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Weekly News. — 1890-01-16 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DARING. WATCH ROBBERY.  A young man. giving the name of William Brown, was charged at Clerkenwell 1121 Tuesday with being concerned, with two other nit!' not in custody, in stealing a watch value tIO from Charles Thomson, a commission agent. Prosecutor was attacked by the Frisoner and two other men in • urinal in the Cityroad shortly after midnight on Monday. His hat was knocked off, he WAS hustled and pushed, and his watch, value £5O, stolen. His three assailants thorn ran away, and he pursued them crying "Stop third !" Police-constable Swain joined in the pursuit, and the prisoner, after a smart chase, was captured. The other men escaped. The watch was not found upon the prisoner,anu lie declared he knew nothing of the robbery.—The prosecutor, however, swore to his identity.—Brown was remanded fur inquiries.  The Kniffen burglary tragedy, telegraphs a New York correspondent, is fast developing into a amiss. tion of the first grade. Dr. Kuiffen professes the most poignant grief at his wifels unhappy fate, and has wade elalocrAe but unavailing efforts to conunit suicide. First, he swallowed an ounce of aconite ; but his stomach refused to retain the poison. Then he cut his throat with a razor ; but his nerve was not strung enough, and the result was merely a superficial wound. lie afterwards tried the weapon in succession upon his wrist and at, domen,but with no better success, for the attendants who had been placed in charge of him staunched the wounds without difficulty. Kniffen says all his friends have deserted him iu this his time of need, and he wants to die.  The death of Robert Browning hu led to an sr. traordinary demand for his volumes at the simulating librariee.  " Heroes and Martyrs and Other Poems," by John Alfred Langford, LL.D., will shortly be published by T. Fisher Unwin.  Mr. Lewis Morris is busy with another work, to be called "St. Adrian." It is expected to be published early in the year. Under the title of "Sermons Preached in the East." Dean Butcher is about to publish a volume of discourse, through Mr. Elliot Stock.
Weekly News. — 1890-06-26 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

OVER-CROWDING IN FLOWER BORDERS.  —..— This is a very common error, and one into which even the most experienced fall at times ; yet a moment's reflection will convince us of the folly of putting two plants into a space only sufficient for one, with the result that the weaker is coon overpowered by the stronger, and when starvation of any plant is going on, all sorts of ailments quickly follow in its train. A period of drought brings the starvation of plants to a crisis more rapidly than anything else, for as lung as rain falls copiously, plants of many kinds manage to exist in soil that is really very poor in plant food, but a period of drought soon chews where the manure has been put during the preceding winter, and where there has been nothing in the way of food applied. Now, those who go in for crowding should also go in for abundant feeding, both with solid, and, above all, liquid food, as it is impossible for plants to take up the food there te in the soil if it is dust dry, and the best food to apply at this season of the year is 801110 of the many excellent stimulants sold in the state of putt der, and that need to be dissolved before they are applied. Tbese are very iop iin their action, and the more roots there are to take it up ;be sooner will its good effect be seen. If, however, you Whllt lengthened display of flowers, give good culture in the shape of ample food and space to every plant in the flower garden. No one expects fine vegetables from poor, unbroken, or until:inured soil, nor yet if the crops are crowded one over the other ; yet the flower borders get very little culture, and less of the manure-cart, so that when a spell of dry weather comes on the overcrowding soon tolls its tale, and those who expect to see flower-beds or borders no full that nuts bit of soil can be seen, must be prepared to give high culture, and, above all, to make good the deficient rainfall with copious supplies of water, for it is the very life of flowers, and no well-ordered garden should be without the means of supplying it without stint.— Gardening Illustrated.  bOOl2l  food  Matrimonial agent (in whose office are several candidates of both sexes): " Ladies and gentlemen, it is now five minutes of four o'clock, at which hour the office closes. Please engage yourselves at once. Delays are dangerous." A man named Devi-, in prison at Dresden, and under sentence of death for murder and forgery, managed to overpower the gaoler watching him, and throttled the unfortunate niaii to death. He then took the prison keys, and. disguising himself in the dead gaoler's clothes, 1111111afpid to escape beyond the walls. He was soon recaptured.  Andrew Heudel, a native of Germany, has been "Shanghaied "at San Francisco by a crimp and put on board the ship Arabia, bound for Liverpool. At tho first opportunity ho jumped overboard, but was unable to make the short, and was drowned. His sister, when she heard the news, attempted suicide. She said her brother cams front Crerinauy to this city to make his fortune.
