The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-18 00:00:00

TRAGIC ENDING OF A LOVE SUIT.

A Franklin City (U.S.) despatch says: All Chin-
coteague Island is agog with excitement over the
shooting of Mrs. Sarah Hill and Miss Jennie Hill,
wife and daughter of Mr. Timothy Hill, by William
T. Freeman, who then blew his own brains out.
Freeman was a New York newsboy whom Mr. Hill
adopted 10 or 12 years ago. He became strongly
attached to Miss Jennie Hill about a year ago, and made
a proposal of marriage. The girl rejected the proffer,
as she did not consider Freeman her equal, although
he had been her constant companion for several years
during their youth. She was remarkable pretty, and
seems to have been a great favourite all over the
island. On Thursday Freeman again proposed to
her in the presence of her mother. She refused his
3ffer, and then the infuriated lover drew his pistol
and commenced firing. Each woman received two
aullets in the head. Mrs. Hill was first wounded
while grappling with the murderer, who held her at
arm's length, and shot her squarely in the forehead.
When the son of Mr. Hill commenced to run to the
scene Freeman turned the pistol on himself, and
alew his brains out, his corpse falling across Miss
Jennie's prostrate body. The girl was highlyeducated,
having graduated from a school in Baltimore about a
year ago.

Always leave my friend something more to desire
pf me. If he asks me to go and see him three times,
[go but twice. He
swill look forward to my going a
third tirae, and when I go, receive me the more cor-
dially. It is so sweet to feel we are needed, and so
hard to be thought importunate.
"I suppose you get up early to set a good example
to the rising generation ?" "Oh no, not at all I The
rising generation doesn't need any example. It's the
generation that doesn't rise that we want to influence."

THE WAKEFIELD BISHOPRIC FUND.

A meeting was held on Tuesday at the Lai don
Mansion House in aid of a futd now being rai,..ed to
provide a bishopric in Soutl-iern Yorkshire in the
diocese of Ripon. Earl Fitzwilliam presided, and
amongst those present were the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Bishop of London, Lord Brabazon,
the Bishop of Ripon, Mr. A. J. Beresford Hope, M.P.,
and the Bishop of Brisbane. Letters were read
apologising for their absence from the Marquis of
Salisbury, Viscount Cranbrook, and Sir Richard
Cross. 'The Bishop of Ripon said that the diocese
over which he presided was the largest one in t he king-
dom as regarded area and population, and they 'Fere
therefore desirous of establishing a bishopric in
Southern Yorkshire. The people of Yortatire
had shown their desire for a bishopric, and
had subscribed about half the sum required—
namely, £45,000. He added that the necessities of the
case were such that they believed that the time had
come for dividing the diocese, and, if divided, eve:l
single machinery of Church work would receive a
fresh impetus. The Archbishop of Canterbury said
that the progress of the Church of England through-
out the world was measurable by and in proportion to
its bishops. The increase of the Church of England
in all parts of the world had been enormous in the
last half century. Flo urged that a bishopric was
much needed in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Lord Brabazon, Mr. A. J. Beresforci-Hope,
and the Bishop of London also spoke in support of
the object of the meeting. The latter speaker stated
that the wisest, the most economical, and the most
stimulating thing they could do was to supply every
part of the Church with a sufficient amount of the
episcopal supervision which the constitution of the
Church had made essential for the Church's work. A
vote of thanks was then accorded to the Lord Mayor
for the use of the room and the chairman for pre-
siding.