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Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1904-01-22 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

THAT PREVENTED HIM.  "Ay," sed th chap i th lap eoyt, -aw're niver hod owt but bad luck. Aw se worked Tarry hard all mi life, an nobbut mcd a bare livin. Mi health brooak deawn a toathri year ..in. Mooast o mi friends, hov awther deed off or flit away; lIIV.re NJOllth lii42rary an artiittic talent am hcsialt} th chance to gratify em. Iverything aw um cheek is a fa ilye r, an aw'm ((intik to th con, elusion. ut 11W.Ilt noa use i this world." "Have yea no friends with influence enough to get some kind of easy work for you?" I axt a chap wi gloves on, "Aw're tried that. But ivery toime aw get a berth aw tint? my-el thrown eawt." "Can't you start an agency cr somethitig cf that k'nl?" nit a chap in a slouch hat. "That sort of thing doe-n't r. quire any calital.'"Aw've tried that, too. fleet burnt. eawt i one case, an a partner Hied off wi th profits in another. Noa u.se." •'Ever try tor-todoor aim-a -sine- "Ay, cften. Aw'd a new suit a cloys ru:ned i that bizzness once --dug. Thrown eawtside once or twice-man. Noa u-e. Last, week mi pet cat 'deed, yesterday marital aw lost mi umbenal, an to-day aw've getter' th toothwark. That's th way it gra, on. Iv it im't one trubble its another. Ther.. nobbut cne thing ttt keeps mi fra cominitin suicide an endim th who' e bizznrss." "And. what is that ?" "Curiosity to know what misfortune's likely to hi comm n next."  I • •  Al 114; hecep for tit be-t, an let th want c-ont unlooked for.  The "Lady'. World" for January, 1904 (price 3d., Horace Marshall and Son, 12.5, Fleet-street, London, E.C.) contains the continuation of an exciting serial story entitled "My Lady Bountiful" by Fred M. White, and complete stories.; by Nora 0'11:Ilion:v. Malcolm Furze, and Owen Oliver. Table decoration for January is suitably and, boautifully, illustrated, giving the very latest instructions on how to use the newest shape of vase..;; Lucie Heaton Armstrong give: an excellent eltapter upin "Etiquette Intween Relations," and the health section contain.; a sea,onable article' upon "Indigestion—its eau.,(44 and symptoins'• by Dr. Alexander David-on. Fashions are both elegant and practical, and instructions are given on "How to shorten a Flounced Skirt." The gratis ratttern, consists of a useful camisole, with instructions how to make it up, and the usual articles compose a most interesting number.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-10-07 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  MR. A. W. Wood, mlnufacturer, of Woodroyd Wibsey, has failed with liabilities of 00,000. A SIGHTLRSS begvar of Paris exhibits a board with the incrtption :—" Do not be ashamed to give me only one half-penny. I am Blind." Uwo Berlin bankers have been arrested, charged upon their own confession with extensive malver-.ation oi funds. Their affairs are in bankruptcy. THE outbreak of cholera in Buda Pesth is officially proclaimed. The announcement has caused much uneasiness in Vienna.  WILLIAM Wainwright, aged 53, a brother of the notorious murderer, Henry Wainwright, ho 3 committed suicide by blowing his brains out with a revolver in a first-class carriage on the North London Railway. A MARRIED woman named Jane Stow was admitted on Saturday into the Colchester Hospital suffering from serious gunshot wounds in her face, sustained by accidentally treading upon a spring gun. ort,rAT loss of life and destruction of property have been caused by a terrible gate in Japan. Fon persisting in smoking in a non-sinelking cornparttnent on the Midland Railway George E. Anderson' a London shopman, was on Monday ordered by the Wakefield magistrates to pay a fine costs amounting to 30s. LORD Tennyson has been seriously ill for the last) low days, but he is now somewhat better.  To ..,-4Cii.ICITORS AND AUcTioNNIcI:S.--Thi, jourtml ou account of tha diversified chk-.racter of its contevr,f3 its copious Local News, and its careful management, includes in its large circle of readers all cla,sP,es of society—the Clergy, the Gentry, and the Commercial, Agricultural, and Industrial Classes— and for Advertisements of every kind—Sale by Auction of Property and Farm Stock, Farms to Let, Railway Notices, Prospectuses of Public Companies, Public Meotinr, and General Trade Announcements—it is an equally advantageous medium. The charges for advertisements are fixed upon as moderate a scale as are 4t all compAtible with the cost incurred iv giving them so wide publicity.