The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-06-06 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

HOME. Garetnen Prign b$ Botnney, Kent, has been tcaally Ern The damage is estimated at =dfatielliarid pounds. Xa • man Immed Colloid, el Wertcombe Park has t isoalay Hospital from injuries received bobs Want front his bicycle while denial. It bin bun meolved at Edinburgh to institute a Highlander's memorial to the late Professor Mackie In the form of a Celtic scholarship, for which a sum of £3,000 is required. Mrs. Maybrlek has within the last few days been visited at Woldng Convict Prison, where she has been under detention since her conviction. She is In the hospital in a very weak state of health. Two 132611 were buried by the falling roof of a burning cottage at Bitcham, near Bury St. Edmunds, on Saturday. One was extricated alive, but died on the way home. The other was burnt to death In sight of the villagers. - - - - • -- - • -  At the Kent Assizes Mr. Justice Grantham sentenced Thomas Higgins to three years penal servitude for obtaining 31b. of meat by false preien es at Mailing, while John King, for stabbing Henry Jones at Maiden, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. _  Liverpool is gradually becoming an much a network of railways as London. A new railway in connection with the under river line and the Cheshire side of the Mersey is said to serve about a million of people whose business take them in and around the city. A serious pit accident occurred in Fifeshire last week. A fire broke out in one of the pits of the Fifeehire Main Collieries while a number of nien were at work. Two miners were killed and ieven fearfully injured. The pithead and the shaft wcie completely destroyed.  _ At the Wlltshus Assizes, at Salisbury, on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams, William Gime/ 38, schoolmaster, was indicted for several offences under the Criminal Law Amendment Act. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment whh bard labour.  The death is announced of Mr. Granville LevesonCiower, an alderman of the Surrey County Council, and chairman of the Godstone Petty Seasions. He was born in 1838, and married in 1881 &tibia, youngest daughter of Baron Leigh. He represented Reigate in the Liberal interest in 1883•8. The Right Hon. Sir James Bacon died at his residence, Kensington Gardens - terrace, on Saturday morning. Deceased, who was aged 97, had held numerous importart judicial positions, and was a member of the Privy Council. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor in 1870, resigning that office in 1888. During a severe thunderstorm which passed over North Staffordshire a man named James Fenton was killed instantaneously as he sat by his fireside in a cottage at Baddeley Edge, near Milton, Stokeon-Trent. His wife, who was in the room .at the time,- was dazed for a few minutes, but escaped from the house unhurt.  The suicide has taken place, under sad circumstances, at Croydon-road, Anerley, of Mr. John Richard Bowden, aged 50, formerly private secretary to the late Sir Morell Mackenzie. At the inquest the evidence shewed that death was from prussic acid, and the jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.  Two men, David Collirus and George !loath, were making excavaticns at the Charing-cross Convalescent Home, Limpsfield-common, when about four tons of earth gave way, burying the men. Assistance was obtained, and Hoath was rescued alive, but 10 minutes elapsed before Collins could be reached, and he was found to be dead.  The Grimsby Ice Company's stracks Chanticleer and La Dawn each carrying a crew of five men, have not been heard of since the gale of the 16th ult., and it is now considered certain that they have gone down with all hands. This loss, tcgether with that of the steam fleeter Bittern and crew and others, make a total of 24 Grimsby fishermen drowned in the gale.  An interesting archaeological discovery has just been made at Britton Farm, Bingham, near Canterbury. A field was being deeply cultivated with a steam plough when there were brought to the surface Roman bricks, tiles, glass, flints, &c. The site is about half a mile north-west from the celebrated Roman bath that was uncovered in that village in 1881.  The screw steamer Perth, of Glasgow, 395 tons register, for Middlesborough, and the schooner Doric, of London, were in collision off Margate early on Sunday morning. The latter veseel sank, the crew being saved by climbing over the steamer's bows from the fore-rigging. The Perth had her bows stove in above the water line. The Board of Trade inquiry into the circumstances attending the loss of the Swansea tug Wasp and three lives, after collision with the Glagow steamer Severn, off Mumbles, has been concluded. The court found that the master of the Severn was in default, but refrained from dealing with his certificate on the ground that there might have been contributory negligence by the Wasp.  _ lt was reported at Portemouth on Saturday .that • servant woman named Charlotte Cooper, living at Southees, was found dead in her bedroom, laid out • to be placed in a coin, with her hands folded _ .  and her face tied up. On a table near the bed was a bottle containing carbolic acid, and by the side of the bed was a slip of paper in the deceased's handwriting to one of her friends. In it she wrote: "My only dread is that I am not taking enough poison." The steamer Fulham, from Buenos Ayres, arrived at Gravesend on Saturday afternoon, and reported that cholera had occurred on the voyage. The third engineer vras attacked an April 28th, but was convalescent on arrival. The carpenter was taken ill on April 20th, and died two days later. Four other cases, each of a slight character, occurred subsequently, but all recovered. The vessel was, by order of the medical officer, detained for disinfection.