The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-07-23 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

On an appeal, the Middlesex magistrates on Satur-
day quashed the conviction of John Edward Williams,
sentenced, at Marylebone, to six months' hard labour
for assaulting a constable engaged in dispersing a mob
near the Marble Arch in April.
On Monday the German Emperor left Mainau for
Gactein, on his way conferring with the Prince Regent
of Bavaria at Bregenz.
On Saturday afternoon Sir H. D. Wolff left Tenedos
for Marseilles on board her Majesty's ironclad, Dread.
nought.
Newfoundland skiffs and fishing boats have been
forcibly driven out of Port an Port Bay by the French
war vessel Drac, and the French are now fishing in
places where they never fished before.
On arriving in New York the Earl of Aberdeen was
waited upon by Irish and Scotch deputations. In
replying to an address the earl said that the real atti-
tude of Irishmen in America was not understood in
England, owing to the misrepresentations of the Eng-
lish.press.. _ _

Sitting in the Divorce Division, Sir James liannen
had before him on Saturday the petition of Mr. A. T.
Story for a divorce on the ground of his wife's niiscon.,
duct with Dr. Bannen O'Connor, against whom damages
were claimed. The jury awarded £3OO to the petitioner,
but as he had confessed to misconduct on his own part,
the President declined to grant a decree nisi, and
decided that he could not recover damages.

Viscount Oranborne, M.P. opened o;Saturday the
Wandaworth•road Constitutional Club. Mr. Robert
Hornell presided, and explained that the club was called
Constitutional (and not Conservative) because it wee
proposed to admit Liberal Unionists to membership.
Lord Oranborne delivered an address urging the neces-
sity of organisation.

The evictions on the Brooke Estate, at Coolgreany,
were resumed on Saturday morning. After having
effected two evictions without any difficulty, the
emergency men proceeded to the house of Edward
Byrne, where a stubborn resistance was offered. The
door was forced, but the invaders were received with
bucketsful of ho; water dashed in their faces by
women. Several emergency men and police were
scalded. The bailiffs, led by Captain Hamilton, en.
deavoured to force back the defenders, but they were
several times repulsed. A violent struggle occurred at
the door, the emergency men using their crowbars and
the inmates defending themselves with sticks. Two
emergency men were injured, one of them seriously,
Byrne, the tenant, was also seriously wounded by a
blow on the head from a crowbar, and his clothes
were covered with blood. He received medical treat-
ment before being taken with the othor defenders to
prison.
A daring robbery has been perpetrated at the cffices
of Sir H. Vivian and Co., Birmingham. A cheque is
forwarded from London for the payment of the work-
men's wages, and it is the duty of one of the clerks to
cash it at the bank on Saturday. Last week the cheque
arrived as usual, and was placed by the cashier in a
cash box in the counting house, where it remained for
some time before being placed in the safe. On Satur-
day morning, when the cash box was opened, it was
discovered that the cheque had 'been abstracted, and
on inquiry at the bank it was ascertained tbat it had
been cashed a short time previously by a clerk named
Evans. The matter was placed in the hands of the
police, who discovered that Evans had taken a ticket
to Abergele. The telegraph was at once put into
operation. with the result that be was arrested at
Cr ewe with the stolen money, £4OO, in his possession.
The annual fete on behalf of the London and South.
Western Railway Orphanage at Clapham took place on
Saturday, Capiain Hargreaves, of The Mount, Bishop.
stoke, placing his extensive grounds at the disposal of
the committee for the occasion. A large number of
visitors were present, many of them having travelled
from London, Southampton, and Portsmouth. The
entertainments comprised a variety of country games
and athletic sports, and at dusk the park was bril-
liantly illuminated with the electric light. It is an.
ticipated that the fund will benefit largely by the
excursion.
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The Queen, accompanied by the Crown Prince of
Germany, P:ince and Princess Henry of Battenberg,
and otter members of the Royal family, left Windsor
for Osborne on Tuesday, and was received with naval
honours at Portsmouth for the first time since the
Prince Consort's death. Between Portsmouth and
Osborne her Majesty inspected the Jubilee fleet.
A cablegram received on Tuesday from Lloyd's
agent at Buenos Ayres states that during a hurricane
the Oronsa (British brigantine), from Brazil, was
driven ashore, and has become a total wreck,
but the cargo will probably be saved. The Belle
of Lagos (British brigantine), from Brazil, has also
gone ashore. The Marchino (Italian barque), San—
guinete (? Sanguinetti), America, has also gone ashore
at Spouts Lama, and reports indicate that she is badly
damaged.
On Tuesday evening the German Emperor arrived at
Gastein where he was received by Count Thun in the
name of Kaiser Franz Josef.
It is announced from Alaska that two sealing
schooners—one of British nationality, named the Annie
Beck—have been seized by the authorities for alleged
sealing in Alaskan waters.
Dr. Seghers, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Victoria,
whilst founding missions on the Yukon River last
November, was murdered by one of the brethren of the
mission under his charge._
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It is feared that six Swiss tourists who attempted to
ascend the Jungfrau the other day have perished in a
heavy snowstorm.

Satar Jung has arrived at Berlin and taken rooms in
the Kaiserhof.

Deaths from cholera number from 12 to 15 daily at
Catania, in Sicily.
Arguments were heard on Tuesday in the Court of
Appeal in support of the case of thirty-five policy-
holders in the Briton Medical and General Life Asso•
elation, who objected to a scheme sanctioned by the
Court of Chancery for continuing the undertaking.
Lords Justices Cotton, Bowen, and Fry dismissed
the appeal, considering the plan the best that could be
framed. - -
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While the Great Yarmouth boat Thalia was engaged
in mackerel fishing off tbat port four Ostend craft
deliberately put down their trawls close to the nets of
the drifter and trawled into them, doing considerable
&wage. Some of the crew of the Thalia boarded one
of the Wenders, which was numbered "0. 93," and
they state that they discovered the Belgians in the
act of injuring the nets. The circumstances have been
reported to the Board of Trade.
On Tuesday afternoon a traveller who had arrived
from Metz, while waiting in the Onstoms House, fired
four shots from a revolver at the police commissary on
duty: Three of the shots took effect, the first two hit.
ting the commissary in the right arm, and the third
striking him in the left side. One of the bullets
lodged in the wall. The account received in Paris of
the attempt represents the assailant to be a Getman
traveller, named Anderle, from Troves, and the corn-
missary a Frenchman named Ritter. The wound is
described as insignificant. The tvould-he assassin has
been arrested.

The plate glass window iu the premises of Mr.
Curry, jeweller, of Iligh•street, Dorking, was broken
on Monday night, and nearly a hundred watches
stolen.