Weekly News. — 1890-09-04 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

WPM—Alfred Trim, a young nian. was charged with unlawlully attemptink, to commit suicide on August oth—Sarah Freeman, mother to the prisoner, said that her husband was a labourer, living at 35, Gordon Road. Springbourne. Her son was 21 years of age, and worked for Mr. J. J. Long, fishmonger, Christchurch Bead, Boscombe. On August oth. he name home to dinner about a quarter past one. saying he had done work, and asked if dinner was ready. She saw nothing the matter with him, and he had his dinner. He had been low-spirited some ism she believed about a young person to whom he was attached, as he had seen her with some one else. He went upstairs after dinner, and in a minute or two she heard him calling out, "Mother, mother, I'm dying ; good-bvii." She went up and saw him on the door of his bed-room with his throat cut. She ran out and called for help. The razor (produced) he told her be had bought at a sale some days before. Be used to shave himself. On bar return to the house her son had been taken away.—Charles Cobb, carman in the employ of the L. & S. W. Railway Company, and living at 28 Garfield Road, said that he heard Mrs. Freeman call, and went into the house. She said " Charlie, Alfred has been and murdered himself." He went in and found Trim leaning against a box in his room with a razor in his hand. His throat was cut, and there was much blood about. He said " What a stepe' you Elan to do it." He handed the razor to Trim's sister. He helped beget him down stairs and into a trap.—Mr. H. G. Lys, House Surgeon, at the Royal Victoria Hoapital, said that the prisoner was received there. He found a wound in the neck going through to the gullet. It appeared to be self inflicted. It was a dangerous wound, and only just escaped causing death. He was discharged from the Hospital on Fridays—P.C. Brittain said that he met the trap in which the prisoner was being taken to the Hospital, and accompanied it. Ow Friday he apprehended him ou his being discharged from the Hospital. In reply to the charge tint prisoner said "I must have been the worse for drink at the time.—The prisoner, who was committed for said that he was very queer when he came hoses to dinner, and was not in his right mind when be cut his throat —Bail was allowed in £2O and two sureties of Ile.
Weekly News. — 1890-09-04 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TRAGEDY IN AUEIRIA.  Askanische's Hotel, at Gratz, Austria, has been the scene of a terrible tragedy. Among those staying at the hotel were a young married couple from Brunn, near Vienna. The husband, Siegmund Drummer, is stated to have been a dreadful spendthrift, and his extravagance led to frequent quarrels between him and his wife, a very pretty woman, expensively dressed. Early on Saturday morning a watchman who passed the hotel on his round had not gone far when he heard the report of firearms. The sound proceeded from the hotel, and retracing his steps the watchman burst open the front dust and went inside to investigate the matter. In the room occupied by Drummer and his wife he found the latter lying on the bed in her nightdress, dead. She had been shot through the heart. There was no sign of the husband, but the window was open, and on the sill lay a recently discharged revolver. Alarn el by the pistol report and the bursting open of the door, the inmates of the hotel hurried to the scene of the tragedy, and the watchman at once despatched one of them, a man, to the nearest police. station. On his way the messenger fell over the dead body of Drummer, which lay in the street directly under the open window. After opening the window he had shot himself in the mouth and then jumped into the roadway. One hand of the dead woman clutched a torn scrap of paper bearing the words " we die together." They were in the husband's handwriting and were interpreted as shewing the unwillingness of his wife to consent to the double suicide.which he probably proposed. It seems the two had quarrelled overnight. Drummer was heard to press his wife to drink inure wine than she would take and an analysis of some found in their apartment proved it.to be poisonous. Only 104narks in money were found in the pockets of the man's clothes.
