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THE PELICAN CLUB CASE

... THjI PELICAN CLUB CASE. The action of Bellamy r. Wells came on before Mr. Justice Romer in the Chancery Court yesterday tnorn- ins. it was an application to restrain the Pelican Club from beings a maisunee to the plaintiff. The Solicitor- General, ir. NeejUe, and Mr. Rowden appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Ealdane Q.C., and Mnr. Swinfen Adey for tho ?? Solicitor-General said the action was ...

DISTRICT NEWS

... DISTRICT SEWS. WEST BRON IWICH. LcrEsNo A CPPCScATION.-Yesterday, at the Police Court, John Rollason made an application for a transfer of the license of the Barrel Inn beerhouse, Cross Street, Lvng, to ?? Whitehurst pointed out that in August last the applicant was fined 40s. and costs for permitting drunkenness in a licensed house which he was then managing.-A temporary transfer was granted, ...

THE TRIAL OF MAJOR PANITZA

... THE TRIAL OF MAJOR PA~iTZA.[ [euter's Teigram3] SOFIA, May 24.-The court-martial for the trial of Major Pamitsa reassembled at nine o'clock this morning. The President announced that the read- lug of the documents seized in connection with the case would be commnenced. Captain Kolobkoff declared 'that inasmulch as it would ho well for neither the Bulgarian Government nor for anyone that he ...

ACTIONS BY MRS. WELDON

... ACTIONS BY MUS. WELDON. In the Queen's Bench Division, yesterday, before Mr. Justice WV-ills and a common jury, she action was tried in whith Mrs. Georgina Weldon sued Mr. John Talbot Notcutt, bookseller, carrying on business at 37, I Bath Street, Leamington, to recover damages for alleged [libel. The defendant denied publication, that the words bore the meaning attributed to them, and further ...

MURDER CASES

... MURDER CASES6. The trial of Felix Spicer for the murder of his two illegitimate children and the attempted murder of their mother, at New Brighten, concluded at Chester Assizes, yesterday, when the jury found him ?? thereupon said that if he had conducted his own defence he might have been liberated. -Mr. Justice Stephen sen- tenced the prisoner to death, and hed out no hope of mercy to him, ...

BIRMINGHAM COUNTY COURT

... YESTzD.kY.-Before His Honour Judgqc Ckafmers. A QUESTION FOR ANALYSIS.-An action was brought bv William Grumbley, 75, Villa Street, Birmingham, jam manufacturer, against W. Hodgkins, 62, Brace- bridge Street, baker and grocer, to recover £03. Sc. lid. for jam. Mr. Lynex appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Bickley for the ?? case for the plaintiff was that his traveller obtained an order from ...

CHILD NEGLECT IN BIRMINGHAM

... -I H - CHIID,1 NEGLECT IN BIRMINGHAM, A SAD STORY. At the Birminoham Police Court, yesterday morning -before Messrs. 5Vhite and Middlemore-Henry Bates and Elizabeth Alice Bates, of 4, Packington Place, Whitmore Road, were summoned for continuously neg-. lectina their two children, Arthur Bates, aged six years and eleven months, and Alice Bates, five-and-a-half years old, from April 5 to July 5 ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... YESTERDAT.-BECfOre Mr. Co710Mre (StIglp), the Ho7.1or (Councifior Clayton), and Mfessrs. Harris, Cook, - Maiddlenore, TVAite, and Pylanel. 5 - A DISHONEST CLEnR.-George Torrance Milne (23), 64,'Golden Hillock Road, Small Henth, clerk, was charged with embezzling the sum of £2. l7s. the moneys of his employers, Messrs. Lily, Cox, and Lilly, hosiers, New Street.-Louis Cox, a partner in the firm, ...

ALLEGED ASSAULT AT A THEATRE

... I At the Marlborough Street Police Court, London, yesterday, William Peters, Rodney Road, a fireman, was charged with assaulting Thomas Warwick by striking him on the head at Her Majesty's Theatre.- The prosecutor said that he was waiting outside the theatre at about twelve o'clock on Saturday afternoon, with some hundreds of others, expecting their wages for Monday's performance sn ...

HEREFORDSHIRE ASSIZES

... FORGING RAILWAY TICKETS. These assizes were resumed at Hereford yesterday, before Mr. Justice Mathew.-An old man named Matthew Goodden, of Gilwern, near Abergavenny, a lessee of tolls, was indicted for having forged a railway ticket, with which he travelled from. Abergavenny to Hereford on July 30, defrauding the Greatb Western and London alnd North-Western Railway Companies.- Thomnas Thirston ...

STRANGE DEATH OF A DOCTOR

... The coroner's enquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Dr. W illiam Reeks Lyddon was resumed at Faversham on Wednesday. Since the last hearing of the case the interest in the proceedings has increased, and the Town Hall was crowded. Whilst Charles Lyddon, the step-brother of the deceased, was proceed- ing to the court he was loudly booted by a crowd which had assembled in the ...

WEST BROMWICH COUNTY POLICE COURT

... ;WEST BROMWICEIE COUNTY POLICE ; i ~~COURT. l YzsTZraaA.-BeforC the Hons A. C. G. Cafhtorpc ?? - fr. J. FcUows. NEw POOaB.ATv.--A poor-rate of is. 3d. in the pound for the ensuing half-year, for the parish of Rarborne ?? Smethwick, was granted, on the application of Mr. T. Priest, assistant overseer. The rate is the same as for the previous half-year. TnaE~r ?? A Suor.-Joseph Ashford (13), ...