The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1885-09-12 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

BOO. He was sentenced to six months' imp isoliment, with hard labour. A clerk, earned Frederick Phillips, 21 years of age, has been Ow ged at the Marlborough-street Police.. court, Lon,l.e. with having embezzled 250 belonging to the Deto,i M4.nufacturing Company, his employers. It was statcd that the prisoner had given way to bet. ting. The prosecutors did not wish to press the charge, and the pesoner Wag sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. Application has been made at the Manchester Police. court for a warrant against an Italian for stealing over £lOO belonging to a compatriot named Merlini. The latter states that during the summer he had made £127 by going about town with a piano organ, and that he kept the money in a box at his lodgings. Another Italian, who lived in the same house, found out where he kept the money, and on Saturday broke open the box took its contents, and absconded. At Manchester a verdict of wilful murder has been returned at an inquest held on the body of an infant which was thrown into the river by its mother. The child, which was illegitimate, was the source of frequent quarrels between the prisoner and her husband, and last Friday, after one of these quarrels, the prisoner left the house with the baby, and threw it Into the river. Shortly after six o'clock on Monday morning the Great Western newspaper train, from Slough to Windsor, ran into a goods train on the viaduct neat the s'ation. Several trucks were damaged, and part ofthe parapet was knocked away by the collison. The engine-driver of the paper train and the guard of the goods train have suffered slightly from the chock. The line was speedily cleared. Mr. Semple, who was robbed of £5OOO worth of jewellery at Glasgow, has offered a reward of £lOO for information as to the perpetrators of the robbery. The stolen property consists of 74 gold watches, 133 silver watches, 708 gold rings set with diamonds, rubies, ot emeralds, 100 gold lockets, 200 gold brooches, 200 scarf pins, 100 gold studs, 50 gold coins, and 100 uncut diamonds. At a meeting of cable chain makers, at Cradley Heath, on Monday, it was annoucced that the strike, which had lasted fourteen weeks, for an advance in wages, bad terminated in favour of the workmen. The large employers have consented to concede an advanoe of 2d. per cwt. The Mullin avat evictions are at an end,the cases having been amicably settled between the landlord and tenants. It was during the attempt to carry out these evictions a fortnight ago that serious rioting with the constabulary took place.  er Willenhall on Monday a man named Evans was crossing the road just as a steam tramcar was approaching. He was caught by the engine, knocked down and run over, his body being almost rut in two. Mr. Gladstone, accompanied by his wife mad daughters, travelled from Fasque House on Monday to Hawarden. At various places the right hon. gentle. man was enthusiastically greeted. He is represented as being in sound health, and it is expected that in a few weeks his voice will be completely restored. The induction of Archbishop Walsh took place on Monday at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Marl. borough-street, Dublin. Subsequently an address of the clergy and cititens of Dublin was presented to the Archbishop at Holy Cross College.