The Poole Telegram. — 1886-04-16 (Poole, Dorset, England)

MIRO.' during the past winter "Gospel sleigh," for the beneht of those far from church. [venturous voyage from Natal to London in a , boat has been undertaken by three Englishexpect to complete their trip in three  A private in the Seaforth Highlanders, at present stationed at Edinburgh Castle, shot himself the (Ater night while on the guard. Re is expected to recover. An assistant in a grocery establishment at Llandudno has just learned that he is heir to a fortune of $.116,000. An advertisement appeared in the newspapers in quest of him in order that he may receive the sum named, which has been left to him by a deceased uncle in America.  Two disappearances from Wolverhampton are reported. A hasband is sorrowing over the flight of his wife, who is believed to have eloped with one of his nap/oyes ; and in the other case a yonng man has absconded with £BOO and a barmaid, leaving behind him a wife and th-ee small children. The Bourneloouth magistrates had before them on Thursday ',die Adelaide Bye, who pleaded guilty to writing a false character for a servant girl named F3nl7. Butt. Fanny herself was charged with 'attempting to obtain a situation by means of this character, and both were fined a sovereign On account of the severe strain made upon the telegraphic department of the General Yost-office by Mr. Gladstone's statement on Thursday night, the heads of the department were in personal attendance in the operative rooms. Lord Wolverton, the Post- 1 master-General, and the controller were also present during the evening. The aldfellows' Magazine states that the oldest Oddfellow in the Manchester Unity is Bro. Peter Bradley, who Wllf4 initiated in the Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 19, Maple District, on the 16th January, 1816. He has been a member of the Order for more than 70 years, and, although 92 years oh, still attends the meetings of his lodge. Cockfighting still lingers in the North of England. A main of twenty-two cocks has been fought near Evysdale, between Kirby and Lady Hall, Milsom, for £2.5. Kirby lost by one battle. The police surprised the cocktighters, who went towards Broughton, and having secured two conveyances, drove up by Illpha way, and eluding the police, finished the battle.  Five eases of famine fever from the neighbourhood of Cappoquin, county Waterford, have been admitted to the hospital of Lismore, and considerable uneasiness has been excited in the district in consequence. The tnedical officer has reported the outbreak of famine fever the result of extreme distress, and the Local Government Board have sent down an inspector. A young woman named Elizabeth Bromley died on Thursday from injuries caused by falling into a deep hole in the yard of the Cavendish Spinning Company's 'mill, at Ashton-under-Lyne. She was employed at the mill, and was crossing a plankvvay over the hole when the planks tipped and threw her in. Her back was broken and she lingered in misery for a considerable time. 'Last week she was awarded nearly £2OO damages in an action she brought against the company ender the Employers Liability Act. A passenger train was running on Wednesday night en the Fitchburg railroad, Massachusetts, on an embankment 200 feet high constructed alongside the Deerfield river. The rains had caused the track to settle, and the entire train rolled down the rocky embankment into the river. The wreck caught fire, ' and some horrible scenes ensued. With three exceptions, every person on the train was killed or injured. Tnirteen in all were killed, being nearly all burnt to death, and thirty more were injured, several of them fatally. A suicide, accompanied by circumstances of a very unusual character, has created a sensation in Pesth. On the 16th of last month the daughter of an official of the Austro-Hungarian Railway, named Irma Szereenyi, a handsome girl of 17, and well-known in the best middle-class society in Pesth, died there. Suspicions having been aroused, a post mortcm examination of the body was made, which made it clear that the unfortunate girl had been poisoned by phosphorus. The body remained in the town hospital during the police investigation, which lasted about a week, and eventually a servant confessed that on March 15th Irma had had a quarrel with her stepmother, and poisoned herself In consequence. It appeared that about 11 in the forenoon she took the poison in her room, where she was left unattended, screaming in the most heartrending manner all day and night until four the next morning, when she died. Neither father nor stepmother entered her room during all these 17 hours of I earful torture, the latter further forbidding the servants to enter, until the screams had ceased, after which the doctor was sent for. The father was a former officer in the army, aged 50, and the stepmother is 29 years of age. AN