The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-04-28 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

ACCIDENT ON.THE MIDLAND' RAILIVA.Y. .912 Sunday morning, between twelve sad one o'clock; an accident occurred at Milton station, about seven miles from Bedford, on the Midland railway. A. goods. train for London by some means had several waggons thrown off the line, and they were (+numbed to pieces, and their coo tents thrown in all direeticns, blocking up both-lines for about hour hours. The train leaviniii Manchester for Landon at 10.35 p.m co Saturdsy nii bad to pull up near the epee of the ariaideet; and hay& its passengers, af her some delay, transferred to another F train further on the line, from vhence they we sent forward to their destination. 'rho train, aunts •• ing the Pullman slreepierg., air; left Loudoo at its urn aft hour, midnight, but was kept waiting near Bedford for about four hours. The night was intensely dark, MAW added much to tly; Lateen, 4 )hoeccosrenisei ..,, lja f_i - - '  WESTON, THE ,A4IEftEW IVR)PaTIC44( 'NOTtiit..N.'_ _ _ • On Saturday, Mr. Weston, the American pe3 ?stria.; made his hist appearance before en acre /fur g opearground at the treat triage trinket field .Nottiug. Jam, the task undertaken being to walk 55 ailes iulè hours without a rest. The time was frlus ag,wei, „ion seven. As in all preceding ca. s,rthe judze s *ere Members of the local press. At ti.e appointed time Weston stepped off in full dress, and made more t Ima fivi,mil before eight o'clock. Though the wattle f 'Wag very ddl the pedestrian went over about five n Iles every hoer, apparently much enjoying the open all , At about bilaf past five 52 miles had been complet ea, and being 'I advance of time, be turned round “na,,arsiked backwords (the first time in England) half a mi m in eight minutes, , and then coming to the front aga, A walked rapidlytol the.cLsse, finishing at gravid spee I 'his a miles in 11, hours lad 23 minutei. Putting 0. a tits coat sad hat. be ' seized a cornet, and leading the b wed' round the ground, played the solos of" Borne, swei A thfroe," and The last rose of slimmer," and was cheer, 41,0 the esti°. He was not in the least fatigued. • •  A c anference on the f'fith inst. the morning pifolic- hour w as moved Watkin  intemperance _ _  CONFERENCE ON INTEMPER, nce was held rastatinat— 'uttivo 'for int t w, 4 favour Resolutions war.- -' it of ins.- (vacating th 4 vi fide  bon4  , and in fa\ • were  kno  t  final  merioan  UNION 01, THIC An engineer of to the Geogre cable report ui Niding maintai  low t  trot ing ;4ter, oceurred: in been  • desola n. p 0 w re of th P  ..ra, and a smaller cutting from that Black Sea. The water of the latter, NC  to the Lich is fifteen  cut a deep and. broad channel for itself, and refl.l the Caspian toilts old level, giving, In fifty years, ot,r sight (mom ocorara anication between tlke Mediterraabenrand Persia. The distance between the Black Se i and the  4441-4te .c.juirou Tyr refilling might be reductid one-half by a out connecting the Don and the Volga, so that the waters of ooth rivers. instead of those of the Volga only, might fall into the Caspian. Mr. Spalding calculates that the two cuttings ruiglis,,,ie flnifhed io,sif.yearb, lbut says nothing of,theapense, ivlnot infert, however, be reduced by the employment of convicts and the penal .regirnentain the ariny,=,,Loe.rgelOr. , Ct-arci'g German named Meier Frankenbacher has committed suicide from ona4, f4e. pagikele. Piling between Itondon 11.-3cr naniburg. Deceased was a prisoner being conveyed to Germany to take his trial for fraudulent lawilcrattoy. naive' itliabitaa of Siresburg, Ind having incurred debts to the amount of 100,000 francs, had fled to England. His extradition was demanded, and at(thw.tinie.ha committed suicide he was in the custody of Detective Sergeant Tan -Pornow, of Sootland yard. They had embarked safely at London, and as is customary, except when a prisoner is at all violent, Herr Fraukenbacher had peifect.. liberty to walk, -About the desk. On a sudden, be 'seized the opportunity of not being 'watched to jump overboa'rd. The vessel was immeiiately stopped, but it, was in vain that any attempt was made to save him. His body was recovered after about thirty minutes, but -of course life was exiinct. His son was on board at the time, and was in great distress. The Secretary of State's order to...Detectivesergeant Van Tarnow is curiously' ebtichet in _ _  these words, "to convey the body or, &i"  The body  recovered I;as )wen conveyed by; that officer to Ger-ma.ly, and so this order has been literally complied 'with. During. deceased's examipation a London 49,1 'cried viry frequently, and exhibited Symntoms of a very weak mind, co 2iplainizig al illness and not being properly attended to at I he prison.; Sir Thomas Henry, at. the request of his solicitor, M. Goldberg, always allowing him to be c mveyed to and fro in a cab. A " Hpfganakups "At STA 3LBOVL•-•-• W&Ill yesterdayrank ih Peta ofyrrespondant of a 'London contemporary, writing op the lithokpopuisr demon'ion at Stambotif. A crowd of women, wives,  Amitemporeii.,, stri.ion at Stambotit. daughters, or mothers of working men and of minor functionaries of the State, followed at a reasonable distance by their men, invaded the Porte, or Ministerial offices, the extensive plain wooden bu,ildin,gs of which are open to, ail comers, and sang out their complaints in a. rather Btoro4 chords, to. the effect that "•their) men received no Wares " that there was " no bread Tor themselvegtor their Chtlren," and that their condition ' • becohie. t ble.  had uneadJable.. From the Porte the fetsidinemob proceeded to the Seraskierat,the barralitfigtepalece. in a spacious open square in the centre of r the clty, where the Horse Guards and the War I Office are quartered, and there the vociferation was repeated. A similar assemblage beset at the same time, without, however, affecting an entrance, the gates - • Palace of Chose- - the sum residence ,"