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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-06-22 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

RIOTOUS ICE-CREAM VENDORS. At the South-Western Police - court, London, on Tuesday, Thomas London, aged twenty-two, a labourer, was charged with being guilty of disorderly conduct and assaulting the police.—Policeconstable Watson stated that be was called to move an ice-cream vendor away from the front of a shop, whose proprietor complained that his trade was seriously interfered with by the ice-cream man. A crowd of children gathered round the barrow, and when the officer moved the man on the prisoner came up and interfered. He refused to go away, and was taken into custody. Thereupon he became very violent, kicked and struck the officer. A large hostile crowd, consisting chiefly of ice-cream vendors, gathered, and the policeman was in ' serious danger when Police-constable Wright came up. Him, too, the prisoner kicked and otherwise assaulted, and while the officer was struggling with him one of the crowd ran up and stabbed him in the neck, and then ran away.—Police-sergeant Hardy stated that the disturbance took place in one of the lowest and most dangerous parts of the division. The police had to use their truncheons continuously for twenty minutes. Great trouble was experienced by the police in dealing with the ice-cream vendors. —Prisoner's wife, who appeared in court with her head bandaged, swore that Polico-constable Wright twice deliberately struck her on the head with his truncheon, and another witness corroborated her evidence.—Mr. Francis said he would sift the allegation to the bottom, and he remanded the on bail.  The forty-six days overdue steamer Perthshire has been towed into Newcastle, N.S.W., by the Britist steamer Talune. Elaborate police and military arrangements are being made for the maintenance of order on the occasion of Captain Dreyfus' return to France. The anti-revisionists continue their activity. Herbert Sterinings, a young man residing with his mother and stepfather at Sheldon, near Alton, Hants. quarrelled because his tea was not ready, and used threatening language. Going out in a At of temper, he declared he would commit suicide. No notice was taken of the threat, but a few minutes later Stennings was found by his stsgiather hanging from a beam..  Police-constable John Wiltshire was tound down the area of a house in Cumberland-street, Pimlico, on Saturday, suffering from a fracture of the base of the skull. He was unconscious when found, and was at once taken to St. George's Hospital, where be died. The Home Secretary has panted a respite of the sentance of death passed at the Suffolk Assizes, upon Ada Brown, convicted of the murder of her child at Stowmarket, with a view to the commutation of the sentence to one of penal servitude for life.  -,___-_
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-06-22 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

AND THE VOLUNTEERS. The total number of Volunteers of the Metropolis for whom returns have been made to attend the Prince of Wales's Review on July Bth is a little over 27,000, but this number will be exceeded by the anticipated inclusion in the Force of the Woolwich Arsenal Artillery and Infantry Corps. The Honourable Artillery Company will send nearly 680, with its two batteries (eight guns and 140 horses); and the Volunteer Artillery Corps of the Metropolis reckon for 2,000, and the Engineers for 1,600. Of the five Infantry Brigades, the South London promises to be the strongest with 5,200, the East London supplying 5,000, the Surrey 4,200, the North London 3,850, and the West London 3,400. The Medical Staff Corps and Cadet battalions complete the 27,000, The Woolwich Arsenal Artillery Corps, for whose attendance sanction has not yet been given, would add sixteen guns and a proportionate number of horses to the force which, at present, consists entirely of troops actin 7 as Infantry, excepting the batteries of the Honourable Artillery Company. Up to the presmt the number of Veteran Volunteers whose attendance ham been sanctioned is between 800 and 900.  Albert Borton, landlord of the Royal Exchange public-house, Coventry, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Four children were playing in a timber-yard in Leicester, when a stack of timber fell on them One is believed to be fatally injured.  At Kingston on Saturday, William Doe, a labourer, was Charged on remand with the manslaughter of William Dawes at Worcester-park. The two men had an altercation, and Dawes fell and fractured his skull, dying a few hours later. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of death by misadventure, and the bench, therefore, now dia. charged the accused.  Corporal Ritchie, Ist Dumbartonshire. won the Scottish Twenty Club Championship with ninetynine points. Samuel Hyde, butcher, was fined £3 and costs at Coventry for brutally assaulting his wife. At Blackburn, Henry Rigby, sick steward of the Blackburn branch of the Operative Bricklayers' Union, was tined 108. for misappropriating money, and ordered to refund the amoue•
