The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-04-21 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE END.  Mr. John Dixon, secretary of the West Yorkshire Miners' Association, died on Saturday at Wakefield. A young woman named Lucy Lowe has been arrested at Bedford on tie charge of murdering her child seas Purvey. • Thomas Woodbridge, one of the five men injured in the explosion in Dean Lane Pit, Bedminster, last week, died on Sunday, in Bristol Hospital. At Norwich assizes, on Saturday, Mrs. Womacla,whose husband was kW ed in the Thorpe collision, obtained £3ooe datnagee against the Great Eastern Company. A man named liniteown lain custody a Dublir &lamed with thee. Mg his wife and child out of a window emu feat from the ground. The woman its not expected to I recover. The official arrangements for the ensuing volunteer reviser at Tring on Easter Monday hare been issued. The i total force which will be present will be about 10,000 of all ranks. At the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday, Clara Raises, a single woman, was sentenced to six montbs' imprisonment, with hard labour, for having endeavoured to conceal the birth of leer child. A great collage:it-ion toot: place at Feveraham, neer Cambridge, on Sunday, destroying a large guantity-of egrieeltural produce, and severely burping several men, who had to be taken to the hospital. An explosion of gas took place on Saturday, on board the steamer Cambridgeshire, of Wisheach. at Shields. The weand mate and steward vote severely burned. The steamer is not much damaged. Twelve youths were brought before the Nottingham I magistrates on Saturday, mid sentenced each to one mouth's imprisonment, for placing obstructione on the Midland Railway at Coldwiek Junction. On Saturday afternoon, two youths, named Pipe and Redstone, were drowned in the Thamee, near Blackfriars' Bridge. They had hired a boat at Waterloo Bridge, and shortly after starting a dispete arose between them al to which should pull stroke. They good up together and pitched forward into the water locked in each other'S arise. Both sank, and did not re-appear. On Satutilay a shocking accident happened at Battlevilla, Wandsworth-road, London. Two young gentlemen, named Pierre Raspail and Gustave Milliard, were in the garden fencing, when the button of one of the foils &el-TO 3 oil, and Raepail, making a lunge at the moment, drove the weapon into the breast of hie antagonist meeting a desperate wound. Many weeks will elapse en Milliarsi will handle another foil. Lord Aberdare opened the new North of England Training School for Female Tegchem at Darlington as Saturday. lie referred with disapprobation to the re lanai ion of the rules respecting certificated teachers whici had been introduced by the present Government H. claimed for the British and foreign system that it pm', tically solved the religions difficulty by reconciling re. ligione education with afadom of conscience. A boiler explosion, which resulted in the death of Wm Broadbent, aged 29„•,aeurred on Saturday at the new mill in course of erection for the Hathershaw Spinning Company, Ashton-road, Oldham. The deceased WU at engineer, and at about half-past two was in charge of a portable engine used for winding materials, &c. A pm I tiontof the boiler flue, about two feet long, was blows out and the place striking Broadbent, be was hurled aboull 10 feet. Be died in three minutes after the explosion. On Saturday afternoon a shocking accident, through the careless nee of firearms, occurred at Brynn, 8.91 Wigan, at a meeting of members of the Wigan thin Club A friendly pigeon shooting contest was taking place when, during the interval of shooting, a factory opera. tire who was witnessing the sport took up a loaded gar and, eareateely pulling the trigger, lodged the content: between the shoulder blade and the !pine of Mr. William Smethurst, of Landgate House, Bryan, one of the metro hers taking part in the contest, manager of the Bryan and 6tarewood C,olliereis,belonging tote Irma Masers. Dewhuret, Hoyle, and Smethurst. Kr. (Smethurst lies in a very precarious condition.