The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-08-05 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  At the Central Criminal Court on Saturday, Albert Laerruan, 34, surgeon, was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude for the manslaughter of 'Mrs. Hall, the wife a barrister, by performing an unlawful operation. •  A Zanzibar telegram reports the return of the expedition against Mabenge, and says that Pangiro, the last of the rebel chiefs, has submitted, and that the pacification of the North Province as far as Rulidji has been accomplished.  In the Portuguese Chamber of Deputies on Saturday the 31inister of Marine informed a Progressist member that the seizure of the British steamer James StepheuQou was a breach of discipline which would be dealt with by the competent tribunals.  Miss Clara Brook, a dressmaker, living at Halifax, sued a Halifax worsted spinner named Thomas at Leeds Assizes on Saturday for damages for breach of promise and seduction P..r the breach of promise she was awarded £lOO, and for the seduction £5O. Au American named Moyr is in custody at ,Belfast charged with firing a revolver at his landlady on her insisting efore he gave up his lodgings that he should pay her a sum of money alleged to be due to her. The bullet, fortunately, did not strike the woman.  A Belgian named Francois Manteau was indicted at Old Bailey on Monday for the murder of a compatriot named Francois de Grave by shooting him with a revolver. Jealousy was the cause of the crime. The prisoner Was convicted and sentenced to death.  A coroner's jury at Warrington on Saturday committed for trial a man named Mercer on a charge of murdering ThOnias Kay, at Earlestown, on the 26th ult. The murder was committed with an axe. It was suggested that the prisoner was not in his right mind. An Exchange .Company's -telegram says :—Another Nihilist plot against the Czar has been discovered in St. Petersburg. Numerous arrests, including that of ProfeSsorCorloWski, of the Eniversity, have been made. Two superior officers compromised in the plot have committed suicide.  At Bolton on Monday a man named Cunningham, aged 63, after remonstrating with his wife on her drunken habits, sharpened a pocket knife on the slopstone and stabbed her twice in the back. He was apprehended and she was taken to the infirmary. Her life is considered in danger.  The execution of the condemned man Felix Spicer, now lying under s:mteneo of death at Knutsford prison for the New Brighton murders, has been fixed by the High Sheriff of Cheshire (Mr. Ueorge Barbour) to take ; place at Knutsford on Friday the 22nd inst. No effort to obtain a reprieve has yet been spoken of.  A lamentable accident occurred on the river Conway on Monday. Mr. Vick, a Birmingham merchant, was out with two friends shooting wild duck, when the boat struck a sandbank and jerked him aside. His fowlingpiece fell, and tired, and the contents blew off the back part of his head, death being instantaneous.  The attempt to fast forty-two days, which Alexander Jacques commenced at Westminster Aquarium en Saturday, June 21, was brought to a comfit:don on Saturday afternoon. I)urin4 the fast Jacques lost 281 b. 3oz. of his original weight of 1381 b. 20z., or 61h. less than Sued i decreased during his forty days' fast. A collier named French cut his wife's throat on Sunday, at Eekington, near Sheffield. He afterwards escaped from the house, but when the police searched for him they found his body lying on the Midland nailWay with the head almost completely severed from the trunk. The couple had not Evol together for seine time.  The inquest on the two men who were shot dead at Kingsland a few days ago was concluded on Saturday. The jury found that "the deceased died from the mortal effects of a pistol shot fired by Walter Alfred Hargan," which the Coroner entered as a verdict of wilful murder, notwithstandimt that two of the jury protested that a verdict of manslaughter ''or "j ustifiable homicide" ought to have been recorded.  The ceremony of awarding the Dunmow flitch of bacon was revived on Monday in ancient style. The claimants were Mr. and Mrs.. John Hoy, now living at Wood Green. After a mock trial, at which the jury consisted of six spinsters and six bachelors, each of the claimants was awarded a Hitch. They were then chaired and carried shoulder high to a stage eroded in a field, where, kneeling on sharp stones, they took the ancient oath. An official statement announces that order has been completely restored in the Argentine Republic, General Rivas, the Salvadorian general, whose treachery was reported on Saturday. was, it appears, captirred a few miles from the city of San Salvador, On Friday and publicly slant, his body being afterward* exposed in the Plaza d'Annas. The seige of the city is said to have lasted forty hours, and a hundred persons were shot dead in the streets.  Whilst a cricket match was in progress at Aldershot camp on Saturday afternoon a thunderstorm broke, and a flash of lightning struck a tree against which several soldiers were leaning watching the game. Private Sangord, Ist Liverpool Regiment, was killed on the spot. Pnvates Evans and Burns. also of the Liverpool Regiment, were badly injured, and now he in a critical condition. Three other men of the King's Royal Rifles were also conveyed to the hospital suffering from the effects of the shock. The American courts have just decided upon the succession to the estate of Mr. Thomas Blythe, who died intestate in San Francisco in 1883, leaving property worth 4.000,000 dollars. One hundred and ninetyseven claimants sought this prize along 22 lines of descent. Among the number were the English families of Williams and Savage, and some Scotch gipsies, who traced Blythe's ancestry to Sir Walter Scott's Jean Gordon. The judgment awards the bulk of the property to Florence, a natural (laughter of the deceased. i She s to have in San Francisco a realty producing a rental of 11,000 dollars a month, 80,000 acres of land in Southern California, 360,000 acres in Mexico. the undivided three-quarters of another territory of 1,100,000 acres in 'Mexico, and mines in Arizona. Florence was born at 10, St. Charles-street, London, in 1873, and has been educated by her grandparents. The next-of-kin are decided to be a family named Williams living in Liverpool.