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The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-01-06 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

GENEEAL NEWS.  Paisley handkerchiefs were first made ii 1743. The first public school for the blind was established at Paris, by Valentine Haug, in 1784.  The first sea fight on record was that between the Corinthians and the inhabitants of Corcyra, 664 B.C.  Before the middle of the 17th century tea was not used in England, and was entirely unknown to the Greeks and Romans.  Deeds in England were formerly written in Latiu or French; the earliest known instance in English is the indenture between the Abbot of Whitby and Robert Bustard, dated at York in 1343.  What is known in English history as the "short lived administration was the Ministry which Ponitenay, Earl of Bath, undertook to form February 10, 1746, and whose term of office closed in two days.  England obtained formal possession of Gibraltar by the Treaty of Utrecht. April 11, 1713. The great fortress had been taken from the Spaniards by the English nine years before, and held in spite of repeated attempts at recapture.  It is stated that a farmer Of Saline county, lost a calf a long time ago, and recently, in draining a piece of swamp land on his farm he discovered the animal's body lying under water and completely petrified. This is important, if true.  Floyd Tufts, of Westmore, Vt., is but 7 years old and weighs only 115 pounds, but he is able to shoulder two bushels of corn with ease, and to lift his grandfather, whose weight is 175 pounds, from the floor without exerting himself. A Butte, M. T., man left home the other day to catch a train, but missed it, and was greeted by a bullet from a revolver in the hands of his wife when he returned. She had mistaken him for a burglar. He had a narrow escape, foe the bullet passed through his hat. TRAGEDY AT Srs.—The captoin of the Umbria, which has just arrived iu thi'iMersey frofn New York, reports a painful occurrence which took place on Saturday morning off the Irish coast. A passenger named Charles Coffin, an Englishman, in the presence of his wife, his four children, and his brother-in-law, threw his baby, which he had been holding in his arms, into the sea, and then leapt overboard himself, both being drowned. On the night before he had given his wife all his money. 51,500. He had previously made an attempt to commit suicide during the passage. A
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-02-10 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

STRIKE OF CA3.7ADIAN COTTON OPERATIVES.— A Reuters telegram, dated Toronto. Sunday, states that the operatives of the Canada Cotton and the Stormont Cotton Companies of Cornwall, Ontario, have struck work against the reduction of 15 per cent, in their wages. The number of persons thus thrown out of employment is 1,500, these mills being the largest in Canada. All efforts to effect a compromise have proved fruitless, and large numbers of the men are leaving the town. THE GLASGOW ExatsrrioN.—At a meeting of the Glasgow International Exhibition, on Monday, the Lord Provost (Sir James King) said the exhibition would be the largest in the United Kingdom since 1862. Fourteen hundred exhibitors had been awarded space, and the amount received as revenue was £42.000. The guarantee fund was £300,000. The electric light in the grounds of the exhibition would be equal to 1,100,000 candles. The Queen Mary Exhibition, proposed to be held in Edinburgh, is to be transferred to Glasgow.  SUICIDE or A. Bstix Cesuins.—An inquest was held at Sittingbourne on Saturday afternoon on the body of Joseph William Burroughs, cashier of the London and County Bank, Sittingbourne, who the same morning cut his throat with a razor. According to the evidence, dec....s-Pd, while exercising with dumbells on Friday, accidentally inflicted two violent blows to his temples, and the injuries evidently affectea his brain. A verdict of "Suicide while suffering from temporary insanity" was returned. The bank manager testified to deceased's integrity and efficiency. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A POST OFFICE EldPLOTE.-FOT some time past a number of letters— many of them containing postal notes and post office orders—have been abstracted from the Birmingham General Post Office, chiefly on Monday nights. On Sunday evening a detective secreted himself near a skylight looking down upon the desk of a post office employe suspected of the thefts. The detective saw the employe—named Hinds— take a number of letters and hurriedly thrust them into his pockets. The man was at once arrested, with the letters in his possession.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-01-27 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

