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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-10-07 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

MOORS HOSTILE TO SPANISH GARRISON.  SEVERE FIGHTING.  The Madrid El Imparial publishes telegrams from the Spanish fortress of Melilla on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco, stating that the Moors have destroyed during two nights in succession some works that the Spanish garrison had attempted to begin on the site of a new fort in a strategical position in advance of the present Spanish lines, and which the Moors resent. f;cns.r:;.l Margallo, in command at Melilla, sent for the Moorish Bey, and threatened to take very energetic steps if the Arabs again interfered with these outworks, which win henceforth be strongly guarded and protected by five forts. The representative of the Sultan of Morocco, who has, in fact, little power over the hirf Arabs around Melilla, made an evasive answer. The Arabs have since fired at the Spaniards and wounded one soldier. The Arabs have withdrawn all their flocks and tent', women and children from the neighbourhood of the Spanish lines, where only armed Bedouins remain in a hostile attitude.  Despatches from Melilla state that the righting there was of a desperate character. The Moors, in whose ranks were Frajana, Mezquita, and Mazuza Kabzles, were 5,000 strong, while the S, anish garrison numbered about 300 men. General Margallo behaved with the utmost gallantry, himself leading his men to the charge over and over agin. The fight went on from Qarly morning until the fall of night. By a great effort the Spanish troops succeeded in rescuing and bringing into Melilla the labourers and a picket of soldiers employed on the works at Fort Guariach. The Moors were anted with Remington rifles, and fought with fanatical fury, pursuing the Spaniards, when the latter fell back, to the very walls of ths fortifications in the teeth of a murderous fire. The Spanish general was fortunate in having at his disposal a small body of cavalry, well led and admirably drilled. These mounted men were all day on the alert, and whenever a detachment of infantry was in difficulties dashed down upon the Moors, breaking their ranks and making the necessary diversion, while their long sabres also did great halve wrong. the enemy. The guns of the forts were well h,ndled and did terrilde execution not only in the ranks of the assailants but among the villages on the heights near. Many mosques and houses were reduced to ruins by the well-directed shot of the Spanish artillerymen. Eighteen men of the Spanish garrison were killed and 35 wounded, including three officers, of whom two have sustained mortal injuries. The Moors carried off their dead and wounded. Rein, forcements of men with ample supplies of ammunic Lion, guns, and arms of all kinds are leaving Malaga and Seville for Melilla. A dii lomatic note will be despatched to the Sultan of Morocco, whose authority, however, over these tribes is hut nominal, and a man-of-war will probably also be sent to Tangier to support the diplomatic remonstrance. A gunboat will also he despatched to bombard the strongholds of the pirates on the Riff coast.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-12-02 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SALFORD MURDERER HANGED.  Emmanuel Hamer, a young painter, convicted at the recent Manchester Assizes of murdering au aged woman named Caroline Tyrer, was hanged within the precincts of Strangeways Gaol. Manchester, on Tuesday morning. It appeared at the trial that Flamer, who bore an extremely had character, was engaged at the end of October in painting houses at London-street, Sall ord, in one of which Mrs. Tyrer lived. She once told him he was rough•spcken and objectionable, and so far as is known this was his sole cause of offence against her. On October 28111 Hamer was drinking for several hours, and in the evening was seen to go to the house of Mrs. Tyrer. A neighbour heard a sound as if of a heavy fall, and on going to his door saw Hamer hurriedly leaving the next house, and followed and captured him. Mrs. Tyrer was found in a dying state, and in due course Hamer was convicted of murdering her. His only answer to the charge was that he had been drinking, and Ifnew nothing whatever of the events of the night of the murder, 13illington was the execuAl'er the execution reporters were informed that the culprit slept very badly, and that the execution was conducted satiqactorily. A crowd of 2,000 persons witnessed the hoisting of the black flag, but there was no demonstration.  ny au you nave sucn misspelled and ungram• matical signs in your front windows ?" Sharp tradesman: "Penple think I'm a dunce, and coma in to swindle me. Tiade's just booming." Adelaide: "Yes, I love you, Maurice, but I am too young to think cf marriage." Maurice: "But you will grow older." Adelaide: "How dare you say such a thing ? You are simply horrid."  - At Liverpool Assizes, on Monday. S'Arah Eiren Harris was found guilty of having caused the death of her infant child by overlaying. On the return of her husband from sea the woman was drunk frcen Wednesday to Sunday, when the child was found dead by her side in bed.—Mr. Justice Day, in sentencing the prisoner to three months' imprisonment, said lie was sorry to say that the women of Liverpool were much given to the disgusting vice of drunkenness, and he hoped tins case would be a lesson. Instead of using God's gifts in moderation some people abused them, and caused a great deal of vice, and crime, and destruction of human life.  An accident, which might have had serious results, befel her Majesty's cruiser Warspite while lying off Queenstown on Monday morning. The schooner Welcome Home, of Banff, in sailing down the river, was caught by a hawser and swerved on to the cruiser, striking her on the starboard bide, carrying away her companion ladder, and injuring a large section of her bulwark-rail. The Welcome Home had jibboom carried away and her bowsprit started. 'lhe hawser which caused her to swerve was run from the Indian troopship Malabar to the Warspite, in order to assist in hauling the troopship off the quay, and caught the keel of the schooner as she sassed down.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1879-07-19 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

HALIFAX RACES: STORMY MEETING. On Monday night, a town's meeting, called by the Mayor at the request of 738 burgesses, was held in the Mechanics' Hall, Halifax, to cdnsider the effects and tendencies of the races. For some time prior to the commencement of the meeting the room was crowded, and hundreds were unable to obtain admission. The Mayor (Alderman S. T. Midgley) presided, and among those present on the platform were the Rev. Dr. Pigou, the Rev. Dr. Mellor, the Rev. B. Dale, the Rev. T. Michael, the Rev. J. Trower, Mr. Edward Crossley, Mr. W. Storey, and a large number of ministers and influential gentlemen in the town. At the outset there were clear indications of opposition to the promoters of the meeting, and this was made still more clear on the Mayor rising to state the nature of the proceedings, for not a word could be heard for several minutes. Silence having been gained, he stated that his position there would be perfectly neutral as chairman. He had nothing to do with promoting the meeting, but had simply called it because of the requisition signed by over 700 persons. He asked that each speaker should have a hearing, and so far as he was concerned both sides should have fair play (loud cheers). Dr. Pigou then rose to propose the first resolution. He was received with mingled cheers and groans, which lasted for a considerable time. At last, having obtained a moderately good hearing, he said he wished to explain something which concerned himself. It had been freely said the Vicar of Halifax might have prevented the races, and that he as vicar had let the land upon which the races were run. He might tell them that he had no power whatever in connection with that land to do otherwise than as he did—he had no alternative. The land was let upon a long lease before he came into the town, and he had no power to revoke it. All that he had to inquire in giving his signature to the lease was, as to whether the man to whom the land was let was a substantial man (loud cheers and dissenting voices). He went out to explain that after six years' experience at Doncaster, his conviction was that there was nothing which imported into a town more immorality than races (loud cheers and counter cheers).—The disturbance which ensued on this statement being made, continued several minutes, and the speaker could not again obtain a hearing. He therefore briefly moved the following resolution :  different reputation, in whose company Mainwaring was when apprehended for reckless driving. One of the bullets from the revolver entered the side of the deceased, and caused his death. At the conclusion of the inquiry the jury returned a verdict of "wilful murder" against Mainwaring.-- On Thursday prisoner was brought before the magistrates at Derby, charged with the murder of policeconstable Moss. Prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes. The revolver was purchased at a shop in the town by Mainwaring two days before the murder.  AN
