The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-11-06 00:00:00

A SOCIALIST LEADER'S INCOME.

At the Bloomsbury County-court, on Monday, the
case of Dickson v. Hyndman came before Judge
Bacon. This was an application on behalf of Surgeon-
Major Dickson for committal of the defendant and
his wife to prison for non-compliance with a previous
order of the Court. Mr. Hyndman did not appaar,
and his wife stated that he was that morning apply-
ing for situation as managing clerk to a solicitor in
the City. She said they rented a house at 4:50 a
year, but the furniture was very heavily mortgaged,
and in addition there was a bill of sale over it. They
had no money, and had been unable to pay the debt.
The only money they had had was that which she re-
ceived from her lodgers, and as they did not pay the
rent, they raised another loan. Her husband was
the leader of the Social Democratic Federation, and
went about the country lecturing, but he received no
pay for his work. He went to dinners without pay-
ing, and they bad been supported by relations and
friends. her husband did not contribute anything
towards their living, and she had had to borrow
money to pay the servant her wages. Mr. Williams,
solicitor for the plaintiff, said the defendants were
treating the Court with contempt, as he could .not
believe that Mr. Hyndman could travel the country
and go to dinners Without money. Judge Bacon:
There are three judgments—two against the wife, and
one against the husband. Mr. Williams: Mine is
against the wife for the solicitor's fee, which she said
she would not pay. Mrs. Hyndman: I cannot pay.
Give me the money and I will pay you. (Laughter.)
The Judge thought it would be best to adjourn the
cases for a fortnight to see if Mr. Hyndman was suc-
cessful in his application for the situation ; if he got
it, be would then be able to pay. The plaintiff agree-
ing to this proposal, the cases were adjourne till
Nov. 15.

A PRETTY girl won a musket in the French lottery.
When they gave it to her she asked, "Don't they give
soldier with it?"

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Mr. George Browning Brook, formerly a leading
Unitarian minister, and subsequently engaged in the
metal trade at Swansea, died pa Saturday at the age
of 80.

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At York on Saturday William Stamp, bricklayer,
died in his 100th year. He was the oldest freeman in
the city, and on his last birthday was congratulated by
the Lord Mayor of York on his great age and compara-
tive good health.
Colonel Makins, M.P., speaking at the Cambridge
University Canton Club on Saturday, said he should
preter a cloture by proportional majority, and the
power of a majority of the House to determine the
order of subjects rather than the present system of
ballot.
At Manchester on Saturday, a labourer, named
Kinairy, was remanded on a charge of stabbing two
persons. Late on the previous night he quarrelled with
his wife, whom he accused of infidelity with a lodger,
and taking a penknife from his pocket stabbed the
woman in the arm, and also stabbed the lodger in the
head and neck. A policeman, who heard screams, got
through the window and arrested the prisoner. The
lodger was seriously injured, and was taken to the
infirmary.
An outrage is reported from county Kerry. As Mr.
Michael Roche Kelly, J.P., of Firgrove House,
Banratty, county Clare, was, on Saturday afternoon,
returning frora Ennis, where he had been attending
Quarter Sessions, he was fired at and wounded. Mr.
Kelly was driving home, and was about six miles from
Ennis at the time he was fired at. He immediately
communicated with the police, and six arrests were
made.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of the ap.
pointment of Lord Wantage to be Lord-Lieutenant of
Berkshire in the room of the late Marquis of Ailes-
bury.
Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of the
vacant office of Master of Trinity College, Cambridge,
being conferred upon the Very Rev. Henry Montagu
Butler, D.D., Dean of Gloucester.
Another sitting of the Bulgarian Sobranje was held
on Monday afternoon, when there was some discussion
on the subject of freedom of debate, and a Committee
was appointed to examine the electoral returns. A
telegram from Sofia states that the Regency have been
advised to submit unconditionally to the demands of
the Czar.

Prince Waldemar, a Berlin correspondent hears from
a well-informed source, is not inclined to accept the
Throne of Bulgaria in case of its being offered to
him.

