The Blackpool Herald. — 1893-08-18 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

DEANSOATB, POLICE STREET, AND ST ANN'S STREET MANCHESTER.  :lir.  *truth'  A/4D FYLDE  BLACi  FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1893  Fred Cooks. the youthful Otley murderer, has been removed.  Douglas is said to be very busy, the SteamPacket Company's arrivals being in excess of last year's.  The Triumph, with the survivors of H.M.S. Victoria, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday morning.  - Seventeen persons are reported to have lost their lives by the upsetting of a boat on the Lower Shannon in Ireland.  The Queen has been photographed fat times Pince her succession, but only one photographer has ever caught Her Majesty's smile.  The Lords' Amendments to the Blackpool, St. Annes, and Lytham Tramways Bill were agreed to by the /Ruse of Commons on Monday.  Arthur Edward Sommers, who was recently compelled to resign the chief Constablesbip of Worcester, attempted suicide on Tuesday night with poison.  The Blackpool police on Tuesday evening smartly secured a gang of persons who are fillsrated of picking pockets. The Mae will te further enquired into by the magistrates to-day (Friday). Our charges with regard to certain insanitary farm-houses in the Fylde clistrict again engaged the attention of the Rural Sanitary Authority at their meeting on Wednesday, when the Medical Officer of Health was ordered to prepare a special report on the subject. Further reference to the subject is made in to-day's editorial articles.  The merits of the revised and the authorised versions of the Bible were die' missed by the Fleetwood &heel Board on Tuesday, but the members were unable to agree which of the two is the best. The opening of the grouse-shooting on Saturday was Livoured in a great many places with fine weather. Birds are !Analful, strong on the wing, and somewhat wild. A good season is anticipated. Kr. Addison, QC., M.P., addressing the grand jury at the Salford Quarter Sessions, on Monday,attributed the steady diminution of crime all over the country to the operation of the Education Act and the Licensing Acts of 1879 and 1874.  The inquest regarding the boating disaster in Swansea Bay was concluded on Tuesday. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against William and John Bath, who were in charge of the boat which capsized, and which, it was allerd, carried too many passengers. Richard Davies, one of the two brothers sentenced to death for the murder of a police-sergeant in Erie; has been reprieved and his sentence commuted to penal servitude for life. The other brother was executed on Wednesday morning. The election at Hereford to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mr. Grenfell (G), took place on Tuasday, the candidates being Mr. Radcliffe Cooke (Unionist) and Sir J. Pulley (L). The result was the return of the Unionist candidate by a majority of 44. Mr. Pasarnore Edwards, the editor of the London Echo. has undertaken to build a home of not less than twenty-five beds at Herne Bay or some sea tide watering-place on the south-eastern coast for the benefit of the affiliated members of the Working Men's Chtb and Institute Union.  The enormous increase in the auras paid for compensation for loss of and ilaruage to goods by the railway companies is attracting athertion. In the past half-year the London and North-Western Railway paid £30,475, and the Midland Railway £18,835, for damage and loss of goods, the sum in each instance being about three times what was paid for personal injury to passengers. The Select Committee on the Marking 0 Foreign Meat have recommended that ever person &sling in foreign meat shall be registered and have a notice exhibited over his shop, and that retail butchers' shops shall be inspected under the Food and Drugs Act by properly qualified inspectors. In the interests of British farmers and for the protection of the public, it is desirable that this recommendation should be adopted. The death of Mr. Horniman has at least resulted in diminishing the number of Englishmen whose names were known all the world over. He thoroughly understood the method of making cheap goods pay by pieans of advertisement. His famous tea has been placarded upon the pyramids of Egypt, and it is even said that a notice of its virtues was at one time to be seen at the entrance of one of the most splendid spots in Jerusalem.  A large number of bathing fatalities occurred on Monday. Twenty boys went bathing between Inverkeithing and North Queensferry, and three ef them were drowned. At Whitehaven a rate collector named Storey went out for a swim in the sea. There was a dense fog on at the time, and it is supposed that Storey lost sight of the beach and was drowned after swimming until he was exhausted. At a miners' demonstration hell on Monday at Wigan, Mr. B. Woods, MP., remarked that in times of election certain people posed as the miners' friends, but times like the present, when their sympathy ought to be shown, these people were at Blackpool or other places not in the neighbourhood of Wigan, and their professions proved to be sham and nonsense and sheer hypocrisy.  Mr. H. Jenner-Fust, the Local Government Board's district inspector, attended the meeting of the Fylde Guardians on Wednesday. He spoke in complimentary terms of the substantial decrease of pauperism within the Union, and suggested several improvements at the Workhouse for the better protection of the inmates in case of fire or the outbreak of any infectious disease. He also recommended that the children should not be under pauper supervision, but be removed altogether from the workhouse and its surroundings. Southport lodging-house keepers have 2eason to grumble not only at the scarcity of visitors but also because of the ingratitude which has characterised some of the latter. This week, a Lincolnshire girl was proved to have victimised o^eral householders by obtaining from the i free food and lodgings, and not content with doing this, she stole from one person articles of jewellery worth RS, for which she is now rusticating in prison. The incident ought also to place Blackpool company-house keepers upon their guard.  I- reason  sextreit-f  As a result of ill-feeling which took its rite in the recent fatal riots between Hindoos and Mahommedans in the Junaghar districts, serious rioting broke out lust Friday in Bombay during the celebration of a Hindoo holiday. The Mahommedans were the aggressors. European and native troops were called out, and in the evening every house was closed, and not a soul was seen in the streets. The tieacherous character of our Indian Empire renders such an incident doubly alarming. It is reassuring, however, to learn that the tumult is subsiding.  At the half-yearly meet'ng of the London and North Western Railway Company on TuEsday, allusion was made to the great loss the company had sustained in the death of Sir Geo. Findlay, to whose widow and family the shareholders voted a grant of £lO,