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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-10-02 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THROAT IHRITATION.—SoIenses and dryness tinkling and irritation, inducing cough and affect jag the voice. For these symptoms use Epps's, Glycerine Jujubes. Glycerine, in these agreeable confections being in proximity to the glands at the moment they ere excited by the act of suck. Mg, becomes actively healing. Sold only in box., 7id. and ls lid., labelled "Jests es EPPS & Co Ilommopathic Chemists London" & letter. received "Gentlemen,—lt may, perhape interest you to know that ...ter an extended trial, I have Nand your Glycerine Nub..o of considerable benefit (with or without rn lioal treatment) in almost all forms of throat di. ae. Tliey soften and clear the voice. In no CT 'A can they do any harm.—Yours faithfully, CloaDoN IlotmEs, Lit C. PE., Senior Physician to the Mumeipal Throat and Ear Infirmary."—[AbvT.]  The Greek Government haa delivered in London fiftpievels tons of Greek marble fr:e of cost, for the pedestal of Lord Byron's monument. Byron undoubtedly earned his Grecian popularity in the manner be worked, both practically and poetically for Greece, and it is only a handsome compliment to his memory on the part of the Greek Senate to enthrone his statute on Greek marble. By the same rule, what thbute'should Ireland pay to the memory of Mr Gladstone. We should imagine all be bog oak in Ireland would not be on an equal sacrifice on the part of the Irish people, and even now, after all that has been done fdor the Emerald Isle, the cry is "ooncede,. and while murder stalks red handed through the country Mr Gladstone declines to legislats for the suppressiqu of the favourite hobby of hie unruly pets, the Irish peasantry, of shooting 'their landlords.  Mr Gladstone's patience meat be sorely tried by the utter futility of conciliatory measures, and if he is compelled to legislate "a is Crom wear the peasantry have only to thank Mr Parnell and Co. and themselves for it. _ _  'Well done, Mr Bale. 7 A kindly action done in the right spirit and at the right time, with • out any delay or calculation has honoured our town of Denton this week. Mr John Lee, a hearty good odd-fellow suggested the other day to the enterprising proprietor of the pkvilion, that so deserving an object as the Widow and Orphans Fund might be subscribed to by plenty of gentlemen without the expenditure being caged an unnecessary drain on their purses, ..od Mr Bale immediately offered to give any one night's proceeds to this object. Accordingly we have the pleasure of recording the complete forces, of the Widow and Orphans benefit on Wednesday night. Had the affair proved an entire failure, Mr Bale bad promised to make the deficit up to £5, no small gift in these moneyless times. Long life to you Mr Bale, sad may your recollections of Denton be as pleasant as those you will leave behind you when the wheel of the blind goddess takes another turn, and the spacious structure of wood and canvass take its flight to other places and teaches elsewhere the greatest of the cardinal virtues]
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-06-19 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DOUBLE MURDER AT BATTERSEA. Mr. G. H. Hull, the West Surrey coroner, resumed an adjourned inquiry at the Star and Garter Hotel. Churcb.street, Battersea, touching the deaths of William Pleasanev•, eged 18 months, and Laura Plea. Dance, aged two and a half yeare who were murdered —the boy on or about the Otis nit., and the girl on the 26th ult.—by their mother, Emma Plermence, a laundress. late of 60,Walton.street,Chelma. who is now lying in Newgate awaiting her trial on the capital charge. The jury again viewed the remains, which presented a shocking appearance, the bead of the boy lay in a jar, while the body of the girl was in a shell. The family likeness wne very striking. Dr. Bond, F.R.C.S., and pathologist of Westminster Hospital, deposed that he had examined the body of the boy. It waa well nourished and of a fair complexion. The age of the boy was from fourteen to twenty months. The body had been kept in spirit, but putrefaction had previously set in. Death had probably taken place a week before it was found perhaps more. The head