The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-02-03 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE END.  Lord Vaux, of Harrowden, died on Sunday night. Mr. .Fawmtt is expected to resume his official  duties in a kw weeks:  A pawnbroker's shop was broken into on Saturday at Dublin and £2OO in cash stolen. Dr. Whitmarsh, who has resumed his professional duties at Hounslow, was again moblied on Saturday. At Sunderland on Monday night Peter John Rafferty murdered his wife by stabbing her with a iroem ker's knife, . .  Fred Archer, the jockey, was married at Newmarket, on Wednesday, to Miss Nellie Dawson, daughter of the well-known trainer. A personal friend of fdr. Gladstone, who has just returned from Cannes, states that when he saw the premier last h was in excellent health. From a recent calculation it appears that in the British arms at the present time there are no fewer than 1,674 gener of whom 250 are employed on active service.  '1 he man Joseph Wedlake, who is in custody ou suspicion of the murder of Mark Cox, near Bristol. has made a confession of his guilt. He mistook the deceased for another man. The third crirket match between Murdoch's team and the English team under Mr. Bligh was concluded at Melbourne on Tuesday, the English winning by 8.5 runs. A young lady named Shaw, after being thrashed by her father for keeping company with a gentleman, committed suicide by jumping into the Bollington Canal on 'I ur sday. The New York papers report that Mrs. Langtry has been most coarsely treated and insulted during her stay in St. Louis, Mis. The journals there published attacks on the actress and Mr. Gebhardt. The Freeman's Journal announces that Messrt. Healy and D,,vitt have determined not to give the sureties required by the Queen's Bench, and will therefore have to go for six months to prison. Two hundred and fifty men at the Midland Wagon Works, Shrewsbury, are, on strike in consequence of a reduction in the rate of olertime payment. Captain Wood, who for several years has been secretary to the Millwall Dock Company, London, has been charged with forging the debenture stock of the company to the extent of £44,000. At Lincoln on Tuesday, James Anderson, a mariner, was sentenced to deatn for the murder of his wife. Prisoner assumed a careless demeanour, laughing while the jury were considering their verdict.  • A.t Sunderland on Tuesday, whilst a canis•er which had contained dynamite and supposed to be empty, was being repaired an explosion occurred killing one man, injuring Lur others and wr,eking the workshop. At the Great Bridge Iron Works, Staffordshire, on Tuesday, a youth named Gates, while standing near some rollers, was dragged in head first, and so reduced to a pulp. His remains had to be gathered together in a bag. A tobacco manufacturer, of Monaghan, named Rafferty, has been arrested on a charge of smuggling 2,400 pounds of leaf tobacco, 468 pounds of Cavendish, and a quantity of cigars. The to bace a was packed in 50 casks, said to contain flax seed: The manufacture of flash bank-notes is being extensively carried on in the Midlands. The notes are of such good imitation that not only have commercial men been deceived, but they have also been accepted by numerous local banks. Abraham Thomas, the Kearsley butler, who is now lying in Strangeways Gaol, ld anchester, awaiting his doom for the murder of Christiana Leigh, is in a most dejected condition. lie refuses to take 1 1 food, which has to be forced upon him. The Agent General for New Zealand notifies that the time for receiving tenders for the direct steam service between London and New Zealand has been extended to the 30th April next, aad that forms of tender, atc., will not be ready for issae until 14th proximo. The enquiry into the Bradford chimney disaster closed on Wednesday. The coroner's jury found that everything incumbent upon the proprietors had been done to secure the stability of the atructure, and consequently the verdict was one of accidenzal death. A child with its throat cut having been found in a pond at Redland, near Bristol, a schoolboy on Saturday informed the police that while sitting reading on the branch of a tree he saw a woman take it out of a basket and throw it into a pond. The woman a young domestic, has been apprehended. John Hartwell, the self-styled "Great Seer of England," was on Tuesday committed for trial at Birmingham charged with victimising numerous persons. It was stated that it was difficult to induce Hartwell's clients to come forward, but one young lady appeared and told a curious story of humbug and credulity. A. recherche volume in.the form of a Valentine ha',  been issued by Raphael Tuck and Sons, the fim art publishers, entitled "Love Knots and Bridal Bands," and edited by the Rev. Fred. Langbridge, B.A. The boek contains a number of very appropriately selected poems from all the great writers, but perhaps the chief attractions will be the sixteen coloured illustrations, from our most talented artists. These illustrations are all gems of art, and are marvels of execution. The volume deserves a large sale. The convicts from Spike Island while working on Saturday in Haulbowline Dockyard attacked the warders with shovels, and for a time overpowered them. After serious opposition, which lasted more than an hour and a half, the armed officers succeeded, by clubbing the convicts with the butt ends of -their guns, in obtaining the mastery over them witheut firing a shot. Several of the warders and police were badly cut and bruised.. On their return to Spike Island, guarded by armed marines, the convicts indulged in defiant yells and singing. A Nice QusszErr.—At Carnarvon on Saturday, during the hearing of a licensing prosecution case, it was stated in evidence that the visitors' book, a book kept for the purpose of entering the names of travellers who applied for refreshments during closing hours, contained the names of visitore describing themselves as Mr. William Marwood, executioner; Sir W. W. Wynn, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, and Mr. Bradlaugh, M.P., for Northampton. The presiding magistrate said he hoped the firstnameil individual had not the charge of the three gentliamen whose names followed his. AN