Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-06-13 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  George %ale, a Glasgow painter, tied a piece of cord to a nail driven into a press door. His wife went out on an errand, and on her return found her husband hanging from the cord, life being extinct. _ _ .  Tgomas Irving, guard of a mineral train on the Glasgow and South-Western Railway, was standing inside a waggon directing the engine-driven in shunting operations when he fell on the rails and was killed.  Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, the novelist and playwright, and a ne;diew of Mr. Justice Hawkins, n to wed Miss Millard, who is now playing the Princess Flavia in Mr. Hope's "Prisoner of Zenda " at the St. James's Theatre.  Margaret Anderson, a divorced woman, died from alcoholic paralysis in the St. Pancras Workhouse Infirmary, London. At the inquest on Monday Dr. Dunlop said that the deceased told him that she had been a vocalist, and held the gold medal of the Brussels Conservatoire. The Scarborough Corporation on Monday night adopted a bye-law on the lines of that in force at Wolverhanipton, and recently held to he valid in case of Burnett v. Berry, prohibiting betting in any streets or public places. A dramatic suicide occurred on Sunday night at Boendael, a rural suburb of Brussels, when a mechanic, FClix Jacobs, after attempting to murder his wife and two children by introducing poison into their soup, hung himself in the rear of the house. Although cut down before life was extinct, Jacobs succumbed to the effects of the poison, of which he also had partaken. The death occurred on Monday morning of Mr. Henry Clarkson, a well-known land surveyor, who was associated with George Stevenson over 50 years ago in his railway enterprises. Mr. Clarkson died at Alverthorpe Hall, Wakefield, and was in his 95th year. The total number of persons who left the United Kingdom for places out of Europe during last month was 27,079, being 2,391 less than in the corresponding month of the previous year. The English emigrants numbered 8,658, the Scotch 1,462, and the Irish 8,645. At Hove (Brighton) on Saturday, Albert Kemp, 18, was charged with stealing a pneumatic safety bicycle, the property of Frederick Wright.— Prisoner hired the machine for an hour, and immediately afterwards sold it for £3 10s., and then absconded to London, where he was arrested on Friday.—Prisoner was committed for trial. On Monday at West Hartlepool three book, makers, William Wilson, Thomas keine, and William Brown, were fined—Wilson £25 and costs, Raine £2O and costs, and Brown £5 and costs—for keeping houses for betting purposes. In each case a woman proved having made bete with defendants on the Derby day.  The Rev. Richard Tyacke:for 60 years vicar of Padatow, died on Saturday night from pneumonia, at the great age of nearly 93 years. Except that he had been blind for a few years, his faculties were keen almost to his last moments and only the day before his death he quoted moments, verse copiously. Owing to iis great age, he has not officiated since May, 1889. Major General Sir Baker Russell, commanding the North-Western discrict, has promulgated the sentence on the men concerned in the recent shooting affray at Whittington Barracks, Lichfield. Thomas Fellows, private in the South Staffordshire Regiment, was sentenced to be imprisoned tor two years and to be discharged the service with ignominy, and Samuel Fellows to one year's imprisonment. At Blackburn, on Monday, Jessie Saddington, 44, committed suicide by drowning herself in a like in the Corporation Park. She was the mother of seven children, her last having been born a week ago. She has appeared very depressed for some time, and told her husband recently, on returning from a walk in the park, that she thought of drowning herself, but had not got the courage to do it then.  It is understood that the convention on the Behring Sea question is ready to be proclaimed. This will be done by the British Government and the United States Government simultaneously at London and at Washington. No intimation has, however, at present been received by her Majesty's Government of President Cleveland 'ii pleasure on the subject. . . _ _  At the Newcastle Police-court on Monday, Dr. Bodie, a well-known mesmerist entertainer at public halls, was fined 40s. and costs, or a month's F for obstructing the police. The defendant's coachman was found drunk in charge of the doctor's trap, and was taken into custody. Dr. Bodie wanted the crowd that gathered to rescue him, declaring that he was suffering from an epileptic fit. The third congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the Empire opened on Monday in London with visits to the London arid India Blocks and to the East London Trades Exhibition. The congress is being held nnier the auspices of the London Chamber of Commerce. The business portion of She proceedings commence on Tuesday in the Grocer'd Hall. Mr. Chamberlain, as hon. presitent, gave an official welcome to the delegates, many of whom have come from the colonies and _  If you require Handbills, Circulars, Bill Heads Memvs., Window Bills, or Posters, write to the Minster Press for price of your requirement before plaewc. your urdurs elsewhere. It will ply you.