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The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-09-20 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN 1872.  A parliamentary return has been issued of all accidents which ha' e been reported to the Board of Trade by the several railway companies in the United Kingdom as having occurred on their Bones during the year ending the 31st of December, 1872. The return is the first which has been prepared for an entire , period of twelve months under theaßegulation of Railways Act, 1871. The total number of persons killed during the year, according to this return, was 1,145, and 3,038 were injured. The total number of passengers killed was 127: 24 "from causes beyond their own control," and 103 " from their own misconduct or want of caution." The total number of passengers injured was 1,462, of whom 1,247 received their injuries from causes beyond their own control, and 215 from their own misconduct or want of caution. The number of railway servants returned as killed under the former head is 64, and under the latter 568; the injured in thomt two classes are 376 and 1,019 respectively, Seventy persons were killed and 23 injurett while passing over railways at level crossings. Under the head of trespassers and suicides," 258 are reported as killed and 107 injured; at d "miscellaneous," not included in any of the preceding classes, 387 killed and 181 injured. A. list is also given of the number of accidents unattended with loss of lite or personal injury. It extends over 32 pages cf the Bluebook, but no summary is appended. It appears from one of the tables in the book that the total number of passengers killed on railways from causes beyond their own control from 1862 to 1872 was 271. In an introductory note it is stated that these returns are made by the compacies themselves, and "the great discrepancies bet .vecn the numbers of accidents returned by the various companies lead to a doubt whether they all make the return with equal care end completeness."  RITUALLSII IN 'I lIE
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-09-20 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

AMERICAN PARALLEL TO THE THAMES MYSTERY.  Early in November last, a young man named Charles G. Kelsey disappeared from the via .go of Huntington, Long Island, and was not sioce heard of until, on the 30th ultimo, a portion of a human body was found floating in Oyster Bay. It seems that Kelsey had "fallen in love" with Miss Julia Smith, a young lady of considerable personal attractions, who, however, was already engaged to a Mr. Royal Sammis. He wrote verses to her, dogged her footsteps, sent her insulting letters, and rendered her life miserable. Neither threats nor arguments were of any avail, and at length be was seized one night by a number of men, stripped, tarred and feathered, and his head denuded of hair. In this state he was exhibited by the light of a lantern to a number of nersons ; and when finally he was released he dressed himself and went home, where he was observed to take a bucket down the yard for water to wash himself with. Here all trace of the unfortunate man ended, but marks of a struggle were subsequently perceived, and the tracks of a horse and waggon. A man named Hood saw two men going out on the same night in a boat, having with them a large bundle, which he did not notice on their return. For many months it was thought that Kelsey might have left the town, or have committed suicide under a feeling of shame; but on the 30th ult., whilst two men were at work in their boat in Oyster Biy, they perceived a pair of pantaloons, which, on pulling them to the boat, they found to contain only the thighs of a man. The remains had been horribly mutilated, and to them adhered fragments of tar and feathers. The pockets of the garments contained a watch and chain, which were at once identified by the relatives of Kelsey as his property. Other articles of clothing belonging to the missing man were subsequently found on the beach of the bay. Thos. who allege that be has been the victim of a foul murder state that he unmasked some of his tormentors whilst he was being tarred and feathered, and that he was heard to say he knew them and would make them repent of it.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-10-04 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

PUBLIC HBLLTIL—The Rogistrar-General reports, during the week ending Saturday, 5,372 births and 3,067 deaths, in 21 large cities and towns of the United Kingdom. The mortalitf in these towns was 21 per thousand. The rate in London was IS ; Edinburgh, 19; Glasgow, 21; Dublin, 25; Bristol, 20 ; Bradford, 20; Liverpool, 24; Sheffield, 25; Leeds, 26; Nottingham, 26; Newcastle. 27; Wolverhampton, 28; Manchester, 28; and Birmingham, 29. There was a further decline in the mortality from diarrhma. The deaths from cholera in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin all show a considerable ierreue.  Mr. Clay, late M.P. for Hull, was buried on Wednesday afternoon in Brompton Cemetery. The Sheffield town council are proposing to spend £2 000,000 upon street improvements. It is reported that Mr. Disraeli is engaged on a new novel, dealing with the questions of socialism and communism.  • At Leeds, on Monday, Mr. Joseph (Jaunt, & traveller, Bramley, was fined 10s by the judge for sending him letters regarding a cue in which he had appeared as plaintiff apinst a Mr. Fulda, and in which he had obtained what he considered was an improper verdict  Two sales of pods belonging to two Nonconformists, Mr. D. T. Ingham and Mr. G. W. Sharman, distrained for non-payment of a denominational school rate, took place at Sheffield on Tuesday.. . _  An explosion of gas took plaee on Monday afternoon at the Great Western Dispensary, Marvlebone road, London. As is generally the case, the explosion was caused by seeking for an escape of gas with a light. Three men were severely injured. About 20 feet of the flooring of the back room on the ground floor, and the partition, door, and window, were damaged by the explosion. A tubular boiler exploded at the Great Western Cotton Works, Bristol, on Monday, and the man in charge, Samuel Osmond, received fatal injuries. The body of Edward Armitage, a member of the Leeds police force, was found on Monday in a canal dock in that town. The body does not show any marks of violence. There is to be a house to house canvass at Leicester for the funds of the Tichborne defence. At a meeting there on Monday night, the treasurers of the district committee announced subscriptions to the mount of £225.  A man named Robert William Roberts was consmitted for trial at the Lambeth (London) policecourt on Monday, on four charges of stealing articles from houses where he called to take apartments. There were 33 charges against him. George Crout Davis, who had been postmaster of lla'dock. Herts, for many years, and had held other public appointments, was on Tuesday charged at Hitchin with embezzlement and forgery, whereby the postoffice savings bank had been defrauded. Several depositors gave evidence, and he was committed for trial at the spring assizes, an application for bail being refused. Last year there were 1,455 coroners' inquests on suicide or self-murder-1,057 men and 398 women. According to official tables recently issued there were last year 740 cases of attempted suicide, or one to 31,181 of the estimated population. ~ In the metropolis there were 405 cases.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-05-19 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

HUGHES & CO., 36, Cheapside thought that this was an attempt on the part of Knvo, Market-street. Brady's friends to get up a hostile demoostr.!tien. Houtowey's PILLS —With the present changing lhe convicted murderer was on eaturday viei ed temperatures the digestion becomes impaired, the liver disordered, and the mind despondent, unless fcr the last time by his relatives, cons sting o' hie the cause of the irregularity be expelled from the blood mother, father, two sisters, a brother, and a cull ic. arid body by such an alterative as these Pills. They They f tied hutsto excellent spirits, but were el se. __...directly attack the source of the evil, ttrust out all appointed in tat being able to see the convieted impurities from the circulation, restore the distempered man alone, soveral warders being present dining organs to their natural state, and correct all defective A woman named Davies committed suicide by or contaminated secretions. Such an easy means of cutting her throat on Wednesday at Blackburn. the whole of the icterview, and ;1.•- party was aIiONVEd to see Lim in batches ot three at a titre-. A instituting health, strength, and cheerfulness should be A treaty of peace ha* been signed between Chili rumour Itevtiet pined ground in the citi t=.;=.t applied by all whose stomachs are weak, whose minds, and Peru, according ti which the latter cedes Bradyset-are much harassed, or whose brains are overworked. Tacna and Arica ler a petiod at ten years. oe was :teeny to make a confession or a . ment of some kind, his mother on seeing him en Holloway's is essentially a blood tempering medicine, whereby its influence reaches the remotest fibre of the e Damage tei tee extent of about £6,000 was caused ur'day nail, hind, Joe, no statement." Brerly r ame and effects a universal good. by tire on Saturday evening in the extervive ilworke smiled in r-eely% anti said, "Don't be foolish; t.o vets e ;
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-08-21 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SUSPECTED SUICIDE AT BARROW. On Monday morning, the Coroner, Mr. J. Poole, held an inquest at the Imperial hotel, to inquire into the cause of death of Robert Dixon, assistant hammer. man at the Steel Works, whose body was found in the Ramsden dock, near the gate on Saturday morning last.  James Alston, 9, Back Duke-street North, said he had seen the body in the mortuary, and had identified it as that of Robert Dixon, aged about 30, who lodged with witness. Deceased left his lodgings between eight and nine o'clock on Saturday evening, July 14th, without saying where he was going. He was in a bad way, having been drinking several days in the town. Deceased rambled in his talk in a queer manner' saying that the men at the works were going to kill him, but witness thought such expressions and imaginations were simply the effects of drink. Witness had never heard deceased say he would put himself away. Witness had not seen the deceased from July 14th, until he recognised him by his clothes in the  _ . mortuary. P.C. 5-ohnson said that on Saturday morning at eleven o'clock, he found the body of the deceased at Hamden Dock gate. Witness saw the body come up to the top of the water, and it was at once got out and conveyed to the mortuary. In one pocket was a pipe and a small piece of twist tobacco, while in another pocket was the cap of the deceased. The clothes were not disarranged. The body was greatly decomposed through being in the water. The Coroner said that the fact of finding the cap of deceased in his pocket pointed to suicide, but in the absence of other evidence the jury could only find a verdict that the deceased was found drowned, a verdict which was agreed to by the jury, of whom Mr. Josiah Hargraves was foreman.