The Northern Guardian. — 1898-12-27 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

ITEMS OF INTEREST.  Agnes Peel, second daughter of Viscount Peel. R. Fawcett, Auctioneer, Valuer, Communion s Property Agent. Reite collected or secured. —Advs. It is reported that there have up to the present been 108 deaths from the plague In Madagascar, B. Lally.), Jeweller, The etioninatee utucs Lys, Street. Telephone, 4,l6l.—Ativt. • The death is reported of George Rc,denbash, the French poet and novelist. John Britten, a Bedele farm labouerr, was found dead on Sunday. It is seated that he had been drinking to excess. H. Lamb, Jeweller, The Illuminated Clock, Era Street. Telephone, 4,l6l.—Advt. A printer named Gable was shot dead by a policeman at Algiers yesterday morning. The policeman was arrested. A Balaclava hero named Cousins was killed yesterday by falling downstairs at the Army and Navy Veterans' Club, Chatham. Last night the condition of Mr John Brigg, M.P., was reported to he about the same as on Sunday. Senor Castelar, the Spanish Republican leader, is seriously ill with pulmonary catarrh. Pneumonia is apprehended. A bulletin issued at 9 o'clock on Sunday evenins stated that Senor Sagasta's condition is becoming more serious. Several French officers have been olaced under arrest for barinis subscribed to the fund for Madame Henry's libel action against M. de Reinach. W. Maxwell, jeweller and silversmith, for Xmas Presents, Wedding Presents, and Presentations, Largest stock in tha district.—The Clock, Surtees `skreet.—Advt. The population cf Dawson City, Klondike, is decreasing, and the cost of living has also fallen. The Dominion land surveyor has been frozen to death. The wife of a labourer named Little, living at Crookhall. Consett, fell asleep in front of the fire yesterday morning., and her clothing becoming ignited she was literally roasted to death. Self-a-dozen best tli,ael Tea Spoons given to the purchaser of a Wedding Ring at H. Lamb's. The Illuminated Clock, Lynn Street. National Telephone No. 4,l6l.—Advt. It is officially admitted that the rising in MadeTalker had been brought about by ihe oppression of the natives by. French colonists. The volume of French trade in the island has enormously increased. The population of Bemini Island. a small division of the Bahamas. is threatened with destitution by famine owing to recent storms, which have destroyed crape, wrecked store houses, and killed many people. . Madame Pauhnier. who tired a revolver at M. 011ivier, editor of the - Lanterne." was tried at the Paris Assizes, yesterday She was acquitted ol the charge of attempted murder, but was ordered to pay 5,000 francs damages. Mr William Henry Warburton. of Elmfield House, Levenshulme, has been appointed High Bailiff of the Manchester County Court. Mr Warburton has been Chief Clerk of the Court for the last 20 years. Special Notice. Robertson's, Upper Church Street, respectfully wish to inform all their Customers and the Public generally that they intend holding their Great ANNUAL SHOW of FISH, GAME, and POULTRY of Every . Description, commencing Thursday, December 22. until Christmas Eve.— Advt. A marriage has been arranged between the Hon. \V illiam Peel. eldest son of Viscount Peel, and the lion. Ella Williamson, elder daughter of Lord Ashton. A marriage will also take place shortly between Mr Charles Sydney Goldreann, youngest \ son of the late Mr B. N. Goldmann, and the Non. A duel with swords was fought yesterday at Paris between M. Max Regis. the anti-Semitis esMayor of Algiers, and M. Lepic, editor of the "• Droits de l'Homme," in consequence of an \ article which appeared in that journal. After sine assaults the duel was stopped without any definite result, the swords being bent.