The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-11-15 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CHIPS OF NEWS.  AT HOME. miss Edith Chester, the well known and popular actress, dk.cl at Brighton on Saturday of typhoid fever.  It is stated that the panel of judges for the new Commercial Court is to consist of the Lord Chief Justice of England, Mr. Justice Mathew, and Mr. Justice Henn Collins.  Nathaniel Scott, bank clerk, was arrested in Liverpool, and charged with embezzling LSO from the Bray branch of the Northern Bank of Ireland. He was handed over to the Irish police. At Exeter Assizes, before Mr. Justice Grantham, Elizabeth Smith, 62, was convit.ed of a burglary at a jeweller's shop in Honiton. Several previous convictions for like offences were proved against her, and she was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.  Sentence of death was passed upon William Wilshaw Whitehead at the Manchester Assizes- on Saturday. The prisoner, who had been separated from his wife for some time, at length met the woman in the street. At once seizing her lie cut hes throat with a razor, the wound causing almost instantaneous death.  At Gillingham, Dorset, Mary Love, a single woman, of Milton, was committed for trial charged' with the murder of her illegitimate child. According to a statement made by the prisoner to the police, she gave birth to the child in a field, through which she had to pass on her way home from work, and as she had nothing to put the infant in she threw it into a stream.  A fatal gun accident has occurred near Eshwood Hal!, Durham, the residence of Mr. Harry Cochrane, colliery owner. A boy named Bradley, son of Mr. Cochrane's gamekeeper, was showing his sister how his father loaded his gun. It is stated that he placed a cartridge in the gun, when the weapon went off, blowing the child's head nearly off. The little girl, who was aged 10 years, died immediately. A great sensation was caused in Ballybricken Roman Catholic Church, in Waterford, on Sunday by the military present being ordered to leave the sacred edifice during the celebration of mass by the lieutenant in charge, who is a Protestant. The majority of the Royal Fusiliers obeyed, but others did not, on the direction, it is stated, of a sergeant present. The officiating clergymen subsequently visited the military barracks, and the matter has been reported to headquarters. .  . A terrible tragedy was enacted on Sat•orday at the village of Capel, near Tunbridge. Frederick Henry Turner, a farmer in a small way of business, had • trilling quarrel with his wife, and ended •it by cutting her throat with a razor. The poor woman attempted to run out of the house, but only got as far as the passage when she fell down and expired. As soon as Turner saw that his wife was dead he cut his own throat, causing almost instant death. The couple leave four children.  On Monday morning a silk hat and umbrella were seen floating near Lowood, at the end of Windermere Lake, and subsequently a body was found, which, a correspondent at Ambleside says, has been identified as the Rev. T. Pearse 'Tretheway, pastor of Leicester Congregational Church, who had been missing since Tuesday. The deceased appears to have been at Wastoile on the 7th and Bth and Eskdale on the 9th idst. A correspondence Bth, on the body indicated that the deceased had committed suicide. An explosion of a somewhat novel character,which occurred on Saturday at Harland and Wolff's shipbuilding yard, Belfast, did considerable damage and injured three men, one of them, it is feared, fatally. An old steamship shaft, into the hollow of which water had evidently I leaked, was placed across a forge furnace, with the result that a terrific explosion followed shortly afterwards. A man named Nolan had his skull fractured in two places, and two other men were badly injured about the head and body. Two brave men, J. W. Robinson and S. Wilkinson, porters, have been rewarded by the directors of the North Eastern Railway Company with a cheque each for 50s. for bravery they shewed in rescuing a woman at the station at Stockton. The woman fell off the platform while a train was fast approaching. The two young men leapt into the "four-foot," caught the woman, lifted her into the "six-foot," and held her upright there till the train passed them on one side and a light engine on the other.  At Pontefract, on Monday, Edward Johnson, Matthew Whitehead, and Edwin England were charged with aiding and abetting in the dissolution of a registered friendly society, otherwise than in accordance with the Friendly Societies Act. The society was dissolved in June last, and the members divided all assets, but no return was made to the Registrar-General, who heard nothing about the matter until a person complained that he had not received his share. It was explained that this person was in arrears and was not entitled to sick relief, but the rules shewed that he was a boadlide member. The defendants were each fined 10s. and costs, special fees being allowed to the prosecuting solicitor from London. During the height of the storm, about 5 o'clock on Monday evening, half a brick, wrapped in a pocket-handkerchief, was heaved through the window of the premises of Messrs. Jones and Son, gold and silver refiners, 19, Longacre, London. Immediately after the crash two men were observed decamping with two trays of jewellery, consisting of rings, he. So fiercely did the storm prevail at the moment that their flight was unimpeded, and, indeed, so far as the persons in Messrs. Jones's shop were concerned, pursuit was impossible. The thieves before smashing the plate-glass had secured the handles of the folding door giving admission to the shop with a piece of cord in such a manner that it could not be readily opened from the Inside. The attack of the thieves resulted in jewellery to the value of £450 falling a prey to their device. A third tray—the most valuable, containing about £5OO worth of jewellery—was dislodged, but not stolen. Several articles of value were picked up outside the shop and in the thoroughfare, but the bulk the thieves secured. They have not been traced.