The Warwickshire Herald. — 1896-02-27 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ALLEGED CRIMPING.  Pow Sow, of Limehouse-causeway, London, and Edwin Mills, of West India Dock-road, had each to answer two summonses, at the Thames Policecourt, for supplying seamen to be entered on board the steamship Nan Shan, then in the United Kingdom, contrary to section 111, Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.—Mills kept a sailors' outfitting shop, while the otb r defendant managed • sailors' onarding-house. In consequence of receiving a miegram from the captain of the Nan Shan, then at Leith, Mr. C. F. Johnson, chief clerk at Messrs. Richardikn's, shipowners, of 29. Great St. Helens, went to Mills and read the telegram to him. It stated that defendant had 10 men and • cooksteward. Mills then took Mr. Johnson round to Pow Sow, and he called in seven men. Mr. Johnson agreed to pay the wages they required, and to pay their fares from London to Leith, in addition to maintenance money of 2s. a day. One of the defendants then said he could get five more men from Cardiff. Ten men signed the provisional articles, and the advance notes for one month's waged wore handed to Mills. The men were then sent off to the steamer, and the five men from Cardiff followed. Two of the men had been identified as among those charged with deserting from the stearasMp Glenearn.—Mr. Johnson said he did not care whether the men belonged to a ship so long as be got them. Mills, during most part of the interview with Pow Sow, adted as interpreter, and be did not do anything else. Mills had not done anything to lead witness to think he was furnishing men for the ship.—At this stage the witness fell down in a fit, and had to be carried out of court.— Mr. Dickinson adjourned the case.  The Aurania landed in Liverpool 10 of the crew of the Gla-gow steamer Lamington, which went ashore off Long Islana, New York, on the 4th inst. The men were rescued by the life.saving apparatus. Sir F. Lascellea, the British Ambassador at Berlin, with Lady and Miss Lucelles and Colonel and Krt. Swains aid their daughter, lunched with the Emperor William and the Empress on Sunday.  At the Old Bailey, Edmond Tomlinson a letter carrier at South Kensington, was senenCed to 18 months' bard labour for letter-stealing. At the prisoner's lodgings ware found upward of 500 undelivered letters. At Caldwell, Ohio, a few days ago, Mies Bose easter was wedded to Walter Webb. A day or so later the bride was missed for several hours, and a search was instituted. She was found in the garret, dying fma the effects of arsenic administered by herself; ea before doctors could reach her she was dead. The reason for the suicide is a mystery. . . .  ——- . A Umber's advantage.—Usher (sternly): "You lazy raecal! I don't see that answer in the book. What will you be when you are a man?" Pupil: "I can be a teacher—an' always look in the book— boo-boo ! "  Be: "Yea, I confess that I once put a collarbutton in the contributiou plate; but I'll never do it again." She: "When did you see the error of your waya P" He: "The next morning. I wanted the collar•button."  Mr. Whoopla: "Suppose, DoMe, I were to rob you of a kiss, what would you do?" Miss Poppinfay: "How can I tell, Mr. Whoopla, what is going to happen before it occur,? Do you think am a clef/70mA ? "