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Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-11-18 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

PROVISION.  COLNE, Wednesday.-Farmers' basket butter, Is. 41d. per lb., wholesale; ditto, is. 51., retail; box butter, id. per lb. less; fresh hen eggs, 2s. 63. per score, wholesale; ditto, 2s. 73.. retail; Irish. eggs, 2s. 43.; Fleur, 245., 265., and 28s. per sack of 240 lbs.; meal, 2s. 93. and 2s. 103. per score; potatoes, 7s. to Ss. per load; onions, Is. 3d. to is. 61. per rcore; apples, 2s to 3s. 61. per scare; oranges, 93. per doz.; lemons, 93.; celery, Is. Gd. to 2s. Gd. per doz. bunches; bloaters, is. 43. per box; Mojecambe oysters, from is. 4d. per score; grapes, 6d. to 2s. per lb.; tomatoes, from 4d.; damsons, 23.; lemon soles. 53. to 7d.; halibut, 81. to 10d.; grouse, 53. to ss. 6d. per brace; phelscnts, 7s. GI to 7s. 93.; partridges 3s. 31 to 3s. 63.; spring chickens, 3s. 63. to ss. GI per couple; ducks, Gs. to 75.; hares, Ss. 3d. to Ss. 91; rabbits, 16s. per (1!.;a. BENTHAM, Wednesday.-Butter, is 311. to is. 43. per lb. ; hen eggs 6 to 7 for is. ; duck eggs, 6 for Is. ; hens, is. to I.a. 2S. each; ducks, 2s. to 2s. 61. ; chickens, is, 61. to 2s. 43. ; hares, 2s. Gd. to 3s. Gd. ; rabbits, is. 81. to 25..43. per couple: gromse, 4s. to 4s. GI. per brace; partridge, 2s. 9d. to 3s. 6d.; pheAsants, ss. to :is. ; snipes, ss. to 6s. each; potatoes, 53. to 63 per stone; apples, ls, per 71b. ; celery, 2d. to 31 per bunch. DENT, Tuesday.-Butter, Is. 21d. to is. 3d. per lb.; beef, 61c1 to 811. per lb.; Mutton, 43. to 63. pr lb.; potatoes, 51. to 63. per at. ; eggs, 9 for is. : duck eggs, 7 for is., florr, is. sa. to is. 10d. per atone. _ _ . _ _  HAWES, Tue• day.-Butter, is. 10 to is. ?d. per lb. ; eggs, 8 and 9 for is.; duck di:to, 8 fol 7 is. ; English grapes, 29. per lb. ; pears, 23. to 33. per lb.; ducks, 28. 101 to 38. 4d. per coupe; cock chickens, 2s. 43. to 4s. ; hens, is. 43. to 2s. ; rabbits, 29. per couple; Wensleyda!e cheese, 608. to 655. per cwt.; Stilton ditto up to 758. BEDALE, Tneaclay. -Butter; 2s. to 28. 23. per roll of 240 z.; eggs. 7to 8 for is.; chickens, 2 to 28. 63. each; ducks, 2s. 6d. to 3s. each; fowls, is. to is. 2d. each; rabbits, is. 4d, to is. 103. per couple; pigeons, sd. each; hams 103. 63. to lls. 6d. per stone; 7s. 61 to 8s a. per stone; potatoes. 53. per stone. KEIGHLEY, Wednesday.-Fresh butter, (whole-isle). is. sd. per lb. ; ditto (retail), Is. 6cl. ; Danish (retail), is. 4d. ; Irish (retail), 13.; eggs, (wholesale), 7 for is. ; ditto (retail), 6; rabbits, 2s. 93. per couple; hares, 3s GI to 4s. 63. each; pigeons, 101 to is. each; onions, 83. to 103. per stone; apples. is. 43. to 25.; potatoes, 4s. to 4s. 3d. per bag of 9 st.  DETERMINED SUICIDE or A
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-07-13 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

FOUR HANG THEMSELVES.  Mrs. Chitty, who lived with her son, a butcher, at Haslemere, Surrey, was found hanging in the slaughter-house on Monday morning. The only reason that can be assigned for her suicide is that she had not heard from one of her sons, whole at the front, for some time, and was accordingly much depressed. Mr. W. H. Krause. Sandeford, civil engineer, committed suicide by hanging himself from the balusters of his house. At the inquest a verdict of "Suicide while Insane" was returned. Frank Burnish, seaman of H.M.S. Caledonia, called to see his father at Winton Eccles, on Sunday evening, and found him dead and hanging from a nail in the wall of his bedroom. Death had apparently taken place some days previously. A labourer named James, of Cheltenham, after quarrelling with his wife, put a rope round hie neck and left his home. Later on his son found him hanging in • hut in his garden, and cut him down. fie was restored to consciousimsa, and on Monday committed to the . Quarter Sesiions by the Cheltenham Bench OS a charge of attempted suicide.  dittiliLlit.l9,6ll4l4,•e. •  Dodd's Dyspepsia tablets  * THOSE who travel are subject to changes of food, and cannot always 1 get what agrees with them; then follows 12 ; Indigestion and misery. A package of Dodd's Dyspepsti ; Tablets in your bag is a guarantee of ; • safety. Dodd's DYspepsia Tablets counteract .„11 „);, the elects of irregular eating and drink- Z ; ing, of strange, unusual, or unwholesome diet, of bad cooking and rich fare—in • fact they digest anything in the natnre ir of tood, good or bad, that the dram- 11," s, stances of a journey put before you. ,* A Dodd's Dyspepsia Tablet, after ; 4, eating, will save the stomach irons the * slightest trouble. ir They are invaluable when going on a 4, • pea voyage ; one or two taken after each • meal. or when you feel the least bit * • vine:lllM]. will enable you to defy sea • sickness. si Dodds Dyspepsia Tablets are sod ty * Chemists ttt 2s. 9,1. per box, or sent f reo I,v • • post on receipt of price, by the Dodd's dp Medicine Co., .23, Farringdon - avenue, ib it London, E.C.  404414  • ir iitr ts :TRAVELING Pr. oti!"1. '
