Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1895-10-26 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  The Countess of Clanearty gave birth to a son on Saturday.... _ _  As M. Wm. Johnston, M.P., and his wife were driving at Downpatrick on Saturday the horse bolted, and the occupants of the carriage were both thrown heavily to the ground. The injuries they. instained were but slight. A summary has been issued of accidents and casualties reported to the Board of Trade as having )ccurred upon the railways in the United Kingdom luring the six months ending June last. The total lumber killed was 478, and 1895 injured. Of those killed, 34 were passengers, and 221 servants of the )ompany. Compared with the corresponding period in 1894, the figures show a decrease of 57 in the number killed, and an increase of 47 of those injured.  An inquest was held at Hove on Monday on the body of Henry Fowle, aged about 44, identified as solicitor of Manchester. Deceased was found in the sea on Saturday morning. Among the things found on the body were a pocket-book, containing s railway season-ticket, and a registered letter. An open verdict was recorded. A young married woman named Atkinson, of Gillingham, near Chatham, died on Monday from poisoning by carbolic acid. It is believed that she committed suicide, a bottle and glass that had contained the poison being found by her side. An interesting licensing case was decided at Eastbourne on Monday. The owners, captains, and crews of two pleasure yachts were summoned for selling beer to passengers without a license. The offence was committed last July, and it was stated that it had been going on for 15 years before being detected by the Excise authorities. The defendants, who pleaded ignorance of the law, were under the impression that they could sell liquor three miles from land. The Magistrates impost(' a nominal fine of 10s. each. On Monday, at Ennistymon (county Clare), Michael Duff and his son Dennis were again brought before the Magistrate, charged on suspicion with being concerned in the death of the elder prisoner's wife. The District Inspector of Police now stated that nothing further had transpired to connect the accused with the woman's death, and they were accordingly discharged. As James Burt, a sigudi 'llan at Tongham Station, Surrey, was riding on a waggon whilst assisting in shunting, he was caught by another truck near some points, and so badly crushed that he died on the way to the hospital at Guildford. Deceased, who was married and had a family, had been in the South-Western Company's service 24 years. At an inquest held at Birmingham on Monday, on the body of Samuel Egerton, a miner, employed at the Coppice Colliery, evidence showed the deceased to have been peculiarly unfortunate, inasmuch as 16 months ago he sustained a fracture of the spine which kept him away from work for 11 months ; and on the 24th ultimo, after he had removed a tree in the workings, an immense body of the roof fell upon him and fractured his spine again. It was further shown that deceased had been wanting in caution. A verdict of accidental death was returned.  At Kidderminster, on MondaY, a coroner's jury investigated the somewhat curious death of a bricklayer named Haddock, who was engaged to repair retorts at the gas works. These repairs, it was stated, could he safely done, as the retorts were well ventilated. Deceased, however, on entering, one, became unconscious and died, and a surgeon expressed the opinion that there must have been a small cavity in which gas was confined, and that Haddock, in removing coke, released the gas. The jury, in returning a verdict of accidental death, made certain recommendations for preventing accidents in future.  At the Leeds Quarter Sessions on Monday William Henry Brooke, aged 52, until lately cashier in the Leeds office of the Yorkshire Banking Company, pleaded guilty to a charge of falsifying his accounts, and was sentcnced to six months' imprisonment. The original charge of forgery was abandoned. Brooke's total defalcations amounted, it is stated, to over 0,000  At the Margate Borough Quarter Sessions on Monday, before the Recorder, Richard Henry Williamson, formerly in the service of Messrs. Virtue and Co., was indicted for obtaining money inder false pretences from Mr. Walter Bourne, by  ndertakini to supply him with six portfolios c;f lebrated etchings, for which he paid one guinea  ~ach, but which Tie did not recei;e. The Money was not returned. The prisoner was sentenced to five months' hard labour. Henry Bowen, a horsebreaker, was summoned A Hereford, on Monday, for cruelty to a horse by docking its tail. Mr. R. F. Colam, barrister, who prosecuted on behalf of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said the late Lord Chief Justice laid it down that inflicting unnecessary cruelty upon animals for the sake of fashion or appearance was cruelty within the meaning of the Act. He therefore asked the Bench to express an opinion to that effect. The tail of the horse had been docked with shears and seared with a hot iron. Hemorrhage and suppuration were caused, and it was stated that this would not have been the case had a veterinary surgeon performed the operation. The defendant said the owner asked him to dock the horse's tail because it was crooked. The Bench inflicted a fine of 10s. and costs, but declined to express an opinion.