The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-08-17 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ALMOST INCREDIBLE STORY FROM  ALDERSHOT.  An extraordinary story (says the Standard) is told in a letter received from one of the rank and file of a Liverpol regiment engaged in the recent operations at Aldershot. It shews the sufferings which the men underwent through the excessive heat. The letter, which is dated the 10th inst., says: "Yesterday we had a tremendous fight on the Fox Hills. We had to march eight miles at four in the morning, and took up a position as an attacking force at a village called Normandy. There were 20,000 Volunteers engaged azil as many Regulars. I counted 14 regiments of Infantry near us, including the London Artists' and London Scottish. We were brigaded with the let Liverpool and 6th Liverpool, who simply went to pieces, especially the Ist. The day was fearfully hot—over 100 degrees—and the men were falling all round from exhaustion and sunstroke. When we had finished we had to march six miles home, and the dust was awful; you would not have known the regiments if you had seen them. The men got a bucket of dirty water out of a shallow well, and they fought for it like wild beasts. Before we got home 23 men had gone down, fallen by the road side, and we had to leave them, as we could hardly walk ourselves. One little chap and a sergeant fell on their faces, within 100 yards of camp. We have only two men on the sick list to-day; one is in Aldershot Hospital with sunstroke, and the other is blind. Theist Liverpool fell down by ranks coming home, and out of 410 men only 116 and two officers came home together. They picked up five dead men in the Fox Hills this morning, three Regulars and two Volunteers, and I hear one Colonel of a Regular regiment is raving mad with sunstroke. We have been out defending the canal at 6 this (Thursday) morning, but got back to camp about 2 o'clock, and have got this afternoon off to rest for to-morrow, which is going to be Wednesday over again, but on a different plan of operations. I have just been through the lines of the Ist, and they are in a sullen, discontented state—almost mutiny—cursing their officers, and saying they had a forced march all the way home yesterday, and that that accounts for their state when they came in."  Frederick Cook, the youth sentenced to death for murdering his younger brother with a hatchet, at Otley, has been reprieved. The death is announced from Paris of S,eur Adrian, who for over 60 years was the infirmarian of the Lycee Louis le Grand, where she was the sick nurse of three generations of French boyhood. Sister Adrien, who was the last surviving Jansenist nun in Paris, was an obstinate admirer of Arnauld, Pascal, Mere Angelique, and the °the. members of the community of Port Royal. When the nuns were sent away from the public institutions of Paris, M. Jules Simon and hundreds of former students pleaded successfully that Scour Adrien might remain unmolested.  A Paris paper Says the great shower of tailing ;!.irs which occurs every year about this tim,. ~ga.n on Friday, when an aerolite, weighing about 1.91 b., was picked up near Joigny. It is spheroid ;ii shape, about Isin. in diameter, and has some mmblance to copper ore.  M Senor Jose Bobadilla, a prominent member of be Mexican Legislature, was sitting in his ne on Friday, an unknown man managed to gain idmittance unobserved, and, advancing stealthily upon him from behind, stabbed him in the back and dad before the alarm could be given.