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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1860-01-11 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

DETERMINED SUICIDE AT SEA.—Capt. Bishop, of the Curlew, arrived at Shields, on Tuesday, from Huelva, reports that on the 30th October, when in the bay of Cadiz, Thomas Venturas, cook and stward, jumped overboard and was drowned; he was so determined to destroy himself that he attached a grindstone to his neck before getting over the side of the ship. The deceased was 22 years of age, and a native of Kirkcaldy. The following is a copy of a note he left behind him ,—" I desire the money and effects belonging to me may be given to Edward Oliver's mother, Elizabeth Brown, No. 12, Nile. street, North Shields, the only one who was kind to me. My life is no longer useful to any one. May God forgive me ! Thomas Ventures."  It is highly satisfactory to the mining interest to know that whilst, almost without exception, every other kind of property, Consols included, became depreciated from 10 to 20 per cent., the price of copper during the year has never ranged below that with which 1858 closed, but has been for some months at an advance of id. per lb., and is now in good demand at this advance.  , NANTEOB AND PENRHIW ; lead, Cardiganshire.—Operations were commenced at the Eystumtean part in the spring, soon fter which a valuable discovery was made in the deep alit, and the mine has since been opening out well. There is now a stope in back of the deep edit 20 fms, long, prklueing an average of 15 cwts. to 20 cwts. of lead ore per fithom ; other stopes are worth from 8 cwts to 10 cwts. par fathom; and the stopes above Row's continue to yield good ore. Some m Jst important cross-cuts are now being driven, and there is every prospect of further discovero3 being made soon. This adit is 60 fins. deep, but sinking below it is just commenced by the side of the rich part of the lode; and should it hold down, of which there is scarcely a doubt, the mine would shortly assume a promitent position. There is now estimated to be 57 tons of lead ore broken and in course of dressing, 45 tons of which are at Eystumtean. During the year 218 tons of lead have been sold for £2,675, which would have been larger but for the late very severe weather. VALE OF TOWY ; lead, Carmarthen —This mine has sold this year 711 tons of lead ore, for £9,394 4s. 65., and made a call of £l,
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1890-08-28 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY.  At Wilsden, a village lying about equal distance between Keighley and Bradford, a shookiug tragedy was brought to light on Saturday moruitig. A luarrymau, named Ezekiel Sutcliffe, liviug there with his wile and four children, has beau depressed for some time, having g-rouudleesly suspected his wife of infidelity. They had a quarrel ou Friday night, and about three o'clock next morning their Little boy Jame', rising to get a drink of water,fouud that his mother had been strangled. The father's body was afterwards discovered iu a mill-dui. A 30r0ner's jury on Monday found that Sutcliffe had strangled his wife and committed suicide while of aurrituid mind.  MYSTERIOUS DROWNING OF A GIR',. At Dudley Police Court, ou Monday, the tour men, Jones, Lusson, Cartwright, and Davies, glass wolkers were oommitted to 14 °roaster Assizes, bail Long refused, on a charge of causing the de ttli of Sal all Ann Shaw, aged 20, whoa. body was tumid in the canal. The medical evidence showed that some sioleuee had been used towards the deceased.  At the Theatre Royal, South Shields, on Monday, Mr. William Newman, head earpenter, while arranging scenery at the top of the building fell to the stage below, a distance of fo i,aua, sv„„ instantly killed. The body was iiy mangled. The Mayor and Mayoress of Leeds will give a reception and couversazione to metnie• 8 of the British Association on September 4th. Mr. Somerville, of Dunbeaoon, has brought into &hullHarbour an imuumse haul of 11,000 maukerel, which were caught jig DUIIIIIIIII4 By. The fish are vet y small. Mr. H. M. Stanley is expeoted at Geneva ou the 10 h of September with his wife, who is going to visit relatives in that ri,y. A spoot..l receptiou will be given to them by the English colony and the Geoerapitio.ll Society of Canters. It was reported at the Brighton Bie ester Sessions that the borough JS supplied at present with 300 publio-houses and 270 beer-houses, in addition to the d mot gtrietr anitelthfroeusetapthispuoantromber oniwyaa wine merchants' and grocers Beanies. Apparently thenronaghoi the groan' Weans were enatad.
