The Cotton Factory Times. — 1893-10-13 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

TAYLOR. of Oldham, also addressed the meeting, after which the President presented the sum of £5O to Bro. John Ratcliffe, of Oldham, who has been deprived of his sight. The proceedings then concluded.  On the arrival of a train from Nottingham at Derby at midnight last Wednesday the body of a man was found shot through the heart on the floor of a first-class compartment. The discharged revolver was in his hand, and the only clue to hie identification was the name of "G. Ross" written inside his hat. He was well dressed, fair complexion, and apparently about 30 years of age. A Leeds telegram says that the caretaker at Joppa Tannery, a man named Thompson, and his wife, were found this morning with their heads battered in. The deed is supposed to have been done with a haiumer. The discovery was made by a milkman named Brooke, who found Thompson dead and the woman only just alive. They had been laid across each other. The woman is not expected to recover. The son is missing. A suicide of a determined character occurred at Grimsby about nine o'clock this morning. Joseph Davis, coffee-stall and fried fish shop proprietor, was discovered to have strangled himself with a rope in the shed at the rear of his house in Church. street, Eight Foot. The rope was twisted three times round his neck and fastened to the door. ru was immediately cut down when found, but life was then extinct.  During a terrific storm of wind and rain in Tunbridge Wells, last night, a main sewer in one of the streets biarst, and worked great havoc in the surrounding houses. During the evening it had been noticed that the sewer had stopped mining, and about midnight a tremendous report was heard and simultaneously the road for about 30 feet fell in. Volumes of water burst out and completely flooded five large houses, great damage being done to their etesteste. Both the loon] fire brigades were called out, aed by working all night they managed to pump a large quaniity of water away. The occurrence is attributed to the drains getting blocked nthePhleraZi—ns of fhtehe Pf:lelotwwineegk. patents. others, were applied for and published in the ocoawmffiEioncsuiglsislto September 30th, 1893 :—No. 17,970, C. Slack, Journal of Patents during the week ending Hayfield, for improved apparatus for automatically polishing the bowls of slazinc-calendering machines. 25th September.-17,971, James Parkinson, Latchford, for improvements in pneumatic tyres for wheels. 26th September.-18,200, W. H. Halleworth, of Oldhs.ni, for improvements in lireextinguishing sprinklers.-18,208, J. and H. Blesard, Padiharn, for improvements in hinged school desks. 29th September.-18,209, H. W. Cowley, Middleton, for improvements in the method of and apparatus for generatingsteam and economising fuel. 29th September.-48,210, B. Taylor, New Hey, and H. Cliff, Oldham, for improved means for locking bicycles and tricycles. 29th September.-18,259, William H. Bentley, and Thomas collier, Manchester, for improvements in the construction of cooking stoves or ranges. 29th September, 1893.-18,332, John Clegg, for improvements in self-acting mules and twiners. 30th September.-18,352. William J. Bolt, Stockport, for improved means for staying the pockets and other parts of garment. 30th September, 1893 (complete specificaticea.)--List supplied by Geo.., Davies C.E., and Son, chartered patent agents, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.