The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-02 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

All the bodies of the 85 miners entombed in the
Milli Colliery (New South Wales) have been recovered.
In answer to the representations of a recent depots.
tion, the Lord Mayor of London has sent a letter to
Mr. George Potter, declining to take part in a scheme
for the establishment of a Jubilee fund to be devoted
to the endowment of beds at convalescent homes for
working men. _ _

Soon after noon on Sunday the Coronet passed the
winning line at Roche's Point, thus beating the Daunt-
less in the ocean yacht race. Very heavy weather was
encountered by the Coronet on the voyage.
A daring highway robbery was committed in South
Bermondsey on Saturday. The clerk of Mr. }Lohman,
a tar-paving manufacturer, was returning from the
bank with upwards of £2OO for the weekly wages of the
workmen, when he was attacked by a stranger, who
ran off with the bag containing the cash, and, jumpil g
into a cart, was driven away at great speed and
escaped.
Baron de Stern has promised to contribute, through
the Lord Mayor of London's fund, a sum of £lOOO for
the purposes exclusively of the Imperial Institute.
Princess Beatrice presented the prizes gained by the
students of the Local Art Classes at the Windsor
Guildhall on Saturday afternoon, the ceremonial being
witnessed by a large number of residents. Her Royal
Highness, who was attended by the Countess of Erroll
and Lord E. Pelham-Clinton, was received by the
Dean of Windsor, and after the report had been read
distributed the awards. The Princess, before her de-
parture' inspected the students' drawings in the
Council Chamber.

The Queen has conferred the honour of knighthood
upon Mr. Thomas Martineau, Mayor of Birmin ham
The French Senate has passed the bills imposing an.
increased duty on wheat, cattle, and fresh meat.
The death has been announced from Paris of General
Farre, formerly Minister of War.
A special service has been held at St. Margaret's
Church, Westminster, by the Venerable Archdeacon
Farrar, in order to receive the old colours presented in
the reign of George 111. to the trained Bands of West.
minster, which were deposited with much ceremony in
the chancel of the ()Much by Colonel Howard Vincent,
°•13., M.P., and the Queen's Westminster Volunteers.
A sheriff's pale for rent took place on Saturday after.
noon at the County Court-house, Limerick, one farm
on the property of Captain Lloyd, Towerhill, being put
up for one year's rent, amounting to £72 and costs. It
was bought in by Mr. Brown, the agent's son, for £7O,
the tenant, named Martin Ryan, bidding up to V3O.
There was much excitement, and on leaving the court
Mr. Brown was followed by a crowd, who hooted and
pelted him with
mud. Ryan held his land at a cheap
rate, but he refused to pay unless the terms of the
other tenants on the estate were conceded to,

The Italian Deputies of the Extreme Left have
adopted a resolution censuring the Gowitrnment for
coming to an understanding with Germany and
Austria, and demanding that Parliament should be
summoned.

