The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1887-12-03 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

NEWS.  The Queen' accompanied by Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg and Princess Frederica, arrived at Windsor Castle on Saturday from Balmoral. A Russian Judge of Instruction from Taganrog committed Guicide at Odessa the other evening by throwing himself from the parapet of the Stroganoff. bridge. He expired before reaching the hospital. It is thought that the fact of his having fallen under the suspicion of the police on account of political matters drove him to this rash act. Mr. Barnum's agent, Mr. Slam has, it is stated, practically purchased Wombwell' menagerie, and almost every class of animal lost in the late disastrous fire at Bridgeport, Conn., has been replaced by purchase within tha last few days in this country and on the Continent. The Prince of Wales left 11.11bcrough Home on Saturday afternoon for Sandringham to join the Princess of Wales and her daughters. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and the Marchioness of Londonderry and suite arrived at Belfast from Newtowna.rds, county Down, on Saturday, and the carriage containing the Viceregal party having been attached to the Limited Mail train, they proceeded to Dublin. The tenantry on Sir Choker Barrington's estate, county Limerick, having refused to pay their rents unless &large reduction was conceded, have been served with writs by the landlord. Mr. Gladstone walked through the villege of Hawarden on Saturday morning to attend prayers at the church, and in the afternoon the right hon. gentle• man drove through the park and round Pentrobin, where he inspected the new work that is being done for the new line. _ _ _  Three of the girls who were imprisoned under the Crimes Act at Ballyhaunis on the lUtt of November were released on Saturday, and met with an en bumf astic welcome. They were escorted to their houses by a large number of people, and in the evening bonfires were lighted on the surrounding hills. The Bedfordshire Regiment, having been recently presented with new colours, the old colours of the regiment were deposited in Si. Paul's Church, Bedford, on Saturday afternoon. The ceremony at the church WAS witnessed by a large asiemblage. At Underhill, near Hy the on Saturday morning, Alfred Denise, an independent gentleman, and repre. sentative of an old county family, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Mr. Denne was secretary of the East Kent Hunt, and was leader of the local Conservatives.  Throughout the weatern districts of Perthshire, filmic:see and rain-storm raged with unabated fury early on Saturday morning. House property was damaged, trees uprooted and destroyed, and the Earn and other rivers flooded.  In the hearing of an assault case at Cambridge 13olice.court on Saturday, it came out that a B.A. and an undergraduate of St. John's College have been sent down for being implicated in publisniug the banns of marriage of a college friend with a fictitious lady at 3t. Ciiles'e Church, (Ambridge, as a hoax. The banns were published thrice. Early on Saturday morning an explosion took place at Geneva Colliery, near Crettyard, Queen's county, which is worked by Messrs. Robinson and Co., of Newcastle•on.Tyne. Two men were seriously injured, and were removed to Oastlecomer Infirmary, and a third sustained less serious injuries. .s.c nas neen arranged that Mr: Austin Chamberlain, son of the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, shall be in. troduced to the electors of the Border Burghs at three meetings at Hawick, Galashiels, and Selkirk during January as a Unionist candidate, after which his candi. datnre will be submitted for decision to simultaneous meetings of the Unionist electors. The question of the liability of Under Sheriffs when the High Sheriff dies during his term of office came on Tuesday before the Court of Appeal. In an action from Monmouthshire tried before him last year, the Lord Chief Justice held that the representatives of the deceased High Sheriff were responsible for any default in the matter of executing a writ. This decision was reversed by a Divisional Court, whose judgment was upheld by the Master of the Rolls and Lords Justices Bowen and Fry. The death•rate of London further rose last week to 23 per ,thousand annually. The mortality fr.-,m whooping cough and diseases of the respiratory organs is greatly, above the average. Owing to a wages dispute in the Havana cigar trade, 95 factories have been closed, throwing 12,000 work. people out of employment. Commander Robinson of H.M.S. Active was in a sailing boat in Portsmouth Harbour on Saturday, when the craft was capsized by a sudden gust of wind. The officer and seven other occupants were thrown into the water. A strong tide was running, but, fortunately, the accident was witnessed from the floating bridge, and lifsebuoys were thrown to the men, woo, with one exception, were swimming for the shore. Eventually seven men were rescued, whilst the eighth, a marine, Swam ashore, carrying a letter with which he had been entrusted in his mouth. A sad accident occurred on Saturday morning at West Beton Mine. It is stated that, contrary to the rules, some miners were riding to the surface in the skip used for drawing stuff, when, by some means, they were drawn to the poppet-head. A miner named J. Curnow, of Peapous, married, aged 35 years, was so terribly crushed that his life is despaired of, and two others named Williams and Thomas, of Rosewot thy, were hurt; whilst another, seeing his petil, jumped before the skip got under the he vy sheave, and narrowly escaped falling back down the shaft. The Board of Trade and Trinity House authorities decided on Saturday morning to blow out the masts of the W. A.: Seholten and the ship E. P. Sawyer, which lay in the English Channel off Dover and Sandgate respectively, owing to the extreme danger they cause to navigation. A number of men were accordingly employed on Saturday in dismantling the E. P. Sawyer. Tire notification published in some of the daily news. papers that from December 1 certain concessions for the convey ance of commercial travellerss' luggage will be made by the London aNd North-Western Railway Company, applies to all railways, as it has been adopted by general D4.,,reement.  The Queen has been pleased (says an official announcement in Tuesday's "London Gazette "), by Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland bearing date the 26th just ' to appoint Field Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,