Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1908-09-26 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  An Anglo-German agreement bas been ar ranged to combat sleeping sickness in their African posseseions. The Deputy Lord Mayor of Manchester states that the Corporation officials are work. ing night and day to relieve unemployment.  - - The result of the ballot of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers ehows a majority in fa. Your of acceptance of the provisional terme of agreement.  , At the resumed hearing at Torquay of the enee in which a Russian gentleman is charged ' with the attempted murder of a doctor. appli. ' cation wan made for the withdrawal of proneeding. The great lock-out in the Lanci.hire cotton trade is now in operation. Four hundred mills and 140.000 men are idle.  The report of the Prison 'Commissioners shows a further remarkable decline in the number of juvenile offenders. I Over 800 fishermen competed in the Sheffield Anglers Association gala match in the Sil-1 teen Foot river at Stones.  A big Pre at the Paris Telephone Exchange lasted for a very long time. The damage amounta to £600.000.  Practical jokers liberated 22 savage bulls prior to a bull light at kloita. Beven specks. tort were killed and 40 injured. One maw was killed and bhree seriously lured by a fall of roof at Altofts Colliery. near Normanton.  gummonees alleging cruelty to an elephant on the chute at the Ceylon Village of the White City were heard at West London. Majorsaeneral Luard, whose wife was murdered near SevenoaAs on Aug. 24th, committed suicide on Friday morning by throwing him• self under a train at Teflon crossing, near Maidstone  Ilios Violet Asquith, the Premier's daughter, was found lying unconscious on the Miffs at Cruden Bay. A number of serious motor accidents have been reported during the past few days. The death occurred on Monday of darasate, ' the great violinist. The International Conference on Naval War. fare, which was to have begun sittings in London on Oct. lot, is likely to be postponed.  William Joseph James, • gardener who murdered his five-year-old eon a fortnight ago. at Pitsmoor. waa committed for trial at the Leeds Aselaci.  It ia stated that the Admiralty hope to place contracts for six warships before the winter sets in.  A boy of fourteen named Richard Edward Allcoek, of 94, Robert Street. Sheffield. at. tempted to commit suicide by cutting. lila throat with a razor.  , Thirteen men were killed and two mortally wounded by a gun explosion on the French cruiser La Touche Treville.  ' A young Spaniard succeeded in obtaining four thousand pounds' worth of jewellery from ParLs tradesman by false repriwentatlons. The Regi.trar-General report. that the annual rate el mortality in the 76 great towna of England and Walna last week averaged 13.9 I per 1000. The rate in gheMeld Wit. 16.  Al Bow street. a constable of the Metro. Pobtan force was committed for trial on a charge of causing bodily harm to S laboured, who. it was alleged. prisoner knocked down and kicked.  It le etated that a female pauper at Kings Norton luta become entitled to a fortune of 111.000.  An extraordinary mishap at the Central L.C.C. electrical generating station at Greenwich, on Tueeday evening. brougtat to a etandstill for an hour 800 electric trams'. A setusatiou was caused at Griffen's electroplating -works. Birmingham. on Tueeday afternoon, when an employe .named Albert Henry Bennett was electrocuted.  The inquest into the crcutilltances attending the death of Mrs. Luard was concluded at I larntham. The police stated that there was I no further information to lay before the Jury. I who iound a verdict of "wilful murder agalnet I sortie person or persons unknown." Bectitorpe Foundry. near Doncaster. was on Wednesday the scene of a fire which causal 1j.j0.000 damage and robbed 400 workmen of else Iplogmenti I An American barque who wrecked off Meek& and 110 lives lost. At West Bromwioh. James Watkins. a labourer, was remanded. charged with murdering two of his children. In a Blue Book, giving a summary of &cel-1 dents which occuired upon tthe railways in the United Kingdom for three months ending 31st March last. it is stated that 212 Persona were killed and Mlll were injured. It is reported that before Parliament meme next month there will be son* reconstruction of the Cabinet, involving also changes antoth, the subordinate members of the telministra. tins.  Thursday commenced the operation of the old-ago pension scheme. What US believed to , be the first claim for a pension was received by the pensiou officer for Klutiton (Surrey) be the firet post on Wednesday morning. It ono, from a man 78 years of an. who has lived in the borough for many years Alderman Rideal has excepted the invitation to bessome the neat Mayor of Barmier.