The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-09-16 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  ' Through the capsizing of a small boat at Exeter regatta on Saturday three men were thrown in. o the water. Two were rescued, but the thir.l was drowned. At March station, Cambrile,eshire, on Saturday, a shunting engine ran into a g.ing of platelayers. killing a man Ilatllol.l Chamberlain and terribly injuring two others.  On Saturday afternoon Dexter, one of the backs of the Kidderminster football team while playing with his club against Walsall Town Swifts at Walall, fe,l and broke hi right wrist.  William Yates and John Rawlins. both blacksmiths. were killed at noon on 4,atur4l.ly, at a pit of the Tyne Coal Company at Hebburn, by the escape of steam Lmm a pumping engine.  It is feared that the Liverpool ship Lord Raglan, 2,078 tons register, has been 14.4. with all hands. The vessel was grain-laden, and left San Francisco for Queenstown 200 days ago.  A colliery inspector turned Pillitig WILA on Saturday fined 40s. and costs by the magistrates at Newton-leWillows for having neglected his duty by not examining the guides in the winding shaft at Hapi.-,ck pit. On saturday the Executive of the Yorkshire Miners' Association, meeting at Barnsley, passed a resolution in favour of the fo !nation of a vobintary fund for tho assistance of colliers who are thrown Ole through no action of their own.  A meeting of foreign residentA in Japan AVM held a Yokohama on Friday, and resolutions werepassed protesting against the unconditional acceptance of the demands made by Japan in regard to the revision treaties with other Powers.  At Leeds, on Saturday, a youth named Fiddler. playfully presented a revolver at a Young woman and pulled the trigger, not knowing that the weapon was loaded. The bullet struck her between the eyes awl she expired on being removed to the Infirmary. Four boys, the son. of Mr. Thomas Oulion, currier, Nant vich, shut themselves in a building there on Friday and thew ignited SOW! straw. The flames spread rapidly. One of the lads was burnt to death, and the other throe were rescued with difficulty.  The inquiry into the death of John Edgar Worsnop and Sarah Elizabeth Berry, who were killed in the gas explosion at H ilifax on Thursday, was opened on Friday and adjourned. The Coroner said he had communicated with the Home One, Thinking that a Board of Inquiry might possibly be held.  A shocking murder is reported from Ballingarry, village a few miles from Thurles. It is stated that after a dispute with sonic colliers a farmer named liriirath was on Saturday night set upon near his house by two men. one of whom knocked him down, and the other inflicted upon him fatal injuries with a knife.  Two soldiers from the camp at Pirbright were sentenced at Guildford on Saturday to terms of imprisonment for disorderly conduct ond assaulting a police sergeant. The Chairmon of the Bench (Colonel Weston) said the state of things prevailing at Bisley was "a curse to the neighbourhood and a disgrace to the country."  The operative bakers of Mane'tester marched in procession through the city on Sunday, and afterwards held a meeting in Stevenson-square to protest against their long hours awl their low rate of w.tges. It was stated that a baker's week ranges from about 70 to 80 or 90 hours. The men sited a reduction to 60 hours, and that "leading men" be paid 31s. a week.  At Bow-street Police Court on Friday Herbert Grey, charged on remand with keeping a betting-house at Walthamstow, was tined £5O, or in default three months' imprisonment. On behalf of the defendant it was asked that the payment of the fine might be deferred until the beginning of next month, when he had a legacy due to him. The application was refused.  Thomas White, who has worked as a billposter, was sentenced on Friday at Isirkenhead to six weeks' hard labour for breaking into the Theatre Royal, Birkenhead, and stealing a bottle of champagne, two bottles of whisky, two bottles of stout, ail i ly,ttle of gin. Prisoner admitted '• finding" him.elf in the theatre refreshment bar, and " suppo fed he hat been drinking."  There is an old frien I of Mr. tilsilstone's in the country who takes some cridit to himself for the exPremier's marvellous eiya.gy and longevity. He avers that thirteen o.l* fourteen veari ag... at a small private dinner party, he advised Mr..ihnistone to always drink ;I couple of glasses of " gsi 1 old ii6rt." after dinner. The " evergreen " statesitt in has acfsd on this advice ever since. .