The Telegram. — 1896-03-17 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

LAST LOOK ROUND.  Mr. Chamberlain is suffering from the effects of overwork.  It is estimated that 100,000 bicycles were sent it of Coventry alone in 1898. Mr. F. R. Jones, registrar of the Huddersfield iounty Court, died on Sunday, aged 81. The crown to be worn by the Clear at his forthcoming coronation is valued at £200,000. Mr. W. E. Wake, registrar of the Sheffield County-court, died at Sheffield on Saturday morning.  Mr. Henry Anacombe, for over 22 yearp sunerintendene at Brighton Railway Station, died on urday.  Lord Dunravee has been unanimously re-ejected President of the Solent Classes Racing Association for the ensuing year. The greater portion of Perthshire was on Saturday enveloped in what is considered to be the heaviest ^now-storm of this season.  Mrs. As homed Bartlett, mother of Sir K Ashnisuld Bartlett, M.P., died suddenly on Saturday at Tunbridge Wells, in her 88th year. At Liverpool, on Saturday, Wills Harper, POliCi.• tor, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude for obtaining money by forgery. Mr. Maxwell, Governor of the Gold Coast, will, it is understood, be rewarded for his part in rrempeh's submission by a knighthood. David Rata, 55, curving on business in the Areade, Cardiff, committed suicide on Friday hy hanktim; himself in a coal shed.  . . Hugh Mlifillan, labourer, who was on remand at Fort William. Gaol for amault, committed enaicide in his cell on Saturday by banging himself with the bed rng.  In recognition of his services as chairman of the Irish Party since 1891, Mr. Jrunin McCarthy, M.P., in to be entertained by his fellow-countrymen in London at a complimentary banquet. Mr. Ballington Booth has named the seceszionist section of the Salvation Army God's American Volnnteers, Mr. Booth sari that all official relations with his father are now at an end. Mr. J. H. Rider, a Bristolian, has obtained the appointment of electrical engineer to the Plymouth Corporation at a salary of £3OO a year, the selection having been made from 40 applicasions. At Liverpool Assize on Saturday, George Golding, aged 32, a cripple, was sentenced to three years' penal servitnde for stabbing Martin Me .DoLongh with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.  John Rypens, who recently murdered and multilated his wife in a suburb of Brussels under circumstances of exceptional barbarity, has corn. mittel suicide at St. Gilles prison, where he was awaiting trial,  It is not often that a pauper in a London workhouse reaches the remarkable afro of 110. Such a case Mu% however been reported from Bethnal Green Workhouse. The old inmate was a Jewess named Mrs. Caroline Levy.,  The match by cable between eight Englishmen and eight Americans which began on Friday afternoon at the Cannon Street Hotel, ended on Saturday night, the result being a victory for the Americans by 44 games to 3. The Yeomany Cavalry force is stated to have improved in sfficiency under the new brigade system. A grant of LI per head is to be given in future for men who qualify in musketry but are unable to attend drill or permanent duty. The sudden death is announced at Devizes of Sergt-111jr. Romani, Royal Engineers, who broke a blood vessel at his mother's futieraL Deceased erected the cros.s provided by the Queen over the grave of the late Prince Imperial iu &Inland.  • - An inquest was held at Cotswold, Thirbistaine Road, Cheltenham, on Friday afternoon, touching the death of Mr. liexbert Gathorne Creek, a member of the Cotswold Hunt, who toes with fatal injuries in the hunting field on Wednesday. Twenty-two of Dr. JO•MC1100'8 troopers left Southampton on Saturday fur South Africa. A number of °dicers attended to bid them good-bye, and as Colonel Abbot left the ship the troopers loudly cheered him, singing For he's a jolly good fellow."  The action for libel breugiit in the Queen's Bench Division by bdr..l. Havelock Wilson, M.P., against she secretary and treasurer of the Free Labourer.' Association. WWI concluded on Saturday, the jury giving a verdicL for the plaintiff with one farthing damages.  According to present indications, the coal miners in Scotland are drifting towards a strike. Already 20,000 men are in idleness ; and it is arstexted that unless the threes to WOOree a reduction of wages is withdrawn, all the workers in the coal trade across the border will cease work. A double suicide under dramatic circumstances occurred at the Bois de IA Cambre (Brunel.), on Saturday afternoon. Two men, who have since been identified as residents of Brussels; shot themselves simultaneously in the presence of many persons seated on neighbouring benches. No motive has been assigned for the act. During the early hours of Sunday niorning thieves entered the premises of the Parisian Diamond Company, situate at the corner of Oxford Street and Bond Street, and made a clean swcep of the place. The value of the stolen good; consisting of high class imitation pearls and diamonds, is £5,000.  The New