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-12-30 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  THE remains of the date Mr Montagu Williams were interred at Brompton Cemetery On Monday. AN out-of-work carpenter named Croad attacked his wife with a razor near Dorchester on Monday, and then cammitted suicide. GRNERAL Booth has issued another appeal for help in carrying out the •' Darkest England" Scheme. THE house of Mr. Parkers.on, the New Orleans lawyer who led the lynching party which executed vengeance upon the Italian murder-society men last year, has been burned to the ground, for the second time wi•-..hin eight mouthe. FrvE men—three on one side and two on the other —met by arrangernett at Arlington, Texas, on Friday, to figin out a fend. Four of the five were shot dead, the sole survivor being of the more numerous party. LORD Hawk' s team met with a bad defeat at the hands of the Parsee e on Saturday. The latter won the match by 100 runs BRIGANDAGE, with massacre of the inhabitants, is said to prevail to an appalling extent in South-west Russian Poland. Thi* is also the region in which cholera is virulent. A SMALL pleasure richt, with twenty-three persons on board, c.lpAzi-A in Sydney harbour on Monday, and up to evening only thirteen had been recovered alive. MR . Nicholas \VOA, ex-member of Parliament for Haug .iton-le-Sprin4, died on Saturday.  CONVERSION OF ROMAN CATHOLIC  PRI -,:sTs.  RA JATIICS Waring. fornvprly a Roman Catholic pria,o, has been rec,i,,ed into the Church of England by the Bishop of St: A mph. The conversion of Fatfier David, late of St. Mary's Retreat, Carmarthen, DO th,,, Chutch of England has caused considerable excitnient amfzig the Rowan Catholics of Carmarthen a,:ed neighbourhood, in which circle he was a peat He.will Aortly be licensed to a curacy in Wrnxham. His ciise is almost on all fours with that of thal popular Catholic preacher, Dr. William Sullivan, for be, too, has thrown off the vow of celibacy, and ia shortly to be married.  . NEETE WORRY, Dlr.PßlSsloN.—gainine the only remNiy, Pepper's" Quioinc. and Iron dispels all nerve trouble. Mitst be Pepper s Quinine. 305 z WONDERFUL VALUE : 'Around the World on a Bicycle" (ft ;theran to Yokohama), by liars. Stevens, fuliy illus. tva.'tst, cloth ilt, les. for 3s. 6d., at
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-09-07 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

MASTER MARINER'S SUICIDE A STRANGE STORY.  Mr. Baster held an enquiry on Saturday at fir. inlev Siek Axylion touching the death of Ben:is:Mu 73, formerly • master mariner, i.nil late of sa, St. Stephen's Road, Bow. Elizabeth the landlady of the house, said she had no idea how the deceased lived, but his rent was adwitvii paid regularly. The person who brought him to her house said that the deceased had a mall income. On Thursday evening, on her return from • holiday, she found him hanging bellied (lie door from • brass clothes hook.  James A. Hudson, • tailor, of 24, Itokeby Street, Bow Common Lane, stated that eight years ago lii, deceased was pointed out to him in Victoria Punk ass gentleman who was starving. Witness had friends with him, and they made up sonic looney. and had done so from time to time during the eight 3 ears. Every Sunday witness bad the ileNoosii to dinner and tea, nod thee sent him away with sufficient food to last for several days, and • little also allowed the ileceaved • shilling a week. Six veelcs ago the deceased stayed out all night, and witness told him he should take him to the doctor to see what was the matter with him, and when witness's wife went to take him she found he had been out again all night. . . .  Lecease-d subsequently told witness that he should never hold his head up again, as he had done " something awful." Witness questioned him, and he said he had saved up £3O, and that as he had been receiving half • crown • week from the Charity Organisation Society, and help from witness and other friends, he thought he would be prosecuted, so he had thrown all the money away—some of it in the canals, and the remainder in the lake at Victoria Park. The deceased added that he oould never face anyone again after thole kiedness.  By the Coroner : Witness had never noticed the lightest syniptoins of insanity in the deceased,and had no reason to doubt but that his story was It no.—The landlady,recalled, said the deceased bad two large sea chests in the room, and his cupboard was full of different things. The keys of the boxes could not be found. Witness had never noticed anything wrong with his mind.—The jury returned a vereict of " Suicide whilst of unsound mind."