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-04-27 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

ROGGERHAM RFSMVOIR.  SHOCKING NEGLECT OF A CORPSE.  An :nquest on the body of James Stott, jeweller, of Colue-road. Brimfield, was held at, the Raggerham Gate Inn, on Monday morning by Mr. Coroner Robinson. The deceased, who was a married man, left home on the 14th March. He had shcran signs of mental aberration and had apparently become very low spirited. After leaving home he went to a friend's house in Halifax-road, where he asked to be allowed to stay all night. He was allowed  to sleep on the sofa in the house, and during the night informed the inmates that he was going out. He was not heard to return, and tlo occupant.; of the house becoming alarmed, search was made for him, but he was never seen alive again. The reservoir where he was found had been previously dragged, but it was not till Friday afternoon that the body was found and was got out of the water by P.C. Clarke. The first witness called was the brother-in-law of the deceased, who identified the body, and said the man had been very despondent for some days before he left home.  Mr. 'tattersall Wilkinson, the foreman of the jury, put several questions to the witness as to whether there had been financial trouble, and asked if it was not true that a writ had been taken out by his mother since Stott's disilppearanc,e.—Witness replied that he believed it was true. , The wife of a farmer Hein::: at North Bank, said deceased was an acquaintance of theirs, and he called there on the Wednesday night five weeks ago. He asked to be allowed to stay cvernight. and it was arranged that he should sleep on the sofa. About one o'clock in the morning he called out that he was going 0 tit fqr a short time. On getting up in the morning witnecs found that be had gone away, leaviag his watch, overcoat, shoes and hat on the table.  P.C. Clarke spoke to he body being noticed in the compensation reservoir at Roggerham (which is not used for drinking purposes) by some men who were fishing there on Friday night. The body was removed to a house at Roggerham. The Foreman commented strongly on the fact that the body was left lying on the bare Poor without coverine. He (Kr. Tattersall Wilkiwon) had himself covered it with some newspapers. He thenght someone might have s.7en that it was not left in such a w,ly. The jury returned a verdict of "-Suicide while temporarily insane.' Mr. Wairtson made some stron:-; remarks in reference to the manner in which the body had been treated. It was brought frora the reservoir covered with dirt and in an advanced date of degomposition, taken into on unfinished house and laid on the floor with nothing to cover it. He himself covered the body with Towvaja-rs. On Sunday a great number of both women and children went to view the gighb.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-06-22 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

LIST OF PRESENTS.  Bride to bridegroom, gold and diamond scarfe pin; bridegroom to bride, gold brooch set with diamonds; bridesmaid (Miss F. Rawson), sister of the bride, ladies' companion; bridesmaid (Miss M. L. Seymour), sister of the bridegroom, pair blankets and silver pepper box; Mr. V. Smith, Brierfield (best man), flower stand; Mr. T. R. Rawson, brother of the bride, pair oil paintings; Mr. and Mrs. Seymour (bridespoom's parents), piano and piano stool and cheque; Mr. Rawson and Misses E. and J. Robinson (father and aunts of the bride), mahogany bedstead, upholstered; Miss E. and Miss J. Robinson, half-dozen knives and forks; Miss Mary Rawson, quilt; , MISS Bertha Rawson, tea cosy ; Miss S. A. and Miss A. J. Seymour (cousins of the bridegroom), pair silver jam spoons; Councillor A. Seymour (uncle to the bridegroom), Bognor. Sussex, largo photogravure; Miss M. E. and Miss L. Heseltine (cousins of the bridegroom), Middlesborough, copper kettle; Councillor and Mrs. Butler, Barrowford, white counterpane ; Mr. and Mrs. Bracewell, Barrowford, tapestry table cloth ; Miss .1. Foulds, Barrowford : Miss