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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-07-20 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

MUZZLES FOR DOGS.  Au order in Council with regard to the muzzling of dogs has been issued, and will apply to the City of London and such districts or parts of districts as are within the Bletropolitan Police district. It is to take effect from the 31st inst., and to continue in force till the end of the year. The order directs the local authority of each of the districts to cause all dogs affected with or suspected of rabies, or having been bitten by a dog affected with or suspected of rabies, within their district to be forthwith slaughtered. No dog shall be allowed to be in any public place "unless such dog is muzzled with a muzzle so constructed as to render it impossible for such dog, while wearing the same, to bite any person or animal, but not so as to prevent such dogs from breathing freely or lapping water." The order is not to apply to packs of hounds, harriers, or beagles, or greyhounds, or other sporting dogs, while being used for sporting purposes, or to any dogs while being used for the capture or destruction of vermin, and in charge of competent persons. The local authority of each of the districts is to cause all stray dogs, and all dogs not muzzled in accordance with the provisions of this order, to be seized, as if the dog is not affected with, or suspected of, rabies, it is to be detained in some proper place and supplied with requisite food and water during its detention. The expenses incurred in respect thereof Inay be recovered summarily from the person having 'barge of the dog or from its owner  A desperate case ot attemptea wire muraer has occurred at Sunderland. A shipyard holder- up,named Charles Fortune, aged 24, went home under Me influence of driuk, and after quarrelling with his wife stabbed her in the throat with a razor, inflicting a wound 4in. long, which just missed. the jugular vein. He shewed signs of committingsuicide when the razor was wrenched from him. He is now in ciutody. The zouple had only been married six weeks
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-06-08 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

STRANGE CHARGE OF MURDER.  At Liverpool Charlotte Sobel' and Malcolm ByQuarrie have been committed for trial for the wilful murder of James Darker Harris, electrical engineer, of London. Harris, whilst on a visit to Liverpool, met Sobel' at a music-hall, and went to a house with her. i The male prisoner lived n the house, the woman being his paramour. About 1 o'clock in the morning the police were called, and found Harris lying on the bed dead with a revolver by his side. The case was at first believed to be one of suicide, though no reason could be assigned for the act. The deceased's brother visited Liverpool, and the effects, including the revolver, were handed to him. He threw the revolver into the river. Subsequently it transpired that the deceased had received money shortly before from his relatives, and that he had in his possession £1 or £5, whereas when he was found only 7d. was in his pockets. Immediately after the female prisoner had left the house she was noticed to take out unwarily a quantity of money, some of which was in gold. When one of the witnesses ran up the stairs she noticed that M`Quarrie was standing on the landing. He had in his hand a revolver which was smoking, and he put this into the witness's hand, saying,"She has shot him with my pistol. It is hot now." He was advised to put the pistol back where he found it, and lie placed it by the dead man's side. The prisoners made considerable efforts to get away, and two men were kept in the house to watch. When on the way to the detective office, the woman remarked to M'Quarrie, "You nearly put the rope round my neck by owning to that revolver," and when they got home again Sobel' said, "By saying it was your revolver you nearly got me transported." Id'Quarrie replied, "I was drunk at the time, but I soon made it all right when I got down to the detective office." The medical evidence was antagonistic to the theory of suicide.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1886-03-20 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

OOO. We carried about 575 mail bags, of which 75 were saved."  • The passengers stories somewhat modify the captain's statement. Doubtlesi the proceedings wero orderly for a shipwreck, inasmuch as some few rassensrers even slept an hour after the collision ; but the first mi mtnts of uncertainty are desciibed as frightful. The decks were imtantly thronged by the undressed people, who feared to return for their clothes. Very few saved even their handbags. All huddled together for warmth, the temperature being near the freezing point. Fears lest the steamer should founder wefe the first emotion. Then next, terror came from the immense clouds of steam, caused Ly the floc ding- I f the furnaces. The passengers and sailors had be: up to this time under control,and the women the ceo:est of all ; but the stokers and firemen, when driven from furnaces, rushed for the boats, rei-ardle,s of anybody else. The officers fought them with axes and belaying pins; but some escal.el into the boats, which they half filled. The number of boats was totaliy inadequate to meet the exigenci, of such a disaster. However, the worst thing reported is that a lady broke her little fineer. It .s true that the Rev. C. E. Waller jumped overbouid ; that, however, was not on Sunday, but on the previ..us Tuesday ; his relatives protest against the theory that it was a ease of suicide. All the monty older lists have been lost, only 94 registered letters were saved, and only nine sacks of letters.  