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The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-07-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN RUSSIA.  A St. Petersburg correspondent writes t—A terrible tragedy—a double murder by a young officer—has deeply excited the public mind here. An old e'rntleinan, Memoir, a retired councillor, had during the hist six years shown great kindness to a young was, by name Charles Lundsberg, who, in the first instance, lodging at his house, had been assisted by N'llissoff with funds for outfit when he passed his examination for entering the corps of Suppers of the Unards, and on other occasions. These loans eventually amounted to 5,0(10 roubles, for which the officer wive his bill of exit.ncc, and which became due on .lune 6. The amou eyoung officer said he would be able to pay, as he was about to marry into a family of distinction—the newspapers say he was engaged to one of the many daughters of an eminent general. thi the evening of that day Landsberg called on M. Ylassolf at ten o'clock. The former being deadly pale, M. Vlassoff asked him if he were ill. "Yes, replied Landsberg, "send for some seltzer-water for we." 31. Vlitssoff sent the servant for some lemonade instead of seltzer-water), and immediately the se, vast left the house Landsberg attacked and killed the old wan with a hunting-knife. lie then waited the ',turn of the servant, and before she had time to place on the table the ten copecks change, he attacked end killed her by a stab in the temple with the same hunting-knife. Landsberg then abstracted the bill tor 5,0101 roubles and a large packet of securities, after washing his hands to ,k the key of the front door, locked it after him, and escaped. The murder was discovered accidentally by a plasterer engaged MI the exterior of the house looking through the window and s ring the corpses on the floor. The murderer was seen to enter the house late on the evening above mentioned and suspicion, thi refore, fell upon him' and he was arrested. At first denying his guilt, he at length made a full confession of his crime. As already stated, this cold-blooded murder by a military °Weir who moved in high circles has created great sensation. The murder was, without any reason whatever, in the first instance attributed to Nihilists, in the same way as the death of a Count Koskul, whom; corpse was found in a wood outside the Narita gates, has been reported in the foreign papers to have been their work, though it is established that he had committed suicide in a fit of insanity. The mardirer has been sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude.
The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-01-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MANSION BURNT DOWN.  Dinicombe Park, the seat of Earl Faversham, near Ilet,isley, Yorkshire, has been destroyed by tire. The tire liroke out in a be Iniont over the saloon, and was the crel by a maidservant. An al irm was at once set scil, but the fire had :already a firm hold, and the keel appliances for coping with the dames were entirely useless, and the flames siread rapidly. Lord Ind Lady Faversham were bath in London ; but Mr Barrington, the steward. wite there almost directly after the fire was discovered, and immediately tele I graphed to York for the fire brigade. Attempts were A married man named John Livesey, 35 years of then made to remove th, valuables, but the tire by age, who resided at 43, Creswick Street, committed this time was burning no fiercely that the work was suicide on Tuesday afternoon, in the Clock public 'attended with considerable &outer, ant only a portion house (Mr. Modsley's ), London Road Liverpool, lof the valuable contents could be rescue I. Some of under somcwhat painful circumstances. It appears 1 the pictures, however, together with some tapestry that he went iota the public house and called for a land s atuary, were saved. Several of the servants bottle of ginger beer, which was supplied to him. had trimly time to save their lives, ninny of them lonHe sat down in one of the parlours, and he remarked ing all their clothing. The York fire engine was sent to a barmaid that he expected to meet a friend there, by special train to Helmsley, hut it arrived too late A short time afterwards Mr. Modsley went into the to be of much service, the roof and doors of the manoirmur and found him leaning forward with his head on having already fallen in. The efforts of the •cating on the table. On raising him Mr. Modsley brigmle were then tinted to saving the kitchen and An,erved that there was something wrong, and seat stables, in which they were successful. for Dr. Stain, Pembroke Place, who, on arrival,