A telegram from Cairo states that the British Govern-
ment will not allow itself to be diverted from its pre-
sent line of policy as regards Egypt, and will not leave
the country to disorder and the possibility of a fresh
disastrous revolution. From St. Peterburgh it is an-
nounced that the Russian Government might be
expected to support the representations of France
against the British occupation.
The Municipal Elections took place on Monday in
the boroughs of England and Wales. In many cases
there were no 'contests, and in some cases the voting
was not influenced by political considerations. The
Conservatives gained seats in many large towns, but
these were partly counterbalanced by losses in other
boroughs.
At a meeting of the Farmers' Club in London on
Monday, Mr, W. 0. Little, who presided, expressed the
opinion that the yield of the recent harvest had been
greatly over-estimated. Mr. H. Evershed read a paper
on "Allotments and Cow-plots." Whilst believing
that large-farming was likely to continue to prevail in
this country, he thought there was in many districts
room for a large increase of village industries, of small
farms, and of cow-plots. Lord Onslow spoke of the
williugness of landlords to grant allotments, and Sir
B. Leighton and Mr. Finch. Hatton, M.P., took part in
the discussion which followed
At the Jersey Criminal Assizes on Monday, a French
sailor named Jean Tirel, 30, was sentenced to pay a fine
of £2, and to undergo three months' imprisonmeat
without hard labour, for making false declsrati3ns,
thereby obtaining a license to marry a girl named
Moignard, 15 years of age, niece of his deceased wife.
The prisoner had represented that the girl was of age,
and told the clergyman of her district that she was
17, but had her parents' consent to the marriage. The
Bailiff severely censured the two clergymen who gave
attertations for neglect;
At Birmingham on Monday the Coroner committed
for trial John Norbury, labourer, charged with the
murder of his wife under very aggravated circum-
stances, Norbury and his wife had lived on very bad
terms and frequently quarrelled, and on the 18th of
October the quarrelling was of an unusually violent
character. The woman went upstairs to bed • her hus-
band followed stealthily, and as she was undressing he
struck her several blows with a hatchet on her head
and body. Her skull was fractured and one arm
broken, and she died in the hospital a few days later.
At the quarterly meeting of the Manchester Ohara-
ber of Commerce, held on Monday, a warm discussion
took place on the subject of Free Trade. A resolution
was moved to the effect that "having waited in vain
40 years for other nations to follow the Free Trade
example of England, this Chamber thinks the time has
now arrived to reconsider that position." The resolu-
tion was rejected by a majority of one only, the figures
being 21 for, and 22 against.
A public meeting was held at the Hove Town Hall
on Monday in support of a proposal to erect a new
parish church at Hove on a site given by Mr. V. F.
Benett-Stanfcrd. Viscount Hampden, Lord Lieutenant
of the county, presided, supported by the Bishop of
Chichester. Subscriptions to the amount of 1.700
were promised.

At Nottingham Assize 3 on Tuesday Joseph Metcalfe,
a tradesman pleaded guilty to a charge of man-
slaughter. Accused is a tarpaulin manufacturer, and
his warehouse abuts upon a public thoroughfare.
Without troubling to ascertain whether the pavement
was clear he threw a heavy bale of goods from the
upper storey, which fell upon Thomas Searey, a foot
passenger, and killed him. The prisoner expressed his
deep sorrow for the thoughtless act, and it was stated
that he had made ample provision for Scarey's widow
and children. Justice Grantham, in passing sentence
of one day's imprisonment, expressed a hope that the
case would be a warning to the public.
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Speaking on Tuesday-night ai the North-East Hants
agriculture dinner at Alton, Mr. Sclater-Booth, M.P.,
referred to the great change that had lately taken place
in county representation, and was pleased the change
had been attended with so little disturbance and
inconvenience, which showed that the new voters
accepted their responsibilities in a proper spirit. There
was a good deal of talk about county boards, but he
should be very sorry to see any changes in local
administration affecting the administration of our poor.
law, which was so ably carried out by the guardians.
Referring to the Royal Commission on Agriculture, it
seemed to him that there was the same complaint of
depression in all nations. He was not in favour of a
tax on corn, but was satisfied that the Government
might do much in respect to our foreign relations to
ameliorate the present state of things.
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Her Majesty ii gunboat Ariel captured on Tuesday a
foreign trawler, manned by Frenchmen, which was
seen to run right into the nets of English fishermen in
the North Sea. The trawler was taken into Lowestoft,
but after she had been detained for some hours an
order came from the Government that she must be
towed back to the fishing grounds.
The new Russian torpedo-boat Vibrog, from Glasgow
for Havre, has put into Holyhead through stress of '
weather.

