The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-03-26 00:00:00

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess
Henry of Battenberg, two children of the Duke of
Connaught, and the daughter of the Duchess of Albany,
attended a special private performance of the Paris
Hippodrome company at Olympia, West Kensington,
on Saturday. The same evening her Majesty left
London for Windsor.
Mr. W. P. Morrison held an inquest at Redhill on
Saturday, as to the death of Mr. J. D Whitehead, 60,
a London hop factor. Mr. Whitehead had been very
depressed since the death of his wife some six months
since. His son went into the garden, and on opening
the orchid house he saw his father sitting on a very
Low seat, almost on the floor. The young man called
to him, and the deceased, without answering, imme-
diately took a revolver and putting the muzzle to his
head fired it. The son rushed forward, but his father
appeared-to be dead. He was fully dressed. A coach-
man came to the son's aid, and drew his attention to
a rope which was round his father's neck. The other
end was fastened to a girder. A verdict of "Tem-
porary insanity" was returned.
To commemorate the Queen's Jubilee the Salt family,
of Saltaire, have offered to transfer to the public 45
private almshouses, providing accommodation for 60
people, with extensive grounds and an infirmary, built
at a coot of £40,000, as well as £30,000 left under the
will of the late Sir Titus Salt for the benefit of the
poor people of the district, as an endowment fund,
Already property equal to £50,000 has been given to
the public by the same family.
Tre Jubilee movement in Altrincham has assumed
a definite form. The Trustees of the Literary Institu.
tion are willing to transfer the building and contents,
valued at £3OOO, to a committee appointed to inaugu-
rate a free library and news-room, and should the
Charity Commissioners direct any diversion of the
Mayor's Land Charity, the income derived theretrom
will probably form a nucleus for the endowment of an
Art and Technical School
Colonel Brise has resigned his Nsiition as Chairman
of the Governors of Felsted School, Essex, under the
following circumstances: At a recent meeting the
Governors resolved to allow a remission of 10 per
cent. on the tithe rent -charge due to them, but at a
subsequent meeting, when there was a larger attend-
ance, the resolution was rescinded. The gallant chair-
man thereupon resigned.
The sixteenth annual football match between
Association teams representing England and Scotland
took place on Saturday at Blackburn, resulting in a
victory for Scotland by three goals to two.
A fire was discovered on Saturday afternoon in a
warehouse situate in Grundy-street, Victoria-road,
Liverpool. On the fire-engine arriving at the burning
building, which was of six storeys, the firemen set to
work, but dense volumes of smoke prevented them from
doing much to check the progress of the flames, which
spread to the entire building. By seven o'clock the roof
fell in, and it was not till 10 o'clock that the fire was
mastered. The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth storeys
were burned out, and damage was done to the extent
of £25,000. The building contained a large quantity of
American cotton.
A very dastardly attempt has just been discovered by
the police to fire the large hosiery factory of Messrs.
Pegg and Heathcote, Leicester. It appears that a
window in the factory was broken, and an ignited
match stuck into some dozens of hosiery goods. A
policeman finding the window broken made an entrance
and found the goods very much heated. The attempt
to fire the place is attributed to trade disputes.
It is stated at Constantinople that, upon receiving
Moulthtar Pasha's report, the Porte will propose to Sir
H. D. Wolff that the question of the evacuation of
Egypt shall be settled before the consideration of the
neutralisation scheme.
A memorial has been presented to the Indian
Government by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce on
the subject of the Public Service Commission.
Several severe earthquake shocks were felt on
taaturday at Summerville, in South Carolina.

Lilisidences in the salt district continue, and excite
a good deal of alarm. On Monday a hole was suddenly
formed in the yard of the Whoa Sheaf Hotel,
Northwich. A cellarman fell into the hole, and was
rather severely injured.
A man named Joseph Harris, was committed fcr
trial by the Bolton magistrates on Monday for a
burglary at the Derby Arms Hotel. Representing
himself as a detective from Scotland-yard in search of
a bank robber, he obtained access to the house during
an evening party, and it is alleged made off with a
considerable amount of property. •
A deputation of members of Parliament, headed by
Mr. Muudella, MP., waited upon Lord Cranbroek at
the Education Office, on Monday, to urge the necessity
of Governmental action with egard to technical and
commercial education. The proposition to woich his
lordship's attention was especially called was that
School Boards or local authorities should be empowered
to found or give aid to schools fitted to promote tech-
nical and commercial education, both in day and night
schools. Lord Cranbrook, after hearing the views of
the deputation, assured them that the subject should
receive his most careful consideration.
A miner named Isaac Hazlehurst was remanded at
Barnsley on Monday charged with the wilful murder of
his wife. It appears that a party of men were drinking
at his house on Sunday, and in the evening Hazelhurst,
finding the woman alone with one of the men kicked
her. On Monday morning the woman was found to
have expired.
The volunteer corps in and about London will march
pant her Majesty at Buckiugham Palace on July 2.
After passing her Majesty they will proceed in military
proce.sion along a route to be hereafter detailed.
A Privy Council Inspector on Monday visited the
farm in Cheshire where the alarming outbreak of
anthrax occurred a week ago, and has confirmed the
report of the local inspector as to the nature of the
disease. The Inspector has pronounced it highly con-
tagious and as difficult of control as cholera. The
county authorities have therefore issued a notice warn-
ing the public or the danger incurred in handling the
carcases of animals who may die of anthrax. Fodder,
litter, and manure are to be burnt, and the carcases of
animals buried and covered with quicklime tinder six
feet of earth. The disease is at present confined to
Parkside Farm, Aston, and no further cases have
occurred there.
