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Accidents and Offences

... and Offences man has been apprehended at Hathersage, in Derbyshire, on a charge of having shot a workman employed at a needle factory there. The prisoner fired twice with a revolver and caused four wounds, which, however, are not thoucht at present to be of a serious nature. The case is described as a trade union outrage. Mr. E. J. Westmoreland, British consal at Branswick, Georgia, was shot ...

GENERAL NEWS

... Captain M. F. Maury will, if permitted to return | to the United States, assume professorship in the Virginia Military Institute. We read in the Melbourne Argus, May A curious instance of the manner in which natives of a country sometimes collect in group? in the settlement of a colony is exhibited at Albury, where some seventy or eighty families of Germans have lately arrived from different ...

THE ST. HELENS MURDER

... Very few additional particulars have transpired regarding the murder of Adam Mather at Greenbeach, near St. Helens, on the night of Saturday week, though the police officials ha ...

THE ST. HELENS MURDER

... The St Helens police, under the direction of Superintendent Ludlam, are still prosecuting their inquiries with respect to the frightful murder at Greenleach, near St. Helens. So ...

Alleged Brutality at Sea. —The Glasgow Herald gives details of as« rirs acts of brut ard cruelty by a '

... captain nnon i orew, which, ifc u> hoped, for the sake ofhnmanity, •re not true, at least greatly exaggerated As orew tell their that Franois Emanuel Cook, master of the b\rque Constance, sailing between Glasgow and the Coast of Africa, frequently flogged and maltreated Malcolm M'Kinnon, the cook and steward, that, evidently glad to be rid of the miserable life he wan dragging, he leaped ...

DREADFUL MURDER AT ST. HELENS

... Shortly after twelve o'clock on Saturday night last, a murder was committed near St. Helens. Tho murdered man is Adam Mather, about sixty years of age. He was a man in ea ...

SHOCKING MURDER AT ST. HELENS

... Shortly after twelve o'clock on Saturday night last, a murder was committed near St. Helens. The murdered man is Adam Mather, about 60 years of age, and lives in a detached house at Greenleach, about half a mile from Carr Mill, on the St. Helens Road. Ho was a man in easy circumstances, possessing a good income from household property, but, to fill up his time, worked at the Garswood Colliery ...

THE ST. HELENS MURDER

... At the Liverpool assizes on Saturday, before Lord Chief Justice Bovdl, the trial of John Smith, charged with the murder of Adam Mather, at Wiudle, near St. Helens, on the 21st J ...

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT ST. HELENS

... DREADFUL MURDER, ATTEMPTED MURDER, AND BURGLARY. Saturday, about midnight, a most atrocious murder and attempted murder and robbery were committed near St. Helens. The ...

S^tpp nig

... Mokecameb.— Arrivals — July 18 : Pheasant. Barro- , I iron ore; Lady of T.une, Barrow, iron ore. 13- Rr>.\ Belfast, Beaeral carga ; Julia, Glasgow, pig iron. 80- -: Talbor, Belfast, general cargo; Thiatle, Loßdomierry, ' general cargo , John Stonard, Belfast, iron ore Vnn i Suepherd, Ardroßsao, pig iron, al ■ Sbelburoe, Bei/ast, ' general cargo. 23 : Roe, Belfast, geaera! cargo , L.>rd ...

GENERAL NEWS

... It is said that Mr. M'Donald, secretary of the Miner's Union, means to stand for some mining dis- trict or borough at the next election. A Stuttgart despatch asserts that tbe governments ...