The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-03-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PAT.( K's Day paseed over so quietly? A correspondent says it wan quietly and sensibly kept at Middlesbrough—so it was here. Tnere was little or no extra indulgence in stiniiilants"—ditto at Stockton. Yes, it WSW creditable. No doubt of it.  One of the two men who a short time ago strangely disappeared from Stockton has "turned up" at Gravelieud in the condition of a worn out pilgrim—he wee discovered by a brother without money or clothes, and had been an inmate of the hospital for several days. The man was mate of a vessel called the Ithtdstoile, a Scotch trader, and soon after being paid off whilst the ship was lying at one of the Stockton wharves he mysteriously disappeared. Nobody knew whither he had gone, and as the mania for suicides was pretty strong about the time people concluded that he had found his last rest at the bottom of the Tees. Oar local police superintendent has done it—that is, he has traced the missing man. The other runaway (?) is not yet accounted fer.  RE.% DENS of the iron mere during the past few days have been taken aback by "a curious announcement" —an advertisement inviting tenders for leo,ooo tons of steel rail, for New Zealand. People ou Change at Middlesbrough have scanned it, and been much impres,ed at first eight, concluding at once that such a demand for staple commodities muat favourably affect trade. But what ia the fact '; Most disappointing ! The rails have to be made in the colony from native ore. Thus does the pleaaant and sublime transform iteeif into the ridiculous. One has a day dream about erecting enormous plant at the far-ofi colony to make these 100,000 rails, and wonders what is to follow when they are turned out. Tiiere'a a chance fur some enterprising and youthful progeny of the sons of V ulnau !  IT seems an immense quantity of copper is circulating in the town. People who have the good fortune to do busbiesn in these times are glad to take what tip-3r can get so long as it is coin of the realm ; and customers have actually the good-natured ill, pudeuce to pay bills with 5s packets of pennies, .` neatly bound." It looks as if all the paper money had changed hands u ueeleas at a time when the lucre itself is better appreciated ; as if every man lucky enough to possess uumortgaged notes had reduced thetn to coin It is as though the general public, hard set to, find the coarser money the most useful and economical in every day living, an they circulate the pennies, saving the shillings— till next time ; allowing the BUYS to take care of themselves, which they do somehow or other, for ordinary mortals can't keep them. of the most curious and amusing performances has latterly been wit:mend at the btar Theatre,
The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-03-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE LATE MR ALD. WREN. obtained. It w. difficult to arrive at the deceagetle thereabouts with an epidemic, an,sl several of the and it swears almost everywhere else-the church tower ceptable to my &Muds, ',Lich, how, ver, it was not. The Chairman f b-,1, er rtefly referring to the lamented motive for commitfing the rash act He had HIEVIOUBIyI uever thrank from a test-vote, nor ever needed to. I denunciation and declamation, Ii was ahle th carry _housee were condemned. --The Nuisance Inspector at Stockton was Silent. IS the depression a trade so e id na melt cendidatme ; but once having pledged d M 1 Mr 'heel Hensell Wren who ha been a mem- suffered from infl • ' h h • t ti sr.:canon in t e t roe„ an wen informed the meeting that the quegion filthrough on great in the borough th. the town does Dot ha i• myself to fight de lectele a those who h td do. me the the day . a Male when the people boasted t hey were eat ' . • • • • ' • • -., ber a the Connurssion lance its formehon in 18, and a irritable in consequence.-Verdice " Suicide whiist in acceunt of the Artisans Dwelling, Act Committee jueefied in doing anthing . break through the nem be • d Tb 'I CI k •t 1 •I• .1 r what ?Na only, I underst iot, have having to Teammate .- e own er pour et vat ing t, clout, o honour . seiect in for their calaidate, I could na riding to victery. " Po. &p.n.,' r... 0 hear. n°" I regular atteuder at the meetings, moved theta neo- astute of unsound mind:, oul that the Board'. present duty wii to nem-rutin the bells not been rung on this special occ.sion, but desert them without their concurrence. Cutler these and again in e idf .pyreystd utterances, "Dead, is he? lution of coudolence be drawn up, bearag the seal a ..._-.....---- whether Abe advisable to put the Act in operetion or there is na a single state day in the whole year, not cacumetatices I appeal with conlideuee, nut to the uneth 'he was a gt.ge: fellow, was Billy. Ile would the , . Peened and forwarded to the decease d gentleman's
