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Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-10-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ESCAPE OF A MADMAN. In February last Baron Artaud Hausmann, at the Hetel du Louvre, Paris, attempted to murder M. de Montauzan. The perpetrator of the offence was not punished, as he was found after medical examination not to be responsible for his acts. He was accordingly sent as a patient to the lunatic asylum of St. Anne, and afterwards to that of Charenton. He had a private apartment, with two keepers, servants specially engaged to wait on him. He was visited frequently by his sister, Madame de Courcelles, and it was suspected that she suggested • number of ideas to him, and, among others, schemes for escape. The directors of the asylum ordered that her visits should cease. Madame de Courcelles then took up her abode in a small house connected with a convalescent home near Charenton, under the charge of Madame Bertbier, a friend of her family. A daily correspondence was kept up between Baron Artaud and his sister. Re was allowed once a week to take a drive under the surveillance of his two keepers, who were, howevers instructed not to take him to any place named by him, and not to allow him to enter a house, or to communicate with any one. The other day he expressed a desire to %isit Madame Berthier, and he appears to have been permitted to do so. He gob Into an open carriage, under the care of the two keepers, one of whom acted as driver. On the previous evening the Baron had written to his sister that he was to pay her a visit. On the way he was very lively and amusing. The keeper who was with him in the carriage had disappeared before reaching AL:dame Berthier's house, but his absence seems not to have caused any surprise. The Baron went to the drawing•room, while the driver was taken to the kitchen to have some refreshment. Madame de Courcelles had an engagement in Paris, and had not come to meet her brother. He was speaking to some ladies in the drawing-room when he was seized with a sudden attack of sickness, and had to run off into a private room. He did not return for some time, and when a search was made it was found that he, too, had disappeared. The keeper drove back at a gallop to the asylum to give notice of what had happened. Intimation was given to the police, and next day the whole country was searched. The fugitive could nowhere be found. A very tall man, in grey, not known in the neighbourhood, had been seen near Madame Berthier's house on the day before the escape. A cabdriver states that he was awoke about 11 o'clock at night by two men knocking at his door. They offered to give him lee to drive them to the station of Villeneuve St. Georges. One of them was very tall, and wore a grey coat. The Baron is supposed to have been aided by this man, to have taken the night train to Lyons from Villeneuve St. Georges, and to be now in Switzerland. What became of tbe second keeper is not exnlaimet  Printed and Published by Edward Derham, at hi Printing Web, Sheep Market HillAßleirdford, DeeseL--fieenrday October 2nd, 115116
Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-03-06 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DRESS AND FASHION IN PARIS.  Alternate strips of plush and canvas will be very fashionable ; these are made with vertical stripes, and also with graduated stripes on one edge only of the material. As a ground colour a delicate shade of ficelle verging on fawn is most fashionable, and forms a very beautiful fond for the bands and stripes of plush and terry in dark but pure shades of red, green, brown, blue, kc., and for the brighter Breton colours of the interwoven cords already described. One 01 the leading novelties is • material called bique, • very coarse but soft canvas, in ticelle and other neutral and dark shades, made both in stripes and chsquers.Elephant cloth is a coarse canvas chequered with cord in the same colour or in a variety of colours. Faille is the necessary accompaniment of all these fabrics, for as they are more or less transparent in texture, they must be made up on a silk foundation. One last novelty,differing entirely from the preceding, remains to be chronicled. This is ratapoil, an anomalous fabric, at least half an inch thick, and yet of no perceptible weight. l'robably it will be only used for skirts, for although so wonderfully light, it would add too much to the appearance of bulk to be serviceable for the bodices of dresses. In tunics, long vertical folds are also preferred to draperies that cross the figure and destroy the idea of length which is desired ;if the draperies are short on one side, they must be long on the other, and the straight line from the waist mu-t be given by a series of plain pleats, a panel, or some arrangement of the kind. The light fabrics employed for ball toilettes are gauze and cripe hose striped with bands of satin about an inch wide, a very light kind of striped voile tamines, embroidered, striped and woven in pretty open designs, and a species of silk and woollen ciepon, very like cr,'pe de chine, but not quite FO expensive. Flowers are not only worn on ball toilettes, but also serve as models for jewellery, and instead of diamond lizards, spiders, and beetles, jewellera now make up their precious sbmes as sprays of oats, and as dandelions in the 'clock " stage, when the bloom is over. leaving the finny ball of seeds that children blow off to tell what o'clock it is, —M yea's Journal.  