The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1890-10-16 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

BRIGANTINE BLOWN UP AT CARDIFF. Oil Tuesday morning an explosion of coal gas occurred on board the German brigantine Thera, In the West Bute Duck at Cardiff. The vessel was laden with st:,.am ooal, and was ready for sea at five o'clock. The cook struck a light in the galley, when immediately a huge flame shot up,and directly the vensol was completely slaatteied by the foroe of the explosion. The captain and mate were hurled from their bunk on to the deck, and the cook was seriously burned about the head and body. The mate and cook were taken to the hospital ship. lorlu. irately, the ;captain and remainder of the crew rl• coped with some slight bruises.  ALLEGED FRAUDS BY BTOCKBROIihR.i. Under the failure of Messrs. J. U. Field and Co., Btock and share dealers, and managers of the Cooperative Pool, queen Victolia Street, who recently absconded, Mr. Stewart, the Official Receiver, has appointed the first meeting for the 22nd inst., at eleven o'clock. The investigations, so far as they have proceeded, show conclusively that the bank. rupts had withdrawn from the business during the last two or three months no less a BUM than £30,000, of which £7,000 was drawn out of one bank on the 26th and 27th of September. No money investments appear to have been made at any time, and no cheque exceeding £lO had been discovered as having r. been paid to anyone as " profit " ou investments. As the result of the exertions of Messrs. Miller,Wiggins,aud Naylor,the petitioning creditor's solicitors, a sum of £7,000 has been traced into the hands of bankers in New York and London, payment out of which has been stopped by them. Owiog to the very small available assets and the want of funds to enable the proper legal steps to be taken to recover the money, it has been proposed to form a subscription fuud,and with that view the Official Receiver has sent out a circular to snob of the creditors as he is aware of, setting out the reuriow- for such a subseriptiou,and consenting to receive and to place the subacriptious to a suspense account to deft ay the log,d expenses,,thesubseriptious to be 'Ow tied in the event of sufficient assets being recovered. Warrants have been issue,: for the arrest ot he bankrupts Field and the two Millers on the elm! ge of stealing and conspiring to delraud. It is anticipated that Sort e information will be obtained flout Alt s. Field and Ills. Miller as to the de lingo with mune of the money, if nut as to its whereabouts. As is pointe.l out by the Official Receiver's circular, it is important that immediate steps should be taken to claim the mousy referred to above for the estate, and, bearing that end in view, that the creditors should come forward with subscriptions ,at once, which it is proposed shall be BO much per ' oeut. on the shares subsoiioei for in the 00-opern, tire pool.  SUICIDE THROUG it LOSi OF A
The Northern News. — 1898-01-01 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

SHAREHOLDERS AND DIRECTORS FEES.  The question of directors' fees when operations had been unprofitable was hotly raised at the meeting of Olancisfontein Gold Mining shareholders, held in London on Tuesday. The directors' fees were put down at £757, out of a total expenditure of about £4,500, and one of the shareholders remarked upon the practice of directors taking fees practically out of the shareboklers' pockets in oonoerns whik h were yielding no profit whatever. Another shareholder asked what was a direotor's qualification, and, being informed £2OO in shares, said they were getting their money back at the rate of 50 per cent., and the shareholders were getting nothing. One of the directors .enarked that this question was always arising_ in reconstructed companies, and as Englishmen Jsy ought to be ashamed of themselves in wishing the directors to work for nothing. •He was a mining engineer, and did not consider his services overpaid for Riving his skilled advice to this company for £lOO a year—The Chairman (Colonel HughesHallett) said he could spend his time more agreeably and more profitably at the West End. He had given his beet services to the company, and was at the secretary's beck and call whenever required. Far more trouble and anxiety were given to the directors in a bad speculation than in a good ona--The Secretary explained that the £750 repro: Dented service* for 21 months. This had a somewhat mollifying effect, and the director,' report was adopted  In his speech from the throne, on the re-assembling of Parliament.. the Mikado stated that the relations between Japan and all foreign Powers were friendly, but made no reference to the political situation. Iltie suicidal orate seems epidemic. Miss Anna Virginia Wells, a daughter of Judge Lewis S. Wells, a promityrit attorney. of Washington, has committed suicide. Mies Wells was an acquaintance of Mies Leda Herbert, who lately killed herself. Mr. J. C. Malcolm, the City Coroner of Leeds, conducted on Tuesday no less than twenty-one inquests, the largest number which has come him in one day during his long official career. Fi•-e juries were engaged; one of them disposed of thirteen cases. The death is reported, at Emsworth, of Mrs. W. Hipkin. aged 101. Deceased enjoyed excellent h-alth mail a few weeks ago, and she retained all her faculties to the end.
