The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-11-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GENERAL NEWS. Th, Master of the Rolla last Baur_ A boy named Waring, employed at the Mutuei Society, in whieh fraud is charged s.gaiust the chairman. works of Messrs J. and J. Hankield, boiler. makers, Dewsbury, was last week caught by The :evived activity of the Liberals in ‘ part of the machinery he was near, and inNorth Viirwickshire has resulted in the stautls killed additi el of nearly 1,500 votes to the register. SUDDEN DEATH IN A POLICE At The leberale have now a good chance of whifilug at least one of the seats. Stoneheuse last week a tradestramei. Crabb, having been summoned ifigAissettlt„ Wikitsm Wilson, M.P. for County Donewas warmly cross-examining a wittnials, When. .8.0-1, died IsitsA Saturday morniug at his resihe suddenly fell back and was picked ;xis 84, dence at Raphoe. The deceased succeeded corpse. in the presence of the magistrates 'and tip, late Mr Thos. Conolly in the represencrowded court. tation of the county, and was highly respectMr Edward Whymper, who was the first edkngliehinau who successfully ascended the We are informed that Sir Henry Havelock 'Matterhorn, has left England for Ecuador, has n •t the slightest ifitention of contesting Routh America. It is his intention to utilise Darlineton or any other borough excepting the experience he has gained in the Alps by Sunderland. —Sunderland Daily Post. exploring and attempting the ascent of the At a meeting of the North British Railway Great Ardes. He is accompanied on the directors, held in Edinburgh, it was resolved expedition by his old Alpine guides, Jean to proceed with the construction of the new Antoine Carrell and Louis Carrell. wet dock at Silloth forthwith, the old dock A LisEssa, Crrizete—Mr Mark Firth, of to remain a tidal harbour. Sheffield, in addition to presenting to that At the Leeds Aesizes last Saturday town a college, and contributing £5,000 to James Spencer, a miner. was sentenced to its endowment fund, on Friday expressed a twenty years' penal servitude for attempting wish to fouud a chair of chemistry in connec- to murder a young woman named Martha tion with it. He proposes to invest a sum ann Wage. The prisoner had been paying sufficient to realise £l5O per year, and the his attentions to the prosecutrix, but his suit fees are expected to amount to a handsome being rejected he one night made a murder. sum. Firth has named Dr. Carnelley, of ous attack upon her with a cleaver and a Owens College, for the first appointment, rolling pin, and nearly succeeded in taking FATAL Frax.—A fire, which was attended her life. with a fatal result, broke out from some cause Last Saturday morning, at the Bradford which is at present unknown at one Borough Police Court, Samuel Fox Sharp, o'clock on Friday week, in the room of clerk and cashier, aged about 30 years, reAmelia Fox, aged 67, a lodger at 41, Upper spectably connected, pleaded guilty, and was Marsh, Lambeth. The room was nearly sentenced to prison for six months, for ernburnt out, and the occupant was burnt to bezzling the sum of £15,0t10, the moneys of death. Thomas Roberts, bootmaker, who his employers, Messrs Garnett ani Co., spin. occupied the front shop and parlour, was tiers end manufacturers, of Bradford. cut on his left wrist. A fall report of the case of " Chow Chang SERIOUS EXPLOSION or