Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-08-29 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  According to the Italic, it was announced on Monday at the Vatican that a dispatch had been received from Jibutil to the effect that the Emperor Menelik would liberate a certain number of Italian prisoners out of respect for the Pope. A schoolmaster, named Atkins, employed under the Birmingham School Board, committed suicide on Monday by hanging. He had been mentally depressed because the Board, in consequence of an unfavourable report from the Government inspector, had reduced him in position. Mr. Richard Cadbury, a member of the wellknown firm of Cadbury Bros., cocoa manufacturers, has decided to build 33 a:mshouses for the aged near the works at B)urnville, near Birmingham, and to endow them with the rents of a number of villa residences.  On Monday night a fire broke out in the Humjanzeff Museum at Moscow. The Panin which contained the public library, was destroyed, with all the books, and the adjacent Itumjanzeff and Dolgoruky Galleries, where many valuable collections are exhibited, were damaged by water.  A shocking accident is reported from Llanwitmajor. Arthur, the youngest son of Mr. Daniel Holdford Davies, county magistrate, was out shooting on the estate, and in passing over a fence caught the trigger of his gun in a twig. The young man was shot dead on the spot. The Directors of the City of Melbourne Bank, Messrs. Loader, Williamson, and Collier, and tile auditors, Messrs. Burns and Macquie, have been committed for trial on a charge of publishing false balance-sheets.  A special magistrate has been appointed to conduct an investigation into the outbreak of the conspiracy in the Phillippine Islands. The Government has summoned to Madrid the journalist in Saragossa who exposed the revolutionary movement at its outset.  Mary Morton, a domestic servant, has been Bent for trial at Leeds on a charge of concealment of birth. On the house being searched a number of bones were found under the oven in the kitchen,_ and these upon being analysed were proved to be the remain.; of a child.  The first half of the Congo Railway between Matadi and Stanley Pool was officially inaugurated on July 2.2 in presence of representatives of the Congo State, France, and Belgium. The inaugural train performed the distance from Matadi to Tumba, a distance of 189 miles, in 10 hours. At the monthly meeting of the Association of Correctors of the Press, to be held at St. Bride's Institute, Fleet-street, London, on Saturday, September 5, an address will be delivered by Mr. E. W. Brabrook, Registrar of Friendly Societies, on "The Cost of Provision for Old-age." All interested in the subject wiil be cordially welcomed  President Alonzo announces the formation of a new Bolivian Cabinet, constituted as follows: Senor Sanginez, Minister of the Interior ; Senor Gomez, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Senor Oblitas, Minister of War; Senor Pinilla, Minister of Justice; Senor Gutierrez, Minister of Finance. A balance of £2,574 has been remitted to the Society for the l'revention of Cruelty to Children from a bazaar recently held at Leicester by the Duchesses of Somerset and Bedford, Countesses of Warwick and Ancaster, and other leading ladies of the Midland Counties. The receipts were £3,237, and the expenses £663. The Mayor of I enby, Mr. Benjamin Harries, has announcel his intention of declaring a general holiday on Sept. 23 to commemorate her Majesty's long reign. The celebration will take the form of publiJ function, and the Mayor has asked the Corporation to countenance it, while the local governors of the intermediate school have, at the request of his Worship, changed the date of the opening of the school from Sept. 21 to 23.  An unusual occurrence is reported from Poyntz. pus Railway Station, on the Irish Great Not thorn Railway. On Sunday night, on the arrival of the mail from Londonderry for Dublin, signals were found to be against the train. The fireman went to ascertain the cause, and found the signalman dead, with his hand on one of the levers. The inquest, on 'Monday, showed that death was due to a ruptured Wood vessel in the lung.  A man named Reid, aged 76, has attempted suicide in a street at Leicester by igniting gunpowder in his mouth in order, as he confessed, to blow out his brains. He was badly burned about the mouth, throat, and cheek, and removed to the infirm try. At Bournemouth, the Rev. W. C. Minifie, Baptist minister' was charged with neglecting to have his child vaccinated. Councillor Biggs, of Gloucester, appeared in his behalf, and stated that if an order was made, defendant would not comply.—The Magistrates made an order for vaccination and costs.—Defendant replied that he had no effects whatever. This declaration was received with applause. At Wrexham, Hugh Annesley Edwards, a collier, was conrnitted for trial charged with attempting to murder his wife. On July '3 the parties were in the garden when the prisoner was reproved by his wife. He struck her, and, procuring a razor from the house, cut her throat and then his own. Edwards seemed much excited in court, and appeared as if his mind was affected.  Copies of Parish Council Standing Orders, 12pp. 116 per dozen.—" Telegraph" Office, Beverley.