The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-09 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS;

Sir William Harcourt attended the laying of the
foundation-stone of the Liberal Club at Golcar, in the
Colne Valley division of Yorkshire, by Sir James
Kitson, on Saturday, and was the principal speaker at
a meeting subsequently held in one of the local mills,
when he criticised the position of the Liberal Unionists.
The Earl of Ducie presided on Saturday afternoon
at the opening of a Model Pleasure Garden in South-
wark, known as the Red Cross Hall and Garden, the
site of which has been given to the public by the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Among those who were
present, and assisted at the ceremony of dedication,
beside the noble chairman, were the Countess of Ducie.
Lady Jane Dundas, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Earl Stanhope and Miss Octavia Hill. _

Antonio P-ot'assi, who was being searched for by the
police on a charge of having attempted to murder Pas-
quale Ciscarino and his brother Angelo, at their shop in
Neate-street, Camberwell, on Thursday evening of last
week, was arrested on Saturday night in Newington-
butts. The latest reports from Guy's Hospital state
that the two injured men are going on favourably.
It is stated that Jackson, alias Graham and Firth,
the Manchester murderer, was seen in Camden Town
last week, and subsequently in the Borough of South-
wark; and further, that he has been tracked to Vic-
toria Station. The police have received further in-
structions, and every effort is being made to bring the
fugitive to justice. The Home Secretary has declined
to offer a reward for the man's apprehension.
In connection with the fatal fire in Edgware-road, a
serious allegation is made against the firemen in charge
of the escapes at the station. It is stated that they
were informed of the fire, but instead of responding to
the call they gave an abusive answer to the messengers.
Captain Shaw, it is reported, has suspended the men.
In the case of the police-constable who has been
undergoing his trial at the Old Bailey for perjury, the
jury were on Saturday unable to agree, although they
were three hours in deliberation. They were discharged,
and a new trial will take place next session.
James Barnard and James Monteith were charged at
Bow-street Police-court, on Saturday, on remand, with
being concerned in obtaining money by means of an
alleged bogus insurance company. The case having
been opened, and some evidence called, the prisoners
were again remanded.
At Sydney, on Saturday, the English football players
now touring in Australia defeated a New South Wales
team by two goals and six tries•to one try.
A Rome telegram states that the Irish bishops have
sent a communication to Rome admitting the right of
the Holy See to intervene in the matter of the Plan of
Campaign and boycotting, but stating that the Holy
See has not been well informed, and adducing data to
prove that the landlord and tenant disputes have a
political character which has nothing to do with morals
or religion. . .

It is believed that the German Government intends
to modify the severity of the new passport regulations
on the Alsatian frontier, in the sense of permitting tra-
vellers with through tickets from Paris to Munich to
enter the Reichsland without a passport, and even to
sleep a night at Metz or Strassburg.
Owing to the refusal of the Emperor Frederick to
sanction the publication of the law prolonging the legis-
lative period of the Prussian Diet from three to five
years, unless his Majesty's letter to Herr von Puttkatner
on the freedom of the right of voting is published at the
same time, the Ministry may, it is thought, tender
their resignations.
In reply to an interpellation in the Hungarian Diet
on Saturday last concerning his previous observations
on the subject of Hungary's representation at the Paris
Exhibition, M. Tisza declared that he had no intention
of offending a nation with which Austria-Hungary lives
at peace.
A letter has been found in the house of the Durham
murderer and suicide, ex-Sergeant Wright. It ran as
follows: "The only good this will do is to be hoped
will stimulate superintendents •to always speak the
truth, and not to resort to scientific lies when giving
evidence against brother officers. It would be also
infinitely better if chief-constables would not repose so
much confidence in superintendents, for they know
this and greatly depend it."
Richard Bailey, who has just been before the Birken-
head magistrate, must have needed physic badly. He
broke the window of a chemist's shop, took out two
bottles of sarsaparilla cordial, worth 3s. 4d., and drank
off the contents of both. He is evidently profoundly
convinced that the blood is the life, for he had also
stolen a quantity of rhubarb from a garden. The only
ill effect of his draught of sarsaparilla is that he has
now to do three months' hard labour.

