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Weekly News. — 1891-08-27 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

GULLED INTO SPECULATION.  At the Mansion Rouse, on Monday, a young man named John Samuel Appleton was charged with stealing three Russian Land-Mortgage Bonds, value £lOO each, the property of his employer, W. Gardner, solicitor, of Leadenhall-street.--Appleton had been 17 years in the service of the prosecutor,who paid him a wage of 38s. per week; a second-class fare all the year round from Loughton,where he resided, in a house belonging to the prosecutor, rent free, and in addition_he received nearly £5O a-year commission for collecting rents. The bonds were surreptitiously stolen by the prisoner from a safe in the office during his master's temporary absence in January last. In a letter sent by him to Mr. Gardner, whilst under remand on a second charge of embezzlement, he admitted stealing the bonds, explaining that they had been placed by him with outside brokers at "cover" for Stock Exchange transactions. One of the bonds was returned to the prosecutor through the prisoner's wife. Appleton pleaded guilty. In extenuation it was urged that he had been gulled into speculating on the Stock Exchange by gushing advertisements, and in order to meet losses was tempted to rob his employer.—Sir A. Lusk sentenced the prisoner to four mouths' hard labour.  Joshua Lockwood and George Farnham have been charged before the West Riding magistrates at Huddersfield, on remand, with murdering Catherine Dennis, a servant girl, last Friday. The police stated that further inquiries had shevrn that the prisoners could not have had anything to do w ith the murder, and asked that they should be discharged. Very rarely in the history of the Church has a Bishop celebrated the jubilee of his elevation to the Episcopate. Monday being St. Bartholomew's Day, the Right Rev. William Piercy Austin, Bishop of Guiana, and Primate of the West Indies, celebrated the 50th anniversary of his consecration at Westminster Abbey, by Archbishop Howley, to that diocese of forests, rivers, cataracts, and tropical heat. Though in his 90th year Bishop Austin is still described as hale and hearty, and certainly he so appeared on his visit to England 18 months ago. There have been no fewer than five Archbishops of Canterbury—Howley, Sumner, Longley, Tait, and Benson—since Dr. Austin became Bishop of Guiana. He has served the Church in that colony altogether nearly 80 years. His last great work is the erection of a cathedral in Georgetown, Demerara. Mr. Thomas Donkin, aged V, master plumber, liodnet. Shropshire, met with a horrible death on Saturday. He took a gun down from the kitchen ceiling for the purpose of cleaning it, not knowing t WaS loaded. Whilst doing so the trigger somehow came in contact with an iron vice, and the gun vent off. The whole of his skull was blown off.  Four negroes of the Shekiani tribe are now before the Senegal assize court, charged with having murdered two women, cut them in pieces and roasted and eaten their flesh. The police, being informed, made a raid on the village at night, and seized 20 persons, amongst them the four alleged murderers in question.
Weekly News. — 1891-10-08 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

OUTRAGE ON A PUBLICAN.  About 6 o'clock on Friday night Mr. Milner, landlord of the White Lion Inn, Gaiusborough, was driving home from Retford Fair, a distance of about 10 mlies,with two companions. When going up a hill near the village of Clarborough, about three miles out of Retford, they were shot at by a man standing on the road side. The shots failed to injure any of the occupants of the trap, and Milner got out, walked up to the man, and asked the reason of the outrage. The ruffian made no reply, but, clutching the gun by the barrel, struck Milner a terrific blow on the head, felling him to the ground in an unconscious state. One of Mr. Miler's companions came to his assistance, when the assailant threatened to shoot him, and then made off. Mr. Milner, who was bleeding profusely, was put into the vehicle and brought back to the police-station at Retford. He was then placed upon a stretcher and carried by the police into the Turk's Head Inn. Doctors were at once summoned, and they found Mr. Milner in a state of collapse and utterly insensible, the base of the skull being laid open by a large gaping wound. Restoratives were applied, and the injured man recovered sufficiently to ask for a drink of water, but immediately relapsed irth ereensci.vsne-s. . _  The police arrested Miler's assailant, Frank Parkin, at a late hour on Friday night, and be was brought before the Retford County magistrates on Saturday. The Superintendent of Police said when he arrested the prisoner and charged him with the attempted murder of Milner, he denied the offence, and said Milner and two companions came into his (prisoner's) house, commenced pulling him and his wife about, and he hit the man who was molesting his wife on the shoulder with the butt end of the gun. The gun had only a blank charge in it, and he fired it into the air, and did not hit anyone. The prisoner was remanded for eight days.  