was not so much decomposed as the trunk, and the features were recognisable. The body had been separated through the mcond vital vertebra; it was a clean cot, as if with a sharp instrument. The soft portions had been separated in a jegged manner. The tissues were very contracted and shrunken, and the body must have been severed during life or immed lately after death. The left thigh had been separated from the trunk at the hip joint, and the right just below the joint, leaving the head of the thigh bone attached to the trunk. The limbs bad been separated probably by a sharp chopper, or possibly by a knife. In witness's opinion death had resulted from the separation of the head from the body. On the 28th ult. witness examined the body of a girl, which had recently been in the water. The appearances of the body were compatible with death from drowning. Witness should think they were brother and sister; the family likeness was very strong. Mrs. Christi. Wilderspin, of No. 60, Walton.street, Chelsea, deposed that Mrs. Pleasance came he lodge at her house with her two children on the 4th of May. The boy was taken away by his mother at an early hour on the following Tuesday, and the girl remained until the 26th of May, when she was taken away by her mother at three in the afternoon. The woman returned in the evening without the girl. Witness could not wear that the children she had seen in the mortuary were Mrs. Pleasance's. Witness knew Mrs. Pleasance possessed a sharp chopper. After further evidence Dr. William Rempster, of Battersea, deposed to examining the body of the girl soon after it vrm taken from the muter; he agreed with Dr. Bond's evidence in every particular. This being the whole of the evidence the coroner summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of 'Wilful murder" against Emma Pleasance, whom the coroner committed for trial.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-05-02 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

IMPENDING INFLUENZA SCARE. The supply of sensational murders having fallen short, and the season not being advanced enough for the perennial big gooseberry, some lay contemporaries, remarks the .I,cdical Pre,. and Circular, have started a discussion on the probabilities of an approaching return of the influenza fiend to our shores. The carefully edited accounts of the ravages of this curious malady, the pang of which is still fresh in the memories of doctors and laity alike, in some of the big cities of the United States, are indeed well calculated to excite apprehension in the bosoms of the timid. The essentially erratic incidence of influenza renders it unsafe to indulge in predictions, even of a reassuring nature, but we may venture to remind both those who hope and those who fear, that no prompt a return would be altogether without a precedent. In the past, with few exceptions, an epidemic of influenza has been the event of a lifetime. When a person had once experienced the indescribable but oftdescribed manifestations of this subtle enemy, he was entitled to feel that he had cleared up his accounts and placed his affairs in order, so far as that particular visitation was concerned. It would be contrary to the rules of the game for it to be otherwise on the present occasion, and persons of sporting proclivities would have no hesitation in making out the odds to be such as to inspire confidence even in the most recalcitrant. At the worst, we shall at any rate recognise the enemy, who will not be permitted to sneak in under the cloak of rheumatism, or ulcerative endocarditis, or any one ef the aliases which he sue., cessf idly assumed on the last occasion. We shall not again have to hang upon the lips of men old enough to be our grandfathers for information as to how to identify and grapple with the foe, they being the only men who could pretend to remember anything  • 'IA • t,/, :.1,, ' k s\4,, (11, set \, ( 4.1., ,1 f / t--.;\,„.• ‘!,. 0,,,, ;I • 'i •I ( /A': r 1.: t r( / 70f,'. ,/„//4,•/p 7 17-11 i ,„,rdil 0., /. / , /Ail 11, /1,,,,, I 1 ......--,' I-o,llqt „ ~,,,,' 441:1:40 , ~ , / vir-gt ri I, j 110 '3•' t , • C 'T:'::: ,1 1 °,OI, .111', ill' PI pi, 1 IIIII0P!' 11 111101V,,di1,,,,1fil 11. SI Iln 1,-1ii/ - 1 1 • - ' - 1 k, 4o- : %.,,-..: - - ''...111111 l', IP 7,,,, -,.-'•f• ~0 e = ,- _4.. r: ->. icp- ,-',,„;,4--2,444), -7!:4.0•-k--)1V,in r 1 4.' . 1,1 y 4/.740i, '/./i, .',‘ / iilp,,,' /. ~ / / ,i,ov i 4.f.if ' ' k//////.110( 0111.4 ../14 1, 1 '' 'I! 110 ,: - ;If Af,), • : L:l4//. i '• tiffieric '''k 111 =-.. k , ,40, if 1,•, ' 1 r/ii ',l , ..:,,',, '",',! ;,A i ~..,T),.4,w, PI 1,1 'lot'l;' 1:,, IC;;'11:+ii \,. • \ .."ll!',%11 r, 1 111 1 \ ..,,..14'.. ' -7-----,-_.. .----•,- ,\ , r f/ \ \ i k -.A,. , ,_
