The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-12-03 00:00:00

EPITOME a NEWS.

The Queen' accompanied by Prince and Princess
Henry of Battenberg and Princess Frederica, arrived
at Windsor Castle on Saturday from Balmoral.
A Russian Judge of Instruction from Taganrog com-
mitted Guicide at Odessa the other evening by throwing
himself from the parapet of the Stroganoff. bridge. He
expired before reaching the hospital. It is thought that
the fact of his having fallen under the suspicion of the
police on account of political matters drove him to this
rash act.
Mr. Barnum's agent, Mr. Slam has, it is stated,
practically purchased Wombwell' menagerie, and
almost every class of animal lost in the late disastrous
fire at Bridgeport, Conn., has been replaced by purchase
within tha last few days in this country and on the
Continent.
The Prince of Wales left 11.11bcrough Home on
Saturday afternoon for Sandringham to join the
Princess of Wales and her daughters.
The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and the Mar-
chioness of Londonderry and suite arrived at Belfast
from Newtowna.rds, county Down, on Saturday, and
the carriage containing the Viceregal party having
been attached to the Limited Mail train, they pro-
ceeded to Dublin.
The tenantry on Sir Choker Barrington's estate,
county Limerick, having refused to pay their rents
unless &large reduction was conceded, have been served
with writs by the landlord.
Mr. Gladstone walked through the villege of
Hawarden on Saturday morning to attend prayers at
the church, and in the afternoon the right hon. gentle•
man drove through the park and round Pentrobin,
where he inspected the new work that is being done for
the new line. _ _ _

Three of the girls who were imprisoned under the
Crimes Act at Ballyhaunis on the lUtt of November
were released on Saturday, and met with an en bumf
astic welcome. They were escorted to their houses by
a large number of people, and in the evening bonfires
were lighted on the surrounding hills.
The Bedfordshire Regiment, having been recently
presented with new colours, the old colours of the
regiment were deposited in Si. Paul's Church, Bedford,
on Saturday afternoon. The ceremony at the church
WAS witnessed by a large asiemblage.
At Underhill, near Hy the on Saturday morning,
Alfred Denise, an independent gentleman, and repre.
sentative of an old county family, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head. Mr. Denne was
secretary of the East Kent Hunt, and was leader of
the local Conservatives.

Throughout the weatern districts of Perthshire,
filmic:see and rain-storm raged with unabated fury
early on Saturday morning. House property was
damaged, trees uprooted and destroyed, and the Earn
and other rivers flooded.

In the hearing of an assault case at Cambridge
13olice.court on Saturday, it came out that a B.A. and
an undergraduate of St. John's College have been sent
down for being implicated in publisniug the banns of
marriage of a college friend with a fictitious lady at
3t. Ciiles'e Church, (Ambridge, as a hoax. The banns
were published thrice.
Early on Saturday morning an explosion took place
at Geneva Colliery, near Crettyard, Queen's county,
which is worked by Messrs. Robinson and Co., of New-
castle•on.Tyne. Two men were seriously injured, and
were removed to Oastlecomer Infirmary, and a third
sustained less serious injuries.
.s.c nas neen arranged that Mr: Austin Chamberlain,
son of the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, shall be in.
troduced to the electors of the Border Burghs at three
meetings at Hawick, Galashiels, and Selkirk during
January as a Unionist candidate, after which his candi.
datnre will be submitted for decision to simultaneous
meetings of the Unionist electors.
The question of the liability of Under Sheriffs when
the High Sheriff dies during his term of office came on
Tuesday before the Court of Appeal. In an action
from Monmouthshire tried before him last year, the
Lord Chief Justice held that the representatives of the
deceased High Sheriff were responsible for any default
in the matter of executing a writ. This decision was
reversed by a Divisional Court, whose judgment was
upheld by the Master of the Rolls and Lords Justices
Bowen and Fry.
The death•rate of London further rose last week to
23 per ,thousand annually. The mortality fr.-,m
whooping cough and diseases of the respiratory organs
is greatly, above the average.
Owing to a wages dispute in the Havana cigar trade,
95 factories have been closed, throwing 12,000 work.
people out of employment.
Commander Robinson of H.M.S. Active was in a
sailing boat in Portsmouth Harbour on Saturday, when
the craft was capsized by a sudden gust of wind. The
officer and seven other occupants were thrown into the
water. A strong tide was running, but, fortunately,
the accident was witnessed from the floating bridge,
and lifsebuoys were thrown to the men, woo, with one
exception, were swimming for the shore. Eventually
seven men were rescued, whilst the eighth, a marine,
Swam ashore, carrying a letter with which he had been
entrusted in his mouth.
A sad accident occurred on Saturday morning at
West Beton Mine. It is stated that, contrary to the
rules, some miners were riding to the surface in the
skip used for drawing stuff, when, by some means, they
were drawn to the poppet-head. A miner named J.
Curnow, of Peapous, married, aged 35 years, was so
terribly crushed that his life is despaired of, and two
others named Williams and Thomas, of Rosewot thy,
were hurt; whilst another, seeing his petil, jumped
before the skip got under the he vy sheave, and
narrowly escaped falling back down the shaft.
The Board of Trade and Trinity House authorities
decided on Saturday morning to blow out the masts of
the W. A.: Seholten and the ship E. P. Sawyer, which
lay in the English Channel off Dover and Sandgate
respectively, owing to the extreme danger they cause
to navigation. A number of men were accordingly
employed on Saturday in dismantling the E. P.
Sawyer.
Tire notification published in some of the daily news.
papers that from December 1 certain concessions for
the convey ance of commercial travellerss' luggage will
be made by the London aNd North-Western Railway
Company, applies to all railways, as it has been adopted
by general D4.,,reement.

