Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1890-09-26 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  THE coal labourers at Gibraltar have struck work. THE Cape of Good Hope Bank has suspended payment. M. ROCHEFORT has 'censured M. Millevoye for fighting a duel with M. Canivet. THE town of Colon, wlpeh was destroyed by fire five years ago, has been partially burnt down. THE largest ironclad in the Italian Navy (the Sardegna) was launched at Sorzzia on Saturday. Duarte a bull tight in Paris, a toreador was gored in the head by a bull, and rendered unconscious. AN equestrian statue of the late King Victor Emmanuel was unveiled at Florence on Saturday. A FRENCH Customs officer at Chanila;ry has shot an Italian sineggler who offered re tone, to arreit. THE authorities in France have determined to put a stop to the exhibition of bearded women, young giantes.es, beauties of the harem, kn. ON Sunday Mr. Caine occupied the pulpit in the little Congregational Church in the village oi Selborne, Ham psh ire. - .  THa Rev. Henri; Webb was publicly recognised as pastor of the Allerton Congregational church on Saturday evening. MR. John D. Rockefeller, of Standard Oil fame, has presented £2e0,060 to the Paptist University in Chicago. Mr. Rockefeller recently presented the same institution with £120,000. A WHOLICHALK poisoning case is reported from Pressburg, v here a family consisting of father, another, and sis children died after eating the fruit of the deadly nightshade, in igregance of its poisonous character. _  JUTE is the "minor textile" industry in which wages are lowest, the workman only earning £5O ss. a year, whereas in the linen trade he earns £5l 13a., in the cotton trade LW 125., and in lace making CO 18s.  _ Tog worm is said to live three years, the parrot and heron sixty years, the goose and pelican fifty years, while the crow, eagle and swan, are said to live one hundred years each. THE floods iu the Balkans have cawed an anpalling loss of life. A despatch from Mustapha Pasha, a town on the Tare eßulgarian frontier, reports that 200 persons were drowned in the deluge caused by the overtlow_of the Maritza.  _ . MR. Dion Boucicault, the playa-riter and actor, has died at New York from pneumonia, after a lingering illness. MaHAHE Conderc, of Bergerac, has entered her 111th year, having still a bright wit and a good memory. THE Rev. Thomas Binns, aged 80, a supernumerary preacher, was conducting sertice on Sunday etening at Leyland-road Wesleyan eh pd, Southport., wben, during the singing of the first hymn, he fell forward and diet immediately.  A PANIC occurred. at Wellingborough on Monday during a menagerie procession, a report having got abroad that a lion bad got loose. Several women and children were more or less ciushed and injured. JOSEPH Walker Smith, aged 32, died on Monday morning at his residence in Huddersfield from the effects of an injury which he received while playing football on Saturday. Iturniy, a village in the Swiss Canton of St. Gall, has been almost totally destroyed by fire. Three hundred buildings were burned down. A New York telegrom says a man and a woman, who had resolved to die together and had committed suicide, were ciemated on Long Island in Surday. MR. Martini. M.P for North Kilkenny, while in Listowel Parish Church on Sunday mon, was seized with an attack of heart disease. He raped almost immediately. Two men named Michael Glynn and John Moeray were killed on Tuesday by fslling doer the shaft at Low Laitbea Colliery, Gawthorpe, near Ossett.