At the village of Norton, near Gainsborough, last
week' a poor woman named Beck, was removed to the
town hospital, suffering from smallpox, and as the hus-
band, a joiner, who had caught the infection presum-
ably at a funeral, had already been removed there, three
little children, one an infant at the breast, had to be
left in the house. The neighbours were afraid to ven-
ture near them, but the village curate, the Rev. H.
Keene, hearing of the sad case, went and prepared the
little ones food, washed and got them to bed, and
stayed with them the whole night. Practical Chris-
tianity, this.
On Saturday a constable near Billingsgate Dock, dis-
covered the body of a man lying on the foreshore of the
Thames. There was a revolver clenched in his right
hand, and a bullet wound in his head. This letter was
picked up near the body : "Friday. Dear Annie,—By
tile tithe you receive this note the breath will be out of
my body. If my plans prove successful, I hope and
trust we will meet in the next world and have a better
time of it than we have had in this. I bore the anxiety
of this world long enough, so I hope you will forgive
me for this rash act, but I cannot bear it any longer, so
good-bye. God bless you, and forgive me, and believe
me to have been your old affectionate Kemp, of Dept-
ford." The description of the deceased is as follows:
Aged about 45; height, sft. Bin. ; stout build; clean
shaven • hair black and thin dressed in black cloth
overcoat, tweed undercoat, check trousers and vest,
white cotton shirt marked L.C., socks marked J.B.
There is some reason to believe the man committed
suicide through betting losses.
A duel was fought on Saturday between the Prince
de Valori and the Marquis de Villeneuve. The Prince
having been slightly wounded in the arm the seconds
put an end to the combat.
_

An Ennis telegram reports that at six o'clock on
Saturday morning, as Mr. John Burke, of Woodfield,
near Broadford, and High Constable of the barony on
on which he lives, was driving to a fair at Scariff, the
horse was shot dead from behind a ditch, The crime
is ascribed to the circumstance that Burke's brother-in-
law had outbid the tenants of the Dawson property at
Barratti in the Landed Estates Court, and one of the
tenants named Kennedy, was evicted. Burke was
present at the eviction, and had since stocked the farm.
Mr. Burke on Saturday was accompanied by a neigh-
bour, who is popular in the locality, or it is thought
the bullet might have been aimed at Burke instead of
the horse.

At Buckie, in the North of Scotland, cold and un-
seasonable weather has prevailed for some time past,
the growth of the crops being seriously retarded thereby.
On Sunday morning there was a heavy fall of snow,
which continued for a considerable time. The weather
is generally thick, while the sky is wintry,

The Dublin Gazette of Tuesday night contains a pro.
clamation placing Belfast under the provisions of the
third and fourth section of the Crimes Act. The sec-
tions in question provide for trial by special jury, and
change of venue.
For some time past the proud flesh in the throat and
trachea of the Emperor of Germany has been
gradually diminishing and is expected to entirely dis-
appear in about four days' time. It is agreed by the
physicians in attendance upon his Majesty that peri-
chondritis still exists, although the presence of cancer
is disputed.
At the Democratic Convention held at St. Lords on
Tuesday, the name of President Cleveland was enthu-
siastically cheered, the name of Mr. Thurman, whose
nomination for the Vice-Presidency is now assured,
being also received with hearty applause. The men-
tion of tariff reform produced an outburst of appro-
bation.

It is now stated that the difference of opinion be-
tween the Crown and the Prussian Ministry does not
involve the resignation of the Cabinet, and the recent
report of the existence of the Ministerial crisis are de-
clared to be unfounded.

