Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-12-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE ELCHO SHIELD.  The Elcho challenge shield ban been handed OVer to the Lord Mayor of London for safe cuetody until nest July, when it will be again removed to Wimbledon. The shield was presented in 1862 by Lord Elcho, and is valued at 1000 guineas. It has now been won eleven times by the English at the yearly international shooting competition at Wimbledon. Under the management of Major Waller, adjutant of the English eight, the shield was conveyed on a gun carriage and mooned to the Thames Embankment by Sir Henry Halion!, Major Humphrey, Captain Godsal, Captain Mellish, Lieutenant Edge, Lieutenant Whitehead, Sergeant.lnstructor Gilder, and Private Gibbs, the winning eight. Detachments of volunteers paraded on the Embankment near blackfriars Bride, where, on the arrival of the shield, the procvsion moved forward to the Guildhall. The shield was then removed from the carriage, and carried on the shoulders of the eight into the building. The aiptain of the eight then presented the shield to the Lord Mayor, who expr.sed his satisfaction that it had fallen to his lot, whilst presiding over the great City of London, to have the honour of receiving in ..he Guildhall a trophy of which Englishmen ought to be very proud. Knowing the importance of accurate shooting in times of war the English ought to feel proud of having succeeded so well in their effort.. They could not always expect to be the champion shooters, for they (cal Ireland and Scotland to compete with, and those countries woald do their utmost to gaM for themselve9 the honour which now belonged to England. The shield IVIIA thou hung up facing the entrance to the hall,  A FEW DAYS AGO in Exmouth-street, Birkenheed, a man named Joseph Tees, shot his servant-girl and then tried to terminate his own life with somesharp instrument and with poison. Terse went into the street and asked a police inspector to accompany him to the Borough Hospital, as he had tried to kill himself. The insptctor did so, and at the hospital an emetic was administered to the man, who was also found to have two ugly cuts on the head. The wounds were dressed and be was left in the hospital in charge of the police. Meanwhile, Mrs. Teece had run to the nearest bridewell and related how her husband had shot the servant-girl, Jane Wainwright. The girl was taken to the hospital, where it was found that she was ion dangerous state. She had been shot in the forehead with a weapon which must have been held close to her head, her hair being singed. Mrs. Teerr has led to the police a six-chambered revolver, two barrela of which had been discharged. It seems that Tense had been drinking heavily, and laboured under the hallucination that there was someone hidden in the house, and that the sernant-girl intended to poison him. Accottnrnso to information from the scene of the lost train among the hills near Featiniog„ the task of removing the snow block, which in some parts had drifted to a depth of 20ft., was duly continued. Some 200 nien were employed, and the snow ploughs were within a short distance from the hurled train. Heavy snow fell, which made the work of clearing the block very tedious. Notwithstanding this Mr. Whit oh, chief engineer of the line, and Mr. Davies, farmer, of Festiniog, the passengers in the train, were finally conveyed to Bala. They are suffering severely from the cold to which they were exposed for upwards of fifteen hours. The train left Bala shortly before six o'clock in the evening, and had proceeded about e!gbt miles when large quantities, of snow blew upon it and extinguished the engine tire. IT WILL BE REMEMBERED that on October 22 last, the town of Montrose, Forfarsiaire, men startled by a fearful tragedy, a butcher named James Whyte baying murdered his wife, and then his motherin-law, by splitting open their heads with a cleaver. He !subsequently attempted to commit suicide by leaping into the River Southesk from the Suspension-bridge, but was rescued. He was then removed to the general prieon at Perth, where he has since been detained as a dangerous lunatic. While taking exercise with o!ner lunatics M the second gallery of the prison, Whyte managed to elude the vigilance of the keepers, and threw himself over the banisters on to the stone flags of the court-yard below. He was so seriously injured that he died in fifteen minutes. His six children are now orphans. Du. SEPTIMUS Lows, Lincoln city coroner, has held an inque,st on the body of Ann Cotton, aged 53, who committed suicide by cutting her throat. Deceased .89 suffering from religious melancholia, and scaling a wall she entered a neighbour's garden, and there cut her throat with one of her husband's razors. She was found by her son nearly dead, lying on a manure heap, and subsequently succumbed to the injury inflicted. The jury returned a verdict of Temporary insanity." THE DepaffMODl of Science and Art has offered to give £234 towards clearing off the remaining debt of 4;100 on the Newcastle-under-Lyme School of Art buildings on the condition that the School of Art committee raise the £l6O to make up the balance. It may be worthy of mention that there are only twelve national acholarships at South Kensington for the United Kingdom, and the Newcastle school holds three of them at the present time.