The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1895-05-15 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

HOME.  At Carnarvonshire Sheriff's court Ann Jones, the daughter of a farmer living at Llanergan, was awarded £4O damages for breach of promise of marriage, the defendant being Robert Owen Roberts, a farmer's son. Immediately after midnight on Sunday morning a back room on the first floor of a private house in Lorenzo - street, King's- cross, was damaged by fire, and a child named Ellen Message, aged four months, was burnt to death.  A Royal Commission has been appointed, with Lord Welby as chairman, to inquire into the administration and nianagement of the military and civil expenditure of India, and into the apportionment of charge between the Governments of the United Kingdom and of India. The Dorchester magistrates convicted Mr. A. B. Sheridan, a country gentleman, of Frampton court, of cruelty to a hunter, and imposed a fine of £5 and costs. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals alleged that Mr. Sheridan rode the animal to excess, and that while flogging it to get it home the horse fell dead.  On Saturday a young farm hand met with a terrible death at Lanark. He was about to take his turn at rolling the corn, when he got inside the roller to oil it. The horse, however, started the apparatus, and the unfortunate man was so horribly Crushed in the machinery that he expired in a few minutes. He had twice been warned not to put his head into the roller.  William Lyons, a Cookstown shoemaker, aged 54, who shot himself with a revolver during an altercation with his sweetheart on Thursday last week, died on Saturday from his injuries. Lyons, it appears, had lost a small sum of money at Cookstown races, and the young woman was reproaching him for indulging in betting, when he drew the revolver and shot himself twice in the neck.  A woman named Fury, who attempted to commit suicide on Friday at Brecon and was rescued, escaped from her house during the night, and next morning her dead body was found floating in the river near by. The woman was married and had several children. It is stated that she told the doctor who attended her after being rescued that she was born to be drowned.  Two youths, Thomas Parr, 17, and Stephen Ashby, 16, went on Sunday morning to a brickyard to bathe, and while playing on a plank which overhangs a pit containing 60ft. of water, it tipped up and let them in. Neither could swim, and locked in each other's arms they immediately sank. Parr's brother made a brave attempt to rescue them, and he almost lost his own life in doing so. A daring burglary was effected during the early hours of Saturday morning at a foreign money exchange immediately facing Victoria station, London. Three men appear to have been engaged in the matter. They apparently drove up in a hansom between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning, and forced the front door with a jemmy. While rifling the safe it overturned, making such a noise that they took fright and bolted.  A Midland railway guard named William Watkinson, living at Bradford, leapt on Saturday morning from the early Scotch express, near Normanton. He should have left the train at Leeds, but, apparently asleep, travelled on until he awoke as the train, travelling at 40 miles an hour, was rushing through Normanton station. He then jumped from the train' sustaining severe injuries to the spine and head. He is lying at Leeds infirmary in a hopeless condition.  The dead bodies of a widow named Wilkinson and her grandson, James Tyrell, aged six, were found on Saturday in a brook at Earnock Glen, near Hamilton. Both their throats were cut, and a razor lay on the bank of the stream near the bodies. Mrs. Wilkinson was formerly an inmate of a lunatic asylum, and it is thought that she met the boy on his way home from school, led him to a lonely spot in the glen, and there in a fit of insanity cut his throat and afterwards her own.  Messrs. Kendal and Dent, the well-known watch and clock makers of Cheapside, have just produced a large-sized photograph of the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge with a working clock in the tower. It is wound and the hands are set from the back, so that when the photograph is not hung beyond reach these operations can be performed by merely moving the picture two or three inches from the wall. The clock, diminutive though it be, keeps excellent time.  In consequence of the facilities afforded by Southampton, its nearness to Netley Hospital, and the expeditious and efficient manner in which the embarkation of troops has been carried out there, the authorities have decided that next season the transports shall not only embark the troops in the Empress Dock, but that .all invalids, time-expired men, and others returning home shall be disembarked there. The whole of the transport service will in future he carried out there, instead of at Portsmouth. A "scene "took place at Liverpool assizes on Saturday, when six young women, described as charwomen, were sentenced to terms ranging from three to 12 months for violently assaulting a lad who had given evidence at the assizes against the husband of one of the number. When the terms of imprisonment were pronounced the women filled the court with their shrieks and threw themselves on the floor of the dock, frantically resisting the efforts of several warders to remove them. This, however, was accomplished after a struggle lasting some minutes.  An action brought by Mr. Gambier Bolton to recover damages for an infringement of copyright in a photograph was tried on Saturday by Mr. Justice Grantham and a jury. The plaintiff whilst travellin?. abroad had formed a collection of some 3,000 photographs of wild animals, and he complained that a reproduction of one of these, a photograph of a tigress yawning, had been published in the Illustrated London News and Sketch. The proprietors of the former submitted to an injunction, and the case proceeded again-4 the latter, resulting in a verdict for the plaintiff for £lO penalty and £4O damages.