The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1883-10-20 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

WOU. The village of Allegno, near Brescia, has b.)en almost totally destroyed by fire. Several hundred dwellings were burnt down, and about a thousand villagers are now homeless, and are, moreover, in great distress for want of food, their stores having been all consumed. No lives, however, are reported lost.  From April let to the 13th instant the Exchequer receipts were £42,228,940, as compared with £41,549,783 in the corresponding period of last year. The expenditure has been £46,994 160. On Saturday last the balance in the Bank or England was £924,275, and in the Bank of Ireland £641,352. Upon the arrival of the ship Thirlmere in the South West India Dock in London last week, Captain Adolph Windeman, the master, informed the coroner'', officer for the district that the body of his little son Adolph, who died on October 15th, 1882, was still on board, having been preserved in spirits since death. The body had been taken nearly all round the world in the manner described, in order that it might be buried in England. A school, cc.ntaining 600 children, at Waterbury, Conne 'tient, caught fire on Monday The children rushed out to escape, wildly trampling on each other in the stairways, with the result that six were badly hurt, three being expected to die. The teachers finally quelled the panic and prevented further injury by marching the children out in an orderly manner. A French inventor, who has patented a machine for the use of concentrated solar rays as a general motive power, has set up three of his machines in Algeria for the French Government. He is now carrying on experiments at the island of Porquerolles, near Hyeres, in France, where he is threshing Indian corn and raising water by the action of the sun's rays. Five vessels, all British, were wrecked off the United Kingdom last week, and 27 in other parts of the world, the total haying been 21 foreign vessels and eleven British, making 32 for the week and 1,480 actual wrecks for the present year. The number of lives lost were 95, ehowing a considerable increase on the previous week and also on the corresponding period of last year. John Clayton, milk-dealer, was terribly gored by an infuriated cow on Saturday morning at Stockport. The animal was rushing down the street, when Clayton tried to stop it. He was tossed to a considerable height, and tell on his head. He was taken to the infirmary, in a critical condition. A strong alio* of earthquake, lasting fully eight to ten seconds, has been felt at Chios, A few old houses were destroyed, and several people were injured. The shock was telt at Syra, on the Dardanelles coast, and at Smyrna. Much damage, attended by loss of life, is also reported to have been done in the town of Aivalik, in Asiatic Turkey. At Utrecht on Monday the statue of Count John of Nassau, brother of William the Silent, founder cf the Union of Utrecht, was unveiled with much ceremony by the King of the Netherlands. The Qoeen , was also present. The King himself placed a wreath of laurels upon the statue.  A married woman named Grosvenor, of Whiteheath, near Rowley, fell through a bedroom window whilst cleaning it, the framework by which she was holding gave way, and she fell into the street and dislolated her neck. Deceased was the mother of six children. The Liverpool Courier says :—A marine monster, apparently half a mile in length, is reported to have been seen going down the Bristol Channel towards the Atlantic, at the rate of about twenty-five miles an hour. Another paper reports that accounts from various parts of the north coast of Cornwall corroborate the description g:ttn. It adds that the monster's head was clearly see?l4 and that it left a greasy trail. A New York telegram Pays tirat the visible supply of wheat on Oct. 12 was 28,500,000 bushels, as against 27,000,(K0 lourhels the previous week. Visible reapply of Indian corn, 13,400,000 bushels, as against 14,100,0 C bushels the previous week, The export clearances of wheat for Europe during last week amounted to 980,0030 bushels. The export clearances of Indian corn for Europe during last week amounted to 1,40),000 bushels.  On Monday an inquest was held at Manchester on the bady of Fredc•rick Roe, draper, SaPori, who cornmitt, d suicide on Sunday in a cell at the Manchester Town-ball. He was arrested on Saturday on a charge of receiving stolen 'goods, and as ha was not well was allowed to walk in the corridor. He took advantage of his liberty, and hanged himself to the top of the cell door. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. While three men were blasting rock at Law Hill Quarry, near Dundee, a charge of powder exploded prematurely. One man, named David Carr, was blown into the air, and, falling into the quarry, a distance of about 50 feet, was killed instantly. Two other men—John Stewart, overseer, and David Bruce, quarryman—were sever-ly injured by falling stones. Carr was aged 53, and leaves a widow and family. The "United States Supreme Court has decided that the first and seouud sections of the Civil Rights Act under which coloured people now sustain actions for denial of accommodation and privileges equal to those accorded to white people in inns, hotels', railways, public conveyances, and theatres are unconstitutional, Congress having no right to pass such sections. This decision will not apply to the territories or to the dia. triot of Columbia.  G •,