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-03-17 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ULVE 6 STON NOTES.  On Friday evening last, in aid of the Library fund I in connection with the Free Church Mission Room, penny readings was held in the Temperance Hall, Mr. Edward Salmon in the chair. As usual there was a good atteudauce, although not quite so numerous as on the preceding week. The performers on Friday evening were—Mlss M. Ellithont, Miss Swift, Miss Slater, Miss Troughton ; Mess's. Farling, Tyson, Murphy, Saul, Glendinning, Marsden, Baynes, Falshaw, and Dickinson. Votes of thanks to the performers and chairman closed the entertainment. The police on Saturday evening surprised a body of cockfighters, amongst whom a main of three birds each to test the relative merits of Newland and Pennington game cocks was on the :via. Finding that their plan was blown the men dispersed, the police still keeping a watch over the principals. It is stated that the cockfighters continued te throw the police off ' the scent, and that the battles were fought out near to Kirkby Moor, in which Newland got two out of the 1 three fights. The offertory at St. Mary's !garish Church, on the 14th inst., was upwards of 1:21. A vestry meeting was held on Monday, at the Parish Church, for the election of auditorc to the Burial Board. Mr. J. H. Barrow presided. Messrs. Robert Casson and W. N Hartley were elected. On Monday evening an instructive temperance address was given in the Temperance Hall, by theßev. Cr. T. Dunne, of Barrow-in-Furness. The Bev. E. Heath presided, and at the close of the address a hearty vote of thanks was moved to the lecturer by the Rev. J. Barton Bell. The offertory at the Parish Church, during the past three Sundays, in aid of the Church Renovation Fund, has exceeded £2O on each day. To place the Wardens free from debt at Easter £5O will have to be given on the next two Sundays. On Wednesday evening, Ur. Poole, coroner, held an inquest on the body of Wm. Wilson Crewdson, grocer, of the Filers, Ulverston, aged 60 years. For some time the deceased has been in a despondent way, and on Wednesday morning he was found in the Canal by one of the men employed at the Paper Works. A verdict of "Suicide whilst suffering from temporary insanity "was returned. OnTuesday evening a public meeting in favour of International Arbitration was held in the Temperance Hall, Mr. W. Wilson in the chair. The speakers were Mr. T. Snaps a deputation; Mr. T. Watson, of Rochdale; Mr. Crossfield, Liverpool; Rev. E. Heath, Rev. W. Troughton, Rev. C. W. Bardsley, Rev. J. Barton Bell, Rev. T. Scott, Mr. Robert Cross. A resolution in favour of arbitration was carried, and ordered to be 433ut to the Prime Minister.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-06-23 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SUICIDE AT DALT ON. than we ask you for them. If y. u hoe to have taiuers. Their respected pastor, the Rev. Mr. Sutton, them at the price they are yours, arid when we presided, and there was a very good attendance, ha, e p iid our debts what we hey left shall be c ineidering the other attractions. spent on some puipot•e that shall be beneficial to DALTON Barror ANNIVERSARY,—Ou Sunday las the town of Dalt..n." the anniversary of the Dalton Baptist Sunday School was held in the Chapel, Broughton-road, when a most I must not foreet to say why this meeting was excellent sermon was preached, in the morning, by the such a surprise to us. The fact is we had been Rev. R. Scott, of Ulverston. 11l the afternoon a punted with stories of exp. cted opposition. The stirring address was delivered by T. Whittaker' Esq., proposals of the Gas Co intuittee were to be pulled 'of I'.earbnrough. The attendance was large at both to pieces, and an exciting meeting consequence the services. Collections were made on behalf of the • school funds was to be aatiei:. ared. Instead of that it wee On Friday evening last a very interesting lecture really a medel meeting, for the clear cut and well was delivered in the Market Street Hall, Dalton, by arranged form in which its business was done. Mr. Lazarus Beckenham, of Ulverston. on the "Line of Not a word was ertid that \Yost not to the point; march during the great rebellien in India." We are nobody made a sperch that would just ,18 well have sorry to say the lecture was not so well patronised as been left unmade; the Chairman tersely and con- it deserved, but Mr. Beckenham has promised to vi:it cisely put the question before those present, a Dalton again shortly under the patronage of Capt. suitable question or two were asked and answered; Aslibitruer, who has kindly promised to preside on that an unanimous vote was given, and in less than a oecasiou. On Saturday last a well-contested cricket match quarter of an hour the meeting was over, including took place in one of Mr. Joseph Fisher's fields, Dalton, an honest expi melon of thanks to the Chairman. between the Rising Star, Dalton, and the Town Bank Our Local Board would have taken six times as School Club, Uiverstm, when the latter won by 10 long and twelve times as much talking to have got runs. The Daltonians, who are all young lads, were through t'ae same business, rather taken aback when they first caught sight of their antagonists. They expected young lads like themselves, but some of them were well nigh forty years of age. For all that the youngsters stood their ground well, being able to get 15 runs, whilst their opponents got 85.