NOVEMBER.  ruesday lat.—Fall of a mill during a gale at Gigg, belonging to Messrs. Diggle, Milburn and Co. Municipal elections in Bolton. Victory for the labour party. The result was declared as follows, the first two in each ward being returned:— Exchange Ward: Finlay (Labour candidate), 634; Greenwood (C), 487; Hargreaves (L), 448; France (Social Democrat), 63; Booth (S D), 60. West: Holden (L), 2079; Tootill (Labour), 1,955; Flitcroft (C), 1,024; Derham (C), 1,013. Derby: Booth (Labour), 983; Horrocks (Labour), 914; Nightingale (S D), 374; Shnffiebottom (91)), 314. Church: Wood (C), 566; Yates (C), 552; Walker (L), 412; Dooley (Labour). 245. East: Hough (Labour), 1,046; Holt (Labour), 972; Nicholson (C), 467; Elliston (C), 387. Bradford: Parkinson (Labour), 1,208; Broughton (C), 1,151; Morris (C), 1,012; Walkden (S D), 222; Horrocks (S D), 102. Halliwell ; TJttley (1), 965: Lomax (C), 828; Whittingbam (L), 825; Fishwick (Labour), 563. In North Ward, for one seat, J. Kirkham (Labour candidate) defeated Dr. Holden (C), the numbers being 556 and 172 respectively. Eight of the ten Labour candidates have thus  been successful, and naturally there was great rejoicing among the working classes. Thursday, 3rd.—Suicide of Susannah Henthorne, ..- . .  a girl employed in a mill, was found in the water lodge of the Moorfield Spinning Company, Shaw. Saturday, sth.—Great meeting of weavers at Brier. field. Important speech by Mr. T. Birtwistle, J.P., on the cotton trade. Wednesday, 16th.—Strike of weavers at Garden Vale Mill, Colin. Thursday, 17th.—Daisyfield Mill, Heywood, destroyed by fire.  , Weavers' dispute at Messrs. Thomas Emmott and Sons, Oldham. Saturday, 19th.—Presentation to Mr. D. Holmes on the occasion of his silver wedding, at Burnley. Thursday, 24th.—A case of the utmost importance to operatives was re-heard at the Blackburn County Court, before Judge Coventry and a special jury. On Monday, October 3rd, before the same judge and a jury, Thomas Sutton, Dalestreet, Accrington, brought an action under the Employers Liability Act against Messrs. John Coupe and Son, cotton manufacturers, Bridge Mill. Church, to recover the sum of £l5O, as compensation for loss and injury sustained by him on the 15th of June, whilst in the employ of the defendant, in consequence of a defect in the condition of the machinery at whioh he was called upon to work, and which defect arose from the negligence of the defendants, or their servant, James Calvert.—The jury returned a verdict of £lOO, and the defendants applied for a new trial, . . .  which was granted.—At thetnew. trial, the jury,  •. - . after an ab;ence of nearly two hours, failed 0 agree and were discharged. tiaturday, 26th.—Presentation to Thomas Bradbury of £3O by the Oldham Provincial Card and Blowing Room Association, he having been permanently disabled. Meeting af weavers in the employ of Messrs. Eli Lees and Co., Oldham, respecting a dispute with their employers.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-03-23 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

ENER.A.L NEWS.  In Augusta (Georgia) a tree felled in early morni rig was before nightfall the same day converted into paper, and sent out bearing the current news.  . . The wife of James M'Elmore, of Texarkana, Texas, has just given birth to her third set of triplets within three' years. At last accounts all the youngsters were living and healthy. A man in New York who threw off his overcoat and plunged into the East river to save a drowning person was rewarded for his humanity by having a thief steal the discarded garment.  It appears from the last report of the Registrar. general for Scotland that during the year 1885, 1,437 women in that country bore more than one child at a birth, of which 1,423 were twin cases and 14 triplets. The post office in New York sold, last year, 11i tons of postage stamps, nearly 170,000,000. In the year 1886, 820,416,570 pieces of mail matter were handled—enough to give every man, woman, and in the city 550 letters a day.  A story is told about an Illinois farmer who, desiring to increase the weight of some hogs he was to take to market, gave them all the salt water they would drink. In consequence 14 of them died on the way, and the granger lost $l5O. A Wakefield gardener, named George Henry Carter, a ticket-of-leave man, has committed suicide in Wakefield Goal. He tore his rug into shreds, formed it into a rope, and then hanged himself from one of the bars of his cell window.  "Pat," the canine pet of the Seaforth High. landers, is dead. "Pat was a veteran. He served throughout the Afghan and Egyptian campaigns, shared in the march to Caudahar, and was, of course, frequently under tire.  "A lovely maid is a beatiful sight to see," So says one of the courtiers in the Mikado. The head of the Japanese Empire has himself now exhibited this same appreciation of the fair sex. He has instituted a new order for women—to be called the "Order of the Crown:" A Losr
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-11-09 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