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-10-26 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE IN SHETLAND.  NOW 9 haw reached Lnrwick Of a di,treit,i,g currenee at Uyeasonnti,Unst. On Saturday tt. voting married lads, the wife of Mr. Samuel San.diiton. merchant, t yeasound, diKappearcil unaccountably front her home. A search ITU instituted, and eventually the body of the unfortunate lady wan found lying in pool of water. Death bad evidently taken place by drowning. From the Cant, that Ate hail left • letter declaring her intention, there seem 4 00 doubt that the act sval pi °meditated. Mrs. Stimuli. eon was the daughter of the Ron. W. B. Man. William, of Hortntey, London, anti was married Only a month ago.  .. gentleman wno was a tew *lays s[ace wxolte.l from drowning in the River Cam declared that the accident would he an advantage to him hereafter, as be should be able to say that he had been brought up at Cambridge.  , . Judge : "How comes it that you dare to break into this gentleman's house in the dead of night ?"—Prisoner : "Why, your lordship, the other time you reproached me for stealing in broad daylight. Am I not to be allowed to work at all?'  " It's humiliating for a man torealisehow he can pass unnoticed in a throng."—" tell you what you do," said his friend in a comforting tone. " Just you follow the crowd into a theatre without buying.a ticket, and see if you pass unnoticed then." "My friends," said a politician, the other day, with a burst of ingenious eloquence, "I will he honest--"—The terrific outburst of applause which followed this remark entirely upset the point which the orator was about to jot roduce me roma mon, an (anew itenlat ot the au. uouncement that the Sultan has leased the island of Urotta, io the Red Sea, to Germany. The Madde. Riliele have now heen effectively punished, and General ifilre column has been ordered to return to India.  Mr. Charles Reed, of Tennessee, has bought the English ravehoree Knight of the Garter for 111100 at swami.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-05-11 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

STORY FROM THE COUNTRY.  We OWC a great deal to the country in the way 01 nutter, and eggs, and game, but also often in the way of it good story such as this. A lady of a religious turn of mind residing in the country was anxious to present her nephew, who was gluing to snail, with some slight testi 1111 l ley of her affection, nod detailed, if she could obtain it, to give hint a pious work, known as "The Companion to the Altar." But the nearest town was nine iiiilea off, so she walked over Lii the neighbouring village -inquired for the work at the guttural shop, which combined groceries, haberdashery, and the post. 'Ace with a little book-selling. 'Elie proprietor replied that lie thought lie possessed this book, awl at her running his finger along hie shelf he turned mud said:  " I am sorry to say that I have not got it, nut,htm ; but lien: is is WOI lc of lii. same class, •1; aide to Courtthip and Ilr..t.thge,' if that will sal.  The sacristan of the church at Auberrilliess has been arrested on the charge of having started the fire by which the church was destroyed on April 18th last. The Queen on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, has appointed Mr. William Henry Clay to be Recorder of Hanley, in the room of Mr. Abel John Raul, Q.C., resigned. _ _  , - -Mr. J. E. Bennett, of %Yarborough -(Oxton), where he WWI a district councillor, has coinwitted suicide by shooting himself with a double-barrel gun.  N El SON : Printed and Published for the Proprietor, JOHN DAWSON AND SON,byCoulton & Company inited, of he Works, Stanley Street, Nolen, in the Oonety of Lanmeter.--Friday. Id, 11, I itlo
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-07-20 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE AT-RHYL  A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.  A Bad suicide occurred at Rhyl on Saturday, and there is a considerable amount of mystery attached to it. A young man named Henry Rands, of Manclie.ter, went to Lilly' at the opening of the season, and took a situation an boots at • hotel and wail very well liked by his fellow-servants. Ho was quiet lout rather peculiar in his manner. On Saturday evening lie was called up by the other servants, but he did not leave his room. Ile was last seen walking up and down the room before a looking glass. Shortly afterwards • noise was heard as if a rage or box bad been dropped on tl:e floor. As the young mail did not put in au appearance in the servants' Touters as II c morning advaneed, the door of his bedroom wits opened, iv lien it was founil that lie WWI dead, honing shot himself through the head with it a wechikinhered revolver. Only one oboother WAN Ill.:charged, but the of four were loivibsl. Search revealed the fact that be hail nearly I ball earlillgeN ill his pocket, although none of his fellowheVVlllll.l. 1111,11 any idea that 11.4 1,11.040145 ed firearolo. A note wise (01111 d on the demised dated July I-11 h, but it wive not intelligihte and finished with the words "I AM of a fair lona." Telegraphic e ~,,, municaffon was made with the authorities at Manchester, hut no trace of the deceased's relatives ha,u been discovered. It lots beim found that some years ligiu he was diseover.l wiludering about Manehester, arid was take., to a home. Two years ago lie obtained a situation at Rhyl for the Beason, aid did well. Early last year woo placed ill an asylum, amid could not go to service, but at the beginning of this 1302A(III Ike appeared to be all right, and was able to return to Rhyl.