The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-07-24 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS_

BRY7IBII AND FOREIGN.

Some abatement is manifest in the virulence of the
t-holera epidemic in Italy.
Vancouver, in British Columbia, which had been
partly rebuilt after the recent fire, was again burnt
down on Friday Last.
The first trans-Continental Japanese tea train of 81
rarloads is coming overland from San Francisco for
England, to demonstrate that the overland route in
quit ker than by the Suez Canal.
Qdeen Isabella has returned to Spain.
James Joseph Gunner, of Burlington-gardens, East
Acton, clerk to the Hammersmith and Wandsworth
Police-courts, was charged, on Saturday, at Bow-street,
with stealing £53, the property of the Crown. The
defendant is alleged to have appropriated sums of
money received for stamps and in pnyment of fines,
amounting in all to £163. He was remanded on bail,
his cross-examination of the principal witness being
reserved.

Mr. T. B Potter, M.P presided on Saturday at the
annual meeting of the Cobden Olub, and explained that
as the members of the club were divided in opinion on
the Home Rule question, the club had taken no action
in the recent elections. He d welt upon the importance
cf maintaining our Free Trade policy, and warned them
against 'allowing the thin edge of the wedge of Protec-
tion to be admitted.

A man lost his life by drowning on Surday afternoon
between Sandgate and Folkestone. He was seen to
dive off a rock running some distance into the sea, and
it is supposed that he came into contact with rocks
undlirneath tho water. His body was picked up about
half an hour later.

The Queen drove from Windsor Castle on Sunday
afternoon and vigit-Pd Mr. Lnclzwood, the serjeant foot-
man of the Royal Household. Ur. Lockwood, who has
been many years iii her Majesty's service, is at present
in ill-health and unable to perform his duty at the
Palace.

The Duchess of Teck, who was accompanied by her
daughter, Princess Victoria, on Satu:day distributed
the prizes to the successful exhibitors at the Notting.
bill Workmen's Flower Show.

John Wait, factory operative, 34 years cf age, was
sentenced to death at the Manchester Assizes on Satur-
day for the murder of his wife at Bacup.
A pleasure boat was upset on Saturday at the mouth
of the river, nearly six miles from Ballina. Foar out
of the seven persons on board were drowned. These
were the two Misses Wilson, daughters of Mr. J. C.
Wilson, residing in Ballina, and lessee of a salmon
fishery on the river, and Miss Petrie and her brother
Alexander, children of Mr. Alexander Petrie, Carrow-
carder], county Sligo. Two brothers, Wilson, succeeded
in swimming ashore, and a Miss Darlushiro clung to
the boat, which drifted ashore. She was taken in an
unconscious state to Captain Munn's residence at
BA.ltra.

The Mayor of Cardiff has received a letter frim the
Secretary of State, informing him that Mr. John
Bridge, police magistrate of Bow-street, had been
specially appointed to inquire into the police outrages
the occasion of the recent Parliamentary election.
The secretary of State has not yet fixed the date of
the inquiry, which will be held •at Cardiff. It is
expected that there will be about 200 witnesses brou;ht
forward.

General Sir Edward Hamley was present on Satur-
day at the annual drill inspection connected with the
Board Schools of the metropolis, in the Lambeth
Palace geld The Society of Arts' challenge banner
was awarded to the Gideon-road School, Battersea.
An address was forwarded on Saturday to the Duo
cl•Aumale by the English residents at Chantilly express-
ing sympathy with him, and regret at his departure.
The Prince of Wales has signified to Lord Bective,
president of the Lake District Association, that he and
the Princess cannot possibly visit the Lake District
this year, but will do so on some future occasion.
The steamer St. Andrew has been lost at sea, pre-
sumably in the vicinity of Fortune Islands, as all the
passengers, officers, and crew have been landed at that
place. The St. Andrew was a Eteamer of 558 tons
cross, classed 100 Al, and owned by Murray Brothers,
Of Great Clyde-street, Glasgow. The latest previous
news of this steamer posted at Lloyd's was that of her
arrival at Kingston, Jamaica, on June 22, from Balti-
more.

