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Weekly News. — 1892-02-25 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE MARK LANE SEED MARKET.  v. I. Clover, Rcd, per 1121 b., English 50 toloo ”ch Cir- 40 to 80  French an Lerman American and Canadian ... 50 to 60 Clover, White, per 1121 b., English ... 60 toll 2 French and German ... ... 40 to 90 Alsike. per 1121 b. ... 50 to 90 Trefoil, per 1121 b. English... 18 to 30 Foreign... ... ... 18 to 28 Hempseecl, per 3361 b., Eiga ... 34 tq 38 -rd, White. - bus., English Btd 12  ustard, late, per „., r.ngh, l'orei;,rn 7/6 to 11 Mustard, Blown, per bus., Erglish ... 11 to 14 East India ... • sto 6 Lucerne, per 1121 b. 50 to 70 'fares, per qr., Scotch ... ... 64 to 74 Winter ... ... 40 to 48  Buckwheat, per qr. ... 27 to 29 Linseed, per qr., English ... ... 62 to 68 Rapeseed, per qr., English ... 56 to 66 Ribgrass, per 1121 b. ... 15 to 20 Timothy, per 1121 b. ... 24 to 28 Ityegrass, per qr., Perennial il4-281b. per bus.) ... 17 to 28 Perennial (28-301 b. per bus.) ... 30 to 40 , . . . .  Foreign, Italian (per bale 1121 b.) to Canary, per qr., English er 4801 b. 35 to 40 Foreign, per 4641b..........34 to 52 Coriander, per 1121 b., English 16 to 18 Carraway, per 1121 b., Dutch ... 28 to 38 Bird Millet, per 4161 b. ... 52 to 58 —.Mark Lane Express.  It has transpired that during the operations for the floating of H.M.S. Victoria, the Commander-inChief, Sir George Tryon, had a narrow escape from drowning. Just before the Victoria was hauled off the rocks the Admiral was standing on the companion ladder when he lost his balance and fell overboard. Fortunately his steam barge was handy, and several seamen jumped from it into the sea to the assistance of their chief. The Adm:ral weighs about 17 stone, but the bluejackets managed to keep him afloat, and got him into the steam barge none the worse, save for the uncomfortable ducking. The same correspondent states that the stem of the Victoria is completely shattered, and the immense keel plate has been turned completely back and to starboard. puppi ying tne aemana. iramp: - oay, nay Two Portuguese sailors were drowned in the friend,what do you want to keep so many dogs for?' : "To furnish what gentlemen of your - pro Tagus during the cyclone on Saturday. Farmer Mary Cook committed suicide at her residence fession seem in need of. There is hardly a day goes in Harlow after an attack of influenza. by but one of you comes in and asks for a bite, The continued spread of typhus in the eastern and I thought I'd keep enough material on hand to supply the demand." and central province of Russia is reported. Sandy's advice.—A young Scotchman on an estate On Saturday, at the Printers' Almshouses, Wood had been halting betwixt two loves, one possessed Green, one of the oldest inmates, George Wager, beauty, the other of a cow. In despair of arriving committed suicide by cutting his throat. at a decision he applied to the overseer for advice, George Roberts, a platelayer in the employ of who delivered himself thus: "Marry the lass that the Midland Railway, was killed by a train while has the coo for there's no the deetei:ence a coo's walking along the lme at Ampthill Junction, near value in yon twa weemin in Christendom." Luton.
