The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-10-14 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

TBF. Longton magistrates have convicted the landlady of a publie-li. use for permitting gamir,.; by allowing bowls to be played for cheques exchangeable for drink.  Di's latest news from the German mining districts states that there are signs of improvement in the iron and steel industry, including a slight rise of prices.  TIE chief editor of a Posen paper, the Kuryer Poznawki, has been condemned to two years imprisonment on the charge of having libelled Prince Bismarck.  THE Royal Commission to inquire into the working of the Civil Service will hold its preliminary meeting early neat month, when the arrangements for taking evidence will be considered.  A FiNi badger has just been caught at Lydden, near Dover, after leaving the marks of its teeth on the shepherd who, with his dog's help, made the capture. THE remains of the Hon. Thomas G. Grosvenor, C. 8., Secretary of Embassy at St. Petersburg, are being conveyed from the Russian capital to Moore Park, Lord Ebury's seat, near Rickmansworth, for interment  THE Hygienic Museum, presided over by Dr. Koch, the authority on cholera, has been opened at Berlin. It contains a comprehensive collection of objects of pe-manent interest to hygienic science. THE storm and the earthquake were missing in the United States on the date on which their appearance was to have been manifested, but otherwise Professor Wiggins's prophecy turned out all right. THE gunboat " Firefly " has gone to protect the drift net fishermen in the vicinity of the North Foreb-nd, and the gunboat' Seamew " has gone to Folkestone to perform similar good offices there. AT Flamborough, near Bridlington, the spa season being over, the fishermen now kill the sea fowl and sell them to taxidermists. As many as a hundred specimens have been " bagged " daily by two pus. THE Mayor of Reading publicly presented to a youth named Knight aßoyal Humane Society's bronze medal for heroic conduct in rescuing a drowning man last July. This is the fourth life he has saved.  Ar the Bilson Board Schools, Cinderford, several men were engaged in excavating a culvert underneath the buildings when, without any warning, a large quantity of earth and stones suddenly fell upon them. The men were completely buried. One named Bonson, when extricated, was quite dead. and a labourer named Cooke sustained fearful injuries. Others were more or less injured. IN view of the holding of the 13th annual provincial meeting of the Incorporated Law Society of the United Kingdom, which opened at York on Tuesday, the Lady Mayoress received the members of the Society and of the Yorkshire Law Society and their friends in the Mansion House, on which occasion the Guildhall, which was tastefully decorated with evergreens and flags, was used as a drawing-room. Os Monday there died at Vienna, at the age of 65. Victor Ritter von Oppenheim, whose name in 1875 attracted European attention. owing to his being the chief figure in a great trial that lasted fifty-four days. 11C was accused of having, as general manager of the Lemberg-Czernowitz and Jassy Railway, received illegitimate " commissions" from the eminent English firm of contractors and others who built the railway, but was acquitted. TIIE cheap novel is at work again making young criminals in America. Two boys have just been arrested in Texas charged with murder. They had imitated a paper hero. -About the same time a club of boys was detected in Connecticut attempting to wreck an express train. They intended to rob the dead passengers, and with the proceeds to go out West to tight the Indians. A riluspEitaroint of extreme violence best over Milton awl the neighbourlwoil on Monday ; and at Walkden, an out-biwuship. a dwelling-house was partially wrecked. and the occupant struck and Paralysed on the right side.