Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1891-12-25 ()

LEA NINGS.  From Feb. 1 next Zanzibar will be a free port except for war material and alcohol.  --Afire broke o- u—t-a-t-307, Lavender-hill, Battersea. Two girls were burnt to death. At Lewes Assizes ,five residents'o-of Eastbourne were each fined 401. for riotous conduct in connection with the Salvation Army. The Lady :Mayoress distributed the prizes. to the City of London Swimming. 'Associa.tion at the Guildhall.  Another arrest was mado by the pollee in Con. nection with the Socialist; mooting at World's-cncl) Chelsea.  Lord Sheffield's team of English cricketers, now. 'touring in Australia, defeated twenty-two of Goutinirn•by an innings .and sixteen runs. •The death is announced of M. V. Jacobs, Minister of State and Deputy for Antwerp. The deceased WaS4 formerly a Cabinet Minister. Raton Hall, near Eastbourne, the seat of Mr. Freeman Thomas, has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at upwards of £ö,ooo. At the weekly -meeting of the Balloon Society Mr. G. E. Matthew Vincent, F.R.C.S., .lectured upon the Australian Irrigation Colonies. The Metropolitan church at Vienna has: been reconsecrated oWing to a suicide having taken place • there under somewhat romantic circumstances. A shoemaker named Gustave Vanderavero wa's , sentenced to death at Namur for having murdered three brothers and a sister by poisoning them. A Cossack officer at St. Putersbtiro• discovering his wife in an act of infidelity killed her on the spot with his revolver. A St. Petersburg correspondent Says the famine in Russia has led to many boriible crimes. • In nap case five men were murdered in their -sleep for S. At a meeting of the Heinsworth Rural Sanitary, Authority, ib was reported that an epidemic of measles had broken omit, no fewer than 44,cases having been repolted to the -Medical Officer.  A niarried winnan named Hainnett and her child were found cut to Pieces on the Cheshire Lines Railway, near Stockport. it is said to be a case of murder and suicide.  Herbert K.,Grecn charged at Lewes Assims with the,murder of his daughter by pushing her in the sea db Brighton, was sentenced to fifteen years' imprison nent for manslaughter only. • Mrs. Eleanor G. Thompson, who has frequently appeared in the Law Courts with reference to what is known as, the Australian paternity! cape was refused a hearing in the Court of Appeal. _ _ . .  - Judgment was given in the House Of Lords in the .:appeal of the Mogul Steamship Company v. M'Grecrer, Cow &Co. Their lordships dismissed the appeal with costs. • An adventurer, Frederick G, Barton, lately living in good style at Burgess-bill, Was sentenced ab Lewes Assizes to twelve years' penal servitude for bu rghtry. . At the Marlborough-street Police-court, William Meddings, omnibus conductor, was remanded on a charge of assaulting Elizabeth Maude Mary Trottuan, nineteen, a'servant, in Hyde Part. The new Quebec Ministry when settled in office will, it is stated, appoint a Royal Comnission•to inqu;re into alleged irregularities by the previous Government.  It is annorincisd that Italy, Switzerland, and. Norway are favourably inclined to the prolongation for a period of five months of their commercial treaties with Spain, which expire on February 28n1. A coroner's jury at 1.1. r.llton -returned a verdicb of wilful murder against George Henry Wood, in the case of the child, Edith Jett', who was outraged and killed. A verdict of nob guilty Was returned at the Central Criminal Court hi the case of Henry Dove, who was indicted for maliciously wounding a lad in a Clerkenwell club.  At Portsmouth, the body of a man, at present aot identified, was found lying in a rut. at Stainhaw. Death had evidently resulted from exposure. At the London Connty Sessions Lochiel Graham, 3eventy-six,"Avas sentenced to three years' penal servitude' for fraud. Under the name of Sir Obarles Cuff he had carried on an :adventurous vstem of swindling at 'home and abroad. A centenarian named Ann Drin, has died at 3omershatn Fen in her 104th year. She bad seven 3hildren twenty-nine grandchildren, six,y great grsandehildren, and several great great grand--; :thildren. Her youngest) son is sixty years old. A startling discovery was made ILL Clichy, a sUburb of'Paris, four bombs being found under the ioor of the police station. On examination it was seen that the•fuses had been ignited, but had nob .lentinned burning. A .fall of coal occurred at WednesburyOak Dolliery, and resulted in Job Baker and Henry Reynolds being killed, and Thomas Silvers, of TiPtArm, being seriously injured. The men we're :,erribly crushed.  —A \Child named Ambler, of Litt!einem., was leverely,crushed by the falling of a lingo bloa of done. He was playing in the yard occnpied by js father as a contractor when he met with the iccident, and narrowly escaped being killed. The other night, at Hull, a lamp trimmer named John William lecher, was stepping ashore from the steamer Bo ala, when he slipped. His head 3,,Ane in contact with the quayside, and he was killed almost instantaneously. An inquest was held on Robert Morgan, gamekeeper on Colonel Close's estate, Queen's County, who was.found shot dead on the edge of a wood. The jury, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder %gainst some person or persons unknown." Meisrs. Portland and Sons' extensive print works Fib Barrgead, seven miles from Glasgow, chught fire. Three buildings were destroyed before the fire was subdued. The damage is estimated at £B,