Moorby, Dakdene, Nelson, two pairs sheets ; Mr. and Mrs. Crowe, pair photo frames ; Mr. and Mrs. Bell, pair vases and white table cloth ; Miss A. Hargreaves, silver jam stand ; Mr. and Mrs. Church, American hearthrug ; Miss Emmott, pair antimamssars; Mr. Syres, silver egg service; Miss I. Lea, set towels ; Miss A. and Miss E. Lea, teapot and set jugs : Miss indwell, pair vases; Mrs. Butterworth, pair silver sugar tongs; Mr. and Mrs. H. Nutter, firescreen ; Mrs, Sidderdale. silver jam stand; Mrs. and Miss Thomas, Netherfieldroad, sugar and cream and butter cooler ; Mr. and Mrs. E'astwood, brush and comb ; Miss Blackburn, fancy sideboard cloth ; Mr. and Mrs. Barritt, pair vases; Miss Mitten, silver cruet ; Miss Dickinson and Mr. Wilkinson, silver jam stand ; Miss Leedliam, set toilet mats; Mr. and Mrs. lies e.., set tea els ; Miss M. A. Thomas, black ebony clock and brush holder ; Miss Watsen and Mr. E. Green, black ebony inkstand, silver mounted ; Nliss Sutcliffe, table cloth and set of serviettes: Mrs. Wray, silver jam stand; Miss Prickard, Brierfield, celery gla ; Mr. Crud We, breakfast cruet ; Miss Lancaster, Accrington. dressing table cover ; Master Willie Baldwin. pair flower vases; Mr. and Mrs. and Miss IL Smith, silver jam stand; Mrs. Belden, table cloth : Mrs. Horsfall. pair table cloths ; Mr. and Mr,. Carr, •sugar and cream ; Mr. Taylor, Colne, letter rack ; Mr. cod Mrs. Daykin, set fancy Pillow ease, ; Miss Hoop, folding photo frame ; Miss Kay, centre table mat; Miss White, Coble, dressing table cover; Mr. and Mrs. P. Hartley, set flower vases; Mr. E. Sykes, coloured table cloth ; Miss Greenwood, Rashton, a present; Mrs. Veevers, Burnley, glove and handkerchief boxes.  PAINFUL SUICIDE AT CoLNE  A
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-04-12 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

TERRIBLE DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.  HUSBAND NEARLY KILLS HIS WIFE AND COMMITS SUICIDE.  Late on Saturday a terrible tragedy was re. ported to the police at Kentish Town, the vic. time being a married couple named John Thomas and Mary Anne Butler, both aged 57. For the last t'.7 years they have been living at 153, Carlton Road, Kentish Town, and were apparently happy and comfortable. The man IMO a carpenter by trade, but has not been doing any work for some time past. Butler and his wife were home early on Friday night, and one of the tenants in the house heard the wife say, •• No, Butler, you must not do it." Saturday came, and DM liiog having been seen of them during the day, the police were informed about 10 p.m. The door of their apartments was looked on the inside, and on an entrance being made a terrible sight was witnessed. Blood was besmeared all over the room, and they were found both in bed undressed. The man was lying back with his throat cut from ear to ear quite dead, and the woman lying full length on the bed with her head in a terribly battered Condition. She was, however, breathing, and was at once removed to the North-West London Hospital, where her wounds were attended to. A hatchet was found lying on the floor beside the bed, with which, it is supposed, Butler attacked his wife, while between the two bodies a large butcher's knife was discovered with which he cut his throat. No motive has as vet been put forward for the crime, but it is stated that Butler had been strange in his manner for some time past and that he has been suffering from some painful ailment in his legs. It is surmised that the pain on Friday night unhinged his mind and while in that state he attacked his wife and then committed suicide. On Sunday afternoon the woman was still alive, but tier injuries are so serious that little hopes ot her recovery are entertained.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-06-01 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

FACTE. RELATING TO SUICIDE— Liu es greater than on any previous occasion. Dr. J. G. McPherson contributes a paper to The Anglo-American 'Chamber of Commerce Knowledge, which brings into concise form in Brussels gave a banquet, to which a large results obtained by Sir John Sibbald during a number of guests, including the elite of the lengthened period of study in connection with British and American colonies, were invited. statistics on suicide. "In regard to the corn. Sir Francis Plunkett, the British Minister, parative influence of town and country life on presided. the occurrence of suicide, Sir John found that Manxland is suffering sorely by the failure of suicide was not—as was generally supposed— Oundiell's Bank. A newspaper