The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-11-01 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

WILLS AND BE9 (TESTS.  The will, with two codicils, of Mr. Anthony Stare.smore Benn, of Rugby, who died on August 21st, has been prov,d, the value of the personal estate in the United Kingdom amounting to upwards of £362,000. The testator, in the event of the conveyance of April 9th, 1894, becoming void by his death within 12 months, gives the Royal George and Dragon Hotel, Rugby, to trustees as an endowment for the Hospital of St. Cross, Rugby. The Scotch costhrmation, under seal of office of the Commissariot of Forfar, of Mr. Joseph Johnston( Barrie, of the firm of Joseph J. Barrie and Company, merchants, Dundee, who died on July 26th. has ls.-en resealed in London, the value of the personal estate in the United Kingdom amounting to upwards of £125,000. .  Leiters of administration of the personal estate of Mr. William Henry Harris Hartley, of Itosewarne, Camborne, Cornwall, who died on June 27th, intestate, have been granted, the value of the personal eztate amounting to upwards of £109,000.  The will of Count Eduardo Caprara di Montalba, of Alexandria and Rome, who died on June 23rd, 1893, has been proved in London, the value of the personal estate in England amounting to upwards of £60,000. The testator gives 500 f. each to the European Hospital for the accommodation of poor sick Italians.the Beneficent Society for Poor Italians, and the Indigenous Arab-Egyptian Hospital for poor sick Egyptians, all at Alexandria. The will of Miss Jane Macgregor, of Bloomsburysquare, who died on August 29th at Brooklands, Tooting Common, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to over £37,000. The Scotch confirmation, under seal of the Cornmissariot of the county of Edinburgh, of the trust disposition and settlement, and codicils, of Mr. Edmund Baxter, writer to the signet, auditor of the Court of Session, who died at Canieron House, Edinburgh, has been resealed in London, the value of the personal estate in England and Scotland amounting to over £30,000. The will, with two codicils, of Miss Anna Maria Fenn Orde, of St. James's-square, Bath, who died on August 17th, at Clevedon, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to upwards of £21,000. The will of Dona Anna Francesca de Macedo, Baroness de Sao Diogo, of Rua Farani, Rio de Janeiro, who died on August 11th, 1893, has been proved in London, the value of the personal estate within the jurisdiction of the English court amounting to £7,685. The will of Mr. Charles Brandling, of Wiltonplace, Belgrave-square, who died on September 16th, has been proved. The value of the personal estate amounts to £4,447.  The will of Mr. William Johnson, J.P., Mayor of Chester, 1866, 1875, and 1876, of Brougtfton Hall, Plintshire, and of Chester, corn-merchant and miller, who died on March 17th, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to £8,448. • ^  The will of Mr. Frederic Richards Mealy Gosset, J.P. of Portslade, Sussex, who died on March 2nd, has been proved, the value of the personal estate amounting to £33o.—lllustraged London ,Veics.  ...1. nilliam au,tin Power, the Queen's own 1::4 s:inger, died on Sunday at his residence at Winesor, in the 57th year of his age. Mr. Power. who was greatly respected by her Majesty, had been 36 )ears in the Royal service, and during a portion of that time was sergeant footman and Queen's own messenger. Mr. Power only returned from Balmoral on the 17th inst., and since the commencement of his illness the Queen has inquired daily as to his condition.  Oaturaay MT. tiazisoa, head master of Appuldurcombe College. Vantnor, sustained a compound fracture :1 ..he right leg during a football match  James Crowder, a glue blower, has been remanded from the Worship-street Police-court on a charge of having stabbed his wife, with the intention of murdering her. The injured woman chewed great reluctance to give evidence against her husband, who was thought to be suffering from delusions. The magistrate gave directioos that the priscst doctor should examine him.