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1879-02-08 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT HONG-EONS:  The London and China Telegraph contains an account from a correspondent at Eiong•Kong of a destructive fire which occurred on the night of December 25 last at that place.  The fire broke out at 10.45 p.m. in the Queen's-road at a house occupied by a European named Fisher, who was out at the time, and was caused, it is believed, by the upsetting of some kerosene oil. Unfortunately, at the time a fairly strong breeze was blowing, and the flames rapidly spread westwards and eastwards through several streets. Both soldiers and sailors were employed In various ways, and, considering the day, behaved very well. His Excellency arrived on the scene at three a.m. At this timei Peel, Cochrane, and Graham streets were all on fire, and the flames were creeping up to Gage-street, Wellington-street, and Hollywood-road. Shortly afterwards several houses were blown up with a view to stopping the progress of the flames, and at eight in the morning the Government Civil Hospital was also blown up and the patients removed to the old Lock Hospital. By 9 a.m. this building was on fire, and the police barracks and gaol were in imminent danger, but fortunately escaped, A force of 100 men of the 74th Regiment was marched into the gaol in case the prisoners had to be removed thence. Some of them were out in a chain gang manning one of the manual fire engines. The fire here was stayed in its southward direction, having extended to the Old Bailey, and burnt Lyndhurst-terrace, a large quantity of which was composed of new houses; all Graham-street was burnt, and the fire stopped at the north-east corner of Staveley-street At about nine a.m. the fire broke out again on the southern side of the Queen's-read, and things looked very serious. It continued to spread until it was opposite the Oriental Bank. All night this bank and the Chakered Bank of India were guarded by men of the 74th. The damage done was roughly put down at 1,000,000 dollars. About 350 to 400 houses were destroyed. The fire was got under at three p.m. on the 26th, but the engines played on the smouldering embers for two days afterwards.  On Monday the ironfonnders, engineers, dock porters, lampers, stevedores, and dock labourers on strike at Liverpool were joined by the corn porters, who struck against a reduotion of sixpence per day. The American liners can neither be loaded nor discharged for want of hands. The mail steamers announced to sall for New York will, however, be despatched punctually, with or without('  On Tuesday morning a young man named John Cheat*, residing in Whtte•street, Bethnal-greem, London, murdered his child, attempted to murder his wife, sad afterwards destroyed has own life by cutting his throat. Cheate had barely reached man's estate, whilss his wife lain her lgth year, and the baby, murdered at its soother's breast, was but six months old. A fear of future wed le en to hare been the moth's of the mime.  FOUND, at Brighouse, on the 4th inst., a Black and Tan
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1883-09-29 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ADVENTURK WITH A CANNIBAL.  While Franklin was on his journey, in search of assistance, terrible scenes were enacted in the encampment of Dr. Richardson and his friends. Two of the men died but an addition was made to the party by the arrival of one Michel, an Iroquois Indian, who had started a with Franklin, but had fallen back, being, as he said, unable to proceed. He Was one of four (as it subsequently became known) who had been left on the road but the other three were never heard of again. When Michel arrived he brought with him some pieces of flesh, which he said were parts of a wolf he had killed on his journey. He soon became gloomy and sullen, and his manner excited suspicion,for it was observed that while others were fading away from starvation, he was strong and robust, and capable of hunting. He refused to assist in collectineripe-de-roehe, or in searching for food, and as poor Hood was lying in the tent unable to move, and apparently near to death, the doctor and Hepburn were bound to go out themselves to try and obtain some supplies. One day. when they were so occupied, they were startled by the sound of a gun fired in the tent, and rushing in, they found their brave, noble comrade lying dead, and killed by a bullet through the head. Michel, the Iroquois, was at the tent when •the gun was discharged; a.d then seeing the faces of his companions, said incautiously, "Do you suppose I murdered him ? " Neither Richardson nor Hepburn dared to utter a word, but they both felt their worst suspicions confirmed. They were satisfied that the flesh Michel had brought: with him was not wolf's, but human flesh, parts of the bodies of those who had fallen in Franklin's party ; they felt sure that Hood had been murdered by Michel, for the bullet had entered at the back of the head, and they did not doubt that they were reserved for the same fate. A situation more terrible can scarcely be conceived. Three dap after the murder of Hood, the three survivors, Richardson, Hepburn, and Michel, started off ostensibly to make their waytowards Fort