The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-09-24 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Her Majesty's Indian troopship Crocodile passed
Halts, on S turday, going east.
A class of instruction at the School of Musketry;
Hythe will commence on the sth proximo.

Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice has intimated his readi.
nese to become a Gladstonian candidate for South
Wilts at the next election. _ _

King Humbert has ordered the release of the
Abyssinian bishop who has been kept a prisoner by the
Italian authorities at Massowah.

Mr. Robert Lennox Kennedy, the eminent banker of
New York, is dead.
Lord Randolph Churchill will visit Newcastle on
Oct. 22 to present the prizes to the students at the
School of Science and Art. The local Conservatives
expect that he will also deliver a political address.
The Bulgarian Government has given reparation to
Germany for the insult offered to the Vice Consul at
Rustobuk, by dismissing the Prefect of thst place, and
suppressing the offending newspaper. The Govern-
ment has again established a strict censorship of the
Press, in order to guard against any similar want of
respect towards foreign representatives,

An accident Is reported from Friedrichshagen, an
hour's drive from Berlin. The scaffolding of a new
building there collapsed, killing one workman and
severely injuring six others, of whom two died.
The Right Rev. Thomas Y. French, who was appointed
to the see of Lahore in 1877, is about to resign, and will
be succeeded by the Yen. Henry J. Matthew, Arch-
deacon of Lahore.

A newsboy named Bevin, who was bitten by a mad
dog some weeks ago, died on Saturday in the Liverpool
Infirmary. A Mrs. Atkinson attacked the animal, and
was severely bitten while preventing it biting some
other children. She proceeded to Paris, and was
treated by M. Pasteur, an 4 is now going on favourably.
Petitions for charters of incorporation have been
presented to the Queen in Council by the inhabitants
of Loughborough, Leicestershire, and Stroud, Gloucess
tershire.

It is proposed to form a Vigilance Committee in
London to take up cases of injury to British fishing
vessels by Belgian trawlers. Two delegates will be
elected from Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, and one or
two other ports.
Sir Charles and Lady Dilke have left London on a
brief visit to Constantinople. They will return to
England by way of Athens.
It is stated that Lord Radnor intends to forego the
rent of half a year's tenancy on his Wiltshire estate.
The Isle of Man having no cathedral, the Bishop of
Sodor and Man will be enthroned at St. Mary's,
Castletown.

The " Vossiche Zeitung " "learns on trustworthy
authority that the C/zar recently intimated bAs desire to
meat the Emperor William, in the event of an oppor-
tunity occurring, on his return journey from Copen-
hagen to St. Petersburg."
A telegram from Zanzibar states that the messengers
sent from the Consuls there to apprise Emin Pasha of
the despatch of the Stanley Expedition had resched
him. Emin Pasha was well in health.

A telegram from a Vienna correspondent states that
since the return of the Emperor of Germany from
Stettin without meeting the Czar the situation in
Europe has gained in clearness; but the possibility of
events taking a serious turn is undoubtedly increased.
A correspondent at Cairo telegraphs that the Nile
has subsided at Wady•Halfa, and ceased to rise at
Cairo. It is hoped, in consequence, that Lower Egypt
may escape being flooded. Tne English Government
are, however, taking great precautions to meet the
danger of a possible inundation.
A meeting of the Metropolitan Asylums Board was
held on Saturday, when a letter from the Local
Government Board was read relating to the necessity
41 opening the hospital at Winchmore.hill. The chair-
man, Sir E. H. Galsworthy, proposed a resolution,
which was carried, authorising the committee for the
Northern Hospital to take the necessary steps for
opening that institution.
At the inquest on the victims of the Exeter disaster
on Saturday, William Hunt, a sailor, of her Majesty's
ship Express, who was in the pit of the theatre on this
night of the fire, gave evidence. It appeared that he
had rescued several persons, and he was complimented
by the Coroner and Captain Shaw on his gallantry and
kindness.

