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The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-01-04 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A WOHAN.—Dr. Macdonald, M.P., resumed an inquiry on Saturday, at the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, respecting the death of Jane Norris, aged 43, the widow of a traveller lately residing at 21, Halton-road, Canonbury, who committed suicide by taking a quantity of carbolic acid while in the lavatory at Hackney Station, on Saturday week. Evidence showed that deceased was discovered by a porter, going his rounds to lock up, reclining in the lavatory, quite dead. A broken bottle, which had contained carbolic acid, was found beside her, and in her pocket the following touching letters :—" My dear Bertie, I don't suppose you thought last night you were talking to me for the last time. God bless you, my lad, and forgive me I could not keep on any longer. Look after Alfred, and never forget lie is your brother. I told you how tired Emma was of me, and I had a letter from Mist Derham, refusing to take me in, so, you see, I can't keep on. I have no money. I can't stay at Emma's any longer, and the law does not allow me to walk about the streets. Think of all I have gone through. Good-bye, and God bless you, is the last wish of your loving mother. Do not eves start playing cards, but always think of me." " My dearest Eliza,—There is nothing before me; Emma is sick of me, and I have nothing left. With no home, penniless, and in everybody's way, what can I do? It seems hard to walk about the street this joyous time and see everybody happy, while poor me is without a shilling or a friend in the world, so the sooner the chapter is ended the better. Good bye. You will never know what I have gone through since Thursday. If only Mr. WliliamS had kept the boy how happy I might have been." It transpired that deceased's son was refused admission to the Shaftesbury School. Dr. White deposed that he had made a post-ntorten examination and found that death was due to carbolic acid poisoning, and the jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while insane." To
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-05-31 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

NEWS.  I re meant 16, died He fell est the car. was shock. having to be . as run over by a ,d ou the spot. ~.. Ay occurred in the .shop assistant named I ;ears, along with three n the Bibble at a place a about four miles from rug in the water a few . seen to go suddenly under. Struggling, but sank again and was made for the body, which ' A the evening. a morning John 31aGregor, aged 53 .sion dealer's assistant, of Sontligate. Paul's-road, Preston, committed suicide .rkable manner. He rose about seven ad told his daughters he would ge down ke the tire. Some time after a report as of , was hoard, and one of the daughters running 111 into the yard, found her father lying on the ,or of the washhouse, bleeding profusely from the sead, part of the left side of the skull having bees blown away. Policeman Lee was called in. mid i from his examination it appeared that ala Gregor 4ar m had placed a toy cannon on the wringing machine di art where it still remained and had recently been die Aver charged, and that he had stooped with his head to lei The the mouth of the cannon, which he had exploded 11 .rn c-nd with a heated piece of iron wire that he still ...... slue. He grasped. The deceased had been out of work and ,nt, and to much depressed for nearly three mouths. He has ril een Pen fired left a widow and 10 children. struck. The . II A compositor named M'Vittie was drowned while bathing at Carlisle on Saturday. On the previous ( .m.-On Monday night as several boys were bathing in the Leeds and 6, Ellen Dennehy Liverpool Canal near to Messrs. Potter's Mill at NOI in arm and ribs Greenbank, Blackburn, two of them, brothers, des A in a quarrel with named Thomas and William Bibby, aged 13 and 10 HO .y. While the doctors years respectively, and living at 13, Smithies-street, ner husband was brought got out of their depth and were drowning. A third Th, ,egs broken, and his body boy named John Mercer, 13, of 21, Swarbrick-street, ,ne quarrel the husband had seeing their danger, jumped into the water to their sal ,ii Wall Distillery, and when assistance. He, too, however, was in danger of , to • he fell. When taken to the drowning, when the other lads on the bank raised Up aconscious, and died in an hour. an alarm. Two men named Larvey and Bolton, , Coat, Taal:ie.-The men engaged residents in Harwood-street, rushed to the spot, and ser . collieries in Northumberland have going into the water, with diffioulty rescued the offer of the employers of 2i per cent lade, who were in an exhausted condition. In one wages. They had requested an advance case artificial respiration had to be resorted to. ha' ent, to place them on a level with the WO T aal collieries. The steam coal miners, who AN ATTEMPT O Bout DOWN a
