Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-07-21 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION.  A serious accident, by which four women were killed and several other persons were injured, occurred between twelve and one o'clock on the morning of the 15th inst. on the Manchester, Hieffield, and Lincolnshire Railway. A passenger train from Manchester was on its way to Glossop, and when it arrived near Hyde, at a junction, a goods train struck one of the carriages and smashed it into splinters. It is believed by some of the passengers that the carriage had left the metals at the time, and an unsuccessful effort had been made by the occupant's to attract the attention of the guard. The result was that four persons, whose names are as follow, were killed: Mrs. Middleton, Glossop ; Mrs. Beard, Glossop; Miss Wilson, Glossop; and Mrs. Booties, Hadfield. The list of injured includes James W. Ainsworth, Glossop; Frank Cullen, painter, Glossop ; James Goddard, landlord of the Victoria Hotel, Glossop (who are at the Manchester Infirmary) ; Mrs. Cullen, wife of Frank Cullen ; John Bennett, Dinting Vale, and his daughter. The report from the infirmary is that the injured have been progressing satisfactorily. Traffic was resumed on the line in about two hours after the accident.  A SHOCKING occurrence took place at Betchton, Cheshire,the other day. Some persons,for what purpose it is notsurmised, had placed a quantity of dynamite in a piece of piping and hid it away in an old lumberroom at the house occupied by Mr. Bailey, a farmer. A labourer was sent to clear the room, and had nearly completed his task when he came across the piping, and while removing it, it exploded with a terrific report and the poor fellow's hands were blown off. Several persons, attracted by the report, ran to the spot, and Dr. Jack was summoned, and in his care the injured man was placed. A Nsw line of railway has just been completed, connecting Sutton-on-Sea and Mabelthorpe, watering. places on the Lincolnshire coast. The railway has been officially inspected by Major-General Hutchinson on behalf of the Board of Trade. The undertaking has cost about £lO,OOO, the capital being furnished by a syndicate connected with the Sutton and Willoughby Railway Company. AT Nottingham a man named Stawson has been committed for trial for forging an endorsement to a cheque from George Barrett, the jockey. JAMES KELLIC, a painter, residing at Edinburgh, has been apprehended on a charge of murdering his wife. It is alleged that during a drunken quarrel the prisoner struck his wife with a walking-stick and a window-blind roller, inflicting such injuries that she died a few hours afterwards.  IN the Edinburgh Court of Session, the judge has gra'hted a decree of divorce in the Aberdeen bookseller's case, Us which there were eight co-respondents. The husband was ordered to pay his wife's expenses. He claimed £lOO damages from each of the eight corespondents. The judge allowed no damages, but ordered each of the eight men to pay his own expenses. Sin Charles Denham Orlando Jephson-Norreys died suddenly the other day 4 Queenstown. He was born in 1799, and was married in 1821 to a daughter of Mr. W. Franks, of Carrig, who died in 1853. He was created a baronet in 1838, and represented Mallow in Parliament from 1826 to 1859. The deceased is succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Denham William, who was born in 1821,