The Northern Guardian. — 1898-08-25 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

TEA TABLE DAINTIES.  ITEMS OF INTEREST.  Now Ready, Price 12e. &new edition of Ainsley's "Engineers' Manual," revised by TOM Wake, Hartlepool. To be had of all booksellers. —Advt.  Cyclists must ligLt their lamps at 8.1 to-day, and at 7.58 to-morrow.  H. Lamb. Jeweller, The Illuminated Cluck, Lynn Street. Telephone, 4,l6l.—Advt.  Lord Charles Beresford left London on his mission to China yesterday. 'llc Duke of Cambridge arrived in London from the Continent yesterday morning. H. Lamb, Jeweller, The Illuminated Clock, Lynn Street. Telephone, 4,l6l.—Advt. Four deaths have occurred in Chicago iioni the intense heat.  R. Fawcett, Auctioneer, Valuer, Commission and Property Agent. Rents collected or secured..—Advt. A Seoul dispatch reports that a French adviser has been engaged, by the Corean Government for postal affairs. - -  King Menelik is alarmed at the British advance up the Nile, and is apprehensive of an AngloItalian alliance in Africa.  The Anglo-Egyptian army ha i ieiched a point within 40 miles of Khartoum. The forward movement was to commence yesterday. Two thousand Spanish miner 3 in the neighbourhood of Villameso and Calatrava have struck work.  The first batch of Spanish troops from Cuba arrived at Corunna yesterday. The fever patients are to be taken to the hcspitals.  Sir 11. Neylor-Leyland was yesterday elected nsmber for Southport. He polled 5,100 votes ; Lord Skelmersdale, 4,828. Liberal majority, 272. A charabanc containing 20 persons ran on an embankment near Bridlington, yesterday, and capsized. Twelve of the passengers were injured. Mr Chamberlain has accepted an invitation to the annual dinner of the Wolverhampton Clamber of Commerce in January next. W. Maxwell, Jeweller and Silversmith, for the Largest Stock and cheapest. Inspection invited.—The Clock, Surtees Street.—Advt.  Two of the Merthyr unempinyed colliers, who went to Shirebrook Colliery, Derbyshire, have walked all the way back home, over 209 miles. Yesterday, in the sensational trial at Gibraltar, Callan was found guilty of intent to murder Mr Birkin, and was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.  At 'ryldesley, yesterday, a ~ortion of a skull with brains protruding was found on the London and North-Western Railway. The line is being searched. Halt-a-dozen best Siotel Tea Spoans given to the rnreliaser of a Wedding Ring at H. Lamb's. The Illuminated Clock, Lynn Street. National Telephone, No. 4,l6l.—Advt.  Two miners, named George Wild and John Rhodes, both married, were killed on Tuesday night by a fall of the roof at a colliery at Whaley Bridge ,near Buxton. The Loudon and North-Western Railway Company have lost a truck loaded with a ton of copper in ingots, dispatched from South Wales to Beceles, in Norfolk, last April.  The Duke and 'Duchess of York will visit the Duke and Duchess of Buceleuch at Drumlaurig Castle, Dumfriesshire, in the latter part of September. The visit will extend over a few days.  An authoritative contradiction is now forthcoming to the statement that M. Paderewski had lost two of his fingers. M. Paderewski was uever better in his life.  Apiol and Steel kali for Females, a French remedy, for all irregularities and otatructions, supersEding bitter apiol pill coelliao, pennyroyal, etc. Pries 4s 6d post. free. Obtainable only from Martin, Foreign Chemist Southamptom—Advt  The Hon. MTB Curzon, wife of the new Viceroy of India, gave birth to a daughter at The Priory, Reigate, on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Curzon now have two daughter, the first having been born in January, 1896. 'The Porte Las applied to the Council of the Administration of the Public Debt for a guarantee for the prospe-tive payments of the Russian war indemnity arrears, but the Council declined. Negotiations are now proceetline with the Ottoman Bank.  A telegram from Reading states that a publichouse there, known as Dowsell's, in the course demolition yesterday morning suddenly collapsed, and an overseer, named Enuette, had his thigh broken. Several other workmen escaped marveffously. Mr Balfour attended at the Foreign Office yesterday afternoon and held the customary Wednew day reception of Foreign Diplomats. Count Hatzfeldt. German Ambassador, had a further interview with the right hon. gentleman, and Costaki Paella also called upon him. As the mail train from Euston was running from Whitmore to Crewe, a sailor named Peter McLaughlan either jumped or fell out of one of the carriages on to the line just as the South-bound' express was passing. He was run over, his skull being fractured and a leg and arm cut off, besides other injuries. His condition is hopeless. _