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Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1903-04-09 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

THE DRIVING SCANDAL.  The London -Daily News" speaks out strongly on the driving scandal on 3Londay ia reference to the attempted suicide of • young weaver at Church. It says:— Driving,' as it is locally called, is the scandal of the cotton industry. The worst. feature in connection with it is that. it. is applied chilly to women, and especially to young anatfefenceless women. The bully— and although all tacklers are not bullies, most bullies become tacklers—is generally as deficient in courage as in chivalry, and reserves his brutalities for those who cannot retaliate. But it would be a mistake to visit the sins of the tackler upon his own head. He is only the product of an evil system, the real root of which is to be looked for in the employer, who 'drives' the manager, who 'drives' the tackler, who 'drives' the wearer. The evil, though its roots are more remote, centres in the perniciousl method of paying the tackler. It is obviously wrong. The tackler's duty, as the name implies, is not to squeeze the utmost out. of the looms; but to keep them in proper working order. He is the mechanic of the mill. When a machine breaks clown it is his duty to put it in repair. Clearly, such work should be paid for by time, not , by the results of the weavers. The tackler is paid by results not to prove his mechanical 1' skill, but to give him the greatest possible' int-entire to get the utmost out. of the weavers. If the weavers were paid on time there might be some element of justice in. this. But Hay are paid by the piece. Their earnings depend upon their output. They have therefore an all-sufficient reason for producing as much cloth as they can. To, attempt to make them get, more by establishing over them a tyrant whose payment depends not upon his own legitimate work; but upon their earnings is as harsh as it is illogical. The demand of the operatives is that the slate system shall be abolished. , This simple and just change would get rid. lof the present tyranny of the mill. It I I would leave the tackler to his legitimate I ! work of tackling, for which lie would be 'paid a fixed stun, and' it would make the operative responsible only to the firm. In what. we have written we do not suggest. , that erere cotton manufacturer winks at., •driving';.bat'we say that the present sysItem puts in the hand of every selfish em-' I player an easy instrument of tyranny and 11 oppression."
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1903-04-09 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

DENTITH DAVIES.  THE EDUCATION BILL. To the Editor of the "Chronicle."  Dear 81r,—The Tory Government, made up of rich men, by passing the so-called Education Bill, have scared against the working classes. The Tory monopolists have forced upon us an Act which will not make for educational efficiency, but for the uplifting of denominational creed and dogma, and intensify class hatred. The Bill has been passed to add power to mummery priests and mammon worshippers, in order to keep the people satisfied with present conditions and to keep them from intellectual attainments, in order to make little Tories who will grow up knowing nothing except obedience to their betters, the gods of policy, grab, money, and war. The priests will try to tighten their hold upon us, thereby making more so-called sceptics and haters of the creed and dogma religion. If these men had any sense of fair play or a grain of Chest innity about them, they would have spurned the Bill which is against true education and Christianity. The rich and powerful class have taken the people's schools and replaced them with creed, dogma, hatred, and tyranny. Now that the law ha: been forced upon us, it is sakl the people will submit, but as Englishmen we will not submit until a more noble and just education shall be the result. The priests profess to take the Bible as their guide. Surely it is high time that the best and most learned men in England got together and compiled a fresh Bible, taking from the old one the simple Christian principles and leaving out all the pentimental rubbish which seems to give these men, with their warped minds, t he 'right to thrust and coerce their opinions and dogmas upon all. It would be a blessing if we could sweep the deck once over and then start afresh with one religion, and the same Chri•tian principles; get these essentials to a good , life practical and we should soon see the., working classes represented in Parliament, to be followed kty a national system of education, and legislation upon the drink question, the housing question, the land question, and work instead of suicide or the workhouse for the unemployed.—Your6 sincerely,
