The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1891-10-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BRIEF. labourer at the railway works neer flalstearg eromrsitted suicide by putting a d3rnamlte cadto into ins month and then lighting it. Ilia heed blown into small fragments. 0 men were badly burnt on the battleelsip st Portsmouth, on Friday week, by an Clot coal gas in one of the coal shafts, which altered with naked lights. At a bullfight on Sunday afternoon at Nimes is toreadors were wounded. Two of them were nerds and the other a Frenchman. The bull ,d one of them with his horns against the en•  IP. na try big  Are. The hultare is announced in the London Bank-4,1 Court of Hugh Ferguson, of Berkeley et, London. The liabilities exceed £26,000. made his fortune in America by ranching s few  ago. I tragic termination to an idyll is reported from le SauMier, in the Jura. A youthful gardener, soured of his neighbour's daughter, attempted clamber rip to her balcony, but the night was and Juliet, taking Romeo to be a burglar, „aa a revolver and shot him dead. to well have Mr Bradlaugh's friend and edaers subscribed that only about 0240, it appears, c' ,now required to meet Mr Bradlaugh's liabilities. pie sum of £l,OBO has been contributed to the ilionidation fund." The " Edna Drill" fund has up to £709, and the sale of Mr Bracllaugh's sty has so far yielded £550. Tim river Parrett and its tributaries overflowed Sunday, flooding thousands of acres of land in nersetshire, and drowning numbers of cattle sheep. Hundreds of hayricks in fields adjointhe river are under water, arid the Great iestern branch line between Yeovil and Dungen si many places submerged. Mr David McLachlan (29), moulder, drank • entity of lanthanum in his house at 32, Dale,..ek Glasgow, last Saturday evening, and died Ascot inirmaliately. On the fly-leaf of a book was retten the following :—" Farewell, mother, sister, sd brother. I have drank laudanum. Good OK and never call me.—Yours truly." Archbishop O'Callaghan is again seriously ill. as grace is slaying in the English Convent of inning Siners, situated in the Via Spoma al los. Archbishop O'Callaghan was appointed wimp of llexham and Newcastle on the demise of litewicke, but resigned after twelve months' tilscopacy owing to ill-health. He was formerly sesiient of the Irish College in Rome. The police have discovered in Kieff a clandesmenufactory for forging bank notes of ten and Sue roubles. Forged notes representing large of money and imitating real ones with slush ction as to deceive the most experienced eye seised. It has been ascertained that the for. who have been arrested, managed to circulate large number of these forged notes abroad. Active opposition has been started against the astern of smuggling English-made clothing late he Verb. The Merchant Tailors' Society slime ' clothing valued sit 450,000 dohs, is annually geed. The Treasury has accordingly detailed ' .special agent to watch and restrict all ordinary revellers to five new suite. Under certain con:diens some travellers may bring ten new suits free !duty. At the Mailing (Kent) Petty Sessions on Monday Goodayle, a fruiterer, of Royaish, was I of • brutal assault on a girl named aged seven years. The child entered defenit's ground, and picked up two or three plums. rdefenlant knocked the child down, then tied tea tree, and afterwards allowed his deg to her for nearly half an hour.—The Bench .e defendant £5 and costs. A serious explosion of gas occurred in the charge of the District Police Station in Nottingham vs last Saturday. There was an extensive of gas during the night, and the explosion very violent, blowing off a portion of the roof I shattering the doors and windows. Two poliee cers, named Stepheseon and Richards, who were duty at the time, were injured, and were veto the Hospital. The event ceased condo alarm in the neighbourhood. The heaviest earthquake recorded in Napa, Cali.- took place on Sunday night at half-past I he people rushed into the streets in their dresses, chimneys fell, and walls were red. The Masonic Temple, a large well. structure, fell in ruins. The walls of the I Insane Asylum cracked, and the inmates for a time uncontrollable. The shock lasted seconds. A telegram from San Francisco .its a similar shock there on Sunday night. . Catholic priest called thee or two ago on two lathes aged respectively 76 and 77, who lived - at Brighton, and receiving no response he ed admittance through the window, and found elder lily lying dead on the kitchen stones, only an under garment on. The other lady / lyin g unconscious at the foot of the stairs. It isopposed that the latter fell down stairs and the fiber die while trying to attend to her.—A jury in Saturday returned a verdict on the deceased linen of " Found dead." The detailed survey authorised by the Binningv Corporation for obtaining a supply of water the rivers Elan and Claerwen, in Mid-Wales, been completed. Mr Mansergh, the engineer, submitted estimates showing that five lines of Irvin he sufficient to give a daily supply of 10,030 gallons, and he estimates the cost of the instalment at £3,340,000,vand of the future in. - to meet the growth and demand at _ The cost of local works is estimated £