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The Telegram. — 1895-07-02 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE ROYAL SHOW.  The show of the Royal Agricultural Society wan at Darlington on Monday favoured with superb weather. Judging commenced punctually at ['Me o'clock. There was a very large entry of horses, and a first prize went to Godsell, of Stroud. The Queen was a winner in the shorthorn and Aberdeen Angus classes. The principal championship medals and prizes went to Insert Middleton, Lord Polwarth, Mr. A. .1. Hollington (London). Mr. J. Deane Willis (Cod ford), Mr. G. Smith Grant (Banff), Mr. M. J. Sutton (Cavershair), Lord Ellesmere, and Mr. J. Baker (Loughborough). Local prize-winners :—Cleveland hay mare—lst, Mr. H. C. Stephens, M.P., Salisbury. Shorthorn heifer Champion prize, Mr. J. Deane Willis, Codforl St. Mary, Wilts. Shorthorn heifer—lst and 2nd, A. C. Skinner, Wilts. Shorthorn heifer-Ist, J. D. Willis. Devon cow—let and 2nd, A. C. Skinner, Bishop Lydeard. Devon heifer-2nd and 3rd, A. C. Skinner. Pen of three Hampshire Down ram lainbs—lst. James Flower, Chilmark. Pen of shearling ewes—lst, Jobe Kidner ; 2nd, Herbert Farthing, Taunton ; 3rd, J. W. Titt, Warminster. Minorca, cock—A. G. Pitts, High bridge. Cheddar cheese Ist, liillsrd, Wincanton. Cider and perry—let, It Thomson, Newent ; 2nd, W. Sliepton Mallet.—The show was continued on Tuesday, and the attendance was very large. The Shadzada visited the show in the morning. The Dun and Duchess of York arrived at Darlington during the afternoon on a visit to the show, and were presented with an address by the Corporation. Nasruila Khan arrived at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show at Darlington, on Tuesday, from Polam Hall, at halfdind eleven. Over 12,030 persona passed the entrance gates of the showyanl up to the closing hour.  Another Suicide Club has been discovered is New York. It always numbers 13.  At the Glainorganshire Assizes on Saturday before Justice Lawrence, Alice Browits, who is 30 years of age, sued Henry Hewitt Humber, A brewer, 50 yeara of age, for breach of promo. The jury awarded her £75 damage..  TRUSSES (Rupture Cure). The Link Shell Trutt is the greatest invention of modern times. Pr. Phelan, the eminent physician, writing to the Lancet, sa)s is a truss which I always ads ise patients to U.• „ It will, in very many cases, be found an effectual cure. iiritiah Medical Journal bays " !this comfortable ird secure truss for a cure." Medical Time. and floanlal Gazette says: " It hi a protection against further relapse, and cures.' Mediral Times and Hospital Gazette
The Telegram. — 1895-02-12 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE.  Some sensation was caused in Salisbury on day, when it became known that a brickmaker, eiiipl yed at the ga worke, D.iniel Bradley, aged 57, had committed suicide by hanging Mumma( in his house,Churchlields, Fielterkm. Piet ions tothi • act he bad evidently taken laudanum. Frain what subsequently transpired it appeared that on Saturday Bradley Wan d with &summons boatload at the county neeniunn on the following Tuesday, to meet a charge of robbing allotments in the Devizes Road, and this matter genus to have proyed on his mind.—Mr. R. A. Wilson held an inquest on Tuesday morning.—Mrs. Bradley said deceased came home on Saturday night and went to bed. The following morning he got up 10 light the fire. When witnees came down she woe nnrprinnd to find no fire lit, and when she opened the back kitch,n she was horrified to see her hmlistod "looking like a dead man." She asked him what was the matter, but when she got clone she found that he had hung himself. Noce/tell had been greatly depressed during the week. Alfred James Bradley, son of deceased, said he was called by his mother and found his father had hung himself in the back kitchen. Witness wit= of opinion that deceased must have drugged himself before he committed the rash act, an he found a ani.,ll bottle in the hedroom.—Supt.. Stephens atated that on Saturday a summons was issued against the deceased on a charge of stealing vegetables from the Devices Road allotment., and this was served on him on Saturday afternoon.—Mr. Luckham said he found the body lying in the baekhouse with a rope round the neck. 'Die face was very livid, arid from that fact and that his eyes were nut so dilated an visual, death might have been accelerated by the laudanum which he had taken out of the bottle produced by the previous witness. Death resulted from stromplation.—A verdict of euicide while temporarily insane was returned.
