ACCIDENTS FATALITIES, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1905, 18 June 1889, Page 4

ACCIDENTS FATALITIES, OFFENCES, ETC.

London June 13 1 In consequence of the fatal railway accident in Armagh, four officials, including the driver, fireman,' and guard* of the excursion trainitavo been arrest'd for neglect. Mrs May brick, charged with poisoning her hmband, hss been committed for trial. ‘ : June 15. •' A thousand doeklaborers patrolled Glasgow yesterday, and intimidated men who sought to fill the strikers’ places. ■ Seventy-four deaths resulted from the Armagh railway accident. Whole families were destroyed,, The Queen has seat a message of condolence to the sufferers. Belgrade, June 13. It is .stated that a plot has been discovered here to depose King Alexander. Suakim, Jane 14. A virulent, formtof smallpox is ravaging among the Dervishes-encamped near Mor. , NewTobk, June 14. , Sti. : James’ Cathedral at Brooklyn has been destroyed by lightning. Chicago, June 14. Alexander Sulliyan, .who was arrested on a charge of murdering Dr Cronin, has been liberated on bail; the security being 20,C00 .dollars, Ottawa, June 15, Lord Aldebtrt Percy Cecil, eon of the second Marquis ,of Exeter, has boon drowned at Ontario. Sydney, June 14, An information for embszzlement has been laid against John Davies, 0.M.G., in connection with the irregularities alleged in the administration of the affairs of the Casna Labour Board, of which ho was chairman. >3 Melbourne, June 16, • A man. named MoOarrqn and his daughter, who reside at Nathalie, a post town at Broken Greek, have been arrested on a charge of having murdered the illegitimate child of the latter, It ia believed that this child is; the fourth - victim at the hands of the* accused, and it;'is asserted that the details of this murder are of a shocking nature. Oamaru, June 16, A man named Crawley was drowned in the harbour on Saturday evening. He and a companion were returning from the dredge in a boat, and while passing over the haws r of the dredge the boat Was capsized. Both men were thrown into the water, but Crawley could not swim, and after holding on to the boat for a short time, he sank. The body was recovered abaut fifteen nrnutes afterwards, bnt life was extinct. Ddnfdin, June 15. Waddell was brought up at the Police Court at Lawrence this morning, and charged with Bradford’s murder. The police stated they had no evidence to offer beyond that given at the coroner’s inquest, Mr Fayell said there was nothing of an incriminating nature in that evidence, and dispharged the accused.