The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1890-02-01 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

CURRENT LITERATURE.  THE ART JOURNAL (Virtue & Co., London).— There are two articles of especial merit and interest in the February issue of this journal, namely, Vanishing Rome," by Julia Cartwright, and one on Painters' Studios" ; both are most charmingly illustrated. Besides these there is an article on "The Royal Academy in the last Century," and two others on " Z'ohurch Furnishing and Decoration," and" Cambridge as a Sketching Ground." The frontispiece is an etching by J. Dobie from Frank Bromley's painting of " A Hopeless Dawn." Mrs. Leach's Practical Family Dressmaker for February contains home and evening toilettes for ladies, mantles, fashionable bodices and sleeves, with descriptions for making-up an evening mantle, the complexion in winter, answers to correspondents, fashions for February, ,‘ Righted at Last," a story by Florence Hodgkin. son, tic. Published at 8, Johnson's-court, Fleetstreet, London.  At Bantry, county Cork, on Friday afternoon, William Barrett, John Kingston, and Jeremiah McCarthy were committed for trial on the charge of having murdered Timothy Crowley, a farmer, on the highway, on the night of November 11th. The German Reichstag on Saturday had an important debate on the third reading of the bill giving permanent effect to the Anti-Socialist Law. The bill was eventually rejected by 169, against 98 votes. The Emperor afterwards closed the session with a brief speech from the Throne. A murder of a specially shocking and brutal character was perpetrated very early on Sunday morning on the highway some miles from Crewe. A tradesman named Davies, in company with his son, was driving home to his residence at the Hough, and when a few hundred yards from the village the trap was stopped by two men, who savagely attacked Mr. Davies. The youth escaped, but when a few minutes afterwards he returned with assistance his father was found lying dead by the roadside, with his head battered in by some heavy instrument. Robbery, it is believed, supplied the motive for the murder. Edward Davies, herbalist of Walsall, was charged at Kidderminster, on Friday, with causing grevious bodily harm to a carpet-weaver named Reece, by selling him a bottle of ammonia solution on pretence that it was a good cough mixture. Reece having a cough, bought a bottle of mixture of the accused. and at bedtime took a portion of it, with the result that he was seized with violent pains, which were intensified when his wife gave him some salt and water. In the end, Reece, after being seen by a medical man, was removed to the infirmary, and he was still very ill. The prisoner was committed for trial at the quarter sessions. The rrincipal business of the National Conference of miners was concluded on Friday. A number of resolutions were passed, suggesting amendments in the Mines Regulation Act with the view to securing greater safety for the miners. The conference then proceeded to consider the wages question. A Lancashire delegate submitted that the recent extraordinary advances in the price of coal fully entitled the men to an increase in their wages, and moved that contracts on existing prices terminate by the end of February, and that an advance of 20 per cent, be asked for. After some discussion, an amendment was carried that the demand should be for 10 per cent. The Dublin police on Saturday arrested a man who was on the point of leaving for England. He is charged with having worn female attire for years, and obtained various situations as a domestic servant in Dublin. It is alleged that on Friday night he stayed at a girls' lodging-house, and during the night attempted to assault one of the lodgers. She raised an alarm, and he escaped. The prisoner, who was in woman's clothes when arrested, said his name was Andy McKnight, but he has gone under the name of An le McKnight. The prisoner was dressed in fashionable female attire, and was awaiting the departure of the London and North-Western steamer for Holyhead% He appears to be about 23, is very effeminate-looking, and about Sit. Bin. in height. He wore a fashionable hat, and a quantity of long false hair, a blue dress, and blue jacket trimmed with fur. He was recently filling position of kitahenmaft in a lady's house in Pem broke-road, Dublin, and his sex was not discovered. The circumstances which led to his arrest are as already stated. It was alleged that when ale eping with a girl in the lodging-house he attempted to outrage her, and promised to marry her allay said nothing,