The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-04-26 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  Mr. Handel Cossham, member for East Bristol, died very suddenly on Wednesday in London.  Evictions were again proceeded with on the Ponsonby estate on Saturday. Thirteen families were ejected without resistance, beyond the barring of doors and windows.  The Central News is informed that a wedding will shortly take place between Mr. W. O'Brien, M.P., and Miss Raffallowitch, daughter of a wellknown Parisian financier.  The King of Portugal, in addressing the Parliament on Saturday, expressed the hope that the "painful" controversy with Great Britain would be settled in a manner hon,ourable to both nations.  Mx. Stanley arrived in Brussels on Saturday, and was received with enthusiasm by the people. King Leopold gave a banquet in his honour, and presented to him the Grand Cordon of the new Order, the Congo Star.  The steamer Julia Wiener, bound from Shields to London, has capsized, owing to shifting cargo, off Spurn Point. The sea was very stormy at the time, and only three hands were rescued. Eleven of the crew were drowned.  The action for damages brought against members of the Irish constabulary by a man named Nolan, who was wounded in the firing at Charleville station on 30th June ltiA, ended in Dublin on Wednesday without a verdict, the special jury being unable to agree.  Hams Hall, at Minworth, near Birmingham, the seat of Lord Norton, was destroyed by tire on Tuesday. The bm,ks and pictures were saved. The tire is supposed to have been caused by an over-heated flue. It is feared that a fireman has been killed.  On Sunday Arthur :11`Gee, a gunner in the Royal Artillery, stationed at Seaforth Barracks, was arrested in Liverpool charged with attempting to murder Cornelius 3Plcerney and his wife. It is alleged that he stabbed the man and woman because they asked him to pay for his lodgings. The evictions on the Ponsonby estate were continued on Wednesday. Thirteen families, occupying holdings varying in extent from an acre to over 100 acres, were dispossessed. The Sheriff, who was protected by thirty soldiers of the Welsh Regiment aud an equal number of police, encountered no opposition.  The engine of a goods train ran into a passenger train travelling from Waterloo to Leatherhead, on the London and South Western Railway, on Saturday night. None of the passengers were seriously injured, but some were severely shaken. The driver and fireman of the goods train jumped from the engine and escaped unhurt. Agnes Ruston, aged 22, of Parkgate, near Rotherham, plunged into the canal near her home a few days ago, with her child, aged eight months, and they were both drowned. At the inquest held on Tuesday the jury returned a verdict that the mother murdered the child and committed suicide while temporarily insane.  The presence of the Italian squadron at Toulon has been marked by an interchange of courtesies between Achniral Lovera, as the representative of King Humbert, and President Carnot. The crowd cheered the Italian officers, and l'resident Carnot went on board the splendid ironclad the Italia, and distributed decorations among the officers. A Hamburg newspaper, which is now understood to be " inspired " by Prince Bismarck, states that the ex-Chancellor will shortly make his appearance in the Upper House of the Prussian Diet, and will in all probability accept a seat in the Reichstag. The journal adds that it would be a mistake to assitmv,. that the Prince is not a personage to be reckoned with.  The first of a series of meetings to commemorate the "silver wedding" of Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., with the Rochdale constituency, was held on Tuesday night. Mr. Potter was himself the principal speaker. He said the two great monopolies the people had still to fight were the land laws and an Established Church. The meeting heartily passed a resolution of confidence in Mr. Potter. In the Salford Hundred Court of Record on Wednesday Mrs. M. A. Pearman. a resident in Rumford - street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, obtained £4O damages for libel from John. James Bell and Edward P. Roberts. The defendants, who live close to Mrs. Pearman, sent a letter to the Superintendent of the P division of the city police, in which they alleged that her house was used for improper purposes.  On Saturday night a fatal fire occurred at the house of Mr. Pagns, miller, of Cowgate, Dumbartonshire. The house has three storeys, and the tire had thoroughly spread through the dwelling before it was ascertained that the three children of James Baxter, hairdresser, were sleeping there. The smoke prevented entrance by the door, but by means of a ladder the children were brought out at one of the windows. They were removed to houses near, but they all died. The smack Jane, of Portsoy, Captain Wood, when on her voyage on Tuesday from Leith to Morrison' s Haven, picked up an Ipen rowing boat, half full of water, between Portobello and InchMith. In the boat were four boys, three of them helpl,--ly sick. The boys belonged to Edinburgh, and they Mid hired the boat at Portobello in the forenoon for a sail in the Firth. When picked up the boat was drifting helplessly before the tide and a strono', wind which had suddenly sprung- up. Captain Wood landed the boat and it, occupants at Grantoa in the afternoon.