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-04-11 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE MOTIVE FOR TH. CRIME,  therefore, is somewhet difficult of amens' inment. Hill had been threatened with an action in consequence of his alleged relations with a female wlio was employed in the factory, but beyond the fact that he consulted his solicitors at Leigh on Monday night, anti returned home in a somewhat despondent condition, there is no connection whatever between this circumstance and the tragedy at Megan. Barton's. There appears to be only one possible ex. planation of the murder, which is that Hill had become temporarily unhinged by the threatened proceedings against hirn, and that the crime was attributable solely to insanity. The murder was committed about seven li'clock in the morning. Mr. Syms met Hill 1 near the factory dour, and the latter must have shot him there in the bremt. No one actually saw thin, but persona living opposite the mill heard the report, and one of them easy Hill a minute later chasing Mr. Byrne down the factory yard. The bookkeeper fired again, but the second shot must have missed, for the bullet was afterwards diwevered near the factory wall in a flattened condition. Mr. Bpie had not run many yards, however, before he fell, and, leaving him on the ground, Hill passed into the factory. Mrs. Vaughan, a roller coverer, saw him with  A REVOLVER ZN HIS RAND,  and noticed that he passed into the warehouse, and thence into Mr. Burton's office, of which he wee allowed to keep a Vey. Noticing that she appeared to be in terror, he called to her to approach bins, and iseured her that he would not harm her. She was too much flamed, Imwdrer, to go near, and took an early opportunity of rushing out of the mill. About this time Hill naked for "James,' lay which designation it was understood he meant Mr. James Unsworth, the head bookkeeper or cashier of the firm. Mr. Unsworth, however, had not arrived. Shut up in Mr. Burton's office, Hill appears to have fired two shots. The second must have been aimed at the man's own temple, for he was afterwards found with a "oullet wound in the bead, which had evidently caused hie death. Meanwhile Mr. Syms was lying in the I factory yard, as the operatives imagined, inn fainting condition. It was not until he had been carried home—his residence was about 100 yards from the mill—that it wan really discovered he had been hit by one of the shots. A messenger was deepatelied fur Dr. Neech, but within ten minutes the injury proved fatal. Some little time elapsed after Hill fell before any one dared go near him. Information was pent to the police station, and Constable leison went off to the mill, only to discover that Hill was lying dead on the floor, with a pool of blood near his head, and a revolver grasped in hie right Said. Hill, it may be remat bed, was a single man, and lodged with one of his sisters. His age in given at 52. Much sympathy is felt for Mr. Spas, who appear, to have had &linnet everybody's good word. The bereave. ment which his widow and family sustain is the more trying as kin only three weeks or a month since • daughter of 12 years of age did.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-02-14 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