Mr. Pickersgill, M.P., was among the speakers at the
meeting in Limerick market-place on Saturday. Fifty
armed constabulary were present, under a district
inspector and a resident magistrate. Miss Menders, of
Wolverhampton, attended, but did not speak, as she
will be a witness at the filitchelstown inquest.
Mr. John Mandeville was arrested on Saturday on a
charge of having used intimidating language at the
meeting addressed at Mitchelstown by Mr. O'Brien,
M.P., on the 9th of August.
Inc wire o. Joseph Bitty, a farm servant, in the
service of Lord Londonderry, at Chilton Moor, Durham,
was on Saturday morning found on her back in front of
a fire, tied hands and feet with ropes, and with a rough
towel over her head. The drawers and cupboards in the
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The three women, Mary Wynne, Ann Gullimore, and
Bracy Jones, who were last week arrested by the Den-.
bighshire police carrying 20 rabbits round their waists
In the eh To of dress improvers, were on Saturday
brought up at the Denbigh Borough Police•court. It
was alleged by the police that the women were carrying
the booty for their husbands. In defence. the women
said they were gathering mushrooms, and whilst doing
so they found the rabbits nets, &c. The prisoners were
remanded for a fortnight on a point of law, bail being
accepted.

A tradesman named Joseph Walker, harness maker,
of Chipping Norton, has murdered his wife by cutting
her throat. For some time past the woman had been
jealous of her husbi.nd, and both had given way tf
drink. On returning home at night words ensued,
and Mrs. Walker struck her husband in the face,
giving him a black eye. He was greatly enraged, and
seizing a small cheese knife, completely severed the
jugular vein.

A son of M. Schnaebel6, with three other lads, on
Monday crossed the Franco-German frontier at Ohemi-
not, in Lorraine, and posted up a number of placards
insulting to the Germans. Young SchnaebelO was
arrested and lodged in the gaol at Metz. The incident
has caused some e citement on the frontier.
The new ironclad Trafalgar was launched on Tues-
day at Portsmouth, in the presence of a vast throng of
people. She is the most powerful man of war afloat.
Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty;
Admiral Hood, Senior Naval Lord; Admiral Graham,
Controller of the Navy, and a number of naval and
civic officials were among those who wit' essed the
bunch, which was effected without any mishap.
At the Town Hall, Bolton, on Tuesday evening,
Lord Basing delivered the Presidential address at the
Congress of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain.
His lordship referred to the advance in sanitary
science during recent years, originating with the Royal
Sanitary Commission, and carried out under the
Public Health Act of 1875. This measure, he con-
sidered, contained the most complete sanitary code to
be found in any country, and it had greatly tended to
diminish the death-rate.

The receipts on account of Revenue from the let of
April,lBB7, when there was a balance of £5.950,107, to
Sept. 17, 1887, were £35,218,630, against £35,582,798 in
the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which began with a balance of £5,625,944. The
net expenditure was £37,605,964, against £39.059,442
to the same date in the previous year. The Treasury
balances on Sept. 17, 1887, amounted to £2,918,773, and
at the same date in 1886 to £1,982,131.
The RegistraraGeneral reports an increase in the
number of deaths from scarlet fever, but adds that the
rate of mortality in London last week declined to 15.7
per thousand annually, which was lower than in any
previous week of this year.
Joseph Walker, saddler, was charged before the
magistrates at Chipping Norton on Tuesday with the
murder of his wife, Henrietta. The prisoner had a
quarrel with the woman, and later on he told a man
named Gardiner that he should do for her. Joseph
Walker, aged 14, the stepson of the deceased, said that
he was told to take the children to bed, and whilst
upstairs he heard his mother scream. When he ran
down he saw her lying on the floor near to the fire—
place, and his father, who was kneeling on her, drew
a knife from her neck and jumped up saying "I've
done it." The woman's throat was cut in such a
marner that every vessel was divided. The prisoner,
who is a powerfully built man, wept while his children
were giving evidence, and was commit ed for trial.
The tenth annual Conference of the Library Amcia.
tion was opened on Tuesday at Birmingham. Tbere
was a la-ge attendance, including representatives from
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin, London, and other large
cities and towns. The members met in the Council
House and were welcomed by the Mayor, Sir T.
Martineau. Mr. Alderman Johnson, Chairman of the
Birmingham Free Libraries Committee, in his inaugural
address, dealt with the importance of 'free libraries as
continuing the work of education commenced in
elementary schools, and urged the necessity of extend.
log their number and scope.
Mr. George Gillett, an extensive farmer at Bishops.
worth has been made the victim of what is believed to
be an agr .rian outrage. On going into his farmstead
he discovered a valuable much cow dead, having been
stabbed in the side evidently by a broad.bladed knife.
The district abounds with Irish farm labourers,
amongst whom there is an unsuppressed feeling in
favour of Irish agitation. Mr. Gillett, who is a member
of the local board of guardians and the holder of other
important parochial offices, however, is not known to
have incurred the displeasure of his Irish neighbours,
and this fact renders the discovery of the perpetrators
all the more difficult. _ _

