Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-11-10 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

HECTOR WILMER M.i.cr.von, the Chief Justice of the Gold Coast—a post of £l5OO a year, which is about to be vacated—has demonstrated one thing. A West African law officer may, after all, live to earn a pension. A FRENCHMAN was committed for Hal recently in Queensland for the murder of his mistress, and it came out, in the course of the evidence, that, after committing the murder, he offered to pay another man to beat his brains out.  Tux assessed value of property in Toronto shows an excess of nearly 15,000,000 dole. over last year, not taking into account property of an equal value which is exempted ender the law. The increase is due to the annexation of suburbs.  Dario WOMBWELL has been brought up, on remand, at the Huntingdon Borough Court, charged with causing the death of William James Snelling, by shooting him with a gun. The evidence against the prisoner was mainly conversations which passed between himself and other workmen, prisoner making incriminating admissions. A policeman found in the brewery some cartridges, containing No. 5 shot, similar to those extracted from the wounds of the deceased. Witnesses were called for the defence, their evidence being to the effect that the prisoner was seen going up the stairs to the room where the deceased was lying after the report of the gun was heard. The prisoner protested his innocence. He was committed for trial.  Mon. GOUMET, a septugenarian, of Dremillieu, in the Department of Aur, was on terms of great friendship with Jeune Torriou, a woman of the same age. They quarrelled over the best way of makins, coffee. Mme. Goumet lost her temper, and snatched up a hatchet and split Mme. Torriou's head open. The murderess then washed the head of her victim in a bucket of water, and took out the brains and salted them, and put them under a glass cheese cover. She will spend the rest of her life at the galleys. . . . .  Fr has been found that the whole of the wells in Clarence Victualling Yard, Portsmouth, from which her Majesty's ships on the Portsmouth station are supplied, are so contaminated by gas that they have all been ordered to be closed immediately. The pipes supplying the Victualling Yard with gas were all laid near the wells, and, having become old and leaky, the gas percolated into the wells, the water from which smelt so badly that it was tested, and found to be seriously contaminated. Gvonoe Wasv, the millionaire Congressman of New York, went to the United States as a steerage passenger when he was 26, and landed in New `fork with only ls. in his pocket. Cracow:, will shortly have a new supply of water from Lake Michigan. A tunnel will be excavated from a point two miles out in the lake, where an enormous steel caisson will be sunk as soon as it can be towed out.  A MICITIGAN syndicate, with a capital of 12,000,000 dole., is said to be securing whole townships of timber land in the vicinity of Astoria, where many of the 100-acre tracte have 10,000,000 feet of lumber on each of them.  FARMER VALENTINE, of Fotteresso, near Stone. haven, was oiling the wheel of his threehingmachine, when, by some means, it started. In an hour poor Valentine was discovered lying dead across the axle of the wheel, with neck broken, an ear torn off, a knee dislocated, and an ankle fractured.  ---;Ti4S streets of Berlin are lighted by 16,624 gas lamps supplied by the Corporation gasworks, 516 gas lamps supplied by the English Gas Company, and by 1070 petroleum lamps.