Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-05-05 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MES,FIS.Caura, the lessees of the new Theatre Royal, Bristol, were lately presented with .£lOO, subscribed by friends to indemnify them for the cost they had been put to in defending the action brought against them at the late assizes to recover damages for an assault committed upon an occupant of the gallery by a man employed by Messrs.Chuto to preserve order in that part of the house. The jury at the trial were of opinion that an assault had been committed, and awarded the plaintiff £:10 damages, which, with the coals, fell heavily upon the lessees. . „ . . '  EARLY in the mornings fire was discovered at Albert Mill, belonging to Mmcm. Green and Son, Blackburn, by a police constable. The building was two storeys high. Before the flames could be eubilued by the police and volunteer fire brigades the premises were gutted. The damage is estimated at E7OOO, covered by insurance. The origin of the outbrmk is unknown. The principal member of the firm is ex-Meyer of Darwen. AN instance of the manner in which extraordinary charges are sometimes made has occurred at Coventry. A man, in a breathless state of excitement, called at the police-offite, and repo ted to the in pector on duty that the home of Mr. Baynes, in Camden.street, had been en tered, and theta servant girl had been brutally assaulted and left for dead. The police hastily promede I to the house indicated, and found that the girl had recovered sufficiently to make a statement. She mid that whilst she was alone in the house a tall, dark man opened the back door and walked into the kitchen. He seined a hammer, and with this weapon dealt hers blow upon the head, which rendered he liven ible. Ev c tually she reluctantly admitted that she had concocted the story from beginning to end THERE was considerable excitement recently at  Eastbourne on the receipt of a telegram to the effect 'that the bill for the new railway to the town had been rejected by the Committee of the House of Commons. Local opinion on the matter, however, is much divi :el. THOMAS SOUTHWICK, ironworker, Rowley, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for breaking into Cradley-heath rolice-station, and assaulting Constable Tytherley. At eleven o'clock at night the prisoner, and a man not in custody, broke open the door of the county police-station ani' assaulted Tytherley and his wife in a disgraceful mannner. The prisoner was drunk, and was so violent as to !leak the bolt from the doom. A aux Boox has been issued, furnishing returne of accidents and casualties reported by the several railway companies in the United Kingdom to the Board of Trade during 1882. The total number of personal accidents on the lines and on the premises of the cone. posies resulted in the deaths of 1163, and injuries to 8968 ; in 1881 there were 1096 killed and 4571 injured. Accidents to trains, rolling stock, permanent way, Sc., caused the death 01 40 persons and injury to 957. In one instance a woman in a house at the side of the line was struck, and severely injured, by splinters of a broken comecting rod on a passing engine. During the year 34 horses, 63 beasts and cows, 162 sheep, one donkey, and 15 hounds were run over and killed. Sixty-two persons committed suicide on railways. Of persons in the employ of the companies 533 were killed and 2423 were injured, ADDHES,ING a large assemblage at Clitheroe, the Rev. Father Terry, of Stonyhsrst College, and of the Government expedition to Ma Toga-car to observe the transit of Venus, said nothing or nest to nothing was known of the results of the varions expeditions of 1882, but he might state that he thought the r salts of both the 1874 and 1882 expeditions we .Id show that the distance of the earth from the one would not be very far off the distance previously known. _  • AN important application was recently made to the Northop magistrates, by Mr. Roper, solicitor, regarding the storage of about 20,000 lb. of dynamite. The application was made on behalf of Mr. James George Tneford, and it was explained to the justiew that Mr. Tuxford was desirous of constructing a macsnine in which to store the explosive. Dynamite was exten.ively need by mine owners, and the consideration which operated with them was whether it would not be safer to bring the explozive round to some port in the Dee, and discharge it near a magazine, than to bring it in such quantities in open carts all the way from Portmadoc, where it now lay. Plans showing the magazine to be eituated in a ravine 112 yards from the high rend, were pat in. The magistrates fully discusied the matter, and expressed an opinion that it would be safe to construct the magazine, and granted the order.  THIS will (dated October 12, 1,82), with a codicil (dated October 19, following of Louis Blanc, otherwiae Jean Joseph Louis Blanc, late of :04, Rue de Rivoli, Faris, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, who died on December 6 last, at Cannes, hue been proved in London by Alfred Hedouin and Charles Edmond, the executors, the value of the personal estate in England exceeding £9OOO. The testator appointa 41. Tattiot, Comptroller of the Gobelins, his universal legatee, subject to numerous legacies, pecuniary and specific., se, eral being to English friends, and including 20,094. to the institution for abanloned children; all his books,excepting three specifically b^gueathed to the library of the Fifth District, for which he was deputy; and the property in his works with the rights of authorship stipulated in the agreements with various editors, and his manuscripts, letters, and papers to M. Bedouin. AT the recent Liverpool Assizes, before Mr, Justice Kay, .13111e9 Hurling, mill manager, and John William Copstick, oaerlooher, were channd with unlawfully and maliciously setting fire to the Cookridge Silk Mills, Horsforth. At the 1a.4 Leeds Assi ea Mr. J. H. Charnley, the proprietor of the mills which were destroyed by fire in July, 1881, sued the Scottish Union and Mutual Insurance Companies upon the policies of insurance. The defence net up by the companies was, that Mr. Charuley had set fire to the mills, but the jury awarded him about £20,000, the amount of damage caused by the fire. In the ,ourse of that trial Holing stated that be and Capstiek Oct fire to the buildings at the instigation of Mr. Charnley,who contemplated giving up business, and going to America. On being placed in the dock, Hurling pleaded guilty, and gave evidence against the other prisoner. In crws-examination he stated that he had entered into an agreement with the insurance companies, who offered to give him £2OOO on his producing the nece.saary evidence to show that the companies could not be held liable on the policies. Caplaic+ was acluitted without a stain on hie character. Hurling was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.