The Poole Telegram. — 1884-05-16 (Poole, Dorset, England)

ESSENCE OF NEWS.  The National Lifeboat Institution saved 952 lives in 1883 The Health Exhibition was opened on Thursday with Imposing ceremony. Revised regulations for the Volunteer force have been approved, and will shortly be iesuee, A Veer ten from Ottawa (=tat a that during the last 10 ghee 6 We immigrants have landed in C made. Mr. Charles O'Connor, of New York, a prominent lawyer, is dying at Nantucket, Matearhugette. Earl Manvers hag male is return of 40 per cent, to his Lincolnehire tena try on their last year's rente. A slieease has appeared at a village near Adrin, Greece, causing ten deaths in six hears. Its nature is unknown. Th. Loris have paased a Bill for the cenetriettion' maintenance, and regulation of a pier and li't at Folksatm/ e. The strike at Kimberly is quieting down, and work has been resumed at the mines outeide Kimberly under armed protection. The fruit crops in Wales have been considersbly damage 1 by the easterly tend north-easterly win& and the recent severe frees, A miner named Ainsley has recovered £45 damages from two accord at Hartlepool, for negligent and unskilful treatmr nt. Mee re. L itch, Patten, and Co., sugar brokers, of Greenock, have suspended !eel ment. The liabilities are stated to be £70,000. While a fishing-beat belonging to Ernbe. Sutherland. shire, was returning from &trine on Wednesday it eapsizeol, and five men were cboweed. At Warwick Aseize Jelin O'Hare (26). bricklayer, was senteneed to five years' peal servitude and 30 lashes for robbery with violence at Birmingham. The A theneeum rays the Duke of Marlboro igh has off 'red 12 of his pictures, including the Raphael and Ruhene "Family Pictures," to the nation ler £400,000. The Comte de Preston, a graneson o' L-re Gormaneton. a peer of Ireland, has died at his ceetean of seeeeeeeee In Belgium, at the age of one hundred years s net eight months. The death is announced, in his flat year, or the 13 trahbae of the Oh rensmergeu Passim Play. Jodann Allineer. a wood carver, who filled this role in 1860, 1870, and 1880 An old Balaclava bero, named Thomas Cook, has Just died at Canle; bury. The deceased was taken prisoner by the Russians' ane a'ter 12 months' incarc ration was allowed to return to England. The alarming consumption of alcodol in Switzerland has induced the Government to propose fresh legislation on the subject. A prohibitive tax will be put on distilMon. Special sittings have been held to deal with the matter. rearing a fog at Chic ego on Monday, a goods train on the Grand Trunk Railway ran into the rear of a passenger train on the same line, which was standing at a station in the suburbs. The coaches were telescoped, two passengers being killed and 15 more injured. A freehold budding site of 1,755 square feet, at the corner of Eastcheap. London, was on Tuesday let by auction on a building lease by Messrs. D. benham, Teleson, and Co., at £1,220 a year. The price is about 14s, per square foot. The Novoe Vrelnya, states that the RU3Pilill War Depart. ment has successfully completed an experiment with telephones at the Sweaborg Ports, and prepeses the adoption of this means of communication in fortresses generally. The judge of the Liverpool County Court baa refused to grant the discharge of two debtors, on the ground that they had continuel to t-ade after they had become insolvent, and had not kept their books in a proper manner. A fine of £5 and costa has been imposed by the stipendiary magistrate of Salford on Mr. James Brown, a grocer, trading as Brown and Co., et 114, Cross-lane, for selling the article known as butterine when butter was asked for by tde eustomer. The Midland Railway, following the example of the Great Northern and Great Eastern, are about to make a great reduction in the labour they employ. N. x, week all the hands employed at the extensive works at Derby will be put upon short time—namely, four days a week instead of six. At Newcastle a Baptist minister bag been playing "that the editors of the local press may be converted to Christianity or else dismissed from their situations;" which leads one of them to observe that "statesmen, and Sovereigns, and magiairatss, and sailors are prayed for, and these do not need it ha f so much." A Mormon missionary was arrested at Vienna some time ago, and on Wednesday sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Ile tr ed to propagate the Morman faith, and baptised a man and a wo nen in the Danube canal in such cold weather that the man took to flight and the woman fainted. At Menai Bridge on Monday John Jones, farmer, Bronheulog. near Beaumaris, was remanded, charged with the wilful murder of his illegitimate child, whore body was found in an orchard, 50 yards from the house. Prisoner's housekeepar, the mother of the infant, alleges that he murdered it and afterwards buried it where found. Two additional etticides, arising out of losses at the Monaco gambling tables, were reported on Monday rooming to have taken place at Nies,, where the lectern; were spending a holiday. One gentleman blew out his trains, and the other shot himself through the heart. Both were Austrians and inerneere of good families. While the speeial devotions for the month of May were being celebrated on Wednesday evening, in the chapd of St. Anthony, in Trieste, t e decorations of the altar caught fire, causing a terrible panic among the female portion of the congregation. In tee rush for the doors which ensued, several persona were very seriously injured. Intelligence come from St. Petersburg of a terrible occurrence at a Nihilist trial there on Tuesday evening last. Some members of the so-callee Black Band were undergoing their trial before the District Court, when two of the prisoners, Dubetzki atel his daughter, at tempted to commit suicide. DabAzki wounded himself mortally, but the female prisnar sea( less seriously injured. The proceedings were immediately sueperd The insurance companies have offere.l Mr. Whitely £70,000 in settlement of his claim for a quarter of a million. The offer of a mere fraction of the amount of the claim is no new thing of late. Indeed, it seems to be getting into a regular practice with several of the fire offices to haggle over a claim and reduce it to the smallest