Robert Nash, labourer, was on Monday hanged at Swansea for the murder of his child,whorn he threw from the Swansea pier it to the sea and drowned. The culprit ate a hearty brerkfast, and just before eight submitted hiuiself to Perry to undergo the process of pinioning, without at all losing his fortitude. He then walked with a tirm step to the place of execution, and in a few minutes was launched into eternity. The words " Loi d hare mercy on my soul" being on his lips. Death was instantaneous. The culprit hasi left • full confession of his crime,
Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-11-27 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

BUTTER. that Home Rule had been defeated than bil' (Prizes given by General Pitt Rivers).-Firkin of b they celebrated the occasion by storming 561 b. let, £4, Mr, Fifett, Lvdlinch ; 2nd £2, Mr. J. •-• and murdering their Catholic fellow-towns- Hillard, Hook Farm, Stoke Trister ; 3rd, £l, Mr. H. • men. Nor do we forget who urged them to Parsons, Horsington Marsh. this. (" Hear, hear," criee of "Churchill mrFresh Butter (half,a-dozeti)-(prizes given by ," d groans.) We remember perfectly well ChildMOSke.foYreprn2annd)-£lst, £2, Mr. K. B. Warren an 1, Mr. H. Parsons; e, Mr. /' that these very Tory Ministers, who now B. Warren. bay they cannot grant Home Rule because Messrs. W. Pond and Son, of Plandford, gar, silver cup for the best entry of butter in this , the Catholics would oppress the Protestants, which was taken by Mr. Warren. urged the Protestants to bteak out into rebel- crimese. lion, and to attack the Catholics, rather than (Prizes given by General Pitt-Rivers)-Th submit to Home Rule." milk cheese-Ist, £4, Mr. J. Candy, Char Speakiug of the Unionists he said :-, 2nd, £2, Mr. A Reynolds, Ilenstridge Fact, "They say we ought to yield to them; we, El, Mr. W. Green, Gomershay, Stalbridg 1 U. Rabbets, Cook's Farm, Stalbridge. ! the majority, yield to the minority, and say The annual dinner was held in i that they make up in quality what they , want in quantity; and some of them think Hotel Assembly room at 3.30. they have a certain divine mission to settle the presidency of Mr. H. S. Bowhat they call our opini ms, and that we supported by General Parke, C. are so ignorant and foolish that we ought H. B. Baker, Bart., Major M not to venture to have opinions of our own, Noel, Gen. Beadon, Mr. but to go to these divine missionaries, or Reeds. It. I3urdon, J. G Lewmies, M• Lang, C prophets, or what you like to call them, ask Messrs. H. S. Senior, H. f their opinions on any political question, and at once say those opinions shall be ours, Woodhouse, J. Coate, We are so stiffnecked we do not intend to do Benjafield, etc. An anything of the sort. (Cheers.) What then occurred in the coarse do they say ? They tell us that they will large stirface of plast force us, and how will they force us? By upon the heads of th calling Tories to their aid. A more impu- gentlemen trnmedi' dent and arrogant claim was never made. covering, the table if we were to submit to it we should be at causing inconveni the mercy of any Liberals who went to the dam"' was sr Tories for aid. It would not be the Liberals patriotic, and c, who decided on the policy of the Liberal in due order, - party, but the Tories would be called in to spent. say what the policy should be. I protest PETTY F against that policy. H. Synder(' H. SerreP ! - , Jones i
Weekly News. — 1891-12-10 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CHINESE EMIGRANTS IN AMERICA.  Even the Exclusion Act has failed to stop, though it has checked and diverted, the stream of Chinese immigration flowing into the United States. The supervising special agent at the Treasury Department, Washington, in his annual report, points out that there are only 20 officers to watch the 1,100 miles of land frontier between the Lake of the Woods and the Pacific Ocean, and that a single slow steamer has to patrol the long waterfront in the Puget Sound district, comprising many islands within a few miles of British territory. At present the smuggling both of Chinamen and of opium for their use is a trade of large proportions. "I am reliably informed," the agent states, "that during the last year 125,000 pounds of crude opium were imported and manufactured at Victoria, 8.C., making about 70,000 pounds of the prepared article for smoking, and that nearly every pound of it was smuggled into the United States. It is more profitable to take the risk of an occasional capture and confiscation than pay the enormous duty of 12dol. per pound, which is prohibitive on legitimate importations, and is the essential basis of the smuggler's profit. Reduce the duty to 4dol. and his occupation will be gone. The present arrangement benefits the Canadian Government which collects Idol, per pound on the crude opium used in the manufacture. The enormous profits in opium smuggling, due entirely to the high duty, have induced the employment of large capital and a great number of bold and skilful men to engage in the illicit traffic made so alluring by existing laws."  