The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-02-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE BANNER-CROSS MtRDER.  Tho Central News Leeds correspondent states that Peace gives the prison authoritiee at Armley very little lroub.e. He is perfectly resigned to his fate, and there is every reason for believing that the convict is now repentant. A notable change has come over the tone of his conversation. He no longer delights in boasting of his evil ways. There seems to be an impression that Peace will commit suicide. That opinion is not shared by the prison authorities. When in bed he is not a lowed to have his hand ander the be lelothei, nor are tae clothes permitted to be drawn up farther than to half cover his chest. Peace is a very fervent prayer. Before telling Mr. Keene anything Peaue offers up a beautiful prayer, and then says, "My lefir Governor, do you think I could tell you a lie after having prayed like that ?" Before his relatives visited him Peti,e frequently expressed a desire to see Mrs. Thompson, for whom he seems to entertain feelings of the warmest affection. But after his friends had been to see him he sent for the Governor and told him not to :Omit Mrs. Thomson Mr. Keene made some remark with regard to her changeableness, whereupon the convict explained, "I'll write a letter to poor Sue." Having done no, he asked the Governor to read it to her, but not to deliver it up. Suortly afterwards he wrote a note to Mr. Keene, askiog him to cut off the last two lince of the letter he had written, and to give them to her for a keepsake. This Mr. Keene did. Since then Peace has said very little about Mrs. Thompson, but occasionally he mentions h, name with tenderness, and at times even says he would lily to see her once more before he dies. The statement that Peace had a hand in stealing the famous Gainsborough portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire is devoid of foundation. So far front that being. the i'aBl3, Peace has frequently spoken to both Mrs. Ti onpson and Hannah about that theft, regretting he d.d not know who took the picture, as it would , have afforded him sincere gratification to lac, restored the portrait and caught the thief. The man lad certain hentimontal weakneases, and among these WWe his fon .ness for paintings, music, poetry, and animals. There was a rolfbery, in which Peace was concerned, that attracted equal notoriety to that of the Gaineborouh picture theft, but the eecret as yet is known to only two or three. The convict Iremently offered to marry Mrs. Thompson, and although leer union with Bailey was illegal by reason of previous marriage, she hesitated about going through the ceremony.  Mr. Bradshaw, tho county court judge at New-4.a.t10-upon-Tyne, stated on Tuesday that it was very hard that working men could be seat to prison without getting rid of their liability, while men owing thousands of pounds, who could not pay as many pence could be whitewitshol. An alteration in the law would be praposel by the Lord Chatted:or at an ..ttv data.
The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-08-23 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OOO.  The Hon. G. M. Bennet, now (inconsequence of Lord Ossulton's death) the eldest son of the Earl of Tankerville, will not assume his late brother's title, but will be si,yl,tl Lord Bennet. The Sheriffs of London have fixed Monday, the 25th inst., as the day for the execution of James Daley and Mary Rainbow' the Hornsey murderess, now lying under sentence of death in Newgate. The Bight Rev. Alfred 011ivant, P.D., Bishop of Llandati, Was born at Manchester on August 16,1798, and has therefore completed his flat year. lie is the oldest bishop on the Episcopal bench.  The French organ of the milk and better trade declares that French butter is being beaten out of the English market by foreign competition and its own defective manufacture.  At the Guildhall Police Court, London, Charles Shore. a farmer, of Little Chester, near Derby, has been lined ti2o and costs for sending bad meat to the London niarkct ; and for a similar offence Thomas Crarnpin, of Kelvesten, Essex, has been fined £lO and costs.  The Lon, lon Gazette contains an Orley in Council under the Weights and Measures Act 1878, approving the denominations of standards of apothecaries' weight and measure set forth in an annexed schedule and directing that the earns shall bu Board of Trade standards.  A girl named Anne Stroud, aged 13, has been chard at Derby, with attempting to commit suicide by strangulation. It was alleged that the child has been illt,ated by her mother, and had attempted to commit suicide as a means of "spiting her." The case was remanded.  The revising of the late Lord Fife have been deposited in the family mausoleum at Dull House, in presence of the largest assemblage of people ever collected within the precincts of the Dud policies. The Aberdeenshire nobility and gentry were almost without exception represented. An illo.lititnate child, nine months old, entrusted to a 111t.5..-Talhot, of Chesterfield, to nurse, was fed with Gedfrey's cordial and other s)othing syrups. It died. A post morle.m examination disclosed that starvation and drugs killed it. Tito inquest held on the body, which weighed less than.
