Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-11-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE CORONER'S INQUEST.  There have been launched at Sunderland in October fire steamers of an aggregate tonnage of 15,620 tons. A telegram from New York says :—Mr Norris Watts, the son of a wealthy Londoner, has been found murdered at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Mr Seward, chief steward of the troopship Orontes, mysteriously disappeared as the fillip came up the channel to Portsmouth on Thunday. He apparently fell or jumped overboard. A formal denial has been given by the Comte de Paris's private secretary to the statement which has attained publicity that the Princess Helene of Orleans, the Comte's second daughter, is engaged to the Duke of Clarence and Avondale. A British subject, who is charged with abscond. _ _ _  . - - lug from London with the sum of £14,000, was arrested at San Sebastian on Monday. lie will be taken to Bilbao, and conveyed by sea thence to Liverpool. The Paris newspapers report the arrest on Wednesday, in a state of destitution, of GeorgePheasey, an English lad, aged twelve years (son of a wellto-do horse dealer), who ran away from London, accompanied by another English lad named Frederick Jennings, aged 15, to come and see Paris. Jennings has disappeared. A terrible murder is reported from Ardacre Cliffs, County Clare. Al an early hour on Wednesday morning the dwelling of a boycotted fanner named Flanagan was fired into by Moonlighte:s, and his daughter, aged twenty years, was killed on the spot. It is believed that their intenthn was to murder the father. A nsinterharned Thomas Tree (501 committed suicide at Grimsby in a shocking manner on Wednesday night. True occupied the front room at 123, Albert-street, and the occupants of the back premises, hearing a scream, rushed round, and found him )yirig just outside the door in a pool of blood. He died almost immediately. It was found that he had forced a sharp marlinspike down his throat. A Philadelphia telegram says :—The contest has begun over the will of the late Charles R. Pepper, who died in March last in a Paris suburb, leaving over 5(.0,000 dollars. During his travels in 1872 Pepper met a young German girl named Sibelle Erb, and treated her as his wife for many years. He has left his fortune to her, and his relatives are the -intestants of the will.  The Liberal delegates of the Ayr Burghs ea Wednesday night adopted Mr Birkmyre, merchant, Greenock:as their candidata at the next eleeLion. At the Onart-r Se sions at Middleton on Wednes-1 day Thomas Connors, an evicted Ponsonby tenrnt, I appealed from the sentence of twomonthe imprisonment passed by the Crimes Act Conrt at Castle• martry for assaulting a constable —The Recorder reversed the decision of the magistrates. The smack Gordon's Charge on Thnrsday took into Grimsby the mew of the schooner Beeline, from Carnarvon to Stinderloind with slates. The schooner sprang a leak on Sunday night fifty miles from Flamborough Read. The crew worked hard at the pumps, but the vesael I gradually settled down, and it was found she would , have to he abandoned. The crew were taken off by  the Gordon's Charge on Tuesday evening. Whilst workmen were on Thursday ainking a well in a house in Birkenhead they oame upon a thick vein of gravel at a great depth, in which sparkling particles were noticed. The owner took some specimens to a jeweller, who, after applying tests, declared the particles to be gold. The pebbles of the gravel were small, and gold adhered to their sides. It is thought that the vein would be worth working, but that the land all round is covered with buildings. A London Sheriff's Court on Thursday assessed the damages in a breach of promise action brought by Miss Ann Elizabeth Ha bgaod, of Bournemouth, against Mr Archibald Rough, manager of Berlin wool shop in Tottenham Court-road, where plaintiff was at one time assistant. Plaintiff stated that the engagement took place in 1887, and the marriage was arranged, but defendant's mother eventually wrote asking plaintiff to break off the match, 'alleging that her son was being forced into the marriage.—The jury awarded plaintiff .S5OO. The Revising Barrister appointed under the Municipal Corporations Franchise Act at Belfast on Thursday disallowed the claims of sixty-one Unionist tenants of Mr de Cobain, M.P. fur East Belfast, on the ground that the landlord had not paid poor rates within the statutable period. Mr de Cobain attended the Court, and said the fault arose through the malevolence of the poor rate collectors towards him, a statement which the Revising Barrister described as absurd and untenahle. At the ordinary Petty Session at Tipperary on Thursday the pohr 'Mt Har.