Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-10-05 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SAD SUICIDE THROUGH DISTRESS. I  ship were issued, and this year 34,117. In 1883 the bran Mes numbered 52., and this year they A poor widow, sixty-five years of ale, has just had increased to 62.3. The income in committed suicide in her little cottage near , 1884 was e3JI, as against 1:3,9:-.4 in 1389. Pontoise, Prance, under very distressicg circumThe President said the report Was eatil'actory I stances. She was a lamdress, but for soma Iso:ar as it showed progress in the ergs:death:pa I time she had had scarcely any work, though she in past years, hut he expressed the opinion eid WM much respected in the neighbourhood, and ! his colleagues and himself when he said that the bore an excellent character. In a letter, adreport in so :ar as it applied to thegeneral pope. deemed to her landlord, and found after her lation of Irishmen in Great Pri ain and the I death, she said that she had tried hard to mesa work they might do was not at all as the money for the rent, but had failed to do so. satisfactory as they could desire. The member- "1 have struggled, and 1 have been Van. ship for the present year was 34,117, which was • quished," she remarked, sadly. It Was not very small proportion indeed of the vast popula. the will that was wanting, but everytion of two millions of Irish people scattered over ! thing was against her, she added. The Great Britain. This was not the time when any I neighboure, noticing that all Was still in the ! man who called himself an Irishman ard pro. house, broke open the door, sad found the lifeless ' teased to have any desire for the liberaticu and body "laid out" as it were, the hands crossed i for the elevation of hie country—this was not the I over the breast, while round the bed burned four I time for him to stand asido iron the I candles, a cup containing holy water and a active work of the organisation and from ! crucifix being placed at the heal of the couch. j joining openly all these who were fighting for ! The poor woman, (titer lighting two pans of charthe Irish cause. (Hear, hear.) He further ! coal, had taken a dose of laudanum, and had exsaid that the great mass of the Irish people in I pired evidently some hours before. This suicide ' Great Britain belonged to the eaSs of toilers has created a very painful feeling, and limey of and worker• and when Nationalists were tight- I the inhabitants say that had they been aware of ling for the rights of liberty in Great Britain the distress hi which the deceased found herself they were also lighting largely for the rights of they would have lost no time in going to her the mass of the Irish race. Every oppressed assistance. !class deserved the sympathy andsuppo:t of every honest man, irrespective of race or nationality. They had an Maumee of what he meant during the recent struggle in London.—The report of the Executive was :Welsh:el.—Mr Joseph Biggar, M.P., afterwards took the chair. Ile proposed that no intoxicant,' be sold in branches or clubs attached to branceiee of the National League, and that no meetings of branches be held in i places licensed to sell intosicantse—After long discussion, an amendment that each branch be allowed to decide for itself the question whether intoxicants should be sold on the premises where its meetings were held was earried by a large majority. —On the motion of Mr John O'Connor, Mr T. P. O'Connor was re-elected president of the League, and the following gentlemen wore appointed the Executive Committee :—Vice-president, Mr J. G. Biggar, H.P. ; hon. treasurer, Mr J. P. O'Brien, M.P.; hon. secretary, Mr J. E. Redmond, M.P. Executive : Messrs J ustin M'Carthy, T. Sexton, T. M. Healy, J. Nolan, P. J. Power, Pearce Mabony, J. C. llynn, L. Hayden, A. thane, Michael Conway, P. J. Foley, and Patrick O'Brien, M.P.'s.—lt was decided to bold the next annual convention at Edinburgh.—mu the evening a great demonstration was held, when a letter Wag read from Mr C. A. V. Couyheare, and many speeches were made.  LucKy LOTTICRY WINN WitS.—Tlao lucky Freuch or foreign person who may happen to have in his or her possession "No. 578,761" of the itzhibition Lottery Bonds is entitled to 100,060 f ranee, or 61,000 " No. 901,494 " wine