Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-10-19 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

CRIMES AND ACCIDENTS.  One man was killed and several others injured by an explosion on Tuesday night at Messrs. Bidder and Elliott's Colliery, Kidsgrove, Stafford.  shire. A woman named Hodkinson died at Wigan on Wednesday from injurim alleged to have been inflicted by her husband. The latter has been arrested. At Bonneville, France. a woman having saturated her niece with petroleum net fire to her, and watched the agonies of the girl as she slowly burned to death. The steamer Mermaid, of Douglas, on it voyage from Peel to Manchester, foundered early on Tuesday morning off the Northwest Lightship. The crew were saved. At Hoylake, Cheshire, on Tuesday night, the lifeboat rescued two men and a boy from the Beaumaris schooner Thomas Mason, which ran ashore and wee breaking up. A youth named Gilmore, while engaged in the wheelmaking departmeut of Dallam Forge, Warrington, on Wednesday, got entangled in the machinery and was almost out to pieces. During the trial of a new fire ...me at Black. burn on Saturday evening, P.C. Cookson, while descending from a lofty bnilding in a canvas shoot, turned over and fell with great force to the ground, his skull being smashed to atoms. A terrible struggle, lasting for nearly half an hour, took place at Blackbarn on Wedneeday, between a policeman and a burglar. The latter wounded the countable severely with a knife, and he was eventually compelled to let him go owing to kiss of blood. Evidence of inasnity having been established beyond a doubt. the Home Secretary has ordered the removal of Mrs. Alice Ann Farrar, the Accrington murderess, to a criminal lunatic asylum. Mrs. Farrar wee eommitted for trial at the Manchester BBRiors, but the Home Secretary thinks a trial unnecessary. A sad accident, causing the loos of two lives, occurred at Leith on Saturday night. Mr. Dewar, his son, and a friend were proceediug along the docks in a cab when they were accidentally driven down a landing 'dip into the water. Mr. Dewar and his friend were rescued. The cabman and Mr. Dewar's son were drowned. A ghastly accident °warred at a Birmingham factory on Tuesday. A man named Gore, engaged at a metal casting establishment, was attending to a large crucible full of molten metal, when the crucible split and the metal flew about in all directions. The man's face was horribly disfigured, and the whole of his hair was burned off. He is lingering at the hospital. News hen reached Plymouth of a terrible gun accident on board the Satellite cruiser ou the Pacific station. In firing a salute the gun cartridge exploded, with the result that the head of a gunner's mate, whose name is unknown, was instantly blown off. Probably the cartridge, owing to improper loialing, was defective. No news of any inquiry has yet come to hand. An inquest was held on Monday at Chartham, near Canterbury, relative to the death of the five hop-pickers who were killed on the Booth Ilailttern Railway a few days ago. Evidence wee given that they were crossing the line at Chartham in a waggon when a Ingot,e train dashed into them. A fog prevailed at the time. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and exonerated the driver and fireman of the train from blame. An inquest was held on Tuesday, at Aldershot, touching the death of Captain Charles Cureton. of the 4th Hussars. The evidence showed that the deceased had been euffering from poor health and depressed spirits. His money affairs were in good order. A doctor stated that the case was undoubtedly one of suicide, effected by a revolver shot. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane ' was returned. Asian named Webster, of Kettering, fell from a train on the Midland Railway late on Saturday , night. He wee returning home from Leiemter Fair, and, it is stated, fell through the window. His wife, who was travelling with him, informed the officials at Wigston of the occurrence, and a search party found lfim lying unconscious near Aylestone Junction. He was taken to Leicester Infirmary suffering from a broken collarbone and other injuries. On Saturday night the village constable at Cornrie. Perthshire, arrested three woodmen on a ' charge of dirorderly oonduct. and lodged them in a cell at the local police station. On Sunday morning all three were found in an insensible condition from the effects of inhaling gas escaping from • burner, which had not been properly turned off. Restoratives were applied, and two of the men anon recovered, but the third man was pronounced to be in a very critical state. Early on Tuesday morning, in response to a signal from North Sand Head Goodwin Lightship, the Broadstairs lifeboat was launched in a heavy sea, and found the Mitch pilot schooner Lord I Swerzen agronod. With great difficulty and much damage to the lifeboat all hands, including six pilots and a crew of five, were taken out of the 1 vessel. As the tide made the schooner flostqd, and in tow of the Ramagste tog was taken into I that harbour, the men being landed at Broadstaira At Llangefni, on Monday, a merriol woman named Elizabeth Jones was committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions held on Wednesday on a charge of having attempted to do away with her life on the 6th inst. by strangling herself with a cord. The medical evidence showed that the was of weak intellect, ben -"- and when  being subject charged •