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1903-01-02 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

SEPTUAGENARIAN'S SUICIDE AT NELSON.  A SON'S SHOCKING DISCOVERY.  On Friday morning last, at the Victoria Hospital, Mr, H. J. Robinson, coroner, held an inquest into the circumstances attending the death of Samuel Mills, an old, man, of Nelson. who out his throat on the, 19th, and ied in the Victoria Hospital, on Tuesday night. Wm. Mills, 11, Rigg-street, Nelson. said &tensed was his father. He was 74 years of age, was formerly a coal miner, and had lodged with him. Recently, however, he went to his brother's house in Southfieldstreet, for about a fortnight, and witness saw him there at 1-20 last Friday, attending to the house and the fire. Deceased had been a little in dotage. Dr. Ayrton, house surgeon at the hospital, said deceased was admitted on the 19th suffering from a wound in the throat. He died from bronchitis and heart failure supervening the injury, which was apparently self-inflicted. Abraham Mills, another son, said the father had been staying with him a short time. He left deceased in the house at 106, Southfield-street, Nelson. on Friday, and on returning at 3-30 he and his wife found the door locked. The" could see, however, that there was a good fire. The key was in the lock, and on their rattling the door they could hear the old man making a gutteral sound. After about ten minutes his father managed to unlock the door, and they discovered him leaning on the table. Witness could hear there was something wrong with deceased. as he was breathing in a peculiar manner, and on niaking a light the knife produced was found lying in a pool of blood near the dresser. The knife was a bread knife. Witness considered that his father had been somewhat childish since his mother died, but he had been able to look after the bird and the fires.  The Coroner said it appeared as if the old man had got low and scarcely responsible for his actions.  The jury returned a verdict that deceased died as the result of injuries, and that when Mills cut his throat he was of unsound mind by rrason of old age and infirmity.  MR.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1903-01-02 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

JULY.  2.—Brierfield Salvation Army officers' summoned for obstruct ion, and ordered to pay the costs. 3.—Clitheroe Division Liberal Council in-' rite Hon. P. Stanhope to contest the division in the Liberal interest. Fatal accident to George Harrod, engine tenter, of Colne. Final service of Rev. J. E. Jones, Primitive Methodist minister, Brierfield, prior to his departure for Manchester. 4.—Thomas Davey, of Brierfield, sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment with hard labour for a.ssault.  s.—Mr. David J. Shackleton, J.P., of Darwen, selected as Labour candidate for Clitheroe Division. Celebration of Salem Church and School jubilee, Nelson. Memorial stone laying of Sunday school extension at Stanley-street U.M.F.C., Nelson. 7.—Violetta Blineo, a Nelson girl, commit; suicide in the Leeds and Liverpool canal. Public meeting at Brierfielcl re prosecution of Salvation Army. 10.—Nelson School Board invite Mr. H. Dyson to reconsider his resignation. 11.—Publication of report respecting Nelson smallpox epidemic. 12.—Public reception of Nelson Fire Brgad(. on their return after their successes at the annual fire brigades' tournament at: Margate. Cutting the first sod of Woodlands-road Baptist Chapel, Nelson. 16.—Conference of Colne and Nelson Town Councils re joint infectious diseases hospital scheme. 18.—Announcement that Mr. Stanhope had declined to contest the Clitheroe Division, and that Mr. F. Thomasson, of Bolton, had been invited to address the Liberal Council. 19.—Reception in Carr-road Baptist School to Rev. A. S. and Mrs. Hollitkhead, on the occasion of their recent marriage. 21.—Important meeting of the Liberal Council, at which it was announced that Mr. Franklyn Thomas-son had declined to contest the Clitheroe Division. Alderman Catlow also declined to stand. 23.—Annual outing of the Brierfield Di:strict Council to Skipton' Mel Held, and Gisburn. Reported to the Nelson Town Council that the smallpox hospital was now clear of patients. 26.—Nelson "Feast" commences.  31.—Marriage of Mr. J. Beyworth and Mi.... M. Bracewell, of Colnn.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1898-06-03 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

