The Telegram. — 1893-11-21 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

ALP., ts sonfined to his room by serious illness. Au old man was sensed with fatal illness in * Blaina chapel on Sunday morning.  .• Mr. Bramwell Booth contradicts the newspapers' report that the Salvation Army headquarters are to be removed to America.  In consequence of the death of Mr. Charles Edward Horsefall, ot Liverpool, charities (nearly all local) benefit to the amount of £14,700.  The national monument to the late Emperor William, to be erected in Berlin, will coat some 2400,000, plus £250,000 paid fur the cite. A youth named Astle, of Langley, while shunting on Monday, caught his toot in the metals at Spon Lane and was knocked down and killed.  Four passengers were injured on Wednesday night, two seriously, by a railway collision at Roinsey. The rolling stock was greatly damaged. Frederick Smoothly, a retired butcher, wellknown in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, committed suicide on Wednesday, at Lynn, by shooting himself.  On Monday, the decomposed body of a young woman was washed ashore at Hastings. On one of her wrists was a small gold watch encircled in a leather band.  Mr.liavelock Wilson, M.P., has, it is said. determined to resign the secretaryship of the Seamen and Firemen's Union, and to offer himself for election as president.  The Rev. Principal Morison, a theologian of some reputes and founder of the Evangelical Union Cnurch, died at Glasgow on Monday morning, at an ad vanced age.  William Bonner and William Day, soldiers, were remanded at Northampton on Thursday charged with causing a comrade's death by throwing him from a train.  Mr. Heir Hardie, M.P., speaking at Southport, on Sunday, avowed his wish to extinguish the Liberal party, in order to form a party able to combat the rauks of privilege.  Nearly UOO telegraph messengers were inspected at the Tower on Monday morning by the Postmaster-General, who expressed pleasure at noticing a marked improvement in their drill.  Influenza is becoming prevalent in Essex, and is associated with a condition of the throat which has a marked tendency to become dipththeritic if the sanitary surroundings are not satisfactory. .  Mr. John McLaren, manager of the Royal Insurance Company, and one of the greatest authorities on fire insurance in the world, died on Monday morning ae Ma residence in Birkenhead, from heart disease.  Nathan Mulynenx, secretary of the Lancaster Permanent 13tul4ing Society, was on Thursday remanded in custody at Lancaster, charged with embezzlement. It is reported that several thousand pounds are missing.  A private in the Royal Engineers earned Fry, stationed at Fort Westinorelairl, Queenstown, tv.t4 accidentally drow"ed on Saturday night by falling out ,d the tio,erament steam ferryboat in which he was beiLg conveyed to the fort.  On Monday, a boiler used for winding engines at Platt Lane Collieries, Wigan, exploded with terrific horse. The boiler wiis thrown about 20 yards, destroying a stable and killing • pony. The rear of an adjacent house was also blown away. The small detachment of _gulls which were haunting the TI11411V!Ii above London Bridge in early autumn have been reinforced during she pest week by considerable flights—a sure sign of night frosts and hard mod banks in the estuary of the Thames.  On Monday night. the station-master at Windmill Hill. on the North Eastern Railway, neat Berwick, di.movered an obetruclinn fastened to the rails. The mail train which leaves Berwick at 9.13 had to be stopped whilet the metals were being cleared.  At the Old Bailey on Wednesday, the Common Serjeant sentenced Frederick King to 12 years' penal servitude and 20 strokes with the eat for robbery and outrage upon young ladies.—The cat was also ordered in several other cases of highway robbery.  At Devon Assize on Monday, George Hocking. skipper and owner of a 13rixhani smack, who was on Saturday found guiity of scuttling the vessel with intent to defraud the Brigham Smack Insnrance Company, vs, sentenced so ye years' penal servitude.  Seventy per cent. of theNewpart publican/1 have decided to discontinue the practice of giving away drink la.. Christmae and New Yew's gift*, and instead to raise a sum of money by snbscription amongst members of the Licensed Victuallers' Aseociation for the Infirmary. A disastrous collision occurred about ten o'clock on Wednesday morning off South Lowestoft. Ehe fi.hing lugger Helios owned hy Mr. Burrouglies, of that port, was returning to Lowestoft, when she collided with a small fishing craft, which was cut in two and wink. The crew of three men were drowned.  In the London Bankruptcy Court on Manley, Mr. Robert Peel, heir to the Peel nettled estates, appeared to Foos hie public examination. The baokrupt Mild he came of age five year', ago and all the money he had from the eida.te, £45,000, had gone on hie personal expenditure and lows en gambling.