The application by Mr. Macfarlane for a renewal of
the license for the Aberdeen Theatre was again before
the city magistrates on Tuesday. Three experts
recommended that heavy structural alterations should
be made in the building to improve the means of egress,
and to prevent the spread of fire. Mr. Ross, advocate
on behalf of Mr. Macfarlane, proposed that the carry-
ing out of these suggestions should be deferred till
legislation regarding theatres took effect, but the
magistrates declined to grant a renewal of the license
until the structural alterations and other recommenda-
tions in the experts' report had been effected.
The infant son of Mr. W. J. Spouse. Devonshire.
road, Forest•hill, met with a shocking death on
Monday. The deceased, who had been stay jog at
Ramsgate with his parents, was left in a bedroom by
himself, when he played with matches and set fire to
the bed and his clothing before aid arrived. The little
fellow died a few hours afterwards from collapse and
shock to the system. A coroner's inquiry was held
on Tuesday, and a verdict of "Accidental death" re-
turne I, the jury adding as a rider that blame could
not be attached to anyone.
As a young man named John Quay, a coachman, in
the service of Mr. Ward, of Hadnal Hall, near Whit.
church, was crossing a railway bridge on horseback on
Tuesday afternoon the animal became restive and
threw its rider over the parape; on to the rails below.
A Mr. Bruckshaw, who was present, seeing a train
approaching, rushed down an embankment and rescued
the man as he was lying unconscious across the
metals. The coachman was conveyed to the Infirmary
at Shrewsbury, where his injuries were found to be
very severe.
The Town Council of Exeter had a conference with
Captain Shaw on Tuesday as to the best means for
extinguishing fires. Captain Shaw said the brigades
who worked under the insurance cbmpanies were
mainly composed of men who were not equal to the
duty, and he advised the formation of a Corporation
Brigade. He also pointed out some alterations in the
water mains, so that a high and level service with a
perfect system of hydrants could be adopted through-
out the city.
William Gavins, a young farm labourer, was on
Tuesday at Grimsby sentenced to a month's imprison..
ment for administering poison to three horses belong-
ing to his employer, Mr. Charles Mower, farmer, of
Marsh Chapel. Two mares in foal were found suffer-
ieg from inflammation of the mouth, which prisoner
said was from eating poisonous herbs in the fields, but
which was shown to proceed from butter of antimony.
A meeting of the Directors of the Ordnance, Ship-
building, and Engineering firm of Messrs. Armstrong,
Mitchell, and Co. was held on Tuesday at Newcastle.
on-Tyne; Lord Armstrong presided. The directors
agreed upon their report to be presented to the share•
holders, and it was decided to declare a dividend for
the past year of 101 per cent.
At Misterton near Yeovil, a ferret belonging to a
labourer, named Osborne, entered a bed in which a little
child was sleeping. Winn discovered the infant had
one of its eyes torn out, and the flesh on :Its face was
laceratei in a dreadful manner. The poor child,
which was but four months old, died shortly after.
wards. _ _

Amass meeting of the Bolton ironworkers, who have
been on strike for 19 weeks, decided on Tuesday night,
on a vote by ballot, to reject the employers' latest and
final proposal for a settlement of the dispute by open
arbitration, Large crowds awaited the result of the
vote, which was 10 to one.

