The Poole Telegram. — 1883-08-24 (Poole, Dorset, England)

DEATH THNOTIGH THE 11ZAT.-011 Thursday evening Mr. Laoichrim held an inquest at St. George's Hospital on the body of Maurice Rhodes, aged 47, a laborer, who died soddenly while at work in • field at Fulham. The medical evidence showed that deceased suffered from • weak heart, and that death was accelerated by exposure to the intense heat which prevailed at the time of hie death. A LABORER named Kelly, in the employ of the Dublin Corporation, at in early hour on Thursday morning observed two men breaking into • house at Nicholas. street. On seeing him they fled, but Kelly pursued and captured one of them. The burglar clod with his captor and stabbed him six times with a knife ; but Kelly gallantly clung to him until a.sistance arrived and the burglar WWI Overe.wet,..d. Kelly war conveyed to the hospital. ON Friday afternoon, a woman ramed Roston, wife of a policeman at Darcy Lever, near Bolton, was knocked down roil killed on a level railway crossing by an esprit, train, and her child was fatally injured. AT Woolwich a girl, aged 19, has committed suicide by poiAon. It appeared she had received an anonymous threatening letter because she kept company with a young man, who was himself led to break off hii engagement with her because of aspersions on her character, which were now proved to be unfounded.  A WICKED YOUNG INCYNDI ARV, only twelve years old, Edward Williams, was charged at Holyw ell, on Tuesday, on hie own confession, with setting tire to two haystacks on Penytnas, belonging to Mr. W. Davies, coroner, Flintshire, on Sunday night. Tile rirks were not insured. Prisoner confessed to his sister-in law, and afterwarile to the police, that he set the haystacks on Me with lucifer matches to make a good blaze, lie was ordered to receive six strokes with a birch rod, to be cornmilted for a month, and then to a reformatory for four years. 'rhe 'route; rascal sang comic songs whilst in the biA•up, and laughed and made grimaces when bAure the magistrates.  THE cases of Sir It. /damsel Mansel, Bart., and Sir E. H. Meredyth, Bert., were before the Bankruptcy Court. on Friday. In the latter case, upon the application of Mr. Rosenthal, his Honour annulled the adjudication of bankruptcy. THE Rev. \V. Kelly, aged only 26, persisted in an attempt to reach the top of a Scotch mountain near Braemar, and perished from cold and exhaustion. li• was a Congregational Minister at Dundee. and hue left a widow and tour children, the youngest of whom he performed hie last ministerial act upon by baptising it pelt before leaving for his fatal holiday (?) THE Duke and Duehese of Connaught opened the pea. plc's park at Grimsby on Friday. . . Wien rem CASTLE, one of the finest Norman reties in the emintry, is about to pass from private ownereliip into the hands of the coryoration of Rochester. who are to pay the present owner, the Earl of Jersey, £5,1.100 fort he 'trueture wed surrounding grounds. The corporation have for some years had a lease of the at en annual rental of L'24o ; and the groimds are laid out as public gardens, :or whi. h purpose the Earl etipulatea that theylarelto be maintained, while the castle is to be kept as a ruin. Joettrit Fotvout„ the Drontield town crier, wee killed by en express train from Sheffield to I oartm wieu cross• log the line to his house. He was literally cut into pieces. AN untortunate lunatic, John Waddington, of Preston, aged 43, escaped from Lancaster County Lunatio Asylum about three weeke ago, and all enquiries respecting him proved fruitless. His dead body has been found on Wyreside Fells, where he had evidently wandered am% died from exhaustion. AN American preacher has jest scored in hor...es. A. few Sunday mornings ago ha delivered a very t. •, and earnest sermon against the cruelty of " cock•fighting." Then he went home and tnrashed his wife "within an inch " of her life because the dinner was not ready.— Sportsman. A RATHER novel scene was witnessed at tho House of Commons last week. Mr. Arthur Peel. M.P. fr Warwick, had engaged to take forty of his constituents over the House. On Monday morning he was surprised to learn that one train had left with three hundred persons, and that another was leaving with an equally extensive freight. Or) the arrival of this body of people at Weetminster the impreesion for the moment was that they formed a provincial demonstration in favor of Mr Brad. laugh. The members of the party, including many women duted in Irmeira.avr.ribeyd iscihrßa Peel dre thiarougthehirthaerposrein, cwipearleapacolut: i manta of the House. OF course the magistrates am quite right to le r,..,0,0n. the Government savings banks as the only proper ones 1 but there is a legend extant of an ignorant mervant-gir who paid two shillings into the Post.offiee and spelt he. 1 name incorrectly. IVlien she wanted to get it out shi 'spelt it correctly, and having bad six lessons her hand writing had altered. So she had to identify herself. She went to the workhoture where she was horn, but, the master who knew her was dead. She called en the clergy. loan who christened her, but he failed to recognise her. She had been keeping company with a soldier, and lie had seen her deposit the money, but his regiment was in Egypt. Eventually, I believe, she nmeured an assisted pain:age to. Australia in an emigrant sli. Somewhere there she hail a teemed cousin who remembers her falling in the lire as a child and burning hoe aim. She hones to bring him back to swear to the scar before Professor Fr.wcett, and then she feels sure the authorities will be conviSaturdaynceds m herself, heisorrg hr. P alnd. pa. Sadri,y rtwniteht%tafluaurning.military &Seer who hil reeehtiy returned from India on civil duties. and mho hill served in the Afghan and Egyptian campais.es, was drowned at Saleborn•hy the-Sea while at+ :roj.G.rig to re•.ene • bather who was in danger. E la-of:hers .n•rn Maxey, of London, were be!;.: J.),P3 .11 • .Itnfr r t Skegyeas, one et them vnw setz •t t,mu, '.d was drowned within a very ehors ffiseance ot hie brt;thers,  -.--