The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-06-07 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

HKRMANN.  Court, on Friday, before was resumed of Marie  placed _hi  The elected Moderator  Criminal  Ireland for the ensuing year, Crrgan, of Belfast, as secretary. Lieutenant FOrgtl6soll, Quartermaster of the 4th Gloucester Regiment, committed suicide on Monday morning by shooting himself through the head with a rifle in the regimental camp at Cirencester. Amongst the contributions to the jubilee fund of the London Missionary Society, which already exceeds £20,000, is a gift of £I,OOO from the Rev. Robert Dawson and Mrs. Dawson—"the result of 40 years' practice of total abstinence."  Two latel- ewers, named William Martin, aged 43, tail White, aged 33, were at work on Sunday, when they were run over by a pilot engine and killed in a tunnel on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway near Walton Junction. -  In Preston prison John Thomas, 44 years, joiner, of Darwen, undergoing a term of imprisonment, has committed suicide. When his cell was visited by a warder Thomas was found dead, having strangled himself with an oakum twist.  A singular fatality has occurred to a child at Liverpool named Mabel Roberts, aged 7 years. While playing in the street with a toy boat, made of tin she fell, and the sharp point of the mast entered one of her eyes and penetrated the brain. The funeral has Just taken place of Mr. B. Kimpton, the oldest bookseller in London, and probably in England, whose name has been familiar to generations of medical students. He died at the great age of 91 years. He began his business as a 1.046011er over 50 years ago. A scheme prepared by Mr. A. F. Bowker, engineer to the Mid-Kent Water Company, for Nupplving the villages of Ditton, East Mailing, and I.arkdeld with water has just been carried to completion. The works, which included the laying of shout Li miles of mains, have been executed in •liree months.  The coming of age of Viscount Villiers, eldest son of the Earl of Jersey, was publicly celebrated at ilriton Ferry on Saturday. At the request of Lord Villiers, a sum of money which was to have been petit on presentation plate was devoted to the entertainment of the aged poor and the Sunday ,chool children of the district.  An old lady named King, about 80 years of age, was in the Wandle Park Recreation Ground, Croydon, on Sunday night, when she suddenly fell to the ground. She was picked up and placed on a scat, but when a doctor arrived, a few minutes later. he pronounced life extinct. The body was removed to the mortuary.  So far as the supplies to railway companies are concerned, the efforts of the trade ring to keep up the price of coal has been abortive. On the North liastein Railway line some 700,000 tons of coal are yearly used. Tenders have just been accepted by the directors for six months' supply at Bs. 9d. a ton, the same as paid in 1892.  Two outrages of an alleged agrarian character have been reported to the Co. Antrim Constabulary. The latest of these is the complete destruction by fire, near Ballymoney, of the extensive premises of a cattle dealer named Stevenson. Two cows and three pigs were burnt to death. It is alleged that the fire was the work of an Ineondiary. The other case relates to stabbing to death of two valuable horses in Moneyglass Detnesne, near Toomebridge.  The action of "Desmond v. Watson" was heard before Mr. Justice Hawkins and a special jury. The plaintiff rented, for a year, a furnished house at Wandsworth-common from the defendant, and dincovered, for the first time as he alleged on entering, that there were two rooms (a museum and a workshop) kept permanently locked, and there was a gardener and his family living in tho basement lie claimed damages for breach d agreement—The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £3O.  ..„, :.4 ......61, , • . F Wu . . -../. •••• , ... k trial . _ ctznent , A 4,. . • ~ re ..i. in -.urine, / IF . '..61 • v . • . . tied .44 4 . ' 194 „., 'erY ' • , , .. fI" ' . ' 4 ku '1 , Jumitee '• . ~ • I . , i ,to '' „ , n._ h tin police/14 -. . fork* tip 'Of the, 'ne deceased. and he - . .t WA' Na . , , "in . ..• whi4- brea Shearar tor kondoo iln. rj, The.sentaiica paimal r,