A Paris correspondent states that the position of the
French Cabinet is considered precarious. The Budget
Committee, however, which had rejected the demand
for the supplementary credits on Tuesday rejected M.
Guyot's report against them.
An influential deputation of English hopgrowers
waited on the Premier on Tuesday to lay before him
the depressed condition of the hop-growing industry,
and to ask that an impost duty on foreign-grown hops .
might be imposed. The Marquis of Salisbury admitted
the importance of the industry, but pointed out that
the subjeot was one of extreme difficulty, and promised
to lay their representations before his colleagues.
At the sitting on Tuesday of the committee of the
House of Commons on the charges against the Cor-
poration of London, Mr. Crawford, City Solicitor,
produced accounts showing numerous disbursements
on account of the npposition to the movement for the
reconstitution of the municipality. Sir John B.
Monckton also gave evidence of numerous payments,
and explained that Sir R. N. Fowler, though an ex-
officio member of the special committee while Lord
Mayor, had never taken any part in its discussions,
and had in no way been cognisant of what they were
doing.
The annual meeting of the Royal Normal College of
the Blind was held on Tuesday at Grosvenor House,
London, by permission of the Duke of Westminster,
who presided, and stated that the £l6OO handed over
to the institution by the Fawcett Memorial Committee
would be employed with some £lBOO more, part of
which had been promised, in providing a suitable play-
ground for the college. Mr. A. J. Mundella, Lord
Stalbridge, and others addressed the meeting.
In the case of "The Mayor and Corporation of the
Staple v. the Governor and Company of the Bank of
England" for having allowed the clerk of the Staple to
sell £4240 consols, Mr. Justice Day and Mr. Justice
Wills gave judgment on Tuesday in the Divisional
Court. Mr. Justice Day said that the plaintiffs ought
to lose the money, as it was through their negligerce
that their clerk had used their seal. He was, however,
bound by the decision of the House of Lords in the
case of "the Trustees of the Evans' Charity v. the
Bank of Ireland," and reluctantly gave judgment for
plaintiffs. Execution was stayed for appeal.
' At the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London,
on Tuesday, Lewis Webb, a barman, for shooting at
and wounding Mary Schlesbusch, was sentenced to five
years' penal servitude. Henry J. Herbert, 19 years of
age, was convicted of a felonious assault on Constance
E. Coleman, and was sentenced to five years' penal
servitude. George Lewis pleaded guilty to robberies
of luggage at railway stations, and was sentenced to
five years' penal servitude.
Elizabeth Potts and Charles Baxter were brought up
on Tuesday at the Southwark Police.ocurt and
remanded on the charge of having canoed the death of
Elizabeth Culling.
On Monday night a young man named Duffield,
while taking a walk near Lee, Blackheath, with Miss
E. A. Allen, out her throat with a razor, and after-
wards committed suicide with the same implement.
The injured girl is in Griy'e Hospital, and progressing
as favourably as can be expected.
A Renter's telegram from Melbourne on Tuesday
reports that two schooners have arrived at Suva full of
deported Tongan native Wesleysins.
Lord Carnarvon writes: My attention has been
called to a paragraph in 'the " Daily News," in which
It is said that " there are rumours of an Anti-coercion
Cave in the Conservative ranks, under the leadership
of the Earl of Carnarvon." I shall be much obliged if
you will allow me through your columns to give to any
such reports my unqualified contradiction. There is
'not the slightest particle of truth in this very silly
story.
At Birmingham, on Tuesday, the coroner's jury re-
turned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against a mid—
wife named Powell and a man unknown. A fortnigtit
ago a young unmarried woman named Harding was
submitted to an unlawful operation in Powell's house
by a man in disguise; three days after the operation
Harding died. In her dying statement she implicated
the midwife, but did not know who the man was.
A singular discovery was made at Deane, near
Bolton, on Tuesday, the body of a murderer named
Langworth, who was gibbetted in 1796 for killing a
youth named Horror*, and robbing him of a watch and
money,being dug up in a brick-yard, the skull being
in a perfect state of preservation. Remnants of the
gibbet were discovered some years ago.
Her Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide has
graciously condescended to be the President of the
Children's Orchestra.
The Italian torpedo destroyer Tripoli, built at the
Government dockyard at Castellamare, made a trial
trip for a distance of 50 miles in the Bay of Naples the
other day. The vessel has three separate engines
driving triple screws, and the average speed attained
was 23 knots. At one time 24 knots was reached, with
is pressure of 1301 b., mean revolutions 380, and horse-
power developed 3800.
A Royal Proclamation was published in Tuesday's
"London Gazette" prohibiting the importation ir.to
the United Kingdom of all coins made in any foreign
country other than gold or silver ones.
Lord Herschell has accepted the chairmanship of
the Royal Commission upon Gold and Silver Currency,
recently vacated by Mr. Balfour.
Orders have been received at Odessa from St. Peters-
burg directing that all cafés, places of amusement, and
the railway stations are to be closely watched, and all
suspicions persons are to be asked to show their pass-
ports. If they have not passports with them, they are
to be arrested. Odessa is, and has been for a long time
under martial law. _ _ _

On the application of Mr. O. Matthews, the Lords
Justices sitting in the Court of Appeal, on Tuesday
afternoon, permitted the appeal of Lady Colin Camp-
bell, with regard to allowing the costs of a third
counsel to stand out of the paper. Their lordships
intimated that the appeal might not be reached before
the end of the sittings.
On Monday, at the Liverpool Police-court, before Mr.
Aspinall, a private soldier, named Hardy, was charged
with having sent a threatening letter to the stipen-
diary magistrate, in which the prisoner warned Mr.
Raffles to beware cf his life, which was in danger, as
he would be shot dead. The accused, who denied all
knowledge of the letter, was remanded on bail.
Shortly after nine o'clock on Monday morning two
platelayers on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway,
whilst working at Marsh. lane Station, near BorNtle,
were caught by the express train from Liverpool to
Southport and run over,sustaining injuries which at once
terminated fatally. The names 02 the men were
Whittier and Lyons.

