Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-12-19 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  Two little boys named Fawcett have been imffototed in bed at Heleneburgh, during the absence of their mother. The War Office has placed orders for about 200,000 pairs of boots amongst the army contractors of Northamptonshire. Joseph Ernest Jones, a commercial traveller, has been found deed in a hotel bedroom at Liverpool where he was staying. The Queensland Government has granted it. patronage to the International Exhibition to be held at Brisbane next year. The site covers about 11 acres, and is of exceptional beauty and convenience, being a portion of Bowen-park. It is announced that the aeronauts, Godard and Surcouf, having obtained the support of several Paris journals will make an effort to reach the North Pole in a balloon. They are very sanguine of success. In the judgment of the House of Lords, the action of the Aberdeen District Tramway Company in clearing away the snow from their lines so as to cause an obstruction is a public nuisance and must be interdicted, an intimation to this effect being given on Monday. The vessel Eva, bound from Carrickfergus for Queensland, sank near Margate. Two of the crew, who had lashed themselves to the cross-trees, were saved, but the captain and two others were drowned. .  At the Highgate Police-court, on Monday, Police-constable William Ward was charged with stealing 12 bottles of whisky from the premises of 132 Park-road, Crouch.end, the property of Walter Melville, wine and spirit merchant. Evidence having been called, the Bench dismissed the summons.  ...... Lieut.-Col. Donald Wthertson, of the Scots Fusiliers, will be the new Resident at Mysore and Chief-Commissioner at Coorg. Col. Robertson sent two years as Assistant-Resident in Mysore, but for the past three years he has been Resident at Gwallor, in the Central India Agency.  • James Sharpley, a pork butcher, of Macclesfield, was summoned on Monday for threatening a factory inspector named Wahnsley. Upon Walmsley going into Sharpley's shop the butcher not only swore at him, but flourished a knife in a threatening manner. He was fined £5 and costs or a month's imprisonment in default. Vice-Admiral Seymour, Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves, is to have a year's extension of his appointment in order to assist in carrying out a scheme for improving the Naval Reserve, which will occupy a place in next year's_Estimates.  At noon on Monday an -old shaft at the How. burn Colliery, near Morpetb, fell in, and the water of the burn rdshed into the workings. Twenty men and boys were below at the time, and they escaped with great difficulty, having to leave their clothes, etc., behind them.  At Penzance, a lad named Walter Richards, aged 13 years, returned to his home, having been shot above the left ear. He was speechless and could consequently give no account of the circumstances under which the bullet, evidently from • toy pistoi, had been discharged. The bullet had fractured the skull and passed through the brain. The lad has since died. Mr. Rufus Mitchell, of the firm of Messrs. Mitchell Brothers, the largest manufacturers in the West Riding of Yorkshire, has committed suicide by cutting his throat. No cause is assigned, except that the deceased was worried over a case at the present Leeds Assizes' in which several thousand pounds are involved. The deceased, who was very wealthy, was a great dog breeder.  The Belgian police made a raid on Sunday night on a gaming saloon at Erquelines, on the French frontier, and closed the establishment. The amount ataked at the moment of their arrival represented over 100,000 f., one lady declaring she had lost 12,000 f. that evening. Dean Farrar delivered an eloquent address at a service held at Marylebone Parish Church, on Saturday, in celebration of the golden wedding "in the unseen world" of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Several representative Nonconformists were present. The celebration was also marked by meetings at Browning Hall, Walworth.  In the course of a lecture at Toynbee Hall, London,. on Saturday, Nl] W. H. Preece, the tele graPhic expert aW tne Post Office, announced an important discovery and invention by a young Italian electrician named Marconi. By means of a transmitter and a receiver messages, it was claimed, could be sent by electro-static effects, no wires, therefore, being required. Mr. Preece expressed every confidence in its success, and enlarged upon the benefits likely to arise from the invention, especially by seafaring men. On Monday afternoon some miscreant placed a large paving stone on the line between the Les Brotteaux and Sainte Claire stations (France). Happily only a goods train passed, which left the rails. Ten of the trucks were wrecked, and the enginedri, er was seriously injured. Some passenger trains were delayed. As the British India Company's steamer Manors entered Plymouth on Monday, the Eddystone Lighthouse signalled " Wish to communicate." The Trinity House authorities were telegraphed to, and their vessel, the Alert, at Falmouth, was at once ordered away to make inquiries. It was understood that the machinery of the lighthouse was damaged. At a council meeting of the Football Association on Monday, Mr. N. L. Jackson explained that he had designedly played scratch teams, without first having obtained the consent of the guiding body, believing recent resolutions bearing on the point to be contrary to the rules of the Association. This explanation was deemed unsatisfactory, and it. was resolved to ask Mr. Jackson to resign his position as vice-president.  Save time and expense by sending yonr orders for printing to the Minster Press, Beverley. werinnem.hip guaranteed.