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-07-20 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

SUICIDE ON DOUGLAS HEAD.  A retired tradesman named William Cubbon, of Bucks Road, Douglas, committed suicide on Sunday forenoon by throwing himself over the cliff on Douglas Head at a very steep place, a few yards fr ~,,, the entrance to the Marine Drive. The deceased hail been in low spirits for coins time, and gave Ilia friends some anxiety. He left home without breakfast, and meeting a friend named Shimmin asked him to go for a walk up Douglas Head. Near flue Marine Drive Cubbon suggested to Shim ~, itt that lie should get through the railing.: and pick some flowers. Shinning' did so, and when lie Cltlllo back Cubbon got through The tollkeeper on the drive, seeing Cithbon outside the railing, called for kiln to come back, and ran up. Ctilthon threw away a flower, and diggi tug Ilk hands and feet into the soil urged himself down the cliff trios .11e narrow ledge tin which he was sitting. He first fell HOMO 25 feet, and then over and over into the water some two hundred feet below. ilium body was recovered by boatmen.  Telegraph service between Taku and Tientsin has been rest,red, and rail way communication is on the point of being re-established.  Miss Moistle : Well, Marthadiow is your husband now? Martha : Poly, miss, poll. He got's that exclamatory rheumatism. MIYA Mobile : You meab intlanunatory rheumatism, Martha. • Exclamatory' is to cry out. Martha (with solemn conviction) 7 That's it, m ; that's it! He don't do nothing but holier!  An Old Thing.—He (ecstatically) : Miss de Pays. ter promitted last night to marry me. She (calmly); I congratulate you. He : You don't seem to be curl priced? She : No. I can't say that I am. I heard her say yesterday that she had made up her mind to have s husband before the year was out, and that almost any old thing would do.  A Kind Word.—" You never praise me any," said the young woman who delights in amateur theatricals. " Why," replied the stage manager, “it goes without saying that you merit cm 33333 ambition." " And you think that my acting Ilse improved F' Y-yes, in one respect.' " And what is that " "You don't mix things up for the rest of the enst as muds as you used to."
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-03-30 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

WEDNESDE4.—Boforc tilt+ Mayor, (Councillor if. Dyson), and Alderman Edmondson.  _ . A NELSON MAN rib HIS THROAT WITH A PAIR OF $t IStiORS.—A repect, able looking young 111:,11 named John Greenwood, grocer and beer dealer, 49, Nertherfieldroad, was brought up, charged with attempting to commit suicide on Tuesday morning, March 6th, about half past eight o'clock. Inspector Palmer conducted the prosecution, and after stating tho facts of the case over, called Dr. Aspinall, Physician and Surgeon, SO, Railway-street, who said he was attending the prisoner on Friday, 2.nd inst., and continued to attend him up to the following fnesday morning, when he saw a wound in the aide of his neck about 11 inches long and 11 inches deep. It was a punctured wound, and might have been inflicted with tho pair of scissors produced. The man was losing a lot of blood and the wound IVIIA dangerous therefrom.—lnspector Palmer: Could the wound have been self inflicted? Dr. Aspinall : Yes—lnspector Palmer: Has the prisoner recovered from the effects of the wound now? Witneas S. Davis's, who appeared for the prisoner, cross examined the witness.—Mr. Dance: He is quite recovered both mentally and bodily ? Dr. Aspinall : Yee.—Mr. S. Davies: In the state of mind he was in was it necessary some-13D3 should watch the prisoner P—Witness: It was, I belieeso.—l said he should be watched, as at'oertain times he might become rough.—Ansl he had been watched ?—Yes.—He was than in his right mind l'—No.—Mary Jane Jeromes, 47, Netherfield-road, said she lived next door to prisoner and she went in to see him by request on the Tuesday morning in question. She went into his bedroom and saw he was bleeding and that there was blood on the floor. The bed was also covered with blood. He said to witness: You have done this, and then afterwards he said, It would not have been done but for you.