The Prince of Wales on Tuesday unveiled a statue of
Sir Bartle Frere, erected on the Thames Embank-
ment. Among those present were the Princess of
Wales, with two of her daughters, the Duke of Cam-
bridge, Lord Napier of Magdala, and other distin-
guished personages.
In the match between the Australian cricketers and
a team representing Notts, which terminated at the
rrent-bridge Ground on Tuesday, the latter won by 10
wickets, just as the Players of England had done in
the preceding match of the Australian tour.
Prince Albert Victor will visit Bridlington Quay in
July and formally open the Beaconsfield sea-wall and
promenade. The date of the visit is not yet fixed.
Early on Tuesday morning the East-end of London
was the scene of an exciting tire, which was fortunately
unattended by loss of life, but which resulted in severe
personal injury to three individuals. Shortly before
Dne o'clock a cry of " Fire " was raised in Cambridge-
road, E., and dense volumes of smoke were seen to be
issuing from the shop of Mr. J. H. Richards, draper.
In a few seconds flames burst forth. Vigorous
attempts were made to arouse the inmates, and in a
short time Mr. and Mrs. Richards appeared at the
upper windows and piteously appealed for help. The
fire had possession of the staircase, and the crowd
called to Mr. and Mrs. Richards to jump, blankets
being held out for them. A baby fell from the window
to the ground, and then Mr. and Mrs. Richards jumped
out, but fell heavily and were badly injured. All three
were removed to the hospital. The firemen were scon
upon the spot; but the flames spread throughout the
house, and the fire was not got under till serious
damage had been done.
The Worcestershire police on Tuesday morning
arrested a labourer named Wyre on a charge of mur-
dering his son, five years of age, at Wolverley, near
Kidderminster. The man separated from his wife
some months ago, and the other day took the boy away
with him. The child's body has been found at the
byttom of a deep well.
The Eastbourne Board of Guardians have announced
the finding of a child on Pevensey marshes. The
child, it is stated, has been in Eastbourne Workhouse
unclaimed since the 25th of May. She is too young to
tell her name or to say how she was left in the marshes
unattended. The little girl, who was badly clothed
when found, has light hair, grey eyes, and says
" Katy " when questioned.
The report from the inspector showing the number
of experiments performed under licenses on living
animals during 1887 was issued on Tuesday. The total
number of such experiments during the year by 64
licenses was 1220. Number of cases in which pain was
unavoidably inflicted was 71, these being cases in which
the use of anxsthetics, or the killing of the animal on
recovery from anxsthesia, would frustrate the result of
the experiment. Comparatively few vivisections pro-
perly so-called have been practised.
A Reuter's telegram states that the Governor of New
York has signed the bill abolishing hanging and substi-
tuting electricity as a means of capital punishment.
The measure will take effect from January next.
At the Old Bailey on Tuesday, on the application of
Mr. Muir, the sentence on Samuel Hunter, the Salford
gas manager, was postponed until next session.
At the annual general meeting of the Royal Society
of British Artists, held on Monday, Mr. Wyko Ba3liss
was elected president.
While the local militia battalion of the Royal Irish
Rifles was on Tuesday proceeding from Tramfield
House, Belfast, for the Northern Counties Railway, en
route for the training-quarters, a picket party, led by a
band, were met by a crowd of roughs in New Lodge-
road, who attacked them with stones. The band had
to cease playing, and a halt was sounded. On the
police appearing the assailants fled, but two men named
Hickey and Gracey were arrested.
According to the Journal des Debate, alarming reports
are current respecting the bill of health of the mail-
steamer Canton, from Tong-king, which has been de-
tained in quarantine at Algiers for the past five days.
The sergeants' mess of the Yorkshire Regiment was
discovered to be on fire at three o'clock on Tuesday
morning. The military fire-brigade at once turned out,
and, assisted by the military police and troops, worked
hard to extinguish the flames, but without result. The