At Walsall, on Saturday, the borough coroner held
an inquest on the bodies of William Ferns% Hiram
Hill, Enoch Email, and George Dawson, four men who
were overcome by choke.damp and killed when
descending a pit at Harder, which had been closed
twelve years, and which they were re.opening. It was
stated that William Farnall had neglected to make an
examination before they went down. A. verdict of
"Accidental death" was returned.
On Saturday evening the Marquis of Salisbury left
Paddington by the 5.10 p m. train and travelled to
Windsor, where he was met at the station by one of the
Roy al carriages, in which he drove to the Castle. After
having a short audience of the Queen, the Premier left
the Palace and returned to London by the 6.50 p.m.
train. Mr. Mathews and Mr. Chamberlain have also
visited the Castle, and were included in the Royal
dinner party.
On Saturday, during a football match between Wed.
nesbury Old Athletics and Walsall Swifts, at Walsall,
H. Proffitt, belonging to the latter team, collided with
J. Heath of the former, who fell and sustained a
fracture of the right leg. He was removed to the hos-
Pilite committee appointed by the President of the
Board of Trade to enquire into the working of the
designs and trade marks of the Patents, &0., Act, 1883,
met on Saturday, Lord Herschell presiding. Mr. C.
Bailey, of Messrs. Rails Bros., Manchester, was again
examined, and completed the evidence of the Man.
cheater Chamber of Commeroe as respects trade
t hemerchants
working
f
marks. The committee are prepared to receive any
manufacturers furtheror
d e evidencesiret
off
ewhichthe above Act.

—Evictions on Lord Lansdowne's Luggaourran pro-
perty, near Maryboro', were resumed on Saturday, with
the usual 'force of police and emergency men. A
number of labourers and sub-tenants of Mr. Dunne
were evicted without any noteworthy incident
occurring. There was, however, much hooting and
growling- The police were afterwards withdrawn for
the purpose of performing other duties.
On Saturday a meeting was held at Preston, Lord
Winrnerleigh presiding, to consider what measures
should be adopted to promote the interests of the
Imperial Institute. It was resolved that the project
was deserving of their support, and that influential
committees should be formed to raise funds in aid of
the undertaking. A treasurer was appointed, and the
managers of the several banks requested to open sub-
scription lists.

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On Saturday a collision occurred in Shields Harbour
between the schooner Edith Williams, of Plymouth,
and the brig Clarence, of Folkestone, the schooner's
mainmast being carried away.
A communication received by a North Shields ship-
broker announces that an important discovery of large
seams of coal hhs been made near one of the principal
commercial ports in the Adriatic the royalty for
working which can be obtained on 'favourable terms.
Coal can be worked to a depth of twelve feet.
A series of experiments of a new model gun intended
for the British naval service have taken place at the
attillery range at Silloth. The weight of the gun and
carriage amounts to 92 cwt., both showing the very
latest approved improvements for rapidity of firing
and action.
The Baroness Burdett-Cou.tettts heaosf
consentedthe Ladies'
Jubileeacce p t
the Presidency of the Comm'
t t
ed his willingness o ac as
Coutts, M.P., has (mime"
Hospital Fund for North London, and Mr. Burdett-
i
treasurer.
A poll has been taken in Huddersfield on the ques-
tion of adopting the Public Free Libraries Act for that
town. Although there are 17,300 burgesses on the
register, only 3467 voted, leaving 13,833 unpolled. Of
who voted, 2385 were against the adoption of the
03 for it, being a majority of 1082 against.
those e
and
13
In a similar poll six years ago there was a majority of
about two to one against the adoption of the Act. The
town possesses a local Act empowering the Corpora-
tion to establish libraries, and take indefinite amounts
out of the rates, and this has complicated the question
a good deai.
A singular robbery of Government rifle ammunition
has been brought to the notice of the police authorities
at Lewisham, by whom, In conjunction with the Scot-
land-yard authorities, the matter is now being investi-
gated. It appears thtt one night lest week a shed,
situate at the rifle butts and practice ground at
Bromley-hill, was broken into and some 820 rounds of
Martiei-Henry ball cartridges were stolen. The thieves
had apparently effected an entrance to the shed by
pulling out some of the wooden boards, after which
they had to force the lock of an iron chest which COll-
- the ammunition.
The" Oflicial Messenger " has published an order of
the day from the Admiral-in-Chief directing that all
the 87 torpedo vessels of the Baltic fleet all always
be keot in readiness for service, and that the crews of
6,5 of them shall be provided forthwith.

