The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-11-25 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MRS. CRAWFORD, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Ashton Dilke, has left London for l'aris. Mrs. Crawford will spend the winter abroad. THE wife of Thomas; Cozen, a carpenter, in the employ of Sir T. Mosely, gave birth to three daughters on Saturday at Tutbury, Burton-onTrent. The mother and children are reported to be doing  THE Rev. J. M. Fox, 8.A., lately a prominent minister of the Free Church of England, has seceded from that body, and is about to be ordained deacon of the Establisheil Church by the Bishop of Rochester, in whose diocese, it is understood, he will take up a curacy. Mr. Fox has been stationed for some years at Teddington. _ . _  Tut report of the Select Committee on Endowed Schools Acts was issued on Monday. The Committee state that while not desiring to delay the consideration of any scheme now before the Education Department, the deem that it would be right to obtain more evidence, especially on the subject of the allege I diversion of educational endowments from the poor. The Committee, therefore, resolve to report the evidence, and recommend the Committee's re-appointment to complete the inquiry. Mus. Booni and her eons conducted a meeting of the Salvation Army held at Exeter Hall on Monday for the purpose of bidding farewell to 60 "soldiers" bound to India, Africa, and the Antipodes.  TiE memorial which was left at the house of the Prime Minister on Sunday by the Socialist deputation asked for the distribution of outdoor relief in kind to men unable to find employment, urged the local authorities to commence public works. and advised the School Board to give the children in board schools one free meal a day,  A MAN named Wells. whose present address is "The Military Prison, Chester," where he is detained for having fraudulently enlisted into the York and Lancaster Regiment, while a private of the Cheshire Regiment, was charged at Chester with committing two burglaries. In one of the houses he had entered he left, unfortunately for himself, a pair of gloves. I bearing his number in the Cheshire Regiment. The I case was adjourned. A WOMAN, while under the influence of drink, threw her child into the Royal Canal, Dublin, on Monday, and then jumped in. A man endeavoured to rescue the child, when the rn,.ther caught it by the legs and dashed it in again. At length, the child was brought to the bank. The mother, seizing a tin can, struck her child upon the head. She was removed in custody and the child taken to the hospital. I A ?lAN, named George Harmer, was sentenced to di ath at N. ,rwich assizes for the wilful murder of Henry Last. Harmer had only left prison on the day he c. immitted the crime. CONDEMNATION of the proposal to authorise subordinate teachers to inflict corporal punishment on children in board schools was expressed at a public meeting in Finsbury on Monday night. Ma. D. A. BANNERMAN, aged 29, of the firm of H. H. Bannerman and Sons, merchants, Manchester, has died through injuries caused to his knee while running round a swimming bath at Manchester.  THE Queen's Jubilee will be celebrated by the London and North-Western Railway by the gift of land near Crewe for a public park. THE City Corporation and the Metropolitan Board of Works have given notice of a bill to continue the coal and wine duties.