Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1889-11-23 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT NEWPORT. A double tragedy took place the other morning at Newport (Mon), a boatman named Jacob Manship, 65, in the employ of a firm of ship repairers, shooting his wife Margaret dead, and Ebert cutting his own throat. The wife was found in a pool of blood in the bedroom, and the bullet had entered her neck on the right side. The husband appears to have gone downstairs and cut his throat with a razor. He then went into the garden and called a neighbour named Davies, but the daughter was afraid to go out to him, as he had been in the house three or four times on the day previous, and seemed to be strange in his manner. A milkman named Cilea went tothe house onhis morning rounds and raised an alarm. The wife was found lying on the floor of the bedroom in her nightdress, quite dead. The husband was removed on an ambulance carriage to the infirmary, where he died in the course of the afternoon. Jealousy is the assigned motive of the crime. The murdered woman is described as a quiet, hardworking person, and the husband as superior to his calling, but of a brooding disposition and hot tempered. The only high words the next-door neighbours have heard during the twelve months the couple have lived there I was about a month since, when the husband accused ' the wife of being unduly familiar with a lodger named Davies. His suspicions were aroused from seeing the lodger come out of his wife's bedroom. The wife denied the accusation, and said for the sake of peace the lodger had *otter leave. The bus, band, however, was led to believe that the lodger afterwards paid stolen visits to the wife, and he threatened if he found him in the housethat he would shoot him. The double-barrelled gun found in the bedroom was used by Manship to shoot sea-birds. Ile had lately taken It and another fowling-piece to his father-in-law's house at Cwmbran, a village six miles distant, to dispose of them in a raffle, but fetched them both back a day or so before the tragic affair. During the time he was in the infirmary he told one of the nurses that he was sorry for what he had done; and when thfi neighbours ran into the house and asked him where his wife was he said she was dead upstairs, and that he had shot her. One of the married sisters of the deceased woman came to Newport from Cwmbran to do some shopping and see her sister, and arrived at the house to find a crowd round it, and the sister the first victim in whet proved to be a double tragedy.  Tim little Image of amen alleged to have been found in sinking an artesian well at Nampass, a station on the Oregon Railroad, seems likely to cause no little controversy among American arrheologiats. Carved out of pumice stone, it is covered with a reddish film of oxide of iron, apparently from the ferruginous soil out of which it has been raised from a depth of about 300 ft. Though some portions of the limbs are broken off, the image displays a degree of art certainly in excess of anything with which prehistoric man has hitherto been credited. :Unfortunately, the geological conditions of the discovery are not very clearly noted. NO MILAN ought to be quite at borne in Paris, for he was educated at the Elysee ImpCrale, and in 1872 was elected a member of the Jockey Club.  Mes. NANCY FROST, who resides near Marietta. Ohio, is 105 years old, and has lived in Ohio since the first settlement wee established at the mouth of the Muskingum.