The Telegram. — 1895-01-15 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SUPPOSED SMCIDE. —A good deal of painful excitement has been occasioned in Bridgwater by the melancholy ligence that Mrs. La awn. wife rif it medical gentleman who succeeded to the practice of the late Dr. Farmer, in Bridgwater, and for a abort time occupied the position of one of the medical stall of the Infirmary, ond who left that town tern or three years ago, had committed suicide by drowns Mg. the following paragraph relating to the sad affair is copied from a Southampton paper "The Union Company's steamer Neemmt arr:ved at Plymouth on 'Thursday night after a maiden voyage. She encountered a furious gale from Madeira to Plymouth ou Sunday. Mrs. M. L. Luton, of Southampton, second saloon stewardeds jumped overboard. The vessel was stopped, and she was picked np, having been kept afloat ty her clethes, but she was dead. Mrs. Lectors is said to have been deserted at the Cape by her husband, who is a physician, and to have had serious domestic troubles. Further information coirm bomtive of the above distressing occurrence Las since reached Bridgwater. Dr. Lii.x.ton is still believed to be at the Cape.  SOMERSET DRAINAGE COMMISSIONERS, Wedeeß• day.—Mr. Vincent Stuckey presided.—Mr. A. J. Goodford presented a report from the Finance Committee, recommending the apportimuient of the costs re appeals in the matter of the Aller Gap to be raised by general rate precepts on the whole of the districts under the jurisdiction of the Cons. missionern, according to rateable value, it having been decided by the Court of Queen's Bench that such legal expenses must lie treated as part of the weneral expenses of the Oomui,tioners And dis• tributed over the whole area.—The report was adopted.—Mr. G. D. Worry, Q.C., moved "That it be an instruction to the Parrett and Time Committee to ascertain the present imeemi lace liabilities of the drainage beards winch drAto into the rivers Parrett, Ile, Yeo, and Tone, dia. tinguishing between the debts incurred in their original construction of wrrks in thedistricsa formed under the Drainage Act of 1861 and the Ring Sedgmoor district, and now remaining, and those which have been imposed by the Commissioners. That it also be auinstruction to ascertain the annual amount of rates levied over the before-mentioned area, both specialand general, and ..Lat the before. mentioned facts, when ascertained, be reporter: to the Commissioners."—Mr. Gooi'ford seconded, and after a discussion the motion was passed.
The Telegram. — 1899-07-11 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

DAY'S RECIPE.  Spinach an Your.—Cook it by boiling the greens until tender without any water, turn them out into a colander till wanted, then squeeze them in handfuls to remove as much of the moisture as possible, and chop the resulting mass quite fine on a board; then mix it with one milk roll previously soaked in milk (or several, as the case may be), two whole eggs, and the yolks of three or four, a little stock or gravy, salt, pepper, and a pinch of grated nutmeg. Stir all this over the fire until the mixture Is thick and very hot, butter a fire-proof dish (one that can be sent to table), sprinkle it with hreadcrumbs, and fill it with the spinach, after it has cooled and been beaten up with the well. whisked whites of three or four eggs. Rake this for three-quarters of an hour, and serve with a good gravy or a sauce mousseline.  William Mosley, Walter Quilty, and Joßanh Hannay, lads, were drowned whilst bathing at Manchester, on NVednosday night. Mr. J. 13. Groove., a well-known rrsident of Tenliy, fell from his machine whilst cycling on Wednesday, and was killed instantly. Rear-Admiral T. S. Jackson hoisted his flea on the Cambridge at Devonport on Thursday, upon taking over command of the Dockyard from RearAdmiral H. J. Carr, who is placed on retired list.  The ketch Three Sesters, of Cardigan, was sunk on Wednesday night in a collision off Mumbles Head. David L. Thoma.s, the son of the cawails and a youth named David Griffiths were drowned. In Edinburgh on Thursday, Frederick War wick, Pali to be a superintendent of telephones at Malta. shot his nine-years-old son dead and committed suicide. Be also tried to shoot another son.  The North British Railway directors on Thurs. day appoinmd Mr. \V. Jackson, of the Rates Department, as manager, in succession to Mr. Conacker. Mr. Jackson has been in the Company's service 20 years. At Davidson's Private Hotel, Liverpool, on Thursday, Mrs. Coleman (67) and her grandson, Wm. Da, les (10), were fouvi in an unconscious state suffering from gas poisoning. It is supposed the woman blew out the gas on going to bed.
