Weekly News. — 1890-08-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

KENTUCKY.  The Kentucky mountains 'xi the neighbourte oil of Pikeville have been practically ututrolled for man), years by outlaws, illegal d;stillere, and desperadoes. and little attempt has been mad, to put down the lawlessness that constantly prey .ils in that' sect ite. A the State. Within the last five years more tinin 200 murders have been commit, ed and not a single person has been arrested. In Perry county. which is the centre of dueiriler, tnere is not r church, school, or telegraph Otos. Tire outlaw, burned the courthouse two years ago, and iv, attempt has since been made to hold court in tie county until Saturday lass, when Circuit .lutt.. Lilly, guarded by several companies of merit arrived in the town of liszaid, the tAlui.t. seat, and held court in a large ten:, which had been erected I,r that parpoa... A large crowd collected, rind several bile dred outlaws cair.e in (ruin the 111,,taltaind lounged about in the outskirts of the town. Wit, great difficulty the judge induced 16 Citizens CU is.,, sea grand jury. In his charge he said that tin' county was 70 years old, and while only one Mei. had been convicted of murder and sentenced to s short term in the penitentiary, it was on recoo' that over 500 murders had been committed. 11 cad " I have missed several terms became I was ant ielled that a court could not be held. My life haa Ite,n thrsaiened and I have had every rein.° to eorien assamination.but I hays determined to do iiiy rhe jury consented to indict several pyre°mro homesteading, but frankly admitted that they amid to indict a number of LI out;t.ws with murder. So complete was Om teller i. Judge Lilly was obliged to adjourn the eon. Tuesday of this week. Meantime the Ito .1 I • • 00110 attempting to make seine arreet,g, tills l. without success, and serious trouble ii, ferie,t.  At Birmingham Assize* on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Hawkins, Alfred Rutter, William Beard, and Agnes Collis, who had been found guilty of the manslaughter of Alfred Hyde, stage manager, as the Canterbury Concert Hall, were brought up fur sentence. The two first-named were sentenced to seven years penal servitude each, and the other pri. toner to five years'. It will be remembered that on April 2nd the prisoners attaoked Hyde on his way to the hall because be refused to grant them free tickets of admission to the hall, and they What'll injuries irons which he died two days afterwards.  From Mozambique it is offieially announoed that • decree has been published prohibiting the importation into the colony of the Lakes Company's and the Mombasa Company's rupees after August 22nd. About 10 o'clock op Saturday morning, whilst Inspector Morgan, of Aberdare, and two others were proceeding to Merthyr on • Croat Western railway engine, near the anproech to the tunnel they wsw • es,dc containing naphtha, which wee being used by some repairers, lying across the line. As the engine scold not be stopped in time to avoid a catastrophe. idle engine was quiokly enveloped in a blaze, and the Insprotor and Isis companions were very severely rhefold . Mr. Morgan was conveyed be his residence A are, and Ins Injuries were &WNW be TM er men wore Pi/nt ti Merthyr. A fire at the Alexandra Dock, Hulk on Saturday night, caused very great damage. It broke oui in a pile of deals, and though the tire brigade worked energetically it was many hours before the nonfiagration was overcome. The heat was intense. arid it was with difficulty the firemen could approadi the hunting wood, so that little could be done beyield keeping the flames front rear-lung the hitherto untouched timber. During the evening thousande if people went from all parts a the town to witness the terrible blaze, wiiMh continued to burn with great fierceness all the night.