The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-10-15 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lord Randolph Ohnrolaill will *Teak at Stockport on
December 15.
A failure to vaccinate is punished et Phcenix,
Arizona, by a fine of 300 dols. or six months' imprison.
ment.

The French Consul at Lauruim has been dismissed
from his post for having accompanied one of the princes
of the Orleans family on a tour through Greece. •
The Queen has just presented Madame Albani with
the Jubilee commemoration medal in diamonds. It
has at the top a diamond star with sapphires.
In Drohobitsch (Galicia) a society has bean formed
for the -study of Jewish literature and history.
At Dowlais a serious dispute has occurred between
the Dowlais Iron Company and their colliers, and 11
collieries have suspended operations, throwing out of
work some 4000 men and boys.
According to a report from Buda-Pesth it has been
definitely settled to establish a smalbarms manufactory
in Hungary. It is said that a Berlin bra will carry.'
out the undertaking.
At Farnham on Saturday Henry Bowles was arrested
and remanded by the police magistrate, charged on
suspicion with baying murdered his wife and son, who
died at Camberley on September 22 from the effects,
it is alleged, of poisoning. -
A small homestead_on the outskirts of Ashford caught
fire the other. morning. There was but lit le water,
and the Fire Frigade not being summoned, the whole of

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the buildings were destroyed.
Sir William klaroourt has promised to speak at -
Liberal meeting at Penrith on Novesiter 16 A Con-
ference of Westmorland and Cumberland Liberals will
- be held on the same day, at which-Mr. SchnadhorstwiU
be present. .
Shipwrecks reported last week deortrtsed- -to -26 in
number, compared with the previous week, and collision
Tams decreased to 22. Off the United Kingdom three
vessels (British) went down, obe sinking by :collision.
Al3ritish steamer sank by collision off Denmark, and
a foreign -steamer, by collision off'Belghlra•: A Nor-
wegian sailer and an Italian sailer 'Were briint . sea.
An American passenger steamer was reportedAest with
.16 persons, and a Japanese steamer With six persons.
Total wrecks for present yearnurriber 1065.* Total lives
lost in all bottoms for present year, 238 a.
Shocks of earthquake continue daily- in Greece,
chiefly at Kiatort and Xylo.-Kastro; near Corinth. The
inhabitants of these places are camping in the fields,
the houses being rendered uninhabitable.
The trial of the Socialist, Moreau, before the Court
of Assizes of the Province of Brabant, terminated on
'3aurday. The accused was coridembed to to years'
impris3nment for delivering insurrectiobary speeches.
-. A body -of some 2600 Dervishers is said to have
assembled at Barns, and on Saturday a number of them
descended the Nile half-way to' Wady Haifa.
• Sir George Trevelyan has accepted the presidercv of
the Gloucester Junior Liberal Association for the
• ensuing year.
Steps are being taken to' hold, it Reeding, a county
meeting to urge that a new basis is required for local
• taxation that would place agriculturists on an equality
with other classes of the community.
. A cart, which had been seized for tithes due to Christ.
Church, Oxford, from Mr. Derbyshire.. surveyor of
highways, was sold at Northwich the Ober clay. The
auctioneer said the proceedinia Were unpleasant but
they had to be taken. The bidding was very slow,
several well-known farmers declaring that they thought
it .shameful to make soy bids; but eventually a Mr.
, Firth bought the cart for half its value. The Libera.
tion Society had placarded the town with a titaterdent
giving the origin of the tithes. - .
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The Vienna " Allgemeine Sport Zeitung " raisea
certain accusations against an English sportsman
named Smith, who is a resident in Vienna. Two low.
class newsmongers. named Moritz Ehrenfeld and a
pretended "Dr." Steiner, availed themselves of the
opportunity thus pre,ented to attempt to levy black-
mail on Mr. Smith, from whom they demanded the
modest sum of three thousand florins as hush money.
The two worthy gentlemen informed their intended
victim that in order to silence the eight daily papers
of Vienna they would reauire to pay them sums vary-
ing from two hundred up to eight hundred florins
each. At this point Mr Smith had the eccentricity to
commnicate the facts to the police, who laid a trap for
the two so called "revolver " journalists, and arrested
them.
In a very cordial soknowledgment of the gift offered
by the Nizara of Hyderabad to India the Viceroy
Informs his Highness that the Queen warmly values
his offer as a fresh proof of friendship.
The autumn meetings of the Congregational Union
have been this week held at Leeds, nearly a thousand
delegates assembling. The inaugural sermon in Queen's
Chapel was preached be Dr. Clifford, ex-President of
the Baptist Union, and the customary meeting in
connection with the Total Abstinence Society also took
place.
M. Yves Onyot. in a letter to Mr. E. K. Muspratt,
President of the Financial Reform Association. states
th•‘ M. Sane Leroy, who is reporting to the French
Chamber concerning the law relating to sugar. has
found in all the Exchequers of Europe a strong desire
to snpprtss the bounties. This desire is shared by M.
Bouvier, and it is therefore hoped that at the forth-
coming Conference in London a decision may be
arrived at.

