The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1894-06-09 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

HOME.  The Duke of Connaught has, it is stated, abolished the weekly credit system in the ser• geants' messes at Aldershot, which has always seen viost unpopular,  The statue of Queen Anne, erected in 'front of 3t. Paul's Cathedral in 1712, and removed in 1866, has , just been placed in the grounds attached to Holmwood, near Hastings.  At the opening of the Tower Bridge the Royal Navy will be represented by her Majesty's ship Landrail, which bas been ordered to sail from Sheerness for London on the 29th inst.  Thesentence passed o'n Marie Flermann' who on Saturday, at the Central Criminal Court, was found guilty of the manslaughter of Mr. C. A. Stephens, was six years' penal-servitude. The - Rev. John Pyper, of St. Johnston, his teen elected Moderator of the Congregational Union of Ireland for the ensuing year, with the Rev. Jamestreir,an, of Belfast, as: secretary. ' Lieuteuant Forgusson, Quartermaster of the 4th Gloucester Reginlent,.. committed suicide OD llonday morning by shooting himself through the head with a rifle in the regimental camp at Cirencester. • •  Amongst the contributions ta.the jubilee fund of the London Missionary Society, which already exceeds £20,000, is it gift of £l,OOO from the Rev. Robert Dawson and Mrs. Dawson—"the tesult of 40 years' practice of total abstinence." Two platelayers, named William Martin, aged 43, and Thomas White; aged 33, were at work on. Sunday, when they were rim over by a pilot engine and killed in a tunnel on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway near Walton Junction.  In Preston prison John Thomas, 44 years, joiner; of -Damen, undergoinga term of imprisonment, has committed suicide. When • his cell was visited by a warder Thomas was found dead, having strangled himself with an oakum twist.  A singular fatality has occurred to a child at Liverpool named Mabel Roberts, aged 7 years. ' While playing in the street with a toy t003.t, made of tin, she fell, and the sharp point of the mast entered one of her eyes a.nd penetrated the brain. The funeral has just taken pqce of Mr. R. Eimpton, the oldest bookgeller in London, and probably in England, whose, name has been familiar to generations of medical students. He died at the great age of 91 years. He began his business as a bookseller over 50 years ago. A seems prepareX by- Mr.- A. F.-Bowker, engineer to the Mid-Kent Water Company, for lupplying the villages of Ditton., East Mailing, and Larkfield with water has just been carried 1,0, completion. The Works, which included the hying of, about 1 miles of mains, have been 'executed in three months.  The toming agelof Viscount Vilrierg, :eldest ;on of the Earl of Tersey,was publicly celebrated at Briton Ferry on. Saturday. At the request- of Lord Villiers, a sum of nioney which was to have been spent on presentation plate_was davoted, to the entertainment of the aged poor and the Sun. day school .children .et the district.  An old lady named :King, about 80 years of age, was in the W,andle Park Recreation Ground, Croydon on Sunday night, when she suddenly fell to;?the ground. She was picked up and placed on a 'seat, but when a doctor arrived, a few minutes later, he pronounced life extinct. The body was removed to the mortuary.' • ~ So far as the supplies to railway companies are concerned; the efforts, of the trade ring to keep up the price of coal has been abortive. On the liorth*Easterzi Railway line some 700,003 tons of coal are yearly, used. Tenders have just been accepted by the directors for six months' supply at Bs. 9d. a ton, the same as paid in 1892. Two outrages of an alleged agrarian character have been reported to the Co. Antrim. Constabulary. The latest of these is the complete destruction by fire, near Ballymoney, of the extensive premises •of a cattle dealer named Stevenson. Two cows and three pigs were burnt to death. It is alleged that the fire was the work of ax- incendiary. The : other case relates to stabbing to death of two *aluable horses in Moneyglass Demesne, near. Toome. bridge.  The =action ,of ,"Desmond v. Watson" was heard before litr..justice•Flawkins and a. special jury. The plitintift rented,-for a year,. a fusrnishe4. house at Wandsworth!tommori,•from.the. defendant, ,and .discovered,- for the first ,timeri,' as he allegaLon entering, that there were- t‘-‘4 ,rooms (a-museum and a -workshop) kept permanently locked, and-there was a gardener and his:lan-lily living in that Irsement. . He .claimed damages for breach -of agreement.—The jury retUrned verdict for the plaintiff, damages £3O. .