The Warwickshire Herald. — 1890-07-10 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SENTENCES ON HUSBAND POISONERS. The Amite Court of Mitrovitza, in Hungary, hem oonoluded de trial of the it) peaaantwoinenaersigned  for poisoning their husbands. Your of the prisoners were mentellood to death, one to penal servitude for life, three to 15 years' penal servitude, and two were acquitted. The evidence would have been enough to hang eight out of the 10 in Zugland, for it disclosed that the murderesses sated with the most cold-blooded premeditation; nor were their crimes extenuated in any way by illtreatment received at their husbands' bands. On the contrary, the husbands sewn to have been good fellow& and it does not appear that their wine cherished any strong animosity against them. One of the women said that she killed her husband be souse she bad a neighbour who had poisoned hers. Another meteoroid that her only objectin omninitting murder had been that she might have a little lass work to do. As the Emperor of Austria wryer sieve a death warrant against a woman, those who have been sentenced to the gallows will not be executed.  Elm Scodder, servant, has bare charged at the Glllldford A sei mie with throwing vitriol into'the face of Private Hall, of the Gresad;er Guards, at Woking, She pleaded guilty, and said he had 'wronged her, aud then broken his engagement to marry her. The prisoner bed tried to isumnit suicide more than one,, She wee sentenced to 0 months' imprisontneot. The Fiona. the Brat of the fleet of armed cruiser. built by the Newfoundland Government for the pin, .pses of enforcing the Bait Act, sailed au Thursday night for St. Georire's Bay, carrying the Colonial Secretary end the Speaker of the House of Ammehly who intend to investigate the alleged reneges by the French upon the native fisherman. The Fiona will afterwards patrol the French Mom and attack tree:masers wherever (ousel. The Prince and Primer, of Wales on Monday opened Vauxhall Park. which has an area of about eight acres, and has oust upwards of £43,000. Hie Royal High see. pointed out the great of such open maces and the Mamas. taming them, and expreesed his Kyrie Society, who had done ieu'. securing this park for the public. • A Workington dressmaker named Todd viess'' awarded £125 by a Cumbertaad sheriff's Jury en Monday, in en action for breach of peonies brought &ohms Joseph William Graham, a dames Mama. The defendant's plea, in miti mien of dimmges, was that he bad become p oftfgre"inkiek led hint to fear that blies Todd " ,ffaye ies• herited a tendency toward. Semite." with the utmost diffloulty the men ot the G thetemn, relieving the =ell mutiny oat the &read their = made eir way to their poste. They were aud_groaned itt. and bustled by the mob aseembied in Bowetreet ; but ohOe they had pitied Sheer poste in the Strand they were unmolimt_sd, except for the eolioitations of the was of the B Division at duty, who tried to persuade them that by takieg up thew saw duties they were Waring the ewes of the whole Force. Although by 2 o'er* in the oslstl. crowds which previously had blocked the toaSt in Bowstreet bad, for dm most part, clewed away, there were still many esinaming to wallah any new developmeat the =Wes of the polies sight take. Outside the stabloshaese there Mm. nemenellr. A profusely illustrated account of remain lily ' ii being prepared at Messrs. Field and Tuer's Leadenhall Prem. The literary matter will be from the pen of Mr. W. J. Loftie, to whom the 'maple, Street.. traffic, buildings, and records of the City will afford • congenial if not a novel theme • while the illuetrations. 250 is comber will reproduced from drawings by Mr. William Luker, jun. Me Literary Digest (Funk and Wegnall.) is an socoinplielmd fact, and readmit of its 28 paps (weekly) are seemed that they have presented to them a condenestion of the beet literary preductione of the day from all parts of Europe and America in whatever form they mity originally appear. The daily journals are as well tormented is its summanes se the mote antbitaoste periodicals and reviews. • Meer& Maansillap sodas wit/shortly Mane, in a oanyeeient volume: the abort trestles en Gassers! Ornithology and Meld Ornithology which were prellited to Dr. RUM Osten "key to the North America& Birds." The matter has beim carefully revised, and it is hoped that is this more scomeibM form it will rove of greet value to the ever.inemasing number of andeste 01 this faminating brume *instead history. •  war.