The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-03-27 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  --Twelve hundred cigar makers in the Government manufactory at Toulouse are on strike. ANOTHER GREAT Locx-Our.—The proprietors of the Britannia Ironworks, Middlesborough, have long entertained objections to the men's practice of " bleeding" the iron. Two weeks ago notice was given that the works would be stopped entirely if the practice was persisted in. The men were, however, stubborn, and the consequence is that yesterday some 1.200 men were idle, and the Britannia Works standing. _  Fr„sic-rick Runt, the Penge murderer, has been removed to Horlemonger-lane Gaol. The prisoner has now completely recovered from the effects of the poison which he swallowed, but remains in a state of the utmost melancholy and depression. Shortly after twelve o'clock yesterday ActingInspector John Cooke, of the G division of detective police at Dublin, committed suicide by hanging himself. He came on duty at the usual time yesterday. He went into the back yard. and, 'though not returning for some considerable time, no notice was taken of the circumstance. One of the police off duty happening to go into the lavatory, was horrified on seeing Cooke hanging by the neck from one of the crossbeams. Life was quite extinct. The French Government are making great purchases of horses in the south of Russia. On the night of the 27th an earthquake did considerable mischief at Rimini and the surrounding towns.  At the Liverpool Police Court, on Monday, Mr. Clarke Aspinall disr,ed of 145 charges of drunkenness, as compared with 167 a week ago. Sir George Burrows, M.D., F.R.S., Physician in Ordinary to the Queen, was on Monday re-elected president of the Royal College of Physicians of London.  The federated cotton-spinners of North and East Lancashire, having proposed terms which the men refuse, a strike or leek-out on a large scale is anticipated.  The'anniversary festival of the Highland Society of London was celebrated on Monday night, at the Freemasons Tavern, under the presidency of Mr. J. W. Malcolm. M.P.  A gentleman, named Thomas Claringbould, residing at River, near Dover, shot himself, on Monday morning, through the heart with a revolver in his own house. He is well known in the district as a. cricketer.  The lessee of the Lyceum Theatre, Mr. H. L. Bateman, died rather suddenly on Monday night, at his house, Rutland Lodge, Rutland Gate. Mr. Bateman caught cold a day or two ago, and congestion of the lungs ensued... . .  A- new religious sect, whose mode of worship is similar to that of the Wesleyans, has been established at New Seaham Colliery, Murton, Ryhope, Hetton-le- Hole, New Herrington, Houghton-le-Spring, and other parts of the county of Durham. A sergeant of the Royal Marines, named Penman, has committed suicide at his quarters, in Milton Basraks, Chatham, by discharging the contents of his rifle through his skull. Disappointment at not being promoted to be colour-sergeant is believed to have been the cause of his killing himself. On Saturday evening, a woman named Helm, residing in Ashton Old Road, Manchester, was burnt to death. She was seen in a state of intoxication, and on going home she lay down on a sofa and went to sleep. A candle was burning on a table beside her, and it is supposed that her clothes caught fire from it. .  At the Cambridge Assizes, on Monday, William Samuel Hagger, clerk in the Cambridge Post Office, pleaded guilty to stealing two letters containing money. He begged for mercy on account of his wife and child: but Mr. Justice Grove said he could not give the plea consideration, as that would be placing married men at a premium in cases of robbery. He sentenced the prisoner to five years' penal servitude. A man named &Atop. with a variety of aUnses, was examined at the Highgate Police Court, on Monday, I on charges of obtaining sums of money as far back as 1872. by false pretences. The plan he talopted was to obtain possession of pawnbrokers' tickets, fill them up. and then dispose of them to dupes, who, when they went to redeem their supposed purchases, found themselves in danger of being handed over to the police. The prisoner was remanded for jibs antecedents to be inquired into. Extensive new works are now in progress at Lime Street Railway Station, Liverpool. They involve the opening up of the present tunnel for a quarter of a mile, the doubling of the track for that distance, and the additions to the station itself are fully equal to the whole area of the present accommodatim. When these works are completed—two or three years will be required for the purpose—Lime Street Station will, it is said, be one of the largest and most complete railway tirmiui in the world.