and two met. more frequent in towns. In fact, the annual rate chants have just been added to the list of en- per million of population in the eight principal trants into the Douglas Bankruptcy Court, and towns of Scotland was somewhat lower than the Isle of Man Tramways Company is in troub- the rate in mainland rural districts. . . . The bus financial waters. , average rate of suicide between the ages of The full-rigged iron ship Wandsbeck, a Ger. 55 and 70 years is greater than that man vessel from Hamburg, has struck on the between 15 and 50. Dr. Clouston has stated Mainbeere rocks near the Lizard, and is expected his 'decided opinion that sexual influences to become a total wreck. The crew were taken mainly accounted for the difference. He showed off and conveyed to Falmouth, but the captain that up to 50 a man or woman is, or should be, is still aboard, full of life, vigorous, and healthy; consequently The last descendant of John Bunyan has just possessed a strong p feeling for the reproduction died at Lincoln in the person of Mrs. T. M.• of the race; and while possessed of that feelino, he or she had no desire to die, but rather a Keyworth. The last male descendant died many strong desire to live. On the other lumd, in years ago, and a monument is erected to his the later years the body became leas Cgorous, memory in Lincoln Cemetery. Now the honoured the blood less easily inflamed, and consequently line is extinct. Mrs. Keyworth was nearly 99 sexual feeling became less strong, and the years of age. wish to live gradually passed away and the The manufacture of carbide of calcium for tendency to suicide beiMiati stronger.' generating acetylene gas progresses fast in * * France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Norway, i
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-01-19 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

TRIPLE TRAGEDY.  SHOCKING STORY OF M RDER %N) SUICIDE.  Bassinghain Road, a quiet thoroughfare in the Ear Wield district of Wandsworth, has been the scene of the latest London tragedy, the vietime being Albert Chalfont, a young man in the employ of the Battersea Vestry Helen Chalfont, his wife, aged twenty-six; and Eva Chelfont, their youngest daughter, not yet one year old. They had two other children, of three and four, I Violet and Norah, who slept in the front parlour, Mr. and Mrs. Chalfont, with the infant, , occupying the back room. It appears that early on Saturday morning , Mr. Charles Hodges who, with his mother, ~,des in the upper portion of the house, heard I 11,, elder of the two surviving children crying bitterly and lamenting in baby language that -• Minima bad gone away, arid would never conic back. On this he looked into the bedroom and saw the baby apparently asleep, but no sign of the parents. On entering the kitchen at the rear of the premises Mr. Hodges saw Mr. and Mrs. Chalfont sitting on arm chairs on either hidu of ' the tire-place, both bleeding profusely from , wounds in the head. When Dr. Kirby arrived ' it was found that both the unfortunate persons were beyond the reach of human aid, and further examination showed that the infant I was also dead, having been apparently sulloeated Mr. Hodges ridiculed the story that Chal-. font had been anxioirs to go out as a Volunteer, for in that case he (Hodges) would have been one of the first to hear of such intention. It was true that they had been suffering from iolluenza, and this might have left them in a depressed state. He knew nothing of the eir-. cumstauces of the family. A couple of letters were found. One, in the husband's handwriting, is said to have contained a bitter lament that he was tired of the unavailing struggle to make both ends meet, and had made up his mind to end it all. He bad demi his best, but had been " bitterly disappointed." The wife's letter appears to have been couched in similarly despondent terms, and to have announced an intention to die with her husband and lake baby" with them. The bodies are now lying at the Waudsworth Mortuary, and Mr. A. Braxton Hicks the trict coroner, will hold an inquiry in due co. e. The two surviving children have been placed iii the care of the mother of the unfortunate woman.