The Telegram. — 1899-08-01 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.  The conference lid not sit on Sato I day, but the Stationing Committee renamed its revisions of the 'Asthma Tee I llowing :we the only changes affecting this ilistrict :—Weynaotith, George Boggs vice William Nicholson; Devon and Dmset Mission, J. Johnatone vice Wait, Cherry; Minetietd, Frank Hawkey vice Edivarii RPl's ; Castle Cary, Joseph Workman vice .1. Richard Hargreavev.  A Bonapartist conspiracy, which has received the coral and pecuniary support of the Empress Eugenie, b reported to have been discovered in France.  For the buildin, of barracks, 25 acres of ground at Mill Hill. Hendon, are reported to have been sold to the Government by Mr. Eley, cartridge manufacturer.  The contract for carrying the Canadian mails has changed hands because of the unwillingness of the Canadian Government to pay more for fast than for slow bats.  Two anger s found in the River Nidd the body of George Wheelhouse, a painter, who was to have been married to a widow at linaresburough. lie had been missing for a week,  During the Inauteuvres of the torpedo boat defence off Toulon two of the boats burst their boiler tubes. A few days previously two other torpedo boats suffered similar accidents. • • -  'File Colonial Office has received 8.11 official report stating that the bubonic plague has spread to the French island of kkusion. In Mauritius 36 cases of plague and 29 deaths have occurred. At an inquest on the body of an Italian child which hai been exhumed at Kensal Green, an unqualified Italian "doctor" who had attended the deceased was censured by the coroner.  A man named Charlet; Pritchard, who was sentenced by the Dover magistrate', to two inonth,' hard labour for assaulting hts wife, ba committed suicide in Canterbury Gaol by hanging.  Mr. Arthur Lloyd, of Shirley, near Croydon has placed in the hands of the Rev. A. W. Jepl:son. the vicar of St. John's, Walworth, a sum of £5,000, for the purpose L,f erecting a Young Men's Inst 3 tote.  BEWARE of the party offering Imitati,ms of Maeniven & Cameron's Pens.
The Telegram. — 1899-05-23 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

ATTEMPTS TO TOW THE VESSEL OFF. A;ten.pts male On Sunday to tow the vessel di  were futile.  Daniel Kent. a Thames champion sculler, dropped dead oitsi le his residence in Berinund• sey, London, on Tuesday.  During a gale at Dartmouth on Tuesday night an old man named Tibbs was blown utf the embankinem into the sea and drowned.  Supt. Mathews said the deceaied was 38 years of age, and reAded at Gorringe Road, Beinerton. tie produced the deceased's watch, which had stopped at 10.13.  Colonel the Hon. Everard Digby has gone to Scotland for bottle salmon honing OH the Marqua of Lansdowne's well-known laleiklour water on the Tay. Trooper NlcKeown,whilst drilling with the Warwickshire Yeomanry in Lord Leigh's deer park at Warwick on Wednesday, was thrown trout hes horse and dragged by the stirrup for soine distance, lie was carried off in an unconscious state, and died shortly afterwards.  An inquest has been held at Moutacute on the body of a m,tri named Hutchings, who coowitted suicide by hanging himself to the banister of the stairs during the absence of his wife. Deceased had been in a depresssd state of mind, and had suffered from influeun.  The marriage between Mr. Henry John ot Newca4le-on-Tyne, eldest son oi the Rev. Henry and Mrs. Fellowes, of Torridon, Bournemouth West, and Frances Agatha Mary, youngest daughter of the Rev. John Poill.ps, Rector of Newton Toney, iialishury, and Mrs. Phillips, will take place on the Ist of June.  VALUABLE DISCOVERY EOR THE RAIL —lf your hair is turtling grey or white or falling off, use the MEXICAN HAIR RESENKR, tonic will positively restore, in every case grey or white hair to its orignal colour. It makes the hair charmingly beautiful, as well we promotiw the growth. Price Ss 61.1 per bottle. th 9.31.
