Weekly News. — 1889-08-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CAPTURE OF MURDERERS.  After the scent had been almost given up by the Paris detective department, the murderers of the old woman—Kuhn—of the Rue Bonaparte have been arrested. Madame Kuhn was concierge in a house occupied by Senator Le Guen, and one night about a month ago she was found in her room dead with her throat cut. The alarm was given by a maidservant, and the murderers decamped without securing any booty. Owing to information received from a police spy of the criminal species, two of the offenders were alleged the other night as they emerged from a low dancing-saloon in the Rue de la Galte. Another, an undersized, sickly scamp of 17, was captured at the residence of his mother, • milkwonum. Strangely enough, she was overjoyed when the policemen took away her charming progeny, who, it appears, was in the habit of beating her. This member of the gang made a full confession to the police the next morning. He had known the deceased woman, but had nothing to do with her murder. He only watched and waited outside her lodge while his companions—Ribot and the "Sardine"—despatched her. The other two denied this energetically, and maintained that they had had no hand in the crime.  An important decision under the Stamp Act has been given in the Court of Appeal. Last year Messrs. Angus and Co. bought • business at Newcastle-uponTyne and convertedit into a limited company. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue claimed stamp duty on the agreement setting forth theamount of the purchase-money, but the court decided against them. The Lord Chief Justice of England, in presiding at the assizes at Chelmsford, strongly objected to the practice of making prisoners stand during the continuance of their trial. He directed Major Lane to withdraw his order to a prisoner to stand, and remarked that it was neither right nor just to compel such • proceeding. All prisoners tried before him would be allowed to sit down, if they so desired.  The failure is announced of the Richmond Pai•vt Company, who have a large manufactory at Providence, United litatet. The liabilities are said to amount to 1,000,000d01.  At the close of the year, 816,330 insured persons stood on the books of the combined German life insurance companies for a total insurance of E. 165,130,500.  A reprieve for Richard Townsend, who was convicted and sentenced to death at the Kent Assizes for the murder of his wife at Dartford, has been received at Maidstone prison.  A severe storm of rain broke over Chicago the other clay, and while at iss height an unfinished building collapsed, crushing an adjacent cottage. Eight of the inmates were killed and four injured. The rainfall was almost without precedent, and houses are flooded.  The French Government has decided to disregard the protest of the heirs of La Tour d'Auvergne against the translation of his remains to the Pantheon, What remains of the ivlies of Marceau ale contained in ji little, leaden casket. which has just been brought to Paris.  The value has been sworn at £60,054 of the personal estate of the late Mr. Clement Francis Wedgwood, of Etruria and Barlesion, Staffordshire, manufacturer of earthenware, who died in January.  lowa has just produced probably 'the youngeit murderer who has ever figured in criminal annals. A few days since a Mr. Elkins and his wife were found dead in bed at their house in the small town of Elk. They had evidently been murdered, and suspicion fell upon Wesley Elkins, a lad only 11 years, the son of the murdered man by his lrst wife. It seemed incredible, however, that the boy could have committed a deed so dreadful, and many people refused to believe that he was the murderer. lie has just confeiwed that he killed both the victims by shooting them with a rifle as they lay !fl bed.