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-05-17 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

OOO.  Shortly after ten o'clock on Monday morning a serious breakdown took place at the shed of the Westwood Spinning Company, Oldham, causing a stoppage of work. The fly wheel was broken, the arms of which were strewn about the engine. hoqxe, others going through the roof, damaging thc adjoining buildings. The pinion wheel was also smashed, a large piece alighting in the card room. Several narrow escapes occurred. Great damage was done to other portions of the engines, which only recently underwent extensive repairs.  A meeting of 5,000 men employed by variout London gas companies was held on Sunday at Barking, under the auspices of the Amalgamated Society of Gas Workers and General Labourers to forward the eight hours' movement by insisting that the day shall consist of three shifts of eight hours each, instead of, as now, two shifts of 12 hours. Resolutions were passed advocating an eight hours' day, and protesting against the die, charge of society men by certain ornpanies. It was resolved to hold another meeting next Sunday. Should the oompanies refuse the men will probably strike.  An inquest was held at Rosherville, near Gravesend, on Tuesday, on the body of Edwin Saunders, 16, who committed suicide by jumping over a cliff. The deoeased was an assistant to a grocer at Gravesend, named Woo'lett, whose parents adopted Saunders in infancy. Upon the deceased was found the following letter :—" 35, New-road, Gravesend, May 12th. Mrs. Woollett,—l am tired of this life. I asked A. Nettleingham if she would have me for a lover, and she said ' No.' She was the only gull loved, and so I swore I would end my life. Alice Nettleingham is the only one to blame, and may the curse of my head ever be upon her. lam very sorry to leave you in such a way, after being so kind to me all my life.—l remain,
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-08-09 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

NOT YET.—We are not yet authorised to write "1.M." after our name, but we are working hard and will have the postmastership of this notice or loss a leg. The present incumbent is a bloke of the iirst water and has got to let go. We have written Mr. Wanarnaker several confidential letters and have forwarded him several communications reflecting public opinion, and although he seems inclined to hang off on us, it is only a question of time when he must give in. We know that we are the only man in town fitted to be postmaster, and it will either come to us or Mr. We.naker will not last six mouths.  ALWAYS AT Hone.—Coroner Tom Blackman, when summoned to hold an inquest on the dead body of "Red-headed Perkins," the gambler who committed suicide two weeks ago, was 80 bethddled with poor whiskey that he acted like a f 001. We had to step in and do the business for him, and because the .‘ Kicker " gave him some good advice in its next issue he is now blowing around that he has camped on our trail and means to have our life. Rats! If Tom Blackman wants our scalp let him come for it. We are always at home the whole 24 hours through, and we believe that we can take good care of ourself. He can come with shotgun or tomahawk—day or night—alone or in company. We shall do our best to drop him before he does us, and in case we are asked to hold the inquest on him it shan't cost the county a cent. We 11 do even better—we'll give him as line an obituary notice as would 9051 him $lOO in Chicago.  Puck's Prithosorirr.—Even the golden rule is only electroplated -in those days of sham. All things come to him that waits; but it doesn't pay to hold one's breath till they come. The problem of life with most men consists in subtracting what they own from what they owe. Time evens up all things. The man who spent more than he could afford on his early spring suit is wearing it yet. "This is my Log-wanted felt," exclaimed the tramp gracefully, as the kind housewife presented him with an old hat. When Uncle Eben's boys complain of feeling tired in tha field, he says, " Tut, tut, you us pitch in harder an' work it off." Said William the Conqueror, when he landed in England in 1066, "Thus I seize it, with bath hands." Julius Cassar got there previous with both feet.