Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-08-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  The English Church Unions begin the inceith August with 31,600 members, of whom 11,258 have joined since the prosecution of the Bishop of Lincoln was instituted. Last Saturday a plasterer's labourer, named Fred Brocklehurst, went home to breakfast, and finding that his wife had be-ni drinking, and had prepared , no breakfast, kicked her so that she died. At four o'clock last Saturday Alexandre Jacques successfully completed his fast of forty-two days at the Westminster Aquarium, thus beating all previous fasting experiments. He deferred taking his first nottrisfrment until shortly after fire o'clock. At their monthly sitting on Tuesday the Belfast ministersof the Irish Pryterian Church unanimI onsly resolved to take stops to prevent the monopoly I of Parliamentary representation in Ulster being in I the hands of a particular religious denomination. Last Saturday a train was brought to a standstill at Brierfield, Lancashire, owing to a truck laden with seven barrels of stravrberrica coming into I collision with the engine. The fruit so clogged I the machinery that it took twenty minutes to clean it. A sad drowning ease has occurred at South Shields. Five youths in a small boat, having been out at sea, when approaching the harbour endeavoured to get towel behind a barque. The boat was upset, and the occupants thrown into the water. One named John Dunwoodie, a telegraph clerk on the North - Eastern Railway at Newcastle, was drowned. At Kingsland last Saturday afternoon Dr. Macdonald held an inquest on the bodies of William Lambert and Walter Wheeler, who died from the effects of pistol shots fired at them by a man named Walter Alfred Hogan, who is now under remand at the North „London Police Court.—Th. jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against  Hogan, The Liverpool pollee have al:weeded in tracing a portion of the jewellery stolen from Miss Eastlake, the well-known actress, who landed at Liverpool from New York a fortnight ago by the Inman liner City of New York. When the boxes were opened in London a hundred pounds worth of jewellery , was mimed. Some of the jewellery has been I pledged in Liverpool, and the police have detained in custody, pending further enquiries, one of the crew of the City of New York and his wife. Last Saturday afternoon Tommy Burns, a wellknown athlete, and a working man named John Macnamara dived from Runcorn Bridge, a height of nearly 90 feet, into the River Mersey. The dive was witnessed by thousands of people on both sides of the river, and both men on rising to the surface were loudly cheered. Burns has performed the feat several times before, but Saturday was the first time for Macnarnara. At the County Petty Sessions at Kendal last Saturday, a farmer in very good circumstances, Mr John Townley, of High Pickers,gill, Skelse mergh, was charged on remand with stealing eight sheep, the property of Robert Atkinson, Low Groves. The sheep were stolen from the fells, and prisoner, after many conversations about the robbery, admitted that he took them.—He was committed for trial and bail refused. Mr Pickard,