Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-04-22 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

VIZIPS OF NEWS.  HOME.  The Board of Th:4le have awarded their bronze medal for saving life a‘t sea and a sum of El to ratrick McGraw and Ban.ard McGraw, beachmen of Dundrum, county Down, for. rescuing George Redmond, whose boat was Capsized on the bar of Dundrum on the 28th ult.  A new fort to strengthen the defences of the Thames and Mersey has now been completed at Barton's Point, off Sheerness. The fort will be armed with two nine-inch and two six-inch breech-, loading guns, which will command the channels leading from the North Sea into both rivers. Mrs. Ernest Hart, the founder of the Donegal Industrial Fund, sailed on Saturday for Chicago, to meet the large party of her trained peasant workers whom she has despatched to occupy the Donegal village which she has erected under a special concession in the grounds of the World's Fair. Lord Egerton of Tatton has presented to the Dean of Manchester four silver cups for use in the Cathedral, bearing the date 1620, and recently exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Lord Egerton expresses his desire that they shall be dedicated to the memory of the late Lady Egerton of Tatton.  Mr. John Thomas Elston, formerly a large farmer, of Thorney, Cambs, shot himself at Peterborough on Sunday night. His sister attended church in the evening, and upon returnMg home found him lying in a pool of blood. His hand was on a pistol, which had been inserted in his mouth. Mr. Elston was 58 years of age.  The railway companies associated in the working of the East Coast route between England and Scotland, following the example of the London and North-Western and Caledonian Companies, announce the withdrawal of second-class carriages and fares between stations in Eneland and stations in Scotland from May Ist.  A sad fatality occurred on Monday on the river Cart, near Renfrew. It being Paisley spring holiday, a large numbPr of excursionists visited the ancient burgh. Four boys hired a boat and went for a row on the river. Their boat was upset and threl of the boys were drowned, the fourth managing to save himself by clinging to the boat.  The ancient windmill on Wimbledon Common is about to undergo thorough repair. The Wimbledon and Putney Commons Conservators have resolved to spend between £2OO and £3OO over the work, and the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club have made the offer of a liberal contribution towards the cost, which has been accepted by the Conservators. Adam John Eves, a constable stationed at Purleigh, Essex, was murdered on Saturday night or Sunday. He was found on Sunday evening at 5 o'clock in a field. At a short distance were discovered two sacks of corn which had been stolen, and the theory of the police is that the thieves, on being accosted by Eves, an energetic police officer, murdered him.  A little boy named Fletcher, 11 years of age, the son of a police-constable at Boston, has attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. The boy had been misconducting himself on Saturday,and he was sent to bed without his dinner. Shortly afterwards he was found by his elder brother lying on the bed with his throat cut. He was removed to the hospital. Maurice Read, who went out to the Cape at Christmas as companion to George Lehmann, has now returned home. He reports that Lohmann has benefited very much by the dry air of South Africa, and a private letter from Lehmann confirms the favourable news. Lohmann sails for England on May 24th, but whether he will venture to play cricket this year is an open question. •• The Lord Mayor announces that he has opened a fund at the Mansion House for the relief of the widows, orphans, and dependent relatives of the miners who were killed in the recent calamitous fire at the Great Western Colliery at Pontypridd. It is estimated that between £lO,OOO and £12,000 will require to be raised to provide the usual weekly allowances for the bereaved and distressed families. On Monday morning, as the 7 o'clock train from Liverpool-street was travelling between Chelmsford and Hatfield Peverel, it knocked down an aged widow named Root, who was crossing the line, and cut her to pieces. The train was stopped for a few . .  minutes, and the passengers were ho'r;ified at the sight which met their gaze. The deceased's son, who is a platelayer on the line, witnessed the accident.  Early on Monday morning a fire broke out at ast eating-house in High-street, Homerton. Some alarm was at first felt for the safety of the occupants, but they were all got out before the fire had attained serious proportions. When the fire brigade arrived on the scene the house was well ablaze, but in half an hour, by dint of strenuous exertions, the fire was got under. The house, however, was nearly burned out. The appeal of Lord Hastings against his conviction, at a Metropolitan Police-court, for impropei behaviour to a nurse-girl in Regent's Park, came before the magistrates at Clerkenwell•on Saturday. The Duke of Portland, Mr. Justice Hawkins, and other gentlemen gave the appellant a high character; and Sir P. Edlin, in quashing the conviction, said the magistrates were unanimously ot opinion that the appellant had established his innocence. A coroner's jury on Saturday returned a verdict of wilful murder against John Sims, 60, a laboures at Water Eaton, near Cricklade, Wilts. The evidence shewed that the prisoner on the previous morning went for a walk with a child named Joseph Lamfear, and that a few minutes afterwards the man returned, saying he had cut off its head and placed it by the roadside—a statement which was found to be correct. No motive is assigned for the crime. The prisoner, who had borne an excellent character, was brought before the magistrate at Swindon, and was remanded.