Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-04-18 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

GENERAL DISTRICT RATE.  The common seal of the Council was affixed to a general district rate of is. 6d. in the Z. The Council rose at 10-30.  The prebendal stall of Milverton in Wells Cathedral, held by Archdeacon Denison since 1861, has been conferred by the Bishop of Bath and Wells on the Rev. H. P. Denison, curate of East Brent, as some solatium to him for the living being given to his cousin, the Rev. C. Fane de Saha, vicar of Milverton. The Archdeaconry of Taunton falls to Canon Ainslie, the editor of the Chronicle of Convocation. Mr. and Mrs. Ballington Booth have published a manifesto in explanation of their conduct in seceding from the Salvation Army and starting another movement. They denounce General Booth as anti. American, and state that it was his intention to divide the United States into three parts, each attached to Canada, for the purposes of the Salvationist organisation. „ . _  At Cainbridge Quarter Sessions, on Monday, James John Young, alias Courcey de Young, described as a surgeen, aged 78, was convicted of obtaining £4 by false pretences from Henry John Simpson, landlord of the Barnwell Coffee Palace, on May 31, 1894. The prisoner rustle an able address to the jury, embellishing his appeal with quotations from Dante and Homer. The Recorder said that prisoner was obviously a man of education, but, after hearing his statement to the jury, he had come to the conclusion that he was a wicked old hypocrite, and he would be imprisoned for 12 calendar mouths, with hard labour.  The inquest on the body of Henry Crossland, labourer, alieeed to have been murdered on April 3 by a blow from a hammer, given by Harry Lett, a labourer, Oelby, Leicester, was held on Monday night. The evidence showed that Crossland loled with his sister, who cohabited with Lett. For several weeks Lett hail desired Crossland to leave, but his sister had refused to give him notice. On April 2 Lett, it is stated, threw a lighted lamp at the he place near where Crosidaiiii was sitting, and scorched his face, arid afterwards, as alleged, knocked him downstairs with a blow front a hammer, which caused death in a few hours. A verdict of wilful murder against Lett was returned. Gloom has been tin .wn over the camatunity at Gap (France) by a fatal accident which occurred to one of the officers of the infantry regiment stationed there. Captain Latapie was out riding when his horse whie'l he was mounting for the first time, suddenly bolted. Not only was the rider unable to master the animal, hut he was also unseated. The captain's foot, however, remained caught in the stirrup, and he was dragged fur a distance of nearly two hundred yards before the horse was stopped. The injured rider was carried to the hospital, but he expired shortly afterwards without recovering consciousness, death being due to a blow over the temple from the horse's hoof. There was buried at Liverpool on Monday the body of a police-officer whose name is a household word in the West Midlands and the North. Inspector Boyers who retired from the local force five years ago, had a hand in most of the big cases up that way for many years. He was concerned in bringing the dynamite men to justice, he was in the big poisoning case of Mrs. Flanagan and Mn. Higgins, and played an important part To capturing two welliknown forgers, Peter the Swimmae and Jack Howard  5007 N WIISTA MI6 RECOMMEND MACNIVEN k