Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1891-09-04 ()

GENERAL NEWS.  Flee education has been adopted at the Selby, Brayton, and Handlesey National Schools, in each of which cases it will be necessary to open subscription lists to meet the deficiency in the grant. A boy named Dodds, fourteen years of age, has Peen found lying dead in his mother's house, Eat Gateshead, with a revolver beside him. While playing with the weapon he shot himself. At Dover the other day, a young man named Percy Parsons was bathing in a rather rough sea, when he was overpowered by the way es and sank before assistance could reach him.  Up to the present this year over 10,300 -stray dogs have been captured in the streets of London by the police and conveyed to the Home at Battersea. ,  A Barcelona telegram states that the officers of the British Mediterranean squadron have met with a very friendly reception from the inhabitants of that port. Tea was given in their honour. —. During a severe storm at Bude, North Cornwall, John Andrew Evans, aged eighteen, while attempting to go aboard a vessel, fell into the canal and was drowned  The death is announced of Marie Taglioni, the -famous danse use, who on quitting the stage married Prince 'Tema of Windischgraetz. She died at the Oh ateau Aizen, near Tuna, at the age of sixty. Dr. Francis Elgar, who was appointed Director of her Majesty's Dockyards in Jan nary, 1886, fox the purpose of improving the system of dockyard administration, has, it is stated, decided to resign that appointment. The Duke of Fife has privately sold the estates of Glenrinnes, Jockshill. Conval, and Benrinnes, in Banffshire, which extend to upwards of five thousand acres, to Mr. Skirving, of Cobairdy, Aberdeenshire. 4- -  At the Dewsbury Police-court, Allen Sheard, tailor, of Mirfield, has been seen to prison for two months, with hard labour, for assaulting a yi'o22lBll of the same place, named Martha Shaw. The Chairman said it was a most cowardly assault.  Anthrax hag broken out to a serious extent in a herd of aattle on Broth.erton Marsh, Yorkshire, which Sir John W. Ramsden lets for grating purposes. Five beasts have died, and the disease is said to be spreading.  The Duke of Portland has laid the foundation. stone of Thurso Harbour and opened a bazaar promoted for the purpose of raising funds for the ettension of the public lib rory and museum of the town.  At a meetineof the Lewisham Board of Guardians it has been decided to allow Keziah Needham outdoor relief. It was stated that the woman had been the-mother of twenty children, and that at one time seven of her sons were in one regiment, and fought shoulder to shoulder in a battle.  Madame Eyraud, whose maiden name wa Bourgeois, and her daughter, Mlle Eyraud, have applied to the French Minister of Justice for authorization to change their name to that of Bourgeois, It will, of course, be immediately granted. -4 At the Curragh Petty Sessions, a soldier . named John Thomas McNulty, belonging to the King's Own Lancashire Regiment, has been committed for trial on the charge of having attempted to murder a comrade with a razor during a quarrel between them.  At the East Sussex Stock Show at Eastborne, a man named Jenner, has been savagely atta eked and gored by a Jersey bull which he had just led from the judging-ring to the shed. An onlooker presenting a revolver, the attention of the beast was diverted, and Jenner, who was seriously injured, was rescued. There was a lively scene the other day in the Congress of School-masters, at Agram. A Servian professor had the hardihood to tell the Croatian audience that there was no such thing as a Croatian race, but that all the Croats were Serbs. The audience rose at that unfortunate professor, hustled him, beat him, and turned him out. According to a telegram received in Berlin, it is the intention of the Russian Government to send a fleet to Cherbourg to return the recent visit of the French squadron to Cronstadt. The squadron will be under the command of Rear-Admiral, Kasnakoff, and will arrive at Cherbourg on the 15th. of September. A carpenter, named Hugh Smith, has just met with his death at the saw-mills of Messrs. Dunlop Brothers, Belfast. Whilst Smith was working near a circular saw, the drum suddenly burst, and one of the pieces striking him on the head, carried away the upper portion of the skull, causing almost instantaneous death  _ CS