The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-11-29 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

HOME.  The Queen gave a dinner-party at Windsor Castle on Monday evening in honour of the marriage of the Emperor Nicholas and Princess Ali: of Hesse. Judge Stephen, of the Lincoln County Court district, died at his house in Lincoln on Sunday, aged 74. He was the editor of recent editions of Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England. Mr. W. Reader Bush, farmer, brother of the Rev. Mr. Bush, formerly president of the Wesleyan Conference, was cut to pieces by a train while crossing the line at Firsby, Lincolnshire, on:Saturday. , Mr. William Cunning, traffic manager of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Railway, has been appointed manager of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, in succession to Mr. M. Madden.  The keeper of a powder magazine was on Saturday fined £l5 10A at Castle Eden for not keeping the interior 01 the magazine free from grit and dust, and for other minor offences under the Explosives Act. It is stated that a Preston firm of cotton manufacturers have made arrangements for commencing business in France, and have taken a weaving shed in Rouen, where they hope to find the conditions more favourable to capital. At Warwick the Under-Sheriff and a jury awarded £25 damages to Sarah Ann Watford, wife of a licensed victualler at Exhall, near Coventry, for slander uttered by William Whearcroft, imputing that she was unchaste.  Henry George, a porter, who lived at 192, Secondavenue, Queen'a Park, and worked at Paddington Station, was crashed between the buffers as he was in the act of coupling carriages. The poor fellow was killed.  Prince Edward of York was taken by his nurse for the first time to Windsor Castle on Saturday, in order that the Queen might see her great-grandson. Princesses Victoria and Maud of Wales, attended by General Sir Dighton Probyn, travelled with Prince Edward from the metropolis. At the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, on Saturday, Alan W. J. Fergusson son of Sir James Fergusson, ex-Postmaster-General, appeared for sentence, having pleaded guilty to wilfully setting fire to portions of Glenalmond College on October 15th and 18th. He was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.  Mr. W. Biscombe Gardiner, the well-known artist, met with an unfortunate accident at Haslemere. He was walking along a steep bank near Mr. Grant Allen's house when he slipped and fell heavily to the bottom of the slope. A doctor was called, and it was found that Mr. Gardiner had broken his collar-bone.  Captain Carden, of Brixworth, a well-known follower of the Pytchley Hounds, died suddenly on Saturday morning. With his wife and daughter he drove to Spratton to catch a train for Northampton, and on arriving at the station was about to alight when he fell back in the carriage and expired. Death is attributed to heart disease.  The annual commemoration of the execution of the "Manchester Martyrs" was held in Dublin on Sunday. There was a procession through the city of about a dozen bands followed by 3,000 or 4,000 people to thtlemasonen vinenCtsemeretery Cemetery, sz:,hetrhee ~,,erceaeasthesdwanerl short addresses delivered. W indoor is recovering from the effects of the disastrous inundations which besieged it last week. The floods have receded from The Goswells, on the Berkshire shore, and the Eton Brocas and playing fields on the opposite side of the Thames; while the river, although much swollen, is now everywhere confined within its proper limits. At Leeds, on Monday, Beresford Loftus Tottenham, of London, was charged with fraudulent misappropriation of certain furniture belonging to Mr. A. J. Munson, well known in connection with the Ardla:nont mystery, and was finally committed for trial. Da reserved his defence. Bail was allowed in personal security for £lOO, and two sureties of £5O each.  Samuel C. Seeley, the bookkeeper of the National Shoe and Leather Bank of New York, recently absconded, and an examination of the books shewed defalcations amounting to 354,000d01. The body of a New York lawyer was found drowned in Flushing Bay. It is believed that the man committed suicide, and that he was concerned with Seeley in the bank frauds. A complete human skeleton was found by a farmer named Stickney, near South Stoke, Arundel. Seeing some object in the rushes growing on the banks of the River Arun, he discovered that it was the remains of a human body without a vestige of clothing or &eh. To get into such a state the corpse must have lain in its position many months. It is supposed to be the skeleton of a bather. "  . • Before the Mayor of Reigate John Keen was remanded on a charge of embezzling moneys belonging to the Redhill Friendly Loan Society, of which he was secretary. It was alleged that his total defalcations amounted to nearly £l,