—Cur.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-02-03 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SAD OCCURRENCE AT ULVERSTON.  On—ii;dn—e;claiiiiternoon, Mr. Williams, deputycoroner, opened an inquest at the Ulverston Workhouse, on the body of Mrs. Henry Drake, who, it is believed, committed suicide. The deceased's husband, Henry Drake, was groom to Dr. John Anderson, j un., of Ulverston. and he died on the 25th January. His parents live in Barrow, and it had been intended to inter the body in the Barrow Cemetery, on Tuesday last. On Monday afternoon the relatives in Barrow received a telegram from the widow at Ulierston, and in consequence of this a brother of the deceased came to Ulverston. He found the door at his late brother's house locked, and he got the assistance of a police officer. The key of the front door was found on the step, and on goiug upstairs to the bedroom they found the widow lying on the floor by the bed on which was the corpse. On the other side of the latter was the lifeless remains of the deceased's terrior dog. As Mrs. Drake still breathed medical aid was at once summoned. This was about seven o'clock in the evening, and the doctors managed to resuscitate Mrs. Drake. As there was but one bed in the house, on which lay the coffin, Dr. Anderson had Mrs. Drake conveyed to the Workhouse about eleven, but she died soon after. A postmortem examination had been made, but no evidence of the cause of death was given, and the inquest, after formal evidence had been given to allow of burial, was adjourned until Tueeday next. It is said the deceased woman left a letter requesting to be buried in the same grave as her husband, and that the dog might be buried at their feet. On Saturday evening, in connection with the Blue Ribbon Union, Mr. Poole, coroner, and Dr. Anderson gave addresses in the Temperance Hall. A serious conflict between "blood and fire," and " cold water" is said to have taken place in the Ulverston Market Hansa on Tuesday. when a member of the Salvation Army and the Blue Ribbon Union came into conflict. The victory seemed doubtful, but the inspector stopped the fight. In connection with the "Pleasant Evenings" at Soutergate Congregational Chuich, on Monday evening, the Rev. J. McMillan, of Barrow, delivered a very interesting lecture on " National Patriotic Song Writers." The Rev. J. Barton Bell presided. The choir gave several musical selections.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-07-31 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN BARROW. STRANGE STATE OF HYSTERIA. A respectably dressed woman named Agnes Burslam, residing at 44, Ramsden-street, was charged yesterday at the Magistrates Court, Barrow, with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the Ramsden Dock on Saturday evening last. From the evidence of Sydney Helburn, 76, Ramsden Dock Cottages, it appeared that he was passing over the Buccleuch Bridge when he saw the prisoner who asked him if he knew her. He replied that he did not, upon which she told him to go to 44, Ramsden-street, and tell them she was dead. She then ran off the bridge into the dock in which there was 23 feet of water. Witness threw a life buoy but prisoner did not manage to catch it. She appeared to be sober when on the bridge.—Richard Holroyd, rivetter, said he was near the bridge when the prisoner jumped in the water off the parapet. Witness threw the buoy after the previous witness had thrown it and this time the woman succeeded in catching it. Witness assisted by the former witness and another person succeeded in getting her out. She said when she was on the dock side, "Am I right ? " "Am lat home ? " The prisoner was taken into custody by P.C. Sperling, and in reply to the charge said, "I never did jump in the water."—Dr. Settle, on the part of the prisoner gave evidence, and said he saw the prisoner about two hours after she was locked up. She was then in an hysterical condition. He had attended her before for similar complaints. She was a person of very hysterical temperament, and just such a person as would like to create a sensation. Witness did not think her quality of mind was such as was capable of causing her to commit suicide, but just such a one as would try and. make believe that she would make a suicidal attempt. She would be satisfied that there would be someone near to get her out of the water, should she make an attempt.—The husband of the prisoner was called, when the chairman addressed him, saying the case was a very painful one, and there were only two waye of dealiug with it, either to send it for trial or dismiss it. —The magistrates asked him if he was willing to take his wife home and be responsible for her, to which he replied in the affirmative.—The chairman administered an admonition to the woman, and after obtaining a promise that she would not do such a foolish thing again, dismissed her.  MR.