The Queen has been pleased (says an official
announcement in Tuesday's "London Gazette "), by
Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland bearing
date the 26th just ' to appoint Field Marshal his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, KAI., to be Com-
mander-in-Chief of her Majesty's Forces.
Her Majesty the Queen bas signified her intention
to confer on Sergeant-Major 151athieson, now Garrison
Sergeant-Major at Aldershot, and formerly of the
Ist Battalion Princess Charlotte of Wales's Royal
Berksbird/Regiment, the silver medal for distinguished
conduct at the actions of Hasheen and Tofrek in the
Soudan Campaign of 1885.1
The receipts on account of revenue from the Ist of
April, 1887, when there was a balance of £'5,950,107, to
November 26,1887, were £51.324.802, against p5l, 646,863
in the corresponding period of the preceding finan-
cial year, which began with a balance of £5,625,944.
Tho net expenditure was £53,238 448, against
255,692,063 to the same date in the previous year.
The Treatzury balances or November 6, 1887, amounted
to £3.053,461, and at the same date in 1886 to
£1956:472.

Sir John Thomas Buller Duckworth, Bart., died at his
residence, Wear House, Exeter.on Tuesday. The deceased
who was born in March, 1809, succeeded his father,
Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, in 1817. He
sat as M.P. for Exeter from 1845 to 1857, and was
a referee of private bills in the House of Commons. He
was a D.L. and J.P. for Devon, and for 45 years was
chairman of Quarter Sessions.
At Sheffield on Tuesday the lessee of the Alexandra
Theatre applied for a renewal of his license, which was
granted for three months on condition that he provided
a fireproof curtain, made all doors to open outward and
hung in two parts, so as to be available in case of panic;
and provided two independent staircases to the gallery,
both fireproof. The lessee agreed to meet the wishes
of the magistrates in these particulars.
At a special meeting of the Margate Town Council
on Tuesday it was decided to adopt an efficient system
of drainage for the borough, and that the work should
be carried out with all possible despatch_ It was stated
by the Borough Surveyor that if a system of. drainage
by gravitation was adopted the work of draining the
low levels of the town could be completed before the
commencement of next season. A committee was
appointed to visit Eastbourne, Henley-on-Thames, and
Southampton to inspect the Shone system as well as
other places where other drainage schemes have been
satisfactorily adopted.
An outbreak of smallpox has at length occurred at
Leicester. It is at . present confined to one family,
five members of. which, aged from five to seventeen'
years, are suffering from the disease. All have been
removed to the hospital, and all persons who have been
in contact with them have: gone into quarantine at
the same institution. Four of the patients have been
vaccinated, and these are suffering frota a mild form of
the disease; but the fifth patient has never been
vaccinated, and his case is the worst. It is not known
how the disease was contracted.

A meeting, convened by the South Wilts Chamber of
Agriculture, was held at Salisbury on Tuesday, when
the question of Fair Trade was discussed. The Hon.
Percy Wyndham moved a resolution in favour of the
reform of our fiscal system, and he was supported by
Mr. Stephens, MP. An amendent, to the effect that
no reason had been given for the reversal of Free
Trade policy was proposed by Mr. 'W. Stratton and
supported by Lord Bath, but the resolution was
carried by 25 to 13. Only members of the Chamber
voted.