Weekly News. — 1892-09-01 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A BOMBAY MERCHANT.  Mr. Langham held an inquiry at the City Coroner's Court, Golden-lane. Barbican, on Friday, into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. M. Navalkar, aged 63, a merchant and native of Bombay, lately residing at the Metropolitan Hotel, South-place, Finsbury, who committed suicide by drowning himself in the Thames ff Blackfriars on Tuesday last.—Mr. John Smith Elmore, a merchant, of Bishopsgate-street Within, said that he had known the deceased for about 38 years, and had carried on business transactions with him during that time. He came to this country three weeks ago, and he then seemed very depressed in consequence of gradually losing the sight of his eyes. Deceased told witness that he had been mesmerised whilst on the voyage, but when he afterwards complained that everyone was calling after him witness thought it was a delusion. He had no relations in this country. Deceased was obliged to wear dark glasses, and came over to England to be treated at an eye hospital, having lost the sight of one of his eyes already. He was of quiet and sober habits.— Mr. Auguste Wanner, proprietor of Klein's Hotel, Finsbury-square, deposed that the deceased came to the hotel on Saturday night, and said he intended to sop a few days. He had no money, and the witness paid the cabman. He had known the deceased for 18 years. On Sunday night the deceased went to bed soon after 10 o'clock, and an hour afterwards he rang the bell and said there was someone in the room. About 1 o'clock the deceased rang again and told witness there was an electric battery behind the shutters, and he could not sleep. The next morning he told the deceased he could not accommodate him any longer, and he replied. "It is all right, lam going this morning." Deceased left about half-past 10, and witness did not see him again alive afterwards.—John Annals, night porter at the Metropolitan Hotel, stated that deceased came there early on Tuesday morning. Witness shewed him to his room, and on his descending the stairs he called out, "Oh, good night good night. I can hear his voice." That was the last he saw of the deceased.—John Sullivan, pier-master at St. Paul's Pier, Blackfriars, said that on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after 4, &ceased came down to the pier, and said to him, "I want a little walk up and down." The deceased walked to the opposite side of the pier, looked into the pierman's box, and immediately rushed to the edge, unhooked the chain, and jumped into the river. He did not rise on account of the current being so strong.—The jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane.
Weekly News. — 1892-01-21 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ROMANTIC SUICIDE.  A romantic suicide, writes the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, is that of a fair young Parisienne, who was friendly with an Englishman, the son of a noted horse•dealer and livery-stable keeper. The girl had been in America for about 18 months with her lover. They returned a few days ago to Paris, and the lady went to live with her mother, in the Avenue Trudaine. In the meantime the young man was ordered by his father to break off his liaison, and when he announced his intention, of obeying the paternal injunction to the girl, she seems to have been beside herself with grief. She was seen wandering dejectedly about the Champs Elysees on Friday. At length she hailed a cab near the Palais de 'lndustrie, and directed the driver to take her to the residence of her lover. There she asked for the young man, but saw his father instead, and, according to some, the girl used the words, "Vous etes un miserable! " in going away. She next drove home, procured a revolver, reentered the cab,and went to a café in the Boulevard Haussmann, where she wrote a letter to the livery. stable keeper asking pardon for the scene which she i had had with him, and begging him to give his sou permission to accompany her to her last home. This was at 9 o'clock in the evening,and the epistle being ' finished, the girl took it with her and drove to the Rue Jean-Goujon, where her friend's father lives. She gave the letter to her coachman, telling him to take it upstairs to the person for whom it was intended. While the cabman was performing this service for his fare the young lady took out her revolver,and fired a bullet through her right temple. I She was dead when the driver came back.
Weekly News. — 1892-03-10 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TRAGEDY IN REAL LIFE.  A most singular drama in real life has just been enacted at Santa Fe (New Mexico), its simplicity and tragic dinouement making it picturesquely horrible. In 1882 Rodrigo Martinez, a Mexican youth, left El Rito for Mexico, to go to work in the mines. He told his mother and his sweetheart that he proposed to make a fortune in order to crane back, marry his sweetheart, and make his mother comfortable. He expected to be gone for three years. After his departure he wrote only at long intervals, and after a time his letters ceased alto. gether. It was finally learned by the mother through a man who was supposed to be a friend of Martinez that her son had been killed in a brawl at the mine where he worked. In the meantime the son heaid from El Rito that his mother was dead and bis sweetheart married. After working hard for 10 years he returned a few days ago to El Rito. Ile then learned that his mother was alive and his sweetheart still unmarried. He met the supposed friend and was advised by him to go home, call on his mother, and pretend to bring her news from her MI, afterwards revealing his identity, so that the old lady might not be injuriously taken by surprise. He did so. While he was sitting in his mother's house as a stranger introduced by the friend he was suddenly attacked by the old woman, who stabbed him to the heart. She had been told by the sup• posed friend that the stranger was the murderer of her son. When she later learned the truth she coin mitted suicide by cutting her throat. These de ails were learned by the sw-etheart. and her grief and indignation in denouncing the false friend, who wa.. a lover cf hers, caused the latter to be shot.