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-08-09 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDES IN LEEDS.—.OO Saturday two cases of suicide under distressing circumstances were inquired into by the Leeds Borough Coroner. The first inquest, held at the Bridge Inn, Nirkstall, was on the body of Joshua Lowther (47), a mechanic, who resided at 17, Galway Place, Galway-street, West Hunslet. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased left his home about 6 p.m. on Monday last, giving no intimation of where be was going. He never returned, however, and his body was found on Friday morning in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at sirkstall lock. The deceased was treasurer of the Workpeople's Hospital Fund at the works of Messrs. Boocook and Tannett, iron founders, of Water-lano. The moneys of this fund he should have put into the bank at the end of June. He had not done so, and, inquiries being made, it was discovered that he was deficient to the amount of £l2 12s. 30. A. warrant was taken out for his arrest on his disappearance becoming known. Upon these facts the jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind." The deceased leaves a widow and three children.—The second iriquest was at the Cambridge Hotel, Chapeltownroad, upon the body of James Anderson (76), a retired naval captain, who resided with his niece, Mrs. Oldfleld, at 29, Nassau Place, Leopold-street. The deceased gentleman had suffered much pain through a disease. On Friday evening he went into the bath room, and immediately after the inmates of the house heard strange noises. On entering the room they found the poor man with a terrible gash in his throat, and death had in even that short space of time taken place. Near him was fond a razor, round the haft of which had been wrapped a quantity of silk and a pocket handkerchief, apparently for the purpose of affording a firm hold. Medical aid was procured, but was unavailing. A verdiot " That the deceased committed suicide while temporNnly irsarte " was returned.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-05-10 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

BEST ADVERTISENG MEDIUM.  A commercial traveller named Fred Grey, in the employ of a wine and spirit firm, died at Warrington Infirmary on Tuesday, having received shocking injuries at Latchford Station on Monday.  The Nantwich Guardian states that it is in a position to announce upon the most reliable authority that the old salt industry at Nantwich will shortly be revived upon an extensive scale. One of the largest chemical manufacturing companies in Lancashire is about to coustruot works and lay down plant capable of producing from 4,000 to 6,000 tons of salt per week, provided that satisfactory arrangements can be made with the railway -company as to rates. The initial outlay upon the works will be from £50,000 to £70,000. The 6rm is a wealthy private, and not a company, concern.  A young woman named Theresa Matthews, a barmaid, committed suicide, or was murdered, under extraordinary circumstances at Newcastle on Saturday morning. It seems that about a month ago deceased went to London with a man named David Hildrop, and in spite of the fact that Hildrop had a wife and two children in Newcastle, married him. They returned home, and then resumed their respective employments until last Saturday week, when their relations were discovered. Hildrop and the barmaid then ran away to Darlington, and were found living together by Hildrop's wife. Having obtained sufficient evidence to justify her in initiating proceedings for divorce, Mrs. Hildrop left. Nothing more was heard of the guilty couple until early on Saturday morning last, when the dead body of the girl Matthews was found lying on the doorsteep of the lodgings she had formerly occupied in Newcastle with a bullet through her head, discharged evidently from a revolver that was lying by her side. Hildrop, who is in custody, said the girl committed suicide in his presence, and that he then ran away. He was remanded.  A schoolmaster of Barslem lately received the following note of apology: "Will yu pled* ezkews my son Fred for not cumming to skule this morale. He is ded. Widow Washerwoman, Bursleni."
