The Poole Telegram. — 1881-05-06 (Poole, Dorset, England)

WAGES.CURK in the employ of the Southwark Not and Bolt Company left ti ba.g containing 41,200 for moment on a table on Saturday and it was stolen.  A CLEEKENWELL painter has been unable to destroy himself, though he first tried half-a-pint of paaaffin oil and then opened a vein in his arm. A PIECE of utter rascality occurred at Sae.rwn on Thursday. In the County Hurdle Race, Robert I'Anson, the jockey, was thrown with great violence, and carried ff insensible. Ile was scarcely down ere a shabby thief stole his pin from his scarf. It has, however, been 7ecovered.  WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, a labourer of 14mnetli, who was sentenceil on the 18th inst. at the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, held at SwalTham, to twehe months' impriKon• ment for sheep stet-along, has been liberated from Norwich Camtle, having received a free pardon from the Home Secretary.  SERIOUS disturbances, having their origin in the superstition of the peasantiy regarding the Jewish Passover rites, have occurred at Elizahethgrad, in the province of Kherson. The impnlar excitenicat against the Jews led to an attack upon the SymLogue, which was destroyed by the mob. The nill of the military was called in to repres4 the disturbance, and a large number of the rioters were killed by the troops.  IN a fire at the box factory at Greenpoint, United States, twenty persona were injured, four of them fatally lb,e body haa leam recnv. red.  EARLY on Friday morning, A shhortonstalge, at Send, near Guildford, the residence of Captain E. U. Noel, was burnt down. All the initiates escaped, with the exception of the adopted daughter of Captain Noel, aged el': years, who aHs ho nit, to death.  Tins Missouri River has overflowed a largo portion 9f Kansas City, driving 7,000 people from their Mance. Fi v e persons were drowned. At Atchison, Kansas, the river overflowed and 1.000 persons are homeless. At St. Paul, Minnesota, the Mississippi haat Overflowed; a large portion of the population are living in temporary sheds hastily built. The spring freshets are higher than has eter been 1:110\411 liemuise of the heavy snowfall during Lb. winter.  AN overflow of the Fox Mier at Elgin, Illinois, having carried away the bridge, the people procured a fiat boat for a ferry, worllng it by means of ropes. This boat, when loaded with passengers, capsized, and fifty persons were drowned, including 40 children.  ON Friday Mr. George Vergetto, of Penkirk, neat Peterborough, was found shot dead in a barn belonging to his farm. lie left home: carrying a pun with him in a int*, on which he was discoverel a few hours afterwards, with his brains blown out, and the weapon, discharged, lying by his side. The deceased, who was 12 years of age. leases a widow and 12 children. It is feared that the depressed state of agriculture preyed upon his mind aul caused him to commit suicide.  AT the annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Free masons on Wednesday, the Earl of Mardi WIIS appointec Senior Grand IVarden, ir. Jinitire. Care , thr Dean of York and Rev. W. Andiron „Hall Grark Chaplainx, Sir Janine Rounder' and Major Clarke Senior Grand Dirteons.  Two stablemen have been fined 14.. each and costs, a. Marlborough•street Poliee.cene t, for biting Mr the tails .3 se veva' fox-terrier puppies, an operation popularly sup posed to be hi high degree favourable to the health of young dogs, but condemned as cruelty by a veterlnar3 surgeon who appeared as a witness.  MR. JOHN BROWN, fishmonger, of Portsea, died in th hospital on Thursday from severe injuries received hj being tossrd by a bullock on the previous evening. Ph animal was brought from Chichester market by rail, an( se arrival at the Portsmouth Station in a very infuriate( state rushed out of the cattle yard and into a roe( adjacent, where it encounteied the deceased, and at ono ettacked Lthit.