The Haslingden Gazette. — 1904-10-22 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

BEST & GOES FARTHEST. A I  PARS IN BRIEF. ootm'opertteititohnoutangilew;.onis meter-ear on Saturday. The third annual exhibition of the Southport' Art Asauciation was opened on Saturday. A jure,. named Hlerbert arelfern failed to put Ti an appearance at a Blackburn inmeet, and the Coro or finel luni 40e. Henry .Austen (62). of Burnley, lost his life by falling from a plank whiela he wee emesing in order to reach a boat. Engineering employment during the lest month continued dull generally, end was worse than • month and a year ago. The Great Harwoxl Commercial Mill Company. for a technical *germ in the employment of three wmmem woe Wed 20t. and costs. Of the 5,705 students who attended the Man. cheater Municipal School of Technology teat see non, 546 were over thirty years of age. At 131aekburn, two married women. named Sarah Jane Lethbridge and France. Aspieall. have been fined £lO and costs each for fortune telling. A preparation is being made to start a mill in the Fulltdge district of Buml.ey, containing 200 looms, which hos been stopped for over 12 months Nearly 12.000 students entered the Manchester (borporation's Evening Schools during the fist week of the present session, and 1,643 entered the School of commerees On heing sent to prisen for a month for drunkenstem at Colne, an old man named Marilee. Holgate aaked to be sent to the workhouse, as it was no me his going to prison; he was no use there. A marriage has br'erts arranged between Mr. George Harwood. M.P.. and Mite nlen llopkinmn. eldest slaughter of Professor Allred Hopkinson, Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University. The members of Lancashire County Cricket Club, who number nearly 3,000. will invite the amateurs and professionals to dinner, in honour of having won the championship honours of 190 t. At the Tower Quarries, Hoghtore near Preston, there was a large fail of reek on Saturday. The dimen.sions of the rock were 44ft. high, 2214. across and 10ft, wide, and of the estimated weight of 800 tons. The death has oceurrerl at Bury of Patrick Redmond, a native of toughrea. Galway, who enlisted in the old 57th Regiment in 1847. He served ; through the Crimean War, and was wounded three t imes. For breaking into the warehouse of Richard Ashworth, at Bacup. on August 24th, and stealing a quantity of 1:6114m5. David McCormick received • sentenre of four months' imprisonment at Preston Sessions. On Monday evening Bishop Thornton dedicated a new organ et St. Paul's Church. Bury. in the presence of a large congregation. The total cost nt the new imtrument is £1.114 10s., of which £750 has already been raised. Frederick Lewis Draper. chemist, of Audley, was charged at Blackburn with attempting to cornmit suicide by cutting his throat. Ptisener was remanded for a wick to allow some provision to be made for him by his brothers. The Nelson and District Temperame Union Executive recently reseed a resolution that, owing to the unsatisfactory municipal candidetee the Union should nominate a caedidate. At the annual meeting the meolution was referred hock. The scheme for sending cotton direct to 3! an. cheater is progressing. Another largo steamer. the Mercedes de Lartingara. has just arrived at the Manchester Docks from Galveston with a large cargo of cotton, amounting to 13.215 bales. Frank Leonard. 28. an acrobat. of Birmingham, has died at the Rochdale Infirmary from injuries sustained in an accident at .Rechdahe Circus of Varieties on Monday night. Mn was the top man in • pyramid exhibition, and he fell on his head and fractured his spine. The body of Greenwool Smith. weaver, aged 43. of Hondo-street. Burr, has been recovered teen a