SATVEDAY, APRIL 2, 1887.

siptain Quinn has granted to Giienge tenantry
an abatement of 20 per cent. on the judicial rents. The
reduction was refused in December last, and the tenants
recently adopted the Plan of Ostopagn.
In a letter to the Rev. M. Field, of Youghal, en.
closing £5 for the benefit of O'Hanlonli mother, Father
Kelleher says: "The good young man lost his life hi
the midst of a Youghal peop'e while going with thorn
in a protest against an outrage offered to their most
cherished feelings. They will not forget her who was
dear to him, and who is now alone in the world in
sadness and distress. For my part, the memory of Pat
O'Hanlon shall be for ever dear to me and as long an I
live I shall religiously observe the anniversary of hi
dea.th.'

The Prince of Wales and suite arrived at Charing.
cross Station at 4.30 on Monday morning by special
train from Dover.
The American yacht Dauntless reached Queenstowc
on Monday, nearly 30 hours after the Coronet, the
slimier of the great Atlantis race.
A startling discovery was made on Saturday by n
lady living in the Rue St. Charles, Paris. She had been
absent from home for a fortnight, and, on returning
to her apartments, which had been untenanted during
her sojourn in the country and carefully locked, she
discuvered in her bed-room the dead body of a man.
She immediately rushed terror-stricken out of the
room, and ran down the stairs palling Out for help.
The police having come to her assistance, the body was
removed and examined by a doctor, who stated that
the deceased had succumbed to an apoplectic stroke.
The calling of the dead man was made easily evident
by the discovery in his pocket of a burglar's jemmy, a
pair of knuckle-dusters, and a long sheath knife.
Mr. Firth was examined on Monday before the Select
Committee of the House of Commons appointed to
inquire into the charges of malversation against the
Corporation of the City of London. The questions put
to him by Mr. Lawrence chiefly related to the engage-
ment by the Municipal Reform League of a band of
men to defend its speakers at public meetings. Mr.
Blake, a clerk of the Commissioners of the Sewers,
identified a letter which he had addressed, and which
contained two tickets for the St. James's Hall meeting,
but he said be did not know that the tickets were
forged, nor did he remember who gave them to him.
The inquiry was again adjourned.
It was announced at a meeting held on Monday that
the London Mansion House Fund towards the Iriiperial
Institute and City Commercial Museum amounted to
over nineteen thousand pounds. The Governor of the
Bank of England, in reply to a question, stated that
there was ample ground for the Imperial Institute at
South Kensington independently of any mortgaged
land.

Alfred J. Riches, a clerk, was brought before the
Lord Mayor of London at the Mansion House on Mon-
day, charged. with embezzlement. The prisoner had
been in the service of Mr. Gray, a City stationer' and
robbed his employer, who, however, recommended him
to mercy. The prisoner, who had recently been mar-
ried, and who was arrested when he had taken passage
to New Zealand, was sentenced to six months' hard
labour.

Monday being the third anniversary of the death of
the Duke of Albany, the Queen, the Duchess of Albany,
Princess Henry of Battenberg, and other members of
the Royal family visited the tomb of the late duke in
the Memorial Chapel, Windsor Castle, and placed
wreaths around the sarcophagus.
At Sparkhrook, a suburb of Bi;mingham, a young
married woman named Mason had her first child bcru
blind. This preyed upon her mind, and during the
absence of the nurse she left her bed and drowned
herself in the adjoining canal. Her father on hearing
the news rushed out and drowned himself at the same
spot.
The Foreign Office has received information of the
safety of Mx. H. H. Johnston, British Vice-Consul in
the Cameroons. It was reported last month that Mr.
Johnston had been seized by natives on the Rio del
Rev, and H.M.S. Rifleman,with Consul Hewett, at Old
Calabar, was sent to his relief. On passing no the Rio
Sal Rey, however, the relief party was hailed by Consul
Johnston, who, with his party, was awaiting (lunges
in shut on the banks of the river. The report that he
had been taken prisoner proved to be without founda-
tion and the whole party has returned in safety to Old
Calabar. Mr.:Johnston was en a tour of inspection.
Intelligence from Christiania reports that the
Vardohuus, whaler, has been wrecked outside Mandel
during the night. Only two men were saved out of her
crew of about 50.