Lord Hampden, presiding at the Glynde Harvest
Home on Saturday, said the allotments were of the
greatest advantage to the working classes, and that he
had done all he could to provide for those in his employ.
One of the incidents of the year at Glynde had been
the establishment of his new business as a dairy
farmer. In fact, he might describe himself as a dairy-
man in starch of a profit. At present the experiment
had not been tried long enough to calculate its
measure of sinews, but it gave promise of a good
result. Rain fell heavily during the proceedings, and
Lord Hampden remarked that this was the first
Glsr.de Harvest Home held on a wet day for twenty
years.
A young woman named Jesse Purdue, belonging to
Reading, and in service at Richmond, has disappeared
under my stei ions circumstances. On the 20th July
she lef t her mistress's house for the purpose of boating
on the river with a female friend and her cousin's
sweetheart, a young man named Frewin. Not returning
at night, inquires were made and Frewin was ques.
tinned, but he denied all knowledge of her. On the
next Monday at noon a telegram was received by the
girl's parents, signed O. Lawrence, Edgware road," to
the effect that she had gone to France, and that she
Would be well cared for. Frewin has since left the town,
and the girl's whereabouts are still unknown.
The number of actual shipwrecks reported during
the past week decreased to 26 compared with the
previous week. Twelve were British vesseis. Off the
United Kingdom two British steamers, two British
sailers, and one Italian sailer went down. Collision
cases decreased to 19, of which number two foreign
sailers sunk by collision. Collision cases of the United
Kingdom decreased to nine. Six vessels were reported
abandoned at sea, and four destroyed by fire. A
Liverpool sailer was announced lost with all hands,
Total wrecks for present year now number 968. Total
lives lost in all bottoms for present year 1969.
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Mr. Coroner Settle held an inquest at Hartlepool on
Saturday afternoon on the body of Margaret Lowigi,
alias Ambrosie,who was allaged to have been kicked anti
otherwise ill-used by a man named M`Nally. Dr.
Frederick Hugh Morison said-that.he saw the deceased
shortly before death, and on Friday he and his brother
made a post.mortem examination of her body. He
was of opinion that death arose from hoemorrhage from
rupture of the spleen, the result of recent violence.
Otherwise the body was healthy. The jury returned a
verdict of " MAnslaughter " against Wm. bi‘Nally, and
the Coroner committed him for trial at the next
Durham assizes.

