Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-04-04 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

OOO.  A tire occurred on Saturday evening at Kentish Town, London, on the portion of the premises tenanted by Miss Tilley, a lodger, 70 years of age. The material damage was not great, but Miss Tilley was burned to death.  James M'Cullagh, who was sentenced to penal servitude for life in P 383 in Glasgow, under the Treason Act, has been released Irons Portland Prison. It is said that other lush convicts will shortly be released. . . . .  The- Lords ot the Admiralty have allocated the sum of £505,720 for wages in Chatham Dockyard for the new year entered upon on Wednesday. This is the largest amount ever known at this establishment, and is £115,350 in excess of the wages grant of the previous year. Maurice Read, the Surrey cricketer, has decided to retire from the county team and act as coach to a large school in Hampshire. Read was one of the most esteemed professionals of his eleven. Five young women converts were baptised in a creek at Richmond, Kentucky, the other day, with four inches of snow on the ground, several inches of ice on the shoal waters of the creek, and the temperature considerably below freezing. Prof. Ferri, the famous Italian criminologist, says that front 9 to 10 per cent, of criminals are either madmen or criminal through passion: 40 or 50 per cent, are born and habitual criminals; and 40 to 50 per cent, occasional criminals.  There has been quite an epidemic of suicides among young women in Melbourne. During the first 10 days of February no fewer than five young women jumped into the Yarra with the object of ending their existence. Three of them were drowned, but the other two were rescued. A collision occurred on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at Mexboro', between two mineral trains, one from Barnsley to Hex thorpe, and the other shunting to the Midland line. Several waggons were knocked off the rails and smashed. No personal injury is reported. Much delay was caused to the passenger trains from and to Hull and Liverpool. An inquest was held by the deputy coroner for East Sussex on the body of Mr. Appleby, aged 33 years, of independent means, residing at Eastbourne. While driving in a vehicle with his wife and sister-in-law the horse bolted, the vehicle was overturned, and the deceased was thrown against a post and killed instantly. A verdict of accidental death was returned. At Stoke the stipendiary magistrates tined Frederic!' Jones, a local tradesman, £3B and costs for exposing in the market 33 putrid rabbits. It was admitted by the town clerk, who prosecuted on behalf of the corporation, that the defendant had not been guilty of mare than carelessness; but the magistrates said a man hail no right to be careless where the health and lives of the people were concerned.  The Supreme Tribunal at Leipzig nas quashed the sentence of nine month' imprisonment, two years' loss of cival rights, and 1,000 marks fine, which was passed upon the American sporting man, Robert Kneebs, by the First Provincial Court at Berlin on January 14 last. Kneebs was convicted of fraud in connection with the alleged running of the famous American trotting mare Nelly Kneebs under another name.  Copies of Parish Council Standing Orders, 12pp. 216 per dozen.—" Telegraph " Office, Beverley.