The head of Hiram Sawtelle,for whose murder his brother Isaac is under sentence of death, has been found over the Maine boundary line, and this corroborates the confession of the murderer that the crime was committed in Maine. in which State the death penalty does not exist. The condemned man will therefore probably escape the gallows.  The Berlin Committee in charge of the German wine exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair has eeceived an offer from the promoters of the German Ethnographic Exhibition to retail German wines upon their large grounds, which they propose to transform into a concert garden capable of won. modating 10,000 persons at one time. It is estimated that there were no fewer than 13,000 fresh cases of influenza in Hamburg and its suburbs during the past week. The number of fatal cases was smaller, however, than last week. The eldest son of the Crown Prince of Denmark, Prince Christian, who is serving as an officer of Dragoons in Jutland, is laid up with an attack of influenza. The influenza is spreading fast in Copenhagen, but it continues to be of a mild character. Owing to the prevalence of the complaint in the Postal and Telegraph Departments and in railway offices, great inconvenience is caused. The sittings of the Supreme Court of Justice have also in consequence been adjourned, several judges being ill with influenza.
Weekly News. — 1891-12-17 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRIA.  Describing Christmas preparations in Vienna, a cor.espondent says: The development of business in the Christmas market in this capital is extraordinary. It is quite ten times greater than it was a few years ago. The jewellers exhibit tasteful e:lamel work, and garnets are also much the fashion both for gentlemen's and ladies' jewellery. The Vienna silversmiths do their best to imitate English silver work, and cigar and cigarette cases are adorned with enamel figures inlaid both within and without. Enamel is also applied upon leather articles. which are a Vienna speciality, dark green being the colour preferred just now. Fans are quite an important branch of Vienna industry. There are only two kinds just now—lace fans with silk patches on which are painted delicate landscapes with fairy figures, and feather fans, in which there are always novelties. 01 toys there is greater choice than ever before, every article in use by adults being copied daintily for little people. Toilet tables covered with pretty things are made for dolls; and big kitchens, in which the complicated utensils for German cookery delight the eye, are so well made that little girls can fry and bake end roast in real earnest on the hearth with its ep rit lamp. Though the number of new dolls is legion, and some shops exhibit hundreds of different kinds, from a negro girl in a canoe to a lady in powder and patches, the one that promises to be popular is an exact copy of the Crown Princess's little girl, Archduchess Elizabeth, in her Tyrolese dress and hat, and a little alpenstock in her hand, who in the shop-windows climbs steep rocks enlivened by chamois and deer with real hair. Little Vienna girls and boys and their nursemaids undertake most businesslike circular journeys to all the shops worth seeing, and the opinions they express shew bow thoroughly they study their subject.  A telegram from Jacksonville (Mass.) reports teat a quadruple murder has been discovered in the Volusia Valley. Miss A. L. Bruce, Mr. Frank Packwood, Mrs. D. L. Hatch, and her sons were found in the house of Mr. Packwood with their throats cut. The murders are believed to have been committed by a gang of tramps.  _ The Supreme Court of Texas has dismissed the appeals from the decision of the District Court to the effect that the Alien Land Law was null and void. A telegram from Fort Worth states that this result had been hailed with joy throughout the :4tate by hundreds of enterprises conducted with foreign capital. The decision means a new era for Texas.  The Highland Land Court have now valued all the holdings on the west side of Lady Matheson's Island of Lewis. The total rental dealt with was £931, and the fair rents have been fixed at OW, being a reduction of nearly 32 percent. The tenants were very heavily in arrears, the total amount due being £5,681. Of this, £3,938, or nearly 70 per cent, has been cancelled by the Court.