The steamship Huntsman and the Norwegian barque
Brilliant, from Bathurst, were in collision on the
Mersey on Tuesday. The latter vessel was cut down
to the water's edge, and it is reported to be full of
water.
At Lytham, on Tuesday, a blacksmith named James
Mellor killed his wife and her sister with a hammer.
He then brought a policeman, to whom he pointed out
the bodies. The terrible crime is the outcome, it is
stated, of domestic quarrels.
Sir James Fraser, acting on his authority as Commis-
sioner of City Police, has issued regulations with refer-
ence to the street traffic on the occasion of the Lord
Mayor's show. One clause contains an absolute prohibi-
filo. of any other proceasion than the Lord Mayor's It
is anticipated that Sir Charles Warren will issue similar
regulations applicable to that part of the route which
is beyond the Jurisdiction of the 9itv,

Considerable alarm was created and no small amount
of damage done by an explosion of gas in the house of
the Earl of Lathom, Portland-ilace, London, on Tues.
day. The noble lord and his family were out of town
at the time, and the house was occupied only by the
servants, two of whom received personal injuries. All
the windows in the house were blown out, some vain-
able pictures scorched, and other damage done. The
effects of the explosion were experienced in several of
the adjoining houses.
A Paris correspondent reports that he can find no
official confirmation of the rumour that the Porte is
about to protest, diplomatically, against the continued
occupation of Egypt by British troops.
Ellen Vaughan, the bearer of two aliases was brought
before Mr. Balguy, at Greenwich, on Tuesday, charged
with stealing a child two months old, and also with
having committed bigamy. The prisoner had tried to
pass off the stolen child as her own, and had insured its
life. She was remanded in custody.
Some correspondence has just passed between Mr.
Stuart Rendel, M P,, and Mr. John Morley, in the
course of which the latter expresses his conviction that
the disestablishment of the Church in Wales must
now form an indispensable article of Liberal policy.
A shocking accident occurred on Tuesday morning at
Kynoch's Ammunition Works, near Birmingham. A
man named Caddick was mixing some fulminate of
mercury in a shed, when the mixture exploded. The
shed was completely dest:oyed, and Oaddick was killed
on the spot.
The question of establishing a standard list of wages
for the cotton operatives of North-East Lancashire was
further considered at a meeting of manufacturers and
operatives' representatives held at Manchester on Tues-
day. It was decided to ask all in the trade to furnish
particulars of looms and cloth, in order to assist in
arriving at a general list.
The death was announced on Tuesday at Cork of Mr.
William Hayes, at the age of 91. In 1826 he fought a
duel at Dublin and shot dead his opponent, Councillor
Brie, a local pOlititian and Roman Catholic. The dis-
pute arose out of a heated election in Cork between
Mr. Callaghan, a Tory, and Mr. Hutchinson, the Whig
brother of Lord Donoughmore.
A singular application has been made to the Cocker- I
mouth magistrates by the Rev. J. Ewbank, vicar of
Christ Church in that town. He asked for protection
of the magistrates from persons who came to his
church to be married, and said that the throwing of rice
and other things had got to such a pitch as to amount
to an assault. The magistrates would give protection
on notice.
The Earl of Derby, presiding at the Liverpool County
Sessions on Tuesday. said ho had held the office of
chairman for 30 years, but had twice placed his resignam
tion in their bands. He had heard expressions that,
considering the importance and quantity of business to
be transacted in regard to criminal matters, it would
be desirable to place the chairmanship in the hands of
a professional gentleman. For himself, he had con-
tinued to hold office only at the roped of his brother
magistrates, and he wished again to place his resigna-
tion in their hands. If they felt that a professional
gentleman ought to be chosen he would at once retire.