The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-07-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OCCUIT,..I. at. th,. r, the Bolt°. favoured dissent—favoured it se it•erigly, of two 90 -cwt. guns on the upper deck—one forward that they leave lost their hold upon their huth d eimisi er gentleman is still strong in the belief that robbery, (Hear). There with no desire, he cotdd assure, them, exhibition in Albany : —Young lady e ere . in fact, as to keep a sound-lunged geatleman from under the forecastle, and the other aft under the For some days after the marriage tbe bride must not • ii•ri 'if not 'lethal murder, was prevented solely by be to avoid full and free discussion. Of so 11111010 On. • t ',ie..' ICI,. the ila/Vi.) :'1 London in possession of a home and a bandbox poop—and twelve 90-cwt. guns, and two fetepounder be heard to speak, save certain few words at the table, ere ll son. of mind and his personal bravery. sequence did he consider the neater tied, after what : these are Landseer's I.' Young no in (wt. , chapel where he weekly sent them, and the few rifle guns on the main deck, the latter being in a set eorm, with great manners and reverence to be had heard that day he would not proceed with the I to be near. : ' I thought th, y NV, re .1 villagers who surreptitiously Inaglg,il in such drops eatable of being used on the broadside or astern. SI. the bridegroom." If 8114e:have herself otherwise, Herr Stumm, formerly of the Prussian F I bill for a week or so, and in the meantime he would thle (re ressine a their; ; ' Yee, but tie y r I blise, to utter dark .1 ...y well consider the points which had been urged, and ' 5,.. cee -I oung man (blushing. and ,u-p, .1 nesa and perdition for tMir ja further armed with Whitehead torpedoes, to 1,, it is a great prejudice to her eredit and life ever after- et Rome, and now Find Secretary of the Embassy , -{manifold billa and wickedness. ejected from two ports forward on the main deck, and wards, and will be highly dish-Red of the bridegroom at St. Petersburg, has gone over to thee Roman dl cvmmunica tone on the liubject would receive his • ,i d • lesoWll to him): ' i tileueld o. ogs un u" I don't suppose that either Mr. Bolton or Molly i,„. Iso towing torpedo,. and SC/ViVC autri,zor tor- himself, who will probably adravister ueraenal car- Catholic roligioLum W§ marriage to a ricl Ameri 'most atteution (cheers).— The deerrealiele then • - ' wdutors. had mull faith ia 111e.r4ringe of tlaia maniac; bat belles.blAG walattilcheci in 1871; ni,tion.-411 Me Irscr..4(q.ct. xi lati • withdrew- I  Ax Irish newspaper the othet day had the following heading in its police intelligen Suicide of two persons, statement of the one that 6."iVed2  CHAPTER Vii. SETTING THE SNARE?.  t 4 /  d ,curt-1
The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-01-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CURIOUS SYSTEM OF INTIMIDATION.  In his report for 1877-78 Captain Burton, assistant .gent, tiovernor-General, Itajpoetana gives an acaunt of a curious event which occurred in the State Bikaneer. Early one morning about 70 or 80 -adds, or llindoo fakirs, who held villages and weltcied extensive lands, rushed into his compound,. making a great disturbance, and shouting out that ..heir chief priest, the Mohunt, hail been unjustly srrested by the durbar, and that ueless he was imine'lately released, they would all k 11 themselves opposite hie door. The people are in the habit of niutilating themselves, or even committing suicide, when they consider themselves oppressed or ill-treated by the durbar. Captain Burton, however, failed to pacify them, and accordingly consulted the Itikaneer vakeel in the presence of the Sidds. The vakeel ! stated that there were several grave charges against the Sidds who had been arrested, that their cases would