The Blackpool Herald. — 1893-11-10 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

AND FILDE ADVERTISER  JUBILEE NUMBER. BLICEPOOL, FRIDAY, NOV. 10, 1893.  Sir Andrew Clark. the eminent physician, died at his house in London on Monday afternoon.  At the beginning of the new year, it is intended to run steamers direct from Glasgow to Manchester.  Ten persona were drowned in New York Bay on Saturday consequent upon overcrowding a boat.  Two widows are under remand at Northwich charged with the murder of a child belonging to one of them. The appeal of Mr. Wilson, M P., in the libel action with Messrs. Allan Bros. has been dismissed with costs.  For shocking ceuelty tc a donkey atHalifax, a labourer, named Morton, has been sentenced to three months' hard labour.  A hairdresser named Best was on Tuesday given £4OO damages for a libel upon him in the "Hairdressers' Weekly Journal."  The Callander Hydropathic establishment, situated between Callander and the Trossachs, has been destroyed by fire. The Rhondda Valley Conservatives have resolved to oppose the return of Mr. W. Abraham, M.P., at the next election. Winifred Hart (38) fell a distance of 70 feet down the hoist of a Stockport cotton mill on Saturday, and was killed instantaneously. A new institute of Literature, Science and Art, established at a cost of over 172400, was opened at Carlisle on Wednesday by the Mayor.  The last trotting meeting of the season took place on Monday at the Royal Palace Gardens, when some excellent racing was witnessed.  A London solicitor nerned Matthews was suspended on Saturday for four years for charging a client V2OO for the conduct of a Police-court case.  A young woman named Bushbv was shot and killed on Tuesday night at Grimsby by a sailor named Rumbolt. Jealousy was the motive for the crime.  We regret to announce the sudden death on Wednesday afternoon, at Thistletoo, of Mr. W. Pitt Miller, brother of Mr. T. H. 'Miller, of Singleton Park.  The St. Ames Local Board had a lively meeting on Monday evening, as will be gathered from the lenethy report which appears in another column.  A market gardener named Robert Singleton committed suicide in a determined fashion at Blowing Sands, near Marton, on Monday afternoon, hy taking rat poison. Messrs Holland and Callia, solicitors, again came up for public examination at the Blackburn Bankruptcy Coon on Wednesday, but the examination was again adjourned.  At Barrow on Fridsy midnight, George Timms, f Marple-street, was stabbed to de.ith by his eldest son. Henry, who afterwards walked to the police-station and admitted the crime.  Mr. Thomas. Watson, a well-known Lancashire hat rister, entered a hair-dressers' shop in Markat - street, Blackpool, on Wednesday morning, when he suddenly fell and expired. James Smalley was committed for trial at Darwen. on Tuesdry, charged with the manslaughter of his chilii. Medical evidence was to the effect that the child was starved to death.  A Buenos Ayres newspaper declares that 1,100 lives have been lost by the sinking of the Brazilian Government transport Rio Jaiteiro by the insurgent war vessel, the Republica. John Burnham Garrett, who was atated to be the brother-in-law of the Earl of Orkney, was committed fortrial on Saturday at Westminster on the charge of obtaining money by means of worthless cheques.  Two frequent visitors to Blackpool were chosen Mayors of Rossendale borougue yesterday. Mr. Councillor Worswick was • re-elected at Rawtenstall, and Mr. Alderman Disley was elevated to the civic chair at Racup.  The Board of Trade returns show that the imports for October amounted to V 5,356,469, against £34,726 858 in the corresponding month of bist year. Exports for Octoberweve £18,189,792, against £18,725,400 last vvar. An appalling disaster occurred last Friday at Santander. Ave mei laden with dynamite caught fire and exploded, destroying other boats in the harbour, and setting fire to the town. The number of the dead was estimated by thousands, and the town is practically a ruin. Latest reports give ho number of dead as one thousand.  John William Houldsworth, a Heckmordwike manufacturing chemist, ha, been arrested at Capetown on a charge of forging bills for £B,