large hut was burned out, and considerable damage done
to Government and private property. The loss of the
sergeants alone is estimated at £2OO.
A Renter's telegram from St. John's, Newfoundland,
says: The captain and crew of the American fishing
schooner Ambrose Knight have been arrested here on
the charge of selling bait obtained in Newfoundland to
French fishermen of Saint Pierre. Bail was accepted.
A Renter's telegram states that intelligence has been
received at New York of a fatal fire in an hotel at
Rockdale, Texas, in which 11 persons lost their lives.
A statement was made to Judge Boyd on Tuesday by
the solicitor for the receiver on an estate in the county
Limerick showing that the Plan of Campaign is in full
force on that property. Judge Boyd stated that the
facts brought before him clearly proved that the Plan
was extensively adopted, and statements made to the
contrary were absolutely untrue. He assented to the
receiver's suggestion that proceedings should be taken
against the tenants, and unless they submitted at once
they would now see whether the law could be enforced
or not.
"When talking to a gentleman from Omagh this
morning, I was shown (says the London correspondent
of the Yoccastle Chronicle) a packet of pearls that had
been found in the fresh water mussels of County
Tyrone. One was over a quarter of an inch in
diameter, and seemed of fine quality; while a score of
others ranged downward to the size of small gun
shot. My informant, who is chairman of the Town
Commissioners, is of opinion that a twelve mile stretch
of his native river contains many similar specimens,
and that a careful search might prove of immense
benefit to the district."
The shareholders of the Manchester_ Ship Canal
Company, at a special meeting on Tuesday, go we their
consent to the promotion in Parliament of a bill for
the alteration of the plan of the Salford docks. By
the alterations which Parliament is to be asked to
sanction, a saving of £13,000 will be effected to the
company, whilst the extent of quayage will be consider-
ably greater than under the original plan. With re-
gard to the value of the company's stock and the pro-
gress of the canal works a satisfactory report was
made. It was stated that the canal would pro-
bably be ready for opening in about three years and
a half.
During the conflagration of the Homceopathic
Medical College at Cleveland, Ohio, the firemen were
astonished to see the nude bodies of five persons come
sliding through a hole which had been burned through
the floor over their heads. They were dragged out of
the room, and strenuous efforts were made to resus-
citate them, until a physician arrived to inform them
that the bodies • fere subjects that had been dead a week
or more, from the dissecting department, through the
floor of which the fire had burned and partially
destroyed the supports of the tables on which the
bodies lay, causirg it to incline towards the hole.
A horrible accident occurred on Tuesday on the
Chester and Holyhead Railway. An engine-driver,
named Lloyd, while shunting some waggons at Queens.
ferry Station, left his engine to move the points, and in
trying to mount again, he lost his footing and fell
among the wheels. He was cut to pieces, and death
was, of course, instantaneous.
It is stated that the measure which the Government
intend to introduce this session dealing with the sub-
ject of land purchase in Ireland will provide for the
expenditure of a further sum, probably one million
sterling, as a continuation of the present scheme, pend-
ing the introduction of a bill in a future session deal-
ing comprehensively with the whole Irish land question.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and Sir James Hannen,
on Monday, granted an application for a re-hearing of
the petition for divorce presented by Mrs. Boyce. This
is a suit in which the parties became acquainted with
each other through the editor of a matrimonial paper.
At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, the case
hi which Dr. G. F. Philpot and Mr. A. W. Philpot were
charged with conspiring to defraud the Mutual Acci-
dent Insurance Company came on for trial. In the
result Dr. Fhilpot was found not guilty, and Mr. Arthur
Philpot was discharged upon his entering into a recog-
nisance to appear and receive judgment if called upon
to do so.

