The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-24 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Birmingham police have received information of
two cases in which two young ladies have run away
from home after failing to pass their school examina-
tions. One of them is 17 and the other 16.

On Saturday a determined suicide took place at Chat-
ham Extension Works. A convict as he was leaving
off work for the day placed himself on the steam tram
rail, and received such injuries to his head that he died
before removal to the infirmary.
It is stated that the eastern frontier line between
China and Burmah has been satisfactorily arranged,
and hopes are entertained that an agreement will very
shortly be arrived at with regard to the north-eastern
boundary. The probability is that the Taeping River
will be accepted as the frontier line, leaving Bhamo just
inside the British territory.
Messrs. Due Querey and Roche, of the " Intran-
sigeant " and the "Oni du Peuple " charged with
having, by fraudulent manceuvres, interfered with the
free exercise of labour at Decazeville, has been sen-
tenced to 15 months' imprisonment and ordered to pay
the costs of the trial.
The first torpedo vessel which has been built in
Turkey, and which has been constructed according to a
French model, was launched at Constantinople last
week. A trial of the vessel was made immediately,
during which she attained a speed of 18 knots per hour.
A distinguished company of military and naval
officers was entertained by th 3 Lord Mayor at the Man-
sion House on Saturday night. The Duke of Cam-
bridge, in responding on behalf of the army, remarked
that the English were not now an ['aggressive people.
They had established a great Empire, and though they
had no wish to extend it, they certainly did not intend
to lose what they had.
It seems that the little toy balloons or india-rubber
bladders which children inflate with the breath may be
readily reversed by inspiration, and even drawn into
the air passages. In two instances recently death has
occurred by suffocation, a balloon of the sort being
drawn into the opening of the glottis. This is a matter
of danger which ought to be recognised. Parents and
nurses should be on their guard.—" Lancet." .
Many persons have no doubt remarked the unusual
lateness of Easter in the present year, and by them the
following particulars will be read with interest. From
the reformation of the calendar in 1582 to 5000, if the
world lasts so long, Easter Day only falls 32 times on
April 25 (St Mark's Day), while during the same
period it only falls on March 22, the earliest day, 16
times. Easter falls again on April 25 in 1943, a period
of 57 years, but it does not take place on March 22 till
2285.

A medical man named Moore, of Thornton Heath,
obtained a verdict for £6OO damages against the Lain.
beth Waterworks Company, for injuries sustained in
falling over a fire-plug above the level of the pavement
That decision was on Saturday reversed by the Court
of Appeal, which held that the company, being under
no obligation to repair the pavement, had been guilty
of no regligence.
The magistrates at Bow-street Police-court on Satur-
day sent a man to prison for a month for having a re-
volver in his possession while he was drunk.
An extraordinary out age is reported from Newcastle
West, in the county Limerick. The premises of an
undertaker there were burglariously entered on Satur-
day night, and several coffins placed outside the doors
of persons residing in tho town. A number of eoffins
were also smashed, and the " debris " thrown into the
river. The undertaker's horse and cart were also
stolen,' and other damage was caused. The police
have made three arrests in connection with the occur-
rence.

A thunderstorm of almost phenomenal violence broke
over the village of Oakiogton, eight miles from
Cambridge, on Sunday afternoon. It was accompanied
by a severe hailstorm, and much damage to property is
reported. The temperature was very low at the time.
Reports as of distant artillery were heard at Cambridge,
which gave rise to many inquiries, as the weather there
was undisturbed. The storm lasted a considerable time.
An attempt was made on Saturday to sell by auction
several farms and pieces of pasture and rich arable land
in the highly-favoured district of Romney Marsh, in
Kent. In all some 60 acres of land were offered, but
not a single lot was sold. For a pasture and arable
farm' containing upwards of 28 acres of pasture and
nearly 10 of arable land, the highest bid was £3OOO, and
for 15 acres of pasture and fresh arable land the best
offer was £lOOO. A smaller lot of rich arable land was
also bought in at £5OO. A few years ago land in Romney
Marsh was eagerly sought after, and high ptices were
obtainable.