A. Convention of delegates from all Lrancbes of the
National League on Lord Dillon's Mayo's estates was
held on Tuesday at Aghamore, near Ballyhaunis. The
Rev. Father M`Alpine presided, and amongst those
present were Mr. Crilly, M.P., and Mr. Conway. M.P.
The chairman announced that Lord Dillon had con.
sented to give all tenants a reduction of 30 per cent.
on judicial rents, and the offer was accepted unani..
inously amidst great enthusiasm. This decisi-n puts
an end to a long standing and acrimcnions dispute.
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Mrs. Fawcett presided on Tuesdayevening
annual meeting of the Women's Protective and Provi-
dent League at Exeter Hall, Strand, London, the object
of the institution being to assist in the formation cf
trade unions among working women.
Henry Bowles was on Tuesday committed for trial
by the Farnham magistrates for poisoning his wife and
son at Camberley. The prisoner made a statement in
which, after explaining that he had lived unbapoily
with the woman. he said that on the day in question
she took some pills, giving a dose also to his son.
In an action brought to recover damages for
malicious prosecution, heard in the Queen's Bench
Division on Tuesday, the plaintiff was awarded p 450;
and an application made on behalf of Mr. Scargill the
defendant, who is clerk to the justices at Luton, for
stay of execution with a view to an appeal was ST
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With regard to the talked-of adhesion of England
to the Triple Alliance, a Vienna correspondent under-
stands that the negotiations to this end turned upon
the maintenance of the status quo at Constantinople
and in the Balkans and the defence of English interests
in Central Asia. No difficulty was experienced in
arriving at a decision on the former point, but the
negotiations experienced a delay on the latter. A
Berlin telegram to a Paris paper, however, states thaa
the ne-otiations are almost complete, the object of
Enniand's adhesion being to maintain the equilibrium
in the Mediterranean.

The Queen has approved of the 'following appnint.
meets: Colonel E. T. Banbridge to be a Colonel to
command the 21st Regimental District; Colonel F. (7.
Ruxton to be a Colonel to command the 29th Reg',
mental District; Colonel J. C. Ardagh, C. 8.. to be
Assistant Adjutant-General at headquarters (Intel li.
gence branch) ; Captain W. G. Massey, R.A., to bl
Aide-de•Camp to his Excellency Sir C. C. Smith,
K.0.111.G„ Governor of the Straits Settlements;
Colonel E. Maitland, C.8.,R.A., to have the temporary
rank of Alajor‘General whilst employed as Director.
General of Ordnance Fcctories.

_
Their Imperial Highnesses the Crown Prince and
Princess of Germany have requested the House Corn.
inittee of the London Hospital for permission to retain
the services of Mr. Mark Hovel!, assistant aural
surgeon of the London Hospital, to attend the Crown
Prince during the remainder of his illness, without
his incurring the loss of his appointment. Mr. Hovel!
has already been four months with the Crown Prince.
The House Committee have gladly acceded to the

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snow-stree. ronce-court, on Tuesday, George
Harrison, a stonemason, was charged on remand with
unlawfully cutting and wounding Police-constable
Woodhouse by stabbing him on the right shoulder with
a knife, and he was farther charged with assaulting'
Police sergeant Williamson by striking him and cutting
his right ear with an iron bar. Mr. Vaughan cum-
mitted the accused for trial, the defence being
resarved. _

The Archbishop of York on Monday appeared in the
Queen's Bench Division to show cause against a rule
calling upon him to admit Canon Tristram, of Durham
Cathedral, to Convocation. His Grace first raised an
objection to the jurisdiction of the Court to bear the
case, and their lordships intimated that they were in
his favour on that point, though their formal decision
was deferred.

A young man, giving the name of Harry Sides, son of
a farmer of Glass Out Farm, Oswestry, gave himself up
to the Newcastle under -Lyme police on Monday as the
perpetrator of a murder at Llanfalls, a Welsh village,
on Nov. 24 last year. The prisoner statesthat he mot
Margaret Bowen, his sweetheart, on that night, and
gave her port wine, with which he had mixed laudanum
and other deadly drugs, to drink. She immediately
became unconscious, and died in a few minutes. He
concealed the body under a hedge, and returned after
midnight to bury it at the back of the barn at a hum
occupied by Mrs. Vaughan, near Llanf ails. Finding
some quicklime in the vicinity, he covered the body
with it before filling in the earth. Since that time he
has wandered over the country. The authorities of the
Welsh village named have been communicated with,
and the prisoner stands remanded in cuotody. The
man was formerly clerk in the service of Lord
Hereford.

