The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-12-15 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

WELL-DRESSED man, aged about 50 years, shot himself in an arbour in the grounds of the 'Upper Welsh Harp, Hendon, on Saturday evening. Inside his hat was the name 'J. Clark," and a bamboo cane found near him had the letters "J. C." ou its silver hand.  THREE men rifled the express cAr of a North bound train on the St. Louis, Arkansas, and Texas Railway, near Texarkana, the other night. Valuables to the amount of 10,000 dollars were stolen, but the mails were not touched nor the passengers molested. •  IN one large mill in Manchester where lighting by gas has been replaced by 930 electric lamps, the cost over a certain peliod has been £362 for maintaining the electric lamps, as compared with £5lO which had previously been paid for gas at the rate of 3s. 2d. per 1,000 ft. AN ieque:t has been held at Birmingham on the body of Thomas Cattle, a painter. Deceased was engaged painting the outside of a house, when he fell off the ladder on which he was standing, and sustained such severe injury to the brain that he died next day. A LOCAL Option Bill has been introduced to the notice of the New York Legislature, by which the licence fee for liquors will not be lees than 500 dollars nor more than 1,500 dollars. The saloons should be, it advises, reduced to a maximum of one to 500 of the population. THE Local Government Board are about to publish orders to local authorities under the Allotments Act, 1887, prescribing :he manner of appointment and made of election of allotment managers in those districts where it is decided to adopt the Act. THERE was a demonstration of unemployed at Sheffield on Monday a procession walking through several of the principal streets, and some of the men in it carrying boards bearing ironical reference to the amount paid by the guardians for stonebreaking by the outdoor paupers. Isvitio's season in New York c:osed on Saturday. It has been the most successful engagement in the theatrical annals of New York. The theatre has been crowded every night, though the prices were double the usual rates. He begins a three weeks' engagement in Philadelphia on Monday. A LITTLE boy named George Lowe, whose parents reside at Small Heath near Birmingham has met with a shocking death. He was playing in front of the fire, when a live coal was piojected from the grate, igniting his clothes and causing such serious burns that he died soon after his admission to the hospital. AT a meeting of the Irish National League, held at Lincoln, Nebraska, on Sunday, Mr. Fitzgerald, president of the League, deplored the lack of response to the recent appeal made to wealthy Irishmen in the States, and declared his belief that now, as ever, the best friends of the cause were the working men. ON arrival of a train from Horsham at Guildford on Monday afternoon, the dead body of a gentleman, shot through the heart, was found in a firstclass carriage. On the sest opposite the corpse there lay a four-chamber revolver, one chamber of which had recently been discharged. The body was identified as that of Captain George Richard Wykeham Archer. A SHOCKING ACCIDENT occurred at the junction of the Richmond and Metropolitan Railway near Shepherd's Bush on Monday. A workman named John Anderson was run over, his body being found in a frightfully mutilated condition, his neck being broken, as well as his back, his arms and legs being horribly mangled. A DISTRESSING accident is reported from North Lancashire, John Ormerod, son of a farmer, of Milnthorpe, after crossing the upper portion of Morecambe Bay in the ferry, lost his way in a thick mist, and walked into some quicksands, from which he was unable to extricate himself. He was over. taken by the returning tide and drowned. His body has not yet been recovered. THE Rev. J. Walton, President of the Wesleyan Conference, delivered a valedictory address on Saturday to the students of the Westminster and Southland. Training College. Dealing with the question of religious education in Methodist day schools, he said that the Conference had under consideration proposals for making religious instruction still more effective than it was at present. A TERRIFIC explosion occurred at the Yorkshire Steel and Iron Works, Penistone, near Barnsley on Monday. The explosion, which was heard fully two miles away, shook the works and the railwaystation in an alarming manner. It appeared that a large bessemer-vessel, containing molten steel, had exploded. Eight workmen were frightfully injured, being scalded with metal. Several of them are not likeiy to recover. The works were seriously damaged. AT Sheffield a gardener's wife named Emma Hadfield,aged 50 years, has committed suicide in an extraordinary manner. Grieved at a friend going into the workhouse she purchased a large quantity of carbolic acid, and as her husband was retiring to rest called out "Good bye, sweetheart; good bye," swallowed the poison, and died almost immediately. THE Rev. Horace Waller, formerly associated with Dr. Livingstone in African travel, states that the intoxicating liquor now chiefly exported to Africa from Bremen and Hamburg, is largely carried in English ships. It is a poisonous distillation from the potato' the cost of which does not exceed 2s. 4d. per dozen bottles, The chemists agree, Mr. Waller says, that there is more poisonous fusel oil in it than in any other known spirit. The natives have christened this spirit with the appropriate name of Death. A ROMANTIC suicide occurred en Sunday night in a druggist's shop in Argyll street, Glasgow. A young woman named Janet Copeland ran into the consulting room, crying to her lover, Charles Wyllie, "I'm poisoned. Take me home." Wyllie did not heed the appeal, as she had stated on previous occasions that she had poisoned herself, but shortly afterwards she became ill, and he hailed a cab. She died, however, on the way home. The parties had quarrelled through, it was stated, Copeland having walked with another man on the previous evening. Purrs, guineas is said to be the price of a ticket to witness the illegal combat which, according to the reports, J. L. Sullivan, the American pugilist, is pledged by signed articles to engage in with an Englishman named Mitchell, somewhere within thousand miles of London. Of course, the place of this pi omised prize-fight is not known, but one or two men willing to pay the above price, and to risk arrest by the police, have been understood to say that it will take place within four walls, and not in the open air. LIEUTENANT YOUNGHUSBAN D, of the Ist Dragoon Guards, has arrived in India from China, having travelled overland from Pekin to Cashmere across Mongolia. He states t: at he was well treated oa the way.