The Highland tourist season has been brought to an untimely close by the frightful weather, which has now prevailed for some weeks. The swift steamers are being laid up, and the hotels are putting on their winter garments. It has been a poor as well as a short season, and the hotel-keepers must have fared badly. The weather has not been altogether, although largely, to blame; for the modern craze for Norway has diverted much of the tourist stream from Scotland. While hotel and coach proprietors have been complaining, however, the Western waters have been unusually well covered with yachts—and no wonder, for there is no better cruising ground in the world.  Attention liAs been dr,wit in a contemporary to a queer misprint, it having been announced that a doctor felt his patient's "purse." Really, there's nothing very queer about that. A bull rushed into a milbnery store, causing a stampede among the ladies present. The lady in charge drove tile gentleman out by exhibiting the price of an'autumn bonnet. Bettie (10 next July): "Oh, sister, I wish I had two birthdays every year." Sister Jane (32 last March): "Ali, Bettie, before long you'll wish you • had but one birthday every five years."  f
Weekly News. — 1891-11-19 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MURDER MYSTERY.  The police of Indianapolis have received informa• tion of a brutal murder in Greencastle. The body of the victim was found in the lowest part of the town. There were 37 stab wounds in the breast, side, and head. The head was nearly severed from the trunk. A man living near heard the noises of persons fighting one night in an empty car standing upon a siding. The inside of the car has been discovered to be covered with blood, spots being found upon the roof. Some tramps were seen loitering in the town previous to the night of the murder. The body lay in the morgue and 2,000 persons viewed it, but without recognising it as a I.erson whom they had ever seen. The victim is abaut 25 years of age, with light hair and moustache. He is believed to be an Irishman, as his arm is tattooed with a harp and a cross. A telegram from Terre Haute, 40 miles from Greencastle, says that William O'Brien. a tramp, has been arrested there, and confessed that he had been with the murderers of the unknown man, though he himself had taken no hand in the murder. He says that the victim is Matthew Shea, of Toronto. Shea had told him, O'Brien says, that the leading Irishmen of America would give a large sum of money to see him dead, because he knew too much about the Cronin murder. Shea said that he was in communication with the Chicago Clan-na-Gael, and that he was wanted by the nonce of that city. O'Brien says that the men who murdered Shea met him (O'Brien) in a Greencastle public-house. O'Brien is, or pretends to be, ignorant of their names. They were all going to sleep in the car when the attack was made. O'Brien adds that he was afraid, and hid himself in a stable. O'Brien's father is a watchman in Nashville.  In connection with the proposed conveyance of the crews of British men-of-war from Halifax to Vancouver and rice vered by way of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Admiralty has been informed that the Canadian Customs Department will afford every facility for the execution of the plan. Ships' stores will be permitted to cross the Continent in bond. Mr. Anthony Hamond, late master of the West Norfolk foxhounds, met with a serious accident at Massinghana while hunting on Saturday. His horse stumbled over some wire netting, which had been used for restraining sheep or rabbits, and which was concealed by the long grass. Mr. Hamond was thrown to the ground, and had his collar-bun 3  broken: An epidemic. of influenza is prevalent at Redrath, in Cornwall. The symptoms of those suffering from it are very similar to those manifested in the epidemic of 1889-90. A large number of persons have been attacked. Some deaths have recently occurred through pulmonary complications arising, it is said, Loin influenza. A serious landslip occurred on the Scarborough and Whitby Coast Line on Sunday at midday between Scarborough and Whitby, the single line of rails for many yards being carried down the embankment. I Fortunately there is no traffic on Sundays. &laud; slip also occurred last week, and others have hapI pened in about the sank place in previous pan.
