Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1899-10-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OCTOBER 21, 1899.  • News of the World ; At a Glance. I 4*  The death is announced of Mr Metford, joint actutyr of the Lee-Aletford rifle.  At Belfast yeaterday Patrick Kelly was sentenced to fivo years' penal rervitude for breakaig into Ballyeillan Presbyterian Church.  Sir Hairy Irving, with Mile Ellen Terry and the members of the Lyceum company, are on Moir way on board Om Marquette for New York.  Frau Charlotte Embctem eister of Heinrich Rime, has died in Hamburg at the age of 99. Her alaitri..,us brother (bed as far back as 1856.  . A cue of bubonic plague has been notified on lsard the Peninsular and Oriental Compsny's steamer Peninsular, which haa arrived at Ply The abolition of to language decrees in Austria, which have given rise to the hitter racial feud between the Germans and the Czechs is simouuced.  bile Sergeant Taylor of the E Division of Wa 3 visiting his wife, who is in the lunatic ward id the Fulham Infirmary, Cal Saturday he suddenly dropped down deed.  By the sudden death of Mr George Hannarn the South-Eastern Railway Company has lost tut, of its eldest officials. He had been in the service for 47 years, the last 35 being spent as stationmaster at New Beckenham.  Mr B. Pickard, M.P., addressing a meeting of inners near Barnsley, said that seeing how inject had risen. the miners would have no compunction in asking for a further 5 per cent. advance in wages with the commencement of next year.  A railway porter namod ‘Voodfield, employed at Harpenden Station on the Madland Railway, vria r .aning to abut a carnage doer when he fell between the nioving train and the platform. Both kip were c-ut c,ff above the knees, and he was viservnee injured.  An accidernt occurred at the buildirgs in connection with the forthcoming Paris Exhibition. A wovden 6tructure toft. high and 105 ft. long suddenly collapsed. Nine workmen, more or lees injured, were extnicated from the debris. It is lapesl, however, that all will recover.  The Lancashire miners have decided to ask the Executive Committee of the Miners' Federation to convene e_special conference of ell the district,' of the federation to conudder the ad visatility of applying for a further &dram* of 5 per cext in wagea from Ist January next.  "Suicide during temporary inea.nity" was the verdiet at an enquiry conoern.iiii ti.e death of ArLvie Maria Clark (50). wife of Dr. Torn Clark, ni Pimlico. On Saturday morning Mrs Clark consumed a quantity of carbolic acid. She had been depressed at intervals for some tinie.  At an inquest at Battersea on the body of Eliza Je.isie Rodgerson (30), wife of the acting sseretary to the Agent-General for Victoria, the tued,cal e‘idetice showed death to be due to f Mu& and ovllap,e from alooholic poisoning and plea:n(4lla, acvelerated by fall downstairs.  Agnes French (35). fell into the Mere at Scarborcugh yesterday, while attempting to drink the water from a little landing-stage. Her feet stuck fast in the mud, and she was unable to get. out, but two milkmen hearing her screams rescued her, ILA the was conveyed to Scarborough liospitaL  A lialf.timer named Edward lkfurnhy, employed aa a dotTer in a Ravrtenetall Mill, while placing a box in the hoist, slipped forward. when the hoist suddenly aseanded and pinned hina by the neck. It wag a quarter of an hour before he he releeeed, and his neck was then found to be broken.  The Communal elections have just taken place throughout Belgium. At the last elections the Aati-Lieriaal partie, were closely allied ageink the Van9erVa•fiVeS. Thieyr. except at Antwerp, the Beciak'tets stood alone, while the Liberals, AroCarats. and Pnogressive, united their efforts. The Liberals ga.ia tale ~seat ía Bruseola and 15 in Antwerp.  An inquest regarding the death of Agnes Lewis, &barmaid employed at the Victoria llotel, Queenstreet, Cardiff, whose 'body wee exhumed a few days ago. concluded with a verdict of slut murder against Mrs Thomas, of London: ad, Card.ff, whore an illegal operation is alleged to bare taken place. Mrs Thornas wee reported to liens disappeared from Cardiff.  mg Honour John Frederick Gill. Second Dennsicr of the Isle of Man. has died, tier a long and severeilne. Deemster Gill, alic was 53 years old. and came of an old and othbrated Manx family, was brii in Sicily, but *ex educated in the Isle of Men. Ile was an sole men.ter of the Manx Legislative Council, lad was an authority on 31anis music.  -At Colwyn Bay the Hon. Mrs Evelyn Ward. Ms,tfa Cottage, Old Colwyn. was fined £2 and e•orta for defrauding the North-Western Railway C..n.pany by travelling from Chester to Ilysfaen inthout a ticlet. The defence was that a gentle] aa Went to purchase Mrs. Ward's ticket, and that the train started before he got back. Defel dant ia a shareholder in the company.  , A fatal fire uretrted in a dwelling-hunne in Caroline street, Hulme, llancheeter. The in? Wet were aroused about seven o'clock, and it be'tierve•T all had left the Liu:Ming eafelv, but *Len the firemen forced their way through the 11,11nr" they (Hammered 'Mrs Herbert and her '4,4ter under a bed in their night clothing. The Wll3 subeequently brought rutuid, but the eaurt.ter wimp dead.  The Arclibiehop of Canterbury took Dart iL meetings of the Durham Diocesan Temperance Snoiety at fiunderiand. In an address hs,said he thought the time was ripe for an ento put a atop tr? the enormous coneurnpbon of liquor on Sundavg. and after that they mot seek to diminish the number of public. houses For these ohjecte he urged that all who "hognised the etul tf intemperance should unite.  nquiriee are being made by the Leeds poliee akdi.oritioe as to the wl.arw.boute of Arthur tickles. who waa rub puctinarter at tbn Meanmatl. branch post office. Leeds. About a fortnight ago, it ill alleged.. he left the eity, taking 114 him £l4O in cash, £5O in stamps, and 154 zonef orders, the rumbers ranging fi ont 1.047 to 12DO. Pickles, it is stated, bra the duplicates tie it on ord.cn.,--which nre blank, and can be filled up fir arty amount not exceeding 210—and l'e,4 in Possession of the official stamp.  Millie ,farie Raptor, of Wick. near Bridgend, fleuth Walee, who is of intemperate habits, is alleged to have brolcen her hueband's neck hy striking him with snme blunt inatrument. She I s stated to have then washed the deemsed, laid lara out and put clean linrn on the bed, after. wards going to a grocer's rhcq) for porno muntard, la order to apply a mustard poultiee to hip chest. Nab subsequently celled in a friend and said. "T (void do no mom% He tried to strang'e me." A bloodstained chemise w found conocaled in a bedroom. Prisoner he tuider -emend.