The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-11-01 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CHIPS OF NEWS.  AT HOME.  Sentence of nine years' penal servitude will passed at the Central- Criminal Court on Walter Tones, coachman, for a dastardly assault on a little girl, named Ethel Holland, on Putney Lower Common.  The steamer Daybreak, which left Cardiff on Saturday, put back on Monday, having encountered a terrific gale from the south-west When the vessel was off Ilfracombe she was struck by a heavy sea, and her captain was washed overboard and drowned.  Miss Eliza Dandy, of Liverpool, who died recently at Southport, has 'bequeathed £2,000 to the Church Pastoral Aid Society, £l,OOO each to the Church Missionary Society and the Jews' Society, £5OO to the South American Missionary Society, and £lOO to Dr. Barnardo's Homes.  A large number of Anarchists, who were recently expelled from Belgium, France, and Germany, have been arriving in London during the last few days, and the Detective Department at Scotland Yard, who are watching the Anarchist movement, are keeping them under surveillance.  On Monday morning the Exeter police raided the premises of Joshua Abbott, bookmaker, 119, Sidwell-street. A large quantity of books and telegrams relating to betting were seized, and the raid was witnessed by a large number of persons. Abbott was subsequently remanded for a week.  At Southampton, on Monday, Ernest Loosemore was sentenced to nine weeks' imprisonment for assault. On Saturday night tic rushed through the crowded streets and fastened his teeth in a man's nose, inflicting serious injuries. The magistrates described the prisoner as a wild beast. The British barque Audama, which arrived at Queenstown on Monday from Talcahuna with a cargo of wheat, reports having passed a large unknovni vessel on fire. All her spars were gone, and she was burning fiercely from the stem to the centre. Another vessel was passed bottom upwards.  On Saturday night George Bucher, who is well known in Rugby football and cricket circles by his prominent connection with the Edinburgh Royal High School former pupils' football and cricket clubs, was accidentally killed. He fell down a flight of steps, breaking his neck, causing instantaneous death.  A distressing case of suicide took place at Dovercourt on Sunday night. The wife of the Rev. D. Morgan, Congregational minister, who has been in a depressed state for some time, hung herself from the baluster of the stairs in her own house, during her husband's absence attending to his religious duties at Harwich.  On Monday afternoon Emma Matilda Price, a barmaid, was found at Eastbourne railway station refreshment room with her throat cut and a table knife in her hand, She expired shortly afterwards. The deceased is 29 years of age, and is a native of Portsmouth. She is said to have recently shewn signs of melancholia.  John William Gre nwood, actuary in the Yorkshire Penny Bank at Lees, near Keighley, was, at Leeds on Monday, committed for trial upon several charges of forgery. The prisoner' who had been employ ed at the bank for 12 years, has a wife and nine children. Bail was refused. The total defalcations are alleged to amount to seveial hundred pounds.  At the opening service, held in Glasgow Cathedral, of the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, a clergyman in the congregation shouted to the choir to cease their interruptions of the worship of God by singing "Amen " at the close of the prayers. He protested also against the readi.ig of the prayers by a "young man. No notice was taken of the reverend gentleman's efforts at reformation.  At Croydon, on Monday, George Ward, aged 50, a labourer, was sentenced to 21 days' hard labour for a brutal assault upon his daughter, a girl aged 17. It was proved that the prisoner beat the complainant very severely with a belt, struck her in the eye, and then kicked her downstairs. He had several titres previously been guilty of cruelty to his daughter and to his wife, who, however, bad not proceeded against him.  Mr. John Ilarrison, engineer to the Louth Water Company, has been found drowned in a waste water tank at the pumping station. He appears to have been at the works on Sunday, attending to some tepairs, and must have got into the tank by some means at present unexplained. The tank was under the engine, and this accounts for his not being (Lund when search was made for him. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death.  An extraordinary scene to k place on Sunday night in Seacombe Parish Church, near Birkenhead. A man ran out of his pew, and jumping on to the altar table, pulled down the brass cross, doubled it across his knee, and shouted "No Popery!" He was given into custody, and brought before the Wallasey magistrates on Monday, when a doctor certified that the prisoner was Buttering from religious mania. Prisoner was remanded to the workhouse for a fortnight.  Frau Schlemiller, standing with her second husband at the grave of her first: "Yes—here he lies, the brave warrior ! You would certainly not be my husband to-day if dear John had not died the death of a hero on the battlefield." Herr Schlemiller, pensively "Yes—war is the curse of humanity. A story of Scotch honesty comes from Dundee. A small boy had taken the prize for an exceptionally well-drawn map. After the examination, the teacher, a little doubtful, asked the lad: "Who helped you with this map, James P" "Nobody, sir." "Come now, tell me the truth. Didn't yourbrother help you?" "No, sir; he did it all."  ** * * '4  MEXICAN PILLS These famous pills are wen-known in England, and FOR are regularly taken by hull. dreds of Ladies. 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