Information has been received at Lerwick that a
small fishing-boat. belonging to Dunvarness, in the
south of Shetland, has been missing since Friday morn-
ing, and it is feared that she has been lost with her
crew of four hands.

The capta.ix-;--oriiie Union Company's steamer Athe-
nian, which arrived at Plymouth on Sunday, from Cape
Town, reports that on May 26, Mr. Marcus Haysman,
a second-class passenger, committed suicide by drown-
ing. It is stated that the deceased, who was 42 years
of age, had previously been a member of the Cape Par-
liament, and was a member of a Birmingham firm, and
had been depressed in consequence of losses in mining
speculations.
On Saturday, Miss Winifred Emery, of the London
Lyceum Theatre, was married, at the Savoy Chapel,
to Mr. Maude, of the Vaudeville. Mr. Burton Simsey
was best man, and a crowd of guests attended the
ceremony. In the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Maude left
for Eastbourne. The presents to the bride included
a gold repeater clock from Mr. Henry Irving and Miss
Ellen Terry, and several gifts from the Lyceum com-
pany. The bridegroom received a silver card tray
from the Vaudeville company.

At Dungloe Crimes Curt;' on Saturday, before Mr.
Hamilton, R,.Pti., James Sweeney, merchant, and John
Sweeney, of the firm of Atno, Sweeney, and Sons,
Edward Boyle, merchant, and a blacksmith named
O'Donnell, all of Dungloe, were committed for seven
days to Londonderry Gaol for refusing to give evidence
concerning the alleged boycotting of Maurice Boyle, of
Dungloe. The prisoners arrived at Latterkenny late
on:Saturday night almost unobserved, and were lodged
temporarily in the Bridewell.
The members of the Irish Scientific Dredging Com-
mission, which left Queenstown on the 26th ult., in tho
Clyde Shipping Company's stearatr Flying Falcon, to
dredge in the Atlantic for specimens of marine zoology,
returned on Saturday night and reported that on
Friday morning of last week, during a dense fog, they
suddenly heard the ringing of bells and the sound of a
large fog-horn close to them, and almost immediately
the hull of the White Star steamer Republic was seen
bearing down on the Flying Falcon. The eng;nes of
both vessels were promptly reversed, but they actually
grazed each other. There was intense excitement
R mon:: the numerous passengers of the Republic.

SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1888.

Antonio Pittassi, of Camberwell, was on Monday
charged at the Lambeth Police-court with feloniously
wounding with a dagger and causing grievous bodily
harm to Pasquale Cascarino and Angelo Cascarino,
with intent to murder, and also with attempting to
stab Giuseppina Cascarino at the same time and place.
The prisoner was remanded.
One of the most interesting of the many uses to
which paper has been put is the manufacture of paper
bottles. We have long had paper boxes, barrels and
car wheels, and more recently paper pails, washbasins,
and other vessels ; but now comes a further evolution
of paper in the shape of paper bottles, which are already
quite extensively used for containing such substances as
ink, bluing, shoe dressing, glue, &c., and they would
seem to be equally well adapted for containing a large
variety of articles. They are made by rolling glued
sheets of paper into long cylinders, which are then cut
into suitable lengths, tops and bottoms are fitted in, the
inside coated with a waterproof compound, and all
this done by machinery almost as quickly as one can
count.
On Monday there was witnessed in the palm-house at
the Imperial Palace of SchOnbrunn a spectacle which
hashitherto been seen only once before in Europe—to
wit, the palm tree Brownia Ariza in full bloom. This
tree, which is named after the celebrated English
botanist, arrived at Schonbrunn 40 years ago from
London. It was then an insignificant sprig, but now
it vies in magnitude with the Maria Theresa palm,
which is 170 years old, and in the same palm-house.
It blossoms only once in 50 years, and the bloom lasts
only 48 hours. The last time the blossom of the
Brownia Ariza was seen (the Vienna correspondent cf
the Standard believes) in June, 1851, in the Duke of
Norfolk's conservatory at Chiswick.
The arming of the British troops in India with the
magazine rifle will be followed by the distribution of
Martini-Henry rifles to native troops.
' According to a telegram from Constantinople, Russia
, has made peremptory demands upon Turkey with re-
spect to the war indemnity.
In the French Chamber on Saturday, M. Laur,
Radical, proposed that retaliatory measures should be
adopted against Germany in consequence of her new
frontier regulations. M. Goblet opposed the motion.
The proposal that it should be considered urgent was
then rejected by 509 to 7 votes.
A telegram from Madrid states that the Catalan
League has demanded of the Queen-Regent of Spain
what is practically "Home Rule" in its most extended
form for Catalonia.
The Maharajah of Oodeypore offers six lakhs for the
defence of the frontier, together with the service of his
troops. On the question of the utilization of thia
offer the views of the Lieutenant-Governor are awaited.
The young Maharajah of Bewah has been removed
from the demoralising influences of the zenana and
placed under responsible guardianship. The boy's
health and charactez are greatly improved, but the
Maharanee has made this action a ground of com-
plaint.
Italy demands of the Sultan of Zanzibar the grant
of the Bismayu Juba river. A Dutch corvette has
been sent to Zanzibar with proposals for a commercial
treaty.
As a souvenir of their silver wedding the Prince and
Princess of Wales were on Saturday presented by the
officers of the Grenadier Guards with a silver statuette
of a private of the regiment in the uniform of the year
1818.
From the report of the Astronomer Royal, which was
presented to the Board of Visitors at Greenwich on
Saturday, it appears that over 5000 observations of
stars and planets were made during the year.
Dr. Ball, Astronomer Royal, and the other members
of the Scientific Dredging Expedition have returned to
Queenstown, after a successful though stormy week at
sea.
In reply to an interpellation in the Hungarian Diet
on Saturday last concerning his previous observations
an the subject of Hungary's representation at the Paris
Exhibition, M. Tisza declared that he had no intention
of offending a nation with which Austria-Hungary
Lives at peace.
The firm of Mouser, which is under contract to supply
Turkey with £T2,000,000 worth of rifles, has given the
Porte notice that it will not commence manufacturing
them unless full guarantees are provided, notwithstand-
ing that a sum of £T400,000 has been paid on account.
A public garden and hall for the benefit of the in-
habitants of the district of Red Cross-street, South-
wark, were opened on Saturday by the Archbishop of
Canterbury and others, who eulogised the act of the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners in giving the site for the
purpose. The new Walter Hospital at Oodeypore was
opened by the Resident in state on the Queen's birth-
day. In the course of a speech the Dewan said it was
very gratifying that on so auspicious a day as that of
the birthday of the Empress the work commenced by
Lady Dufferin should be completed by a crowning
achievement.
The Prino3 and Princess of Wales, with Princes.'

