The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-07-08 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THE BRITISH TEMPERANCE LEAGUE. =Noon. He appeared to be all right until last week. Oa Tuesday morning the 48th conference of the British when hydrophobia supervened, and he died in great Temperance Leagno was opened in the Lancaster-road agony. Congregational Chapel, Preston. In connection with the A Liverpool policeman named Moran was on Thursday ! conference was celebrated the jubilee of the Preston fined On and costs. or one month's imprisonment, and Temperance Society, the first society ever formed dismitsed from the force for committing a savage assault on the strict principle of abstinence. Delegates were in the Main Bridewell on a prisoner named Fiynn. The present from all parts of the country, and Mr. James letter had been locked up for drunkenness and rioting. , Barlow, J P., of Bolton, presided. The report stated when Moran rushed at him and struck him a violent i that the history of the League was all but commensurate blow in the month with his fist. He knocked him down I with the history of the total abstinence cause itself. The and kinked him savagely in the ribs. Witnesses deposed special fund commenced at the Sheffield conference last that Moran was sober. /Horan's defence was that Finial year has reached the sum of £4lO. and there was a state. kicked him. meat of accounts which showed a balance in favour of the Her Majesty, aeownpanted by the Princess of Hens, League of over £9OO. Numerous lectures have been went out for her usual drive on Tuesday evening, and delivered during the past year, and a Sunday Closing in returning through Eton to the Castle the cap of one of tbe !Bill for England is anticipated at an early date. carriage wheels aline off, and fell into the road. A mar, ! in the employ of Messrs. Willis and Son, wheelwrights, obsereing what had taken place, picked no the cap. and ran after the carriage for some distance and overtook It. Her Majesty's servant (John Brown) alighted and examined the wheels, but found no serious injury had been done, sod the Royal (terrines then proceeded. A single man, named John Lee, 44 years of age, lest his life near Kendal, on Tuesday evening, tinder peculiar olrcuinstances. The authorities of the Kendal and Preston Canal are draining it near Kendal for the purpose of clearing it and repairs. Lee. with three other men, proceeded. a little before 11. o'clook at night, with nets for the purpose of catching fish, and they were netting the outlets at N3t3lADd, about a mile below Kendal. when Lee was drawn into a pipe ha the farce of the section arid carried some diatance. ''ben the pipe was doe, out of the ground Lee win found curled up in it and emit° dead. On Wednestiay, at the West Riling Court, Daamster, a man named George Marrlson, caotein of the Worksop branch of the Salvation Army, was charged with staffing a pair of stockings (rem the Tarot Crowns Int, at Tickhilt. 0 e Monday night prisoner went to loSge at the Three Crowns, ant left next morning unoblarveil by the landlady. It was then discovered that a chtst of drawers In the room he had ersoupted hid been ransasked, and a pair of stockings taken away. Tte lendlord'a niece met prisoner in the village, and asked him for his lolging mercy end the stechings He had nn money, but gave her the etockines He was fined £2 and costs. An inquest was held at Florsloydown, Lendoe, on Tuesday, on the holly of John Myra. 61, of Berating Heath, milestone, who was senposed to have been murdered and thrown into the Thames. The evidence showed that deceased had for many years been 3 labourer at the Kent County Lanatic Asylum, and believed he was entitled to a pension. His 5P2On. hewever, had been refused by the Lenecy Oommieeioners, and he was contsquently in a depressed condition. Helical evidi nce she wed that the injuries were causer', ef ter death, and the enoearancen were coneittent by drowning. Verdict, "Found drowned."