whaiWthey attended a militari tourna-
ment, one of a series of performances being held with
the object of reducing the debt on the Volunteer Drill.
hail there, and in aid of the funds of the local hospital.
The Prince and Princess returned to Osborne after the
display.
On Saturday an inquest was held at Southall on the
body of William Bowman, of Hingrove, Edenbridge,
Kent, who shot himself while riding in a train soon
after passing Slough. A sovereign locket, containing
£45 Ws. in gold, two pi:Aols, and a large quantity of
cartridges, were found ca the deceased. A verdict of
"Suicide whilst UrIBOUnr in mind "was returned.
On two farms at Alderton, county Wexford, where

evictions were abandoned last week owing to the violent
attitude of the people, the latter are making great pre-
parations for resistance. Fireplaces have been erected
t boil water and tar to pour over the bailiffs. The
windows and doors are fastened with iron bars,
and walls are erected inside the windows. Supplies of
coals, wood, provisions, and missiles are laid in.
Messages were received on Saturday morning by tile
governor of Durham Gaol and by the high sheriff a
representative respiting John M.'eann, who was await..
lug execution for stabbing John Dixon, at Houghton-
le-Spring, on New Year's Eve. /Mann, who has never
ceased to assert his innocence, was, shortly after
receiving the news, visited by friends, who congratu-
lated him.