Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-08-26 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

CHIPS OF NEWS.  AT HOME.  Henry Atkins, a convict at Parkhurst Ptism, Isle of Wight, his committed suicide by banging himself by his braces from the bars of his cell window.  William Stewart, merchant, Bennington. Leith, has been committed for laid at !Atli charged with .ausing a vi.vsel ta ba sunk off Caithness, with intent to defraud insurance companies.  During the progress of 801119 works at Vyrnwy funnel, Llanforia, near Oswestry, in cannection with the Liverpool waterworks, on Siturday, fhomas Mitchell, of Oswestry, deputy foraman, was accidenta[ly drown .d. Deceased. who was 54 years of age, leaves a wife and 10 children.  The annual races of the Alexandra Yacht Club, at Southend, were msrlsod by a .34,1 ac ilnt on Saturday. Mr. Jam's Heath, vice-cmimlilore, was in the act of firing the cannon when th weapon burst, breaking his right arm an tpriously lacerating it. Tne page big of the club was severely hurt, and others standing by had a n irrow escape. At the High Court of Justiciary at Vilasgow, on Saturday, a young man, John McKenna, was charged with murdering his two-year old stepdaughter. He treated the child with the utmost biutality. He is alleged to have thrown her out o? a window, beaten her wil.h tongs, and thim dashed her head against the floor. His trill wis a sjourned.  A serious outbreak of anthrax was reported on Saturday to the East Ridiog Police at Driffield, herd of 30 fat beasts having become atfeetel on the farm of Mr. Robert Hltny, of Elmswell, near Driflield. Five of the animals are did. The outbreak cannot be tracel, ag the hela, bomlit in January, have never been in coatsct wltli any other animal&  There is an unprecedented influx of tramping hoppers in Kent villages, from Lmiion, and much distress exists through btck of wmit. Nearly 5,000 of th”se would-be workers were relieved in rembury Workhouse this week, and the Cis irdians have applied to the Kent Chief Constable for extra rural IY-dice, in order to deal with the crowds of tramps.  Police-constables Harrison and Morris saw a man begging in Nuneaton on Saturday, and found his appearance coiresponled with the description of the man, John Richardson, wlis is suspected of having attempted to murder his niece at flinckley. They arrested him. Replying ts the charge, he admitted his name was John Richardson, and that it was "all right."  A singular case was heard at Chester on Saturday. Patrick O'Shea and his son meeting Sophia Jones on tho City Walls persuaded her that she had defective sight, and induced her to buy Cm £4 a remarkable pair of "electric spectacles." The woman found the glasses practicallly worthlesf, and the men were committed for trial on the cszarge of abtaininz money by false pretences. A severe gale swept over the Irish Channel arid the North \Vales coast on Saturday night. A yacht named the Brenda, belonging to Mr. Youns,, was cruising between Tenby and Bangor, and attempted to make for Holyhead Harbour. She, however. missed the harbour and struck on the breakwater. filled, and went down. the crow escaped. On the tide ebbing, the yacht was floated and brought int() hartfour.  Miss Gordon, sister of the Hero of Kliartoum,whe ha:, recently died, has left directions that foul Chinese flags (which belonged to General rdon) and £lOO shall be handed over to the committee of the Gordon Boys' Home, at Chobliam, in which the deceased lady took the deepest interest. We under. stand that funds are very urgently needed in ordet that the committee may not be compelled to de. crease the number of inmates at the institution.  A fatal explosiln occurred on Saturdsy afternoon at Messrs. C. T. Brock and Csmpany's fir .work factory at South Norwood. At about half-past V. George Nurse, an employe, was at work nn one of the isolated drying sheds in the centre of the field, when suddenly there was a loud explosion, vrhich completely demolished the building. Nurs.-, who was severely burned, was conveyed to the Croydon General Hospital, where he died from the shock to his system.  Owing to agricultural depression a grammar school at Sittingbourne is about to be closed. Tha school was founded some y-esrs ago out of a charity. and the funds are largely dependent upoa the rent of some farms in North-east Kent. In consequences of bad times, these farnu have greatly deprecistea in value, and the school has suffered also. The Governors have accordingly given the parents of scholars notice that, in all probability, the school will be closed at Ciaistroas.  A train, conveying a large number of excursionists from London back to Liiton,early on Sunday morning Caine into collision with a number of coal waggons which were shunte I on to the main line at Lumn Station. The two carria,;es nearest the engine were practically wrecked, and their ouffers twisted lika wire. Four passenzers who were injured were conveyed to the Luton Cottage Hospital, but, after examination, all but one, Miss Lmford, of London, who was journeying to visit some friends at Luton, were allowed to proceed horne. A dispute exists at the Llechwed I Slate Quarries, Festiniog,North Wales. The men abunted themselves from work some weeks back, and subsequently when they applied to be reinstated, Mr. J. E. Grooves, the Lorl-Lieutenant of Carnarvonshire, and owner of the quarries, declined to receive back some half-dozen of the old emploviSs. Tho men refuse to resume work without their loaders, i.nd the probabilities are that the quarries, employing some 600 men, will be permanently closed. Bodies of the quarrymen have been visiting various parts of North Wales appealing for public assistance. Much distress prevails at Festiniog.  It will be remembered that in the month of January last articulars were published in scrne of the newspapers respecting a fortune of £15,003 alleged to have been lert to a lady at Sunnyside, Ashford, by an elderly gentleman whom she had. seen but once. It was said that on that occasion the gentleman became faint in the crowd wat2bing the arrivals at a Queen's drawing-room, and that she helped him to a seat and fetched him some water. The lady is now a bankrupt, the Official Receiver reporting tie liabilities at .£1.523 12s, Id., and the assets at LI in hand, and furniture estimated as being wort'i £3O. He further reports. that the debtor has left Ashford, and that her pre• sent addrer • not known.