... On Saturday morning, the body of a man, named John Curran, who lived in Dennison Street, Liverpool, was found lying acrosst he rails in thf goods yardofthe Lancashire and Yorkshire Railw Company. He was shockingly injured, and as lit was found to be extinct the body was removed toths Prince's Dock mortuary by Police-constable 123D. It seems that deceased had been about eight years in the ...

... SHOP HOt-W, TEST CASE. At West Ham on Monday eight summonses were heard against various tradesmen under the Shop Hours Act, among them being one against J. R. Roberts' Stores, Limited. It was stated to be a test. case. In this case a van boy named Gearing was ad- mitted to have worked 82.hours a week, and the lad stated that he seldom went into the shop unless it was to get the delivery notes. ...

... On Tuesday morning the body of a married woman named Catherine Phillips, aged thirty- three, together with that of her infant child, was fished out of the Birmingham Canal at Wolvor- hampton. The woman left home on Sunday night, taking the child with her, and stating she was going to see her mother. They were not heard of again until their bodies were found. The mother had suffered from pains ...

... DEATH FROU EXCITEMENT. George Clarke, a quay labourer, of Lowestoft, who had been arrested on suspicion of having murdered his wife, was discharged on Monday. The post-mortem showed that the bruises on the woman's face and head were not sufficient to cause death, which was due to heart failure accelerated by excitement.—The jury found that this excite- ment was due to the woman being the worse ...

... BLACKMAILER'S PUNISHMENT. Four years' penal servitude was the sentence passed at the Old Bailey on George Francis Robertson, twenty-seven, described as a musician, for demanding money with menaces from young women. The allegations against him were that he had engaged himself on a pretended scheme for the suppression of massage establishments and houses of bad repute in the metropolis, in the ...

... YISITOSS should make up then minds how much os. ought to buy, and-then come to Amos Brothers Establishments, 13, Sussex Street, aDd 6, Wellington Charab r^, to be surprised Splendid Envelopes at 2s 6d per 1000. AMOS BEOTHEBS, 13, Sussex-street. ...

... A fishing boat foundered on Saturday afternoon, eight miles off Gourdon, on the north-east coast of Scotland. There were on board five hands, of the name of Taylor-a father and four sons. The father was saved, but the sons were drowned. ...

... MR J. N. ARMSTRONG AND THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS. ANOTHER REMARKABLE SPEECH. BURTON BEER THE GREATEST GLORY OF ENGLAND. At the annual dinner cf the Carnarvonshire and Anglesey Licenped Victuallers Association at Llandudno, on Tuesday, Mr J. N. Armstrong, Supervisor of Taxes, Rhyl, proposed The town and trade of Llandudno, and in doing 80 spoke as follows: Mr chairman and gentlemen, I may ...

... At Washington importance is increasingly attached to the forthcoming cruise of the United States South Atlantic Squadron which Rear- Admiral Schley takes to sea on November 14th, and there seems to be an air of great mystery surround- ing the prospective movements of the squadron. The officials of the Navy Department, while declar- ing that they have no information to communicate on the ...

... The Montreal liner Iona, of Dundee, is under orders to proceed direct from the Tyne to Naples to take aboard 1.200 mules for Capetown. According to the New York; Tribune, it is estimated that the bicycle sidepaths to be erected in the various counties of Pennsylvania will cost 400 dollars a mile. The paths are to be raised twelve to eighteen inches above the road level. The minimum width must ...

... NARROW ESCAPE OF AN EXPRESS. As the Irish mail from Holyhead to London drawn by two engines, was running into Crewe station on Saturday the axle of one of the front wheels of the second locomotive snapped, and the wheel ran off the line. The permanent way was damaged by the mishap, but no one was hurt. Traffic also was not seriously delayed. The 2.45 p.m. Great Westefrn express, Swansea to ...

... Ted Butcher, thirteen years old, living at Twer- ton, near Bath, was charged at Weston (Bath) on Saturday with maliciously wounding Richard Stephenson, headmaster of East Twerton Board School, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. It was alleged that Butcher, a pupil at evening continuation classes, was misbehaving himself and refused to leave the room when requested. As Mr. Stephenson ...