The Northern Guardian. — 1893-05-20 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

HARTLEPOOL WATCH FACTORY. Watches thoroughly cleaned, 11. 3d •, mainspring, ls 3d. Twel months' guarantee. Clocks and jewellery repaired on the premises. 2e4, Lynn Street.—Advt. WHAT SPLENDID WEATHRR we are having. Ye; ; awl what a splendid show of Wstehes .1. M. CROS/En is showing; 700 to chw.se from; Ss 3d to £2O. Cheapest shop in the Hartlepools for all kinds of repairs, 76, Lynn Street, near Musgrave Street.—Advt.  OUR EYLS AND OUR EARS !—ln another column Mr Lawrence Mitchell, late of the Leeds Eye and Ear Dispensary, announces a special series of visits to West Hartlepool and the north district, where he may be consulted on all diseases of the eye and ear.— Advg.  HEPWORTH'S SYSTEM or DIRECT TRADlNG.—Bringing their famous apecialties in Ready-made and Bespoke Clothing direct from their huge fectoriee in Leeds to the wearers at their one hundred and fifty local braucee.—West Hartlepool Branch, 21,..Lynn Street. —Advt.  A heavy thunderstorm passed ever West DurI ham yesterday afternoon. John Walton, deputyoverman at Medomsley Pit, neer Consett, was struck by lightning and killed. As a carriage was driving down one of the streets in the Val de Grace quarter of Paris yesterday morning, th,. wheels ran over a small box, the contents of which immediately exploded. No damage resulted to the vehicle, however, nor was any person injured.  The Treasurer of the West Hartlepool District Nursing Association begs to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of £2 from the Hartlepool Gas and Water Company, per 11Ir Bower, hying the proceeds of the lecture on invalid cookery given by Mrs Thwaites in the Athemenni last week.  The Glasgow ship Irmanclra, which has arrived off Plymouth from San Francisco, reports having met with heavy weather, having fallen in with a field of ice, and collided with an iceberg over • mile ,in length. She had to drift back on her course for more than a fortnight to clear the bergs. John Conran, husband of one of the women murdered on Monday night at Borklemore, was yesterday arrested, and further investigation has been made at Kiltegarn by Mr Commissioner Byrne and Mr Kennedy, R.M. Conran was conveyed to Wexford, and will he charged with the double murder.  Ellen Shepherd was liberated from Woking convict prison on Thursday. She was convicted at Guildford in 1884 for the wilful murder of her stepchild by drowning him in a water-butt, and was sentenced to death. The sentence was afterwards commuted to penal servitude for the term of her natural life.  The armoured battleship Audacious, Captain W. F. S. Mann, went ashore off the Isle of Grain, Sheerness Harbour, yesterday, when leaving for Hull to resume her duties as coastguard ship for the Humber district. The stern part of the vessel is aground, but no serious consequences are anticipated. The ship has grounded on soft mud. Airs M. Pugh, wife of a labouring man who lives on the Quay, Prankwell, Shrewsbury, was awakened on Thursday by her child, two years old, screaming, and, found that it had been badly bitten by rats as it lay in bed. The child, who lost a good deal of blood, and seemed much exhausted, was taken to the infirmary, where the wounds were dressed.  The official register of shipping, issued yesterday, shows that about 33,000 net register tons of shipping were added last month to the fleets of the United Kingdom and the Colonies, and that the withdrawals are about 213,000 tons. In the vessels added there is included the ocean liner Campania, so that apart from this the amount of the tonnage is nearly stationary.  At the North Shields Police Court yesterday, Antonio Moltenia (18), of Falconar Street, Newcastle, was summoned for furiously riding a bicycle on the Spital Dene Bank, near Tynemouth, on Sunday last. Alderman Collins, the presiding magistrate, expressed his pleasure that the police were Lakin., notice of the practice of furious driving. A fine of 26's and costs was imposed. At Baltimore, county Cork, yesterday, two policemen endeavoured to arrest a lunatic named Crawley. The lunatic turned upon the constables with a pitchfork, with which he inflicted serious wounds upon them. One, named Murphy, as so badly wounded in the forehead and chest that his depositions were taken last night. The other officer, named Schrewen, also suffered grave injuries. An attempt at suicide was made at Bradford yesterday by William Fountain (40), labourer, of 75, Abbey Street. The man had been drinking heavily, and appeared to have designs upon his wife, as he drew a knife and told her to stand against the wall whilst I finish you." Mrs Fountain, however, made good her escape, and her husband thereupon cut his own throat with the knife. He was removed, to the Infirmary in a critical condition. Dn.