Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1890-08-22 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  A FATAL accident occurred at St. Petersburg on Saturday in the Nevski Prospect, where a scaffold of a six-storied house in course of construction gave way and precipitated to the ground the men who were working upon it. Eight workmen were killed on the spot. Tug form of oath binding on the Mohammedan conscience Is to make the Koran rest on the head while the oath is administered. But if the Koran is skilfully held just above the head the form is not valid and the oath not binding. THE idea, generally current, that death, following on di.sease, most frequently occurs during the early hours of morning. has been proved by a recent investigation to be erroneous. IT is estimated that there are 4,000,000 Methodists in the United States.  ON Saturday great public rejoicings took place at Ossett to commemorate the incorporation of the diArict as a munioipal borough. LW population of the United States has increased by 30 per cent, during the past decade, the present total being returned as 64,000,000. THR heavy rainfall of last Friday and Saturday is reported to have done incalculable damage to the torn crops in North-East Yorkthire._  A cotouggli man named Joseph Denney, alias George Adolphus Gordon, is in custody at Prinoetown chaiged with breaking into Dartmouth Prison and threatening to burn down the place. Tug Manchester police have arrested the father of the two young children who were poisoned at Antwick on Monday last by eating portions of a rice pudding in which arsenic was afterwards discovered. A TEHRIBLI affair occurred at the village of Conicborough, near Doncaster, on F.aturday, when a young man named Jesse Hoye fired four shots from a revolver at his landlady, a woman named Rebecca Beckett, causing her grievous injury. Hoye afterwards committed suicide.  Tux death is announced of Lord Justice Nod* one of the Irish Judges. Saviour. bathing accidents occurred in aeons parts of the North of Ireland on Monday. Two persons were drowned.  DAvis Dalton, the American back swimmer, who left Boulogne on Sunday evening to swim across the Channel, landed on Folkestone Beach on Monday afternoon. He had been 2.3 i hours in the water. SAII rim Harrison, &Jewish slipper-maker, of Leeds, who was sentenced to death at the Leeds Amizes for the murder of his wife, has been reprieved on the ground of insanity. Tin barque Hanna, of Liverpool, ham been struck by an iceberg in the Atlantic, end much damaged. THE Paperrnakers' Association has resolved that every effort shall be made to prevent the carrying out of the proposed formation of a Chemical Union. ONLY rue fresh outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia occurred in Lancashire last week, and the total number of infected premises is now 37. A COLLISION is reported from Geneva, on the JuraSimplon railway, resulting in injury to fifteen persons. A TICKET collector, named Frank Harrington, while ejecting Henry Stringer from& railway carriage in Southend railway station, on Tueeday evening, was struck mon the head by Stringer, and died immediately afterwards. THE committee of the Servian Progreesist party having dined together at Topola, they were afterwards taken ill and were found to have been poisoned. The poisoning is believed to be due to political motives.  THE chipping strike is rapidly extending in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, and it is expected that shipping will soon be almost completely stopped. A HEAVILY laden coach overturned at ICirkstone Pass, in the Lake district, on Tuesday. A lady and child were killed and several people injured.