Weekly News. — 1890-06-12 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE ATTEUTTED SUICIDE AT CHARLTON MARSHALL. —The case of the man Cherrett, who attempted to commit suicide, by taking oxalic arid, at Charlton Marshall on the 29th May last, and was taken to the hospital at Blandford on June 2nd, was also down on the charge sheet, but as it was stated that Charlton Marshall was in the Wimborne police district, some doubt was expressed as to the right of the magistrates to try the case. After some discnotien the magistrates decided to visit the man, and, having done so, considered it best to try him then.—Charles Cherrett said that the prisoner George Cherritt was his father, sod lived at Sturrnineter Marshall. Ps (witness) lived at Poole, and was in the service of Mr. Brown. His father came to him at Poole on Wednesday. May ffBlh, and remaieed with him at his lodgings that night. About 12.45 next day he started from home in a four-wheeled trap to dries his father back to Sturminster Marshall. They did not have much conversation on the road, as the father was not perfectly sober when they left Poole. When they got to Henlinry the prisoner got out of the trap and over the hedge. When be came back he said "I have done it." Be had a bottle in his hand, bat the bottle was not labelled. There was • small quantity of some liquid in the bottle, In the other hand the prisoner held a paper which had written on it " Oxalic acid, poison." -fie took the bottle and paper from his father, and put them in his pocket until he reached home, when be gave them to his mother. When they were driving home the prisoner vomited very much, and appeared to be in great pain. He asked his father several times how he felt, but got no reply. Be (prisoner) appeared to lose his senses before he got into the trap, as witness had to help him in. Immediately they arrived at home, his mother sent for • doctor, and Dr. Watson canie.—Will:am Watson said he was& surgeon, and resided at Blandferd, acting as aesistant to Br. Ingram. On Thursday, the 29th Mali., he received notice to go to Charlton Marshall to see the prisoner. He arrived there about 5.30, and saw the prisoner in bed, very sick and vomiting blood. He was scarcely conscious, and evidently in great pain. He attended to him ter a few days. The symptoms of the case were those of acid poisoning. He saw the bottle which prisoner bad taken the poison from. He yut one of the crystals into his month, and found y its taste that it was oxalic acid, apparently mixed with whiskey. He bad attendtd the prisoner throughout.— Police-Constable Borden, stationed at Spetisbury, said that in consequence of information received he went to the prisoner's house at Slurminister Marshall on May 31st. He received the bottle and the label (produced). When he charged prisoner with the offence, he said, " Very good."—Prisoner said he was very sorry' but he was very weak and ill, and didn't know what he was doing at the time. He had been out of work for some time, and had a wife and family.—He was committed for trial.