SUICIDE THROUGH DRINK AT NELSON.  An inquest was held on Wednesday afternoon before Mr. H. J. Robinson and • jury touching the death of David Brown, sod 56 years, waipdresser, 257, Leeds -road, Nelson, who was found hanging by the neck by a rope on Tuesday morning at his issidence.—Ellan Brown said slut was the widow of deceased. He had been on the drink for two or three days, having started to drink last Friday night. He was not drunk on Sunday and only had • little common ale on Monday. He did not sleep at all the night before the event. Though he did not gat up, yet he rambled and talked in bed. On Tuesday morning he got up about 8 o'clock, and and about 8-35 he went out, and witness was under the impression that he had gone to his work. She went out shopping and cams back about 10 o'clock, and she then noticed • clothes line on the table in the kitchen, which had been cut. She went upstairs and saw her husband hanging dead. Deceased always rambled in his mind for many days after he had had drink.- In answer to the foreman, witness said that deceased had often threatened to do away with himself before.—Sam. nil Hopkinson, 89, Bradshaw-street, said that about 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning he was pairing deceased's house when the last witness called him in. and he found &cased hanging in • wardrobe upstairs. There was a slip knot round his neck and he was about 18 inches from the floor. There wee a little table there that he soma to have stood on and then kicked away. Witness cut him down, and he was quite dead.—The jury found a verdict to the effect that deceased had committed suicide whilst of unsound mind, caused by drink.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1894-10-05 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A NELSON WOMAN.  On Tuesday morning, Sarah Ann Darlington, I aged 50 years, winder, of 23, Grove-street, was I found to have committed suicide by hanging herself. The deceased is a single woman and has been residing alone. From information received P.C. Dickenson went to the residence of the deceased on Tuesday morning and found the doors all locked from the inside. The officer gained access to the bAroorn through the window Proceeding downstairs to the kitchen the officer found the deceased hanging with a rope from a hook in the ceiling, the rope being tightly fastened round her neck. The deceased appeared to have been dead some time. Near her was a small step ladder, which she had evidently used in her purpose of self-destruction. Her feet were just touching the ground, but not sufficiently so as to give her body any support. There were no other marks of violence on the body beyond those caused by the rope round the neck.• Deceased is said to have suffered front low spirits of late, and this is the only motive that can be assigned for the sad act. An inquest was held at I the Town Hall on Wednesday, of which Councillor ! Astley was the foreman. Evidence was given by P.C. Dickenson as to the entering of the house and finding the body, and by Mr. John Darlington a brother, who stated that deceased hail been rather eccentric for some time past. The verdict of the jury was that'• deceased hung herself probably on She lot inst., while in an unsound state of mind."  HARVEST FESTIVALS RAILWAY STREET ‘VESLEYASHarvest thanksgiving services were held ou Sunday last in the Wcslepan Chapel, Railway-street, which had been prettily decorated by a number of willing helpers. Most attention had been paid to the rostrum and the communion, the former being decorated with fruit, while inside of the communion rails was filled with plants of various descriptions. Around the gallery front there were hung small baskets of fruit, while the pillars supporting the gallery were festooned with flowers and the window sills were laden with vegetables. The special preacher for the day wag tile Rev. J. R. Imisson, of Bolton, who, in addition to preaching morning and evening, gave an address in the afternoon. At all the services, which were well attended, the choir rendered anthems. On Monday evening a fruit banquet took place, the Rev. J. R. Amstrong, the resident minister, presidfng, when songs and duetts were given by the Misses A. Aldersley and Altham, and Mr. Hartley, of the choir of the Independent Methodist Chapel, Barkerhouse-road. Coffee and other refreshments were provided, and fruit was distributed at intervals. The proceeds amounted to f. 26 10s., and were in aid of the trust and circuit funds.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1894-03-16 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