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-05-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CATCHING A CROWD.  “Gentlemen,” began the fakir as he arranged his bottles on the little table on the street corner and got rea,ly for business, "has anyone in this crdtvd got the toothache ?" No one answered 1'  "Has anybody got the earache ?" No one had that sort of an ache. "Have any of you got neuralgia or rheumatism P Don't be afraid to speak up. I want to skew you how quick I can relieve all pain." tin one spoke up. "Very well, gentlemen, very well. Now, then, has anybody a lame back, a stiff knee or a pleurisy pain ? Has anybody got a headache ?" Not a man had anything to say. "But sonic of you must have coma or warts Of bunions P" persisted the fakir. "If so, come up and I'll remove them for nothing." Not a man came up. "Very well, gentlemen—very well. Are you troubled with dandruff ? Do you suffer with insomnia? Are you low-spirited at times and find yourself thinking of suicide?" The appeal was like the others—in vain. The crowd elbowed each other, but no one advanced..  "Gentlemen," continued the fakir in plaintive tones, is there not one man in this crowd who is a sufferer from catarrh or asthma or hay fever P Is there not one person who realises that consumption is hastening him to his last sleep P One man out of every five has a liver trouble, and one out of every twenty has a touch of Bright's disease. I ask the sufferers to step up here and be cured free gratis:" There was no stepping up. The fakir looked blankly around on the upturned faces for a minute and then descended from his box to say: "Very well, gentlemen—very well. Now, then, I warrant this preparation to remove paint, grease, oil, tar, or any other kind of spot from clothing. It will not fade the goods; it will not stain the hands. I guarantee " There was a rush from all directions, and for the neat fifteen minutes he made change and passed out the bottles with both hands.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-11-16 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ERDINGTON BAPTIST LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETY.  The good attendance at the weekly meeting of this society on Tuesday evening evidenced the sustained interest of members in its operations. The programme item was "Questions," which meant that upon the previous week questions were propounded by membOrs, to be answered in speeches of not more than six minutes duration, by members personally electing to have their names associated with them. The questions were curious and remarkably varied, and the replies proved in many cases considerable research and preparation, with the result of conveying a great deal of amusement as well as information. Mr. C. F. Perry presided, and did much by his genial able management to make the meeting a success. Short discussions ensued upon the replies of more debatable subjects. Amongst the questions were: "The Rev. Mark Guy Pearce lecturing once in Erdington said 'The grata discovery of this century is the innocence of pleasure.' What do you understand by this, and in how far do you agree with him ?" Answered by Mr. F. T. Read:— "What do you think of Rudyard Kipling's poetry and prose ? Do you think that as a moralist be is worth a place upon the programme of this society ? " Miss Dawson, who gave a favourable estimate of Mr. Kipling, and answered the latter part vzif qullstion in affirmative...." Why should not Sunday School Teachers be paid'" Mr. Matthews.—"ln view of the great amount of disease transmitted throuh persons suffering from hereditary complaints, getting married, should not every couple presenting themselves for matrimony be compelled to produce a medical certificate proving them in a. 'healthy condition ?" Mr. C. H. Slake.—"ls the subject of vegetarianism worthy of practical consideration ?" Mr. Poole. Is the Liberal llmperialism mentioned by Lord Rosebery to be the rallying cry of the Liberal Party in the future ?" Mr. W. Scott.— "Upon what documents does the Pope base his claim for Apolistic Succession? State the historical case for the Pape, and say what value attaches to the evidence." Mr. F Stevens Read.— Define the difference, if any, between speculation and gambling " Mr. L. 11. Collier.—"ls it a fact well known that the sea gives up its dead in the neighbourhoid of naval stations more than is the ease elsewhere ? Why is this ?" Mr. Masters...." Is suicide justifiable under any circumstances?" Mr. E. Guyton.—" Can a man practice the calling of a money lender as an honest branch of business ?" Mr. F. 'Unwell.— Next Tuesday will be a debate "Celibacy v. Married Life," which ought to prove a special attraction. _  debatable
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-03-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ENORMOUS LAKE OF PURE COLD WATER IN UNDERGROUND LONDON.—London has suddenly found itself in possession of a cheap and inexhaustible supply of pure water, the existence of which it had never suspected. Mr. Walter Mosely, the engineer of the London County Council, has informed that body that underneath London there is an immense lake of pure cold water, in a chalk basin 2,506 square miles iii extent and 100 feet below the surface of the ground.Theannual rainfall that sinks below to the lake is at least two hundred and eighty thousand million gallons, which would give a daily yield of seven thousand and sixty-five million gallons. It is believed that the discovery of this lake might for ever put an end to the old vexed question of London's water supply. It might be necessary only to sink a sufficient number of deep wells in order to obtain all the water necessary. An artesian well has already been sunk to this lake at Clapham. It seems strange that London should have existed for more than two thousand years and never discovered that there was a great lake beneath it. MAORI MARRIAGE CUSTOMs.