The Poole Telegram. — 1883-11-23 (Poole, Dorset, England)

LIEUT.-COLONEL ,JONES, V.C., of Wrexham, was walk. lag along a road in that neighbourhood on Tuesday last accompanied by a collie dog. The latter was attacked by another dog, and the colonel, in his efforts to separate them, was bitten on the leg below the knee. He went into a blacksmith's shop and had the wound cauterized with a red-hot iron, lie afterwards proceeded to towe and placed himself in the hands of his doctor. HENRY THOMPSON, of the firm of Thompson and !Thalwell, solicitors, Liverpool, was charged before the magictrate with misappropriating eecurietiee. So far as has been ascertained, the amount misappropriated is £3,000, but it is expected to prove much larger. The prisoner was remanded for a week, but was admitted to bail.  A GOOD deal of feeling has been aroused at Leicester by • strike of boot and shoe operatives against the employment of Jews in their own homes. 'the unionists have informed the employers that they object to Jews because wherever a Jew is employed a colony of Jews is soon estab• lished, followed by lower wages. Several cases of intimi• dation and violence are reported. FOR first robbing a woman and then throwing her into • pond, two men were on Saturday at the Liverpool Assize sentenced-- one to seven years' penal aervitude and 50 lashes with the "cat," and the other to five years' snd 30 lashes. MR. FREDERICK LEAK, druggist of Walmgate, York, and a member of the City Council, was found hanging by the neck from one of the poets of his bedstead, and quite skied. In ordinary life Mr. Leak was widely known for his genial character, and his ample means placed him beyond all thought of adversity. It is known that occasionally he has labored under fits of depression, and it is stated that he suffered much from one of them a few dap before his death. MR. WILLIAM ISAAC PALMER, a member of the wellknown biscuit firm of Huntley and Palmer, Reading, ham made the munificent contribution of £15,500 towards the cost of the new Town.hall and connected buildings at Reading. This gift is in addition to Mr. Palmer's termer 'donation of £5,500 and to the contribution of £5,000 given by the firm of Messrs. Huntley and Palmer, representing together the sum of 05,000. A TERRIBLE accident happened in the hunting-field on Wednesday to Mrs. Gladwin, of Watton- House, Hertfordshire. She was following the Harts hounds, and in jumping a fence near Stevenage her horse swerved and she lost her seat. In falling her dress caught the pummel of her saddle, and she was dragged a quarter of a mile before the animal she was riding could he stopped, whim it was found that her left arm was fractured, and that she had received a severe scalp wound with concussion of the brain. A YOUR weeks' Gospel temperance mission was concluded in Sheffield on Saturday night. For three weeks the mission was conducted by Mr. It. T. Booth, and the meetings were crowded. 18,510 persons [took the blue ribbon, and 10,240 total abstinence pledges were taken. A TRAIN running last Friday afternoon on the Chicago, Burlington. and Quincy Railroad, near Streator, Illinois halted on the line. It was immediately run into by • goods train following it, the locomotive of which crushed two passenger coaches, killing seven persons, and wound• log nine. A TRAIN on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, near Collinsville, Alabama, was on Thursday night last thrown down the embankment by a broken rail; the coaches rolling completely over. Of 35 passengers, 25 were injured, some fatally. AMONGST the suicides last week was a well-to-do farmer, who had a delusion that he was penniless, and cut his throat with a razor; and an old woman of 72, who hung herself in a fit of despondency. MR. WHEELER, President of the College of Surgeons, is seeing for • thousand guineas, his fees for attending an Irish landlord whose life was attempted. The surgeon had to be attended on his visit by an escort of constabulary. AN