LOCAL CABLES AT TEM WRIT RIDING AEIMIZIIB.—The business of these Assizes was commenced at Leeds on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Henn Collins in the Crown Court, and before Mr. Justice Lawrence in the Civil Court—The Attempted Suicide at Skipton. James Buhsby (44), saddler, pleaded guilty to a charge of having attempted to commit suicide by taking laudanum at Skipton, on January 11th. 1894.—Mr. Percy Middleton, who prosecuted, said that the prisoner was undoubtedly suffering from the effects of , drink, and in fact was almost in • state of delirium tremens at the time.—The prisoner was bound over in his own recagnisances to come up for judgement when called upon. —A Gimeley Men Stealing Case—Alfred Dalby (27), gas stoker, an old offender, pleaded guilty to having stolen • number of hens at Guiseley, on the let. December last, and was ordered to be imorieoned for ten months with hard labour. Mr. Whitaker Thompson prosecuted.—The Theft of Letters at Binglry —Edward Lambert (23), post-office clerk, was indicted for hay.ng stelen • number of postal letter packets, the property f Her Majesty's PostmasterGeneral, at Biugie„ ill January last.—Mr. Yarborough Anderson. woo prosecuted, said that owing to suspicions haviug been aroused, a test packet containing £3 IA poll and postage stamps of the value of 7s. 6d. was put in the poet. This was afterwa-ds found in the possession of the prisoner, who was a letter sorter at the Bingley office, and he had also in his possession foreign stamps of the value of £l. 19s. 5d., which had evidently been taken out of a packet previously missed.—Mr. T. R. D. Wright, in asking for a mitigation of the sentence, told his Lordship that the prisoner had an invalid wife and a family to support on 17e. a week, and he had yielded to temptation.— Witnesses were called who gave the prisoner • good character. In sentencing the prisoner to twelve months imprisonment with hard labour, his Lordship said that lapses from honesty on the part of poet-office employee most in the public interest, be treated with a I:wavier hand than other cases.— The Charge of Child Murder at Utley. —Mary Anne Robinson (32) married woman, was on Tuesday indicted for the wilful murder of her son Frank Robinson. aged three years, at Newall-with-Clifton, near Otley, on November 17th last. The prisoner was deeply affected during the whole hearing—Dr. Lewis, resident medical superintendent at Wakefield Asylum, stated that he had made an examination of prisoner. She had suffered from the dread of taking her own life ever since the death of her child. He was of opinion that on the day in question she was in an automatic state of mind, and would be oblivious of what she was doing.—The jury, without retiring from the box, found the woman "not guilty," and she was accordingly discharged.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1894-02-16 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NELSON LABOUR LEADER CONDEMNS POLITICAL SUICIDE. MR. T. CATTERALL'S ADVICE TO WORKING MEN.  Under the auspices of the Skipton and District Warpdressers' Association, an address was delivered by Mr. T. Catterall of Nelson. on Friday evening, at the Brick Hall Club Room. The gathering took the form of a smokieg concert, the president of the society, Mr. Isaac Bentley, occupying the chair, and there were about be persons present. In the course of a few intro iuctory remarks, the chairman etated that Mr. Catterall was with them when the society was under what, he hoped, would be its darkest cloud. Nckw he was with them at what ha would call a time of r • Icing. Mr. Catterall, w e was cordially greeted, observed that on the last occasion that be was amongst them the society was only young; their funds were necessarily km; and they were plunged In a struggle. He hlped that would be their darkest cloud. From inquiries he had made, he learnt that the relations of employer and employed in the trade had coneiderably Improved since that time, and he was glad to see that  A BATTAK FICELING prevailed. He thought they might claim that the spirit of oombination had so far been successful. He believed it was only by true combination that they as working-men could obtain their just riots and claim what properly belonged to Loom, as r. fair share of the profits resulting from their labour He remembered the time when workmen were never consulted with regard to a reducticn of wages. A notice was posted up, and the usual sor 10 per cent. was taken off in 14 cla3s, and it was accepted as if it were a decree of law. All this was passing away. In almost every 'unwary now, whenever it woe found necessary to consider the question of wages, the operatives were consulted in the matter. Supposing one amongst them found it difficult to work with a manc.er or foreman they could complain to the assuciatio:... The matter would then be inquired into and laid before the employer. He did not maintain that as an association they should be tyrannical, but he did think that they multi. to be able to lay their claims justly before the emiSloyers. The association had to take the consequences, and sometimes they were actions. In the case of a workman having a dispute with his employer, personal and private feelings sometimes arose which, he contended, c,uld only be combated by
