The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1894-05-05 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

OOO.  A shunter named Brooks was killed by a Pulman car at Victoria station on Monday afternoon. A well dressed man committed suicide in the Gaiety .Buffet on Tuesday afternoon. He took poison. The body of a man which wss discovered in one of the Sunderland docks was nearly covered 1 with at ell-fish. The police have raided a sweets shoplin IFriar-street, Reading, and found a number of boys Iplaying banker. _ _  The body of a resiActably-dressed man was recovered frnm the Thames ,on Saturday Amy Blackfriare-bridge,  A 1-Locheste-r- shipwright named Springate was crushed to death on Tuesday by some timber falling upon him. Constable's famous landscape, "The White Horse," was sold in London on Saturday and fetched 6,200 guineas.  Mr. Gladstone continues to progress favourably. and no further bulletin will be issued unless in the ease of a relapse.  Daring the German Emperor's recent stay at Schlitz, where be visited Count Goertz, a friend of his youth, the band at dinner played a song which his Majesty had composed. The Solihull curate's wife, who stabbed her rmsband "in a lit of temper,' was on Tuesday committed for trial, the Bench again refusing to allow the case to be withdrawn.  The appointment of Sir John Rigby, Q. C., M.P., to be Attorney-General, and of Mr. R. T. Reid, Q.C., M.P.' to be Solicitor-General, was officially announced on Tuesday. At the adjourned inquest at Cannock on. Elsie Cotterill, in connection with whose death three young men were arrested, the jury found that death was due to apoplexy. The man, William Martin, who aesailed Sir George Young in a railway carriage between P.addinirton and Maidenhead, has been sent to gaol at Maidenhead for two roonths. In addition to the epidemic of measles, diphtheria has broken out at Rotherhithe, and eight fatal cases are already reported, It is stated that whole streets have been attacked.  Sax Lewis Victor, a Pole, was committed for trial at Slough on Wednesday, charred with wounding Constable Moore, who stopped him in an attempt to return to Eton College,  At Bromley, Kent, on Monday, John Prebble, labourer, was remanded on a charge of stabbing his brother. The injured man was unable to attend, his life being in danger.  Catherine Lane, of Preston, jumped out of bed at half-past five, and hanged herself with a silk handkerchief which he attached to a hook in the ceiling. She had long been of weak mind. The bodies of two men have been taken from the Thames; one was about thirty, with arms tattoed, and had in a pocket a pawnticket in the name of Scott; the other was a man about sixty. Robert Fox, a labourer, who was remanded at Belfast on Wednesday charged with murdering ' his wife, is alleged, tluring ,a quarrel, to have struck her a heavy blow on the head with some weapon.  The street preachers again held their service in Cork on Sunday. They were afforded ample police protection. Disorder was firmly suppressed, and a large force of police escorted the .preachers to their homes.. An Attempted burglary was committed on Monday" morning, at a jeweller's in Rotherhithe. A plate-glass window, guarded by iron rails, was cut and a tray of rings foyeed4out, One man was taken into custody. Huddersfield has lost its troop of Yeomanry Cavalry. lb was disbantlyi ree.ently and on Tuesday evening non.commisslimed irificers and troopers, with friends —a con*any of forty altogether— had a farewell dinner at 021 Zetland Hotel. The cost of the dinner was defrayed out of the "Horse Casualty Fund," which has reached £96 10s. It has been decided to give £5O to Sergeant• Major Hannah, who will now have to return to his regiment, and will not only be put to the expense and trouble of removal, but will lose whatever seniority be might have gained if he had remained with his regiment. The balance is to go to the _Huddersfield Latimer&