The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-11-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE LOSS OF THE VICTOETA.  The Lont,on corresl,ond.nt of the fiirmia In Post writes: I am assured that the result , iiivest,gation by the Collation, ion D, partment of the Admiralty into the causes which led i 0 the Victoria disaster is of an ominous character. Tee result may not altogether hear out the coot tithe of sir Etward Reed that tho peculiar construction of all the vessels of the Victoria class ren iri• them, in case of coneussion. liable to at once cal siz . but the admisions all point this mo.al. The repot as to the investiga•inu—which is being kept sem.. t—has in.'uced a desire for a more authot it ative Investigation by the most emini nt eicie r .1, in wife,' '.in . schools Of cavil constructors ehould be repits  The Brazilian insurgents have purchased, at New York, a large quantity of dynamite tor a lhin. torpedo, of a new model. to b, mounted on board the insurgent vessel El (id. At Hertford. Conneoticut. on Saturday, the American champion bicyclist, Zimmerman, taking a flying start, covered a quarter of a mile in 25se, This beats all previous records. The suicide by poison is reporteel of a young Englialunan named Decker, who killed himself at the place of his employment in NeW York. He was 24 years of age, and bad been ten years in that country.  About hall-past 11 nu Monday morning a report was beard proceeding from the crypts or vaults under the Lont:on tluiltUiall. Clouds of smoke or steam issued from the gratings at the rear; and for a time it was thought that an attempt had beau made to blow the place up by dynamite. Some gentlemen who were passim immediately proceeded to the vaults, arid, joined by Borne workmen on the way, found the place full of steam and wreckage. • large boiler connected with the heating apparatus of the Council Chamber had burst, doing much damage to the engines and fittings of the vault; lqd it did not appear that therm was any structural damage. Mrs. Moleswreth's new Christmas story, whirls is to be called -Mary," will be i 54:4:1 fry Messrs. Macmi ion and Co. Mr. Leslie Brooke has provided the illustrations A one-volume novel, entitled "Richard, Lrld Stratten„" by Mr. E tweed El. Cooper. Socre•ary of lie Irish Unionist Alban..., will ehurtly be published by Me,sra. Namibian and Co.  Sir H^rbert Maxwell's "Lite an Times of the Right Hon William henry Smr h. Ml' ," is announced as 0.. ,of books f..rtlicomi ,g early in November. The publiab re are Means Blacktr...od and bons.  La consequence n' the rhsciosures made in Inc course a the trial of usurer* awl gamblers in Hanover, the K nperor issuing string nt injunctions against games ol hazard being Playel by dicers of the Gerinan army. A telegram has been i -ceived in Paris from General Dodds, dated froin Zaganado. on the River Out me, a former entrenched camp of King Bohanzin, announcing his intention of following un Vie King to his present camp. 'Pao other columns will march parallel with the tierteral's force. The despatim adds that the sanitary com.ition if the troops is good, and that the floods are going down. Outward manifeatations.—"l thong.. t I raw Vickers come in just now." "Yes; he is in yinn:er writing a love letter." "Fi'm! How do you know that ma what he is writing! " Well, a iran wouldn't be grinnivg and winking one eye every minute or so it he were writing a business communication, would he?"  Wife. "Don't forget to order a peek of pob.loPq, some beefsteak, and pepper, and eggs, and cocoanut, and lemons, and piekleg " Husband: "All right, dear, I'll remember." Wife: "And, oh, you I want a pound of did.," Huat,and: Well you'll have to write tI t down foe me, for you know I Can't remember ea."