The Telegram. — 1899-06-13 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

MILES AN HOUR.  The London and North-Weetern Railway Company on Friday tested the latest addition to their compound locomotives with a run from Eueton to Crewe. The train consisted of engine, tender, and 14 coaches, of a total length of /16 feet, and the total weight, with pa,iengers, coneistmg of 1211 civil cog's...re arid railway manager% of 425 tons beset, e length of the journey wai  159 miles, and the maximum speed for the journey was 71 miles au hour. Mr. Webb, chief ineeba.nical engineer, said that the Company's officials were keeping abreast of the times with their engine building, and were als,i turning one a thon-q.nd pound.' worth of work every day for other departments. He w. surprised that neighbouring Companies 9hould wart to go abroad for their locomotives. He had at present in the stuck ehed 31 engines, and 22 more in the paint shop.  Mr. S. 0. k-toberts, M.A„ Maater of the Charter house, died on Tuesday. Mrs. Charles Bray, of Rose Hill, Coventry, the elute friend and associate of George Eliot, on Sunday reached the age of 85 years. Mr. dokin Nixon, one of the pioneers of the South Wales coal trade, and the founder of the collieries bearing his name, has died in London. M. J. T. Russell, putlicati, of TOurleigh, died on Monday from injuries inflicted by a sow, wh'ch knocked him down and severely bit hue, Mr. Charles Albert, who practised in the Marlborough Street Police-court, London, as interpreter since 1851, has died at the age of 74. Mr. Spence, navigating officer of the Chinese  war crin;er Ficticht:TvaB found deed in his bedroom at the Temperance Hotel, Sheerness, on Monday. A verdict of "Suicide caused by ovcrwork was returned on Monday at the inquest on th, American lady found shot at the Hotel Metropole. The Prince of Wales was present at the ten. tetutry banquet of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, held at Merchant Taylors' 11.11, on Monday aigi,t.  At Chatham Dockyard on Tuesday, a mecharic named Pope wati.overcorne by heat, and, falling from the battieshin Reimlde Into the dry dock, was killed. The imports kr May show an increase of r. 3,179.450, and the exports an increase of L5,17..£1,8.95, us compared with the saute month lan& ::•ar.  The Prince of Wales visited Winchester on Thursday, ,tri laid the foundation atone of the new barrt_-,e,. to replace those burned down in Decelubec, .i.CI4. The Duke ot Connaught was 4.5.3 Pcowent.  Cheat Britain's legal representatives in the Venezuekvi lioundary Arbitration, including Sir Richard Webster, Attorney-General, left London on Thursday for Paris, to prepare for the orsenitur of the proceedings, on the 15th inst. . Sir Richard Webster will speak for 16 days.
The Telegram. — 1899-08-22 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

EDUCATION. —The Te.chnical Education Committee have made arrangements to start a class in land surveying at once. Mr. Warty, civil engineer, of Ilminster, is the t,,acher. A DECNKRX Tarp.—At the Police-court on Monday last, before C..lonel Largworthy and Mr. John Taylor, Clara Johnson, a tramp, of Harrow Road, London, was charged in custody with being drunk and disorderly in the Mark.t Square on Saturday evening.—P.S. Powell proved the case.—Sentenced to seven days' hard labour.  BATH AND WEST AND SOOTHIMN COCNTIM Socraw. —The second draft (38 cwt.) of this year's cheese made in May last at the Cheese School, carried on by the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society for the Somerset County Council, at Hedge Farm, Pylle, near Shepton Mallet, has just been sold to Mm-rs. Hill Bros., of Evercreech, at 634 per cwt. of 112Ibs. 4,462 gallons of milk made 4,502 lbs. of green cheese. The cheeses, which on an average were ekven weeks old, weighed when sold 4,257 lbs., the shrinkage in drying being 6i lbs. per cwt. There has been a gO,l demand this season for students from the school as qualified cheese-makero, and one them ha. lately been offered a good post as such in Madeira. A Norwegian is among the students taking advantage of the oehoul for a fell term of mstrumtoa.  [43917-1080  --- A dastardly attempt to wreck a train was made on Tuesday near Bedlington. The death is reported from Redditch of Mr. Wm. Avery, who, in 1858, started toe "Penny heading" movement in this country. A Chinese force near Canton hat been defeated by a band of robb,s, who killed 250 of their number and wounded 100 others. A Company has been formed in New York to ei.tablish crematories where liquid sir will be employed for incinerating human bodies. The outbreak of plague at Oporto appears to be of a serious character, an I the fronti-r and porta : of the country are declared to be infected. The Czar has, in an Imperial order, stated that after the completion of the Siberian railway to alienwan tort port will be declared free. Prolonged drought and hot winds in Northern Texan have reduced the cotton crop cousiderably. It ii said that 50 per cent, has been ruined.  An be seaman on board 11-111-.3.. AtmAmu: wan Oil Tuesday court-martialled and aelitxnnello twy years' immusuement for ars %Amor a gunner lieutenant.  The Zionitts held their third conference on Tuesday at Basle. Th. President declared that the lib.-rties of the Jews were threatened tn It civilised countno...  Annie Powell, 25, was committed to an Ay him by the magistrates at ysottiourne on Tuesday. She attempted to oommit suicide by tinowing de r• self into the sea.  France ea reported to have occupied the Wheat of Somalian, near Macao, at as amertion ct her claim to the adjaceet inainiaed of China an case of the partinon ot that country. Robert Ward, the Walworth bricklayer who killed his two little daughters after a qaawf wi hie wife, wee committed for trial at Lismbe,h on Tueaday ea the capital damp,  rA4)011
