Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-10-28 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

FIRE IN THE CITY.  Early on Tuesday morning the firemen at the stre.l station in Holborn were called to a warehouse alight close by, and it was found that a fire was raging at 34, Furnival-street, Holborn, upon the extensive premises owned and tenanted by Messrs. Bourne, Johnson, and Latimer, druggists sundries manufacturers. The building is one of five floors, and the flames had burst out from an unknown cause in the stores at the back of the top floor. The news was telephoned to the district headquarters at Clerkenwell, and three steamers and a manual were at once despatched. Hose was rapidly attached to the highly charged city mains, and although the roof was burning by the time the first deliveries were got to work, the brigade succeeded, after half-an-hour's hard work, in effecting a creditable -stop," and saved the entire warehouse from destruction.  At Pusterthal, in Austria-Hungary, recently, a young woman about 24 years of age, while ascending a mountain, suddenly slipped and rolled down a precipice till stopped by the bough of a tree. In her fall she swooned. On recovering consciousness she saw that the tree was scarcely a yard from the precipice. From loss of blood the girl was so weak that she could not free herself, and in this perilous position she remained for two days and two nights. At length her cries were heard by a shepherd boy in the mountains above, and the half-dead girl was hauled to a place of safety. A blacksmith, named Darley, committed suicide in Liverpool, on Saturday, by hanging himself. It is stated that the man had lost a sovereign, and after searching for it unsuccessfully he threatened that if he could not rind the coin he would commit suicide. Ile appears to have carried out his intention without delay, having strangled himself with his muffler.  An American gentleman, 83 years of age, stopping temporarily in Paris, has just been the victim of a terrible accident. He was paying a visit to a louse in the Avenue Montaigne, and in ascending the staircase he, by a mistake, opened the door of :he elevator shaft, and stepped in. He fell to the bottom. When taken to the hospital it was found that both his arms and legs were broken, and that ne was also suffering from severe internal injuries.  aiounay, at tne Burnley Quarter eit-sione. before Reeorder Shoe, Q.C., a well-connected youth named Catcley, an accountant, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for obtaining weddingrings valued at £45, on the false pretence that he was engaged to the daughter of Alderman Keighley, ea-Mayor of Burnley. Miss Keighley denied the engagement.  Mr. George Edwards, magistrate for the county of Suffolk. residing at Carlton Colville, near Lowestoft, committed suicide on Monday by hanging. He as E 9 years of age. At the inquest it was elicited that although he had been in failing health there were no reasons to suppose that he would take his life. A verdict of suicide during temporary insanity was returned.  J 03,111 Orme, aged 11 years, has died under remarkable circumstances in the Southern Hospital, Liverpool. The lad swallowed a quantity of caustic soda in March last,and was admitted to the institution,where he remained under treatment until April 14th, when he was discharged. He was readmitted on April 25th, and remained until Monday, when he died from stricture of the wsopliagus. The Eiv states that a young lady who is playing a small part in "A Gaiety Girl " at the Prince of Wales's Theatre recently obtained—without mentioning her profession—an engagement to sing in the choir of a church not far from Charing-cross. No sooner, however, was it discovered by the authorities that she was an actress than her engagement was cancelled and she was promptly dismissed.  In the course of an interesting article in the November number of the bonny Man Mr. Hall Caine repeats a good story of Wilkie Collins's. Whilst the novelist was once staying with his mother, a lady-visitor came. This lady said to Collins: "You seem to have made a great success with your villain in • The Woman in White.' I have read the book, I have studied this villain; but he is not half a villain; yut don't know a real villain—you have imagined this villain. / know a villain, and the next time you want to do a villain, come to me. I am very close to one; I have got one constantly in my eye—in fact,it is ray own husband ! " Wilkie Collins often told this story, but withheld the name of the lady. It was the wife of Buiwer 4 tton.  !Pt