The cause 3f the disaster is a mystery. A. passenger, whose state room was near Cm spot where the steamer was struck, asBerts that he saw a rd light, which supports the impression that the Oregon had mi•aculatec hr distance. Agsinst the suggestion that Captain Cottier might have beached the Oregon should be set the difficulty of foreseeing the time she would take in sinking, which appears to have regulted from the smashing of the bulkhead amidships, between the two largest and heaviest compartment. The Oregon now lies at siOdeg. 30min. north latitude and 72deg. 4win. longitraie, position which is dangerous for vessees stsfarningbithui.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1886-06-05 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNDAY.  Mr. Heneage having inquired whether the Govern, silent still regarded the Government of Ireland Bil and the Land Purchase Bill as inseparable, Mr. Gladstone replied that he had no new declaration to make on the subject of the relations existing between the two measures. He did not think tkie Government would ask the House to pass its judkmeat on the Land Purchase Bill, except at a time when the principal bill was on the Orders of the Day with a view to prompt or immediate prosecution. That being the case, it was not their intention to ask for any vote on the Land Purchase Bill after the determination of the House had been given on the second reading of the Irish Government Bill. Thd a,]journed debate on the Government of Ireland Bill was resumed by Mr. H. Fowler with a speech in favour of the Becond reading. Replying to the argument that the scheme was a step towards separation, he insisted that there were two guarantees against that which the bill did not create, and could not destroy. These were the material interests of Ireland and the material forces of England. Any attempt at separation would, indeed, be an act of suicide.  Lord J. Manners condemned the bill because it handed over the lives, property, and liberties of her Majesty's Irish snbjects to a new representative body and an Executive which would be under its contro!. Referring Epecially to the position of Ulster, he demanded Co know whether it was to be excluded from or included in the bill, and added that if it were included it would be treated as a Conquered province. Now was the time for the House of Commons to act, and rise to the dignity and responsibility of its duty by rejecting the bill on the second reading; and thus save Great Britain from ,haine, humiliation, and disgrace, and Leland from run, cr.rifusi,,n, and possibly reconquest. Mr. Storey, in the course of a speech in favour of themea.!ure, expressed his belief that owing to the action of Mr. Chamberlain the defeat of the bill was highly probable, and urged the Prime Minister in that event to appeal horn the verdict of the House of Commons to that of the people. Mr. Macnaghten Spoke at some length in opposition to the measure, the Passing of which he predicted would entail universal bankruptcy in Ireland. Mr. E. I). Gray declared that if the bill were reJected, and the Irish landlords resorted to evictions, the result would be disaQtrous. On the motion of Mr. Chamberlain, the debate was again adjourned.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1886-06-05 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

GALLANT RESCUE FROM DROWNING.  Mr. John Webb, of the Catford Flour Mills, Lewisham, was walking on the bank of the River Ravensbourne, at Catford, when he noticed what appeared to be some one bathing about 100 yards up the stream, but on going closer he found it was a young woman who was attempting to commit suicide. He at once plunged into the river to her rescue, and swam with her to the bank, whi-re he was assisted out of the water in an exhausted state by a local waterman. The rescue of the girl was the more praiseworthy because, although at this point the river is wide and deep, the late heavy rains had swollen it into a torrent, and there was great danger .3f Mr. Webb and the young woman being carried over a weir near the spot.  CARDINAL NEWMAN AND POST rivism. Messrs. Burns and Oates have in the pi ess a volume by Mr. Wilfrid Ward, entitled "The Clothes of Religion; a Reply to Popular Positivism." Cardinal Newman, writing to the young author—a son of his old friend " Ideal" Ward—says " My dear Wilfrid Ward,—Thank you for your letter, which was very acceptable to me. I have read your article with great interest and like it much, but my brain works so slowly and my fingers are so stiff that writing is a difficulty and a trial to me. I should say that the theories of Mr. Spencer and Mr. Harrison have such hearing and acceptance from the public as to need an answer, and that your answer to them is unanswerable. But in saying this lam not paying you so great a compliment as it appears to be at first sight—for I say 60 from the impatience I feel at able men daring to put out for our acceptance theories so hollow and absurd. I do not know how to believe that they are in earnest or that they preach the Unknowable and Humanity except as stop. gaps while they are in suspense and on the lookout for the new objects of worship which Sir James Stephen thinks unnecessary as well as impossible. I, then, am too impatient to refute carefully such theorists. If it was to be done it required to be done with both good humour and humour as you have done it. You have been especially happy in your use of Mr. Pickwick, but this is only one specimen of what is so excellent in your article. It tires me to write more.