The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1895-07-03 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

SAVILE TOWN  CHIPS OF NEWS.  AT HOME.  Mr. T. Chatfeild Clarke, the well - known architect and surveyor, has died at his London residence.  Professor Huxley died at his residence in Eastbourne on Saturday afternoon. He was 70 years of age. Sarah Hughes or Dougan, aged 80 years, was run over by a tramcar in Salt-street Marker, Glasgow, on Saturday night, and killed. At Mohill, co. Leitrim, Thomas Gannon, aged 24, has been committed for trial to the assizes for the murder of Francis Flynn Fearglass, on the 20th inst.  . Nineteen golden weddings were celebrated a few days ago in the village of North Cave in the East Riditrf of Yorkshire. It is said to be a very healthy village. The Shahzada dined with the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House on Saturday night, and a distinguished company wns invited to meet his highness. 111 r. and Mrs. Gladstone arrived at Hawarden on Saturday night. At Chester Station a large creod of excursionists who had been to Hawarden cheered the G.0.M.,  The dead body of John Downes, 1.!1:ler to Mrs. Fitzgerald, of Shalstone Manor; near nnekingham, Vy as found in the kitchen garden wth a large wound in the tlfroat, caused by a (i-on, which was lying by his side. He was about 7U years of age. The children of the Staines Workhouse are to have a trip to the Crystal Palace upon £13., the proceeds of collections male by them outside the gates of the Palace during Ascot week. The old women also made collections, but only obtained Bs. 7d. *  General regret will be felt by all frequenters of music-halls at the news of the death of Mr. Fred Boisset, for so many years chief of the well-known troupe bearing his name. Typhoid fever WAS the cause of death, which took place at -Edinburgh. Three police-constables were found guilty of manslaughter at the Gloucestershire Assizes on &turday, and sentenced to three months' hard labour each. They ill-treated a man they arrested in Swansea so brutally that he died of his injuries a few days after in gaol. The dead body of a man named John O'Hare, a member of the Louth Militia, was found on Sunday morning behind a wall at Newry. Blood was flowing from the mouth and ears, and there were bruises on his face. The deceased was seen with companions after 11 o'clock on Saturday night. How he met his death is a mystery. On Saturday night Robert Campbell caught the rope of a captive balloon within the Glasgow Exposition. He was lifted 30ft. into the air, but lost his hold and fell, sustaining a severe shock. While leaving the same building on Saturday evening, John Simpson was shot through the head by a stray bullet ircal the rifle range. Ile still lives. Owing sto the overheating of the kitchen AO at the Onion Workhouse, Westbury, bear Gloucester, on Saturday, one of the principal wings was burnt down. The inmates were got Out safely. The wing destroyed contained the whole of the workhouse stores and provisions, but it is stated that the loss is covered by insurancd.  At Worcester Assizes, Lot New, a gardener, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Hawkins to eight months' hard labour for unlawfully wounding James Thould, a labourer. In the recent Evesham election New fired a shot-gun among the crowd assembled near his house on the polling night, wounding Thould in the thigh, and injuring other people. The Cunard liner Etruria. which arrived on Saturday from New York, reports that the ship Fidelio,• on the 19th inst., 125 miles east of Sandy Hook lightship, spoke the 19-feet boat Richard K. Fox, with Captain McCullom the only occupant. He is attempting to accomplish the perilous journey of crossing the Atlantic from New York to Queenstown.  For several hours on Saturday afternoon the Margate, Ramsgate, Broadstairs, and Westgate Fire Brigades were engaged at a great fire at Spratling-street Farm, 'Manstone, near Ramsgate. Notwithstanding the efforts of the firemen, six cettages were completelY gutted, two badly damaged, and several outbuildings destroyed, as was also a quantity of hay. A young man named John B. Skinner, a Liverpool merchant tailor, was drowned on Sunday morning in the Mersey at New Brighton. He went with several friends to bathe, and swam some distance out, when ho suddenly disappeared, having apparently been seized with cramp. The body was subsequently recovered. The deceased, who was 24 years of age, leaves a widow and one child.