Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1890-08-29 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  AN explosion has occurred in the " breaking-down house" attached to the Government powder mills at Waltham Abbey. Two men were killed, and the building was completely wrecked. ON Sunday morning a lire broke out at Messrs. Whitaker's dye-works at Newlay ; damage f 20,000. A MISSIONARY has had a strange adventure among an Indian tribe at Mozzuferpore. The tribe waylaid him and got him into an empty house. Here they put a garland of shoes round his neck, and plastered his cheeks, one with lime and the other with ink, and turned him out in the street.  IN Japan the punishment for major crimes are (1) death by hanging; (2) deportation with or without hard labour for life or a term of years; (3) imprison. ment with or without hard labour fora term of years. Judges are appointed for life. Their salaries vary from 400do1. to 700&1 per annum. A BLIND old soldier, asking for alms at a Manchester church door, had a board hung round his neck, inscribed as follows—" Engagements, eight; wounds, ten; children, six; total, twenty-four." THE vast majority of queen Victoria's subjects (139,000,000) are neither Protestants nor Roman Catholics. but Hindoos, while the Mohammedans, 40,000,000 in number, are themselves more numerous than the Protestants of all denominations in the Empire. THY English steamer Redtrook was on Friday run down by a French vessel. Three of her crew were drowned. Feux Spicer, convicted of the murder of his two illegitimate children at New Brighton on May 25th, was executed at Knutsford Gaol on Friday morning. THE Lord Chancellor has just appointed Mr. Thomas Canner, a working man, to the magisterial bench of the borough of Leicester. Six Japanese journalists have been rewarded with imprisonment for printing a too candid exposition of certain facts connected with the Emperor Zimmos. The respected potentate reigned during the years 660-640 8.0.  SEVERAL cases of leprosy have been discovered in English Town, Cape Breton Island. THe annual total of marriages in France has decreased by 13,000 in four years, and a Frenchman marries on an average at between 29 and 30. A wolitie named Martha Perry is in custody at the Liverpool Police-court charged with causing the death of a man named Henry Mason, with whom she cohabited, by jumping upon him and kicking him. THE 'bus conveying passenger' from Arrochar to Tarbet in connection with the Loch Long and Loch Lomond steamers, and carrying twenty-nine passengers, was upset on Saturday on an embankment. One woman warn killed and a score of passengers were injured. A FRENCHMAN named Peeler has been arrested on suspicion of having been the perpetrator of the foul outrage and murder of a little girl named Alice Lout in La Villette nearly a month. A TERRIBLE murder has been perpetrated in Montana. A man living near Livingstone murdered his wife and five childien, and then lost his own life in trying to resist arrest A BOAT'S crew from a German labour vessel have been massacred by the natives on Arabs Island (New Hebrides). A max named Hopkins has been arrested at Cardiff on a charge of murdering his wife by strangling her. THE Jewish tailors of Leeds are agitating for a reduction of seven working hours per week. AN Athens telegram says the English AssistantManager of Works has been found dead on the margin of Lake Coparis. He was asphyxiated by the smoke of some burning reeds. A HiteoaT from the county of Quebec says the infant eon of a fanner named Cote was eaten alive by two insane boys while the parents of the little child were absent.  THE steamer Ifentmore, of Liverpool, put into Plymouth Sound on Sunday with her cargo on fire. The efforts made to pat it out wore useless. A GRZAT landslip occurred at Scarborough on Sunday, when the whole of the northeast portion of the Castle Hill disappeared into the sea. AT Northowram, near Halifax, on Tursday, a little boy named W. Irvine Oldfield, aged 6, while playing with his sister fell down a disused coal-pit and was instantly killed.