The Northern Guardian. — 1893-04-25 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

HARTLEPOOLS WATCH FACTORY. Watches thoroughly cleaned, ls : mainspring, la 3d. Twelve months' guarantee. Clocks and jewellery repaired on the premises 264, Lynn Street.—Adrt. WANTED TO PURCHASE, Old Gold and Silver, cost price given. The cheapest and beet shop in the Hartlepools for Watch, Clock, and Jewellery Repairs at J. M. CROSIER'S, 76, Lynn Street. —Advt.  HEPWORTH'S BTSTESI OF DIRK CT TRADlNG.—Brineing their famous specialties in Ready-made and Bespoke Clothing direct from their huge factooes in Leeds to the wearers at. their one hundred and fifty local bmnows.—West Hartlepool Branch, 21, Lynn Street.—Advt.  Mr Edwin Booth's condition has undergone a change for the worse, and it is believed t.h.t he is dying. Mr Havelok-Wilson has secured f',so from a gentleman who foregoes his holiday to aid the Hull strikers.  The members of the Medical Association at Hartlepool passed a resolution that one guinea be handed over to the Hartlepool Nursing Guild.  The death is announced of Mr IV. M. R. Haggard, father of Mr Rider Haggard, who died on Monday at his residence, West Bradenham Hall, Norfolk.  At the quarterley meeting of the Hartlepools Co-operative Society, held at West Hartlepool, a subscription of two guineas was voted to the Nursiug Guilds at Hartlepool and West Hartlepool.  The Sheffield stipendiary yesterday committed for trial at the Assizes a travelling photographer, named George Holmes, for abducting a girl named Isabella Shales, with whom he had lived at Chirton, near North Shields.  The eighteenth Synod of the Presbyterian Church of England opened in Manchester yesterday evening. After a sermon by the Rt.v. George Johnstone, of Liverpool, the retiring Moderator, the Synod confirmed the nomination of the Rev. Walter Morrison, D.D., London, as Moderator for 1893.  The Cleveland Unionists have arranged a demonstration, to be held at Upleatham, on Saturday, against the Home Rule Bill. It is announced that the Earl of Dunraven will be present, and will be supported by Lord Zetland, Mr A. J. Dorman, Sir Lowthian Bell, Sir Raylton Dixon, and other gentlemen.  John Davis and Richard Davis, brothers, and Charles Sale, John Bateman, James Ramsey, sen., and James Ramsey, jun., father and son, were charged before the htaldon County Justices yesterday with the murder of Sergt. Eves on Sunday week, and were remanded. Prisoners had to be guarded from an infuriated crowd. The crew of the Helen Burns, brigantine, of Teignmouth, were landed at Eastbourne yesterday, their vessel having collided on the previous night with the barque Eliza, of Liverpool, while off St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight. All on board of the brigantine were rescued by the Eliza, with the exception of one man belonging to Exmouth, who was drowned.  A WEAR STEAMER KINK IN COLLlSlON.—Yesterday morning Messrs. Taylor & Sanderson, shipowners, Sunderland, received a telegram announcing that the steamer Duchess (s.s.), of that port, was run into by the steamer Venezuela on Sunday night whilst on a voyage from Bilbao to Sunderland with a valuable cargo of iron ore. The Duchess after_ .  wards sank off -the Casquets, near Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Captain Riches and the whole of the crew, most of whom belong to Sunderland, were saved and landed at Cherbourg. BLASTFURNACE EXPLOSIoN AT MIDDLESBROUGIL —A serious explosion occurred at the furnaces of Messrs Samuelson & Co., Middlesbrough, yesterday afternoon. It is supposed that the Muse of the accident was the contact of water with the molten metal which was just about to be tapped. Four men were employed at the furnace, when one of the Luyeres burst and the explosion occurred. Wm. Horner, 56, Marsh Street; Patrick Sheridan, 134, Marsh Road; John Copeman, 16, Margate Street; and Samuel Speed, the foreman, were all burned. The latter'only sustained slight injuries, but the others were severely burned about the arms, face, and back, and were removed to the North Riding Infirmary, where they still remain. WESLEY BAND OF HorE.—Last night, the members of the Band of Hope rendered a service of song, entitled " Humpty," in the schoolroom, under the condnetorship of Mr Jas. Thompson. The Rev. J. M. Fairbourn opened the service with prayer, and then called upon Mr H. Waites to preside. The Chairman said it afforded him great pleasure to be present on an occasion like that. It reminded him of the many happy hours he had spent in connection with the Band of Hope in years gone by. There were 306 members on the books, an increase of 71 on the last session. The solos, &c., were given by Misses L. and M. Coverdale, A. Watson, Metcalfe, Kearsley, L. and J. Fawcett, R. Forrest, and Messrs Fawcett, Pinkney, and Merryweather. The Rev. C. R. Johnson, of Western Africa, read the connective readings.