Enoch Wadley was executed in Glen cester Prison on
Monday for the murder of Elizabeth Hannah
Evans, at Kempley. The prisoner bad been a soldier
In India, and was sent home as not being of sound
mind. He was detained at Netley Hospital some time,
and then discharged the service. He afterwards went
to his relatives at Kempley, and pretended to make
love to the deceased, a field hand, attacked her as the
was going home from work, and cut her with a knife in
nearly 40 places. She soon bled to death. Wadley's
conduct has been penitential throughout, ani he
uttered a prayer for mercy as the drop fell. Berry, the
executioner, gave a drop of five feet six inches, and the
culprit appeared to die instantaneously.
The Duke of Cambridge left town on Monday for
Sandringham on a visit to the Prince and Princess of
Wales.

The King of Denmark, travelling as Count Falster,
arrived at Vienna on Monday, and visited his dang h. er
the Duchess of Cumberland at Penzing the same
morning. The Duchess and the infant Prince are
doing so well that no further bulletins will be issued.
The Marchioness of Salisbury and Lord Hugo and
Lady Gwendolen Cecil returned to Hatfield House, on
Monday, from visiting the Earl of Selborne and Lady
Sophia Palmer at Blackmoor, near Petersfield.
Lord Randolph Churchill left London on Monday for
Paris.

The "Dundee Courier" on Tuesday gave prominence
to the following paragraph: "A very startling rumour
is current in certain circles acquainted with the real
reasons why Mr. Lacait +. has severed himself from the
Gladstonians, and which, if well grounded, indicates
another imminent and important revolt from the Home
Rule Policy of the Opposition. It is to the effect that
previous to taking the step which he has done Mr.
Lacaita took counsel with Lord Rosebery, who ex-
pressed his full concurrence in the line of conduct
pursued by the junior member for Dundee. Taken by
Itself, very little credence might be attached to the
tumour, but it derives colour from the fact that about
a week ago, when on his way to Dundee, Mr. Lacaita
paid a visit of two days to Dalmeoy."
Five years ago a young girl named Esther Kidney
was found drowned in a pond near Harrow. Con-
siderable mystery attached to the incident, and the
coroner's jury returned a verdict of suicide. On Satur—
day evening last a young woman, named Emily Adams,
presented herself at the Harrow Police-station, and
stated that she wished to give herself into custedy
for the murder of Kidney, whom she pushed into the
pond. Adams was charged at Harrow Police-court on
Monday, and remanded for further inquiries.
In the Italian Chamber on Monday the Minister of
Public Worship was asked whether the promoters of
recent petitions urging the restoration of the Tereperal
Power of the Pope ought not to be punished. The
Minister in reply said the legal advisers of the Crown'
were of opinion that the petitions were not of an
incriminating character, but this could not perhaps he
said of the letters of the Bishops on the same subjec,.
To take proceedings against the Bishops, however,
would be to give thenithe prominence they desired. The
Goveinment therefore left them alone.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company have received
*a telegram from their agents in Egypt. stating that
the Vgyptian Sanitary Council have decided to grant
free pratique to vessels arriving from Malta. The
company have therofore resumed communicalon with
Malta, and passengers can now bock from that place
to the East without any fear of quarantine reAtrig-
tiono.

About 400 applications for allotments were received at
the meeting of the 55nitar9 authority of Spalding Union,
on Monday, but the board declined to set the Allot.
ments Act in motion, not being convinced that allot-
ments cannot be obtained voluntarily. All the requisi-
tions state that allotments by voluntary agreement
were not available, but the guardians said that was not
sufficient evidence for their being tried.
The Queen's Bench, Dublin, gave judgment on Mon-
day in the application on behalf of Dr. Cross, who
stands committed for trial for wife murder, to change
the venue from Cork to any other place. The Court
discharged the conditional order obtained by the
prisoner, holding that no proof had been produced that
he would not be fairly and impartially tried in Cork.
_ _

At a meeting at Newcastle on Monday, presided over
by Mr. Stevenson, M.P., and addressed by Mr. A. EL D.
Acland, M.P , a committee was formed to fazther thu
interests of the National Association for the Promo-
tion of Technical Education in the district. A letter
was read from Lord Armstrong, who said the pretent
educational system was unquestionably wasteful, and
be thought it might be economised to admit of some
kind of technical indruction being given without adding
to the already too burdensome cost of maintaining tho
schools. _ _ _

The local committee charged with making arrange-
ments fcr the Royal Agricultural Show at Nottingham
in July have received information that the Government
Commission appointed to take steps to encourage the
breed of English horses have decided to join with the
Royal Society to hold a stallion show at Nottingham
in February. The Government Commission were voted
£5OOO for prizes, and the result of the coalition, it is
expected, will bring together at Nottingham one of
the greatest stallion shows ever known in England-