OLDEN TIIIES.—it Is impossible to give even an idea in this column of the brutalities which used to accompany our method of executions in the 17th and 18th centuries. John Ashton, writing in the "Gentleman's Magazine," says—There wus the long ride of the criminal in an open cart, with his coffin by his side, either to Tyburn or to the mot where he committed the murder. The cart was stopped under the gallows, the rope was fastened round the criminal a neck, the carman gave his horse a lash, and the poor wretch was left swaying to and fro, kicking. If he had friends, they would try to shorten his agony I by hanging on to his legs and beating his breast, a ! shocking sight. But hanging then was looked upon as a holiday spectacle, in which we find the lower class took great interest, and evinced much . sympathy with the deceased. For instance, Claude ' Duval, the celebrated highwayman, lay in state at the Tangier Tavern, in St. Giles's, in a room hung with black cloth, the bier covered with scutcheons, and with eight wax candles burning around. He was buried by torchlight, and was followed to Covent-garden Church by a numerous train of mourners, mostly women. Nilsson, a French writer, who visited England in the reign of William 111. rays, "He that is hang'd or otherwise executed, first takes care to get himself ehav'd and handsomely drest, either in mourning, or in the . dress of a bridegroom. This done, he sets his • friends at work to get him leave to be bury'd, and to carry his coffin with him, which is easily obtain'd. When his snit of clothes, or nightgown, his gloves, hat, perriwig, nosegay, coffin flannel, dress for his corps, and cii things are bought and prepar'd, the main point is taken care of—Ms mind is at peace, and then he thinks of Ids conscience. Generally studies a speech, which he pronounces under the gallows, and gives in writing to the sheriff or the minister that attends him in his last moments, desiring that it limy be printed. Sometimes the girls dress in white, with great silk scarves, and •,airry baskets full of flowers and oranges, scattering these favours all the way they go. But to repro. sent things as they really are, I roust needs own that, if a pretty many of those people dress thus gayly and go to it with such an air of indifference, there are others that )Iro slovenly enough, and with very dismal phizzeds.'  If you do not begin you will never come to the eml. The trot weed pulled up in the garden, the first seed not in the ground, the first shilling put 1,, the savings bank, and the first mile travelled on a journey, are all important things ; they make a beginning, and thereby give a hope, a promise, a pledge, an assurance that you are in earnest. The "Old hlan of Hay" is a natural curiosity of the Orkney Islands. It is a solitary pillar of stone 300 feet high, and looks very much like the figure of a man. From this originated the expreeesoo " Homely oe the Old Mae of kW.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-11-04 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

VIII. of England."—Cardinal Caacki bas not yet sufficiently recovered from the fatigues of his joumey to pay the customary homage to the Pope, or to permit his receiving anyone.—Count de Florian, Second Secretary to the French Embassy to the Holy See, has, with his wife, lseen received by the Pope in private audience previous to leaving Rome to occupy the same post in the French Enihassy at London, where he is already very favourably known.  The Corporation of Montreal has been notified by the Government of the decision of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to meet in that city in 1884. A provisional committee of the Board of Trade has been formed to deal with the matter, and a public meeting called by the Mayor for the purpose of making ' any arrangements that may be necoaary to ensure the success of the society'a visit. Crop reports to the number of 88 have been received from Manitoba and the North-West Territory. The average yield of wheat Is 32 buehels per acre. The best crop reported is at Milford, where 104 bushels have been threshed off two acres. Oats average 44 bushels; barley, 30 bushels ; roots, 250 to 500 bushels; potatoes, 274 bushels. The hay crop has been heavy and well saved. A large area of land is elated to be broken for cropping next year. Mr. Comstock, the aecretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, declares that the increase of youthful criminals in that city is alarming. Be says A short time ago I sat in a court-room and saw three burglars, each about 13 years old. I have kept in my office since Feb. 1 a scrapbook, which contains only newspaper clippings concerning the arrests of children. Between Feb. 1 and Aug. 15 I had a record of 457 criminals under 21 years of age; 50 per cent, of them were under 16. Fifteen had been arrested for murder, 38 for grand larceny, 42 for highway robbery, 99 for petty larceny, 100 as burglars, 40 as common drunkards, and the rest for minor offences. In the majority of cases bad literature had started these criminals, helped along by drink. lo the course of the excavations at Pompeii, a small shrine has been discovered containing six bronze etatu. ettes, representing Apollo with a lyre, Mercury,llercules, xsculapitm, and two Late.. The bronze lamp which nr rtehde asnhdr ifinfet yw po f ruenfda gheaesn gfirnogm iEng vi thp tp blu amv os, buThrnerdeobehfuo left Naples for Alexandria at the expense of the Italian Government.  