Weekly News. — 1891-07-16 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

RINI'S ON LIAIRDRNSSINO.  When nature has endowed anyone with a plentiful supply of hair it is very little trouble to maintain it, but when the hair is thin and poor it requires plenty of time and attention to keep it in order. The hair is exactly like a plant, and it soon acquires a neglected look if it does not meet with its proper share of attention. Cleanliness is the most important point, and should never be neglected on account of the trouble it entails. The hair should be thoroughly washed at least once a month, and brushes and combs should be kept scrupulously clean. Rock ammonia is the best thine to use when washing the hair, a piece about the size of an egg being used to a quart of boiling water. The water should be stirred with the hand till a lather is formed, and the hair and head should then be rubbeb all over with the solution. The hair must now be rinsed out in plain warm water, thoroughly douched with cold water, and rubbed until it is dry. It should next be dressed until it is perfectly dry, or it will become rotten, and this is particularly the ease after sea-bathing. Plenty of brushing is beneficial to the hair, and not less than a hundred strokes with the brush should be given every day. The brushes and combs should be of mod nualAs.  Suitable uniform for Post Office officials—Uniform politeness. - -  "I am a broken man," said a poet. "So I should think," was the answer, "for I have seen your pieces."  That time is money is again proved when a man beta on the horse which comes in a couple of seconds t.  Brown :" What are you going to do this summer ?" Fogg: "I haven't made up my mind yet whether to feed the flies in the country or to furnish sustenance to the fleas and other things at the seaside." A bad break.—Embarrassed suitor (to old gentleman): "I—er—Walltt'd to ask a small favour of you, sir." Old gentleman: Only a small one? Let's have it." Suitor; " I--er—l want your daughter, air At Lincoln Assizes, on Saturday, Arthur Spencer, 23, pork-butcher, was tried on a charge of murdering a widow named Mary Ann Garner,with whom he lodged, by shooting her. The prisoner went to her home with a revolver, and tired four shots at the Woman,killing her, and one bullet fired at himself went through his throat and lodged near the spine. It has been extracted. The prisoner had previously threatened to shoot the woman because she refused to marry him. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced t • death. "Which is the oldest church in rmrope r asss the British Architect. Canon Routledge, in his "History of St Martin's, Canterbury," claims the distinction for that venerable edifice. He describes it as being the only existing church originally built as a church during the first four centories that has remained a church till the present day. St. Martin's has a rival in St. Mary-in-the-Castle, Dover. which Canon Puckle believes to have been erected in the fourth century; but in the days of Queen Anne, and for a century and a half afterwards, this edifice was used as a garrison fuel depot.
Weekly News. — 1891-02-19 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ANOTHER EAST-END MURDER.  * JACK THE RIPPER* AGAIN.  Another of the series of terrible crimes which save been connected with East London during late years was committed at an early hour on Friday morning. The revolting features which characterised most of these murders hitherto were happily absent; but the circumstances of the crime, the character of the victim, and the mysterious features by which the deed is environed, undoubtedly place it in the same category. The time chosen by the murderer, the locality, and the precautions taken to escape detection are in all respects similar to those followed on previous occasions. It appears that shortly aftei 2 o'clock in the morning Constable 240 11, while passing through an archway of the Great Eastern Railway, which leads from Swallow-gardens to Orman-street, two thoroughfares running parallel with the W'hitechapel-road, but lying more towards the river, observed a woman extended on her back in the centre of the thoroughfare. He had passed the spot 15 minutes previously, and there Was no one there. On approaching and turning his lamp on the prostrate figure, he was horrified to find that the woman lay in a pool of blood, which was flowing from a terrible wound in the throat extending literally from ear to ear. He at once blew his whistle for assistance, and was joined within a few minutes by Police-constable 327 H, whose beat is adjoining. The woman gave no signs of life, but the body was quite warm, and the policeman felt that the pulses were beating faintly. Further assistance was soon brought to the spot by whistling, and a man was despatched to the residence of Dr. Philips, the surgeon to the division, who resides near at hand. In the meantime, acting in accordance with instructions issued during the panic at the east end, nearly two years ago, the police allowed the body to remain in the position in which it was discovered, and took careful note of the surroundings so as to be in possession of any available clue. The woman appeared to be from 25 to 27 years of age, and lay in the roadway, her feet crossed one over the other and towards the footpath. She was bareheaded, and while one arm was stretched by her side, tinc other was bent towards the breast. By her side lay a black crape hat, and in the pocket of her dress were several pieces of black lace or crape and a vulca.:.ite earring. Strange to say, a second black crape hat lay partly hidden in the folds of her dross. Au old striped stocking and a comb were also found in her pocket. By this time Dr. Philips had reached the scene, and after a short examination pronounced that the woman, although not quite dead, was expiring fast. As a matter of fact, she expired before preparations could be made to move her on a stretcher, which had been brought from the Leman-street Police-station. When the medical man pronounced life to be extinct the body was conveyed to the Whitechapel Mortuary, where it awaits an iuquebt. The blood stains were erased by the police, who cut a cross in the woodwork on the side of the arch to mark the exact spot where the body was found.