Intelligence from Stornoway states that a shooting
lodge in course of erection at Droynish Bay, Island of
Lewis, had been totally destroyed by crofters. The
building, which was intended for the use of the tenant
of the Scalisero shootings, was ready to be roofed;
The contractor had occasion to go to Stornoway last
week, and on his return he found the house razed to
the ground, and the materials scattered and rendered
useless, all the woodwork being smashei. The crofters'
interests were not being prejudiced by the erection of
the buildings. The cause of the outrage is inexplain-
able. _ _ _

On Saturday fresh nctices were posted outside the
Houses of Parliament announcing that until further
notice visitors *will be excluded.
There was a large force of constabulary at the
County Court House, Limerick, on Saturday afternoon,
when the sub-sheriff, Mr. Frederick Hobson, put up to
public auction a number of cattle, calves, and horses
seized for nen-payment of rent. The tenant, who
some years ago gave £l4OO for his farm, refused to pay
the rent unless the landlord granted him a large abate-
ment. The reduction was not allowed, and litigation
ensuing the tenant's interest in the farm wat purchased
by the landlord and the cattle seized last week to meet
tee claim for rent due over k:300. At the sale the
tenant and a contingent from the district where he
resides attended, but their efforts to render the sale
abortive proved unavailing, An agent from the Irish
Loyal and Patriotic Union was present under an escort
of two policemen, and bid for the cattle, which were,
with one or two exceptions all bought in by the tenant,
Mr. Hartigan, who is stated to be in affluent circum-
stances, having other farms in the county.
An accident of a shocking character occurred on
Sunday evening at New Hawne Colliery, Oradley.
Whilst two men, named George Coley and John
Withers, were engaged in spragging a roof in the work.
leg the timber supports gave way, and the roof fell in,
burying the two men. The fall of earth was so great
that it took three hours to remove it. Both men were
found shockingly mangled and nearly decapitated, and
must have been instantaneously killed.

Mi. Bigelow, representing the New York Chanaher of
Commerce, who was recently sent to make an inspcc•
tion of the Panama Canal, has just presented his
official report. He sass that by the end of 1886 only
one cf the required excavations will have been com-
pleted, though one-half of the total estimated cost will
by that time have been expended. It will, he says, be
impossible to finish th 3 canal by the end of 1889
unless there is a vast increase in the extent of the opera-
tions.
Eliza Davies, a young woman who was found OD the
railway between Chester and Manchester dreadfully
injured, died on Saturday morning at Chester Infirmary.
She never recovered consciousness, and gave the
authorities no clue as to why she jumped from the ex-
press, as it is clear she must have done.
There is talk in high life of a divorce case which will
put in the shade the Crawford and Dilke scandal. All
the persons concerned beleng to the highest rank. The
respondent, though not what is known as a professional
beauty, is very handsome. There are no less than feur
co-respondents, one of them holding high office, and all
of them bearing familiar and distinguished names. To
the petitioner, the respondent, and one of the co-
respondents, a visit to the Divorce Court will be no new
thing. They have figured in earlier cases. To the
other three co•respondents the experience will ba
novel. Efforts are being made to keep the case out
of court, but it is believed that they must of necessity
fail.

The death is announced of Captain S. Pitman, who
had long been well known in agricultural and sporting
circles. The deceased was for many years Master of
the south Berks Foxhounds, and at the same time of
his own pack of harriers in Somersetshire, hunting on
alternate days in two countries 130 miles apart. He
was one of the founders of tie Bath and West of Eng-
land Agricultural Association, which is now second
only in importance to the Royal Agricultural Society;
and was a staunch Conservative, having worked hard
for the party in Sornersetshire and Norfolk, and having
stood against Lord Kensington for Haverfordwest in
1868.
A return just issued shows that no to the 15th of
March last the aun,unt applied for by Irish tenants
desiring to purchase thf•ir holdings was 1'827,219, the
amount sanctioned 1.617,833, and the amount advanced
and paid £138,610.
The steam trawler Prince Alfred, of Montrose, was
wrecked on Saturday, off Stonehaven, and five lives
were lost. The captain and two men were saved.
The County Dubliu Grand Jury, on Friday, passed a
number of claims for compensation for incendiary fires.
An evicted tenant, who was taken back as caretaker of
his farm, obtained the value of a rick of hay burned;
and the owers of the ricks of wheat and oats burned by
the self-confessed Invincible, Kelly, who alleged that
the outrages were instigated by a secret society, ob.
tamed £7OO compensation.
A shocking cutraee has been perpetrated .on a fern;
in Cumberland. On Mr. Robson, of Kirkandrews, going
to his stables the othet morning; he found that one of
his horses had been hamstrung during the night. The
animal died shortly afterwards. This is the second
outrage of the kind that has occurred lately, a man
having been convicted of a similar offence at Comber.
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