The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-07-16 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Queen has been pleased to confer the dignity
of a peerage upon Earl Percy and also upon the Right
Q. Hubbard, M.P.
Alfred Raper i for many years treasurer to Her
Majesty's Theatre, London, appeared at Worship.
street Police court on Saturday, in answer to a sumi
mons charging him with havirg deserted his wife,
and calling on him to show cause why he should not
contribute towards her support. The defendant
stated that in 1875 he found that she had established
an improper intimacy with Thomas Wainwright,
brother of the murderer of Harriet Lane, and that from
the time of that discovery he had refused to support
her. These allegations were denied and the case
was adjourned, so that further evidence may be taken.
On Saturday afternoon an alarming accident
occurred in the Thames, a drifting barge having run
Into the London Steamboat Company's steamer
Princess Mary, which was crowded with passengers.
A panic arose, and many passengers jumped or were
thrown into the river. All were, however, rescued and
conveyed to the shore.
Sir Julian Goldsmid, MY., presided at the annual
meeting of the Anglo-Jewish Association on Sunday,
and the report, which showed an improved fikancial
position, was unanimously adopted.
Lord Hartington has addressed a rejoinder to Mr.
Gladstone with regard to the latt,t's statement as to
the confidential proceedings in the Cabinet of 1885.
His lordship says the private letter which Mr. Glad.
stone sent to him at that time, and which he has
spoken of as one of the strongest remonstrances,
cannot, in his opinion, be properly so described, but he
has no objection to publish it if the right hon, gentle.
man thinks fit. _ _ _ _

Intelligence has reached Bombay to the effect that
1000 Russians have arrived at Khawaling, three days'
journey from Badakshan, and have commenced erect-
ing barracks.
The sheiks and tribesmen found guilty of complicity
in the murder of Lieutenant Stewart, R.N., have been
sentecced to various terms of imprisonment with hard
labour and flogging.
On Sunday morning the official entry of General
,Boulanger into Clermont-Ferrand took place amidst
demonstrations of popular enthusiasm.

On Saturday the Bulgarian Regents resigned office.
Mr Grenfell, the English explorer, has arrived at
Brussels from the Congo.

"Leading Cases in Modern Equity" is the title of a
volume to appear immediately from the pen of Mr.
Thomas Brett, LLD.
Mr. Thomas Rhode's "Holidays Afloat" will be
published early next week. It deals with incidents
of adventure on some of the most famous ocean
liners.

At a meeting recently held at Leeds, under the pre.
sidency of the Mayor, it was resolved to invite the
British Association to make that town the scene of itt
gathering in 1890.
Orders have been given by the Mersey Harbour
Board for the removal of the Great Eastern steamship
from the Mersey within seven days.
The total amount received at the London Mansion
House on behalf of Hospital Sunday Fund now
araoun's to £35,600.
The Earl of Aberdeen has been entertained at a
banquet given at St. Paul, U.S.A., in his honour by
some 1.00 Irish-Americans and otbe, s. He afterwards
made a speech in favour of Home Rule for Ireland.
Father Neno, the General of the Angustinian Order,
accompanied by his secretary, has left Paris for
Dublin, where he is about to hold a Chapter of his
Order for the choice of provincial rectors.
The Hawaiian Consul-General with reference to the
reported damage done by the volcano in Hawaii, and
the consequent loss of life, states that nothing is
known of any such occurrence.
Nearly 75,000 fleeces of wool were disposed of on*
Saturday, at Blandford, by public auction, trade being
good and prices slightly in advance of Dorchester Wool
Fair. Ewe and teg made on an average from 11d. to
Is. Id., and best samples from is. to Is. lid. Lord
Alington's down ewe and Sussex lamb wool made
Is. 2id. per lb., as did also Mr. William Watts's, of
Launceston.

The eviction campaign which was to have commenced
on Saturday on the Kingston Estate, Michelstown, was
postponed.
At Retford, on Saturday morning, as Miss Blsrkbam,
governess to the children of Mr. Hy. Spencer,
auctioner, and whose friends live at Hemswell, was
passing over a level crossing near Mr. Spencer's
residence, she was knocked down by a train and killed.
The Orangemen of Glaqgow, Greenock, and other
towns in the West of Scotland, anticipating July 12,
assembled in large numbers on Glasgow green on
Saturday, afterwards marching through the principal
streets, accompanied by bands and the waving of flags,
to Partick, where, in a field, addresses were delivered.
It had been expected that a crofter named Sutter.
land, resident at Oly Ur, and secretary of the local
branch of the Land League, would have been evicted
on Saturday. About 500 people assembled early at his
house, to offer resistance many of the crofters present
being armed with heavy :ticks, and remained on guard
for several hours bat owing to Lord Traynor at Edin—
burgh having issued a suspensory interlocutor, the
eviction did not talte place.
Monsignor Persico. Papal Envoy to Ireland, received
a large number of the Catholic clergy residing in
Dublin and the suburbs on Saturday. at the residence
of Archbishop Walsh, Rutland square.
A Downpatrick correspondent telegraphing on Satur-
day afternoon says It has been reported to the con-
stabulary authorities at Downpatrick th t a man
named Haslstt, who is supposed to be a lunatic, has
murdered, at Rathfriland, county Down, three women
and ere man. Two more men who were injured by
him are expected to die.
Mr. S. 0. Lister, of Bradford, High Sheriff of York-
shire, whose name was gozetted for a baronetcy in the
list of Jubilee honours recently issued, made a public
announcement on Saturday that, althoigh he feels
very highly the honour which her Majesty has sought
to confer upon him, he does not intend to avail him-
self of it.
it was stated in the ‘` tiazette that between Am
1 and July 9 the Exchequer receipts were £2 !,602, 907,
as compared with £22,740,203 in the corresponding
period of the last financial year, and the expenditure
£27,466,026, as against £27,807,898. On Saturday last
the Treasury balances amounted to £1,469,561, and on
July 10, 1886, to C 1 495,501.
On Tuesday, during the hearing of a charge of dis-
orderly conduct preferred at tee Marlborough-street
Police-court by a constable against a carpenter and his
wife, evidence of a conflicting character was given. It
wa-, alleged that the proceedings were due to the ani-
mosity of the police. A remand was granted, Air.
Newton remarking that the case would be fully in-
quired into, as an imputation had been cast on the
character of a constable.

