The Northern Guardian. — 1892-10-04 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

HARTLEPOOL.—M.I Rowell, Regent House, Musgrave Street, has had the honour of a letter from (Princess May) Princess Victoria of Teck saying H.R. Highness is much pleased with her Hat trimmed by him, and the Bonnet enclosed for the Princess's inspection is the , exquisite taste of an artist, which Mr Rowell will . have on show at Regent House on Thursday, October 6th; also an exact copy of the Royal Hat, together with other novelties, Mr Rowell having just returned from the French markets. —Advt. Mr George Sheffield, the well-known artibt, died on Sunday at Manchester. At four o'clock this morning a violent thunderstorm,_ accompanied by heavy rain, swept over  West Hartlepool. For the fourth time in succession there was yesterday a clean calendar at the Richmond Borough Quarter Sessions. The Tasmanian revenue for the past nine months shows a decrease of £46,000, as compared with the corresponding period of last year. The value has been sworn at £19,755 of the personal estate of the late Colonel Henry Francis Seymour, third Marquess of Drogheda. The Rev. J. Vale Mummery, F.R.A.S., one of the oldest Congregational ministers in London, died yesterday, at Hampstead, in his 81st year. A London barrister named Davies committed suicide in the house of an Edinburgh physician on , Saturday. He blew out his brains with a revolver. The Pope has received a telegram from the monastery of Loyola an Azpeitia announcing the election of Father Martin as General of the Jesuits. An officer on board a vessel which arrived in London a few (lays ago from Calcutta says that he counted 104 British steamers idle in the IFlooghly. At Hartlepool Petty Sessions, to-day, William Price (19), 14, Well's Yard, labourer, was fined 108 and costs for using obscene language on the 3rd inst. P.C. Sanderson proved the charge. This morning, at Hartlepool Petty Sessions, Mary Pounder (18), and Agnes Kilmartin (17), both of 3, Bunlon's Passage, were fined 2s 64 and I.os costs each for riotous behaviour in the street where_ they live, on the 24th ult. P.C. Peart  proved the case. The Press Association says :—The Board oi Agriculture has notified that on and after the 17th inst. any animal suffering from glanders and farcy, which are to be classified as one disease, is to be slaughtered. Suspected animals are to be isolated, and any animal exposed to the risk of infection is to be slaughtwed. Compensation will be paid. Yesterday, at a special meeting of the Dublin Corporation, it was resolved that the Lord Mayor, the members of the Council, and the civic officers attend in State the celebration of the anniversary of Mr Parnell's death. The ceremony will take place on Sunday next, and will take the form of a great demonstration and procession to Clasnevin Cemerery. At a meeting in Middlesbrough yesterday it was decided that as a memorial of the services rendered to the borough during the last 50 years by Mr Isaac Wilson, formerly its representative in Parliament, his portrait should be painted and hung in the Council Chamber. Subscriptions are limited to five guineas, and will be received by the Mayor or Town Clerk. 'During several days past, says the Press Association, an area of low barometric pressure has remained almost stationary over the English colliery districts, and it therefore becomes incumbent on all persons employed in underground works to exercise the greatest vigilance in dealing with escapes of gas in any quantity. Pressure is now on the increase, and this circumstance adds to the necessity for greater caution. Rather more than thirty years ago the total number of hospitals and dispensaries in British India was only 181, and the total list of their patients just 111,116. Now there are in India 1,641 institutions treating 265,000 in-door patients and 11,978,000 out-door—making a total of considerably over 12,000,000 persons receiving medical aid and advice. Besides these there are 25 lunatic asylums and 23 leper hospitals. Yesterday afternoon, whilst a man named Ernest Baker was packiiig. a quantity of gun cotton into a glass bottle, at No. 23, Ridley Place, Newcastle, an explosion occurred, with the result that he was badly cut and bum tet the face and arms. He waa at once removed to the house of a dentist close by, and subsequently conveyed home. In the meantime the Fire Brigade had been summoned from Westgate Road, but upon the arrival of the men, under Supt. Matthews they found that the flames caused by the explosion had been extinguished. The damage done to the room was not serious. It was announced in Birmingham yesterday, writes our Birmingham correspondent, that the local agent of a leading Sheffield iron firm had just secured contracts for ten thousand tons of forge pig iron with firms in the Midlands, at an advance of fully a shilling a ton above recent quotations. Other South Yorkshire smelters are successfully competing for orders in Staffordshire and Worcestershire, where a great scarcity of crude metal prevails. Local makers are increasing their output to meet the difficulty. Best qualities of South Yorkshire furnace coke have advanced to 14s a ton at the ovens, the demand being active.