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The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1890-12-20 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

REITED2 FOR TUB GOUT.—Of ,all diseases, Gout in its several distressing forms, appears to be the most difficult to cure. If there is one which completely baffles the physician, it is that complaint which suddenly cripples a man in his limbs, and which in too many cases, after lengthened suffering, brings the sufferer to a premature grave. We have, therefore pleasure in directing attention to Bade 's Gout and Rheumatic Pills as a remedy which never fails to prove efficacious in the case of pains in the head, face, and limbs, gout, rhematism, and rheamntic gout. Many people would willingly take any other remedy than pills for any disorder, but we may assure them that Eade's Gout Pills necessitate neither confinement nor alteration of diet. It may be added that they have proved helpful to large numbers of sufferers. The Pills can be obtained of all chemists arid medicine vendors.  A terrible calamity is reported from Akron, Ohio. At Bucktel College eight lady studeets, dressed in fa.noy costumes, were entertaining thirty other ladies, when the dress of one of them caught lire, and in a few moments all of them were in flames. Ten of the ladies were severely burned, and two are not expected to live. Sentence was passed at Agen Assizes, in France, on Saturday, on a girl named Ardilouze, who, assisted by her lover and two accomplices, murdered her father by suffocating him because h refused his consent to her marriage. The lover was sent to penal servitude for life, the girl to a house of correction, and the accomplices were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. At the Liverpool Assizes, on Friday—before, Mr. Justice Gave—Thomas Macdonald was tried for the murder of Elizabeth Ann Holt, schoolmistress, at Longworth, near Bolton, on the 13th ult. The prisoner met the deceased in a lonely part, and killed her by cutting her throat and by repeated blows and kicks. After his arrest he made a full confession of the crime, but on Friday he pleaded not guilty, in order, as he said, "that the evidence might be gone over again." A sensation was caused by a police-constable detailing the substance of a statement made to him by the prisoner in his cell, wherein he said "he had a hard job of it with Miss Holt after she struck him with her umbrella, and nearly blinded him; but he knocked her down and soon finished her with his clogs and knife." His counsel pleaded for a verdict of manslaughter, in order to give him time for repentance, but prisoner interrupted with the remark, "I don't want it; I am guilty." Sentence of death was passed. The Editor of the Mectscat afen,u,al speaks in the highest terms of CADBURY'S Cocoe as a beverage and a food for invalids on account of its absolute purity', high quality, and p-reat solubility; and counsels the ' Medical Profession to remember in recommending ' Cocoa., that the name C.LDBURY on any packet is a gaanua es of purity. !:) ,`
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1890-03-08 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

VIEWS OF. THE WEEKLY PRESS: MR. GLADSTONE ANINTIIE REPORT. After all, says the Spectator, what the country. most wants to know is not what the individual culpability of the Parnellite members is, but what the political character of the party as a party has bean; how far its success would endanger or not endanger the country; how far these are or are not men to. whom the government of Ireland might safely becommitted without iruperillirg the safety of Great Britain. This seems a far inure important political question than any of those which affect the individual honour or dishonour of individuals ; yet Mr. Gladstone's amendment passes it by as if it were either supremely insignificant, or had not been raised in the inquiry before the Commission at all. Surely this is not the policy of a great statesman and patriot. It is more like the policy of a party chief' to whom the order of the realm and the future of Great Britain are quite secondary to the triumph of. party and the defeat of an antagonist. There is something so capricious and arbitrary in accepting all that the Commissioners have said in exoneiation of the Parnellites, and maintaining a dead silence as to all that they have said in condemnation of the Parnellites, that we venture to think Mr. Gladstone certain to lose instead of to gain ground in the confidence even of his own party by pursuing that unreasonable course. A "TRIUMPHANT ACQUITTAL* No one who reads Sir William Harcourt's speech on the Commission Report with an open mind, says the Speaker, can avoid the conclusion that he proves at least two points. The first is, that.whatever they may say now, the people who are responsible for the creation of the Commission declared beforehand that they would regard such a result SS that which has now been attained as an acquittal of the travereers. It was to establish or refute the actual complicity of the Parnellite members in crimes of personal violence, in murders andoutrages, that the three judges were set to work. The Unionist members and newspapers would have turned to ridicule the idea that their duty was to gathar together a string of passages from the speeches of politicians of all degrees of importance in which boycotting received a certain measure of sanction ; they would have shrieked with laughter at the notion that one of the issues to be solemnly decided and reported upon by Sir James Hannenand his colleagues was whether Mr. Michael Davitt was or was not, at one period of his life, a Fenian. Now on the questions which, at the time when the Special Commission Bill was passed, Mr. Parnell's bitterest enemies regarded as being the only questions of vital importance to be put before the Commission, the answer is a complete, a triumphant acquittal, not only for Mr. Parnell himself, but for all his colleagues. Sir William Harcourt has made this fact apparent even to the most prejudiced, and Sir Richard Webster himself will find it difficult to contest his conclusions, .
