The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-05-31 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  The Queen has conferred a peerage on Prince Albert Victor, and he takes the title of Duke of Clarence and Avondale and Earl of Athlone. The nomination of candidates for the seat vacated in West Donegal by Mr. P. O'Hea has been fixed for the 30th inst. and the polling for June 7th.  A Paris telegram states that Belinski, the Pole who is charged with murdering Madame Wotaski, was one of Mr. Stanley's party during the search for Livingstone. The result of a canvass of householders in Bolton on the question of Sunday closing was declared on Friday night. For total closing on Sundays 9,582 persons voted, the number against being 6,106. A horse-thief, named Mansfield King, who is in custody at Charton, Missouri, has confessed to being the man who at the end of March last year fobbed Denver Bank of several thousand dollars.  The expenses of Mr. D. Lloyd George, recently elected oM.P. for the Carnarron Boroughs, have been returned at £227 13s. 2id.. and those of Mr. H. J. Ellis Nanney, the Conservative candidate, at. £434 15s.  The last of the betting club eases in the batch recently brought before the magistrates by the police at Liverpool were disposed of on Friday. Three clubs were dealt with, and fines varying from 40s. to £lO were inflicted. '  At the Jersey Royal Court, on Monday, a local Wine merchant named Le Quesne was fined £lOO for receiving smuggled spirits, and two workmen were fined £5O each for assisting in the illegal act. Le Quesue was fined £lOO last year for a similar offence.  An inquest was held in Kentish Town on Friday as to the death of Florence yarncy, barmaid at her father's house in Clarence-road. The evidence of eyewitnesses showed that the accused man. Harding, deliberately shot the woman, and the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder.  Great excitement prevails at St. John's, Newfoundland, owing to the perpetration of further outrages arising out of the disputes between native and French fishermen. Two men-of-war, now atHalifax, have been ordered to proceed to Newfoundland waters with all possible speed. On Friday night, at eight o'clock. a widow named .Tane Gent, sixty years of age, was passing over the level crossing at the Chorley railway station when a train of empty coaches from Blackpool to Manchester dashed up. Mrs. Gentwas knocked down and the train passed over her. She was picked up dead. The Forth Bridge will be available on and after Monday next for a through service of trains between England and the North. The journey between Manchester and Aberdeen, Inverness. Perth, and Dundee, ria the Midland route from Victoria Station, will be accelerated by some trains as much as two or three hours.  Reports from the Channel Islands indicate that there is an abundant supply of early potatoes and strawberries for the English markets. Seven tons of strawberries were received at Southampton from St. Malo on Saturday. with the information that the cropls an abundant one in the West of France, and during next week heavy consig.,nments may be expected.  Mr. W. Terris, an actor, sued the Sunday Tim. 94 on Friday for libel. The New York correspondent. of the paper had said that Mr. Terris's reception there was " noticeably cool." For the defence it was said that the words did not refer to the plaintiffs reception as an actor, but to his reception in society. The jury awarded the plaintiff £2OO by way of damages. The judge stayed execution for a fortnight. On Sunday night the thu ohi Irish mansion Mayfield liouse, at kilmorv. near Dublin. WU de,troyed by tire. It belonged to the Christian Brother,, who let it in ti•neinent, to the families of tli men emploved ii their estate. Some exciting se,nes oecurrea, many f tie inmate: being in bed It the time. There wa, no wat,r supply, and all thepl ic oiuld do wit, to re,eiti•as nuteh furniture a,p ill.  A singular action was brought on Friday against the Bank of England in the Ont,•ll's Boneh Division. _ _  A customer pained Burton t I -It • I:141114. and he ~btaincd a verdict with £l2O damages on the ,7-ronint that the Bank had injured his credit by paying, a bill two months bef,,re it WM.:, ClllO. Till, IlvgligVllCe, admitted by the Hank. had eatis,ql an error in hi, account. and led to an execution being put in. though at the time he had a sufficient credi balance.