The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1894-07-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BATHING AND BOATING FATALITIES.  A youth. aged 17, the son of • chimney sweep, of Notting Hill. got out of his depth while bathing in the Serpentine on Monday evening and was drowned.—A Jockey, named Breen, of Cashel. was I drowned on Tuesday morning while bathing off Tramore Strand. The body wan recovered.— Niger Patton. of Shankhouae, a wellknown football pia) er in Northumberland, wini drowned on Wednesday at myth whilst bathing. Ile called out that he had been seized with cramp, but his companions could ' not nave him.—William Murphy, a bravemoulder, aged 24, was drowned in Ballybolme Bay, close to Barger. by the upsetting of • boat which he and another young man had hired in Bangor. The other ygung man had a narrow escape.—On Monday night two workmen of Burryport, South Wales, went out into the Bristol Channel on a fishing expedition. One of the bodies) has been re..ovored. A girl named Julia Norton and a youth banird CalLway were drowned at Dumfries on Wednesday I tho capsizing of a boat. Two other young persons who were in the boat escaped. The accident occurred while the occupants) of the boat were changing places. Two brothers, Andrew and Alexander R,ol ert. non, aged 17 and lb respectively, natives of Lintrathen, were found drowned on Monday near Airlie Cantle. It is believed they wersedrowned while bathing, and that onelost his life in attempting to rescue the other. Three recruits of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders Militia were bathing at Irvine on Sunday, when one, named Dickson, was drowned, : and another, named Todd, who went to his as- I sintance, wasi dragged under, and with difficulty i saved himself. Two bodies were recovered from the waters of, the Omni and the Goole and Knottingley Cana) on Sunday. In one cue Moore Chapman (M), boat- I man, was drowned on the 15th June in attempting to jump from the sloop Deedernona, at Blacktoft. The awund wax that of Willie Peel, aged 6, eon of William Peel, boatman, Albert-street, Goole, who fell from his father's vessel at Woodlesford lock on Sunday morning. A man named Nulty. &labourer of Mirfield. on Sunday was drowned while- bathing in a canal supply renervoir belonging to the London and North. Western Railway Company. He has left • widow and four children,  A young man named EdgarJamee Smith Dickenson, 19 yeant of age, wee drowned whihit bathing in the river Aire, at Banknewton, near Gargrays, on Sunda inorning about half-peat eleven. . . . .  ^- 'Arthur N ightingale, grocer7 s assistant, WAS seized with cramp while bathing on Tisesday at Seacombe and was drowned.  Whilst bathing at Lydbrook, a village on the Wye, nenr Monmouth, im Saturday, a youth named Frank Bavan, a tin-plater, got out of bk depth, and was drowned. John Wm. Towneend, a young weaver, of Read, near Blackburn, was seired with cramp and drowned in the Ribble at Hurst Green on Sunday evon  _ A young spinner named Atherton was drowned whilst lathing at Farnwood, Dear Bolton, on Sun. day evening. At Lumley on Tuesday • boy named Curry, about 14 years of age, was drowned while bathing in the river Wear. He was the only eon of the keener of Me ferry at that place.  A marriage has been arranged. and will shortly take place, between General :lir Thomas Edward Gordon and .Miss Davison, of GO, Carlisle Mansions, second daughter of the late Mr Joeeph Davison, of Durham.  _ Mr Herbert Gladstone has so far recovered frun his recent indisposition as to be itiAe to attend to his Parliamentary duties in connectim. with the Departments/ Committee of the Home Office on Prisons and the Select Committee on the accommodation of the House of Commons. Suicide at Sundertand.—Dennis William Johnson, 43 years of age, cabmen, 9, Wslworth-street, on Tuesday morning committed suicide in a most determined manlier by cutting his throe,* with a razor, gashing it almost from ear to ear. In his possession a blood-stained letter was found addressed to his wife, in which he said tit t he could bear to liNe uo longer, and prayed G d to forgive his sins. _  New Surveyor for Houghton-le-Sprmg.—Mr Felgate, principal ministrant surveyor to tho York Corporation, has been appointed surveyor to the Boughton-le-Spring Local Board. There were 95 applicants for the post, which has a commencing salary of alYis per annum. Mr 1). Balfour, who formerly held the post, has carried out many large engineering schemer, dritimige, waterworks, and , sewage disposal works.  Sewage Schemes as the Easing-. wold District. —A meeting of the Easingwold Rural Sanitary Authority was held last week, Mr John Coates, chairman, presiding—Mr F. Graham Fairbank (Fairbank and Son, civil engineers, Driffield) attended, and advised the Board on several matters which are occupying their attention.-I The Board were informed that the owner of a field at Easingwokl, which has been selected as suitable for the outfall works for the Easingwold sewerage, would not take less than £l5O per acre.— It was therefore considered best to apply for compulsory power of purchase. Arrangements were made for pushing forward the sewerage schemes tor the villages of Huby and Farlington.—The Medical Officer of Health reported be bad examined a sample of water submitted to him by the Inspector of Nuisances, and taken tram a well is Long-street, Easingwold, and found the same to be bad and unfit to drink.—The usual proceedings were ordered to be taken against the owner of the property concerned. iilJecceaktL TREAT tam or ItPILiPTICAL