The Telegram. — 1896-01-14 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

LAST LOOK ROUND.  The Law Courts were re•opened on Saturday after Slip Christina.) vacation.  - Clement Jones, a pensioned policeman, committed suicide at Bien,ley on Thursday. People suffer more from the houses they !iv. in than they ever imagine, particularly impressionable people. Captain Ralph Pomeroy, dockmaster at Cardiff, died on Sunday from internal inflammation, after a brief illness.  The Moat Rev. Robert Samuel Gregg, 11. D., Lord Primate of All Ireland, died of heart affection_ on Friday night.  Wm. Walter Tyndall, waiter at a coffee shop in Eastcheap, London, was found hanging by his own belt in the basement of his house.  Bananas are., latbrnog that they should be sparingly eaten by fleshy people, but any amount of oranges may be indulged in.  The new year still continues its record for mild wpather, and sgricultoral prospects, s far as the crops are concerned, are vely favourable.  • The cost of the recent visit of the Shahzada to this Country is now approximately known. It is estimated that the bill will be mann •  The fine old mansion, Poltair House, near Penzance, the residence of Colonel Glynn I3olitho, was completely gutted by fire on Saturday night. Florence Murphy, a single woman, haa been arrested, charged With the murder of her infant child oy throwing it into the River Aire at Newlay, near Leeds. Lord Bennett, son of the Earl of Tankerville, in an active evangelist, and during some of Mr. Moody's more recent trips has taken the part of Mr. Sankey, The Luke of Fife is still engaged in reducing his landed possessions. A large portion of the Aultmole estate has just been disposed of at a very sat. isfattory figure.  A terrible fire broke out at 65, Queen's Crescent, Haverstock Hill, London, on Saturday, which regulled in the lose of three lives—Mrs. Houston and two unmarried daughters. Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Gibbs, aged 3.5, the wife of an insurance agent living at Maids Road, Chatham, on Saturday drowned herself in a pool of water two feet deep, in a gravel pit, „ .  .- -Mr. Onxlow Ford, KA., has been corranond to execute the inarbl . bui.t of the late Dr. R. W. Dale, of 13irininghani which will be placed in the library of Manefield &liege, Oxford.  Charles Hartley, a notoriouw burglar, who has served several terms of penal servitude, has been remanded at Manchester tor not reporting himself, he being under police supervision.  The Cunard steamer Cephalonia, which partially sank in Holyhead Harbour, after running im the rocks near that place on New Year's Day, was successfully raised on Sunday morning. Thomas Redfearn, jewellPr, Edgware Road, London, SWit.9 remanded at Marylebone Police-court, on Saturday, on a charge of receiving silver articlts stolen from Lady Blanche Hozier.  Martha Bowman and William Hamilton were on Saturday sentenced rrepectively at the Clerkenwell sesisions to 18 and 12 umlitha bard labour for frauds in connection with the " Artistic Dress Company, Limited."  There is no abatement in the activity et Chatham dockyard. There are now close upon 8,000 men employed there, a number greatly in excess of the strength during any period of the history of the dockyard.  At the Stapleton School Board election in the Northern Division oi Bristol, on Saturduy afternoon, the five unsectarian candidates were returned. Only three Church candidates and one independent were successf  Commander Robert Lancelles G. Noel, Royal Navy, has been remanded on bail at Havant charged with grossly assaulting a little girl named Godwin, when she was on her way home from school at Risdliampton about noon. A jewellery establishment belonging to a Mr. Abrahania in High Street, Southampton, was ransacked by thieves during Inlay night. Thirty gold watches, thirty gold Albert chains, and over £lOO in foreign money were stolen.  A collision occurred during a fog off Dungeness Point on Saturday between the steamers Robert Brown, of North Shields, and Marpessa, of London. The former sank immediately, and four of the crew of sixteen were drowned.  A prisoner mimed Schanze, while awaiting his trial at the Berlin Central Criminal Court, has succeeded in effecting his escape, an event absolutely unprecendented. lie managed to elm out of the building while a warderia back was turned.  An inquest was held at Hackney, on Saturday, on the body of Moses Josepha, five and a half years of age, who was burned on Tuesday. While the nurse was dressing another child, the little fellow got inside the fender and his nightdress caught alight.  A double suicide occurred on Thursday at the Hotel Leopold, Ghent. A young waiter, named De Geyter, and a young woman with whom be WWI intimate were found that in a room they occupied. A leer left by the woman fully net forth the motives of the tragedy. _  . . In the St. Petersburg chess tournament, Dr. hasher on Saturday defeated M. Tchigorin, and heads the list with seven and-a-half games. Messrs. Pillsbury and Steinitz have woe six and-s-half gatnes each to their credit, while M. Tchigorin ha. won only three and-a-half. _ _ _ _  Mr. J. Pasaniore Edwiuda, having written to the chief librarian at Camberwell offering to bnikl a Meath library at Aunhead tor 4:2,5U0, or to subscribe £3,000 towaria a branch library at East Dulwich, the commissioners have intimated to the donor them intention of aceepting the latter proposal.  A fatal gas explosion occurred on Saturday morning in Holloway Road, London, a poulterer ashop, occupied by G. T. Hill. A each of gas had been noticed, and search was made for the escape with a naked light, the inevitable result being an explosion, followed by an outbreak of tire. Mrs. Alva Vanderbilt, formerly the wife of Mr. Williaru K. Vanderbilt, from whom she obtained a divorce a little more than a year ago, and mother of she young Duchess of Marlborough, hay been married to Mr. Belmont, the brother of the banker who was instrumental in placing upon the market the last United State. Government loan.