—Very sincerely yours, —J. H.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1886-05-22 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SHOCKING MURDER AND SUICIDE. Early on Monday morning a murder and suicide nf a most determined character occurred in South London. Shortly after midnight a police-constable on duty in Newington Butts was informed that a murder and suicide bad been committed in a house in Holy oake-road. 'The constable proceeded to the b ouse indicated and on going with a fellow officer to tin. first floor front room found a young woman lying on the floor with her head nearly severed from her boly and by her side, with his head resting on the woman's face, a man with a fearful gash in his throat. The blood from his wound had run over the face of the woman, who presented a horrible spectacle. The divisional surgeon of police was immediately sent for, and on his arrival pronounced life extinct in both cases. Death; he thought, had in each case bt,en instantaneous. Two common table-knives, covered with blood, were subsequently found on the floor close to where the bodies were found. The man's name is James Clark, a butcher, aged about 50 years, and the woman's name is Annie Ultham, aged 27 years. Clark was formerly in a good position, but failed in business, and for some time past he had worked as a journeyman butcher. Ultham was formerly in his service, and they had cohabited together. Of late Clark had been in the habit of visiting Ultham on Saturday night and staying with het until Monday morning. The only person able to throw any light on the tragedy is a young woman named Susan Armes, a servant in the house, who states that she was in the room when Clark asked Ultham to go out with him. The latter refused, and seated herself upon a chair, whereupon Clark took up a knife and drew ic across Ultham's throat. The woman immediately fell to the floor. Clark next picked up another knife from the table, and, before Armes could prevent him, drew it across his own throat and fell upon Ultham. Armes then rushed out of the room and informed the police.  The third suicide this year from Clifton Suspension bridge, which is about 270 feet high, has just taken place. A man about 30 years old was seen to jump from the Clifton side of the bridge, and falling into the roadway was dashed to pieces. He is unknown, and there was nothing on the body to identify him, even the name of the tailor on his trolls- rs buttons were filed out. Only a few shillings were . found upon him. As the inarriiZge feast is ii burden to an Indian family so is a funeral to a Burinan household. However poor he may be in worldly goods, in case of death occurring in the Burman family, either of Ifather, mother, or any senior member of the household, the funeral must be an:expensive affair. If he has no money in hand, he must sell some heusthold woods, either jewellery oibullocks, buffaloes, or paddy i fields, to meet the heavy expenditure. The Burtneso I are trying to effect& reform in this direction.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1886-06-12 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A HALIFAX GENTLEHAN.—Ou Sunday, about seven o'clock in the morning, the holy of Frank Thomas Midgley, of skircoat, Halifax, was found lying behind a hedge in Irongateßridge-road, Harrogate. The deceased had committed suicide the night previons by cutting hie throat. Mr. Midgley went to Harrogate on Saturday in company with his brother, Mr. W. Midgley, and his brother-in-law, Mr. Chambers, and put up at the Harrogate Hydropathic Establishment. About nine o'clock on Saturday night deceased was missed, and search was made for him until two o'clock on. Sunday morning, but without avail. Shortly before seven a man named James Ramsey of Little Wonder, Harrogate, was walking with two others along Irongate Bridge-road, when the dog with them attracted their attention to the unfortunate gentleman lying dead as described. lnformalon was given to the police, when the body was removed to an outhouse behind the Crown Hotel, to await an inquest. The deceased had committed suicide with a small pocket-knife, by means of which he had cut through ithe jugular vein. The knife was found lying close Iby the side of the body. He had been in a somewhat low and depressed state for some time.—An inquest was held on Monday, when a verdict that "The deceased had committed suicide whilst labouring under temporary insanity" was returned. YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF CHANGE RINGERS —A general meeting of this association was held at Keighley on Saturday, and was largely attended. about 200 members being present. The bells at the Parish Church were placed at the disposal of the Association from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., and the bells of St. Michael's Church, Haworth, were also available. A peal of 5,184 Kent treble Bob Maj ir was rung on the Parish Chnrch bells in the morning by eight members of the Associatiog from Gargrave, Bradford, and Keighley, :dr. John McKell, of Gargrave conducting. 'the peal was rung in two hours sal fifty-eight minutes. In the afternoon a meat tea was pro% ided by the Keighley branch in the National Schools, at which upwards of 100 were present. Selections en the hand bells were given by thel Parish Church Hand Bell Ringers. After tea the general meeting WAS held, the president, Mr, W. Snowdon (Leeds) being in the chair. —The Chairman said this was the first visit of the Its,ociatlon to Keighley, and it had been a very successful one. Sixteen new members had been added during the day. lie moved a vote of thanks to the [teeter ot, Keighiey and the VIC3r of Haworth for allowint the use of the bells, and this was seconded by Mr, W. H. Howard (York), and carried.—The Itv, 11, J. Longsdon, Rector of Ksighley, replied, sir. B, I', Copley (Bradford) moved and Ar, 0, H. tersley seconded a vote of thanks to (tie Keighl*y ringers and the ladies who bad entertained ok-A members, which was canted, The meeting oloaxi with a vote of thanks to the chairman,