—Mr. Davies next addressed the Bench on the prisoner's behalf urging that ho had been temporarily insane. The doctor bad given orders that he should be vrathoed and the man was closely wathched from the previous Friday, but on the following Tuesday morning he happened to be left for a few moments, and in that time what had happened took place. He pointed out that the magistrates could adopt a certain course, and he urged them to do PO, assuring them that the prisoner had no suicidal tendency, and it would be quite safe to discharge him—Mr. Tee to Dr. Aspinall : Is there any danger to be apprehended from the wound now?—No.—Mr. Tee: He could be banded ever to his friends safely ?—Yes.—The Bench having conferred, the Mayor said: We discharge you, but we hope it will be a lesson to you never to attempt such a thing again.— The prisoner: I am sorry it has occurred, and will endeavour to guard against it in future.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-03-30 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

THE BRIERFIELD SENSATION CHARGED WITH ATTFAIPED MURDER AT COLN-E.  PRISONER IN THE POLICE COURT.  After spending a day in hospital, Hllen Williamson was discharged into the custody of Inspector Palmer, of Nelson, and on Thursday morning P.C. Lee brought the unfortunate woman to Coln. In the dock she presented a pitiable appearauee. Her black hair WU dishevelled, she wore a faded blue blouse with no buttons on the wristbands, a grey shawl And a black gown. One of the most striking feotures of the woman wore her beautiful Aro., which were almost jet black, the white being almost invisible, and the pupils muds distended. In court the woman rarely looked up, and being in a ueak condition, Mr. C. G. Ratcliffe, the magistrate, told her to be seated, and Inspector Mote= provided her with a chair in the body of the court. On being, charged and on the word " murder" being lettered, the woman wept, and had nothing to any from beginning to end of tbo proceedings. The charge against the accused was worded as follows :—" Attempting to murder her child Jane' by throwing it into the Leeds and Liverpool Canal., at Brierfield, on Tuesday, and further, with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the Lois and Liverpool Canal." The police asked for a remand until Friday, at 10 o'clock, when the woman will be brought before the magistrates at Colne. . . . . .  klizabeth A"nnie Hartley, winder, a pleasant and attractive looking girl, IS, Albion-street, Brierfield, saw the accuAed and her child betworm 11 and 12 on the day named, on the canal bank. Her attention WIIS taken aiva7, and on looking again sly obeierreci the child in the water.  Martin Darcy, warehouseman, 15, Richardetreet, Brierfield, stated that he maw two heads in the canal, the aecused and her daughter. After eetting help from the opposite bank, they were rescued. Be heard a good deal of screaming. A letter was produced in court, but vritneea could not identify the prisoner's handwriting. On bliOng taken out, the prisoner stated that she wished that witnera had left her in.  The oast) was adjourned till to-day (Friduy)i at 11 o'clock, at Oo
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1895-05-17 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

CJMUISI, J. Clarke, sell R. Ray-Shit-Acworth, end ,v. Genoa Wilson.—On the last day of the week there were 91 inmates, beiug adeoreace of one. Teere hti. iesea 153 vile:nuts relieved durlrg the week.—A letter was read from Mr. W. T. Steed calling aL:ientien to rhe Free Literature Societe. The Workhoume Master thought they had suffieient literature, and the letter was ordered to lio ou the taiee.—A letter was read f:ein Mr. J. Hitcher], draper, with ief-nnee to tele mAerreuritng that had recently edam between Mr. Clarke atid the Workheuse Master, He thought the former gentleman had been erroneously chareed who exceediag his duty, and explained hew Mr. Crake merely welt into hie shop and exiv.nibeet the artieles which he recommended.—Mr. Carke remarked that the Local Government Board gave GM:MUM mere power then to ineriy socutin,.6e the ace:omits. He moved that the GuareUens be eumeled with a circular tented on Januery 6.h 1868, vatting forth their dotter—Toe Clerk dye., attention to one of mere recent da,e, lard the matter was allowed to drop, Burt et to iequirlee being made. CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED BUIcIDE AT BARRoW.— E I in Barren Turner, KO, ut 40 yearn of age, wec, was formerly clerk at Barrow Printworks, wee ehrireerl at the County Polk:Gonad un Mouday with attempting to commit suicide. On M, n lae mernieg, two Barrow residents, named Johi Cornell and Win. Lever, were walking through the debts between Barrow And Wis veil, when thei came across prisoner, who said '' I am going to fr ft; if you will wait a bit yen will see something." He fortherith procaeltri eo a dam and jumped in where it was about St. deep. After much eiffinilty the roan was got out Aod handed over to the pollee —Prisoner wee re:welded for a week, and it le tiaderstoed he will be examiced as to his eeeity it ;.he meantime.