Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1890-10-03 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  ALDERMAN Savory WM on Monday elected Low Mayor of London for the ensuing year. THE Servian elections have resulted in the ssisos, of 111 Radicals, 19 Liberals, and two Progressionists, and in two other constituencies second ballots are necessagr. Tug reported railway collision on the Orogon line near Shosbone, in which twenty persons were said to have been killed is denied.  A CONSIDERABLE portion of the village of Vid mouth, Victoria County, Canada, has been destroyed by fire on Friday night. MUCH damage has been done at Algiers by • cyclone. A liarrisn man-of-war has been ordered to proceed to Vitu in order to inveetigate the circumstances of the recent massacre of Germans._ _ . .  _ IN the reign of Charles I. a Mayor of Norwich sent to gaol for saying the Prince of Wales was born with. out a shirt. .  _ Some workmen angag.2d on excavating for the new railway in Derbyshire on Friday found a el.iy urn. 12 in. high, containinz hundreds of coins, which by their date must have been buried for quite eight centuries. _ . _  THE po:dtion of the Jews in Russia is about to be brought before a Special Commission. ACCORDING to official intelligence from Goa order has now been completely restored. A LABOURER of the name of Brennan, working on a farm near Benue, county Carlow, during a fit of insanity murderously attacked a fellow-workman with a two.pronged fork, and then committed suiiiide by shooting himself with a gun. A STEAM tramway car ran off the line at Olisbury Park, London, on Saturday, and fell against the lamp of a refuge in, the middle of the road. The outside passengers on one side were thrown upau the roadway. A MAN named Alfred Bailey was atacked by. gang of scuttlers in Manchester on Saturday nigi.t. Two young fellows have hems arrested. A NUMBER of persons were seriously injurol by a carriage accident at L icester on Sunday night. . .  A twin. was fought near Paris on Sunday between MM. Perrieres and liatalle Mendes. Biith were wounded.  TH6 Brittany papers say that a peasant woman of Nozay, a village n-sr Nantes, haa been safely delivered of five children, who are still alive.  A sailor named John Cullen Nelson, agai 22, owing to a love ditappointment shot himself dead in the open street in Glasgow late on Saturday night. A YOUNG lady named Howell, charged with ,tealing cloth, has been proved to hate obtained situations in West End firma, dra,sed as a boy, and then committed thefts.  A NATIVE Japanese paper mentions a case of a man awed 40 this year, living in the province of Bzi. who has married and divorced 35 wives, and is now married to the 36th. _  THE premises of Messrs. Buchanan & Co., grain merchants, Glasgow, were burnt down early on Saturday morning; damage, £2,000. Four horeet, were suffocated.__  WHIL6 King Alexander of Servia and his father, the ex. King Milan, were driving on Sunday, a cartridge exploded under their carriage. Two nun have been killed at NVinchendon, Nlaluiachtniettii, by an electric wire coming into contact with ah incandexcent circuit.  THE United States House of Representatives on Saturday finally adopted the Tariff Bill in its amended form by 151 to 79 votes. FoilTr Armenian fugitives, who have arrived at the Russian town of Kar,2, report that their villaze has been saeked and burned, and their wives and ei.ildren rumsacred by Kurds. LIECTENANT Swinton, a British offiser, has been killed by Lushais near Changail, on the Cachar border. He was with a force of military poliee, who were attacked by a party of tribesmen lying in ambush.  MR. Eno?ht Harvey, head of one of the elde,t firms of solicitors in Liverpool, was killed at Mersey !toad. a suburban station, on Wednesday while crossing the line.