The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-04-21 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

THE END.  Mr. John Dixon, secretary of the West Yorkshire Miners' Association, died on Saturday at Wakefield. A young woman named Lucy Lowe has been arrested at Bedford on the charge of murdering her child near Turvey. Thomas Woodbridge, one of the five men injured in the exido.ion in Dean Lane Pit, Bedminster, last week, died on Sunday, in Bristol lloepital. At IN4:rwich assizes, on Saturday, MI6. Womach,whose husband was killed in the Thorpe collision, obtained £3OO damages against the Great Enctern Comnany. A man named Wlleown is in custody at Dublin charged with thro, Mg his wife and child out of a window sixty feet from the ground. The woman is not expected to recover.  The official arrangements for the ensuing volunteer review at Tring on Eaater Monday have been issued. The total force which will he present will be about 10,000 of all ranks.  At the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday, Clara Raines, a single woman, was sentenced to nix months imprisonment, with hard 111 Your, for having endeavoured to conceal the birth of her child.  A great coitagration too': p!ace at Feverabam, near Cambridge, on Sunday, destroying a large quantity of agricultural produce, and severely burning several men, who bad to be taken to the hospitaL An explosion of gas took place on Saturday, on board the atcarwer Cambridgeshire, of Wiebeach. at Shields. The w cand mate and steward were severely burned. The steamer is not much damaged.  Twelve youths were brought before the Nottingham magistrates on Saturday, and sentenced each to one month's imprisonment, for placing obstructions on the Midland Railway at Coldwiek Junction. On Saturday afternoon, two ycuths, named Pipe and Redstone, were drowned in the Thames, near Blackfriare Bridge. They had hired a boat at Waterloo Bridge, and shortly after starting a dispute arose between them as to which should pull stroke. They stood up together and pitched forward into the water locked in each other's arms. Both sank, and did not re-appear. On Saturday a shucking accident happened at Ba,leWandsworth•road, London. Two young gentlemen, named Pierre Raspail and Gustave Milliard, were in the gi.rdett fencing, when the button of one of the foil, dropped off, and Raspail, malting a lunge at the moment, drove the weapon into the breast of his antagonist causing a despei ate wound. Many weeks will elapse ere Milliard will handle another foil. - - -  L.,rd Aberdare opened the new North of England Training School for Female Teachers at Parlington os Saturday. He referred with disapprobation to the is laxation of the rules respecting certificated teachers whici had been introduced by the present G.wemment. H. olairned for the British and foreign system that it prvw tically solved the religious difficulty by reconciling re. ligious educatim with freedom of conscience.  A boiler explosion, which resulted in the death of Wm Bros,?bent, aged 29, occurred on Saturday at the new mill in course of erection for the Bather-show Spinning Company, Ashton-road, Oldham. The deceased was az engineer, and at about half-past two was in charge of s portable engine used for winding materials, &o. A pop tionmf the boiler flue, about two feet long, was blows out. and the piece striking Broadbent, he was hurled about 10 feet. Re died in three minutes after the explosion. On Saturday afternoon a shocking accident, through the careless use of firearms, occurred at Brynn, neat Wigan, at a meeting of members of the Wigan Gun Club A friendly pigeon shooting contest was taking plat. when, during the interval of shooting, a factory opera. tire who was witnessing the sport took up a loaded gae and, carelessly pulling the trigger, lodged the content: between the shoulder blade and the spine of Mr. William Smethurst, of Landgate House, Bryon, one of the mem bore taking part in the contest, manager of the Brynn and Garwood Colliereis,belonging to the firm of Mess,. Dewburst, Hoyle, and Smethurst. Mr. fimethurst lies in • very precarious condition.