The Northern Guardian. — 1892-08-31 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.  WaTenga thoroughly cleaned, is 6d; new mainspring, Is 6d ; linioch pins, 2d. All work guaranteed 12 months.—J. M. Citozno, 76, Lynn Street, Weet Hartlepool.—A dr&  News comes by way of Paris that Madame Mars, who was bitten by a bear in a menagerie at Fleurs. died on Monday, and her husband is not expected to recover.  The Rev. Horace Skipton, curate of St. Catherine's, Dublin, while sketching at Howth, ea Monday, fell over the high cliff near Dailey Lighthouse and was drowned.  Alfred Mercer, aged 50, shot himself in the temple yesterday at 3, North Cumberland Street, Dublin, and died shortly afterwards. His mind is supposed to have been affected by the loss of his wife.  A new mineral, not unlike asbestos in its properties, has been discovered in immense deposits in Columbia. It is the colour of amber, perfectly transparent and incombustible. Paper made frous it is quite fireproof.  A Pretoria telegram says :—The Transvaal Volksraad has authorised President Kruger to confer with Sir Henry Lock, Governor of Cape Colony, and to discuss the question of the future of Swaziland with him.  At Hastings yesterday, during the performance of a band on the parade, two ladies, Mrs Davies and Miss Jeffcote, fell over the sea railings on to the beach, a distance of 20 feet, through the railing coming out of its socket. They were considerably shaken, but not seriously hurt. Yesterday morning a man named John Clarke died at the Birmingham General Hospital from the result of terrible injuries. On Saturday lie quarrelled with a neighbour named George Costello, who is said to have plunged a knife into him. The blade was an unusually long one, and the point penetrated the lungs. Costello is in custody. Cornelius Smith, aged 25, a Brentford dealer, I was committed for trial at the Brentford Police I Court yesterday upon a charge of having caused the death of William Smith, his brother. At the coroner's inquest the jury returned a verdict of death from injuries caused whilst fighting, and that the prisoner was guilty of manslaughter. At the Thames Police Court yesterday, Albert Beckert, who was chairman of the so-called Whitechapel Murder Vigilance Committee during the "Jack the Ripper" scare, was charged with stealing upwards of £3OO belonging to his father, a tailor. The magistrate, however, said there was no evidence against the accused, who was discharged.  The charge of riot at New Tipperary on the day of the South Tipperary election against Father Humphrey and twelve others was resumed yesterday. Father Humphrey and Mr John Vincent Bourke, engineer, New Tipperary, did not answer to their names, and the case against there was adjourned. The other defendants were committee for trial at the Assizes. A singular case of recovery on the part of a dumb patient was mentioned by Mr Weston at the meeting of the Kendal Union Sanitary Authority. A girl living at Preston Richard was sent at the beginning of this year to a deaf and dumb school in Liverpool, and in May she was taken ill with scarlet fever and placed in hospital. After her apparent convalescence she visited her home, when she again fell ill with scarlet fever, and is now in the Kendal Sanitorimn. Since her illness at Liverpool, however, she has perfectly recovered her hearing, and is beginning to talk. She is eleven years of age, end has been deaf and dumb from being six months old.  - - -