The Northern News. — 1898-03-26 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

OOO. On the arrival of a train from London at New Brompton Station, Chatham, the body of a soldier was found lying in a third-class carriage in a pool •4 blood. It was subsequently ascertained that d.. ceased v-as Private Lombard, of the Royal Warwickshin. Regime. t, stationed at Chatham. A revolves. was found on the tloor of the carriage, and it is supposed he committed suicide. . . _ .  "A" curious offioial note respecting a dead body appears in the Dutch newspapers. The police give natioe that a man has drowned himself in the Rhine, and they offer a reward for the recovery of his body. This is the description: "Age about forty, he ght five feet eight inohas. Speaks the dialect of Gelderland." People are wondering how the la in st dication will help them in the A curious relic of the poet Burns has found its way into the emotion room. This was the bill for the boots and snow supplied to him and his family in the yes v 1790 and 1791. The bill coosists of two pages, and is endorsed oa the top of the outer fold "R. Andenson," in the well-known autograph of th.t p.let. A oolleotor of interesting curios was found wil'ing to give 3& for this document. The bodiec of two unknown men, exactly the same height, who had been in the river the same time, were found in tl e Thames off the Embankment the other day. Ai. open verdict was returned at the coroner's inquest, where it was stated there had been thirty-t_wo neople to the mortuary to try to identify tho bodies. The Coroner: Thirty-two; how extraordinary. A Juror: There must be a very great number of pawns missing, then. The Lord Chief Justice, who is now in Birmingham, complained of the unwillingness of magistrates to grant baiL A solicitor engaged before the stipendiary applied for bail, and on the stipendiary hesitating. asked to be allowed to quote the Lord Chief Justice. The Stipendiary: "Oh, for goodness' sake don't. The judges come here, and they each have to say something fresh. They must say something. and it is beet to let them say it.." Mr. Hagenbeok, of Hamburg, the eminent inporter of wild animals, ha 4 just bought s very remarkable Aihant, aged 80. This animal is asserted to have long performed the part of so executioner. In the di trice of India whence it hails the people are pronibited by their religion from putting a criminal to death and therefore it is arranged that t!us criminal to be executed place* hi heed heueith stoats on which the elephant treacle. This vener able executioner is going to Berlin.
The Weekly Journal. — 1903-06-26 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

PARADOXICAL COUPLE.  But Froude missies. us that Mn. Carlyle kg often resolved to leave her husband. She nearly did so after the Ashburton affair, sad told him so some time afterwards. " His answer hurt her worse than any other word she ever heard front him, ' Well, I do sot know that I should have missed yoa; I was very busy just then with Cromwell: " Surely, says Csatlyle's defeaders„ this must have been no more than acid marital lasting on both sides. And yet, paradoxical as it may seem, Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle were both profoundly attached to one another. The wife venerated the husband, though, as she said. I life in Cheyae-row was like keeping a eaadhoome. He was always the teacher she the pupil. If she had not been so clever, so " &sosbly clever " as Sterling said—they might have got along tederaLly together. Klima she went away Carlyle wrote her letters " tender and affectionate": when ohs he was once more the irritable dyspeptic, the bear with very some ears. Froude tel us that Mrs. Carlylt, on her lam journey to Sortland, would have committed suicide if she had gone, as shc had inteaded, by sra. " She tarot in the daricncsa to have dropped over the stern and disappeared in such a way that it might seem as if her death had been an aecidesit." What wonder if she longed for release from husband who on the morning after his weddingday had " torn to pieces the fiCP/Perlol/4klll at Comely Bank in a fit of ungoveniside fairy." She was a martyr to neuralgia; psis and morphia had shattered her nerves: she hitrarty complained that her husband regarded her simply rs au household drudge; sad " she had inged for chiklren and children were denied her."