—Matters connected with marriage are in some countries easily arranged, and disarranged when made as easily. The Maori women of Australasia have rights—flourishing ones. Generally they have little voice or choice in the selection of the first husband, but they may and they frequently do change him. Courtship is always brief, and does not often preface marriage. The Maoris, however, love to repeat strange old love tales and to sing love songs, delicate and charming of diction and sound. Maori widows not infrequently commit suicide upon the graves of their husbands, and are honoured for doing so, as in China. Divorce is as simple as possible. It needs no puree, employs ne lawyers. The husband just turns the wife out of doors, and both are free to re-marry. That is all. Girls are often betrothed irrevocably in infancy. Those not betrothed in childhood are expected to acquire as many admirers as they please. Indeed, the greater the number of admirers the greater the prestige of the girl.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-01-19 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE RICHMOND MYSTERY.  The body of Miss Florence Bell, a mine attached to the Blenheim House Nursing Institution' Kewroad, Richmond, who mysteriously disappeared some two weeks before Chrirtmas, was discovered on Saturday floating in the Thames at Hammersmith. Miss Bell, up to the day of her disappearance, had been nursing a private patient in Blantyre. gardens, Kew. Her engagement terminated on December 12th, but, at the instance of the patient, Nurse Bell agreed to stay on in the capacity of companion. On the afternoon of Monday, the 12th, Miss Bell left her patient's house after having obtained leave to stay away tail seven o'clock that evening, which was later than her usual hour for returning. At half-past eight on that evening she Was seen to alight from the Kensington train at Kew Gardens Station, but from that time all trace of her was lost. About a week later Mies Bell's cloak was found on the river bank near Putney by a waterside labourer. The cloak was covered with mud, and this afforded the only clue to the possibility of Miss Bell having terminated her life. Inquiries that had meanwhile been set on foot brought to light the fact that Miss Bell had on the day of her death been up to London, where she had a conversation with a friend, Sister Pauline, at the All Saints' Nursing Sisters' Home, Mortimer-street, W., relative to her admission to that institution. The home is a religious retreat, and Miss Bell was desirous of entering it. She was, however, informed that she would have to wait until after Christmas before she could be admitted. This seems to have keenly disappointed her, and, coupled with her known tendency towards religious depression, accounts for what is doubtless her suicide.  One curious fact in connection with the disappearance is the burning of all her letters, which she is known to have destroyed on the morniing of the day on which she left home. When found on Saturday Miss Bell's body was fully dressed, only her cloak and bonnet being missing. Though the body was much decomposed the identity was established by the name which was plainly marked upon the cuffs she was wearing at the time of her death.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-01-19 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

OFFICER'S TIISSEL WITH A LION.  Mr. Richard Whitehead, an officer of H. B. M.'s East Africa Protectorate, Lear Mombasa, has arcentlF bad a narrow escape from a "man-sating" lion which had killed and devoured many coolies employed in making the railway from Mombasa. Hearing that this notorious lion had been seen at Tsavo, through which place the railway is being made, Mr. Whitehead proceeded there to endeavour to shoot it; and, passing by night through the unfinished cutting for the railway, followed by his coolie sergeant, he saw the lion on a projection above him. He fired, but missed on account of the daikness, and the animal sprang upon him and tore his clothes into ribbons, bruising and clawing his legs and making deep claw marks upon his back. Fortunately the ground was uneven and sloping, and in the desperate struggle the lion rolled over, allowing Mr. Whitehead to get away and have • second shot, which was also ineffectual. The lion then made for the coolie sergeant and carried him off. His half-eaten body was found in the morning at some distance from the encounter. Mr. Whitehead iA the son of Mr. Charles Whitehead, of Harming House, Maidstone.  An Irishman named James Coyne died at the Lincoln County Hospital on Monday morning, from injuries alleged to have been caused by his brother on New Year's Eve. The two men fought, and in the struggle deceased had two ribs broken. The brother has been arrested.  With reference to a report from Paris respecting a British Consul who died in Paris on Friday, under painful circumstances, it is stated that tim suggestion of suicide is unwarranted. The deceased gentleman died from a purely accidental overdose of strychnine and morphia, which he was in the habit of using as a remedy for asthma, from which complaint he was a great sufferer. In the Probate and Divorce Division, on Monday, before Mr. Justice Barnes, amongst the decrees Mai made absolute on Mopday was the case of Williams.. Wynn y. Williams-Wynn, Lucas and Hall. The suit was heard in July last. It was • suit instituted by Sir Hubert L. Williams-Wynn against the respondent, Lady Williams-Wynn, on the ground of her misconduct. The cue was proved as against the nepondsat and Ike co-respondent Lucas. btaveley Iron Works a man named Tim Lannigas, fifty-six, of Chesterfield, was run over and killed. The poor fellow's head WU shockingly mutilated, death being instantaneous.  