Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-07-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LOSS OF MANY LIVES.  WATER SPURTED 600 FEET HIGH.  William Harrison, clerk in the Queensland Trinity service, committed suicide white on a voyage from Australia in the steamship Jumna, by cutting his throat in his cabin. A girl, aged 12, has been found murdered near Diisseldorf, the crime haying been committed in the horrible manner practised by "Jack the Ripper." The excursion steamer Phcenix came into col lision with a barge in Hamburg harbour on Monday evening. Three women and eight men went drowned. Nearly all the latter lost their tins while trying to save the women. A telegram from Now York says : A passenger train sollided with a freight train at Sibley, Arkansas, on Wednesday night. Four persons were killed by the wrecking of one of the cars, and about a dozen more were seriously injured. Information from Ashland, Wisconein, states that three firemen on the steamer Iron King were burned to death on Friday in the stoke-hole of that vessel. Three others are badly injured—probebly fatally. Mr Fountain°, J.P., DL., master of the Went Norfolk foxhounds, was on Wednesday fined £25 and bound over to keep the peace for six months for haying in March last stopped an express train by signalling from the permanent way to the driver. In the queen's Bench on Wednesday Mr A. Carey, an American' recovered from the proprietors of Long's Hotel, Bond-street, £586 in tamped of jewellery stolen from rooms in which plaintiff and his wife were staying during their honeymoon. Sir Edgar Boehm is engaged on a statue of Lord' Rosy, which is to go to Bombay when completed; and Mr Charles Halle is painting portraits both of Lord and Lady Reay, which are intended for the same destination. The Newspaper Press Fund, following the lead of the Institute of Journalists, is applying to Her Majesty for the grant of a Royal Charter of Incorporation. At the present time the fund haa an invested capital of over £20,000, and it is believed that the granting of the charter would lead to "Stability, permanence, future prosperity, and progress." , The arrest is reported from Trieste of the Countess Therese de Badini, who is suspected of ' having improperly caused the death of her daughter, aged 12 years. The child's body has been exlinmed, and the arrest was made in consequence of the report of the medical men who made the examination. The Countess is bet 27 years years old. She is beautiful and rich. A sack, with a heavy weight attached, was , recently found in the canal above Coaidyke, , Lanarkshire. On the bag being opened the body , of a child was found, but owing to the length of 1 time it had been in the water it was in such a state of decomposition that it was impossible to. tell whether it was male or female. The police are: making enquiry. A sequel to the recent action in which Lady , Dual° was concerned was heard on Wednesday at M.arylebone Police Court. Alder Carter Weston, described as a gentleman, aged thirty-one, was . charged with having forged and uttered an order, for the payment of £3OO, with intent to defraud. j Evidence was given by Mr Wertheimer and Lady ' Dunlo, and the prisoner was remanded, bail being refused. his Gladstone has addressed a letter to Mr Gee, chairman of the Denbighabire County Coused, declining to discuss the question of Welsh dieew tablishment Mr Gladstone mays a discussiou on' the question would be premature and injurious to ; Scotland and Wales, and he adds that he has gone / a. great length in undertaking the Irish question which, independently of its greatness, disturbs and obstructs all progress. Failing to get Sir Henry James to promise to stand for them, the Liberal Unionists of the Handsworth Division of Staffordshire have appointed a deputation to wait upon the Marquis of Lorne/ with a view to his candidature, and in the event ! of his lordship's acquiescence a meeting of Liberal Unionists and Conservatives will be immediately ; held. I While Mr Lonch and a party were on the Themes; in a steam launch near Abingdon on -Tuesday the, boiler burst, and George Pendrill, the driver, was blown into the wines His dead body was found ; ; shortly afterwards. The owner of the launch and ; /