Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1874-06-27 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ENGINEERS. The conference of the above society, which has been sitting in Newcastle since Whit Monday, having concluded the business which Galled it twether, was brought to a conclusion on Saturday. The President (Mr Wm. Newton, London), occupied the' Che.ir.—Mr Wood, of Leeds, in moving a vote of fhanka to the President, alluded to the impartiality and fairness with which he had superintended the obeeedings, and the utmost satisfaction of the whale conference.— Mr Fleming, of Glasgow, seconcisc/ tate motion, and it was carried with enthu. siasm.--rftro President responded, and expressed his satisfaction at the ability displayed by the delegates. If Ye( had offended any delegate, he craved pardon for it.. His great object had been to benefit the society a rod economise the time of what he termed the largest delegate meetiog in the world.— Mr Sutcliffe, M. gechester, moved, and Mr Rowarth seconded, a vote a thanks to Mr Allen, of Sheffield, the general seen, tary, for the way in which he had discharged his dt itres; and for his services to the society over a period of 20 years.—The President, before putting the motion, intimated that a movement had been set 01 toot to raise a sum of not less than £l,OOO to prest nut to Mr Allen as a momento of their es, tra and regard. (Cheers)-.—The vote was carried with acol.‘rostion.—Mr Allen having acknowledged the corn pliment, Mr John Burnett address° i the assemblat,m, and the conference was then dissolved.   A GAL lIFORNIA2S TRAGEDY The San Meg, 1 Union of May 30, gives the followinfgapmairltyierniular s of the murder of John Overend and ism Diego County, California:— " Yesterday aftei -noon the Rev •Dr Fr. tfbach, Miguel Aguiyie, an d others arrived in the city from the scene of the in assacre. From these gentlemen we gather foe tab lst details of the dreadful affair. The murder WB6 . first discovered by a German named Meyer, who had some sheep at Encinitos, and who looked ant ir them on Monday last. • On passing the place wh ere Overend lived he noticed the extreme stillness, and rode up near the houses, where he saw the , lead body of Overend. The murdered man ley n ear the door of his house. After a hasty exsomt ;ion of the prenaises, Meyer gave the alarm, oon all the neighbourhood and 6 was aroused On the e. famination made by Father , mTphadiheea measured e beenur oed was found that Overend Übach and party, it vs upon the head with a nelcit,tlyi tbi gy telt Father nTeArim. tearing three by three. stick kabeiylal the body, and was h. The head of the unely crushed. On entering fortunate man, wascrenplet the house the body t 4 Mrs Overend was found stretched upon the. ' floor, the head near the stove. Ou the bed were two children —a boy of seven and a girl five years--1 loth of whom had been butchered with an are. Nee slaughtered ehs hae mial murdereddde —h taiamd i ie, enyei that about vbanit Ito: uhupiet appeared nine eudi position. nv yearsai . dat . b Allt f, 1 it b Y was found an infant in a box, used as a erac lle, whose poor little by the horrid axe. Under the bed was found the, corpse of the oldest of two, who appears to have hidden there, and to hi ve been found and of those fouud inside, the mother, and low, children, were rho bodies, when nnvaltuteen hpatirior:ei I fact 9:ocuutnldtdh;alwatveneroebt ehveienurgye 00 fmm," hdee ' ,os e d , but at the Saturday. A search •of the prem. lif the murder o last Friday or was turned upside Qes revealed the b.celoesnetrse„morsvnedsa.ckeid,h, There no on taken away. tEevhea opened, v e down—trunks There , was butf 0 linnodth ai nothing r Brie. LI tO ea oetfo dwebaasv thing appealed evidence of a of San Diego of 1,000 dolsi ;. also. 13°s si e been taken. W.Gonigle to Mrs Overend for 400 d it in the Bank this the slim of 64 dols. in coin was fo iote from Mr ohs. Besides und on the  —L vessel, th of this a different el a will. in New farm at  -making he per