_ _ _
An Allahabad paper, under the heading "The Mis-
chiefs of a Native Press," comments in strong terms
on the pernicious effect which accrues from "the per.
sistent, systematic, and malignant vituperation" with
which Government measures and Government officers
are scandalously assailed. The article points out that
every endeavour is made by the native press to render
the misses disloyal, and at the same time to intimidatd
Government officers, both European and native, by
gross personal abuse, so as to render the honest and
independent discharge of duties a matter of constant
difficulty, especially in those cases where local interests
are antagonistic. The article urges strong reasons for
Government interference.
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Over 1000 persons assemble d in front of Leicestei
Prison on Saturday, to witness the release of a man
named William Smith, of Thurmaston, who had
undergone seven days' imprisonment for declining to
have his child vaccinated. The chairman and several
members of the Leicester Town Council and Board of
Guardians held a meeting opposite to the entrance to
the gaol, and declined to disperse at the request of the
police, the leaders of the meeting handing their cards
to the police to facilitate further proceedings should
these be instituted. The man Smith was welcomed
with loud cheering by the crowd, and at the meeting
which followed volutions were passed condemning the
Vaccination ALTA and the county magistrates for
sending respectable citizens to prison for conssience
sake.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to confer the
Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath upon his Excel-
lency Sir R. Morier, G.0.M.G., her Majcsty's
Ambassador at St. Petersburg; a Companionship of
the Bath upon Colonel Sir West Ridgeway, K.C.5.1.,
and Companionships of the Order of St. Michael and
St. George upon Captain A. Barrow and Captain F..cle
Laessiie, in recognition of their service in connection
with the recent Afghan Frontier Convention.
The adjourned inquest was held at Lancaster on
Monday evening on the body of Albert Kirkham, aged
five years, who was bitten by a rabid dog on the 18th
July. The deceased and two other children were sent
to Paris for treatment on the 25th Jul', returning on
the 25th August. The deceased became ill on the night
of his return, and died on the 27th. After a post-
mortem examination the doctors agreed that death
resulted from hydrophobia, and the inquest was
adjourned for experiments to be madjinn a rabbit or a
rat. No result attended the experiinente, and it was
pointed out that, unless made within five days, the
virus lost its effect. The jury returned a verdict of
"Death from hydrophobia."
A young man was charged at the Maidenhead
Borough Police-court on Monday with damaging a
sweetmeat automatic machine at the Great Western
Railway Sta ion. The ticket collector said that on
Saturday the defendant was seen to push over the
machine because, as he (the defendant) alleged, the
machine was nothing better than a fraud, he having
put 4d. into the box without getting anything out. A
representative of the Automatic Machine Company
stated that persons who put their pennies into thci
machines and could get nothing out could always get
their money back by applying to the company. In
default of paying a fine, the defendant west to prison
for three days.
As Colonel ()ebbe, the Government Inspector of
Police, was being driven through the High-street at
Chelmsford on Monday afternoon by Major Poyntz, the
Chief Constable of Essex, the horse bolted and dashed
into the gateway of the Saracen's Head Hotel, throw-
ing Colonel Cobbe out OD the granite kerbing, aLd
rendering him insensible. An aunt and a daughter of
the landlord of the hotel, who were crossing the yard at
the time, were knocked down and seriously injured.
The aunt soon afterwards succumbed to her injuries,
and the daughter rewained unconscious. Major Poyntz
was unhurt, although both shafts of the cart were
snapped off before the horse was stopped.
A fire occurred from a carious cause at the shop of a
dealer in spectacles at Torquay, on Monday. The sun's
rays became focussed through the glass of a pair of
spectacles which were shown for sale in the shop
window, and thus ignited a blind. The fire and
smoke filling the window attracted the attention of a
passer-by, who entered the shop and aroused the
proprietor. The latter appears to have been absent
from his shop at the moment, and was ignorant of the
accident. The fire was promptly extinguished, it not
having spread far enough, fortunately, to endanger the
premises.
Viscountess Cross on Monday laid the memorial
Itone of a Mission Onurch at Broughton Mills. Viscount
Cross congratulated those present on having secured a
place of worship for a district the inhabitants of which
had hitherto been without any meeting place except a
barn. His lordship hoped that those living in the
neighbourhood would attend the services with profit to
themselves and their children:
At the Oldham Railway Station, on Monday after.
noon, as the prisoners were about to be taken to the
County Prison at Manchester, one of them named
Mary Haynes, who had been committed for drunken.
ness, attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself
in front of a train. Two constables immediately seized
her and dragged her to the opposite platform just
as another train was approaching in the opposite dire°.
t ion .

