Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-11-06 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

BOO,OOO.  The manager of a palic-house in Whitechapelroad, named Barnett, "borrowed," without leave, his master's money to back horses with. Instead of winning on the homes,he lost nearly £l4O. As he could not refund the money he gave himself up to the police. He has been sentenced at the Thames policecourt to six weeks' hard labour.  A policeman named William Fooks has been sentenced to 14 (lays' imprisonment at the Thames policec.mrt for a violent assault on Alfred Buckley, whom he had charged with disorderly conduct and assault, but who was discharged. The magistrate declined to alter his sentence on the policeman to a fine. It was stated that notice of appeal would be given. Hiram Bowell, who, suspecting his wife's fidelity, went home from work earlier than usual one day, and finding a man named Simmonds with her, attacked them both with a knife, has been sentenced at the Oxford assises to 12 months' hard labour for the attempt on the life of his wife. The charge of attempting to murder Simmonds was not proceeded with. Although Mont Blanc has for a quarter of a century been French soil, its climbers have not usually shewn an annual majority of Frenchmen ; yet this has been the case this year. The ascent was made by 31 French (three of them ladies), 25 English (one lady), 10 Americans, seven Swiss (two ladies), six Germans, two Russians, two Swedes, one Italian, and one Belgian—total, 85. A coroner's jury has returned a verdict of manslaughter against George Henry Stott, an inmate of the Earlsw(xxl Asylum for idiots, who on being struck by another inmate named Randall, broke the latter's jaw by a blow with his fist. Randall died a fortnight afterwards. The medical superintendent said the death WA not directly duo to the fracture, but was acselerated by it.  An action has been raised in the court of session, Edinburgh, at the instance of Thomas Shairp Mitchell Innes, of Phantasmie, against the Marquis of Salisbury and others, executors of James Maitland Balfour, of Whittinghame, concluding for payment of £231 in respect of alleged under payments of the stipend of the minister of the parish of Preston kirk. The defenders deny liability. Thomas Dal Hamilton, who obtained from a Miss Alice Simpson £lOO on the false statement that he had taken Toole's Theatre for 10 weeks, and would give her Di a week for playing the leading lady's part in "Alone," an agreement to which effect was drawn up and signed, has been sentenced at the Middlesex Sessions to five months' lewd labour. He had already been in prison a month. The new Fisheries Department of the Board of Trade has taken over from the Home Office not only the inspectors of salmon and other fisheries, but all control that the Home Office had over the sea fisheries. In connection with the latter it may be stated that the Admiralty will continue to protect our fisheries with British gunboats, the officers for this work being distinct from the Board of Trade. Horace Griffith, indicted at the Manchester assizes for forging and uttering a cheque for £.50, pleaded guilty. He had obtained a blank cheque, and, imitating the signature of a financial agent, filled it up for tiO, and sent it to the bank to cash. It was stated that during he last two years the prisoner had, by similar means obtained fraudulent pos.sesmion of £6OO from his relatives. He was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.