The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-06-07 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  No fewer than 28.000 excursionists visited the Isle of Man during Whit-week.  On Friday Mr. James Dalton, Home Ruler, was declared elected as Member for West Donegal, there being no opposition.  Mr. C. Milnes-GaskelL M.P.. has offered to giv(N to the Paxton Society of Wakefield Lawe Hall and the adjoining ground as a public park for that town.  A party of Portugesc Customs Officers had a severe engagement with a band of smugglers on Saturday. Six of the contrabaudists and one of the officers were killed.  Monsignor Kershaw, rector of All Saints', Barton•.on-Irwell, died suddenly- on . Saturday morning at the age of 73. He had been head of the mission at Barton for a period of 45 years. A tornado from time north. accompanied by a hailstorm of extraordinary violence, broke over the city of Sofia on Saturday. (treat damage was done to property and sonic loss of life is reported. The Paris correspondent of the Doily Chronick says :—lt is stated here that-during Count Herbert von Bismarck's stay in Paris a marriage was arranged between the ex-Chancellor's son mid Lady Edith Amelia Ward, the eldest daughter of Lady Dudley.  At Blackwood, Monmouthshire, on Friday, several colliers employed at the London and South . Wales Colliery, Risen, were fined for acts of recklessness dangerous to life. The pit in which the men work is only a few minutes' walk from the Llanerek colliery, the scene of the recent disaSter. A drawbridge on a railway in San Francisco was opened on Friday to admit the passage of a yacht. The driver of a train did not see that the signal was against bins, and he ran on. A portion of the train Was precipitated into the river spanned by the bridge, and thirteen passengers lost their lives.  The Panitza court martial delivered judgment in the course of Thursday night. The accused were cone(med in a plot for the assassination of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. The major was sentenced to be shot, but recommended to mercy. Some of the other accused were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.  Great importance is attached in Paris, by those who arc anxious to promote a . Franco-Russian ‘` understanding," to the .arrest of the seventeen alleged NihilistS. The Russian Ambassador has thaaed M. Coastal's, the Home A+ mister, " for the vigilance exercised by the police which has resulted in the prevention of a new attempt against the Czar."  A coroner's jury ne at home, and ut apfmt,:tlierltaghhmititt,.eilie,d,iloilibmSe4,lll:setigletto:rit:tac:l,oo. oo.if n dwa. yil e u aged atOn verdictee y eare: foutlhnemfrrdz a rgott,i):: boy t f members of- the Church memorial action of the. of the' ,'xe'cutivc of burniture had been seized y bailiffs, and it was stated at the inquiry that iii ad driven drink. Anyhow he had been very intemperate lately, quarrelled with his wife, and smash such furniture as Society iihioiane:eflaislnilg.dneaTdihs(ert, reinained in his dwelling. ocal supporting the second reading %kis o!LII1 lev , mrlit•Lvt,tiV.Z.rxions proposals for gdo"wing public-houses many of -their supporters were likely to lose their seats at the next election." The adjourned inquest on Thomas Elliman, a workman on the Ship Canal, who was shot At Rixton about a month ago, was concluded on Monday in the presence of Vaughan, who has been arrested on a charge of murder. A statement made 15v Vaughan shortly after his apprehension was read, in which the prisoner stated that EllitAAA shot himself accidentally while examining a revolver. The revolver belonged to the prisoner, who said that, not knowing what to do, he ran away and hid himself. The jury found that Vaughan shot Elliman, but whether wilfully or by accident they were unable b say.  A Board of Trade inquiry respecting the missing steamer Erin, of the National Line, was opened in Westminster on Monday. The Erin was built at Jarrow in 1864, under the supervision of the Liverpool Registry-. On the 28th December, 1889, she left New York bound for London, with p. crew of 74 hands all told, but carried no passengers. tier cargo consisted of 3,147 tons of general goods. with 897 tons of coal and 525 cattle. The only tidings obtained of her since were the speaking of her cw the Canada on the 31st December. and a lifebotit with the name of Erin upon it having been subsequently seen in the At It was the vessels 160th voyage. The inquiry was adjourned after evidence had been given as to the construct in and working Of the ship.