Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-06-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NEWS IN.BRIEF..  Two children were burnt to death in a barn M Bethel. Carnarvonshire, on Sunday. The town of Ostrog, Volhynia, has been burned dnwn. A thousand persons are rendered homeless. The damage is estimated at several million tostilea A Frenchwoman named Brannin strangled her three-year-old boy at 58, Pitt-street, Tottenham Court-road. Lowden, on Monday. and then =led herself. The woman woo married, and with her husband in the home. Messrs Briggs and Co., steamship owners, Hull. received a telegram from Captain Smith on Thursday stating that their steamer St. Mark ham strock on a rock MAT Maros, Spain, and sunk. The crew were saved.  A telegram from Mexicoreporg the cceerrence of a terrible accident in the capital. It appears from the despatch that the roof of the La Merced market fell in, burying forty persons. Eight dead bodies and fourteen injured persons had been reeovered. The search among the rains still continued. with the assistance of the troops. Viscount Mandeville was charged at the Clerkenwell Police Court last Saturday with obtaining £l,BOO through a solicitor in 1887 by false pretences, stating that he owed only £l,OOO, and expected shortly to receive £26,000. He was made • bankrupt in the following year. The ease was adjourned. 1 art Saturday, at Brockley Cemetery, in the preeenoe of Drs. itond, Hibberd, and Maenangh. ton. the body of Elizabeth Frost was exhumed and the organs removed for analysis by Dr. Stephenton. Brost was imputed for £5, and died in Vebruary of last rear, the money being paid to gm Winners. This is the third body exhumed. Thousands of harvestmen are now leaving he/end for England. A large number of harvest. sten—over • thonsand—left ltallyhanuis last esaturday for England. The railway carriages were crowded, and • man named Waldron was knocked down and crushed to death. This is time second harvestman killed at this station this  season. At • Crimes Act Court held at, Youghal last I Saturday Maurice Doyle was sentenced to six mouths' hard labour; -James O'Brien, Killeagh, I six months ; and four others to four months each, I and two others to three months, for unlawful assembly on the Ponsonby estate. In addition to she six Mouths passed on Mr O'Brien, he was sent to gaol for six weeks for contempt of court, in using insulting language to Colonel Caldwell, one of she magistrates. Maurice Doyle was sentenced to fourteen days for assault on a coustahle. They were removed to Cork Gaol in charge of over snsty police. Last Satunlay a fire occurred aboard the screw steamer Annanda, of Greenock, lying in Moralicits Graving Dock, South Shields. The fire was discovered in oue. of the lookers forward, whore a quantity of stores were placed. The borouch Fire Brigade attended, but before the fire could be reached part of the upper decks had to be cat away. The hose having been laid from hydrants in the mans thoronghbre the fire wee eventually subdued, hut not before the stores were consumed and considerable damage done. Michael O'Brien. coachman. aged 45 years, was on Tuesday removed from Limerick Gaol to Patrick's Well where he was charged at the Sessions with the murder of his fasher-inJno. Manning, on the 2nd of May last by poison. The analysis showed that death resn'.ted from arsenical poisoning. IN.tnesses were summoned to prove that the accused, some days prior to Manning's death, purchased poison under false pretences. Manning's life was insured.