The Poole Telegram. — 1886-04-02 (Poole, Dorset, England)

GENERAL ITEMS.  A fatal fire occurred on Saturday night at 38, Lothair-street, Battersea, Mrs. Sarah Roberts receiving such severe burns that she died on Monday morning. The upsetting of a spirit lamp did the mischief. An inquest wal held at Cheltenham Hospital on Friday respecting the death of Mr. George W. Toogod. of Leckhampton. he died from ilijo/108 ncoived thrmgh failing from his horse in the hunting field. The General of the Jesuits haa published the atisties of the Order, showing that it counts 2,500 iiiissionarwe and that it can boast of having had 248 saints, 1,500 martyrs, 13 popes, 60 cardinals, 4,900 archbishops and bishops, and 0,000 authors. Alfred Wain Furness, aged 78, who for a number of years has carried on business as an accountant at Derby, was on Monday morning found suspended by the neck from a beam in the cellar of his residence. No reason is assigned for the apparent suicide. Dr. Clifford, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton, in answer to Questions, says Catholics are free to join the Primrose League or similar associations ef political shades, provided they be equally loyal to the Queen, true to the Constitution, and not opposed to religion or morality. Major Little, of the Bengal Staff Corps, on Friday observed in the Bathampton Canal, at Bath, the body of a young lady whose bonnet and umbrella were found on the towing-path. The body was taken nut, and proved to be that of Miss .Tessie Louisa Hill, who is supposed to have committed suicide. A Glasgow labourer, named M'Clay, and his wife Barbara, received a number of friends on Saturday evening at their house in Welban-street. The comp:my drank to excess, and in the quarrel which ensued the husband is alleged to have killed his wife by knocking her against a chest of drawers. He is in eustody. The eighteen Russians who were bitten by a mad wolf, and have been under M. Pasteur's treatment, Lie progressing favourably. They will probably r-turn to Russia on the 31st inst., with the exception of the Russian Pole, whose upper lip was torn by the wolf, and who will remain in the hands of the surgeon for time longer  'rho Shetland d.,n tor vati ves, who less than a year ago starte I a newspaper in Lerwick to support their pobtical views ore now being sued by the editor of the joartial in qmstion for £l5O, as damages for wrongful dismissal, his services having been summarily dispensed with immediately after the election. Was he dismissed because a Liberal got in? An excise prosecution which created a good deal of interest came before the Nottingham borough magistrates on Friday, wheu Mr. Matthew Minns, a shopkeeper, appeared to answer a summons charging hint with selling "Summer's Botanic Beer," a wellknown beverage, without having a license. As on a previous occasion, the llench dismissed the case, and notice of appeal was given. A novel occurrence has taken place at Araglea, near Fermony. Two bailiffs who were serving writs were seized at one house and compelled to give up the writs in their possession. A crowd having colleeted in the meantime, the bailiffs were compelled, before being released, to eat the writs that remained unserved. Evictions on the estate of the Earl of Kentnare, which recently led to so much disturbance in Kerry, are again to be resumed. Disappointed lovers who determine to vindicate themselves at the adored one's door, are apt to make a mew of it. Not long ago, an Italian Count shot himself, but by no means mortally, on the pavement.: before the .Matteioll 'A an ol•durate, at least to him, millionaire's in Nene York, and was carried away to the hospital • and the young gentleman of Bristol, who oa Wednesday eve hung himself up by his handkerchief to the knocker of his would-be father-in•law's door, was promptly cut down by that hard•hearted gentla.num, who had forbidden him his home, and preening!'" handed over to the police, who conveyed Mtn to the infirmary. I Erresonntwair