be carefully investigated, and that it WI. right Jussoonoth, the priest, should remain in confinement until he had answered the complaints agelinst him. The Sidds were still as staborn as ever: they declared the raj was oppressing them, and being .irmed with swords, knives, and daggers, which they . requently flourished, they add they would conenit suicide unless their request was accede.' to. After this they, in a body, went and sat outside the compound for two days making much noise. In the' third day it was reported to Capt. Burton that the Sidle had prepatcd four excavations, in each of wh ieh a man was seated, ready to be buried alive, while the others Ii 'lurid they were about to destroy them. ',lv,. At first they refused to dada., but eventually became quiet, though they would take no final; and about the fifth day some were urea dying of hunger On the sixth day Jussoonatli was released on bail, on the seventh the Sidds partook sd food, and on the eighth they left the spot where thoy had encamped themselves. It appeared there were many points to be argued between the durbar and these titilds, and that both parties were to blame, the former wishing to extort, in the shape of revenue, as much money as possible from the latter, who were trying to evade payment. The matter, however, was amieably setti-1 attic' axeral months, and the tiidds returned to their village,.  The Geneva Council of Stato has asked for a vote or 91.000 francs for the relief of destitute workmen, viotims of the industrial crisis.
Runcorn and Widnes Examiner. — 1875-08-07 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

SCENE IN A POLICE COURT AT CREWE.—At the Crewe the only instance where the, not ignoble excitement Police Court, on Wednesday, William 1-I;ap, a native of the sailor's friend has been attributed or insinuated of Macclesfield, and a returned convict, was brought to be due to a disgraceful reason. Who is "M." who up in custody, charged with committing a burglary at signs this most extraordinary "communication " a dwelling house in Crewe, on Wednesday last from an office whose accuracy seems ostentatiously During the hearing of the case the prisoner made a guaranteed by its "telegraphic connection with the most determined attempt to commit suicide. He was House of Parliament, &0., &c." Of "M," whoever he cross-examining one of the witnesses, when he and- is, T will charitably refrain from repeating, in the stupedenly exclaimed," Oh, it's all nonsense," and at the fying language of his telegram "No excuse of intoxisame time produced a piece of bottle-glass with which cation as occurred in a case in 1816." I shall look with he made two terrible gashes on his throat. He was at some interest on the future telegraphic revelations once seized. A struggle ensued, the glass was taken of "M." from him, and he was doubly handcuffed. A doctor In the meantime I may take this occasion to observe was sent for, and on arriving the wounds were stitched that up. The prisoner had previously attempted suicide "The London correspondent of the _Liverpool Mercury whilst in custody at the Crewe lockups. Once by save that "it is not Mr. Plimsoll, but Mr. Disraeli, making a deep incised wound at his elbow with the whom all the London papers—Liberal, Independent, buckle of his braces, whereby he lost about a quart of and Conservative—with the exception of the Globe and blood. On another occasion he opened a vein in his the Hour, condemn for his miserable mismanagement of arm with a piece of glass. The prisoner, who ap- rublic business." peered to be thoroughly exhausted, was committed for ev hilst writing of the wonderful communications of trial at the Chester assizes. London correspondents, let me call your attention to • the following paragraph from" The private wire "of the Liverpool Courier of Saturday last :