Louise, Victoria, and Maud of Wales, were present on
Monday at the Royal Albert Hall at the opening of the
centenary festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for
Girls. The Princess of Wales presented to the respec-
tive winners the gold medal for proficiency and the
silver medal for good conduct.
A residentiary canonry in Carlisle Cathedral is vacant
by the death on Saturday from paralysis of Canon
Chalker. He was a Fe'low and tutor of Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, and associated with the Bishop of
Carlisle when he was at Ely. He was rector of Ben-
fleet, Essex, and diocesan inspector of schools.
A meeting of the Iron and Steel Wages Board was
held at Birmingham on Monday to consider an applica-
tion by the operatives of the district for an increase of
10 per cent. in wages. The application was based upon
the improved state of trade since the last award was
made, but the manufacturers, while admitting an
improvement in the demand, declined to grant the in-
crease, contending that prices were considerably lower
than when the present rate of wages was fixed. The
claim is accordingly left with the President of the
Board, Sir Thomas Martineau, for arbitration.
A meeting to protest against the compensation
clauses of the Local Government Bill was to have been
held in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Monday night,
b it owing to the presence of many publicans and their
ix lends the speakers found it almost impossible to gain
a hearing. Mr. Caine again said that he should oppose
the clauses and announced that if they were passed he
would introduce a bill to repeal them.
In the French Chamber, on Monday, General
Boulanger brought forward a proposal for the revision
of the Constitution, and moved that it should be con-
sidered urgent. He said that France no longer felt
that confidence in the future which was necessary for
every well-governed country. Parliamentarism was
divided into groups which thought of nothing but the
interests of coteries. The voice of the country was
crying aloud "Dissolution," and the House would do
well to listen to it. During the delivery of the speech
and in the debate which followed it several tumultuous
scenes occurred. The Premier, M. Floquet, said that
several points in General Boulanger's programme
deserved attention, but the motion must be referred to
a proper committee. The Government would bring in
a Revision Bill at its own time. On -a division the
House, by 377 to 186 votes, refused to confider the
motion urgent.