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1894-10-12 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

ANTIQUITY OF CRESS.—% the course of excavations on the pyramid field at Sakhara, there has been brought to light a wall painting on which is portrayed a high official playing chess with zui opponent— a very thin man. The wall painting belongs to the time of King Teta,of the sixth dynasty, which Lepsius has assigned to about 2700 mu.; but irofessor l3rugsch, with new evidence before him, has put it back to about 3300 B.C. Like very many other games, the origin of chess is lost in antiquity; but there has heretofore been no evidence of such a rxmote antiquity as this. In very early times a kind x.f chess was played by the races in Hindustan, by whom it was believed to have been gradually carried to Persia. Then the Arabs became acquainted a ith it, and carried it towards the West, and so on England,where the game was being played at the time of the Norman invasion. .  Toe LOVEII,' Levi'.— Sappho killed herself by jumping from the Lovers' Leap, a Leucadian Lisle leap was often taken by lovesick persons, who believed that if they survived the fall they would b, Is t ually cured of a hopeless passion. The leaps ttere always witnessed by crowds of spectators, and II e would-be suicides were in no way interfered with by the state. Boats were in attendance below to pick up the leapere if they came to the surface of the sea :dui: the plunge. Sappho had a passion for a young man who did not return her love, and leaped from the cliff in order to be cured. She perished in the fall. So also did Artimesia and many other celebrities. Pliny tells a curious story of an old Athenian miser who was in love with his cook, and desiring a cure, went to have a look at the cliff. He peeped over, shook his head, and went home uud married the cook. _ . .  FAsnioN IN
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1894-11-02 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

RKVOLVXR ACCIDENT.—AbOIIt noon on Tuesday, young mu named :Shackleton, of Braithwaite, in the employ of Mr. A. N. Kershaw, chemist, South-street, and about eighteen years of age, was severely injured whilst handling a loaded revolver. His condition is serious. .  Arrietirrgn Sulam—At the Police Court on Tuesday, an aged lean named :simnel Morris, of no fixed abode, was charged with having attempted to commit suicide by drowning himself in the river Aire. superintendent Grayson said that the man was suffering from some mental affection at the time, and had since been in the Workhouse. Be asked that the charge should be dismissed, and that the old man be sent back to the Workhouse until the doctor could certify that his mind was clear—The Bench agreed.  FOII'HATION OF A CHARITY ORGANISATION SC'C'lrrit. —On Tuesday afternoon a well-attended and representative meeting assembled at the Institute, on the invitation of the Mayor and Mayoress, to consider the formation of a charity organisation society far the town and district. The Mayor (Mr. Stem Paget) presided Sir Isaac Holden, M P., was unable to attend, but had empowered the rector of Keighley to Ray that he would give a tenth of the amount raised for the new society.—The first resoiution, expressing the opinion that a society should be formed, was moved by the rector, secosided by Alderman listensley, supported by Mr. John Clough, Miss Holden (Oakworth House), and Alderman Heap, of Rochdale, and corried unanimously.—Rev. R. Bentley moved a resolution which dealt with the name of the society, laid down rules, &c., and this was seconded by Rev. B. Pringle, and carried. A committee was afterwarls formed, on the motion of Mr. A. Adam. THU I ionic) AT HOLY TRINITY CHURCH —On Wednesday night Mr. John Best, a late teacher at the Holy Trinity Sunday School, was presented with a marble timepiece and a pair of bronze ornaments. In responding, Mr. Best entered with a considerable display of feeling into the dispute which has arisen between the vicar and a certain portion of the congregation. He asked if it was not enough to drive Disestablishment to any churchman's heart when a vicar took upon himself the responsibilities that had been assumed by the vicar of Holy Trinity Church— (applause).