Weekly News. — 1891-02-26 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

LYNCHING A MURDERER.  An extraordinary tragedy took place on Saturday afternoon in Salina village, Boulder county, Colorado. A railway freight conductor of a local line, named John Sullivan, was engaged in the freightyard of the line in question, and detected a man named Oliver Riley stealing some coal. He went up to the thief and attempted to arrest him, whereupon Riley drew a revolver, and, before the conductor could do anything to protect himself, shot him through the head, killing him instantly. The tragedy was observed by several persons in the freight yard, whose attention had been called to the noise of the altercation, and Riley was taken into custody without further casualties. But for the timely arrival of the silk rift's officers, however, a mob would have succeeded in lynching the prisoner, aA the greatest indgnation at the murder prevailed throughout the village. In order to protect Riley the sheriff swore in special guards, who were to remain in the gaol until the excitement cooled down. The mob, consisting largly of railway employes and freight handlers, held a meeting about 6 o'clock in the afternoon and decided to attack the prison as soon as it was dark. About 8 o'clock a great crowd, fully armed, proceeded to the gaol, which is not a very strong building, and demanded the delivery of Riley. The guards refused, whereupon the mob fired at the gaol, without, however, doing any damage. The guards returned the fire and wounded two of the attacking party, which then retired. An organised attack was now planned and carried out. The gaol building was surrounded and the gates battered in, and after a brief hand to hand tight with revolvers and knives, the stronghold was stormed. One guard was fatally wounded in the encounter, and Riley the prisoner was wounded. He was quickly torn from his cell, and a rope was placed round his neck. In this manner, and bleeding from a gunshot wound, the murderer was dragged along the streets until he was nearly (lead. Arriving at the railway line, where stood a sign board warning passers to "Look out for the locomotive," the lynchers threw one end of the rope, over this and then drew up the body of Riley i ntc the air. While he was still struggling desperately the crowd riddled him with bullets, and the murderer's contortions then ceased. At this moment a railway train from Marshall passed, and the sr )wd, worked up to a pitch of madness, fired upon the train, out of whose windows a number of passengers were gazing horrified at the dangling body of the lynched murderer. Several persons were wounded, and the train had to be drawn up so that the injured could be cared for. Steps will be taken with a view to punishing the lynchers, but there is little likelihood of any of them being brought to just i eo.  The Rev. John Trew, 8.A., rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Greenock, has been offered the Archdeaconry of Singapore with a stipend of £l,
Weekly News. — 1891-07-09 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE RECENT RIOTS IN FRANCE.  CONVICTION OF THE LEADERS.  At the Assizes of the Department of the Nord, held at Douai, the trial has taken place of M. Culine and Dr. Lafargue, charged with having—the former at Fourmies on May Ist., and the latter in a speech delivered at Migirchies on April llth—excited the workmen to commit the acts which led up to the untoware events that created such a painful sensation throughout the length and breadth of the land. Dr. Lafargue denied that he had advocated murder, and M. Cnline declared that he had implored the people to remain tranquil. The most intereaLing evidence,says the Daily Telegraph Paris Correspondent, was that of Major Chapus, of the 145th Regiment, who, with 150 men under hi a command,gave the order to tire. He said that he had several times vainly exhorted the crowd to keep quiet. Some of his men were wounded already by the stones thrown at them. One of them fell down with his face bleeding, and a non-commisaioned officer had been dragged away and knocked down. The military regulations, his own honour, and the safety of his men rendered it impossible for him to yield, so he gave the order to fire. Not one of his troops had replied to the insults and assaults with a single word. The rolice-Commissary also deposed that the rioters were engaged in a struggle with the soldiers. An officer was dragged off by the men. Major Chapus advanced towards the people holding out his hands and asking them to withdraw, as he would have to fire on them, and he warned them that the rifles were loaded; hut they came on with more energy than ever. Major Chapus ordered the troops to advance with fixed bayonets, but they could not move a step—they were completely hemmed in. Then he gave the order to fire in the air, and as this was of no avail the men were commanded to aim at their assailants. Another witness said that at the meeting held on April 11th M. Culine had unfurled a red flag, but had not uttered a word. Dr. Lafargue, in the course of his address, had declared that the employer in these days was worse than the baron of the olden time. Be had constructed immense bagnes, in which they were imprisoned 12 or 14 hours out of the 24, and as if that were not enough they who had no possessions had also to mount guard as soldiers for the protection of the wealth that had been thus amassed. He then went on to ask if they knew what a g, neral strike of miners meant. It meant the cooing of all the factories at the expiration of a fortnight, fireless hearths, no gas, no electricity— nothing but the dark night,which favoured crime. The English were more advanced than they in the matter of new ideas, but they were behind them in one respect. They did not know how to use the rifle. Well, those present were superior to the English in this matter. They had all been soldiers, and when they were wanted they would know where to find their weapons and how to use them. Eventually Culine was sentenced to six years' confinement and 10 years' police supervision, and Dr. Lafargue to one year's impnsonnient and a five of 1001.