Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1897-06-18 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  111M.m....,•1  There le much foe along the north-east coast of Newfoundland, and navigation ie impeded. The Postal Departauent of New South Wales proposes to buy fifty bit:iota& for the use of telegraph meamagere.  A bag containing 100 oz. of gold has been found bear Cromwell, Otago. It is supposed to be one of those stolen from • polioe escort at Clyde twenty-six years ago.  The direotors of the Furness Railway Company have decided to abolish second-class passenger accommodation, and to issue instead supplementary reserved tickets to holder* of third-claes tickets, for which a small extra charge will he made. Eastbourne is peouliarly a growta of the Victorian era. Sixty years ago it was little better than a fishing village, or collection of hamlets, with a coinbiued population of less than 3,000. To-day it is a flourishing health resort of the first rank, containing a resident population of 44,000, in addition to as many visitors.  A serious accident occurred on Saturday on the promises of Messrs. Barret and Co. at Vanxhall, Loudon. A workman was engaged in running • strap on a gear pulley, when he got entangled in the machinery, and sustained shocking injuries. He was removed to St. Thomas's Hospital in • critical condition.  A man of foreign appearance, aged about forty years, made a determined attempt to commit suicide by throwing himself into the lake at St. James's Park, London. lie had a heavy weight suspended from his neck in order to ensure drowning; lout he was rescued in an exhausted condition, and taken to Westminster Hospital. The director of the New York Library has discovered a disinfectant for books, which he claims to be perfect. He places the volume in an air-tight box, with a saucer of solution of formalin, and in an hour's time the vapour has saturated every leaf and has destroyed every germ. Trials of this system, says the "Academy," have been wholly successful. As Thomas Sparbrook, a coachman in the employ of Mr. Bibby, Fachwen, St. Asaph, was riding home he was thrown from his horse. He sustained dreadful if,i ariei about the head and about the body. The animal kicked him. The mail died in a few minutes. His death caused an immense sensation in the city and neighbourhood, where he was well known.  John Aston, sailor,fifty years of age, lied at Sunderhind on Saturday morning under circumstances which necessitate an inquest. On Whit-Tuesday he fought in Deye Street with a young man and got knocked out. He was taken home, and became more and more unconscious with only one brief interval until his death. In that interval he asked who the young man was who had badly used hint. A Midland special train running into Morecambe on Saturday morning knocked down William Hodgson, aged sixteen, teacher in a Morecambe Board school,and son of William B. Iludgmou,a well-known local tradesman, WI lie was crossing the line at Moss Lane crossing. The injured youth was conveyed by train to Lancaster Infirmary in a dying condition. He wasterribly injiwed but the head by the buffers. The South-Eastern Railway Company have this season again brought into operation the arrangements for collection and delivery of luggage in advance. Last sell:loll several thousands of packages were conveyed from London stations to the seaside, and vice versa. Passengers evidently appreciated the convenience, and the experiment was a complete success.  At the Buxton Police Court, Henry Morten, landlord of the Swann Hotel, was fined 40s. and ousts for permitting drunkenness. The Bench gave a serious warning about spirits being supplied in B oxton to young boys. Edwin Clayton,Grore Hotel, was fined 40s. and costs for permitting drunkenness. A full license was granted to Claud Bouglien, twentyyears of age.  NOWR reached Liverpool on Saturday that the White Star steamer Nomadic, awl the Johnston liner Barnsinore were in collision off Holyhead during a dense fog the other afternoon, both being badly damaged. Two of the crew of the Barnsmore are in the hospital—one with a fractured skull, the other with a fractured log. The Nomadie has docked in Liverpool; the Barnamore is at Holyhead. An extraordinary scene was witnessed in Buxton Police Court on Saturday. James O'Connor was 3harged with bogging. He behaved like a raving lunatic, and boasted of being a dynsinntard. Upon being committal for fourteen days, he laid hold of a chair, and it took the combined efforts of nine policemen to overpower him. He raved and kicked, and even after his boots were removed carried on like a madman.  More breaches of the Manx Sunday-closing Act were on Saturday brought to the notice of the Douglas stipendiary. John M'Liicien, John Flannaghan, and Robert Callon, for having, on Sunday last, been found upon licensed premises in Douglas, and represented themselves to the hotel -keeper as bona-fide travellers, were each tined 10s. and costa. A number of persona were also fined for having been drunk in Douglas last Sunday. At Brecon, on Satnrdsy, Thomas Williams, John Jones, Albert Nihlett, and George Hogg were indicted for night poaching on Sir Joseph Itailey's preserves at Llangatteek, and Jones and Williams were also indietedfor violently assaulting the keepers. Jones was sentenced to penal servitude for five years. Williams WWI sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour, H3gg to fifteen calendar months, and Niblett to twelve months.  Princess Pauline Metternich, the widow of the former Austrian Ambassmbr in Paris at the Court of Napoleon