Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-09-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TER--East Riding ooroner has held an inquest at Bridlington on the body of a young gentleman who was found drowned near the harbour. The deceased had been to the Scarborough Race Meeting, and had lost, by betting or robbery, all his money and valuables. He came to the town penniless, and it is supposed that in '''' " ' • '  , desperation he committed suicide. He is said to have hewn connected with the inquiry department of the London and North-Wmtern Railway, and to belong to Nottingham. The jury returned an open verdict. A TICLEGRAM from Omaha states that great dimatisfaction exists amongst the Sioux Indians, who threaten hostilitim should their demands not be conceded. They number t 7,000, and are well mounted and armed. Their leader is Red Cloud, a chief who was prominent at the Fort Fetterman massacre in 1800, and is a brave warrior, but wily and treacherous. Reports from Tucson of the same data state that over 100 persons have been killed by Apaches in New Mexico daring the pees ions month, amongst them eleven women and a child. The women were outraged and killed by the most cruel torture. A Mexican force had gone in pursuit. _  kr A MEETING of the Committee of the Sunday Society, Professor Corlield in the chair, a vote of condolence on the death of their yice-pristident, the Marquis of Conyngham, was passed. It was agreed to send a deputation to the Social Science Congress at Nottlughan ; and Mr. Hodgson Pratt and Mr. Mark IL Judge were elected as representatives. AR IMIORTANT PROSECUTION under the Licensing Act has been heard at the Reading Borough Bench. Mr. William Sheppard, a grocer, carrying on an extensive business in Reading, was summoned for eelling spirits and beer without a license. The defentlant hen two large shops, and for one establishment Ile hoists a license to sell spirits and beer by retail, and at the other shop he holds a strong beer dealer's license. At the latter shop, an order was given torn quart of whisky and a dozen bottles of beer ; and the assistant sent it on to the retail shop, from whence the whisky and beer were sent to the wholesale establishment and supplied to the customer. The defendant admitted the offence, but Mr. Welch, wile was counsel for the defence, urged that the law was contravened in ignorance by the assistant. The Bench indicted tines amounting to £42 10s. and costs.  Tux DISTURBANCES at Salisbury, in connection with the Salvation Army, have been renewed. A man named Charles Coles has been charged before the city magistrates with discharging fireworks in front of a procession of the Salvation Army. Evidence was given showing that the defendant let off a squib, and the magistrates, expresain7 a determination to put down these modes of interfering with the army, sent the accused to gaol for a month with hard labour. A WORKING MAN, named James Atkins, has been charged before the Fligh Wycombe borough magistrates with having disturbed a meeting of the Salvation Army, at their barracks, and also with assaulting a constable. The prisoner created a disturbance while one of the officers of the army was addressing the meeting, and as he refused to desist, a policeman removed him outside the building; he knocked the constable down and tore his clothes. Prisoner pleaded guilty. The magistrates sent him to gaol for a month, without the option of a fine, for disturbing the meeting; for the aasault they ordered him to pay £ll4a. line and coats : and for the damage to the policeman's clothes, lie. with 15e. costs ; or in default of payment, another month's imprisonment.  CAROLINE HARDY, of Chiswell, Nottinghamshire, the young woman who so mysteriously escaped from the police-station at Great Yarmouth, has been recaptured at Lowmtoft by Inspector Jefferies. She was brought before the Yarmouth magistrates a few days ago for stealing jewellery front a local trademmn there, for which she was on remand at the time of her escape, and the theft, as well as a prior conviction having been proved, she was committed for trial.  AT the annual meeting of the governors of the Stratford-on-Avon Infirmary, the honorary physician, Dr. Kingsley, announced a donation of £6OOO and a site for the proposed new building, the begueat of a gentleman whose name was not divulged.