Weekly News. — 1892-08-11 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE SAVERNAKE ESTATES. The House of Lords on Tuesday unanimously upheli the judgment of the Court of Appeal permitting the We of the Saveruake Estates, belonging to the Marquis at Ailesbury, to Lord Iveah for 750,000 on seemint of financial difficulties of the Marquis. The sale wit opposed by Lord Henry Bruce and others who have interest in the property. Their lordships pointed oil that if the sale were not allowed estates would dal further deteriorate, to the disadvantage of everynua connected with them.  The decomposed trunk of a woman was found oil Sunday afternoon by some boys in the Polo Gardens at Cricklewood, Middlesex, and on the police going % the spot they discovered the head and one arm ot the deceased lying close by. It is stated that a weals answering the description of the deceased was, diriat the haymaking season, seen in company with a Thui late at night near the place where the body was fond and it is supposed she was foully murdered.  At Sheffield, on Tuesday, Mr. F. C. Vernon Harem, dramatic author and actor, was committed for trig on a charge of manslaughter on the 11ltk of July. The accused and a man named Arthur Gem, Hall quarrelled after leaving the Angel Inn. Tht accused, it is alleged, struck Hall twice, and Hall, in falling, injured one of his thumbs. Mr. Harconrtwal charged with an aggravated assault, and was committal for trial, but on Wednesday last Hall died from lock. jaw, and Mr. Harcourt surrendered to the more action charge. The defence is that the men had a fair fight, and that the injury was accidental.  An inquest was held at Dorchester on Tuesday on the body of a young cyclist who shot himself yesterday at the Junction Hotel.—Detective Collins, of Scotland Yard, identified deceased as his brother. Their father WU shoemaker in business at Surbiton, and deceased wee on his way to Ilfracombe to meet his sister. He la in the best of health. A local chemist said he supplied deceased with sore laudanost  as he said he suffered from neuralgia, and another tradesman deposed to selling him revolver, which he said he wanted to shoot with at Ilfracombe. The jury found deceased committed suicide`while temporarily insane.  A
Weekly News. — 1892-08-11 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SUICIDES IN RAILWAY CARRIAGES.  A shocking discovery was made at Chatham Station on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway on the arrival of a train shortly after 1 o'clock on Friday morning. A porter, on opening the door I a third-class carriage, was horrified to find that ts sole occupant was a man about 40 p are of age, .leeding profusely from a wound in his head. A doctor was summoned, and the wounded passenger was removed to St. Bartholomn,f's Hospital, Rochester, where he died shortly afterwards. On searching the carriage in which the deceased had travelled, the officials discovered a sixchambered revolver loaded in five compartments, the sixth having apparently been discharged. Further search resulted in the firming of a bullet, which bad evidently passed through the head of the deceased. The man was a stranger at Chatham. Photographs of two ladies and a child were found amongst his belongings, and also a visiting-card with a printed address, 9a, Gray-street, Waterlooroad, London, and the name H. Pottß. Upon the back of the card was written in pencil, 33, Lansdowne-road, South Lambeth. Another printed card bore the name and address of W. T. Crew, 51, North Sherwood-street, Nottingham. The railway guard states that the deceased got into the train at Holborn Viaduct Station at 11.550 n Thursday night. He apparently shot himself soon after leaving London, for his clothes and the carriage were saturated with blood. The deceased is about sft. 61n. in height, and wore a dark suit of clothes with light dust-coat and high black hat. Ile had a portmanteau, in which was another suit of clothes, a white shirt, and a light tie.  A second case of suicide was discovered on the arrival of the 11.16 a.m, train from Waterloo to Clapham Junction on Friday. When within a short dial mce of the Junction a loud report was heard by some of the second-class passengers, and on the train stopping in the station it was tound that a respectably-dressed man, apparuntly about 30 years of age, had shot himself. He was lying in a pool of blood, with a large revolver by his side. He was at once removed. Medical assistance was summoned, and it was found that he was quite dead. The body was afterwards removed to the mortuary.