Enterprise, but the two doomed men felt morally certain that they would never reach that place—they knew that with the damnatory evidence of guilt they had, Michel would never allow that. On the first day of their march Michel stayed behind for a little while on the pretext of gathering some tripe-de-rocise. Richardson's suspicion's were at once excited. He resolved in a moment on the course he would pursue. Michel was approaching. Richardson turned to meet him, and taking from • bosom a loaded pistol. fired its contents into the head of the fiend in human guise, who fell dead at his feet. It was a step not taken one moment too soon, for they found that Michel had not grakbered any tripe-de-roche, but he had loaded his gun. The two then set forward together on their journey, and after a terrible march at last arrived at Fort Enterpriae.—Heroes of Britain in Peace and War. A
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1883-08-25 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE SNAKE-GOD OF DAHOMEY.  The most powerful fetish is Danh-gbwe, the tutelary saint of Whydah, and which is personified by the harmless snake so named. Its worship was introduced into Dahomey when the kingdom of Whydah was conquered and annexed. In Whydah,hidden from eyes profane by a thick grove of fig-trees, is the famed Danh-hweh, or fetish snake-house. It is, according to Mr. Skertchly, nothing more than a circular swish hut —the very model of the Parian inkstand to be seen in every toy-shop. From the room depended pieces.of cotton yarn, and on the floor, which in common with the walls, was whitewashed, were several pots of water. The pythons, to the number of 22, were coiled on the top of the wall or twined around the rafters. All those hideous reptiles are Faci ed. To slay one, even by accident—for to do so purposely would not be dreamt of—used to entail instant sacrifice to the gods, and confiscation of all the offender's property to the fetish priests. Nowadays his punishment is not so severe, but still exemplary enough. The offender, after a meeting of all the fetishers of the neighbourhood is convened, is seated within a hut of stick, thatched with dry grass and built in the enclosure in front of the snakehouse. His clothes and body are well daubed with palm-oil, mixed with the fat of the murdered snake-god. At a given signal the hut is fired, and the materials being like tinder, the unfortunate offender , against the majesty of the fetish is enveloped inflames. In excruciating torture he rushes out of the flames—, his clothes on fire—to the nearest water, pursued by the infuriated priests, who belabour him with sticks, stones, and all sorts of rubbish. If he reaches the water he is free, and if he is fortunate to live, has expiated his crime. But few are able to run the gauntlet, and expire before reaching the cooling water, clubbed to death by the fetishnien—the Danhgbwe-no, or snake-mothers, as they are called. As the door of the snake-temple is always open, the snakes frequently wander out after nightfall. If any person meets one, he must prostrate himself before itcarrying it tenderly in his arms to the temple, when his humanity to the snake-god is rewarded by his being fined for meeting the snake; and if he cannot or will not pay, is imprisoned until the uttermost cowry is extracted from him.— The Peoples of the World.  He that does a base thing, in zeal to serve his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together It is not so much for love of the world that we seek it, as it is to escape our own companionship. An aesthetic poet wrote, "The Muses kiss with lipg of flame," but when he found the second word printed " undes"he talked like a burly pirate for five minutes. A Boston paper states that a Chicago grocer sells soap every tenth cake of which contains in its centre a gold dollar, and that the citizens of Chicago are in conseouence getting to look tolerably clean.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1880-08-21 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SHEEPDOG STATE PENSIONER.  Mexico is a territory in which some of the largest flocks and herds in the world are pastured; both sheep and cattle are counted by thousands and tens of tßeusands, and these are in the majority of cases carefully guarded by the ranch keeper's dogs. These dogs are marvellously well-trained, and the amount of sagacity displayed by them rivals that of Scotch sheepdogs. In the territory of New Mexico it is their daily practice to take out the flocks in the morning to pasture, guard them all day, and at night return them to the fold or corral. This work of the Mexican dogs is so common and so faithfully performed that it is looke upon as a matter of course and nothing more than should be expected from a well-trained. dog. This being the case, it would appear that the dog worthy of the pgnsion the