Weekly News. — 1890-07-24 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MYS FERIOUS MURDERER.  A curious clue, says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, has been found which, if accurate, may throw sonic light on the murder of Made Gagnol, in the Rue de Provence, whose assassin up to now has remained undiscovered. When the woman was almost insensible and dying she several times murmured, "Gouseherry Syrup." This was at the time thought to be merely the wish of • dying person for a refreshing draught of • popular beverage. Some days ago, however, s ' constable found a young woman lying on the Boulevard de la Villette stabbed through the breast with a knife. Taken to the hospital, silo recovered sufficiently to be able to say that her assailant was a soutenrur known to women of her class of "Gooseberry Syrup," all the degraded beings of Chic desoription having a nickname of some ridiculous kind or another among the unfortu. nate people upon whom they prey. She gave further information at the time, but on Saturday evening she wrote a letter to the Prefect of Police, stating that " Gooseberry Syrup" was an soquaintance of the murdered Marie, and knew 801110thing about her death. He is described as a "hand. I some blackguard," who in youth had received a good education. The detectives have since been hunting for him, but they found that be disappeared from his lodging the morning after the assault on the woman at La Villette' and has nut been beard of since. Neither has be been seen at his favourite haunts on the Outer Boulevards.  A gang of armed dacoits attacked iusthik a village in the Shama district, burning six houses and looting propartyworth 11.3,000. The daooita were promptly pursued by a party of military police and overtaken 1.5 miles from the scene of the outrage. Two dacoits were killed, one was wounded, and one taken prisoner. Six guns were captured and the stolen property regovered. Osman Digna has gone to Omdurman, the bfandi having summoned all the emirs who pay allegiance to him for the purpose of consulting them as to the best means of making a last desperate effort to uphold listidism, which, has been steadily losing ground of late. Osman Digna's followers Imre, however, returned to Taker, having lost morns 400 by famine and sickness.  Mr. T. ilowson, timber merchant, Appleby. threw himself in front of an =press train Iste =Thursday evening at Ozenholme, and on Friday mueoumbed to his injuries. The deceased gentleman attempted, unsuccessfully, to out his throat • few days ago, and on Thursday night he sluclod his relative. and got on the line. Mr. Howson, who etood high a• =Oxford Wrangler, was only a young man, and was most successful in businees, having already amassed a considerable fortune. He was airominent Liberal, and wag well known in the North as an able speaker. A brother, who was a clergyman, nominated suicide by drowning at Appleby some 'oars , ago.
Weekly News. — 1890-02-20 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DEATH OF SIR LOUIS MALLET.  Sir Louis Mallet died in Bath on Sunday from influenza, after a short illness. Sir Louis Mallet was born in 1823, and commenced his career as clerk in the Audit Office and in the Board of Trade. He soon rose to be private secrctary to the president of the Board of Trade, then Mr. Labouchere (afterwards Lord Taunton), and afterwards acted in a similar rapacity to Lord Stanley of Alderley. Mr. Mallet was Assistant Commissioner in Paris in 1860, under Mr. Cobden, who signed the Commercial Treaty with France in that veer. It was Mr. Mallet who drew up the tariff for the Treaty, and after Cobden's death he was one of the highest authorities on treaties of commerce. In 1865 he was a member of the Mixed Commission which met at Vienna to examine into an Austrian tariff. In 1863 he was knighted, and in 1872 was nominated to the Indian Council. After two years' service there he was appointed Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India. In 18113 he became a member of the Privy Council.  STRANGE SUICIDE OF A GC)VEItNESS. Mr. Hicks held an inquiry at Battersea, on Saturday, touching the death of Jessie Roger, a governess, aged 24, who committed suicide the previous Wednesday evening. It appeared from the evidence oi Mrs. Elizabeth Roger, mother of the deceased, that she left home at 9 o'clock to go to Hyde Park-square, where she was engaged as governess, and returned at 7. Noticing her agitation, the witness asked her what was the mstter, to which the deceased replied, " I will tell you ; I have been walking about, and now I am going to do it." Before the witness could stop she produced a bottle and drank the contents, afterwards rushing from the house. Twenty minutes later she was brought horn* inseneible. Dr. Kernpster was sent for, but deceased expired early on the following morning.—Other evi• dance was to the effect that the deceased had received a letter from her employer, stating that her engagement had better terminate at once; and this had apparently preyed upon her mind. She visited a dentist whom she knew, showed him the letter and asked him to draft a reply, which he did. Ile also wrote to a governess agency in Harley-street, but she appeared strange in her manner and left abruptly. He did not see her again. The medical evidence was not taken, although it transpired that the post-mortem examination made by Dr. Felix liempster revealed some important facts. The pew was adjourned.
