The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-11-15 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  Mr. T. P. O'Connor has stated that he and his brother Irish delegates intend visiting Canada before returning to Ireland. An alarming gas explosion occurred on Sunday in the Royal Hotel, Liverpool. Great damage was done to the fittings, and a barmaid and a sculleryinaid were rather seriously curia.  Mr. Spurgeon, owing to rvere illness, was unable on Sunday to preach his farewell sermon prior to his setting out for Mentone. It is believed that the journey will have to be postponed. It is stated that the hearing of the O'Shea divorce case is definitely fixed for the 37th inst., before Mr. Justice Butt, and that Mr. Frank Lockwood has been specially retained on Mrs. O'Shea's behalf.  The inquest on William Forsyth, who was found dead under mysterious ci. cumstances at Gateshead, was resumed on Tuesday and adjourned. The medical evidence supported the theory of murder.  In the Divorce Court, on Saturday, Mr. Justice Butt granted a decree of judical separation in the case of Walker r. Walker, on the petition of the wife, daughter of Mr. Frank Hollings, Fulwood Park, Liverpool.  At Bruges, on Saturday, Frank Slavin and Jem Smith, the pugilists, we. e sentenced, in default of appearance to a month's imprisonment and fifty francs flue each, for their recent participation in a prize-fight on Belgian soil.  At Leighton Buzzard. on Tuesday, John Pmley, schoolmaster, of Great Brickhill, near Bletchley, was committed for trial at Bedford Assizes, on the charge of shooting Arthur Bingham and Edward Rose, also schoolmasters.  A despatch from San Antonio states that the jury there have given a verdict of 30,000 dollars damages against the Southern Pacific Railway in favour of Charles Briggs for the loss of his leg while in the company's employ. Mr. Frank M'Clean, of Rusthall House, Tunbridge Wells, has offered £12,000 to Cambridge University for the purpose of founding three Isaac Newton Alai' ships for the encouragement of the study of astronomy and physical optics. A shocking tragedy has occurred at the village of Gctssauden, near Hambure. A boy only eight years of age thew a little girl of four into the water, and when the poor child tried to get out he killed her by repeated blows on the head.  A serious divpute, culminating in a free fight, marked the termination of a Socialist meeting near Has-eines on Monday. The contending parties made free use of revolver and knife, with the result that one person was killed and several injured. The Government of Heligoland has issued a notice to pilots, according to which those who wish to act as pilots in the German navy, in the event of war, must join the navy for a certain length of time in order to go through a course of instruction. The VVorkmec.'s Association at Halifax, Nova Scotia, has resolved to memorialise Parliament to enact a law restricting the miners' working day to eight h,,urs. and ptohibiting the employment of boys until able to read. write, and figure as far as vulgar fractious.  A mass meeting of railway employes of the Greenock district passed a resolution on Sunday that, seeine: the val ions Scotch railway companies had rese the demands of the men for shorter hours, or to refer the matter to arbitration, a total cessation of labour should take place for one day on a date to be fixed.  Acknowledging the receipt of a copy of "In Darkest England," sent to the Prince of Wales by a friend of the Salvation Army, Sir Francis Knollys says His Royal Highness feels confident that he cannot fail be very greatly interested by the perusal of a work that treats of a subject which for many years he has had so much at heart.  Lieutenant Harris, of the Royal Marines, was fined. £3 and costs by the PortonOuth magistrates on Tu.., Law for furiously driving a eab through the st eets t Ilr The .I,l.awe was that the accused laa!tet.lh.• ,sal,man who S driving him home, and that i. ill,y I,ing oven:eine by refreshments, pris.m . . . .