The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1887-01-28 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDES.  Police-sergeant Rudge, of Dudley, has oome mated suicide by cutting his throat with a pocket knife. For some time past the officer has been suffering from ulceration of the legs, and has been confined to his bed. Mr. Messitter and Dr. Higgs were sent for, and the former attended first. He found that Rudge had inflicted a wound about two inches long on the left aide of his throat. Rudge lingered some time after inflicting the wound. Inspector Speke went to see the injured man, who told him that he oould endure the pain no longer. The deceased man was a steady, respectable, and trustworthy officer. He had been in the force twenty-eight ytars, and was about fifty-six years of age. He leaves a widow and five children.— The wife of a very respectable farmer named Donnan, who has only been married about six months, has drowned herself in a well a short distance from her husband's house in Islandmagee, county Antrim. The body was found by the servant, who went to draw water.--Near Ballymoney, • farmer hanged himself with a piece of whipoord from the rafters in his own house. The unfortunate man had conceived the idea that all his cattle were going to die.—A shocking and determined suicide has occurred at Kenilworth. Robert James, labourer, threw himself in front of the express train from Leamiugtou to Birmhigham, and was literally out to pieces. teoessed's mangled remains were removed to the Police Station. A letter was found upon the line, written by the deocased, in which he asked Lis friends not to fret.—At the inquest held subsequently, a verdict of 0 Temporary Insanity" was retturned.—A young woman named Ashford, wife of a clerk employed at the East and West Junction Railway Station, at Stratford-on-Avon, wee seen to leave her home in an excited state, and a neighbour, suspecting something was wrong, followed her. Mrs. Ashford ran to the parish churchyard, at the foot of which is the river Avon, but was lost to view for a few minutes, and during that short interval she jumped from the churchyard wall into the river. She was seen floating down the stream, her clothes keeping her upon the surface of the water, and an alarm was instantly raised. Two men can with a drag and tried to reach the woman from Mrs. Lucy's lawn, but failed, and when she had been carried ebout 100 yards down the river, and was gradually disappearing from view, a man named Whiting, employed at Lucy's flour mill, pluckily jumped into the water and attempted to rescue her. Owing, however, to the stream being so deep and the current being so very strong he was unable to drag the woman to shore, and at this stage timely assistance was given by two men who had procured a Lug drag, and Mrs. Ashford was got safely to land. She was in a weak and partly unconscious condition, and murmuted once or twice, "Don't take me home." She was carried home, and medical assistance summoned. It was found that Mrs. Ashford had left her cloak and hat on the terrace walk near the river.  It has been decided to build a promenade pier and pavilion at Folkestone. The work is to be proceeded with at once, so that it may be completed before the summer season. A terrible accident, by which several boys were injure', has occurred at Miles Green, North Suitfordshire. A party of lads were playing in the vicinity of • colliery there when one of the number, John Gleavea, aged eight, found a dynamite cap which had been thrown away as useless. Placing it in the palm of his hand, it was struck by another lad, with the result that Gleaves had bolh hands shattered, and two companions were also seriously injured. The death has been announced of a lady named Simmons, residing at 268, Camden Road, London, in her hundreth year. A State-directed Emigration Association has been formed in Glasgow. It is proposed to send out unemployed workmen, not to large colonial towns, but to districts that require opening up. The remains of the Lama of the lialtnuoini were cremated last month on the Volga, in a brick crematory, a great multitude being present. He is the last of his kind, and it has been decided to suppress the sacerdotal dignity which he held.  A gentleman, named Brett, who swallowed a needle and thread at the Masonic banquet at Holborn Restaurant, brought an action against the reetaurant proprietors, Saturday, in the Qneen's Beneh tn recover £2,000 damages,