The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-05-10 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

ATMS:PT-SD SUICIDE AT TOTTLYOTON.—At the Bury Police Court on Tuesday morning, Mary Harkinson (37), a married woman, of Tottington, who was up in March last for attempting to poison herself, was charged with being drunk and disorderly and with attempting to strangle herself in the police cell. She was arrested for being drunk on Monday afternoon, and later was discovered with her garter round her neck, attempting to strangle herself. She was black in the face and foaming at the mouth, and it was with great difficulty that she was saved. On being charged she said, "I suppose that will be year& for me."--Committed for trial.  ATTZMPTED SUICIDL 07 • Bazozoitoos.—Mr. Thos. Martin, living in Ho/lee-street, Dublin, attempted to commit suicide on Monday under peculiar circumstanoes. He was to have been married that morning to the daughter of a-person with whom he lodged. The marriage was to take place at the chapel in Westland-row; but the bridegroom did not put in an appearance, and the bride and her friends, after waiting some time in the chapel, sent in quest of him. They found him on the floor of his room with a razor In his hand, with which he had cut his throat. Be was conveyed to Baggotstreet Hospital, where he was pronounced to be almost beyond hope of recovery. Mr. Martin held a good position in the Junior Army and Navy Stores in Dublin. We (Northern Daily Telegraph) are authorised to state that it has been decided to close the Southport Gleziarium, and to wind up its affairs. This news will cause regret among curlers and skaters all over England and Scotland, for the Glacie.rium was the only building of the kind in the world, and lovers of the "roaring game" could there enjoy their pastime all the year round. Only a month ago the two Blackburn curling clubs, the Preston, Wigan, Manchester, Liverpool, and many northcountry teams, competed at the Glaciariam for a trophy, and on that occasion an address was voted to Mr. E. D. Holden, Bradford, the principal proprietor, for his disinterestedness in keeping the institution going at a great personal loss. We oelieve we are correct in saying that some snores of thousands of pounds base been sunk in the enterprise, most of which Mr. Holden has defrayed. Mr. Holden was the proprietor of the Liverpool and Southport Daily News, which a few years ago terminated a brilliant if unsuccessful existence.  A Dears Tatr.—lfdlle. Cuny, a schoolmistress at Saint-Did, in the Vosges, has just met her death under extraordinary circumstances. She had gone with her brother to see some cousins in a neighbouring village, but, finding the front door of the house looked, she walked round to a side entrance, and pushed it to, ascertain if it were also fastened. A loud report was immediately heard, and the poor woman fell to the ground pierced with three bullets. She expired in a few minutes. The house was untenanted at the time. Some years ago, as thieves had been notioed prowling about the dwelling, the family, in order to defend their property during their absence, invented a curious mechanical arrangement, with the help of springs and wires, for the purpose of dealing death on anyone who might try to enter their abode. A gun was placed in a position so contrived as to go off at the slightest push at the door, and so correct was the calculation that Didlle. Cuny fell a victim to her attempt to assertain whether her relatives were at home. TnE Cosa