Arthur Taylor, a private in the Ist Battalion Cold-
stream Guard°, stationed at Caterham Barracks, was
remanded, at Croydon, on Monday, on a charge of
burglariously breaking and entering the residence of
Police.eonstable Balcombe, at Coulsdon. The prose-
cutor had bit his dwelling perfectly secure on Sunday
night, and, upon his return, found the prisoner sitting
in the kitchen, without his hat and belt. The prisoner
pleaded that he was drunk at the time, and knew
nothing about it.
At a meeting of the Jubilee Committee of Warring-
ton, on Monday night, the mayor presiding, it was
finally decided that the primary feature of the celebra.
tion should be a monster procession of school children
and various trades in the district. Medals commemo-
rative of the event will be distributed. The meeting
*also decided to beautify the vacant ground in front of
I the Town Hall, and Sir Gilbert Greenall promised to
I erect a handsome fountain in the centre.
' For the second time within 12 months the borough
of Croydon was polled on Monday with reference to the
adoption of, the Free Libraries Act. At nine o'clock
the Mayor announced that the adoption of the Act had
been negatived by a majority of 73. The num'oers
were—For the adoption, 1017; against, 1020. The an-
nouncement was received with uproarious cheers,
those in favour of the adoption being hooted and
groaned at.
Joseph Donald Elswood, a well-dressed young man,
' described as a brewer's pupil, pleaded guilty al
Croydon on Monday to stealing from an iron safe, at
Mi ehem Brewery, £34 in gold and a pair of
idiamondearrings, value £35, the property of EdwardArmatron
Little, his master. It was stated that the prisoner
made a duplicate key of the safe. He admitted pawn-
ing the earrings. He was remanded n custody.
The prospects of the lambing
and Romney Marsh are reported to be exceptionally
favourable, there being a large percentage of twins.
Notwithstanding the severe weather of last week the
young lambs have done fairly well, and the losses were
not so heavy as might have been expected.
George Hickling, 25, terra-cotta rapider of Thur.
maston, near Leicestertwas out walking on Monday
' with some friends carrying a gun, which he was Min-
i ing in his band, when the weapon exploded, and the
I charge, entering his head, blew his brains out.
Navill Triplow, a private of the 3rd (King's Own)
Hussars, was, at Manchester on Monday, committed
for trial on the charge of shooting a comrade, named
George Shepherd. The men quarrelled in the barrack
room about 3d the prisoner said Shepherd owed him.
Shepherd denied the debt, and Triplow threatened to
knock it out of him. He procured a double-barrelled
gun and pointed it at Shepherd's head, but Shepherd
knocked the barrel down, and the shot struck him in
the left thigh, inflicting a danperous wound.
The Prince of Wales will arrive at Lord Egerton's
Cheshire residence, at Tatton Park. by special North-
Western train on Monday, the 2nd of May, On May
Day, at Knutsford, which is close to Lord Tatton's
Park, the custom of crowning the May Queen is ob-
served with all ceremony, and endeavours are being
made to arrange the pretty floral festival (which will
be held on the 2nd, as the let falls on Sunday) so that
his Royal Highness and the Princess of Wales may
attend. Lord Egerton is now on the Continent, and
has been communicated with on the matter.
The convalescence of Prince Alexander of Battenberg
has so far advanced that the restrictions placed by the
physicians on the intercourse between the patient and
his friends have now been removed, the necessary
measures of disinfection being taken.
The works for effecting a junction between the line
from Calais to Paris with that from Boulogne by means
of a diagonal bridge, 315 metres long, acmes the Lidue,
have been commenced. It is hoped that the direct
route will be open before the close of the year, when it
will be no longer _necessary for the mail to enter
Boulogne, and the Paris run will be shortened by 20
minutes.
. The Duke of Cambridge has intimated his intention
Of visiting Dorsetshire in May next, for the purpose of
inspecting the Dorsetshire Regiment of Yeomanry
during their annual training at Weymouth. may 20
has been fixed for his Royal Highness's visit.
In reply to a letter from Mr. G. J. Leach, of
Burnley, giving the observations of the latter on the
progress of the Irish question, and remarking that
Burnley had struck the keynote of justice for Ireland,
Mr. Gladstone writes "Dear Sir,—l thank you for
stating the results of your observations, and I can
assure you that they correspond with those that reach
me in many forms and from many quarters —Ytmrs
faithfully and obediently, W. E. GLADSTONE."
The Hon. Richard Denman, brother of Lord Denman
and of Mr. Justice Denman, died on Saturday morning
at his residence, Westergate House, near Chichester,
after a short illness. The deceased gentleman had for
many years filled the post of Clerk of Assize on the
Home Circuit, now amalgamated with the South-
Eastern Circuit. He was in his 74th year.
At Bridgend Police - court, on Saturday James
Cornish Williams, manager of the Cubbwr Colliery, near
Bridgend, was summoned at the instance of the Crown
charged with neglecting to provide proper ventilation
511 the workings. The Bench inflicted a penalty of £2O
, and costs in one case, and a nominal penalty in
I another.