The Telegram. — 1899-01-31 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

WOMAN "WITCHED." SUICIDE AFTER VISITS TO A FORTUNE  TELLER.  SUFFERING HUSBAND'S STRANGE TALE.  An inquest was held at Derby on Tuesday night im the body of Maria Burnett, forty-two, who committed suicide by hanging herself in her bedroom on Monday rvitruinp. . .  Her husband, John itu'ruett (who was unable to 'peak distinctly as he was suffering from cancer in the tongue), stated that he WO, removing his furniture from one house to another, when deceased was left alone, and it was then taut she took her life. A short time ago deceased went to a Mr,. Chesterton, of Agard Street, who professed t tell fortunes, for the purpose of ascertaining how much estiger he (witness) had to live. Mrs. Chesterton 'emended money, and deceased paid her viiri,ius -mall 8111:11s, but not shift cut, and could not get her to give the information required. About three weeks ago deceased paid Mrs. Chesterton ss, but the latter demanded a sovereign. Deceased could notTity her, whereupon Mrs. Chesterton told her t was WO late, as she had " witched " her. Mrs. Chesterton further ttild deceased that everything she ate and drank would poison her, that her f.mily were AO many devils in the house, and that the best thing sheeould do was ti commit suicide.  The coroner: Did anyone ever accompany your wife when die went to lire. Chest, rtou ; it I know of the matter is what my wifo has told rue.  Continuing, the witness said that deceated believed what Mrs. Che-terton toll her. The woman's remarks preyed very much upon her mind, and she was terribly troubled. Since the consultation deceased had constantly threatened to commit suicide, and witness had been obliged to watch her very closely. When he went to bed at night he twisted his wife's hair round his finger, so that if she got up she could not avoid rousing hon. About 10 days' ago witness was disturbed in that manner. Deceased sprang out of bed and attempted to strangle herself with a garment. Witness stopped ber, and she then said, "The old woman told me to do it." Tne first time deceased went to Mrs. Chesterton was in September last, when witness was in the infirmary, and she had since visited her several times.  Mary AUUP Chestartoo, the woman in queation, was then called, hut the coroner sat I that, in view of the serious allegations against Ler, he would postpone the enquiry. The inquest was teen adjourned until Friday.
The Telegram. — 1899-01-31 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

BLIOA N. —A painful sensation was created oil Friday evening last by the rumour that the proprietor of the Alma Inn, in South Cary, had committed suicide by throwing himself into the well at the ta.,k of the house. On enquiry it was fouud that the deceased—John White Fry, aged about 30—who has for some time antlered from jaundice, dropsy. and congestion of the stomach, but had latterly been a little . better, had been somewhat depressed for a fortnight or more. On Friday his wife was away during the day, and he was at home alone, hut on her returning they Mai tea together, and abent mix o'clock deceased, who was playing with his little child, got sip abruptly and left the room. A few minutes afterwards is cry for help was heard from behind, and Mrs. Fry and John Meaden, who lives next dour, were with others attracted by it to the garden, where they found that Fry was in the well. /deaden let down thm bucket with the view of rescuing him, and either he caught hold of it or became entangled in the rope, for ha was drawn up a little way and thee fell back. This Was repeated once or twice, William Norman, a neighbour, assisiing in the attempt to rescue the unfortunate nian, but eventnally it was found Impossible to du anything in this way, and after some delay Charles Baker, another neight,our, was let down into the well by means f another rope. The well is 60 feet deep sod cootaitit'd 13i feet of water, and the body was lound floating just beneath the surface. It was about seven o'clock when it was drawn up.—At the inquest on Saturday afternoon, conducted by Mr. May; deputy coroner, the evidence given above was supplemented by that of Dr. Hurley, of queen Camel, who attended deceased during his illness, and maw him last on December lath. lie etated that he had inspected  the-body, and was of opinion that death was due b., exhaustion rather than drowning.—The coroner, in yurntrung up, pointed out that it seemed impossible that deiceamal could have fallen into the well accidentally, and the jury, of which Mr. C. Martin was foreman, retnrned a verdict of "Suicide during ienipoiary insanity." Deceased and hie lather, Mr. George Fry, of Galhauipton, were well known in the neighbourhood no horse breakers,