The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-11-12 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

The petition for a divorce presented by Mrs.
Radclyffe-Hall came on Saturday before Sir Jame.'
Hanuen, who in the result granted a decree nisi with
costs.

A new public recreation ground at Kilburn. to be
called the Queen's Park, was formally opened by the
Lord Mayor of London on Saturday.
Lord Justice Cotton presided on Saturday over a
dinner of London volunteers, sergeants, and ex-
sergeants, held at Westminster, to commemorate
the Queen's Jubilee. The Duke of Cambridge, in
the course of a speech, pointed out how the volun-
teer force had been developed during the Queen's
reign.
A telegram from a correspondent in New York
announces that Mr. Chamberlain arrived there on
Saturday. The correspondent says that there has been
no change in American sentiments towards him,
though the journals which wish his mission to result
in failure have somewhat altered their tone lest the
angry protests of the Canadian Press should lead to a
nr)re suitable envoy being sent, and thus render failure
less certain.
A telegram from Durban says it is reported that
hostilities have commenced against Dinizula in Zulu-
land, and that three British soldiers have been killed.
At Consett, on Saturday, a young man named
Johnson, a fireman, was severely crushed owing to the
accidental breaking of a chain lifting a heavy steel
ingot between an engine and bogie waggon. Death
was instantaneous.
On the invitation of the Liberal Council of the Wel-
Hinton Division of Shropshire, Mr. J. H. Sanders, who
recently contested the Ramsey Division of Hunting-
donshire, will contest the seat at the next election
rvtinat the sitting Liberal Unionist member, Mr. A. H.
Ilresra.
During a football match at Grantham, on Saturday.
between Grantham and Notts Rangers for the Second
Round of the English Cup, a man named Streets, who
was playing centre half-back for the home team fell
and broke his wrist. Dr. Wilson was on the ground,
and immediately attended the injured man.
At :Listowel on Saturday a young man named Pat
Kelly was arrested under the Crimes Act for rescuing
a horse from the bailiffs who were effecting a seizure
of his father's stock.

Prince Albert Victor, who was accompanied by Cant.
Hon. A. Greville, arrived at York on Saturday after-
noon, and at once drove to the Cavalry Barracks,
where he dined with the officers. His arrival was
somewhat unexfiested, but a considerable crowd trid
assembled at the station. Sir Josh Terry (the Lord
Mayor), and the Lady Mayoresa. were at the station..
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Jno. L. Sullivan, the celebrated American pugilist,
accompanied by his wife, manager Mr. IL S. Phillips,
his trainer Jack Ashton, and a few other friends,
arrived at Queenstown on Saturday, aboard the Ounsrd
ship Cepbalinea from Boston. Sullivan states that his
ocean voyage was agreeable. He is in goOd condition,
and sates his willingness to fight Smith and Kilrain,
one after the other, witb an hour intervening. He
proposes giving boxing exhibitions in London and
the principal cities of the United Kingdom. His height
is Mt. 104 in., and his present weight 2311b5. He
measures 44in, round the chest, and his fighting weight
is 1951b5.

