The Wolverhampton and Midland Counties Advertiser. — 1876-04-15 (Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England)

THR END.  Mr. John Dixon secretary of the West Yorkshire Miners' Associatimi;died on Suturday at W.dietield. A young woman named Lucy Lowe ha A been arrested eMord on the charge of murdering her child near Turvey. Thomas Woodbridge, one of the five men injured in the explosion in Dean Lane Pit, Bedminster, last week, died on Sunday, in Bristol Hospital. At n rwich assizes, on Saturday, Mrs. Womach,whose husband waskiPed in the Thorpe oollision, obtained £3OOO daMagea against the Great F.astein Coninany. A: man nantra WlCeown lain oustody at Dublil charged with atm ing hi wife and enild cut .pt a window wary feet from the grcuna. The woman in not expected to recover.  Th.) official arrangements for the ,nsuihg volunteer revia..., at Ding on Easter Monday have been issued. The tot 41 force wh:ch will Le present will be about 10,000 of all rant& At the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday, Clara R tines, a single woman, was sentenced to Lix months' imprisonment, with hard laLoor, for liming endeavoured to couccal the UPI of ter child. _ _  A great conflagration too place at Feaersham, near Cnmbrid,o, on Sunday, destroying a large quantity•of agrieultnral produce, and severely burning several men, who had to be taken to the bospital. Au ex:.l sion of gas took Plea (di ;aturtlity, uLoard the steam 11. Cambridgeshire. of NI Isbcoolt, at Ehiolds. Tie 6-3-'l,l mate and steward were severely burued. The amer is not mach damaged.  Twelve youtha were brought before the Nottingham magistrates on Saturday, and :sentenced each to one month's imnrisanment, for placing obstruction-, on the Midland R:ilway at Coldwick Junction. On Saturday afteinoon, two youths, grimed Pipe tied Redstone, ware drowned in the Thames, near Blackfriara' Bridge. They had hired a boat at Waterloo Bridge, and shortly after starring a dispute arose between them am to which eliculd pull stroke. They stood up together and pitched forward into the water locked in each otherl arms. Both sink, and did not re-appear. On Saturday a shocking accident happened at Pale villa, Wandsworth-road, London. Two young gentlemen, named Pierre Raspail and Gu4ave Milliard, were in the garden fencing, when the button of one of the foils dropped off, and liaspuil. making a lunge at the moment, drove the weapon into the breast of his antagonist easing a desperate wound. Many weeks will elapse ere Milliard will handle another foil.  Lord Aberdare opened the new North of England Training School for Fernale Teacher tat I arlington on Saturday. He referred with disapprobation to the re laxation of the rules reapecting eertifl•NAed teachers whick had been introduced by the present G ,vernment. H. claimed for the British and foreign system that it prac• tically stived the religious difficulty by reconciling re. ligions education with freedom of conscience. A boiler explosion, which resulted in the death of Wm Broaribent, aged 29, occurred on Saturday at the new mill in course of erection for the Hathershaw SpinninE Company, Ashton-road, Oldham. The di cans, d was at entrineer, and at about half-past two was in chirge of a portable engine used for winding materials, &c. A pop tion of the boiler flue, about two feet long, was blowr out, and the piece striking Broadbent, he was hurled about 10 feet. He died in three minutes after the explosion. On Saturday afternoon a shocking accident, throng the careless use of firearms, occurred at Bryan, new Wigan, at a meeting of members of the Wigan Gun Club. A friendly pigeon shooting contest was taking place when, during the interval of shooting, a factory opera. tive who was witnessing the sport took up a loaded guy and, carelessly pulling the trigger, lodged the content: between the shoulder blade and the spine of Mr. William Smethurst, of Landgate House, Brynn, one of the mere hers taking part in the contest, manager of the Brynn and Garwood Colliereis,belonging tethe firm of Messrs. Dew.. horst, Hoyle, and Smethurst. Kr. Suiethurst lies in a very precarious condition.