TIERRIBIX MURDER HT MLINSTRATE.—The markei town of Stuposciane, in Galicia, was on Friday night the scene of a terrible tragedy. About three , years ago a native of the locality left his home for ' America promising his wife and children, who re. mained behind, that he would send them money fur their journey as soon as he could earn it. About A week ago the magistrate of Stuposciane receivei from the United States a post-office order for DA florins, accompanied by a letter, in which he wa§ requested by the emigrant to hand over the moce7 to his wife, and to assist her in making the nec°s. sary preparations for her journey. On reeeirthe letter the magistrate paid the sum to 3  woman, resolviug at the same time to get  UjSl  into his possession. lEfe took his wife and el daughter into his confidence, and after disgr  them in some of his own clothes and blacking thel faces, sent them at midnight to the woman's .30t, tape, with instructions to threaten her and bet children with death should they offer any resistas,, On arriving at the cottage they emanded the th sand florins. The emigrant's wife who seem have kept her presence of mind, told them to folicw her to the stable, where she said she had billet' the money for safety. No sooner were the two women inside than she locked the door from with' out, and, taking up a hatchet for self-defence in osi of need, she sent her son, a boy of eleven, for the magistrate. When the lad got there the magistrate thrashed him till life was extinct. His cries well overheard by the gendarmes, who came and placed . , . . _  the magistralte in irons, but not before one of then  had been mortally wounded in the struggle. When the stable door was opened the two women inslde were found to have committed suicide by haugug themselves, fearful of the consequences of theg intended crime.  10' Published at 1, Warren-street, Crees-stree" tro' cheater, by Jona ANDREW, of Tauoton-051. Co under-Lyne, for the "Cotton Factory I lin° pany, and printed for the said Cowl Alwaaw & Co., Warket Flace, Aswon.andes•
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-12-28 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

FRENCH EXECUTION.—On Monday morning the execution of a murderer named Lyautey took place at Blois. In November last he stabbed a yourn; woman in twenty places, and nearly hacked hei body to pieces. He made a full confession of th, crime at his trial, and. was condemned to deatt Before his execution he was quite composed, to Ike to the chaplain, took his last meal with relis drank to the health of all around him, and ash somebody to look after his children. On rep the guillotine he coolly inspected the bits] marking, "I suppose the big one is for the h. and the little one for the head.- Ho then ga himself quietly tip to M. Deibler's assistants, am. in a few moments he was dead. Lyautey had fought bravely in the Franco-German war of 1870, and regretted before dying that he had not fallen on the field of battle. ROMANTIC SUICIDE OF A SOLDlER.—Considerable excitement has been caused in the garrison at Hounslow by the suicide, under romantic minim stances, of a private belonging to the Infantri,. Depot. It transpires that James Parsons, of the Royal Fusiliers. having obtained his pass br the Christmas holidays, was awaiting a letter Lou his sweetheart at Havant before starting on his fur.  baskets, r  lough. The letter not arriving, he appears to have become distressed, and on Saturday afternoon ea. pressed his opinion to a comrade that the yoing woman had jilted him. Later on in the evening Sergeant-major Price di4covered his dead body lying on the floor in front of the fire in one e: the barrack rooms. A discharged rifle lay beside him, and it is conjectured that he had placed the muzzle of the gun in his month while sitting on a form by the fire, and pressed the trigger with a piece of wood. Death must have been instantane. ous, as a portion of the head was blown away. The body was removed to the military mortuary, and a coroner's inquiry held. The deceased, who was 25 years of age, had seen five years' service in the Royal Fusiliers, and had seen active service in . . . .  Eopt with the Ist Battalion of that regiment. is a curious coincidence that Parsons was with c, sergeant of the Fusiliers who committed self. destruction in a similar manner in the same bar. racks a year ago. The deceased bore a good mill. tary character, and was much liked by his corn. radcs.  ANOTTIER AMERthAN
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-09-28 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

