Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1899-08-11 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  The steamer Pointer, while bouna down tlie Clyde for Liverpool, oollided with an open bed off the Cloch lighthouse. Two lives were lost. The Russian "Official Messenger" publisbes e communique declaring that the results of the Peace Con ferencelhave fully come up to the exped. ations of the Government.  A man was killed on Thursday night at th• corner of Leipeic Road, Camberwell. He was knocked off a cart, one of the wheels of which passed over his neck.  _ Having formed a rope by tearing his shirt into strips, a Liverpool man, known as "Dockerty the Barber," hanged himself from a hot-water pipe in a cell at the Harrogate Police-station. Alderman Thomas Layton, a Croydon borough magistrate and deputy of the Ward of Cornhill, has been found dead in bed at his house at Addiscombe. He was seventy years of age.  Nearly the whole of the -western part of Grodne, the seeend town in importance in Lithuania, has been reduced to ashes. The damage done by the lire is enormous.  Syed Ali, the only son of the Sultan of Zanzibar, who is being educated at Harrow, was recently presented to the Marquis of Salisbury by Sir Arthur Hardinge, H.M. Commissioner at Zanzibar.  About two-thirds of the town of Carrabelle, in Florida, was destroyed by a storm of wind and rain the other night, and considerable damage was also done at other places in that section of this State.  The Scarborough Board of Guardians have recently been the recipients of a pianoforte from • South Cliff lady and her pupils for the entertainments at the workhouse. The gift was cordially acknowledged.  _ In the hearing of the application of the Postmen's Federation for an early train on the North London line, the company urged that that was the only interval they had to repair the way, and the matter was adjourned. Thomas Aitchison, a constable, was remanded recently at Newcastle-on-Tyne on a charge of having caused the death of Isabella Wilkinson. The woman was in custody, and it is alleged that the constable kicked her and caused her death.  Apparently the statement that Lieutenant Boismann, Aide-de-Camp to the late Grand Duke George, had shot himself, is unfounded. The lieutenant, it is said, has been appointed Aide-deCamp to the Czar. At Brighton a coroner's jury have returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against Charles Newland, who is in custody on the charge of causing the death of his wife by cutting her throat at hia residence in Gladstone Place. The long-expected amendments of the muskatry training scheme for Volunteers were issued from the War Offica recently, and are to become obligatory from the beginning of the next official Volunteer year, on November let.  A farmer of Coventry, Cambridgeshire, named Thomas Lucas, has been committed for trial at Ely for attempting to murder his wife by shooting her in bed, and then trying to commit suicide. The woman's arm had to be amputated.  Brigade Surgeon Lieut. - Colonel Charles Meadows of Lancaster Road, South Norwood Park, his died from injuries received through being accidentally knocked down by a cyclist in itddiscombe Road, East Croydon. Under the will of Mr. J. T. Bunoe, formerly editor slf the Birmingham Daily Past, the gross! value of the estate is returned at £43,568. £lOO is left to the trustees of the Mason College for the foundation of a prize in the English department. Alderman H. R. Taylor, vioe-chairman of the Fire Brigade Committee of the London County Council, lately opened for use the new Lewisham fire station. The new building is situated aboht the middle of High Street, Lewisham.  Hampstead Green, whioh is over an acre extant, and contains some very Brie timber, hai been purchased by • lady for X 7,500, with the object of enabling the vestry and the public to come to some arrangement, if possible, for acquiring the green as an open space.  kight-thonsand perm- one were present at thie funeral of Sir Philip Mantisld at Northampilla Cemetery. The Mayor and Corporation, somepanied by Mr. H. labouchere, MX., the Right Hon. C. R. EiPenaer, and representatives of the Northamptonahire deunty Council, attended the funeral prooession, which wee nearly a mile long.  - . Gertrude Cousins, the little daughter of the blacksmith at Elmsett (Suffolk), was iimusdug herself by looking at her reflection in a four. gallon earthenware pan, which was about two. thirds full of water, when she fell in. When has mother found her she was dead.  The consumption of water in Manchester has reached the high figure of 40,000,000 gallons per day. At a recent meeting of the Waterworks Committee of the Manchester Corporation flee necessity of laying a second pipe to Thirlmere wan discussed. This will supply in additional nun ain gallons daily. ..