The Weekly Journal. — 1903-02-13 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

REAL STAGE MURDERS.  A ORAMATIC RECORD.  _ One of the most tragie incidents recorded in eonneetion with the dramatic stage for many years past occurred a short time ago at Samoa Ljar. in Austro-Hungary. .1 beautiful young artmici. Julia Pakey, had been engaged to Julius Hardos, another member of the same zompany. There had been a quarrel between them, and Hairdos treated Miss Pakey very coolly; much more coolly, in fart, than he did any other member of the company. On the stage the two had to art as lovers. and it was part of the performance that Julia should shoot at Julius. Piqued at his treatment of her. she determined to turn the plar into a real tragedy. She loaded the pistol, and shot him dead in full view of the audience. The curtain w.ts lowered immediately, and it was then found that the nnhappy woman had shut herself in her dressing-room and committed suicide by opening the reins of her arms.  A Tragic R  A somewhat similar tragedy was eraeted a few years hack at one of the principal theatres in Chicago. A married lady in the company imagined herself insulted by the manager. and, after consultation with her husband, determined epos compassing for bersalf a revenge which should he noth complete and dramatic. Waiting until she was east for a part in a certain play wherein her prospective victim had to pourtray the part of a flying man, she walked on the stage, armed with a revolver, and shot the prostrate man through the head, killing him instantly. Ent a little whit:. no one among the audience realised what had happened. (hen seeing, by the alarm and horror depicted on the fares of the other members of the company that it was something out of the ordinary. several occupants ni the stalls rose front their seatii. and one of them, a doctor. inquired if it were an accident. " No." was the grins reply, "a murder:The police WTI' aninmoned. and the mut, dlen-ftv was hauled off to prison. receiving in due course the not unmerited sentenee of lifelong imprisonment. her husband, as aecesanry before the fact, getting 2Ci years' penal servitude. Slit Dead from the Aillifttorluns:  Curiously enough, it. was also at a Chicago theatre that there occurred just about a year ] ago one of the very few other recorded instances of a stage murder deliberately perpetrated of malice aforethought. The victim in this eilee was a woman, a pretty little honbrette named Mayer. and her slayer was a man whet* frieadship she had declined. He took • meat for an erening when she was hilted to appear before the footlights. suddenly stood up and fired three shots at kit from a revolver which he had secreted up hi. sleeve. The unfortunate actress fell mortally wounded, and her assassin narrowly escaped learikiejt at tha Mad' - • ' '  jd mA2ir•
The Weekly Journal. — 1903-06-19 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, FRIDAY. JUNE 19, 1903.  el tbsir Lens bads." "Issiser t. lelson beam, is iine." Think of the 'brave desiel T. army bad tbe magas as well as the Palma in its power; its Issiders riddled a young mem and his wife, in their night-dresses, with resolver ballets; and there is a claim that so " brave deed." should be blazoned lest any of the murderers lost his share of the honour! And this in Christie' Sarnia so late as the year of Christ 1903! Bat  THAT SUICIDE FOR HONOUR caps the climax. Lie utsant Lazar Ivanovics —eriiently a young max—not being admitted ta the privilege of helping to murder the King and Queen felt his honour so deeply wounded. that he made a deeper wound in his body and died. Did the noble young gentleman want t 3 figure as a Brutus, then—did it? One might alnieet think that if Lazar meant to Mow his brains out he could not possibly have dose any such thing, no matter how big • hole be made ix his skull. But that would be an ' unscientific notion. It may well have been that in Lasar's bead was a brain of fine quality. For, after all, people are chiefly the product of eaviroszaent. Kidnap an infant son of the most roamed and even saintly white man, and pat him among savages whose dominant pasties is to peeress the maps of whites. It is quite on the cards that that young Christian, when he was a man, would scream with delight if he got a chance of scalping his own saintly paps, who had sever ceased to yearn for that lost baby-boy of his. WHAT IS THIS HONOUR for which men suffer so much? It is, like conscience, a kaleidoscopic thing—varying with geographical divisions and even with social planes? I have heard conscience described as "the voice of God in the heart of man." So? Hew comes it, then, my dear air and madam, that the Mohammedan who cries "There is but one God ! "—the Christian cry—believes that he will have a pleasanter place in Paradise in proportion as he kills Giaours like you and me and the Archbishop of Canterbury?  