Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1908-08-29 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  A tire broke out in the Stamboul quarter of Constantinople on Sunday. Nagy lives were hat, and 10.000 persons made homeleefl. The military authorities of the United States are just now devoting special attenuou to lb,' question of airehip navigation.  On Tuesday. • woman named Louisa Dowling. Wife of a confectioner. went to a police station in Leeds. and said that she had murdered her son. On the police going to the house they found the boy lying dead with his throat cut. A mysterious tragady occurred at Beveooalio on Monday afternoon. Mrs. Mood, wife of Major General Lugo& was found dead, having been k...ed by a shot from a revolver. Robbery appeared to be the motive of the murder. Three men have been alarmed at Enfield With conspiring to defraud the Revenue by means of diluted beer.  Mrs. Mary King. or Lou*, Lines., will shortly enter chi her 103rd year .  The old tramway between Kilburn Collieries and fault, Es toi, Whith we,: laid down as king ago as 1795, has just bein closed. Extensive military manceuvres have been in Progreis on Salisbury Plain during the past few days. During the past year, the Corporation tram cars in Sheffieid carried 77.50ga46 liamongers an aggregate distance of 7.065,,380 mum. Highwaymen held up a stage coach near Cody, Wyoming, on Tutsdag, gag relieved the Ipassengers of 1.5 O) dollars.  The Registrar-General reports the annual rate oi tnortalay us the 76 great towns of knip land and 'dales last week averaged 11-7.  The village of Ancy. near Lorraine, wag fired on by mistake by German Dragoons during exercises. .one child waa wounded. Several bullets were collected and takes to the military authorities as proof.  Considerable damage was done be a fire which broke out on Tuesday evening in a large forage barn near the supply depot of the Army Beni.° Corps Barracks. Aldershot. The occupants of the adjacent married quarters had to leave their quarters. The barns and contents were almost totally consumed. Thomas Brindle. aged 27. was attending an electric welding machine at a Bolton works on Saturday. when he suddenly colapsed and A.. 5 taken to the infirmary. where be died insmediately.  A Dudley liceimed victualler named Walter Williams, who had only been married four months, committed suicide under tragic circumstances, at Rowley, on Sunday alight. Among half-a-dozen passive resisters at Hornsey, on Tuesday. was a man who objected to pay rates until there was a legal reduction of the IS Pe Oa of motor-cars on the highway. Visitors to Dovedale on Saturday had an opportunity of seeing a fine specimen of the golden eagle, which several times during tine 'day war observed hovering in the air at a ,point between Thorpe village and the !mak Walton Rotel. The populace of Tangier has received .ho proclamation of !filial nand as Sultan with great rojeking.  The report of the Army Meaktal Department for 1907 stater that. speahiug generally. the health of the troope at Swine and abroad was exceptionally good. At Aberdeen, Herbert Ewooil, ehaffeur to the Prime Minister, woe tined £5 for driving a motor-car near Balloter at au excessive speed on August 12, the day of the Queen's arrival at. Balmoral. Mr. Asquith wag; 110 t in the ear.  According to a Consular report, the unemployed in Copenhagen have found occupation In rat-killing, the number of rodents erter• minated reaching