The St. Petersburg "Official Messenger" announces
that the Czar has made the following reply to the loyal
address recently forwarded to his Majesty by the
students of the St. Petersburg University: "I thank
The University, and hope that it will prove its devotion
by deeds and not merely on paper, and will endeavour
to erfaeo the grave impression which the part taken by
the students in a criminal design has made upon every- Al
one. May God bless the University and guide it
aright."
The steamer Belgie, which had arrived at San -
Francisco from China and Japan, brings news of a
tragedy at His-i-shib, near Hankow, China. Three \
hundred tramps had appeared in the village, and the
inhabitants, greatly irritated:by their presence, inveigled -
the whole ot them into a temple, and during the night-
set fire to the edifice. Only 40 of the tram is escaped
the remainder being burnt to death. ' ;

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An attempt was made on Saturday night to destroy .1
the house of the manager of the Rhohessadoule Mines,
in France, by an explosion of dynamite, but only slight
damage was done to the premises. The outrage, how- --
ever, 115.6 caused considerable sensation in the neigh-
bourhood.
The large police placard offering a reward of £lOO for
the discovery of the perpetrators of the recent great
jewel robbery at Lord Ebury's seat near Rickmansworth
Is of a somewhat novel kind. It is headed by pictures
of the more important articles, drawn in white lines -
upon black squares. The objects selected, which are 23 ,
In number, include diamond, turquoise, and ruby •
brooches, an old Spanish filagree gold chain and locket,
chains of interwoven gold and platinum, gold hunting
watches, and so forth. Prominent among them are an
antique seal "engraved with Arab characters," and an
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aged nine, and Margaret Elizabeth, aged sir, the
children of Robert Dowell, blacksmith, who were
burned to death at Birkenhead. The mother was
waked by hearing an explosion like the noise of a gun.
She ran out of the house with her baby, and the elder
boys leaped into the street through the upstairs
window, and the debeased met their deaths in ked.
A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned, the
jury expressing their high sense of the conduct of
Inspector M'Oelland in endeavouring toeffeot the rescue
of the children. '1

- On Monday, in the 'snit by the Hon. Anne White
against the Hon. Robert White, of Castletown, Bore- •
haven, son of the late Earl of Bantry, for a restitution
of conjugal rights, Judge Warren, in Dublin, granted
alimony pending the hearing. The respondent, who
was advanced in life, was married to the petitioner at
the 'Registrar's Offiee at Killarney, and has about
£2OOO is year from the Bantry estate. The petitioner's
letter to her husband was read, stating that she was -
in a condition of semi-starvation, and though she
might have no claim upon his affection, she had on his
resource,. but when she called at his hotel his menials ,
spurned her like a dog.
On Monday, at the Hampton Petty Sessions, John
Cohen, aged 12, was committed for trial for having -
placed on the London and South-Western Railway, '
near Fultham Station, an iron chair, weighing 401 b A.
Windsor passenger train came on the obstruction while
travelling at the rate of 30 miles an hour, and for-
tunately knocked it out of the four-foot way. The
prisoner was assisted by another boy, and they had
wanted to see what the obstraction would dn.
On Monday, George Spiers, who stated that he was
from Liverpool, was brought up at the Limerick Pclice-
court for swindling under novel circumstances. He
called at the houses of some local merchants in the city -
or suburbs, represented that A gas explosion had just
taken place, and asked for clothes for a wounded mem-
ber of the family, and whom he named, He obtained .
clothing in this way at several houses, and eubse-
quently pawned the articles. Among the persons
called on was Mr. Wm. Spillane, manager cf the
Oorporation Gas Works, and the visit led to his rreA.
He was remanded.
On Monday, at a mass meeting of the weavers on
strike at Ashton-under-Lyne, it was resolved to
continue the et ike and leave the settlement of the
dispute in the hands of the Northern Counties Weavers'
Association. It was stated that the strike had been
going on for sixteen weeks, at a cost to the Union
funds of £lOOO per week.