Colonel Howard Vincent, M.P., having addressed a
letter to the War Office inquiring whether a volunteer
reernit can still pass into the second class in musketry
without firing the whole of the sixty rounds prescribed,
provided he makes the requisite total of points in the
first twenty rounds, hag been informed that a recruit
will hay") fire the whole of the sixty rounds in any
case, no matter how good his performance in the first
twenty may have been. It is understood that a general
order on the pole will shortly be issued.
ir Morell Mackenzie arrived in London on Monday
night, and has brou• ht a very favourable report of the
present condition of his august patient the Crown
Prinea of Germany.
The Maharajah of Mys-re has contributed 50,000
tupees to the %oda of the Imperial Institute.
Thomas James Barnes. a photographer, of Mile-end-
road, was charged at the Thames Police•conrt. with
causing the death of his wife by shooting her with a
revolver. The evidence showed that the defendant and
his wife had lived together on good terms, and on a
remand being ordered the accused was liberated on
bail.

Mr. Brigge, one of the maßisfrates at Bow•street,
grantpd aPrimmons against Mr. E. 0. Keevil on Monday
for .RFanltirg Mr. Shepherd, at the office of the Board
of Work&. on the 7th inst.

The Platon, from Taganrog to the Mediterranoan,
laqen with grain, is reported by te'egraph to have been
totally lost in the Kertch Roads.
A telegram from Havre states that the Hoffonng
German barque, was run down and sunk off the Start
on the Bth inst.,by the Essegnibos. Part of the crew
were saved.

_
The Rev. James Ingram, MA., of Orkney, died sud-
denly on Saturday night. He was the " father "of the
Orkney Presbytery, and one of the oldest members of
his denomination,
Snow fell for a short time in large flakes on the
hills around Monmouth on Monday morning. On
Sunday about a hundred wild geese passed over Mon-
mouth horn the direction of the mouth towards the
source of the We.
William Sawser. who died at Pembroke Dock a day
or two since, was born on the 4th of December, 1798,
and was one of the few survivors of the batt'e of
Algiers, fought on the 27th of August, 1816.
Captain Shaw ought to have been presented on
Monday morning with white gloves (says a correspon-
dent) by the Metropolitan Board of Works, for he has
to report on Tuesday
_morning that for lhe last 32
hours no fire or call for a fire has been received at
any of the London fire stations. street stations, escapes
or fire alarm posts all over the metropolitan area.
New colours were presented on Tuesday to the
Oxfordshire Regiment by Lady Aberdare, in the
presence of a large concourse of people. Lady Aber-
dare, whose father, Sir W. Napier, served in the regi-
ment, and who has now a son in the same regiment,
delivered an address, reviewing the history of the regi-
ment. _

Lord Derby, writing on the Direstablishment ques-
tion OD Tuesday morning, states that the maintenance
of the Churoh establishment in England on its present
footing must depend on the will of Parliament, and
practically on the will of the House of Commons, foe
the Lords are not likely to take on themselves the
responsibility of permanently resisting the decision of
the constituencies at a general election when once it
is clear that that decision is deliberately taken, and
is not the result of momentary impulse.
the Charlotte Pigot died on Sundy at Whittington
Rectory, Kirkby Lonsdale, at the advanced age of 102
years and three months. The deceased, who up till a
few days of her death, enjoyed good health, was aunt
of the vicar of Kirkby Lonsdale and vicar of Harwich,
ner.r Bolton.

The proceedings of the Established Synod of Aber.
deen were on Tuesday afternoon interrupted by a
melancholy incident. Shortly after delivering a speech
the Rev. William Thomson, of Belbolvie, was seized
with an apopletic fit, and expired immediately. Mr.
Thompson was about 76 years of age. Mr. Frank M.
Rigby, a well, known member of the Liverpool Corn
Market, died suddenly on Tuesday morning at his
residence, Crosby, near Liverpool. He came down to
breakfast, apparently in his usual health, but was taken
suddenly ill, and died before the doctor could be
summoned. Heart disease is believed to be the cause of
death.

At the inquest held on Tuesday on the body of Mrs.
Emily Barnes, who was shot dead on Saturday after.
noon last by her husband at 422, Hile.end-road, East
London, the jury returned a verdict of death from mitt'
adventure.

The Norwich Musical Festival, held triennially in aid
of the principal charities of Norfolk and Norwich,
began on Tuesday night in St. Andrew's Hall with
satisfactory performances of Mr. Mackenzie'm " Jubilee
Ode," M. Saint•Saens's " Nineteenth Psalm," and Men-
del.sohn's "Hymn of Praise."
Troutbeck, deputy. coroner for Westminster,.
concluded his inquiry•on Tuesday into the circum-
stances attending the death of two boyscthe sons of a
hairdresser named Same, who lost their lives by a fire
in their father's chop in the ',Strand. A great many
witnesses were called, including the mother of the
deceased, their two si,ters, some of the neighbours,
and
.an official from An insurance ,office, the latter of
whom dePoced that the stock and furniture were in.
sure,' for £706. The jury returned an open verdict
adding a rider in favour of legislation for the provision
-of better means of escape in case of fire.

