The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-07-26 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

CHILD OVERLAYING AT WIDNES...--ALI inquest was held on Tuesday morning by Mr. Ridgway, coroner for the honour and fee of Halton, touching the death of an infant child named Edith Hannah Gosling, aged twelve weeks, daughter of George Gosling, engine.titter, Runcorn. The evidence showed that the deceased was a very healthy child. The father and mother went to bed between eleven and twelve o'clock on Sunday night, taking with them deceased, who slept on the outside of the bed, leaning on its mother's arm. The mother awoke at half-past two, and deceased was then all right, but on again wakening an hour later the child lay dead in her arms. The jury returned a verdict of death from accidental overlying. The Coroner called attention to the prevalence of the practice of parents taking their infant children to bed with. them, instead of placing them in a cot by themselves, and said if that practice was followed it would be a great saving of infantile life.  SUICIDE OF A "DADDY AND JoAx.”—A. pathetic story comes from Rockford, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Sussmitch, each more than 70 years of age, have lived happily together for nearly half • century. Recently they have been worrying over the idea that as they were so old, death must soon take one or the other. They did not fear death, but they dreaded the separation which death would bring. The loving old couple talked the matter over from time to time, sod finally decided to anticipate matters by committing suicide together. On Satar, day the old man, having disposed of his property, which was considerable, and the venerable dame having arranged her worldly affairs, the couple walked arm in arm to the Rock River. There the husband clasped his beloved spouse in his arms, and jumped into the swollen wators. Both bodies have been recovered, and, in accordance with their expressed desire, will be buried in one grave. The couple left a written statement expressing that their sole reason foe committing suicide was an overpowering desire to die as they had lived—together.  LORD RnmsT ON Co-orzasrfox.—The Marquis of Ripon, speaking on Saturday afternoon at the opening of a Co-operative Exhibition at Morpeth, said profit sharing was the essence of a co-operative productive society. If s society gave a share of its profits to it csmimmers, but gave no share to those whomft employed in the work of production, according to his- understandingof the matter it was not a co-operative prodnotive society. As far as it gave a share of the profits to the consumer it was a co-operative sc,ciety for distribution, but if it withheld the share of the workers from its employee it was not entitled to be called a co-operative productive society. He thought it a great thing that the co-operative stores should be able to give to those who dealt with them a share of the profits, but he did not think that was the be-all and end-all of the co-operative principle. He did not in the least mean that there was any antagonism between cooperative distribution and co-operative production, and he held such a notion to be altogether a heresy. He had firm faith in the introduction among them on a wide scale of real co-operative production, which would tend to bring about that which was the great need of ter day—to distribute more widely the vast wealth which they collectively produced, and which would in the future be either a blessing or a curse epos the people; according as they hastened or as they postponed the day.  Tau DEPTFORD POISONING Ckszs : A