Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1890-07-04 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  THE' wife and four children of Mr. James O'Connor, one of the literary staff of Unitcl ',dant', died on Monday night at Seapoint, near Dublin, having been poi,sined by eating museels. AT Leeds on Tuesday, a man named Joseph heed was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for illtreating Beatrice Sutcliffe in a disorderly house, in Bridge-street, said to be managed by the prisoner. A DISASTROIS fire has occurred at Port Louis, in the island of Guadeloupe. The principal buildings were destroyed, the damage being estimated at a million francs.  AT Wheeling, West Virginia, and Columbus Ohio, heavy thunderstorms have occurred. At the; latter place two boys were killed by lightning, and ninny persons received electric shocks. The heavy deathrate owing to the heat continues in the West. Song men who were travelling with performing bears in the district of Bistercitz, Northern Hungary, are reported to have killed a tramp and given his body to the animals who devoured it.  AT the Central Criminal court on Friday, Thomas Harding W3B found guilty of haring murdered Florence Varney at the Victoria Public-house, Clarence Road, ICentish Town, London, and was sentenced to death.  ON Saturday night Arthur Douglas, a boy employed at Messrs. Smith and Son's lookstall at the Masborough Station, was killed on the railway. ON Sunday, a prisoner named Hipps, belonging to Leeds, and known as a desperate and determined man, made his escape from Wakefield Gaol. &mot fighting has taken place in Abyssinia between troops under Italian command and dervishes who made an excursion into the Beni Amer territory. The dervishes were completely defeated, and 150 were  A lIICNIMRSTOISM visited Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire on Saturday, and in the former county three men and three horses were killed by lightning while they were working on the farm. Loan Magheramorrae (better known all Sir James McGarel-Hogg) died at his London reEidence on Friday afternoon from inflammation of the lungs. Lie was borne at Calcutta in 11.2.3.  --.-..-- Trig first edition of Mr. F. tanley's great work-20,000 copies— will soon be sold out. . .  A TERRIBLE tragedy is reported from Transylvania, %hero a shepherdess while in a fit of insanity murdered her four children and afterwards killed herself. The bodies of the children were covered with knife wounds. _ . _ _  THIE Anglo-German agreement has been formally adopted by the British and ,German Government.  ArN inquiry instituted in Germany shows that there are still forty-nine German Waterloo veterans living. Five of them are in their 100th year, one in his 101st, one in his lOrith, and one in his 107th year. THE investigations of accountants into the affairs of the Union Building Society, Belfast, show that the deficiency amounts to about 00,000. A TELEGRAM from the l'ortuguese capital reports a case of cholera from the Douro region. THE German Anti-Socialist Law, which expires totally in September, is already beginning to lose force. On Monday the state of seige lapsed at Leipsic, where it has prevailed ever since 1851. The right of exptiiiion by the police lapsed with it. Tants is a rumour that the visit of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria to Vienna is connected with a project for declaring the Principality independent. ON Sunday various districts of Kentucky and Tennessee were ravaged by tornadoes. At the town of Gelatin, in the latter State, the roof of a Methodist church fell in among the congregation.  3tto into Announcements.  !mono at nanammato.  See T. THORNBER'S