The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1895-05-01 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

CHIPS OF NEWS.  AT HOME. An immense blast of rock took place on Saturday at Lord Penrhyn's Bethesda Slate Quarries, about 200,000 tons of rock being dislodged. The force of the blasting was felt many miles distant.  Mrs. Pardoe, wife • of an innkeeper at, Worcester, was found in the River Severn on Saturday with her two-year-old infant clasped to her breast. Both were dead. Isio doubt is felt that she committed suicide.  The Rev. Dr. Jesson, rector of Scarning, near East Dereham, who is well-known in literary and scientific circles, has been appointed by the Bishop of Norwich, an hon. canon of Norwich Cathedral, in the place of Canon Everard, deceased.  , The Lambton steamer Lady Eleanor, while on a voyage from Sunderland to Aberdeen, collided on Friday night near the Longstone with the passenger steamer lona, from Leith to London, and sank in a few minutes, the chief engineer and two others of the crew being drowned.  At the Old Bailey James Slater, aged 42, a labourer, was indicted for publishing certain scandalous and defamatory libels concerning Baron de Worms, stating that the Baron was his father. After evidence had been taken, prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to 18 months' hard labour.  Whilst proceeding to Manor Park Cemetery along the Bow-road a funeral hearse and carriage combined suddenly turned completely over when opposite Bow Church. The driver, with the coffin, was pitched into the road, and five ladies were with difficulty extricated, apparently not seriously hurt. The Lord Mayor went to Bexhill in state on Saturday, and opened the new municipal buildings there. The Lord Mayor and Lady Renals were the guests of Lord Cantelupe. Great enthusiasm was displayed on the occasion and the route followed by the procession was lined with venetian masts.  James Stephens was arrested about nine o'clock on Friday morning for an alleged assault on his niece; charged at West Ham Policecourt soon after ten; by 11 o'clock he was handed over to the Quarter Sessions; and at noon the grand jury threw out the bill, and the accused was discharged. At St. Mark's church, North Audley-street, on Saturday afternoon, at the marriage of Mr. Theodore Brinckman with Mrs. Linton, a great sensation was caused by Father Black publicly protesting against the marriage, on the ground that the bridegroom was a divorced man. The ceremony, however, proceeded. Frank Sanders, 29, of Exmouth, was, on Saturday, at Christchurch, Paignton, to have been married to Miss Tancock. All preparations were made,when the expectant bride learnt that Sanders had, on the eve -of his marriage-day, been found dead in bed at his lodgings. A Bible and Prayer-book were found by his side.  Robert William Calwell, a middle-aged man, who is said to be well connected, was charged on remand at Bow-street with stealing valuable books from the National Liberal Club. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and said he had lost all his money. Mr. Lushington committed him for trial, a previous conviction being proved. On Sunday morning Mrs. Verse'', wife of a master plumber at Lowestoft, in a fit of mental aberration, jumped from her bedroom window to the ground, a distance of 201 t. Both legs were fractured. She was severely bruised and otherwise injured. She was conveyed to the hospital, where she lies in a precarious state.  Lord Moncrieff died at his Edinburgh residence ou Saturday evening, at the age of 84 years, the cause of death being attributed to failure of the heart's action. The deceased, who was the second son of Sir James Wellwood Moncrieff, of Tulliebole, Kinrosg-shire, was created a baronet in 1871, and baron in the peerage of the United Kingdom three years later. Six shoe hands have been sentenced at the Northampton Divisional Police-court to two months' and three shoe hands to one month's imprisonment for a brutal attack upon three constables at Harding. It appears they attacked the police, who were in plain clothes, with thick sticks, and badly knocked about one constable. The chairman said that the assault was moat brutal.  A woman came into Lambeth police-court--a small urchin at her side, who stood on tiptoe in vain to peep over the top of the witness-box. "He's quite beyond control," said the woman, despairingly; "he won't go to school, he stops out at nights, and he goes on dreadful!" "How old is he?" inquired Mr. Denman. "Eight." "Eight! Why, he hardly looks four. Go about your business and look after him." Eleven bookmakers and their clerks have been remanded at Oldham, charged with stealing £5OO from Abraham Milne, a butcher, of Crompton. Prosecutor won a large sum of money on the City and Suburban, and was fined next day for being drunk and incapable. Whilst intoxicated he lost a great deal of money, of which the police have recovered £270. One of the accused said that he knew who had taken the money still missing. Painful excitement was occasioned at St. Mary's Cemetery, Kensal Green, on Saturday, owing to a grave prepared for common interment being suddenly flooded in consequence of heavy rain. No fewer than eight bodies had to be left in the church until Monday afternoon. Some of the undertakers had a very trying time in explaining matters to the mourners, and it was only on viewing the flooded grave that the distressed people could be prevailed upon to leave the coffins in the church. The body of a young man named William Ryder nas been found in the Derwent, near Malton. Ryder, who followed the employment of a waggoner, mysteriously disappeared at the beginning of February, and in spite of a strict search no trace of him could be found. The place where the body was discovered had been thoroughly searched by the police in consequence of rumours of foul play, but no evidence in support is obtainable. The affair remains enshrouded in mystery. At Marlborough-street, on Saturday, Wilhelm Julius, 21, an Austrian, describing himself as a singer, and giving an address which proved to be false, was charged, on remand, with being an idle and disorderly person, found in female clothing frequenting Regent-street and Waterlooplace. When the prisoner was in the dock on the first occasion he was attired as a fashionably - dressed woman. • Now, however, he had, changed his head-gear, being without his hat and wig, while short hair was growing on his lip and chin. In reply to the magistrate Detective Grimsdale stated that he had been to the addresses given by the prisoner, and found that at all of them persons of the vilest character lived. Mr. Newton ordered Julius to find two sureties in £5O to keep the peace for three months, or in default to undergo three months' imprisonment.