EDUCATION DOMINATES nearly the whole man. And thus we End diluent parts of Christendom the moot diverse views of hasonr, which, indeed, is bet another same for mourrieneo in all essential respects.  ediesslisee feriae tits seassee sated ; lest se tike We is best tb• tree's ieelisect.  _ Pope, however, was wrong In confining his diet.= to the" common mind," if he seed "corn. men" in the popular sense of that word. The saying applies to all classes of minds. "With yonr shield, my son, or upon it!" said the Spartan seother to her warrior son as be went forth to bottle; and so the Spartan' were remarkable for their contempt of life in martial condict. "Oh! my child," said the Sybarite mother, " don't fatigue yourself and be careful only to keep yourself very comfortable sad free from ezeitcenest." Thence come milksops and sloths. Take, now, ease. of murder and
The Weekly Journal. — 1902-05-23 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

THR - MOMENT.  RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN GORST, K.C., M.P., LL.D.  THE  NAGLUCT AND SZLI ASSARTION.  11. was once abut out in the cold Nothing whatever was done to rtcognise his unparalleleis services to ni. party. He was one of the new •ch.4l, iCe 014 gang were again supreme, and Mr. Disraeli forgot his young lieutenant in the satisfaction with which he maw himself surrounded by thaw wbn had deserttd him .even years before.  lulBBo, when Mr. Gladrtone resumed office, Mr. limit became a member of the famous Fourth Partc—a parte of four, of which Lord Randolph chill.. btll WaP the tlgur( -head, titr Henry Drummond Wolff the cottut•eflor. Mr. Balfour the oruameotal attache, nod Mr. John E. liont, M.A., was wire- pull,r-ic-chief. Throe ft •tir member. made %ht. :mallow  for the Couservaure catp-e during the whole MI Mr. Gladstonee Parliament. Lookiag. hack .m this epoch in his career, bir.lohn tlnest mast experience seine regretat the peraiatent wsrint 111 which be and has three colleagues hounded Mr. Stiange to say, Sir John t.best succeeded to the place of advoc••• for the came of the labourer of winch Mr. Beadintigh had bees the most conspicuous holder So far Mr. Gems( bad continued to practice at Oh. Bar, sad among other p:tims be cared off • handsome it,.' of £1,060 mouth for a four months' visit b. India in connection with the state of affairs in Hyderabad. When in the yang of 1885 Mr. tiledstoue's Government derided to commit suicide ember than face the iuevitable dittculty over tto mound of the Cnercinit Act fa; 1 Ireland. the Fourth Party was recognised as ir power in the land. Lord It. Churclidi herself • Secretary for India, and Sir John tioret became ! Solicitor-General. GI Sir John's icraluible efforts on behalf of labour sad education during the last ten years I need scarcely say anything. his legislation being fresh in the public memory. ANSEILLI .
The Weekly Journal. — 1902-01-17 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

CIGARETTE SUICIDE.  A WORD TO THR LADS.  Haas yaws ma, wises • savlicat.sawdswit.•••7ll Dr. David Daidsais. I saw a emit empadmost performed opals a eat 'Mich bed boas eimkorg lit hideous wider% omelets. asid woomsNdszed by aoe of the obideutstisimmestilmidi its usefabsess. Tito susadty al tobaroombia is useemory to mak. a ogarotar a. Du tom* tor afew m1liti0:01a aartwal of milim and tits • potable et this was tissfiswilia wit's aria. Is kr Ulna &tem milwisimallawask vitt Its proverbial Mak Inem succumbed after Emend severe asnaralitioas.  In our large asks boy. who are .carrel y old enough to put widisàr own clothes, can bore.. sestedote the ousboteoca espeatias this entenwet ulna thiamine by onions:ly puling away at cigarettes which austsis the pendalous Yu many asap, begged Ile shadow et • doubt, airy. see alsodeitegihumisse wllksiber sareattcdsup. widlostre Weside tha eigwiedles for the permse of creating a alilliereeler war sety lor the aseitirsation of tide nes. Igumesti. cigareters. Saw cbikhee us virtually sendis alleause aggicariews for awnewse into be lhallesido-adudwd, sr for • heath Isa.talk temolim, gra* fee • aubber pm he the aswerbey. notation lane partitukely noted that taw =Uc-smehlageops•wit Ea ie sel theiegrsheol. hida alsagrhatessweer theroughlyissaled by tab tesessbalit that they base to deep oat by the way„ as they do not have sufkiest • COWRY to paw thoostrance insusiaatiow to advanced wet.  Illietresa : Did lea. Brown have any mesas whew yea told ler I wae oat% tiers? Ilavant : o,ems, abe didn't my webby. but she leaked Ida ceplessed like. " Ab, yes!" 'lewd tbe very yang poet, " wben Pat deed I nipples peowle wbe neglect ate now will make pporweegre to Tay gran." .• Wliy," she "to sake este that titll news is not too good to be tree?"  Adele: What do you think is 'stoma's teak mission ?  Edni 1 to get her sone changed.  Mr Polemist : "I suppose you treat am to look pleasant " [ Photographer .(polikey) "teat. you peer Llst ink astute.'