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1890-08-16 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

LIZZIE." Witness continuing said that she first became acquainted with Mrs. Townsend four or five years ago, and from time to time had met her at railway stations, and witness once met her in Mile-end-road, near the London Hospital, with a gentleman who went into the hospital. witness and Mrs. Townsend then went into a public-house opposite, and after they had talked some time, witness asked her whether she was married. She replied she was, but that she had to wear two faces, and that she did not love her husband as she at one time thought she did. This was about eighteen months ago. After the conversation the gentleman joined Mrs. Townsend, and the two drove away together in a cab. Last Thursday week witness met her for the last time at London-bridge station. Mrs. Townsend asked her to befriend her, and she said she would. She then said, "Can you let me hide in your house for about five days? No one will over dream I am there." She further said her husband was going abroad, and she found that she could not go Witness, thowever, tried to induce her to go, and -hey parted. Subsequently witness received a letter asking her to meet her at Deptford on Friday, the Ist inst., and she went there, but deceased did not keep the appointment. In consequence of that witness wrote the letter which had been read.—Medical evidence was given to the effect that both had died from poisoning by prussic acid; and after the Coroner had 'rimmed up, suggesting that possibly Mrs. Townsend might have administered poison to De is Motte disguised in whisky, the jury returned a verdict that the deaths were due to poisoning by prussic acid, but that there was no evidence to show how it had been administered. took _  A revival of business is apparent in Buenos Ayres in consequence of the improved state of affairs in the Argentine Republic. Mr. Tom Nye, late of the Surrey Theatre, is now on tour in his original part in the great Surrey drama, "Safe in the Streets." Commencing at Jarrow last week, his other engagements include Liverpool, Dewsbury, Rotherham, Keighley, Salford, Plymouth, and Portsmouth. At Thurlby, near Bourne, Linos, on Meiday evening, Charles Halliday, a labourer, who had been harvesting, returned home and found the body of his wife hanging from a beam in the lotchen,and his two children dead in bed with their throats cut. It is supposed the woman murdered the children and then hanged herself. At Lewe3 Assizes, on Tuesday, before Mr. Baron Huddleston, the ease was concluded in which Miss Gladys Knowles, a young and attractive lady, a niece of Admiral Knowles, and otherwise highly connected, sued Mr. Leslie Fraser Duncan, an elderly man, editor and proprietor of the Matrimonial News, for breach of promise to marry her. The damages were laid at £25,000. The two became acquainted through the agency of defendant's paper. Plaintiff was subjected to a severe cross-examination by the defendant's counsel, but they failed to shake her previous evidence. After a short deliberation, the jury awarded plaintiff £lO,OOO damages.  L I
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1890-04-26 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF MURDER.  A man named Rouse, head keeper to Sir Philip Currie, Minley, was shot dead on Friday night by a stranger in the main road, Blackvvater. The murderer was at once arrested and taken to the Aldershot police-station. Two revolver shots were fired. The man was a total stranger in the place,and at present no cause is assigned for the outrage. The murderer gave his name as Dr. Milner, aged 31, of King's-road, Upper Norwood. Milner was ob. served by a son of deceased looking into Ferniest. Hawley, at 6.30 on Friday morning. Shortly before 10 p.m. the deceased went into the Swan Hotel, where he had some whisky and changed a sovereign. Deceased then went outside, in company with his son and a man named Knight, gardener of Fernlea. They went a short distance up Hawley-road, when Rouse's son observed Milner, and remarked that he had seen him in the morning. They watched, and concluding that Milner intended to commit a burglary, turned back to inform Polio-constable Reynolds. They stopped at the corner of Hawley-road, and Milner followed, and asked them the way to Reading. Rouse's son said, "I have seen you before to-day." Milner then turned back and went rapidly towards Hawley, and was followed closely by Rouse and his son. Milner then turned round and shot Rouse twice with a six-chambered revolver. Knight