The Warwickshire Herald. — 1896-04-16 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DETERMINED TO DIE.  A French farmer named Claude committed suicide on Saturday in an extraord nary manner in the cel ar of his house at Annecy. He first laid a short train of gun • owder along the floor, and taking an old gurbarrel he rammed three or four OUTICPS of gunpowder into it, and placed the breech end of the barrel at one end of the train cf powder. 'then, leaning his head against the muzzle, he touched off the train with a lighted candle. An explosion followed, and hi. wife, who was attracted by the noise, went into the cel'ar, and found her husband lying dead, with his bead blown to pieces  At Smthampton Police-court James G dle, who was char.wl ou a warrant with stealin and receiving 854 postal orders, value £3.00. the ot,ceeds of a burglar, on a Glasgow Pat-off.re, and which were f•aad at his lodgiiigs :n Kent-v.ad, was on Monday remanded, bail being refused. At Wednesbuly a girl nan.e Eiiiabe.h Carter, aged 12, has been frightenid to d atti by a dog. Deceased, accompanied hy a ouripanion, w. of with a message to a house when, upon the door being opened, the dog eew out. Time animal pursued deceased, who eventually fell down and died from shock produced by fr4ht. The dog, a mongrel, weighed 601 b., and by the direcuon of a coroner's, jury was destroyed.  The full-ngged ship carnarvonthire, captain Wi hams, bound to Cork from Sin Francisco with wheat, ,truck the rocks at Token. Point, South Sk bbereen, early on Sunday morning during a gale. The crew, numbering more than 20 hands, took to small boat', and landed mealy. The vessel will probably become a total wreck. -  - , At Elioburgh, on Saturday, the National Challenge Trophy, won last year for the sixth time in succession by Scotland, was handed over to the Lord Provost. A procession of volunteer regiments and the team was for red, and mantled through the 'aline pal streets, carrying titetroph to the Queen's Brigade Hall. where the carom iny took place. Donald Duncan kt•Cr mato., a travelling draper, who has been in custody since July Last, was sentenced at Swansea, on Saturdar, to one month's imprisonment for disobeying the orders of the Bankruptcy Cmr, it being alleged that he concealed certain property, and falsified books relating to his affairs.  A Ilne specimen of the eche eagle has been catight b a gamekenter on the mountain rams beyond Gine-Twee...4 1, on the Faun imitate, Ardiza. R ss-hirn. The bird was in excellent plumage, Mil me.sured 6rt. f om tip to tip of wings. The Thames oorpnise has been found dead on the Inreshn,e at Clti•WiCk. It. weight is said to haw* been 8 wt., its length lift. 3in., and its girth sfl. 0 , qy • wag opt Jo gllgiat egl FM. WWI -a0!I .1 V Jo ltirtag otn intim , op{ pug 01 tp ganef ,tuno 111 ttnu 0141 tow , art tit vat! 4 0514 tient , , e Situ I ro Jammu mu him ,•Stpttdtta pug , qtti pug 04 •uageg atun ow{ put 918.0! t 5 uo eionp.ugiapan as 6g 114prgJ Baum ;o Jaquina tan uoiqn„ tentrupernwa sztopiaVutt Nut -no!! ; sail 54ed9 043 ,„ smqqoa.; elmicpasp. 40 Peat' 041 aeptu—mina-smuutio-no.,:m; eau  0101.11 atuoe Ind 0.1 cum ma emus aa &nimbi mron aa,i pu v "nog cm stag )I^^3 :Trrl Pta'oaS ~ eltinon 040 :11-9 ls.La „ aun,p g,en (ma ao 'dump at suit run JO pua n It mem atu„ 111 mt °hie [lll4 plloloc„! •I. •••••1 flOt 0.141 aoa