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-07-26 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

ATTEMPTS') NUMMI AND SLICIDE.—Mary Emma Brighton (37), married, was charged at Bow-street Police Court, on Monday, with attempting to drown her two children, and also with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the river near Westminster. Constable Gregory. 72A, who witnessed the attempt, rescued one of the children with a boathook, and the woman and the other child were got out by other persons. Dr. Hunt, Westminster Hospital, said the prisoner appeared to be suffering from mental depression. Since her reception into the hospital the prisoner had been visited by her husband, and they appeared to be on good terms. Mr. Vaughan, magistrate, suggested that the medical man who usually attended the woman should be called, and remanded her for that purpose, Dr. Hunt having expressed his willingness to leadmit her into the hospital in the interim.  A press view took place on Saturday of the so-called " cheinin de fer glissant," or " slide railway," on the Esplanade des Invalides, within the Exhibition. The new invention is a singularly original contrivance for enabling trains to run by water power at a speed hitherto undreamt of. Arriving there without any intimation as to what a "sliding railway" might be, I at first mistook it for an overgrown switchback with the humps smoothed away. The train consisted of about four carriages, affording room for about 100 passengers. In a hydraulic train travelling at full speed—that is to say; at the rate of 140 to 200 kilometres, or 87 to 124 miles an hour—there would be almost no consciousness of motion. The journey down the length of the esplanade only occupied a few seconds.  _ Much sensation was created at Todmorden on Saturday morning by the report that three children had been drowned in Gadden's Dam. On Friday three little boys, named James Stephenson, aged 12; Abraham Crossley, aged 9; and Ernest Greenwood, aged 9, all of Hailins Walsden, left their respective homes about 12 30 to gather bilberries on the moor. They did not return at the expected time, and much anxiety existed as to their whereabouts. At 730 in the evening two men who were walking on the moor noticed three boys' suits on the embankment of Gadden's Dam, which belongs to the Rochdale Canal Company, and is of great depth. The men informed the police, and a search was instituted. For a long time no signs of the lads could be found, but at 4 30 on Saturday morning the bodies were recovered from the water. The presumption is that the boys went into the water to bathe and got beyond their depth. The reservoir is situated about two miles from Todmorden, and is nearly a mite from the nearest dwellinghonse. _  . ..... To
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-06-07 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

WIIMBEATER.—A singular scene was recently witnessed in the streets of Ballarat. The Vert. Churchill Julius, archdeacon of that golden city, previously a famous Oxford athlete and a hardworking Liverpool clergyman, while doing his rounds caught a rough hulking wife-beater red.hansled. Be seized the brute, overpowered him after a straggle, and personally marched him off to the lock-up without bothering the police.  SUICIDE or A CHATBURN Wonas.—On Monday morning some consternation was ceased in Chat. burn by the news that a married woman residing in the village had committed suicide. It appears that as a lebonrer, named Jackson, was proceeding to his work along Grindleton-road about 3 30 a.m., he found the body of Lefties Bleazard, wife of Elijah Bleazard, labourer, in the Chatburn brook. She had evidently committed suicide. She has recently been desponding because of her husband being in the workhouse. • A EMMET SZ'WANT AND TES FL6olsB.—The news of the devastating floods in Pennsylvania has creatad some alarm at Burnley to a domestio servant, who has a sweetheart who is out at one of tips villages near Williamsport, which is in the route of the destructive floods. Unable to gather from the newspaper reports whether the small village at which be lived is among those which have been swept away, she has cabled to the address from which his letterstave been sent, and she awaits with painful suspense the tidings of his fate. The couple had made arrangements to be married this year.  SNOCILMG RESULT OF BLOWING OUT A PABAFFIN Lecr.—A young girl, aged 13, named Elizabeth Hardman, of Winsford, met with a shocking accident on blonday night at the house of her employer, Mr. Thomas Hough, London-road, Northwich. She blew down a paraffin lamp chimney, with the result that the flame was blown into the chamber of the lamp. She dropped the lamp against her dress, an explosion followed, and she was enveloped in flames. Neighbours rushed to her assistanoe, but the poor girl's stays were only removed by bringing away portions of the flesh. The entire contents of the room were consumed, and the house was with difficulty saved. Hardman lies in a precarious condition at Northwioh Intlrmary.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-06-07 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

