Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-08-22 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

FREE METHODIST. DRIFFIELD—Sunday, 10-all and 0-o, Rev 11 Kellett.  An inquest was held on Monnay at riasuar Hovital, ori Ihe body of Francis IVhceltr, S, set. man, of Her Majesty's ship Victory. Deceased was admitted to the institution as a lunatic, and on Saturday he nearly severed his head from his body with a large carving knife. The jury found a verdict of suicide during temporary insanity. Charles Cray, a footman in the service of Mr. W. Massey-Mainwaring, M.P., was thrown from his master's carriage near Addison•road Station in a collision between the vehicle and a railway delivery van. Miss Massey-Mainwaring, who was driving, and another lady in the carriage, were also thrown out, but escaped with no further injury than some bruises.  A West Hartlepool telegram states that a fatal boating accident occurred on Monday afternoon at the mouth of the Tees, a sailing boat containing three men being capsized in the surf. Two brothers named Kirby, belonging to 'Middlesbrough, were saved by a boat from Seaton Carew, but the third man, whos.- limit, is not yet known, was drowned. The steam-hip lklaristow, Captain l'roctor, on a voyage from Vassal to Libau with salt, put into Plymouth and reported that when about 20 miles north-east of Ushant on Sunday morning, two dead bodies were passed, but owing to the very strong wind that was blowing it was impossible to pick them up. It is believed that the bodies were thosr of two of the persons who were drowned from the Drummond Castle.  A telegram from t. Etienne states that an accident occurred at the Pompe Mine, through the carelessness of the engine-driver in charge of th. winding machinery. A number of men were descending the shaft, and the driver forgot te slow down as the cage approached the bottom, tin consequence being that the cage crashed against the woodwork, the miners being violently thrown against the sides and receiving serious injuries. A burglary was committed during Sunday night on the premises of the World's Fair Wax worl. Exhibition, Dublin. All the automatic inact.ine• were broken open and the money removed. Th. safe in a private office successfully resisted tb. attempts of the burglars, but all the valuable port able property was removed from the waxworl. room. The coat which had covered the effigy o' Charles Stuart Parnell was stolen, and the figure placed in a pugilistic attitude. Figures of Bismarck, Lady Dunlo, and others were smashed. On Monday morning a man, about 36 years of age, was found lying on the buttress of Victoria. Bridge, Battersea. A steam tug had to be requisitioned, and with great difficulty he was loweret; into the vessel and conveyed to Pimlico Pier. At that time he was breathing, and every effort Wa male to restore him. Blood, however, was flowing from the nose and ears, and he was conveyed in an unconscious condition to the hospitaL The police who were called in searched the clothing of the injured man, but were unable to obtain any clue as to his identity. During the excavations of Freiherr Hiller von Osertringen, on the Greek island of Thera, several sculptures and inscriptions were found in the Gymnasium; but of particular historical importance is the discovery of a letter written by King Ptolemy Euergetes of Egypt, dated the eighteenth year of his reign (we.. 224 In this document the King assigns to the mercenaries, comprising the garrison on the island, the revenues of certain veeified domains in order that they may be able to defray "the expenses for sacrifices and anointing. oil."  ler-`OE-"WVP;st.',..  Ak A  flow shall we Save Life?  and how shall we prevent Infectious Disease entering the Home?  By the use of