SATURDAY, NOV. 6, 1886.

At tho Westminster Police-court on Saturday, Mr.
Bishop, proprietor of a tavern in Chelsea, was pro-
secuted by the Inland Revenue for adulterating beer
with a solution of sugar. The magistrate imposed the
full penalty of £5O, expressing his surprise that there
was not more prosecutions.
The double sculling handicap was rowed on the
Thames on Saturday. The winners were Teemer
and Hamm, who in the final heat obtained an easy
victory.
The Lord Mayor proceeded in State to Highgate on
Saturday afternoon and dedicated to the public use the
Gravel Pit Wood, which has been presented by the Ec-
clesiastical Commissioners to the City Corporation,who
have undertaken its charge and maintenance. Mr.
Stoneham enumerated the various open spaces which
the Corporation had aequired for the public enjoyment
by means of the trifling duty on corn imports, and the
Lord Mayor expressed the hope that Parliament, by
extending the coal and wine duties, would enable them
to carry out many more such improvements. The event
was celebrated in the evening by a banquet.
A demonstration organised by the Working People's
Leagues to demand universal suffrage and an amnesty
for those convicted during the strikes was held on
Sunday at Charleroi. The gathering was enormous but
orderly. •
The edition of the November "Century," containing
the first chapters of the authorised life of Lincoln and
the opening of Frank R. Stockton's new novel, The
Hundreth Man," will, it is stated, exceed a quarter of a
million copies.
Owing to increased infirmity the Ven. Archdeacon
Wynne Jones, who has held the archdeaconry of
Bangor and a canonry in Bangor Cathedral since
1883, has placed his resignation in the hands of the
Bishop.
On Saturliy George German, a ticket-of-leave man,
was committed for trial at the Surrey Sessions, by the
Croydon magistrates for committing a burglary at
East Croydon Station on the 22nd inst.' and attempt-
ing a violent assault on a detective. Sergeant Scott
saw the prisoner rushing from the goods receiving office
at eleven o'clock at night, and, giving chase, caught
him. A desperate struggle ensued, but with the assist-
ance of another officer the detective secured the pri-
soner's hands behind his back and conveyed him to the
police station.
The Bishop of Dover, preaching at Canterbury on
Slnday, observed that the question of V e disposal of
the dead was becoming one of pressing importance in
populous places. By the general adoption of crema-
tion we should escape many difficulties, and although
not an advocate of the system, he was willing to admit
that there was very much more to be said for the pro-
posal than many thought. It was said that the idea of
cremation was revolting, but what could be more re-
volting than the burial of the dead if we allowed our
minds to rest on the subject?
At Manchester Assizes on Saturday Henry Bury
pleaded guilty to a charge of forging cheques, the pro-
perty of Captain Moly neux, of the Dairy of Lancaster's
Yeomanry. The prisoner was employed as a valet by
Captain Moly neux, and while he was absent on regimental
duty the prisoner stole two cheques and forged his
master's signature. He passed one at Lancaster and
the other at Windermere. Justice Cave said that the
prisoner had been leading a life of crime since 1866,
and as he had been sentenced to penal servitude
before, the sentence now would be 10 years' penal
servitude. _