Marshal von Moltke has celebrated hie 83rd birthday quietly on Ms Silesian estate.  A rumour comes from Munich of the impending engagement of the Duke of Aosta, brother of the King of Italy, to the Princess Therese, daughter of Prince Leopold, uncle of the King of Bavaria. Princess Therese is in her 32nd year, while Prince Amadeus, who is a widower. is 37.  A remarkably large aerolite, weighing, it is said, more than half a too, has fallen at Al,, in the department of the Haute Garonne, France.  A WOMAN NAMED BAKER, a widow, has died at Gateshead in her 100th year.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-10-21 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MURDERER BURNT ALIVIL—One of the most atrocious criminals in America, a negro named Jerry Cox, when lying under sentence of death for killing his mistress and then placing her corpse on the rails to be cut up by an express train, net fire to the gaol in which he was confined at Nashville. and was burnt alive in the building. He had pro. 'Moldy perpetrated a double murder in ;Armin. stances of eppalling atrocity. About midnight on the 2nd inst., people were awakened by the roar of the tlames, and many hastened to the gaol, but on their arrival they found the walls and barn glowing red with heat, while the murderer within was screaming in his death army. In lees than an hour the gaol was a mass of ruins. Early next morning the body o' Cox was found, and a great stood stood appalled at the murderer's fate. ANOTHER DISASTROUS BOILER EXPLOSIoN, AND AWFUL Loss ow Lieu I—This now appears to be of daily occurrence, notwithstanding that many boilers are homed or inspeoted periodically, they are frequently the result of over pressure or neglect on the part of the Stoker in exceeding the maximum limit at which the Boiler ought to be work. d. sn be obviated by the use of S ith'e Steam ',miller Safety Valve, which sl Nasally proven tampering with the ordinary Ye -, . sane time guards osainat over p.cr., 401 iel.eves any undue preasUre. It is invaluable to all steam users, as textifted by the most eminent Engineers. The Employer's Liability and Boiler Explosions Acts are very stringent measures, and it behoves all steam users to adopt Peery precaution against explosions. At the en. qairy as to the cause of the explosion On board tl. M. S. "Thouderer," Sir F. J. Bramwell, CE., au., recommended that all Boilers should be fitted with a valve held down by an unalterable spring, to a pressure 2 or dam is excess of the orditary valves. This Sethi, 'Sentinel' Safety which seltistlat and glees warning. Descriptive cireular containing press name by the leachug Meolianioal Journals and copies of testimonials received frost the Admiralty and large Steam User., can be had no application to Mn. THOMPSON, 28, Old Jewry, Lo aloe, E.G —lt was stated in the House of Coin mons on the second reading of the Boiler Explo• Sion% Bill, (.2nd Feb., 18820 that upwards of two thousand persons have been either killed or maim. ed from boiler explosioue during the past few years. As an instance we quote the follosing At a recent boiler explosion in the north of Digs land a stone weighing MMus was tumid tied to Vie lever of a safety valve of a boiler which exploded and killed 16 persons The unfortunate employer owing to the culpability oi his servant, mutters very considerable losses, in addition to under,ming prisonment, all ot which could have been prevented (and nie even been possible) bad Smith's Steam ' °Sentinel" Safety Valve teen fitted to the boiler, to give warning when the ,waximam pressure at ' which tee boiler was care to be worked had been r exceeded. The "Sentinel" is in use in our Steam 6 Frinting Work., sod we have no innitiiciun in re. ,ninntiownoig