Weekly News. — 1891-04-30 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MOB LAW IN AMERICA.  A MAN LYNCHED BY SOLDIERS.  An extraordinary case of lynching by soldiers has occurred at Walla Walla, Washington, the victim being a man named B. J. Hunt, who had murdered a private soldier, Miller by name, the previous Wednesday. On the evening of that day Hunt, who was a well-known professional gambler, met Miller in a saloon bar, where the two men had some drink together. A quarrel, however, presently arose between them, high words were exchanged, and Hunt, drawing a revolver, shot his companion dead. It was rumoured that an attempt would be made by ' the soldiers of the garrison to avenge their coinh.ade's death, and early on Friday evening the sheriff, who had received private information on the subject, repaired with the Public Prosecutor to the barracks in order to request the assistance of the colonel commanding there in averting such an outrage as was supposed to be in contemplation. The colonel, recognising the gravity of the situation, promised to do all in his power to prevent any breach of the peace on the part of his men, and stated that he would take the precaution of having the check rolls called. The sheriff, satisfied with these assurances, then returned to the town, where he proceeded to procure the services of an additional body of men to guard the gaol. Before this extra force, however, had had time to reach their post, a band of about 70 soldiers, belonging to the 4th Cavalry Regiment, made their appearance in front of the prison and loudly demanded admission. This being refused, they at once began a furious attack upon the door with hammers, chisels, and other implements with which they had armed themselves. They threatened, also, to have recourse to dynamite, if necessary, and as effectual resistance appeared to be out of the question, the doors were at length thrown open. The besiegers instantly rushed in, 30 or 40 revolvers were held to the heads of the guards inside, and the keys of the cells were peremptorily called for. These were surrendered, and a few moments later Hunt was a prisoner in the, hands of the infuriated soldiery. He was taken out to the yard of the court-house, and there unceremoniously despatched by revolver shots. It was afterwards found that no fewer than 16 bullets had entered his body, four of these having pierced his brain. While all this was going on the town was held by soldiers from the garrison, who took possession of all the approaches to the gaol, and permitted no one to pass. They also compelled the shopkeepers to extinguish their lights, so that the lynching was effected under the cloak of darkness. As soon as it had been accomplished the lynchers and their comrades returned straight to their quarters, and although they were not masked it is expected that the task of identification will be attended with considerable difficulty. When the -oldiers had withdrawn an excited crowd of fully 2,000 persons collected in the streets in front of the prison,where they remained eagerly discussing the tragedy until after midnight.