--Sir Wilfrid Lawsltt presided over the annual meet.
ing of the United Kingdom Alliance at Manchester on
Tuesday, when a resolution was passed in favour of
introducing into Parliament a bill to enable the
inhabitants of districts throughout the United King..
dom to forbid the sale of intoxicating drink.
Application wits made on Tuesday to the Nottingham
magistrates for the renewal of the license of the
Theatre Royal. The presiding magistrate said the
Bench were prepared -to grant the license for three
, months on. the enderganding that the proprietors
undertook to complete the alterations in the building
suggested by the Visiting Committee of the Justices.
Various alterations had beep proposed, and if they were
completed irefore the expiration of the three months
the usoal license would be granted. After some eon.
vereatiort, the applicant give the required undertaking,
and the license was renewed for three months.
A largely•attended meeting of the watch. movement
makers of Prescot was held on Tuesday to take into
consideration the present depressed conditicn of the
trade owing to foreign competition. principally
American and Swiss. It was hown that the recnot
depression of trade generally had called for cheep
articles, and that the foreign manufacturers seeing this
had supplied the want. It was resolved to form a
company with a capital of 1400,000 to build a factory
in which to manufacture-a cheap and good English
watch to compete with- thosa of foreign make. A
c-nrucuLtee was appointed to carry the resolution into
effect.
Sir Thomas Esmonde" and• Mc... Arthur O'Clonno,
at'ended a banquet in their honour on Monday night
at Lowell, Massachusetts,_ at which, they delivered
speeches. .
An able Freeman named Cowper was tried by court-
martial at P ,rtsmouth On.. Tuesday for striking hie
superior officer, William Stagg, captain of the, main.
top. On the 171 h -of September the prisoner was
creating a disturbance on the deck of the Vmeraire,
1 when he Was requested by Stagg to desist. He
declined to do so, and struck Stagg a revere blow with
his fist. The accused, who pleaded guilty, and whnse
character was fair, was sentenced to two years' hard
labour.

The effects of the recent drought' in Yorkshire have
not been so excevively aiverse to graziers and farmers
PAS IVRA anticipated, and the turnip and mswrold:orons
we estimated to be only about 25 per cent. below the
.average. In some places where the land' is superior the
roots are folly equal in-bulk to last year's growth.
Information from Navassa, an island lying between
Hityti and Jamaica states that on. September 23 an
earthquake occurred there, which seemed to send a
tremor through the whole bland. No damage was
done.

Tuesday night's London "Gazette " contains a return
showing the number of receiving orders in the High
Court: and in the several County Courts having Bank.,
ruptiiv iurisdialob in England and Wales, gazette() in
the enfirters and nine menthe ending respectively 30th
Sept. mber, 1.885 1886, and 1887. In the High Court
the 60-tree:Mr the "thiee inonths wee—in 1887, `L•O4;
in 1836, 197;- and in:: 1885,:192: The corresponding
figures in other courts were 1029, 09, and Pg), the
totabi. being 1233, 1166, and 1086,-iespectlvely, For
the nine- months the figures for the three years in
ththe
High Court were 654-, 643. an& 606; in other courts,
c00n5,095,
2990, 2946, and 2709; #1;1,0t,!40 were 0
and 3315 respectively, •,. • •
AO several of the
A number of men and boys pars
London West•end streets on Tuesday, with the
object
ktld' 4? .
for them. They wore followed by a detachment of
6f. enforcing, their claim that something mist be done
m cT]
Eventually the procession returned
o Trafalgar.
are, where speeches were made, and it
t n t ed poi ;p.
r
was annoueced that another parade would take place
on Wednesday.
• Mr. Glad.etone has consented to receive an address at
Derby on his way to Nottingham next week. It is
expected that the right hon. gentleman will deliver ti
' P pee oh to the members of the local Liberal association
who w)11 assemble in great force on the occasion. ,
Lord Rosebery being unable. to open the Stansted
Liberal Club, as invited, on October 18th, the ceremony
has been postponed until the•24thinst,wbee Sir Charles
Russell, Q.C., M.P., has promised to perform the
ceremony.
Mr. A. S. Balfour, Chief Se-cretary for lieland. has
Birmingham, in connection-with the
accepted an invitation to address a peblic meeting in
the Town Hall,
first annual meeting of th,e Midland Union of Clouser.
vative Associations on the 4th November.
Mr. John Morley, M.P., has written a letier in which
he expresses the opinion that there isnot the slightest
foundation for the a
pprehession that .religious'perse-
cution,can take a virulent form in Ireland. 'z'

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