REJOINDER TO " CLOTHLOOKER." To the Editor of the Cotton Factory Times. Sir,—lt is now very clear to me that the experience of our Harwood " Clothlooker " is confined to very narrow limits, or else he is fooling, or he is telling deliberate lies. We read of manufacturers going to London to reason, as it were, on business which is of importance to tens of thousands of Her Majesty's subjects, and they stand in the presence of some of the law makers of our land, and to a great extent try to cloak up the most abominable practices ever a Christian people were subjected to. "Clothlooker " says he does not intend that his remarks should have a local application altogether. He says he has described what he has seen. He may have seen such weavers. So have I, but anywhere you find this sluggish sort of weavers, you will very often find it is a sluggish sort of shop. He says it is so in every place whore manufacturing is carried on. This statement convinces me that he understands very little of the abominable usage a great many operatives are subject to, in a great many cotton mills in the Nothern Counties. Do not the weavers iu ninety-niue cases out of a hundred book up with the bookkeeper, not the clothlooker, before the tackler comes round to the trembling weavers with the slate, or his red a paper, with their wages on, and too often a volley of oaths in the bargain. There is just one firm that I know that honestly km:wits up through the slate, and that is a company over here. What about the number of weavers that have committed suicide rather than bear it any longer, the tear-stained cheeks of women and young persons, the pale, sunken cheeks of fathers of families ; young women driven to disgrace, and many a plucky young man sent to the four winds, through men being. placed in power void of all raasouableness. I say with regard to the bating, or rather robbing, weavers to the tune of One huudred a year, I am under the mark. I compare his writing to the language used in London last wink, by some manufacturers. .‘• 'Tis man's inhumanity to man," with a vengenco. I shall waste no more time on this subject with him. There are none so blind as those that will not see.—l am yours, J. W. Nelson.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-04-19 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

DEATH LN A FOOTBALL FIELD.—At Leyland, On Monday, James Tattersall, a weaver, was charged with causing the death of Thomas Mandeley, a bleacher, in the football field on Saturday afternoon. Maudsley was acting as umpire in a match at Leyland, when, it is alleged, Tattersall, who was a spectator, pushed him to the ground, and as he was rising kicked him in the chest so seriously that he died. In the afternoon an inquest was held, and a verdict brought in that death was accelerated by the kick, but baying regard to the state of Mandalay's health—his lungs being diseased—the jury actually came to the conclusion that Tattersall W&8 oot guilty of manslaughter. He was, however, severely censured by the Coroner at the jury's request.  Judgment was delivered on Saturday in the case in which the return of Lady Sandhurst to the London County Council had been petitioned against. Mr. Justice Stephen was of opinion that if it had been intended to confer on women the right to sit on these Councils the Local Government Act would have made suoh provision in plain language, and not have left it to be inferred from construing two or three Acts of Parliament together. The Court, therefore, field that Lady Sandhurst was ineligible, and that, as her ineligibility was a matter of public discussion at the time of the election, the votes given to her were thrown away. Her Ladyship's opponent, Mr. Beresford-Hope, was declared entitled to the seat. On the application of Lady Sandhurst's counsel, his Lordship said he would allow a week for notice of appeal to be given. StICIDES THAOUGH DRlNE.—William Clegg, aged about 57 years, 38, Long-lane, Whitworth, was found drowned in Hargreaves' No. 3 Mill lodge, Whitworth, early on Monday morning. Deceased bad been drinking heavily for three weeks, and was drunk on Sunday afternoon when last seen alive. An inquest will be held.—A suicide of a most determined character was discovered on Sunday in Rose Cottage barn, near Lowmoor Church, Clitheroe. A weaver, named Thomas Redrnayne, aged 44 years, residing in Waterloo, Clitheroe, was found suspended by two handkerchiefs. He was quite dead. His legs were on the floor. Deceased had been drinking heavily recently, and for some time had been separated from his wife, who resides in Nelson-street, Lowrnoor. He was found by a man named William Eccles.  SAri Nrws OF THE EursEss Or