tried to arrest him, and on Milner threatening to shoot him, Knight went for the police, and the murderer at first ran away,but returned. Milner then went to the Swan. The landlord came out and saw Milner standing at the door with a revolver in his right hand. Milner stated, "I have been attacked by two men, and lam afraid I have shot one." The landlord went out and blew his whistle to attract attention, and the landlady stopped and asked Milner to put the revolver away as she was afraid of fire-arms. Police-constable Reynolds arrived and took Milner into custody. He took him to the deceased, who was alive, and said, "That is him." Rouse died a few minutes after this, and was taken from the Swan Hotel to his loine. On Police-constable Reynolds trying to get his prisoner into a cab, he became most violent and could not be got in, crying out, "Ted, come and help, if you don't good-bye," and owing to Ids violence no one else could get into the vehicle, and he had to be taken back to the Swan, and additionaassistance sent. Policeconstable Groundsell, Surrey Constabulary, shortly after arrived on the scene, when the murderer was lying in the hotel with his feet strapped. togethel., and with one pair of handcuffs on. Police-constable Groundsell then put on his handcuffs, and more firmly secured Milner, and after another severe struggle the prisoner „was taken to Aldershot at 3 o'clock a.m., where he was charged with the murder. On being searched a six-chambered revolver was found on him with two chambers discharged and four loaded, and a pouch containing 12 more cartridges. Rouse had a presentiment for years past that he would be shot. The deceased leaves a widow and eight children.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1881-11-26 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

EXECUTION AT DERBY.  CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER.  Alfred Gough, a travelling hawker, was on Monday morning executed at Derby Goal for the murder of a little girl, Biz years of age, named Eleanor Windle, the daughter of a collier residing at Staveley. On the 20th of last August the deceased and other children were "blackberrying " in a lonely part of the country at Brimington, near Chesterfield, when the culprit decoyed her away, and, after having outraged her, strangled her and threw the body into an out of-the-way plantation, where it was subsequently discovered by a man named Brown. On Sunday the culprit devoted most of his time to religious reading, writing, and prayer, and continued t) do so until about three o'clock on the morning of his execution, when he retired to rest. At six o'clock he rose and had a somewhat hearty breakfast. An hour and a half later on, Mr. B. S. Currey, the Under-Sheriff, the gaol chaplain (the Bev. H. Moore), and other officials arrived at the prison, and shortly aLerwards proceeded to the condemned cell. After the process of pinioning had been performed by Marwood, a procession was formed, headed by Captain Farquharson (governor of the gaol) and the gaol chaplain. Arrived at the scaffold, the culprit walked up the platform with a firm step between two warden. He seemed to be engaged in prayer, and quite unconcerned as to the movements of Marwood when placing the rope round his neck. The white cap was adjusted, and whilst the ordinary service was being read, the executioner withdrew the bolt, and he body dropped a distance of Bft. out of view. Death appeared to be instantaneous. The convict left the following written confession "Her Majesty's Prison, Derby, Nev. 21, 1881.— To :he Minister.—Sir,—.l now take my pen in hand to write a few lines to you to thank you for being so good and kind to me, a poor unfortunate prisoner, who has committed such a fearful wicked crime. I hope the Lord will forgive me for it. I am very sorry for it. If I had a hundred lives I would give them to call that poor sweet innocent little girl back to life, but it cannot be. The Lord has taken her soul to heaven, to be with the angels of glory in that bright and happy land above, where there is no sorrow, but all bliss and happiness, to which I hope my Lord and Saviour will lift me up and wash all my wicked sins away and make me white as snow, and to sing the praise of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour, for ever and ever, amen. Good-bye, God bless you, sir, for being so kind to me, a poor sinner. I shall soon be cold and in the dust, but hope to ba forgiven, and rise in glory at the last day. So no more.—Yours truly, ALFRED Gonon. God bless you and the doctor for his kindness, likewise the governor."