Shorty after ten o'clock on Sunday night a shocking
accident happened at the Caterham Junction Station.
It seemed that Harry Goode Rixon, a porter, was
about to cross the line to attend v. train at the down-
platform when be was caught by the 20 minutes to nine
p.m. up-train from Brighton, the engine literally
cutting him to pieces. The platfornl was crowded at
the time. Rixon was 28 years of age. and unmarried.
Four milk-sellerswere charged at Hanley on Monday
ander an Act of Charles 11., which has for a consider-
able number of years been practically obsolete, with
selling milk in the borough after 10 o'clock on Sunday
moreiog. After a legal argument, the milk seized was
ordered to be confiscated, and the defeedants were
ordered to pay costs
The Master of the Rolls on Monday tried an action
brought by Lord Orkney against Madame Marie
Cavagne, a picture dealer, near Grosvenor-square, to
recover possession of nine pictures valued at iSIO,OOO,
and other valuable articles entrusted with the defend-
ant for sale. The plaintiff had paid the defendant
£2500 for expenses, though a sale had not been
effected. Although the defendant set up a lien upon
the goods to the amount of 0000 for services rendered
she did not appear to support her defence, and his
lordship gave judgment for the plaintiff, and ordered
the property to be delivered up.
By his will, dated 10 years ago, the late Colonel W.
L. Maberley directed that his personal estate ,hould
be sold and invested in land in Ireland. Five years
later he directed his executors to be in no hurry in
making investments till they could thoroughly ap-
preciate the effects of Mr. Gladstone's coefiscat-ory
measures. Vice-Chancellor Bacon was on Monday
asked to authorise the trustees to delay casrying out
the testator's original directions, and having heard
evidence to the effect that it was most difficult to col-
lect even the reduced rents in Ireland, he said it was
the duty of the trustees to retain the money until as
prudent men they could convert it
At a special meeting of the Corporation of the
Royal Albert Hall, a proposal was discussed for making
an application to the Queen for a Supplemental
Charter to enable the Council to lease the conservatory,
quadrants, and gardens adjoining the hall at the deem
of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, but a decision on
the subject was adjourned till November.
James Donald Wilsmith, a butler, has just been
apprehended at Foulmire, near Royston, by Superine
tendent Carlow of the Cambridgeshire Police Force, in
connection with the extraordinary robbery of plate
near Wolverhampton in May. It appears that Wilsmith
was in the employ of the Misses Perry, of Tettenhall,
near Wolverhampton, as butler. On the 22nd of May
about ,t2OOO worth of plate and some money were
missed. At the same time the butler else disappeared.
Two days afterwards the Railway Company delivered a
box addressed to the Misses Perry, which was found to
contain the missing plate. Wilsmith, who seemed
quite willing to give himself up, ha e been handed over
to the Wolverhampton police.
- Michael M'Oantle and six other Roman Catholics,
were indicted at the Londonderry Assizes on Monday
for waylaying Protestants returning from Cookstown
market on the 15th of May last. The jury found all
the prisoners guilty, but recommended one of them,
named Fergusson to mercy. Three a the prisoners
were sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment each,
Fergusson was discharged, and the rest were sentenced
to six months' imprisonment each. The jury acquitted
five Protestants, against whom a counter-charge had
been preferred.
The Town Council of Clonmel, presided over by the
Mayor, resolved on Monday, on the motion of Mr.
Clancy, who spoke of the Premier's great service to
Ire/and, to change the name of its principal street,
Johnston-street, to Gladstone-street. Johnston was an
English General who fought in Ireland during the ree
hellion of '9B. It was also decided to confer on Ur.
Gladstone the freedom of the borough of Olonmel as an
expression of public gratitude to him for his efforts to
obtain for Ireland the restoration of her native Parties--
meat. A full Council attended.
An extraordinary boating accident is reported from
Skibbereen. On Monday Mr. Betts, the chief officer of
the Baltimore Coastguards, with two of his men and
Mr. T. Bushe, were returning from Hare Island to Bal-
timore, having purchased a cow, which was in the boat.
The animal became restive and kicked and reared so
furiously that she drove some planks out of the bottom
of the craft, which quickly filled with water and sank.
Fortunately a passing boat arrived in time to rescue
the party.
The cultivation of rice, which had been forbidden in
Eastern Roumelia during the Turkish rule in that
province, has been re-authorised by a decree of Prince
Alexander.