The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-04-05 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  It is announced that Mr. O'Hea, M.P. for West Donegal, is about to resign his seat. ' A 6t. Helens football player, who was injured in a match at West Leigh on Saturday, died on Tuesday. The queen has shown her Master of the Horse a signal mark of favour in desiring the postponethem of his daughter's christening till Her Majesty's return.  Petitions signed by over 13,000 persons were presented on ,Saturday at the Home Office in favour of mitigation of the sentence on the two youths convicted of murdering their father at Crewe.  • Damage estimated at £70,000 was done by a fire which, on Sunday morning, broke out on the premiscs owned and occupied by Mr. Oliver Brook Lister, wool comber and worsted spinner, Bradford. The Greenock Steamship Company's steamer Gulf of Aden, from Liverpool to Valparaiso, has been lost. Four boats, with eighty-one persons on board, left the vessel, and one of these had, at the time information was sent to the owners, arrived at Chiloe.  The Correspondent of the Rangoon Times at Ralik states that of 500 Scottish Borderers who joined the Ohin-Lushai expeditionary force only 160 are left at the front, of whom twenty have been declared unfit for hard work. Six officers of the regiment have been invalided. At Lewes Assizes, - on Saturday, Mary Ann Taylor was found guilty of the murder of three of her children at Polegate, Sussex. The jury found that. the accused was insane at the time the deed was dune, and she was ordered to be detained during Her Majesty's pleasure.  Prince Bismarck on Friday visited the Imperial Mausoleum and laid a wreath on the coffin of the late Emperor William. Un Saturday he took leave of the Royal Princes. - The ex - Chancellor was greeted with "stormy enthusiasm" when he left the official residence in the afternoon for the last time.  Mr. Justice Day, sitting without a jury at Leeds Assizes on Saturday, awarded 405., without costs, to the plaintiff in an action for breach of promise. The plaintiff was a domestic servant, 18 years of 4;e, and stated to be a sufferer from epileptic fits. The defendant, 23 years of age, was getting 15s. a week as a faria lalsRID T.  Latest :L(1..011111, show that the tornado which swept parts of Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois on Thursday night was not so destructive of life as it was at tirst reported to have been. Less than one hundred persons perished at Louisville while at the town of Howling Green, which was believed to have suffi.red heavily in this respect, there was no loss 1 life.  Speaking at Nottingham on Saturday, Mr. Arnold Morley, the chief Liberal Whip, said he did not believe that the rumours of :dissolution would he so persistent as they had been of late if they were without foundation. In the House of Commons the 6-overgmenes supporters showed such apathy and indifferem•e as he had never seen save on thi• eve of dissulut i 4 41.  In the Liverpool Assize Court, on Wednesday. an action for slander was brought by Mrs. Lewis, a lady at Blackburn. who is well known in connection with the temperance movement. against a publican named John Shaw. It was alleged that the defendant had accused the plaintiff of immoral conduct during a visit to Blackpool. After evidence had been given, the defendant withdrew all imputations, and consented to a verdict for 40s.  The strike of dock labourers at Liverpool terminated on Saturday. Following up the resolution come to on Friday night to work for employers willing to pay union rates, there was a great rush of men at the docks on Saturday. A serious conflict occurred on one vessel between unionists and imported men. the latter running in all directions. (inc jumped into the dock, but was rescued by the police. tMe unionist was arrested and sentenced to two months' imprisonment. The will of the late " Mrs. Fitztieorge has been proved, the personalty being, estimated. at a modest sum. The lady was the wife of the Duke of Cambridge. She was married to the Duke in accordance with the forms of the Church. and lived with him for many years in esteem and honour; but the Queen refused to validate the marriage in accordmite with the requirenuids of the Royal Marriage Act, and the Duke appears to have consented to the exclusion of his Wile from the charmed circle of which he was himself !t numb r.  FLOPILINE !—VOit