The Warwickshire Herald. — 1896-11-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

NEWS NOTES FROM INDIA.  The health of Bombay is always pretty bad, but the latest statistics are mon. encouraging than usual. The number of deaths registered in Bombay during the week ending October 20th, 1896, was 606, being 28 less than in the preceding week, and 183 more than the week ending October 15th, 1895, and 129 1110 T” than in the corresponding period in the preceding Ave years. The deaths among the different classes were: Buildhists, none; Jains, 39; Brahmins, 30; Lingayets, none; Bhattiaa, 7; Hindus of Aber castes, 286: Hindu out-castes, 44; Alussulmans. 143: Parsers. 25; Jews, 2; Native Christians, 15; Eurasians, 5; Europeans, 10; Ne African, none; while the rate of mortality per 1,.., of the population was 36112. There were 110 deaths from nmittent fever, being 61 less than in the last week, and 48 more than the corresponding week of last year. There was no death from cholera, and none from smallpox. The mean number of deaths from cholera in the corresponding week in the preceding five yearb was 1. The deaths from diseases of the respiratory system, diarrhma, and dysentery were 74, 18, and 11 last week, against N, 21, and 10, respectively, in the corresponding week in the last year. Dunng the week 284 births were reported in different districts. _ _  News of the pinch of scarcity is coining from all round the districts, even from places where it. is said sufficient food exists, but for the fact that the grain is being held back and exported to districts where scarcity prevails. A grain not of a serious character took place at Hubli the other day. Some hundreds of villagers arrived with sticks, went to the Hubli grain bazaar, and demanded grain at rates below that at which the Bunnialus were selling. On the Bunniahs refusing they were mobbed, beaten with sticks and their shops looted, the rioters helping themselves to the grain. All the shops where grain was sold were closed. The police, headed by the Slamluttlar, came to the bazaar, whereupon they were attacked by the mob. The rioters next went to the goods shed of the Southern klahratta Railway, where grain was being loaded for exportation to the Central Provinces and other famine districts. The railway police endeavoured to keep back the mob, and a fight ensued. The police, finding that the rioters increased in numbers, and that there was every possibility of their being overpowered and the station being plundered, fired several shots in the air, which had the effect of striking terror into the minds of the rioters, and they dispersed. The police patrolled the bazaar, and eventually persuaded some of the Bunniahs to open their shops. The chief cause of complaint is that large quantities of grain should be exported to other districtssand the price in Hubli, Dharwar, and other places increseed to famine rates, though this year's crops in Hubli are said to be very good. In connection with the death of Mrs. Leggett, who killed herself at Breealore by swallowing • quantity of hydrocyanic at . in the Albert Dispensary, owned by Narrain Row a Co., at the adjourned Inquest the coroner said he had made inquiries and found that the deceased I, dy was supported by an officer in Mrs. Dee's boar. rig-house, and that since he had left Bangalore on three months' leave she had become despondent. In summing up, he said that in returning a verdict of ',Amide the jury should consider the undisputed tact that there was gross negligence in the dispensary. Had Fliroper precautions been taken the tragedy could not have occurred; that there was no properly qualified and duly responsible person left in the shop; that the consumption of beer in • chemist's shop, obtained by the chemist himself, was highly objectionable and demoralising, and it was of the utmost importance, in the interest of the public, that such should be brought to the notice of the district magistrate, to whom the whole proceedings will be submitted for orders. The jury in recording a verdict of "suicide" added that beer was allowed to be drunk in the shop on this and on previous occasions; that notwithstanding the fact that Mrs. Leggett asked for chlorodyne, and was behaving in a manner that aroused the suspicion of the partner who was in the shop so far as to make him go for the police, he left the case containing a deadly poison open, with the keys hanging in the lock and deceased standing near It in the compounding room, and that a servant of the shop tried to conceal the fact by hiding an empty phial that contained prussic acid in the back yard. The contents of the stomach were sent to the Chemical Examiner for analysis. The loyal speech of the Maharajah of Alwar, In which his Highness expressed the pride he would feel in leading his Imperial Service troops to the defence of the Empire, is only the first of many such speeches which will be made to the Viceroy during the next few weeks. Lord Elgin's tour this year includes a very large number of native States, and the leading functions of the Viceregal progress are to be reviews of the contingents of Imperial Service troops. Each squadron and company of these is the concrete expression of a loyal rivalry among the chiefs to distinguish themselves above their peers in service to the Crown; and the difficulty of the Government is to prevent the chiefs spending too much money on these troops.  aged ot MallallelooKen, auppitet a kettle of Clevelandse-mews, scalding himself. He is In the Middlesex 'lloepita/ Police-constable Mitchell fell through a skylight In Stephen-street, Tottenham-court-road. At the Middlesex Hospital it was found that be had sustained severe injuries to his bad  At Sheffield Charles Nixon. 83 inmate of the workhouse, was charged with disorderly conduct. Prisoner was discovered in the cellar thinking beer from a quart bottle. Prisoner was sent to gaol for seven days.  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