Legislature of that territory has just recently bestowed must have performed some very marvellous feats indeed, and something out of the common line of canine achievement, which according to a Mexican contemporary he did. He did not save his mistress's life from the murderous fury of the savage, nor her child from being brained against a door-post or being chocked by a huge black snake, for his master as not married, and had no wife or babe, but led a solirary life in his solitary ranch in a very solitary part of New Mexico. It seems that the dog in question, on returning of an evening with his sheep to the fold, discovered that his master did not meet him at the door of the shanty, and the next evening it was the same. True to his appointed duty the dog went out with the sheep and cared for them while they crepped the herbage on the hill-sides. This went on for, two years (as ascertained by data left by the ranch-man whose skeleton was found in his hut) and the faithful dog tended the flock committed to his charge. The animal, it seems, killed a sheep whenever he wanted food, but carefully guarded the rest. The flock increased in numbers, and when, at the end of two years from the time of the death of the proprietor, the ranch was visited, and the remains of the poor fellow found, the dog was still at his post of duty, jealously guarding his flock, and driving them to the best pastures every day, and to the fold at night, before which he slept, to keep the wild sheep-eaters of the plains at a civil distance. Such fidelity excited admiration wherever the story was told, and the legislators of the territory, in a fit of generosity and enthusiasm, at their session, granted a pension for life to the dog, to be paid from the State Treasury, as a reward for his fidelity, and no doubt as an encouragement to all other shepherd dogs in that territory to be good and faithful.—Land and Water.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1880-09-04 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE CIIIIRCIE OF BT, MARY, WHITECHAPEL.  The church of St. Mary, Whitechapel, London, which was burnt down on Thuralay afternoon in last ' week, was of some antiquity. It was originally a chapel of ease to the pariah of Stepney, and was once commonly known as St. Mary Matfelon. " About the year 1428, the sixth of King Ilenr,y VI., a devout widow of that parish," writes Stow, had long time cherished and brought up of alms a certain Frenchman ”hr Breton born, which most unkindly and cruelly in a night murdered the said widow sleeping in her bed, and after fled with such jewels and other 'stuff of hers as he might carry - but he was so briskly pursued that for. fear 'he took the church of St. George, in Southwarl:, and challenged the privilege of sanctuary there, and so' abjured the King's land. Then the conStablei (having charge of him) brought him to London, intending to have him conveyed eastward; but as soon as he was come into the parish, where before he had committed the minder, the wives cast upon him so much filth and ordure of the street, that (notwithstanding the best resistance made by the constables) they slew him out of hand; and for this feat it hath been said that parish to have purchased that name of St. Mary Matfelon; but I find on record the same to be called Villa beatm Marise de Matfellon, in the 21st of Richard II."  Richard Brandon, the supposed executioner of Charles 1., was buried in the churchyard.on the 24th of June, 1649. From a tract preserved in the British Museum, "The Confession pf Richard Brandon, the Hangman, upon his Deathbed, concerning the Beheading of his late Majesty," it seems that he lived in Rosemary-lane, that on the night of the King's execution he returned home and gave his wife the sum he had had for performing, his office, and that for three days before his death he was speechless. He is supposed to have been assisted on the scaffold by Ralph Jones, a ragman, also of Rosemary-lane. At his burial, we are told, "a great multitude of people stood wayting to see his corpse. carried to the churchyard, some crying out, 'Hang him, the rogue, bury him in the dunghill! Others pressing upon him, saying they would quarter him for executing the King, insomuch that the churchwardens and masters of the parish were fain to tome for the suppression of them, and with great difficulty he was at last carried to Whitechapel churchyard.' In the east of London, it is clear, the name of CronArdlrhad less influence than in most of the Courts of Europe. In 1673 the building just destroyed was erected in place of the old chapel of ease. The remains of Parker, the ringleader in the mutiny at the Wore, were buried in the vaults here at the Cost of his widow. - •  Four or five years ag,Q the church was carefully restored, enly, however, bib wet with a fate from which churches are comparatively exempt. Times.