MYSTERIOUS CRIME.  A woman named Jane Beatmoor, 28 years o! ay, was the victim of a horrible murder at Dirtley, near Gateshead, on Saturday night or Sunday mozrin4. It appears that the deceased, who was in delicate health, had been at the Gateshead Dispensary on Saturday for medicine, and on returning llon,c went out to purchase some sweets with which ta  ..... take her medicine. She called at several farm while she was out, and at half-past seven at night left the house of an acquaintance namnd Mrs Newall, evidently with the intention of returmug home. She had not arrived at eleven o'clock, ace her mother and stepfather went to look for her, hut without success, and concluded that she must have spent the night with some neighbours. Early the morning a miner named John Fish goin::a. work found the body of the deeased at the hotter.) of a railway embankment in a horribly mutilate condition. The county police were communica-A with, and Sergeant Harrison, and Sergeant lintohin, son, of Birtley, were soon on the spot. was conveyed to Birtley and a doctor sent fur. riwz doctor expressed his opinion that the body had 'oeec= mutilated with a knife. The affair has caused quit' a panic in the district, the resemblance to ail Whitechapel tragedies encouraging the idea that the maniac who has been at work in London 11,:s trftveiled down to the north of England to pursue hie fiendish vocation. The police, however, suspect 6 man named Weddell. an ironworker at Birtley, whc for Borne time has been trying to force his attentiovE on the young wornau. He absconded at the time ,21 the murder, and a description of his person hm been circulated.  On Tuesday the Bolton police received inforn::, tion of a suicide by swallowing carbolic acid, , victim being a stripper and grinder named Robert Bell, aged 33, residing at Tyndall-street, 1-I!:Iliwe,1; Bell, who has been in a despondent state of nvou for some time, swallowed a large quantity of car• bolic acid last night and died immediately
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-09-28 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

LONDON CLD DRIVEDS. -On Tuesday morning fully 200 drivers employed by the London Improved Cab Company, one of the largest and moot important body of metropolitan cab owners, went out on strike. The company proposed to reduce their wages a shilling a day, and, as an equivalent, to abolish charges known as yard money, but the men say it is impossible to abolish. yard money, and therefore decline the proposed redaction. The Amalgamated Society of Cab Drivers intend sustaining the men during the strike.  On Sunday morning the body of a young man named John Swan, was found iloating in the Medway, or Maidstone. The deceased was in the employment of Mr. M. Jacobs, of Maidstone, but for the past eight days he has been missing. He was to have been married last Monday to a young woman whose parents live at Strood. The brideca ke had been provided, and every preparation made for the wedding. The only reason assigned for the suicide is that the deceased was overjoyed at the prospect of his marriage, and that his mind thua became affected.  The parents of Josef Hoffman, the juvenile pianoforte prodigy, who has been staying at Eisenacb recruiting his health, have entered into a contract with Mr. Abbey, and the youthful convalescent will sail for New York next month, and will, from November 15th to June next, undertake a tone through the chief American cities, playing twice or thrice weekly. Steps have been taken to prevent him being lionised at evening parties, and he will be sent to bed a',; a reasonable hour. On returning he will probably appear in England, where his great little rival, Otto llegner, will have preceded him on a London and provincial tour, beginning next January.  On Saturday evening an exciting Beene was wFtn-esed at New Brighton Palace, where, in addition to otbet attractions, Mr. Cross's menagerie is on view, and where Madame Telzero goes through a performance ir the lions' den. In connection with this lions' den there is usually a small empty cage by which the lions are approached by Madame Telzero. This cage was not in its place on Saturday, and the "Lion Queen" consequently had to enter by the main door of the den. No sooner was this opened than out dashed a lion, to the dismay of the audience, who were scattered in all three. tions. The lion in the meantime rushed into a come donbtless as much astonished at this freedom from bolts and bars as the audience at his intrusion in their midst. Meanwhile the keepers secure,-, ' and, without loss of tine, drove the / from his corner into it, and there he until he was again placed in the den.  L0g..4 a.t.l cu.p.y uuge, king of the forest quietly reruained  G'vE your orders for the COT TI4IEB t,o your Bookseller at Ott get it. The C. F. .1. alms at 'luny sic wspaper.  'TOE FACTORY once, and be sure being a scleudid  ,  I P  I  !
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-04-27 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

