Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1890-03-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ENGLISHMAN MURDERED. News has been received by Mr. Page, Mationmastee at Peterborough, of the murder in Roumania of hie son, a Royal Marine, attached to her Ida;esty's chip Cockerice. The deceased was, it seeme. returning to his ship when he was attacked by Roumanian soldisre. Ile received three stah‘in the back, and died within five minutes. A messmate named Fcrshaw, who wall within a dozen yards, pluckily captured one of the soldiers. No mot no is usgrled for the cowardly crime. The commander of the Roumanian garrison attented the funeral. Coarts.martial are to be instituted.  A erne scandalous Cue was heard blare Mr. Justice Wills at the Chester Assizes the other day, in which John Henry Thompson, alias 3obn Henry Jones, a painter, was charged with burgiulouely entering the churchea cf Norley and Cotehrook, and stealing torticna of the communion services. I ritoner, after his arrest, oonfewed to the murder of Lance-corporal Marshall, of the Cheshire Regiment, by throwing him into the canal at Cheater and holding him under water till dead, and also with murder, ing a boy at Havant The Cheshire police, however, diseovered the confessions to be fabrications. In the matter of the burglaries, prisoner, besides breaking into the two churches, entered • chapel and other buildings. He wrenched open a safe in which the communion plate was stored, obtained a bottle of wine, and raid that he drank to the health of all the saints in the calendar. Ile lit a fire in the weary. and, lying down before it, went to sleets, nitimatsly carrying off the communion service. lie wan fon d gutty, and sentenced to five year.' penal , servitude. As extraordinary outrage is reported to have take& place on Sunday at a football club, at Kilmainham, Dublin. Two men, on finding a man named Bowe. lying asleep in the clubroom, picked his pocifets, and then, gathering a pile of paper about him, set it on fire. His clothes ignited, and the poor fellow was frightfully humid, being new in diMpital in a Serious condition. Miss Mermen's peartra;t of H. IL Stanley, painted in Cairo, ban been Mot home for exhibition at the Royal Academy. It will subseurp ntly be Presented to the Royal Geographical Society, Mr. Stanley Is still at Cairo. Tar. " International Exhibition o! Machinery. Manufactures, Appliances, and Inventisort incidental to Engineer., EleCtriclans, Builders, and Ironmong•re,^ to give it its full title, is the developed outcome of the Ironmxgers' Bailin:don of November. 1888. Under the gold .nee of Mr. Harry Etherington • successful effort has ha n made to intr.., the scope of the Exhibition for we find the various produets of the engineering, electrical, and building industries gathered under one roof in true coamopofitan fashion. Gas and pro ornate engines are noteworthy features of the show. Good bands and varin. forms of amusement and games have been preceded by the scientific exhibitors as an adtractino, and whist may be milled the "Engineer.' leis " Prnildeee to attract many visitors to "Merrier Islington" Ws regret to announce the death of Mr. Thomas Gray, c',13., Assistant Secretary to the Marine DepartMeet of Vie Board of Trade, at his redolence in Stockwell. His name was well known in every shipping Contr. of the United Kingdoec, sot only on account of the vary active part he tnek In the cassia g of the: Merchant Shipping Act some years agn, but alio' becau,n -4 numerous other enactments of the Rood of Trade whizh caused considerable discussion ...DC shipowner.. The post which be cc opted is wort& £1209 • year.