Weekly News. — 1890-04-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

RESCUED FROM SLAVERY.  A Times correspondent telegraphing from 1 Zanzibar, states that two Swahilis sold as slaves to certain Muscat Arabs two young children, stolen from parents in the town of Zanzibar. The Arabs were leaving the harbour on Saturday in a dhow when they not several fishing vessels, the crews of which, bearing the cries of children, stepped the dhow and insisted upon bringing her back. The case was brought before the Sultan, who immediately sentenced the Arabs to six months imprisonment and arrested the Swaliilis, ordering them to , receive NO blows each and to be sent to prison for one year. The children were restored to their parents. The British Consul-General subiequently sent for the native fishermen and handsomely rewarded them.  A telegram from Lloyd's signal station at St. Ann's Head, reports that the Clydesdale, of Glasgow, foundered at night, five niiles north of the South Bishops, having struck on the North Bishops. The crew of 18 and six passengers were saved in the boats. A curious instance of the realisation of a dream has occurred at a village at Werrington, Northamptonshire. An old woman named Hardstaff had been missing for a week, and streams and ponds had been dragged in search of her. A neighbour, however, dreamed several times in succession that the body was at the bottom of a certain well, and communicated this to a man named Spridgeom who went down the well and found the body. It ie earwised that the woman committed suicide. A police-constable named rearsco, noticing • boat trawling in Portsmouth Harbour last Saturday morning, put off in • craft, with two other men, and boarded the offending boat, when he was attacked by one of its occupants, who, it was said, tried to throw the officer overboard. With the assistance of two seamen from a passing steam-launch, however, the men were overpowered and arrested. In the afternoon the two men found in the boat, whose names were Barfield and Mayhead, were taken before the magistrates, charged with trawling, and also having in their possession a quantity of rope which was the property of the Crown. The prisoners were each sentenced to a mouth's hard labour.
Weekly News. — 1890-04-17 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

PLOTS AGAINST THE CZAR  DISCOVERY OF BOMBS.  The Daily Ttleyrisph correspondent at St. Peters. burg telegraphs as follow,: For several days past vague but disquiet.ing rumours have been circulating , in the city respecting the discovery of minee at Gatchina and the apprehensions of the police for the Emperor's safety causing his Majesty's compulsory stay in the capital. I have been to Gatchina and having spoken on the subject with two officials, learned that no discovery of the kind referred to had been made in the Palace or the grounds of Gatchina—indeed, that no seareh had been or could be made there without an express order from General Hasse, the Palace Governor, who is directly responsible to the Emperor for his Majesty's safety, and is perfectly satisfied that the precautionary measures taken last December leave nothing to be desired. No search of any kind has been made since then, nor will any be made until • day or two before his Majeity'e return. The origin of the above-mentioned rumours probably consisted in the conviction of the police, that the naval officer who lately committed suicide in the Vassili Ostroff, was not the only person demited to give effect to tbe murderous intent of the small group of regicides who have been spreading such terror in the Court circles of the capital. There were grounds, too, for believing that two others were biding their time, and that one or both of them had selected Gatehina as the most suitable place for the next attempt. As General Hesse was sure of the Palace grounds and buildings, the clue was followed up not by him but by the police, and it was their rather clumsy in vestigatione and unskilful questioning of the inhabitants of Gatchina that gave rise to the rumours alluded to above. On Thursday evening, however, they were rewarded bye discovery which seems to shew that their inforniation was,in the main, correct. Inquiries about the previous career of a young man who had lived ill Gatchina since the end of December tended to chew that the police were mistaken in supposing his name, business, and previous history to be be well-known to them. On the day mentioned he left his lodgings to go to St. Petersburg, and during his absence his rooms were searched thoroughly. In one of the drawers of a piece of furniture an itinocent.looking hot was discovered. It was securely locked, but whim opened it was found to contain two explosive ball•liaped masses of very portable dimensions securely kept in their places by closely-fitting frames, as that no amount of jolting could loosen them or endanger an explimion. These were no papers. no chemicals, no letters—nothing but this box. The young man's nano: is now believed to be a false irie, and his passport is said to bee forgery, as he has been personating someone else. The police mill believe that there is a third conspirator in St. Peteraburg or Gatchina ; but they have uo clue to his whereabeuts.