HUMAN SACRIFICES IN WEST AFRICA.—InfOT/11f1Ii0I1 of a shocking sabrifice of human beings has just been received from West Africa. It appears that at Grand Jack a son of the King died, and, in accordance with the custom of the country, human sacrifices had to be offered for two or three days. On the first day two men of the tribe were selected, and were compelled to drink a poisonous liquid known as "ease water." Their hands were then tied behind them, and they were flung into the surf which on this part of the coast breaks on the beach, in immense rollers. The men were soon afterwards pitched back on the beach. No sooner, however, had they been cast ashore than a number of tribesmen rushed at them with sharp pointed knives, tabbing them as fast as they could. In this inhuman butchery both women and children took part as well as the men, the women being especially ferocious. The wretched victims were thus stabbed to death. Four other natives were to be sacrificed in the same way on the following day, but the master of an English trading vessel who knew the king or chief personally, reinonstrated with him, and told him to haul down the British flag, as under it no such terrible atrocity should be perpetrated. The chief, who seemed to feel the reproach keenly, sneaked off, muttering that it was the country custom. Notwithstanding the reproof, however, the sacrifice of the other four poor wretches took place. Grand Jack is not a great distance from the Gold Coast settlement, but it is not part of that colony.  There have been 50 suicides within three months at Monte Carlo.  We are told that one of the seven cities of Cibols was inhabited entirely by women.  The prizefighter Sullivan has informed aNew York reporter that he intends to immedistely challenge both Mitchell and Kfirain. Thomas Elvick, aged 34, while attending to kiln at Elmely Cement Works, near Sittingboorne. was on Tuesday morning suffocated by poisonolit gases. -  There are as many bserhouses and gin-palaces is London as would, if their fronts were placed Bids by side, reach from Charing Cross to Portsmouth, a distance of 73 miles.  THE DRESS Lurnovra.—The Figaro relates how little girl was heard on the boulevards the other day to say as a poodle, hampered by a huge muzzle, passed her, "Oh, look, mamma, doggie's got her dress improver on outside."  A CURIOUS Law.—A peculiar liquor law is la force in Rockdale County, Ga. Only one person in the county is allowed to sell liquor. Rs ie appointed by the grand jury to sell for medicinal purposes, and cannot keep more than ten gallons of spirits at one time. P/
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-09-21 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED WIFE POISONING.-03 Thursday evening week a man named William Kellett, residing at Manningham, Bradford, attempted, it is reported, to poison his wife and then commit suicide. Shortly before going to bed the woman left the sitting room, and daring her absence Kellett, it is alleged, poured some carbolio acid into a glass of beer, and offered it to her. She, however, was suspicious and refused to drink, whereupon he drank a quantity of the poison oat of the bottle before he could be stopped. A doctor was sent for, and Kellett was restored. Drink is said to have been the cause of the affair. There is good reason to believe that the new coast railway to Blackpool will be shortly begun. bfr Edward Watkin has been in Blackpool during the past week, and has been in conference with directors of the West Lancashire Railway and other gentlemen on the matter. Most of the land for the line and station has been acquired, Said there is but little to purchase at the Blackpool end. The railway will begin at Preston, and skirt the Ribble and the estuarial coast line. It will be in connection with the West Lancashire system, and through the Wigan junction with tne Cheshire Lines, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin' colnshire, the Great Northern, and the Midland. Other railway enterprises are in hand, and engine are arranging for a new line from Preston, up the Ribble Valley, into Yorkshire. DEATH FROM Exerreixxxr. The Birmingham coroner on Tuesday inquired into the circumstances attending the death of John Warren, a "colour sergeant" in the Salvation Army. The deceased, who was formerly a heavy drinker, joined the armY four years ago. On Monday evening he was addressing an open-air meeting and, speaking of his former life, said "I am prepared to meet my Col Sudden death would be sudden glory." He hai proceeded but a few sentences further when he fed down and died. The doctor said the deceased'E heart was diseased, and the cause of death was syncope from excitement. A verdict was given accordingly.  Tax Dam