Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-10-16 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

MYSTERIOUS DEATH ON THE UNDER.  GROUND RAILWAY.  On Monday evening Mr. Langham held an inquiry at the King's College Hospital, Loudon, touating the death of Kirwan Joyce Percival, aged 55 years, a next-of-kin agent, lately residing at 8, Hanover Street, Battersea Park Road, which occurred on the previous Thursday, under a tunnel near the Temple station of the Metropolitan District Railway. lnspector Gosden appeared on behalf of the railway authorities.--John Chorley, signalman in the employ of the District Railway Company, deposed that shortly after nine o'clock on the night of Thursday last he had just finished duty at the Temple Street signal-box, and was crossing the inner line in the tunnel when he stumbled over some object lying in the four-foot, which he eventually discovered to be the body of the deceased. Witness was about to remove the deceased from his position when he observed a Charing-cross train coming along, and be was obliged to leave him. Witness then went and told the station inspector what hehad seen. Upon returning to the spot he found the deceased in the same place and insensible. His clothing was in a state of great disorder; his waistcoat was torn open.—Mr.Pengilly, a solicitor, stated that he had Jrnown the deceased for some years. The deceased called at his office on Thursday forenoon, and asked him to accompany him to Brockley, where he had business to transact. The witness did so, and they returned to London Bridge shortly before seven o'clock. The deceased then proceeded to the Mansion House Station, took a ticket for Victoria, and the witness saw him off in the train. He would have no occasion to get out at the Temple station. The deceased was perfectly sober when witness left him, and his clothing was in perfect order. The dere.ced had never threatened ' to commit suicide. There were several working men in the same compartment as the deceased.— The Citizen states that no allegorical or theatrical Police Constable Bell, 278 E, deposed to adjuncts will form a feature of the Lord Mayor of searching the clothing of the deceased at the London's Show of the 9th of November, but good hospital, and finding in an outer pocket of his great music, numerous banners, and an augmented millcoat the sum of £l7 10s. in gold, in an inner pocket tar)' array will be relied upon. I subscription for the on ' Crokehimself £1 is. in silver, and in the waistcoat pocket 41d. in Dr. Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel bronze. The pockets were much torn, and his waisthas collected E 2,766, as the subscr coat and trousers unfastened. The witness also , found a railway ticket from Temple to Victoria, dated past year from his diocese to Peter's pence Dr. Oct. 2. (The deceased was found on the 7th.) The - will carry the amount to Rome and ticket had not been clipped. In the tunnel where peraofls.lly present it to the Pope. the deceased was found MCP distinct pools of blood M. A. Yvon is said to be preparing a large panowere discovered, one about eight yards from the ramie picture representing. the battle of Ulundi, other.—Dr. John Phillips, the house surgeon at which is to be exhibited in London in May next. It King's College Hospital, said that the deceased was is further said that it will be stretched on a wall of admitted in an insensible condition, and died about 130 yards (!) circumference. twenty minutes later. Hellad sustained a broken, leg, fractured spine, and othyr very severe injuries. The jury returned a verdict, " rhat the deceased met his death on the District Railway, but there was •••• show how he came on the line." PRINCE EDWARD OF SAXE WEIMAR  A gamekeeper in the service of Mr. Bernard Wake, a leading Sheffield solicitor, has been fined El and costs, for savagely beating a man whom he found gathering blackberries in a wood on his beat. The remote Fort Macleod, in the Rocky Mountains, Dominion of Canada, has its newspaper. The Rev. T. McLean has started the Excelsior, an eightpage journal, nine inches by seven, in lithogram.  It is said that Nova Scotia has "struck oil,"petroleum having been discovered in the River Dennis Settlement. Experts think that the oil belt extends from Lake Ainslie through the River Dennis district.  Edward F. Ribble has been fined 20s. at Greenwich Police Court for biting a policeman who had arrested him for another offence. Kibble got the constable's finger into his mouth, and bit it to the bone. Professor Monier Williams has just returned from Berlin, where he has been making enquiries as to the arrangements for the reception of English Orientalists at the congress to be held in that capital next veer.  It is reported in London the Echo says, that the real object of the Temple liar Memorial is to gain a baronetcy for the retiring Lord Mayor, which would be the probable consequence of a visit of her Majesty to the City to unveil the Memorial. A telegram from Berlin announces that an accident has occurred in a mine belonging to Count Renard, near Kattowitz, whereby fifty-four workmen were overwhelmed, and it is feared that about fifty of them must be suffocated. Mr. Pearson, of Pall Mall, has discovered, in weekly newspaper of 1812, a political ode by Byron that was not hitherto known to be his. It will shortly be printed, with a copy of the poet's letter relating to the same.-4thetareion. • A Constitutional problem needs solution in British Columbia. On the Bth of May the local Legislature was prorogued until August 9. It was not summoned until the 21st of August, when, legally, it was dead, and could not be prorogued. Rye fetched a higher price one day last week on the Berlin Corn Exchange than it has done for 30 years. 205 to 213 marks were paid, according to the quality, per 1,000 kilogrammes. The average price tor rye was only five marks lower than that of wheat.  idence  Monday was the 57th anniversary of the birth of General the Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, C. 8., commander of the military forces at Portsmouth, who was born at Bushey Park, Hens, on Oct. 11, 1823. Prince Edward la the son of Duke Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, brother of the Grand Duke Karl Friedrich, and cousin of Karl Alexander, the present Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. He entered the British army as a subaltern, on June 1, 1841, and attained the rank of general in December last. He married, on Nov. 27,1851, the Lady Agnate Catherine Gordon-Lennox, daughter of Charles, fifth Duke of Richmond, LG., and sister of the present Duke of Richmond and Gordon.