The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1895-06-05 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

CHIPS OF NEWS.  AT HOME. Gammon Farm, Romney, Kent, has been totally destroyed by fire. The damage is estiMated at several thousand pounds. A young man named Coffield, of Westcombe Park has died at Bromley, Hospital from injuries received through being thrown from his bicycle 'While descending a hill. •It has been resolved at Edinburgh to institute a Highlander's memorial to the late Professor Blackie in the form of a Celtic scholarship, for 'Which a sum of £3,000 is required. Dlrs. Maybrick has within the last few days iffibeeU visited at Woking Convict Prison, where e has been under detention since her conviction. She is in the hospital in a very weak state Of health. , Two men were buried by the falling roof of a ,_ourning cottage at Hitcham, near Bury St. 41Iniunds, on Saturday. One was extricated *live, but died on the way home. The other Vas burnt to death in sight of the villagers. At the Kent Assizes Mr. Justice Grantham sentenced Thomas Higgins to three years' penal tServitude for obtaining 31b. of meat by false etences at Mailing, while John King, for stab„lig Henry Jones at Marden, was sentenced to 4ix months' imprisonment. iverpool is gradually becoming as much a netWays of raili as London. A new railway n tinection with the under river line and the I_;heihire side of the Mersey is said to serve maei!bout a m take around of people whose business n in and around the city. The death is announced of Mr. Granville LoveGower, an alderman of the Surrey County Beeen,ell, and chairman of the Godstone Petty 1868,1°,118. He was born in 1838, and married in b_4• oophia, youngest daughter of Baron Leigh. .....s represented Reigate in the Liberal interest in 1883-6. ZsidThe Right Hon. Sir James Bacon died at his h rence, Kensington Gardens-terrace, on Satur-8: aimpriling. Deceased, who was aged 97, had ‘.‘ numerous important judicial positions, and tlas a member of the Privy Council. He was i:Dointed Vice-Chancellor in 1870, resigning Dat office in 1888. uri ever ng a severe thunderstorm which passed b North hi Staffordshire a man named James Vas 'enton as killed instantaneously as he sat by pen hifiresineare in a cottage at Baddeley Edge, near th.", . Stoke-on-Trent. His wife, who was in ndhree, Ins at the time, was dazed for a few Zn'e, but escaped from the house unhurt. 47suicide has taken place, under sad clir-I;:tances, at Croy•don IN-road, Anerley, of r. sec . chard Bowden, aged 50, formerly private tile-r4ry to the late Sir Morell Mackenzie. At fBo4nnuest the evidence shewed that death was di-eis Prussia acid, and the jury returned a vetof suicide while of unsound mind. vervio men, David Collins and George Hoath, eons Ina/ring excavaticns at the Charing-cross movaleacent Home, Limpsfield-common, when ine:t four tons of earth gave way, burying the tea • Assistance was obtained, and Hoath was Coicilled alive, but 10 minutes elapsed before he eseapuld be reached, and he was found to The G • clear, runsby Ice Company's smacks Chantiken, and La Dawn, each carrying a crew of live the 1.181,a,ve not been heard of since the gale off that t,'n ult., and it is now considered certain 1048 „"eY have gone down with all hands. This Bitt'ei..,ether with that of the steam fleeter Gtin;Z and crew and others make a total of 24 42 A thl fishermen drowned in the gale: interesting arclueological discovery has just R,e`nute Inade at Britton Farm, Wingham, near Vitn : 134,17. A field was being deeply cultivated the s.- steam plough when there were brought to celebrte is The strface Roman bricks, tiles, glass, flints, &c. about half a mile north-west from the Roman bath that as uncovered in illage in 1881. reas_crev steamer Perth, of Glasgow, 395 4ons Dorijr,„lor Middlesborough, and the schooner early' Oil London, were in collision off Margatevessel sank, tril Sunday morning. The latter the steaLltne crew being saved by climbing over Perth er s bows from the fore-rigging. The hoe." had her bows stove in above the water ,;:i c s attendi The eßoard of Trade inquiry into the circumGvl,asgt., and three lives after collision with the ding the loss of the Swansea tug conofnwd.aleimer Severn, off off Mumbles, has been th_ _ ~.. The 6eVern '''' court found that the master of ithmealing wit:, in default, but refrained : from. ere /Ilion I,„.."'B,,cortificate on the ground that theslaefrvrsea-13 pon--t:teve:een contributory negligence wati ' at Portsmouth on Saturday talg at. Southws:arnan , Was found dead in her bednamed Charlotte Cooper, 6,--41,, laid out r tisbiellillads foldedeadanyd to ohebre pfalacceedtiienda coup!! O n, with folded bolic t4r, the bed was a bottle containing carand by the side of the bed was a slip I.let fr`Z„,,in the deceased's handwriting to one of 4th -`rs• In it she wrote: " My only dread TI: - aln not taking enough poison." 'rrivedstearaer Fulham, from Buenos Ayres, 411(1re-1304 d t Gravesend on Saturday afternoon, a Voy rte that cholera had occurred on the 1,11'4 en. „tne third engineer was attacked on die.ne c•;'"'", but w convalescent on arrival. ct-rneeter Was taken w ken ill on April 20th, and all char red subsequently, but "ighWte daYs later. Four other cases, each of tee.„,. acter, occur luediezered. The vessel was, by order of the °Luicer, detained for disinfection.