On Tuesday morning Earl Bathurst's Committee
passed that portion of the Caledonian Railway Bill
authorising the enlargement of Glasgow Central
Station.

Intelligence received at Paris from Sardinia reports
that there have been some cases of cholera on the
island, but that none have occurred yet at Cagliari.
Mr. J. G. Blaine and party have left Edinburgh on
a visit to Mr. Andrew Carnegie, at Kilgraaton, Perth-
shire.
The Queen Regent of Spain and the members of
the Royal family loft Madrid on Tuesday morning for
La Granja. Her Majesty will visit the Basque pro-
vinces at the beginning of next month.
On Tuesday morning a fire occurred in the grain
stores of Messrs. John M. King and Pugh, 53 to 59,
Lanark-street, Glasgow. The building which was two
storeys high, was totally destroyed, while three valuable
horses were burned to death.
A Renter's telegram from Candle states that the
Christian deputies have withdrawn the proclamation
which they issued la:ely refusing payment of taxes,
and have appealed to the Sultan's magnanimity for
redress of grievances. A pacific settlement of the
Cretan question is now expected.
At the Dublin Sessions on Tuesday the Recorder not
taking his seat on the bench punctually the jurors,
grand and petty, left the court in a body. On tt,e
Recorder appearicg he apologised for the deity, and a
sufficient number of ' jurors returned to enable the
business to be proceeded with. The absentees were not
fired.
The " World " says that Lord Carnarvon, who has
been much out of health for more than a year past, has
been advised to try a voyage to Australia •, so he
intends to start next month, accompanied by Lady
Carnarvon and Lord Porclaester, and they will probably
be absent for about six mouths. Lord Carnarvon
posse,ses extensive property in Australia, which he
purchased some years ago; The rejoicings at High-
clere in celebration of Lord Porchester's coming of age
has been postponed till next spring.
Mr. Woodall, M.P., who presided on Tuesday after-
noon at the general annual meeting of the National
Society for the Promotion of Women's Suffrage, held
that this question was coming to the front more and
more each year, and referred to the recent triumph of
a lady at Cambridge to show that ladies were as
capable as men in reaching the highest places in the
Universities. He expressed confidence that the ver—
dict of the House of Commons would this year, if he
eauld bring it forward, be also in favour of extending
the franchise to women.

A colliery accident occurred at Tunstall, North
Staffordshire, on Tuesday morning, where the company
who work the Clanway Colliery are engaged in sinking
a rew shaft. A number of men, among whom was one
who had recently arrived from Dudley, and who only
commenced work at the colliery on the previous night,
were at the bottom of the shaft when a full load which
had been sent to the surface overpowered the engine,
and descending with great force struck the Dudley
man, breaking his leg and back. After lingering for a
brief period he succumbed to his injuries.
The employers in the Bolton iron trade complained,
through the local press of Tuesday, that the men on
strike were guilty of boycotting and intimidation.
They alleged that large numbers of workmen from
othee towns on arrival at Bolton for the purpose of
commencing work with one of the firms affected have
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been stepped by the men's picket, and in fear of
violEnce consented to be sent home again. Tradesmen,h
roed h, a
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supplied
too, w lied food for the imported men were
bo cot
as a choirmaster and several pro.
fessional singers 3 well
who took part in a concert on behalf of
the new men recently held. Letters were given in
suplynt of the charges. and prosecutions may follow.
Prince von Bismarck returned from Friedrichsruhe
to Berlin on Monday evening, and on Tuesday a fall in
all (in ections took place on the Berlin Bourse.
M. Floquet, unanimously re-elected by the F:ench
Chamber, has withdrawn his resignation of the presi-
dency of that r ssembly.
A Lew Cabinet, under M. StoPoff's leadership, was
deftitively formed at Tirnova on Tuesday. The
Premier forthwith telegraphed orders to the Bulgarian
Prefects to release all persons interned for political
reasons.

It is announced in Tuesday night's " Gazette " that,
by orJer of the Queen, his Serene Highness the Duke
of Peck shall in future, upon all occasions whatsoever,
be stlled "his Highness.'
Doing the annual fe'te in aid of the Railway
Servants' Orphan and Benevolent Fund, near Willesden
Junction a platform collapsed. Major• General Golds.
worthy, M.P., and Mrs. and Miss Goldsworthy were on
the structure, with a number of other persons, but all
escaped serious injury, though much alarm prevailed et
the time.