Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-10-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TIM SHEFFIELD POLICE-COURT a. married woman, named Sarah M'Cabe, was charged with having endeavouted to commit suicide. In the course of the case it was stated that three oilier relatives had destroyed themselves. She was remanded for medical examination. EARL COMPTON, who aceompained the Marquis of Northampton on his special mission to Madrid to invest the King of Spain with the Order of the Garter, has returned home. The Marquis and Lady Margaret Compton intend to visit Seville and other playes of interest in Spain before their return from the Continent. AT THE MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, London, Charles Durwood, clerk toa lean of solicitors, was found guilty of embezzling £lO5 front his employers, and was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour. INTELLIGENCE RECEIVED from Mazatlan, in Mexico, stztes that a hurricane has been raging there v.hich caused great dittna,,, to the shipping. The river rose, inul it is reported that 300 houses were destroyed awl a large number of lives lost in the neighbouring  towns. WHILE A PORTER at Granton Railway Station , onto tieAing through the carriages of the twenty minutes past ten train from Edinburgh to (dranton, he found the body of a child in a second-alas compartment. The body, which was wrapped ion piece of cloth, was enclosed in a brown-paper bag. It was taken poss.sion of by the police :,,,Iliorities. A TELEURAN NEON BEN Nitwit states that a heavy south-east gale has occurred at an altitude of 3000 "feet, with a temlierature of 34 deg.; and the report adds: " Storm above, with conflicting currents; pushed a little higher, last tmable to proceed alone over snowdrifts and  lotae reeks?' AT THE DURHAM QUARTER SESSIONS, WilliADl Walton, 2S, was indicted for inflicting grievous bodily harm upon his brother, Thomas Walton, at Forestdm Teesdale. The couple quarrelled over some fannyard work, and prisoner then seized a large reaping scythe and attacked his brother in a ferocious and extraordinary manner, indicting several large wounds right across the chest and arms. Eventually the scythe got fastened in the ceiling, and the young man was found lying in a pool of blood insensible. The prisoner was sentenced to live years' penal servitude. A MAN NAMED SAMUEL WALKER, aged 60, hos out his throat from ear to ear, severing the windpipe, at Messrs. Strutt's cotton mill at Belper, after which he threw himself headlong out of a fourth storey window into a stream of water which runs by the mill. The Hon. F. Strutt .w the man fall past his office window, and directed measures which were effectual in rescuing him trout the water. No hope., however, are entertained of his recovery. Walker had been in Messrs. Strutt'd employment from boyhood. INQEEST liAB BEEN HELD at Leeds over a collie, named Henry James Burnley, who woo killed by it mll of a raif at the Morley Main Colliery. The it is worked on the long wall system, and the earl is got by blasting. The day the accident occurred four shots were tired near the deceased's workings, and afterwards it was noticed Bat there was a slip or throe on either side of a large stone in the roof. These slips were signs of danger, and Burnley ought to have propped the stone up at once; but, so after tapping the roof it appeared sound, he went on chipping. Each successive blow loosened the stone, about a ton in weight, until it fell upon him, crushing him beneath it, fracturing his spine, breaking several of his ribs, and inflicting other injitri.. The deceased was removal to the Lads Infirmary, where he lingered several days. l'gf ore he died he admitad to his relations that no one w. 1.6 to blame but himself. AT TIIE l'omon-cornr, Great Yarmouth. v 461 la I:, a boy only Id no d. gas lam lip tor stabbing another boy named Gat:it-lg. Cutting was playing with his sister on the beach when Turrell interfered. Mir conduct was complained of, and he at once threatened to stab the other boy to the heart. At the time 'Darrell had a knife with which he ivsu cutting a rope, and with this he struck the complainant a blow on the left hip. The clothes were pierced, and a wound an inch deep inflicted. Turrell, who did not appear to realise the gravity of the offence, was sent to prison for no short term, and ordered to be birched. MARY JANE WIGGINS was accused, on her own confession, at the Central Criminal Court, London, of having caused the death of her child. She was in drink when she made that confession, but did not now deny it. The mediad evidence showed that the child had been very much neglected, and the jury found the prisoner guilty, hut sentence w-as deferral. Tax DATE of Sir William Harcourt's visit to Cumberland has now been definitely fixed. At an early date he will open the Cumberland Industrial school at Cockermouth, and on the following Monday a Liberal demoretration is to be held at Workington, which Sir Willhrm Harcourt hao promised to attend. An address will be presented to the Home Secretary by the West Cumnerland Liberal ASSOCiatioll. and the second Liberal candidate for West Cumberland at the next election is to be its nouneed. The Home Secretary will be the guest of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, at Brayton FLAIL