Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-09-08 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SHOCKING MURDERS IN BINNING HAM AND LIVERPOOL.  Ass infant named Fereday, the daughter of parents residing in Asylum-road, Summer-lane, Birmingham, has been murdered under circumstances of great barbarity. So far as can be ascertained the mother went out, leaving the infant, six months old, in a perambulator, in charge of Alfred Forrester, aged 12, and Alice Forrester, aged 10, her nephew and niece. There was also in the house the grandfather, who was lying on the sofa drunk and asleep. The mother returned in about half an hour and was alarmed at seeing blood running from the perambulator. She picked up the infant, and noticing that it was bleeding from one of its feet, ran with it to a neighbouring surgery. The doctor was out, but his assistant saw that there was a deep cut on the foot, and he stitched up the wound. The woman then took the child home, and while nursing it discovered that the other foot had been nearly cut off. She called in a neighbour, and owing to the prostration of the mother, this woman took the child back to the surgery, when on examination it was seen that the foot had been almost severed at the ankle. The surgeon recommended that the child should be taken to the General Hospital, and this was at once done. The infant, however, died ten minutes after its arrival in that institution. The police, on being acquainted with the matter by the hospital authorities, arrested the mother, grandfather, and the two children, but the two former were subsequently released. The affair is to a great extent shrouded in mystery. The girl, however, is said to have stated that she cut the child's feet, because she had been told by a boy bathe street that to cut off the feet would bring her good luck. Subsequently she denied having said this. From their investigations the police are inclined to adopt the theory that the injuries were inflicted by the girl. A wife murder of a most outrageous character has been perpetrated at Garston, near Liverpool. It appears that a dock labourer named Neill threatened to murder his wife if she did not return some money which she had taken from his pocket while he was asleep. In the afternoon of the same day, while they were in the house alone, he attacked her. He is alleged to have jumped on her, thrown a table at her, belaboured her with a heavy stool, and finally tried to roast her alive. She became insensible, and remained in a dying condition for three days, when she expired. Neill is in custody.  THE streets of Barnet were lighted by electricity the other night, and the novelty excited unusual interest among the townsfolk. There are 71 lamps, each placed on s strong ornamental iron post 12 feet in height, and fitted with a reflector, by means of which the light is distributed over a large area. The electricity is conducted over the town by about five miles of hard-drawn copper-wire. Where the wires cross main thoroughfares they are laid under ground in creosoted n ooden troughs, and are insulated with rubber and encased in lead tubes to protect them from mechanical injury. These underground wires pass up through the lamp columns to the globes, and each column is provided with a small door, so that, should it be required, a switch for turning off any particu:ar lamp independently may be used. The electricity is generated by a dynamo machine making 800 revolutions per minute. THE anniversary of the Battle of Sedan was celebrated at Berlin, by a Grand Review of the Guards by the Emperor, in the presence of the King of Saxony and other distinguished visitors. THE illuminations on both banks of the Bosphorus, to celebrate the anniversary of the Sultan's accession, were on a grander scale than usual, because of the presence of the Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness has now left Constantinople. KING HUMBERT has unveiled at Ravenna monuments to the Martyrs to Liberty and to Anita, wife of Garibaldi. On his Majesty's departure from the town there was another outburst of popular enthusiasm, and it was noticed that in the crowd were a number of Garibaldians, who were red shirts. THE loss by the great fire at Hamburg is estimated at nearly five millions sterling. Ten English societies had taken insurances on these premises and their contents to the extent of one million one hundred and six thousand pounds.