Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1890-05-23 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  CHOLERA is reported to have broken out in a village near Bagdad. MAJOR Wisannann continues to make progress without much fighting. A POPULAR outbreak is reported from the State of Grand du Sol, Brazil, due to discontent with recent banking laws. A LADY while walking along the North Pier at West Hartlepool on Saturday afternoon, waa blown into the sea and drowned.  IT ii now known that twenty-eight miners were entombed in the mine at Ashley, Pennsylvania. The disaster resulted from an explosion. Twacvs persons were injured—one seriously—in an accident on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway near Ardwick station, on Monday. Two young ladies were drowned in the Thames near Reading on Sunday evening by the capsizing of their boat.  A DISAMItOre explosion of gunpowder took place in a store at Havana on Saturday. Thirty-four dead bodies have been already recovered from the wrecked building, and it is believed that others atill lie buried under the ruins. TH2 schooner Brett capsized a Nine-mile Point, Kingston, Lake Ontario, on Sunday during a gale, and the crew of eight men were drowned. FRANCES Maria Berry, aged 41, wfie of a Lindley wire drawer, committed suicide by drowning hereelf in the reservoir. Deceased has been very despondent lately, through disappointment at being excluded from benefit under a will. AN irad,,•, it is announced, has been named authorising Mr. .1. R. Pilling, a Lancashire gentleman, to construct a railway from Damascus to Acre, with branches.  INroamaTiON has been received that on the 7th ult. the Rev. Mr. Large, English Methodist missionary in Tokio, Japan, was brutally murdered in his own house. His wife was also shamefully maltreated, having several fingers cut off. Only one of the seven assassins was captured. A VARY ER, with his wife and son, have been murdered in their beds—by robbers it is believed—at Bentleysville, Pennsylvania. IT is stated that Lord Rosebery having definitely decided to withdraw from the chairmanship of the London County Council, Sir John Lubbock will be nominated as his successor, and Sir Thomas Ferrer as vice-chairman.  TIMPERANCII principles flourish in Poona, where, at • provincial conference recently held, a proposal was submitted—and actually obtained several votes—that tha Government should be requested to declare the use ef alcohol an offence punishable by imprisonment and whipping. Sia Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, while driving in a cab on Sunday near Sydney was thrown out of the vehicle. His leg was broken above the ankle. A MAN who fell out of • window in New York came in contact with some alectriodighting wires, and was killed by the current. EIGHTHIIII valuable horses Were burned to death at Plymouth on Saturday night in • fire at Messrs. Yeo Bros'. stables.  Tits Russian Ambassador at Constantinople has made • fresh demand for payment of war indemnity due.  GENERAL Boulanger has dissolved what he calls the National Committee. HU desire is to be face to face with his supporters. A BOILER explosion on board a vessel at Marseilles has resulted in three deaths and injuries to four persons. Lori Hartington, in giving evidence in favour of Cork and Waterford Railway, stated that the Duke of Devonshire had spent £320,000 on railways in the South of Ireland.  A cum) of the Mayor of Banutaple has been scalded to death in a tub of hot water. The nurse, it 4 alleged, had put in boiling water for a bath, and had left the room to fetch some cold water, and in the interval the child stepped into the tub. She died in a few hours.  ON the arrival of the five o'clock train from Belfast in Dublin on Saturday afternoon a young gentleman about 30 years of age, supposed to be a Mr. Pinkerton, at Belfast, was found dead in a first-class compartment, having shot himself with • revolver which was found lying by his side.