A respectably-attired woman, named Marion Dawson, has been remanded at Darwen on the charge of inducing a working woman to part with considerable sums of money under the pretence that she (prisoner) was about to come into a large fortune, and would handsomely reward her.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-03-09 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE IN A PADDED ROOM.  On Saturday Mr. Wynne E. Baxter, coroner, held an inquiry at the London Hospital concerning the death of Charles Sneath, aged filty-seven years, a hammerman, late of North Woolwich, who died in the padded room ot the above institution from the result of a self-inflicted wound in the throat. The evidence shewed that the deceased was watched day and night by a male attendant, and he could not possibly leave the padded room. However, by some means he obtained a panknife,which had Leen in a locker outside the room, and cut his throat. Green, an attendant, stated that he saw two knives in the locker on :•aturday evening, but did not see them afterwards. Witness did not leave the deceased on Sunday except when his two lady friends were there. Clark, the other attendant, told witness on Sunday that the deceased had asked for his knives, but witness did not tell the visitors that. The coroner Clark says you told him that you saw the deceased with a knife after the women left, but that you thought he was not fool enough to us,- it. Did you tell him that ?—Witness: Yes. (Sensation.) After having been warned that the deceased had asked for his knives, and would give no reason for wanting them, did not you think it was time to take the knife away P.—l never had the preserce of mind to. Witness added that when Clark came on duty at ten o'clock in Sunday night she told him that the recessed had got a knife. Clark asked why witne-s did not take it away, and witness replied that he did not have the presence of mind to. Rebecca Whitby, awi low, stated that she had lived with the deceased as his wife for the last twelve menthe. She visited him on Sunday afternoon last in company with her sister, and saw him In the padded room. Witness dented most emphatically that either she or hr sister gave the deceased a knife, and, as a matter of fact, she did not know there was one in the locker. She was positive that the deceased had not got a knife when she left. The coroner remnrked that whatever blame there was in the matter attached to the two male attendants; if anything Green was the worse of the two. The jury, after a long inquiry, returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane, the foreman adding: "We unanimously wish to pass a vote of censure on the attendants, Green and Clark, as we don't believe a word they sty."
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-01-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE OF COUNT FRANCIS KAROLYI.  Count Francis Earolyi. Attache to the Austro. Illingarian Embassy in London, was found shot dead In Friday evening at his rooms, 125, Piccadilly, W., Where he had had apartments slime December last. The Count had been engaged at the Embassy during the day, and returned to his rooms between four and eve o'clock. Nothing was noted in his demeanour to ewe rise to anxiety or alarm although he was suffering from • severe cold. His tea was served to him shortly after Ave o'clock, and about an hour later the tea things were removed by his valet, • German named Novak. The Count informed his servant that he would be dining out that evenine, but would not require to dress. He then, in accorl- with his usual custom, lay on the couch to rest before going out, and Novak left the room. At eight o'clock the valet returned and found hie master apparently, asleep on the couch, which was in the middle of the room. He decided not to disturb him, and left the apartment. The electric light was fully on at the time, and nothing unusual appeared to have happened.. Half an hour late, the valet once more visited the room end addressed his master, but received no reply. Walking over to the couch, he found the Count lying on his left side, with blood trickling out of his left ear, ends five-chambered revolver, of which one chamber had been discharged, tightly Owed in his left hand. A closer examination revealed the fact that Count Harolyi had a bullet wound through his head and was apparently quite dead. The bullet had entered the right side of the temple, and was embedded I. the head. Novak alarmed the household, and the manager of the chambers called in Mr. Manly Sim. The doctor on his arrival pronounced life to be extinct, and gave it u his opinion that death must have been almost, if not quite, instantaneous. . _ _  . . . No reason can be assigned for the supposed suicide. Count Harolyi had suffered from a cold, and had appeared rather low-spirited for some weeks past. Information of the sad occurrence was wired to the Count's relatives.  Count Francis Earolyi de Nagy-lCarolyi was only twenty-Ave years of age. He was the nephew of • former Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and the son of • well-known diplomatist. He came to England in December, 1897, from St. Petersburg, where he was elan Civil etterll6.  At an Inquest held cc Monday the fury returned a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind.  DREYFUS RIPORTED ILL A special despatch from Cayenne to the Daily Telegraph says that the head physician of the penitentiary administration at that place has darted for the Ile du Diable, at the request of M. Daniel, commandant of the penal establishment. His visit is for the purpose of attending Captain Dreyfus, who for the past three days has been seriously ill with dysentery.