Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-06-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

WILL 011' SIR EDWARD BAINES.  SERIOUS CHARGE -AGAINST A  MEDICAL MAN.  SAD SHOOTING CASE.  NEWS IN BRIEF,  The nsked dead body of an unknown men was found on the Fen Bank, near Peterborough, on Wednesday. There was a great wound in the forehead. His clothes were found near. In the Divorce Court on Wednesday a decree nisi was granted to Major De Villinnit, Royal Engineers, for the adultery of his wife with the late Captain Phinkett, Divibional Commissioner in South Ireland.  The new altar cross which has been preeented to St. Paul's Cathedral by the Duke of Newcabtle is now in use. It is placed upon the high altar, is upwards of six feet in height, and is a magnificent specimen of modern art. Mr Stanley's book will not be published before the 24th ink. To celebrate the event Mr Mmaten  and his partners give a dinner to Mr Stanley on the 2fith, to which fifty select pleats will be invited. A man was instantaneously killed at Baltimore last Saturday through touching an incandescent electrical light wire. Another who touched the body of the dead man was knocked down and rendered insensible, but lie subsequently re. covered. The endeavours to obtain a satisfactory smokeless powder are proceedin,q very sati.3factorily. A body of responsible War Office officials have been at work for some time in connection with the explosive, and are confident of providing a po7der that will in this reapeA place our Army in a position as satisfactory as that of its continental At the Thames Police Court on Thursday Matilda Todhunter, a middle-aged woman, was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour for disorderly conduct in the East End. She was found by a constable dancing on a coffin containing the body of ' another wolll9.ll's husband, and on being told to desist she pulled the sheet off the body and continued dancing until taken into custody. At Croydon on Wednesday a gipsy named Mary Draper was sentenced to four mouths' hard labour for obtaining money from Mrs Collins, a . _ _  woman of good- position, aged 43, wider pretence of telling her fortune. Accused obtained from her £3 to put on the wheel of fate, and subsequently another £8 because the former sum was not enough to make the wheel go round. Draper also promised to write to the planet to do her good. In the Divorce Court on Monday the case of Ileneford v. Handford was before Sir James Hannen. The wife prayed for a judicial separation, on the ground of her husband's cruelty. The parties were married in 1887, and in July last as petitioner end' her mother were leaving a chapel at West Hampstead the respondent shot them both with a revolver, and attempted suicide. For this he was sentenced I lat the Central Criminal Court to 14 years' penal servitude. The petition was at once granted. On Monday Mr Heath, a major of Volunteers, reoeived £750 damages from the Hawk newspaper for a libel published in that paper which reflected upon the major's inventions, end stated that he was endeavouring to induce the public to invest in a rotten scheme called the "Miniature Target and Range Company, Limited." Defendants pleaded justification, and contended that the major's inventions were slavish copies of patents held by the Morris Tube and Ammunition Company. IMr Tom Nankin, a farmer, of Meaux, in Holder, ness, East Yorkshire, and Isis groom, named John I Richardson, of Tic.kton, were found dead in one I of the small streams between Leven and Meaux lon Tuesday morning. They had been driving home the previous evening, and the trap having