In the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London,
on Saturday Richard Foster was convicted of having
demanded money by menaces horn Elizabeth Mullins,
and also of an assault on her, and was sentenced to two
consecutive terms of penal servitude of five years each.
Paul Rodier, a young Frenchman, surrend3red to his
bail at Bow-street Police-mart, London, on Saturday
to answer a charge of violently assaulting a police.
constable. There was a cross-summons against the
constable for assault, and a surgeon of the French Hos-
pital deposed to a wouid like a bludgeon wound on
Rodier's head. Mr. Vaughan committed him for trial,
that the case might be determired by a jury.
At Norwich Police-court on Saturday, the chairman
(Major Micklethwaite) handed to William Pooley, a
labourer, the certificate of the Royal Humane Society
on vellum, as a recognition of his having saved the
lives, at great risk to himself, of a man named Gooch
and of three others at va*ious times, who were in
imminent danger of drowning in the river Wensum.
The roof of a one-story building at BPLardes-court,
Musselburgh, fell in on Saturday morning, burying the
occupants in the ruins. These consisted of a hawker
called DPlienna, aged 58, his wife, and three sons, two
of whom are cripples. The neighbours hearing a noise
rushed to the place, and all were safely got out except
M'Kenna, who died a few minutes after being extri-
cated.
At Bolton, on Saturday, an extraordinary story was
told by a woman named Edwards, who sought to
affiliate two children on Robert Coleman, cattle dealer,
of Horwich, near Bolton, with whom she had gone
through a form of marriage. Coleman, some twelve
years ago, left his first wife in Devonshire, eloping with
a married woman, whom he deserted. Then he met
with Edwards, whom he left five years ago, and has
since been living with another woman.

M. Alexandre.Jacquee, of 'Dray ford, having challenged
M. Succi to mid rtake a fasting feat for endurance, M.
Succi has accepted the challenge on the understanding
that M. Jacques shall first demonstrate his bona fides
by a fast in London. M. Jacques has agreed to do
this.

The terms of the convention entered into with China
by the English Government states that China agrees
that in all matters appertaining to the authority and
rnle which England is now exerci.ing in Btirmah,
England shall be free to do whatever she deems fit and
proper.
The Art Treasures Exhibition at Folkestone was
closei on Saturday. During the five months it has been
open to the public 242,519 vi itnrs have passed the turn-
stiles.

A fire, which broke out on Sunday at the Wellington
Dockshed, Liverpool, caused damage to the extent of
£30,000.
Six inmates of the Roman Catholic reformatory shin
Clarence, moored in the Mersey, escaped from the
vessel on Saturday evening in one of the ship's boats.
They landed on the Liverpool side, and, after scuttling
the boat, dispersed in different directions. All the lade
were arrested On Sunday and taken back o the ship.
Two men were killed and eight injured by a ter-
rible accident at the Brymbo New Steel Works, near
Wrexham. The fly wheel of the roller mill, while re-
volving at great speed, burst into fragments, striking
many of the employes, one piece travelling as far as
Brymbo Hall, the residence of Mr. Osborne Morgan,
M.P. Works at the rolling mills cannot be resumed
for some weeks. The accident was caused by the steam
regulator valve of the engine sticking, preventing the
driver from shutting off steam.
While cutting up the carcase of a cow in Golborne,
Lancashire, a butcher's assistant named Shrimp acci-
dentally severed an artery in his leg. lie bled to
death.

Whilst a young man named James Russell in com-
pary with Robert Walker, was making ingress to the
Carucoagh Iron Ore Mines, Ballymena, the opening fell
in. Russell was crushed to death; Walker was seriously
injured.
Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., telegraphed to the Cardiff
Branch of the National League advising all Irishmen to
vote for Liberals at the Municipal Elections.
The Edinburgh International Exhibition was closed
on Saturday night. During the six months the number
of visitors has been 2,740,000. Financially the exhibi-
tion has been a great success, the surplus amounting
to about £17,000.
On Saturday the Bishop of Ripon consecrated All
Hallows Church, which has been built at Burley, a
populous district near Leeds. The total cost of its
erection was £BOOO, all of which, with the exception of
£3OO, has been raised by subscriptions.
Mr. Wilson Barrett closed his three weeks engage-
ment at New York on Saturday. He opened at Boston
on Monday in "Hamlet." He expresses himself en-
tirely satisfied with his success at New York.
The Shop Hours' Regulation Act came into operation
on Monday,