The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-08-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

AUGUST 2, 1894  CHIPS OF NEWS.  AT HOME.  Over 700 hosiery hands employed by • Leases Arm struck work cn Monday owing to three now unionists being employed. Albeit Dews, moulder, Wakefield, has bear seaweed to death, at Leeds, for the wilful minder of his infant child, by administering poison. Maurice Ryan, • farmer, has been commitbed to Limerick Gaol charged with dangerously stabbing his three sisters with a knife, durfag a quarrel owe the division of a farm.  The Mayor of Swansea baa forwarded to the Genman ambeisador an invitatioa to the Gewgaw Emperor to run his yacht Meteor with the Behan. nis and Vigilant in the forthcoming thrauses Rtgatta.  Lord Dunraven's facing yacht Valkyrie, whicb was sunk at Hunter's Quay st the beginning of the Clyde fortnight, and which vats brought to °reenact a few day, ago, is to be sold ea she tands public auction on Friday. _ _  The Scottish !diners' Federation have &greed that they could not accept the terms the Scotch now associated coed austere were repotted to have offered—via., the diapate to be settled on line! similar to thtpropoeed for ending the English wage/ dispute.  At Tunbritlige Wells Borough Cowrb Walter Salome Hales, newsagent mad tobacconist, carrying on business in the town, won fined £5O for keeping a betting-house, £5O tor making ready-money beta, and £5 for inch of BB beta made on one day, making a total with costs If £3013 15a. Bd.  The bascules of the Tower Bridge have been raised 311 times betweea the 9th and the 24th lest, and during that period 375 vessels have passed through. The average deify number of passengers who have passed over the bridge during that period has been 80,000. while the vehicles have numbered 8,500 per diem of 18 bears.  At the Kirkintilloch polioe-court Martin Currie, a miner., was charged with assaulting the police; James Docharty, a labourer, with obstructing the police and attempting a rescue; Bernard Gallooker witlvattempting a rescue and assaulting the ancrflenjamin Davidson with assaulting Inspotter Gray. After hearing the evidence the bench sentenced each of the accused to 30 days' imprisonment.  • fire broke out at Schofield's timber works, Oldham,,on Sunday. The flames were subdued, but at • night a fresh outbreak occurred. The roof of an adjacent shed occupied by sightseers gave way. Several complained of injuries, and four boys lie at the infirmary, two in a precarious condition. When the dcor was broken open the others made a rush, and several were knocked down and trampled upon. The damage amounts to several thousand pounds. ,The Rev. Samuel Johnson Sutler, rector of Great SalLeld, near Penrith, and one of the most dietint;Lnshed clergymen in the North of England, has just passed away in his 72nd year. He was educated at Winchester, and New College, Oxford. He was a surrogate for the diocese of Carlisle and rural dean of Penrith, and had held an honorary canoury in Carlisle Cathedral since 1872. He was also one of the proctors for Carlisle in the Convooston of York.  Public attention has been concentrated on the portion of the inquiry of the Chiltern Hundreds Committee touching the succession to the e of a member of the House of Commons. r eztr scarcely less important point is that which deals with the vacation of seats upon the acceptance of certain Ministerial offices. The Doily News understands that the committee are almost unanimous In approving the abolition of this rule. The minority is chiefly composed of Sir Charles Dilke.  Reuben Whitehead, aged GO, a brickmaket, was arrested near Gravesend on Monday, charged with attempting to murder his wife at Longfield, tear Rochester, by cutting her throat with a knife. It is stated that Whitehead had, without cause, become jealous of a young engine-driver. The iujuied woman, who lies in a critical condition, made a desperate resistance, and eventually succeeded in wresting the knife from her husband's hand. She afterwards sought refuge in a neighbour's house.  An exciting scene was witnessed ia Southwark Bridge-road late on Sunday night. Police-constable W. blygrove was called to eject a man awned foole from a public-house, and, after having done so, was attacked by Borough roughs, who overpowered and brutally sail/tuned him. Blygrove was thrown upon the ground, and brutally kicked and beaten. He succeeded in handing his whistle to a friendly paw•er-by, who blew it and summoned aid.. The injured constable was then rescued and taken to Ii uy 's Hospital.