Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-10-05 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

RETAIL LICENCE REFLFIED. Mr. Tilly applied on behalf of Mr. Samuel Walton, of Chicago Buildings, for an off retail Imence for wines and spirits. The application was one which hod been withdrawn at the annual sessions and was renewed. Since that time Mr. Walton had taken out a wholesale dealer's excise licence which entitled him to a retail licence if the Bench thought at to grant it. At present the smallest amount he could sell WSB four and a.half gallonu or six bottles. The place of business was in Chicago BMldings, and fronted the promenade. It was in a part of Morecambe which had been greatly developed. The application was not for an ordinary off beer jounce, which touched the house and which it One somewhat difficult to reinove. awl it could only be granted to a wholesale dealer. The place was equidistant between Mr. Farrer's pl.ce wad the Imperial Hotel. The number of hou-ses about, were 365, that number including 98 which were in Sandilands. They were in lkysham and the lionises in that district were closed at ten o'clock. to Morecambe they were open to eleven, and so were COIIVOLIBEt for Visit.ol, leaving the places of amusement, who did not get back to their apartments until after ten. The population WRB one that could not be counted because the honees were lodging houses and accommodated from 30 to 40 people.— Mr. James Bennett, a member of the Morecambe Local Board, said that he had lived in Morecambe 26 years, and bail known applicant seven years. Be thought the granting of such a licence would be beneficial.—Mr. Abbott, put in plans of the premiees. —Mr. Walton, the applicant, and Mr. John Gardner, the °woe, of 180 houses in the locality, gave further evidence in support of the application.—The Bench refused the application.  On Friday last the wife of Thom. Harrison, a farm labourer at Bootle, Cumberland, drowned her two children. Ou retarning from work to his home Harrison made inquiries of his wife as to where the children were, the house being so quiet. He was told by Isis wife that they were out visitI ing. He, however, found this incorrect. His wife afterwards confeseed that they were in the water , butt. He found them in a perpendicular position \with their heads downward in 1.13 inches of water. One was a girl aged sin, by Mrs. Harrison's first husband, who committed suicide, and the other lan infant boy. The elder had evidently had a fearful struggle for life. The police and coroner I were subsequently communicated with, and on Saturday afternoon an inquest was held on the bodies of the children. Dr. Hudson, of Bootle, stated that the woman had been very strange in I her manner since the il.th of her brat husband, and had threatened the eldest child. A verdict of wilful murder was returned. Later in the day • the woman was charged before the magistrates, ; and formally remanded.  Damage, amounting to ELI®, wee caused on Tuesday, at Hanley, by an outbreak of fire at the Globe Pottery. On Tuesday, at Newcastle, a man fell overboard into the Tyne, and a policeman, in endeavouring to save him, lost his own 1 life. Two more deaths from injuries occasioned by the upsetting of paraffin lamps are recorded—one 1 at Burham, near Rochester. and the other at , Clavton-le.Moors. The iron Screw steamer Patagonia, of Liv,r7,a, has gone ashore at Tome. on the coast of Chili. n il:1 is likely to become a totai wreck. The passengers and crew were saved. Several persons were injured at Glawsworth, near Macclesfield, on Saturday, at • military tournament, through the breaking away of a horse into a group of spectators. Two fishermen, named Baker and 80.1, have been drowned in Larne Lough through the eluting of a leaky punt in which they put out to sea. . A third man we.s rescued. The colour printing works of Mr. A. Cooke, ex-Mayor of Leeds, were almost completely destroyed by fire last Sunday morning. The damage in estimated at nearly £50,000. The woman Farrar who, at Accrington, in a fit of insanity murdered her eldest girl and attempted to kill her other two children, was, on Tuesday, after a protracted inquiry, committed for trial. On Monday, at Bishop AuAland, a youth named Stewart was committed for trial charged with having stabbed an old man earned Low in revenge for the latter having caused the break-up of prisoner's father's home. The Bootle magistrates on Monday committed William Mort to the Assizes on the charge of attempting to murder his wife by endeavouring to drown her in the canal. The facts of the rase have already been published. The man Thomas Richardson. who is charged with murdering his sister.indaw, at Borth, is alleged to base made it confession. He atates that he had been drinking, and that he moat have been mad with drink when he committed the  a;;.a. William Hague, • 'eh, ion has met a shocking death at Wigan. Whidt a train was drawing into the atation he opened the door of his compartment before the mrriages had stopped, and falling between the carriage and platform was fearfully mangled. At midnight on Mondnv a gang of roughs made a raid on the innkeepers' tents at Brough Hill Fair, their object being robbery. Several of the inn. keepers and caretakers were severely maltreated. The police finally dievireed the gang, after arresting two of the ringleaders. Two young men were shooting in Highgate Woods, London, last Sunday morning, when one came within the line of fire and received the charge in his chest and was killed. It is sup ixised that he was accidentally shot by his companion, who, however, is in custody. Thomae Watkinaon. a chemist at Nottingham, was found dead in the kitchen adjoining his shop on Saturday. There were evidences of a revere struggle in the room, and the man's head bore several fearful wounds. The motive at first suggested for the murder was that of robbery, but on examination it was found that his money had not been takes. Stanley Garner a solicitor, was further remanded, at the Liverpool Police Court, on Tues. day, charged with forg,ty. It was stated by the prosecution that whereas they had at first charged the prisoner with obtaining £l,BOO by forgery, they had now found forgerim amounting to nearly £B,