Weekly News. — 1892-06-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.  Marie Lalois, the 17-year old daughter Of SI retired colonel in the French army has committed suicide at Algiers under the most extraordinary circumstances. She had for some time been engaged to a young man of excellent family, named Eugene Lafont, and on Thursday they quarrelled. On Thursday night the girl, after returning from a &nes, chatted with her father for awhile, insisted upon filling his pipe, and then, kissing him good night, asked him, apparently in a jesting way, how he thought he could get along without her. The colonel made some affectionate reply. She then said, "Well, you had better make up your mind; you may soon have to do so"; and then blowing a kiss to her father—which the latter responded to ith a playful shake of his finger—the young girl retired to her room. She was never seen alive again. It is assumed that she undressed herself, put on her nightdress, and then deliberately cut up the sheets, making them into a kind of rope. She then attached one end of the improvised rope to the balcony, and formed the other into a noose which she tightened round her reek. She must then have thrown herself out of the window. On Friday morning, at an early ' hour, some passers-by were horrified to notice the ' body of the young girl, attired in nothing but a thin nightdiess dargling between the first and second s'oreys id front of the house. They immediately gave the alarm. The body was immediately cut down in the presence of the father, whose wild grief evoked expressions of the deepest sympathy. The medical men who were called in express the belief that the body must have been hanging from tee window for at least five hours before it was discovered.
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1876-04-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SINGULAR CONFESSION. At the Bristol Council-house, on Thursday, Mary Jones, a rather good-looking, neatly-dressed young woman, of about 25 years of age, was brought up on remand charged with attempting to commit *suicide by drowning. The girl appeared to be still suffering from great mental excitement, and it was evidently with great effort that she anaistained her composure. The following statement wa made by the girl to the police :—"I, Mary Jones, now res siding at Glenside, Cotham-park, Bristol, formerly ofPits-fario, near Wells, in the county of Somerset, and of my own free will I make the following statement :—I am now in custody on a charge of -attempting to commit suitimle by jumping into a pond at Redland-green, which act I committed through trouble of mind. Between six and seven years ago I was confined of a female child at Plt's-farm as above, the father of whom was Henry Rossiter, a miner, employed at the lead mines near Wells. I was confined in my own bedroom. It was in the nighttime, about the month of September, no one leing present. When it was born I wrapt it in flannel, took it down stairs, and threw it into the water in a pond close to the farm house. The pond is now filled iii. I did not hear the child cry; if it cried somebody would be sure to hear it. I do not remember whether I went to bed, or what I done during the remainder of the night. I followed me work next stay, and no one -inew what occurred. This has been on my mind ever since, and it drove me to commit the act last night. That is all I have to say." The report forwarm led by Mr. Risgood, the deputy-chief constable of the Somersetshire police, was to the effect that inquiries had been instituted, and it was found that prisoner's parents lived at Railstock, her father being a respectable working man. It seemed that she had lived with Mr. Oxenhairs, at Pitt's farm, near Priddy, for several years, leaving in Ma She often complained of headache. No evidence could be found of her having been in the family-way. The pond at Pitt's farm had not been drained off, the magistrates thinking that after such a lapse of time the body would not be found, even if it had been thrown there. The bench handed her over to the custody of her father. The girl thanked the bench, and seemed almost unable to stand as she turned and met her father and mother, who were greatly affected.
