The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-03-22 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  A New York telegram of Saturday reports a landslip on the West Virginia Central Railroad, by which three men were killed.  The Hamburg Steamship Liner Slavonia has arrived at New York,. and reports having during  , .., the voyage been struck by a hitge waterspout.  Mr. - Robert William Soutar, a Banff solicitor, committed suicide in a railway. carriage on Sunday  --morning by firing a revolver into his mouth. The Halifax ironmoulders' strike has terminated, the masters having consented to give a shilling advance now and another shilling in two months time.  The outbreak of influenza among the lahmren of Kent during the last four or five weeks has cost the Labourers Union in sick pay at the rate of  £6-00—a week.  On Saturday Sir Edward Green, the member for Wakefield, laid the corner-stone of a new Art and Science School in that city. • The school, it is _ . _  estimated, will cost £5,500. At Marlborough-street Police Court, London, on Saturday, .laeole lteg,ner was fined £lOO, with three months' imprionni,nt in default, for permitting betting at the Continental Club, Soho. A new express engine on the Nord' Easteni Railway, for the service between Newesstle and Edinburgh, has develeped a travelling speed of 90 miles an hour, the highest recorded by several miles. Heavy rains have fallen during the past few days in New South Wales, causing serious floods, chiefly in the coast districts. Enormous damage has been done, and many casualties are reported.  The SeeretarY of state for War has declined to sanction payments to army pensioners being made monthly instead of quarterly, a proposed alteration which the Stockport Board ot Guardians asked him to consider.  Early on Sunday morning, at Aberystwith, the London and Provincial Grocery Stores St. James's Hall. and a large ironmongery• warehouse, were destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at over £12.000. According to an official statement, there are at present 4,000 houses in Rome, with dwelling room for at least 20,000 persons standing unoccupied. Only twenty new houses have been built Within the past three years. A boiler exploded on Monday morning on the premises ot Mr. Levi tshor, • rope manntucturer, Great Crosby. Six persons—four girls and two young pleti ---were badly injured, and had to be removed to Bootle Hospital. At Stafford Assizes cm Monday John Loftus Robert Jones, and Noah Perks were each sentenced to 15 years' and Henry Chebsey to six years' penal servitude tor a murds•rons assault on three of Lord Wrottesley's gamekeepers in November last.  At the Leeds Assizes on Saturday an ex-detective named James Lilburn obtained judgment for £125 against the Scarborough Aquarian Company, Limited, as damages for injuries indicted upon him by an elephant to which he had thrown a penny.  A .great demonstration to protest against the treatment of Irish political prisoners in English gaols, and with particular reference to the ease of John Daly, took place at Limerick on Sunday. A resolution was carried demanding an independent inquiry into the matter. ' The Allan line steamer Manitoban has ituitled at Halifax the crew. numbering 39, of the French steamer Nautique. which left Havre on January 16th for Baltimore. The Nautique, on which the pumps had been kept going for 17 days, went down two hours after the rescue was-effected. A Renter's telegram from Hale says :---By • special desire of the Emperor. Professor Pramanu, ! wh, attonded the late Emperor Frederick during his illness, has been appointed Professor Wolk' mtum's successor at the university here. The medical faculty view the appointment with disfavour.  Mr. Thomas Brayshaw, solicitor, Settle, i as on Monday at Leeds Assizes awarded £350 as damage in a libel suit brought against a paper called the Lighthwfsc, which had. as the jury foimd; criticised too strongly his action in issuinc, a circular concerning the British Water Gas Syndicate, of which he was then a shareholder and is now a director. The Nottingham police on Monday arrested a gardener named Thomas Argyle on the charge of murdering his wife and grandson and attempting to commit suicide. The woman and boy Were Wind dead from knife wounds in the throat, and Argyle when taken into eustody was suffering from injuries winch he had inflicted upon himself with a poker.  Bernard Gallachan has been arrested near Coatbridge, on the charge of murderously assaulting a fellow-workman named John 111elJuire, in the latter 's ln use, late on Saturday night, by piano.'ing a collier's pick into Metiuire's neck. and almost cutting the jugular vein. McGuire is not expected to live, and his depositions were taken on Sunday.  The boot and shoe finishers and rivetters held a meeting in Spitaltiefits on Saturday night. the result of which was a threat to strike should the employers not meet certain demands, among them being the abolition of the •• sweater," or ndddleman, and the provision of healthy workshops. It is said that from 40,000 to 50,000 hands would be affected by a strike.  A frightful accident happened on the lloydoek line, near Etrht wit. li. rt ly before two oilSztt arday. A than named Price was walking in tha directi"n it llapkek ahnc,;: Messrs. I Evans triAt Co.'s line. when a c,,al train which was pas,ing accidentally caught hi, coat and drew hint iinder the wheel,. killhig him on the s.pot. II i head was dreadfully mangled.  A sluipkeeper named tz•wis. living near II Ii Nebraska. was kai Saturday shot by a farmer I 'tillltoll, with wit, .111 he Mid it mutarl. Stanton wa,tlrittik at the time but tho p!a!11,1• till llot :111”W this fart to interfere with their wrath against the murderer, who was seizedlii the infuriated im M. and lynched within half an 11.)111' of the c,iannis•ion of the crime.  A sail tjd.iit• is reported from Heading, Pennsylvania. A party consisting of burn. the iVili ti 1 Panding farmer, and lir. and 31r,. and lilitterson, all belonging aiarkSoll. M ichigan , ly-rt kilkul bv a train while iwer a railway enissing. the horse. ht•iii.t; frightened by the iipproilelling train, got minimageable and ran direetly in front of the engin,. A two-year-lad au, mm 61 Agiwsll ut it with a shoeking death at liilichester, near Blackburn, on Saturday. The deeem,ed, being Ili liv Jar mother for a few minutes, gi,it the tiro-place, inn!. putting the liout .0 a lea kettle in her mouth. drank a quantity ii the builitig water. lier month and her throat were horribly scalded, and the iihild ,:ucounihed.  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