The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-07-29 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ACCIDENTS AND CRIME.  TAE Cunard steamer "Bothnia," which arrived at Queenstown in Saturday, report; that when in midocean, on the passage from New York, the ship's chief baker, Edward Allcock, was observed to go on deck, and walk to the forwarl part of the vessel, whence he disappeared. Whether he committed suicide or fell overboard accidentally was not known.  A LEAMINGTON man named Moulton struck a woman named Clarke. with whom he had lived, and dislocated her jaw. The magistrates did not regard his defence—that she knocked a pipe out of his mouth as adequate, but called him an inhuman monster, and sent him to gaol for two months. FOURTEEN sailors belonging to her Majesty's ship' Goshawk" have been 'drowned at Port Royal, Jamaica.  THREE fatal colliery accilents arc reported from the neighbourhood of Dowlais.—The first was at the Rho Glas Colliery, where a man named William Mu; ray, while pushing a load of coal towards the screen was overtaken by another truck,and crushed to death.—The second was at Nantywen Colliery, in which a ton of stone fell upon a collier named Ebenezer Powell, killing him on the spot.—The third was at Dowlais, where a labourer named Jenkins met his death in a similar manner. All the deceased were married men with families. JOHN CABBIN, private of the 4th Cheshire Rifle Volunteers, lies in Ashton Infirmary, suffering from a bullet wound, inflicted while acting as marksman. Cabbin was in the mantelet, when a bullet struck the top, bored its way through the woodwork, and penetrated Cabbiu's cheek-bone. It then took a downward course in the direction of the throat. Surgeon Hopwood was summoned, but failed to extract the bullet, which has terribly smashed the poor fellow's face, and be lies in a very critical condition.  THE execution of the prisoner King, convicted at the Dorset Assizes for the murder of Alderman Hamilton at Poole, is fixed to take place on Tuesday, the 3rd of August, at Dorchester Gaol. Efforts are being made to obtain a reprieve. WAITE, the man who was convicted at Manchester for the murder of his wife, at Bacup, has been respited during her Majesty's pleasure. GEORGE WILLIAM GREGORY, surgeon-dentist, practising at Shrewsbury, has been sentenced to two mouths' imprisonment with hard labour, without the option of a fine, for brutally ill-using his wife. The evidence showed that the defendant had violently thrashed her with a dog whip and caused large sores upon her back and shoulders; also that he had been in the habit of ill-treating her and of refusing her money with which to buy food and clothes for the past twelve months. The sentence was received with applause by a crowded court. Ox Saturday an inquest was held at Lostock, near Northwich, on the body of a boy named Jones, aged six years, the son of a farm bailiff, who, several weeks ago, while trespass!ng, was severely bitten by a dog. Ths wound healed up under medical treatmeat, but in about a fortnight symptoms of hydrophobia set in, and the deceased died in great agony. . _  AT a place near Youghal five cows have been killed by lightning. There were forty cows in the field, and two of those killed were grazing close to the fence, against which they fell, and were found in a standing position, their limbs having become quite rigid. Where the lightning struck the ground it was much torn up. A FAMILY named Cripps, residing on a farm near Rochford, Essex, were poisoned on Saturday through partaking of pudding in which vermin killer" had been used in mistake for baking powder. The mother, who made the fatal pudding, died on Sunday morning, but the husband, son, and servant, although suffering terribly from the effects of the poison, are expected to recover. Ma. W. J. SWEET, who had been an inspector at the Swindon Station, on the Great Western Railway, for eleven years, whilst superintending the departure of the up mail train early on Sunday morning, dropped down dead on the platform. An inquest was held on Monday morning, and a verdict of death from apoplexy was returned by the jury. Deceased was well known to the travelling public.  . , 4. , 4 .1. . • , ' 4  _