Mr. C. K. Shaw, medical officer of health for the
borough of Hastings, reports that during the quarter
ending September 30 thee were 277 births, equiva-
lent to a birth rate of 20.05 per 1000; the illegitimate
births were 541 per cent. of the total, and the natural
increase of births over deaths 106. The death-rate for
the quarter was 1208. per 1000, being 1 36 per 1000
below the average of the last six years. Mr. Sbaw
concludes his report by stating that "In spite of the
extensive epidemic of scarlet fever in London, Hastings
is as free as usual from that zymotie disease, and up
to the present time fewer eases of infectious disease
have been admitted to the Sanatorium than in any
previous year."
Mary Ann Wharrie, 30, servant, was, by Ur. Baron
Huddleston, at the Nottingham Assizes on Tuesday
sentenced to death for the murder of her illegitim to
child, aged three wLeks. The woman, having recovered
1 from her confinement in Spilsby Union, 'Lincolnshire,
last July, left the workhouse, carrying her baby. She
visited several places in Lincolnshire in a semi-demented
condition, and after wandering about the whole of one
night she presented herself at the house of a relative
without the child, whose body was subsequently found
buried in a neighbouring garden. It had been partly
devoured by dogs. The prisoner said the child died
from an overdose of laudanum, and that she hid the
body.
At Coventry on Tuesday, Neale, the Coventry
solicitor against whom heavy charges of forgery will be
preferred at Warwick Assizes next week, was brought
up on a writ of habeas corpus from prison to undergo
public examination as a bankrupt. When the Court
had sat half an hour the debtor became so ill, and
broke so frequently into tears, that the examination
had to be adjourned. He said he wished it to go forth
that all his wrong doing was through having borrowed
money at enormous interest.
Mr. Eardly Hall, senior partner in the firm of Hall,
Bevan, West, and Hall, of the Brighton Union Bank,
died on Monday afternoon at Barrow Hall, Henfield
in his eighty-first year. He retired from active par-
ticipation in the business five years ago, but continued
to .act as borough treasurer, which office he had held
since the incorporation of the town. Until two years
since he was a magistrate for Sussex, and attended the
Stey ning Bench.
At Portsmouth on Tuesday, four seamen belonging
to the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, were charged
with smuggling various quantities of tobacco and
cigars. The charges having been proved, the magis-
trates convicted each defendant, inflicting fines
amounting in the aggregate to £ll5,
Before Justices Stephen and Charles on Tuesday,
sittiog in the Queen's Bench Division, Mr. H. 011 ams,
on behalf of the Incorporated Law Society, applied to
have a Nottinghamshire solicitor struck off the rolls
on the ground that he had been convicted of em-
bezzlement. The solicitor appeared in person, and
admitted the conviction, but pleaded earnestly that
the judgment might be modified to a period of sus-
pension. The court, however, said solicitors could not
be too particular in money matters, and ordered the
name to be removed.
Telegrams from Vienna report that Baron Hirsch,
the well-known financier, is about to devote the large
sum of four millions sterling to the relief of distressed
Jews and for the assistance of the Jewish charitable
societies and institutions of Europe. The baron has
appointed his secretary, who at present is believed to
be in Russia, to distribute the money. The baron, who
made his colossal fortune in Turkish railways, lost his
only son last year.

Mr. E. Lyi'llph Stanley held his first inquiry into
the affairs of the Cardiff Trustee Savings Bank. The
evidence of certain officials was taken in private.
An inquest was held on Tuesday as to the death of a
young man named Jenkins, who shot himself in
Harley•street, London, on Sunday evening, after
attempting to murder a girl with whom be had kept
company. The evidence tended to show that he was
excited by jealousy, and the jury returned a verdict of
suicide whilst of nnannnii mind.
The Bank of England was recently ordered by a Di-
visional Court of the Queen's Bench to restore to the
Company of the Staple of England over four thous‘nd
pounds Consols which bad been transferred to the clerk
of that Company, who had ab.conded. Having heard
the Bank's appeal from this decision, the Master of the
Rolls and Lords Justices Bowen and Fry on Tuesdal
dismissed it with costs. _ _ _

Between the Ist April last and the sth instant the
Exchequer receipts were £46,262,109, as compared with
£46,571,813 in the corresponding period of the last
financial year; and the expenditure £50,284,611, as
against £52,677,448. On Saturday last the Treasury
balances amounted to £1,313,572, and on the corre-
sponding date last year to 1.,286,642.
A Madrid correspondent telegraphs that Hillairaud,
the assailant of Marshal Bazaine, has been sentenced
to eight years' penal servitude. The sentence is
generally considered severe.
The death-rate of London continued last week at
21'5 per thousand annually. There were 69 deaths
from scarlet fever, but the heaviness of the mortality
is due to a large increase in the fatal cases of diseases
of the respiratory organs, which are greatly in excess
of the average.
The President of the Institution of Civil Engineers,
Mr. G. D. Bruce, delivered, on Tuesday evening, the
Inaugural address of the session, in which he sketched
the advances made by engineering science during the
Queen's reign.
The Earl of Morley presided at the annual meeting
of the Chudleigh Agricultural Association, Devon, on
Tuesday night, and in proposing "Success to the
Association," dealt with the question of Fair Trade as 1
compared with Free Trade. He maintained that,
while the farmers had suffered much through depres-
sion, brought about for the most part by a series of bad
seasons, the agricultural latiourer had been better
housed and better provided for since the introduction
of Free Trade. He did not hold out any hope of
agriculturists getting any redress through any altera-
tion in our fiscal system. Practical redress would only
he found by a consistent reduction in rents and by
farmers persevering and adapting themselves to meet-
ing the demands of the market.
William Rogers was at the Middlesex SCigiODR on
Tuesday found guilty of breaking into a dwelling-
house in Clerkenwell end stealing property therefrom
Previous convictions were adduced against him, and he
was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.
A latourer named Ingle, at the Surrey Sessions on
Tuesday, pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing a
piece of bacon from a shop. Three previous convic-
tions for felony and one for assault were proved against
him, and he was sentenced to penal servitude for seven
Tears.