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1886-02-20 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

FRIENDLY LIES AND SELFISH LIES. Mr, Osborne Morgan, replying to a correspondent who drew his attention to Judge Horatio Lloyd's condemnation of the Welsh nation for perjury, writes: I cannot help expressing my regret that my old friend, Judge Horatio Lloyd, has felt it his duty to make such sweeping assertions as to the veracity of Welsh witnesses. If I may venture to borrow a phrase of Burke's, a man ought always to hesitate before preferring an indictment against a nation. My own experience, founded upon many years' practice in courts of justice, both English and Welsh, leads me, I regret to say, to the conclusion that a lamentable amount of perjury is daily committed in both. If I draw a distinction between cue ..wo„ I should be disposed to say that if a Welshman lies he as often as not lies iroin good nature and to help a friend. When an Englishman lies, he generally lies to serve his own interests.  A woman named Knight, living in Clerkeieoell, who had of late been drinking to excess, has murdered her infant child and made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide by cutting her throat. Mr. Cooke, the Marylebone police magistrate, in dealing with a complaint made respecting a dog which had bitten two persons, remarked that the law with regard to cases of this kind waa in a disgraceful state. It was most difficult for people to bring actions or to interfere except they could shew that the dog had previously injured people. The relations which exist between the Duke cf Devonshire and his Furness tenantry have been illust;ated by an interesting incident. An olditenant, Mr. William Slater, recently left the Park Farm, Dalton, and his Grace sent him a beautiful drawing.room clock, with four dials. It bore the following inscription : "Presented by William, Duke of Devonshire, to William Slater, on his quitting Park Farm, in remembrance of the long connection in the relation of landlord and tenant between their respective families," A scheme fer a railway between Kimberley and Pretoria is mooted.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1886-04-17 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDE OF LORD SHAFTESBURY. The Earl of Shaftesbury committed suicide in London on Tuesday afternoon, by shooting himself with a revolver whilst riding in a cab in Regentstreet. He engaged a cab in the upper part of Regentstreet shortly after 4 o'clock. and directed the cabman to drive down the street. The driver did so, and on fetching the lower end of the street was told by the to return. This the man did, and when the ipper end of the street was reached his lordship igain directed the cab to be turned round, l'his was done several times, and when the cab was 'rear Oxford-stre3t, about hall-pist 4 o'clock, the driver heard a shot. He jumped down, and the earl, who was unknown to him, said "It's all right, cabman; drive on !" ThF, man replied, "Yes, I know it's all right; but what is this?" pointing to a bullet hole in the front part of the cab, nea the glass panel, on the left side, and addingr "I value my life too much to drive on.'; Lord Shaftesbury put in the rejoinder. "I didn't intend to shoot you." The driver intimated that he did not want "any of thuse games" in his cab, refused to take the deceased any further, and threatened to call a policeman. The earl then ' said, "Don't be so silly es that, drive me on and I will give you a fiver," but the driver replied. " I don't want any of your flyers; your fivers won't satisfy my life." The deceased then put the revolver aside, and a police-constable appeared on the scene at the same time. Before, howsver, the officer had time to interfere thedecea;ed shot himself in the left temple. The cabman drove at once to the Middlesex Hospital, where the earl, who was still alive, was carried into the in-patients ward. The house surgeon was summoned, but Lord Shaftesbury weir just breathing his last, and was beyond all surgical aid, the bullet having penetrated the brain. An intimation of the occurrence bad been sent to the friends of the earl, and in a short time the Countess of Shaftesbury arrived, followed by his lordship's butler. The weapon used was a six-chambered revolver. The position of the first shot indicated that it had been fired, accidentally. but the situation of the fatal wound skewed that it was fired with a very deliberate aim. Lord Shaftesbury was born in June, 1831, and sat in the House of Commons for Hull from 1857 to 1859. and for Cricklade from the latter year to 1865. He married, in 1857, the only daughter of the Marquis of Donegal, and has left one son, born in 1869, and five daughters.  . .