Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-08-23 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  Daring an eTray betwe,n salmon poachers and bailiffs on the Tweed on S:inday it car teed poacher was so severely beaten that he is in a precarious state. Mr Andrew Colville, an ex-Methodist clergyman from Scotland, formerly in charge of a New York church, shot himself on Friday week in New York as the remilt of excessive drinking. On Monday Intelligence reached Dublin of the death of Lord Jruitice Naiah. He died at Ems. He was appointed Solicitor-Eleneral for Ireland in 1883, and songht election to Parliament for Mallow, but was defeated by Mr Wm. O'Brien. A factory in course of construction at Jena. Germany, became undermined by the continued heavy !rains, and. collapsed on Sunday. Ten men were buried in the ruins, of whom two men were killed outright, and the remainder were injured more or less seriously. After a meeting of the Servien Progreseist party at Topola, Serria. a dinner was given at which the committee of the party were present. After partaking of the meal, lilt the members were taken ill, with symptoms of ex:anneal poisoning, which is suspected tohave been intentional, and is attributed to political motives. A storm of phenomenal violence swept last night over the department of the Aube, which is described , as having been in less than an hour turned into a deserts The storm had its cradle to the we,t of Oaressonne, and took an easterly course, sweeping away wools, vines, and every kind of crop. The lours are roughly estimated at 10,000,000 francs. The little that it spared was destroyed by a hailstorm. A Board of Trade report, issued on Monday shown: that last year 1,076 persons were killed and 4,836 injured on railways in the United Kingdom. Of i these, 183 killed and 1,249 injured were passengers ' and the remainder onicers and seryenta of railwayl companies or of contractors. Only 88 passengers , were killed and 1,016 injered in consequence of I accidents or collisions between trains. Tile following AM found in the pocket-book I of an unknown Itoehdale suicide amongst entriee which had reference to orders for woollen materials. It will be rerognised as from a wellknown opera— Don't the days seem sad and long When all goes right and nods;nr goes wrong? And isn't your life exiee tingly dab When there's muting whatever to grumble at? A fatal accident oceurred last Saturday at Bland. ford, Dorset. A train was running into the station when ii trap containing Mrs Martin and Miss Pike I approached from Keyuaton. The horse took fright, ' and after knocking down the town crier overturned the trap. Its oocupanta wereleidly hurt. The town crier, named Rolls, sustained a concussion of the brain, and died shortly afterwards. At Algiers two men belonging to one of the regiments of Chaeseurs Afrique quarrelled on the most futile pretext, and * duel was arranged I promptly. They fought with sabres, and in a short :time One of them received a thrust in the region of the heart, anti after  _ ...at al se/murmuring "J y anis '' fell to the ground and expired in a few moments. This sad affair shows that dueLa among private soldiers are more serious than their apologists maintain them