Weekly News. — 1891-04-30 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SCENE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.  At Ahingdon County Sessions, on Saturday, Robert Dooley, 35, sailor, was charged with striking at Jane Starkey, of Wolverhampton, with a knife, and attempting to murder her in a railway carriage Ra.•7`cy. The plaintiff deposed that on the 7th she was a passenger from Paddington to Wolverhampton by the 3.30 train. She had her baby with her. Miss Stutter and another lady travelled with her. Prisoner, who was intoxicated, got into the carriage at Reading. The guard asked him to get. into a smoking carriage, but he refused. There was no gentleman in the carriage. Soon after the train started from Reading the prisoner said. "That is toy child. You have stolen it." Plaintiff did not ewer him. He repeated that she had stolen it.. The prisoner was sitting opposite to her. He drew out a buckhorn-handle knife and with this threatened her, trying also to take the child out of her arms. When Miss Stutterd remonstrated with the prisoner he threatened to take her life also. Finally he fell down upon a seat, and she suggested that they should all sit upon him. This, however, the other ladies were too frightened to do. Prisoner made some other attempts to seize the child front the plaintiff's arms. All the efforts of the passtngers to attract attention were in vain until they arrived at Radley. Here the prisoner was arrested.-7 Miss Stutterd was examined, and statl that when the prisoner got into the carriage atReading she did not think he appeared to be very tipsy. Some time after they left Reading she saw knife hanging between the prisoner's legs. She was frightened that. he should have a knife in his possession. because she thought he was a lunatic. She heard him threaten to cut complainant's throat She  if she did not give up the child. _ was pulling the chord for about 20 minutes, but it had no effect. —Dlward Gregory, guard in charge of the train from Paddington, said it was his duty to test the communication cords, but he did not on this occasion as the train was so short. As the train passed Cullum he noticed a person's arm out of the window, but he did not stop the train as he thought it was sonic one playing with the cord. The company and also Mrs. titarkey intimated that they would be sathdied if the ease were dealt with as one of assault., and the Bench fined the prisoner £5, with the alternative of a month's imprisonment.—The Bench thought the guard was very remiss in placing such a man in a carriage with ladies. They also thought. that the communication between passeugorn and the guard was not good enough, and hoped this opinion would be duly laid before the compan%  boon:mm.4y ewer an me on MattoI3y afternoou fur the rayigation of the river to be ilvelawiti open by the usual cr7nanony of the Coinmandant of the Fortress crossing to the Winter Palace in the State barge. A &ad boating fatality has occurred on the Seine. Loat containing a pleroure party of five young Wai rim down by a yacht. Three of the occupants of the boat were saved, but the remaining two were drowned. The bodi:'s have not yet hemn r.•coeored
Weekly News. — 1891-10-22 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE ACCUSED COMMITTED.  At the Marlborough-street Police-court, on Friday, Louis Albert Benton, 37, a Frenchman, living ii Old Compton-street, was charged, after several remands, with having fired at Mary Class, a foreign woman, described as a servant, of Neal-street, Soho, with intent to murder her.—The evidence previously given was to the effect that Class, who lived with a man named Montils, spent a day in Benzon's company, and on the evening in question went with him to the Alhambra, where a man, known as "Jules," joined them. Nothing noticeable occurred until towards the conclusion of the performance, when Benson and the woman were descending the stairs from the gallery. It was alleged that on the woman asking ltenzon for a sovereign, which he had promised her, he became excited, and made an attempt to catch hold of her. She, however, eluded him by running down the stairs. A moment later, when she returned, Benson put his hand behind him, drew a revolver from his belt, and when she was within a yard and a-half of him fired at her. Just as he pulled the trigger, the man -Jules" knocked his arm aside, so that the bullet struck the staircase, near to where the woman was standing. Benson was about to present the revolver again, when Charles Baker, a man who had joined them on the stairs, seised Loth his arms, and held him until an attendant came and took him outside to a constable. When taken to Vine-street police-station, Benzon was found to have in his pockets a revolver, £56 in French bank-notes, and a large Norwegian knife. Inspector M'Kenna examined the former weapon, and found it to be loaded in two of its chambers, and it contained one discharged cartridge case. it explanation of his conduct he said, " I met Montils to-day, and had a drink with him. I never saw him before. I then went away with this woman and the man Jules. When we git to the Alhainbrib Months said that he was the proprietor of the woman, and asked me for the money to pay for my lodging with her. I went downstairs and Monlils seized me. When caught hold of met lost my head, and we both rolled downstairs together. I pulled out my revolver and fired, but not at the woman. I fired it down. I did not fire at anybody. "—A flattened bullet was found by the inspector afterwards upon the gallery stairs.—On being recalled, the woman said that Benzon held her by the left arm when he fired at her, but Baker contradicted her testimony ii this respect. Monfils denied,. that he was with the party when the shot was fired. He did not tell Benzon that he was the proprietor of the woman, although at times he had received some of the money she had earned.— Inspector M'Kenna and Detective-Inspector Stroud now said that they had made every effort to find the man "Jules," for whose appearance the prisoner had been remanded, but they believed him to be ahroad, and therefore not to be met with.—The p:isoner was committed for trial.