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1876-06-09 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF .THE DEPOSED SULTAN, ABDUL AZIZ.  A telegram from Constantinople officially announces that the deposed Sultan, Abdul An; has committed suicide by °poising a vein in his arm with a pair of scissors. The deceased was born on the iith of February, IS3O, add was consequently in his 47th year. When deposed on Tuesday last he had ruled over the country for nearly 15 years. Abdul Aziz began his reign by promishr, important reforms, especially in connection with the national finances. As an earnest of his intentions he reduced the civil list, cut down the expenses of the Court, and declared that he would have bat one wife. He at the same time pronounc.id that all Turhish subjects without distinction of religion, would be equal before the law. How these promises have been fulfilled is known to all the world. In 1547 he paid a visit to the Emperor of the French, in Paris, and then came across to this country as the guest of the Queen. When he left, after a stay which extended front the lalt to the il3rd of July, he was said to have been profoundly impressed by what he had seen. The next year he established a Council of State, and opened it in a speech in favour of prowess, and reform. Soon afterwards the Cretan insurrection, which had for some time been a soarce of trouble to his Government, was finally suppressed. Before this and after, loan upon loan was contracted, until at the end of last year the nominal amount of the foreign debt reached the stun of .CP14,981,781 Vet the first foreign loan only dates back to the year P 454. It is so s' known that although the country has long been in a state of financial embarrassment the deposed Sultan hoarded treasure to an immense amount in his Palace, and that he continued to spend extrayagent sums in the gratification of his luxurious pleasures and his tiespostic caprice, while a troublesome insurrection was draining the resources of the Empire, and ieoparili,ing its place in Europe. When the news came of his fall it was received with general rejoicing throughout Turkey, and indeed throughout all Europe. The news of his death may not, perhaps, lie received in precisely the same spirit, but it is scarcely likely to awaken either sympathy or sorrow.  he Cheu'er Manor collection of old Dutch and Flemish pictures, the property of the late Mr. Richard Foster, was sold on Saturday, at Messrs. Christie, Mason, and Wood's. Including some other pictures by old masters, from various collections, the day's sale realised upwards cl
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1876-03-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

REMARKABLE CAREER OF A NOBLEMAN'S WIFE. .  A young woman, who gave the name of Mary Burton, WAN brought before the Southwark magistrates the other day, charged with robbery. The prisoner, on the 29th ult., hired a furnished room of Mr. James, at 9 Holmer-terrace. On the following day she absconded, taking some sheets, blankets, a clock, a shawl, and 7s. 6d., belonging to persons living in the house. When she was apprehended several duplicates relating to the property were found in her possesion. Since she had been in custody, Davis, a detective efficer, ascertained that she had been living with a man named Burton, in the Westminsterbridge-road, whom she had robbed and left to live with other men. About a year ago he apprehended her in Scotland for felony, awl brought her back to London, but the prosecutor refused to proceed against her. Shq had also been charged with attempted suicide wffile in a state of drunkenness. Detectivesergeant White said that he had known prisoner upwards of eight years. She was well educated, and at one time was living in affluent circumstances, having married a nobleman, luring which time she led a dissipated life, and on the death (4. her husband she actually married her coachman. They lived very unhappily together, and she fell from bad to worse. She was several times summarily convicted for larceny, and on March 25th, 1874, she was tried at the Middlesex sessions and sentenced to imprisomnent for felony. She had been subsequently in custody for burglary and obtaining 000ds by false pretences, but the preReenters decline'd to proceed against her owing to her former position. Mr. Benson asked if it was true she had a husband living in the Westminster-road in good circumstances? Sergeant White replied that it was not. Her husband was a coachman, but owing to her gross misconduct he was unable to live with her. She had been living with other men, and he had known her by the names of Rose Garratry, Cleveland, Chester, Clinton, ite. Mr. Beoson told the prisoner that it was lamentable to see a young woman, brought up in a respectable manner, well educated, and once in a position to mix with the highest society, in such a deplorable situation, brought on by her own misconduct and utter want of self-respect. He had no other alternative but to commit her for trial.  THE PERSONALTY OF THE DEVIL,  At a meeting of the English Church Union, held at the Bristol Atheineum, on Thursday, one of the "reverend " speakers is stated to have said : " It was a feeling of pleasure to him to see Mr. Cook make the lsdd effort to bring back the ancient discipline of the laity. Re (the speaker) thought they ought to be kept in order in some way, and not allowed to believe and do just as they liked." He then went on to say he felt "great sorrow" that Mr. Cook had lost the