Two soldiers, named White and Squibbs, were at
Portsmouth Police-court, on Monday, charged with
assaulting Henry Martin, a waterman. Because he
declined to convey defendants and two other soldiers
in his boat to Gosport for 6d., which was half the fare
he demanded, they knocked hina down and threw him
overboard, the water being considerably beyond his
depth. They were each sentenced to six weeks' ima
prisonment with hard labour.
The landlord of the Bail's Head Inn at Sandwich
was on Monday morning apprehended for having in his
possession five pounds of cigars and three pounds of
smuggled tobacco. A great deal of interest was
created, the general impression being that there was a
connection between the ease and the capture of the
smugglers on the Sandhills. The defendant was fined
£lO, being triple the value and duty, and costs also were
imposed.
An infant, twelve months old, the child of a man
named Isaac Mellor, was binned to death at Bakewell
on Monday morning. It appeared that the parents
went downstairs and left three children in bed. The
eldest got a matchbox which was in the candlestick,
and set the bed on fire, the baby being so badly burned
that it lived only a few minutes. The other children
escaped without injury.
Four hundred and fifty cotton operatives employed
by Messrs. James Thompson and Co„ Hollin Bank
Mill, Blackburn, were locked out on Monday morning.
Fifty-six thousand spindles and seven hundred and
forty looms are stopped. The action of the employers
is said to be due to bad work done by the operatives.
Appleton Colliery, the property of the Hetton Goal
Company, situated near Durham, was " laid " on
Monday, and about 7CO men and boys were thrown out
of work, owing to a rush of water having broken out in
the ventilation shaft. Every effort is being made to
prevent the water flowing into the workings.
A Paris correspondent, writing on Monday night,
states that the Manifesto of the Comte de Paris is
likely to bring fresh trouble upon the Royal and
Imperial families of France in the shape of more
banishments and confiscations of property.
A letter has been sent by her Majesty to King John
of Ala} ssinia, which refers to the dispute now existing
with Italy, with the object of restoring peace between
the two countries.

Charles INewman was convicted at the Old Bailey on
Monday of forging a cheque in the name of Mr. Birch,
Queen's gate terrace, and was sentenced to five years'
penal servitude.
The " Temps "states that the Rev. Mr. Hackett, an
Euglish clergyman, who embarked at Sydney on board
the French steamer Sydney, from New Caledonia,
which reached Marseilles on Monday morning, died
dm lug the voyage.
A farmer named Ashbnry is in custody at Athets
stone, on a charge of shooting two men who were
trespa.sing in search of mushrooms on his farm at
Hurley, near Atherstone. He saw the men In a field
lookir g for mushrooms, and went towards them, when
they ran off. He followed and is alleged to have fired
at them, wounding both slightly in the back and one in
the ear The men were attended by a doctor, and
Ashbury was apprehended.
The last of the bodies of the persons who lost theit
lives by the elpsizing of the yacht Monarch, near to
Ilfracombe, has been recovered. From the clothing
and the contents of the pockets it has been identified
as that of Mr. Hards, of Ewell, Surrey. The body of
Mr. Rayner, of Bayswater, London, has been found at
Heddon Mouth, about six miles from Ilfracombe, BO
that the fourteen bodies have now been recovered.
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At the Tipperary Sessions on Saturday, Patrick
Daly, a farmer, residing at Ballygerrane, near Emly,
was fined £25, with the alternative of three months'
imprisonment with hard labour, for having in his posses.
sion twelve gallons of illicit spirits. A police officer
gave evidence to the effect that he found ten gallons of
poteen on the defendant's premises underneath a bed,
and also a quantity of whiskey in other parts, as well
as utensils for making spirits.

Another Welshman- vise fined ten shillings and costs
at cheater, on Saturday, for being intoxicated on
Sunday at Dodleston. Superintendent Downes in.
formed the migistrates that disgraceful scenes were
wirnesFed on S.lndays in the Cheshire villages on the
Welsh border. Unable to obtain drink in their own
country, the Welshmen came over in crowds and got
helplessly drunk.

.
Harry Coulon, landlord of the Wheatsheaf Inn,
°Nottingham, and well known in the music. hall proles—
pion as a variety entertainer, has committed suicide.
He had beer, suffering from consumption, and as his
recovery was regarded as hopeless he became greatly
r;ei rt sped, cbd on Saturday morning he was found
bi bed ctitb tiu throat cut, and a rawr lying by his
4:de