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1881-06-25 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

CHAPTER LIX.  MY SOUL!"  The duchess paused, for again he had swooned with pain. "He is delivered into my hands," she said to her. ; "he is bound helpless, hand and foot. He is mine now to do with as I will, and I will that he should die! That dark, handsome face shall work no more evil; those dark, eloquent eyes shall tell no more stories of false, light love; the white, strong hands shall never caress a golden head again, nor shall the voice, so sweet with the music of evil, lead another astray. Let him die as be has lived, with his sins on his head, and his hands red with the murder of a fair name and a soul—let him die as he has lived !" She looked like an inspired sibyl as she stood there, with her face raised to the skies—white, calm, and cold as though it had been sculptured in marble.  She was a woman at heart; the hot, burning de. tire for vengeance, the longing for revenge, had in some manner maddened her; but she was a woman at heart, and she turned faint when her eyes fell on the drops of blood that fell on the sweet, green grass. "He will bleed to death," she thought. "So death will be more merciful to him than 1 dared to hope; death will be even more merciful than 1—"  She started to find his eyes wide open and looking at her.  "Irene," said the weak voice, "if you do as you say, if you leave me here to die, you will be a murderess."  "I am sorry for it, but I cannot help it," she said, "Do you remember on that terrible day, when you told me the truth about my marriage—my mock marriage, I should say—do you know how I knelt and prayed to you, prayed as no woman ever did before, with my soul on my lips. I would have forgiven you all the evil past if even then you had made me your wife—do you remember that you laughed in my face—laughed i—and now you ask me for mercy-1 laugh in yours." He turned We face from her with a groan—she went on in her cold, passionless voice: "I warned you then that sooner or later I should take terrible revenge on you, and you laughed again. You thought to.yourself that I was a weak, nameless woman; and „that I could not hurt you—you were wrong, it jamn my power to see you die." "Heaven will punish you for the crime." "Which is not so great as yours," she interrupted, "or so deadly. Better that the body should perish than the soul."  "But, Irene—lrene--do you not see how falsely you argue—are you not killing my soul, too P You lesve me heA to die alone, without the help of minister or friend, and I do not know a prayer— I declare to Heaven I do not know ione single pryer." "You know there is a God," she replied, "and you knovt that you have offended Him. You can ask Him to forgive you as yuu lie there. If there he  metoy for
Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-10-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. "What a villainous pair !" muttered Sandy this 11 a in the oottage home of Mira- Macts'liater to himself, as he crept out from *mists, painter out of emplonnent his hiding-place alter the departure of his bribed trained by his daughter Kate, • mistress and Ralph, "So he'll bribe a little on ,otton mill. The girl has • courile of gomerala to attack Mime Kate 3 talke which her lover, Sidney C•lde. • many. On the same night • Well, they shall have a hot recepton." •' is committed is a railway But several days elapsed before Ralph KimBury and Bolton, • middle-eget' Montagu could meet with the men he " obbed and then thrown out of wanted, and he was thinking he might have ind Kate heart of the murder as the the event in her dream is reto go to Manchester, to a place where he ' sair is satiated that Sidney knew they could he had, when early one M it her. been mixed up with the evening he espied • pair of unmistakable gem him in the (6,4101 choir, vagrants. t, enor solo without abs slightest .1 Hard np, r he said, repeating the F is. Kate knows than that her muttered Tamen of one of tho tramps. foundation. At the inquest it , Would you like to sano a sovereign 10 murdered men wan Kershaw's in tors bees is Austialis many each 7" serif made • large fortune, whioh " You're s-kidding of us, mister," said the England he has willed to his spokesman. The man thus suddenly sod "Not a bit of it ; I'm In earrest. An Is nab leaved Bolton and goes to inciter at Walinersley-hall, near there's no danger in the job, end in, risk, ; a time a governess-companion is least very little. • Kllte, tha mcoreeful applicant •` What do you want us to do 1 We teals, mother of Ralph Montagu, not over particular, eh. Bill 7" Simon Karshiaw.. hate does not I Well, I'd stretch a point for a quid overninismompaision, and Mt, leavers that bar pupil has no wish day, especially after dark.' neighbour of Kennels's, Squire " I want you to stop • young lady, Dern to be a hidden speotntar of a the garrotters, and let nit come t ring between Mrs. Montego bed reacue. I shall give you both a clout nit inquiries as to the governess's head, but not to hurt you much ; you r rim that Mra. Montagu has a, A rite 'quire uses thin knowledge to 3."" with Kate, bits she declines his " And when Is the affair to come of Mr. Kershaw and Min. Montagu "To-night, about half -past rains." v for • time. Whea they return " And where?" become Mm. Kershaw. After "You know this part ri her stepmother are sell. rem" 110, ...satool. ; used to go TyiretZte.iLgotnon.,xang.r? taetiltsiiimurg. round here with the old chap mutes menet meeting. with a gone by." "Then you will knew the stile IV.—
Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-03-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER OF AN AFRICAN KING.  Travelling by -The— OV-e-i•iTi.nd route, John Pratt reached Melbourne in five weeks, and immediately set on foot inquiries for Dan Ford. But for some time all his efforts to trace the man he wanted in Melbourne or the neighbourhood proved fruitless. He ' took counsel with a Melbourne detective.who showed mach anxiety to assist Prato in his  Information just received from Wont Africa reports the death of King Crow or Kroo, of Rocktown, Bereby. Tile dereased met with his death, it is believed, at the hands of his enemies, a neighbouring tribe with whom his own people were at variance. King Crow was a notable -figure on the Bereby Coast, and had the reputation of having killed the crew of in American vessel. Re lived tight in the centre of his town, and was found deal one morning, having been stabbed to death. How the murderer managed to get into : the King's quarters was a myoury on account :of his house being completely surrounded by the dwellings of his people. King Crow in: variably came off in • canoe from his place and was well-known on lewd the Enrlish mail steamers, his raga' habiliment consisting of a tall hat and apiece of cloth round the waist.  object. A syetematic inquiry among the hotel- ' keepers in the city recoiled in the discovery that Dan Ford ha u stayed a week in a thirdrate hotel, and that he had left in the company of a gold digger. "If the man has been a salt-miner, depend upon it he would make his way up countiy, to the diggings ; that is where you will most probably lind him. I know it is something like a wildgoone chase, going in search of a man through the gold country, but it is your only chance. You may hunt for months and never ;tome acroas him, while you may possibly gain tidings of him at the tint mining town you enter. If the  " A fiiend of yours. No doubt you thought you had no friends in this country, hut you are mistaken. Now, tell me, how did that watch come into your possession 1" "1 tonic it from the pocket of is dead man, r in the bush, about t miles from this place, coming from C nargo. Themsri6ettned to have fallen from horse, for I saw the horse more than on , but could not catch it. That's the truth, wihatever anybody may say. The horse was saddled, and there was a small black leatl.er bas'hangius to the saddle. The dead man had no money in his pockets, but very litely.it was in the Page?'"  Fashionable marriages are good oomples of higt tied. _  - -Mr. David Wilson, hi pn er of Hull, elder brother of Mr. C. H. Wilson, M.P., and Mr. At thur Wilson, of Tranby Croft, died on Sunday, as bin rtaideoce 1%6r-house, Costingha, after week'a illnem: :_._we,. bm,Joilgs.,neabouk_77 _  - ,lippplik,r+o....W4FA,t-T,;.,-nr...- • -,, • , • , • ;‘,17: ' 81110113111 LAyERs LIVERPOOL WEEKLY a Genutn• been tlbe Trwa• Mari, _ COURIER NOTTINGHAM 0N HVBBY PACKET AND TM at an Tobseconots, atom, te, Bold ONLY In Ant foe a toe. packet+. snd A, Box. And ilb. tins, which know Um