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-01-19 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NELSON WEAVERS' ASSOCIATION-. Conn. Hargreaves presided at the quarterly meeting of the members of the Weavers' Association on Monday evening in the Weavers' Institute. The balance sheet and report were submitted and approved, after which the election of officers took place. Conn. Hargreaves was re-elected president, and Mr. S. R. Lowe, 1.P., treasurer. In returning thanks, Coun. Hargreaves spoke on the Act of Parliament respecting half-timers. He said that some of the children who were eleven years of age before the end of the year had passed their standards and yet they could not get certificates because they were not employed before the end of the year. At the same time, he pointed out instances of how the new Act operated unjustly in Barrowford.—A grant of 10 guineas was made to the Victoria Hospital, Burnley. The Vinoha Company, Ltd., which is sending :(1. on each tablet of Vinolia Soap sold, has now sent £4,200 to the Lord Mayor's Fund, and hopes to make the amount reach at least £25,000. A DOCTOR'S ATTEMPTED StICIDE.— At the Police Court on Friday, FAlmond Ryan, L.R.C.P., age 34 years, unmarried, was charged before Ald. Gott and Mr. J. Hartley with attempting to commit suicide.—lnspector • Palmer prosecuted and said that prisoner had been assistant surgeon about a month at Nelson. On the 31st December, 1899, he had been noticed peculiar in his manner, suffering from a delusion that he was about to be struck off the medical roles. About twenty minutes to 12 that night he was in the surgery, and Dr. Ritchie passing the door, heard a noise of something dripping, and went into the surgery. There he found prisoner on a form with a penknife in his hand, and bleeding from a wound in the neck. Dr. Ritchie took the knife 'from prisoner, stopped the bleeding, stitched the wound,, and sent for assistance. Prisoner was then conveyed in the ambulance van to tile Burnley Hospital, where he had remained until that morning. There was no doubt at the time that the man's mind was affected.—  Dr. Ritchie gave evidence to the effect that prisoner had been several years in a tropical and malarial climate, and had had three attacks of malarial fever, which haa no doubt left a permanent effect upon him. He produced a eertifieatQ front an eminent doctor in Liverpool, confirming these statements—The Magistrates, atter a brief consultation, discharged prisoner, Dr. Ritchie undertaking to hand him over to his friends in Liverpool th.._! same day. . . .  , Best place in Burnley for good Dinners and Teas is Thornton's Restaurant and Coffee Tavern, 3, Bridge-street, (close to Tram Centre). Visitors to town will find here every comfort. 867 g
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-03-09 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT COLNE.  TIMELY RESCUE.  A LIFE SAVED BY A CONSTABLE.  At the Collie Borough Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. S. Greenwood, John Walker Horsfield, grinder, of Cohie, was charged with attempting to cominit suicide on Sunday night, at the bottom of Windy Bank. Inspector McLean stated that on Sunday night last, at 6 o'clock, the prisoner got over the wall at the bottom of Windy Bank, and ' attempted to drown himself in the lodge at Stone Bridge 1-1 was Te,relted by two men named Morgan. P.C. Hargreaves, who arrived at once, immediately resorted to artificial respiration. He was taken to his home. His father was present, and was now ready to take charge of him. P.C. Hargreaves stated that about 6 o'clock , on Sunday la.st, from information he received from Mr. Edward Carr, .J.P., he ran to Stone Bridge Mill. A crowd of people was already collected there. Witness got over the wall and found the prisoner lying on the lodge bank insensible. He was without hat and jacket. 'Witness at once unfastened his clothing, and being an ambulance man, applied artificial respiration for about 2.0 minutes, when Dr. Dickey arrived and commenced to operate. After a time the prisoner was removed to his sister's house, which was close by, witness assisting in his nemoval, and resumed the process of artificial respiration, which was done until 7-15, when the prisoner began to regain consciousness, he having been unconscious nearly an hour and a half. On being charged the prisoner replied: "I was drunk at the time. I remember nothing about it The prisoner stated that he had been drinking all the week. George Horsfield, father of the prisoner, stated that his son had been unwell, and had several times gone out of the house to get a pint, but that he had never seen him the worse for drink, and he never expected that he would attempt to take his own life. He had complained of a pain in the head. Tho prisoner, who looked very unwell and thoroughly shaken, was discharged into the custody of his father.  Kl-ASINGT4 NIAN FOUND SiloT ANT) A WOMAN sEMOUSLY