The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-08-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

COO. . On Friday week the driver of a locomotive at the Harwich works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway [asked his engine over a young man named Barlow, crushing him to death. ' A Liverpool woman named Shortman, of I drunken habits, on Friday week swallowed carbolic acid by mistake, and died. This is the third case in Liverpool within ten days. On Friday week David Wrightson, a miner at Strafford Main Colliery, was working in the Silkstone seam, when a large quantity of coal fell upon him, killing him instantly. He leaves a widow and large family. Samuel Stonehouse, carriage proprietor, Filey, was on Saturday fined £4 7s by the Bridlington , Beech for being drunk .whilst in charge of a , horse, and £2 13e for assaulting P.C. Nicholson. , On Saturday Alice Pratt, Trinity lane, York, quarrelled with Thomas Veeman in the course of the afternoon. Later in the day Pratt took poison, and was found by Veeman in an expiring state. Death ensued soon after. At Faith, in West Kent, _Arthur Wilson (16). a ' bird scarer, was found on Saturday in a field with a frightful wound in hi breast. His gun, , for frightening birds, was close by him, but how or by whom fired was not known. On Sunday afternoon a private soldier named Thomas Willoughby, a deserter, while being pursued by a military piqnet, jumped from a bridge into the Shannon at Athlone, and it, as I drowned. Tho wife and son of s Glasgow pensioner named Brannigan have been arrested on suspicion of murdering him. He was found dead in bed on Saturday night, his skull being smashed. Michael Welsh, the gamekeeper who was shot on Tuesday week, when the affray took place at 13randon Hill. New Ron, between Colonel Tigh's gamekeepers and some poachers, has died from his injuries. It is stated that important discoveries have been made in the Rnalion district close to Wynn. stay Park, the seat of Sir Watkin William Wynn, Bart., showing desided indications of the exist- i• once of gold in paying quantities. The Rev. John Robert M•Williams Banifield. Viear of Mithian, near Redrutelm whilst driving ' to Falmouth with his wife on Friday week, was thrown out of his vehicle, and sustained such , severe injuries that he expired on Saturday. I At Buxton on Saturday James Robert Corell, landlord of a "temperance hotel," was heavily tined for selling intoxicating drinks without a I license. The came was proved by a Derby detective, who staved at the defendant's house. Major Marindim in his report to the Board of Trade on the collision at Crosley Garret Station, on the Settle and Carlisle section of the Midland Railway, says the accident was due principally to a want of care on the part of the signalman. On Saturday William Pickering (16) charged with causing the death of William Smith Wilkinson by stabbing him with a butcher's knife, as reported fully in our cotumns on Saturday, was brought before the Magistrates at South Shields, 'I and remanded. I Macclesfield (population 39.000) is to have an irrigation sewage scheme, and Mr W. H. Radford, cf Nottingham, is employed to lay out 159 acres, and put down six miles of outfall sewers, the whole costing £2.3,75/ , Lily Rosins Turner (4) died within half an , hour of her admittance into the London Hospital. ' She had been leaning against a window at home I which flew open, the child falling thirty feet into the street below. ' Thomas Barry. a steward, climbed up the main rigging of the American liner Lord Clive, and deliberately jumped overboard. A rescue was I attempted, but the body could not be found. He , was a Liverpool man, and leaves a widow and ' two children. A fire occurred on Friday week in Messrs Bummer and Co.'s shipbuilding yard, Sunderland, by which the engine house, the fitting shop, and the joiners' shop were destroyed. A newly-built veesel was damaged, and the joiners lost their tools. The damage, covered by insurance, is