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Widnes Examiner. — 1883-07-28 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ESTON.— Mr. J. E. Worsley, the year to be £4,445 103 54, and the expenditure amounting to deputy coroner, held an inquest at the Royal Oak Inn, £739 Os 21 reduced the balance in hand to £3,706 103 3d. The Weston, on Saturday, to inquire into the circumstances of receipts in the Water Fund Account amounted to £927 7s 2d, the death of Robert Heaton Gregory, who committed suicide and the expenditure to £1,215 4s sp. The amount overby hanging himself at his residence, Victoria-buildings, drawn was £287 17s 3111, while the rate uncollected amounted Weston, on Friday morning--From the evidence of lary to £67 53 24, and consumers' arrears to £142 11s id. At . N Ellen Gregory, wife of John Gregory, the son of the dethe commencement of the year the Gas Fund Account had a balance of XI 638 163 611, and the receipts increased this ceased, it appeared that the deceased was 56 years of age, ' sum to £4,371 17s 21 l. The opposite side of the statement and was employed as a labourer at the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Brundrit and Co., Runcorn. Since his wife died two showed that £2.310 103 5d had been expended, leaving a years ago the deceased had been in a desponding state, and balance of £2,061 6s oi lin hand. The rate uncollected was had become worse recently because he lost his work as a £6B 6s 104, consumers' arrears £135 17s 3d, and tar, coke, sawyer at Fiddler's Ferry. He used to say that he could &c., arrears £316 is 7.4. The Gas Works Sinkingbalance Witness described how she found deceased hanging from the Fund not rest at night, and only slept about two hours each night. accounts showed receipts £1,567 19s 81 (including a of £1,341 12e 111), and expenditure £1,391 14s 9d, leaving ceiling, and Daniel Basnett, grocer, Weston, stated he cut a balance of £176 4s lid in hand. The Education Account the deceased down and tried to resuscitate the body, but receipts amounted to £l4O as follows: Balance in hand, life was extinct. The deceased had apparently prepared his £4O 4s; overseers of the township £lOO. The expenditure breakfast and washed himself before committing the rash totalled £lOB, leaving a balance of £32 4s. to be carried foract.—The Coroner having briefly commented upon the eviward. dence, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deThe CHAIRMAN asked SOlmo:;(: to move that the accounts ceased committed suicide whilst temporarily insane, be passed subject to the audit.
Widnes Examiner. — 1883-07-28 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

RALPH CATHERALL."  Two ladies are boat on F ' at Cambridge. ---T-h-ey hired a nimbrelta, Wleielt has been found empty, excepting an ..sA dwelling htinse at Lanark, belonging to Mr. A. BeatVillWas destroyed by fire on Monday morning, causing uaTa ge to the extent of £2,000. un Saturday morning a labourer named Thorby was :ruck dead by lightning while sheltering under a tree at mOfFs Oak, a small village near Chesbunt, Hertfordshire. At Wimbledon, on Saturday, the international military ' Patch beween England and America resulted in a victory. the English team by 45 poiats. The prizes were distributed in the evening, and the meeting then came to a close, ~ On Saturday afternoon, a south-easterly gale of exceptional violence passed over the Tyne, accompanbd by ,a B"TaPour of rain. The sea off Shields was very high. „°°,h, a severe storm has seldom cccurred at this period "'Agit 'Year. eak,sletain Morton, of London, and a companion, made a uea!leen ascent on Saturday evening at Northampton. A few 'afftes after its ascent the balloon wus thrown against some d au was considerably torn by rapiedescent. Neither If the occupants of the balloon was injured. At Flintahire assizes, on Saturday, a curious breach of Promise case, which the judge described as "scandalous," Zif,ts heard by a special jury, the plaintiff being Hannah illiams, aged 55, of Mold, and the defendant Edward avies aged 60, hotel proprietor. A verdict was given for the deeendeint• A compromise has apparently been arrived at by the two , 'ranches of the Manx Legislature, by which the crisis Which arose a week ago is terminated. The dispute arose in crMection with appointing an Aeylum Committee, and the e altn of the Council to reject nominations of membership from the House of Keys. The Borough Coroner for Bolton held an inquest, on Saturday, on the body of Peter Kelly, the man who attempted to murder his wife and his brother on Wednesday ° night last, and afterwards jumped from a third storeywindow, sustaining such injuries that he died the following caerning. A verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane Was returned. A new infirmary, erected at a cost of between £30,000 and £40,000, was opened at Bolton on Saturday afternoon. !se proceedings in connection with the opening ceremony, of which the chief feature was a precession of the friendly and trade societies of the borough, were shorn of a good deal of their interestein consequence of the unfavourable weather. The ease of Mr. Manson, the farmer in Stromness parish ho was lately suspended from chuich privileges for grantthe use of his barn for dancing purposes, has come before the Presbytery of Cairnston. On a division the Presbytery Strong a motion enjoining the Kirk Session to remove the allsnerrsion on condition that Mr. Manson promised that no g drink should in future be allowed at any ball en his Premises. , A
Widnes Examiner. — 1883-12-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SCOTCH FORTUNX.—Heirs for the money ing was still going on. The military were telegraphed for left by John Russell, a compositor, who died in Bellevue as well as reinfoicements of police, and strong bodies of Hospital, New York, in May last in most abject circtun- trocps and constables were, in answer to the appeal, destances, are (says the Scottish American Journal) springing spatched by train and steamer from St. John's. Their up in all diaections. Rhssell was born in Clackmannan- presence will, it is hoped, at once quell the disturbance. shire, between Alloa and Dollar, some seventy years ago. SHOCKING SUICIDES —At Manchester, on Wednesday, a cotton spinner, named John Whitehead, committed suicide His father was a cotter, and his mother's family, named in presence of 'his wife by cutting his throat with a razor. Cochrane, resided in Alloa. Russell came to the States many years ago and settled in New York, working as Before doing so he threatened to kill her, and she struggled a with him, but was overpowered. Before assistance arrived journeyman compositor in many of the newspaper offices. he cut his throat, and died immediately.—An inquest was He became very penurious in his habits, his clothes were literally rags, and he would make a meal off a mouldy crust opened on Thursday, at Woking Cemetery, on the body of a whenever he could pick one up. Many pitied the poor woman, name not known, who was found dead in the cemewretch, so utterly miserable did he seem, but he generally tery with a bullet wound in her head. A revolver WAS in her hand, and by her, side a bag with twenty-four ball carrepelled all attempts to befriend him by his harsh manner. When he died it was found that he had C 60,900 depdsited tridges.—Early on Thursday morning a servant girl threw herself into the river Liffey, at Dublin. the body was not in different savings banks in the city, besides some other effects. recovered till the afternoon, when it was taken by force from Faeurra.
Widnes Examiner. — 1883-12-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

LAWLESS BROTHERS, MARKET-PLACE, WARRINGTON. KIEL BUTTER.  I went. I pressed upon him all the points that I thought ought to convince him that while yours was undoubtedly a case for some punishment, it should be of such a nature that when once pressed through would leave no rankling thoughts it feelings behind. 'Punish, but don't ruin,' I said, in effect. "Curiously enough my strongest arguments were those he caught the fastest hold of, but simply to 1139 against me. When I spoke, for example, of a vast difference a punishment may have upon two different men—one a rough, who when he had been penished and got over tke torture, would nearer trouble his mind by reflecting on its nature, or on his own degradation through it; the other a gentleman, to whom the physical torture, however cruel, would be less frightful than the everlasting sense of infamy that he would be sure to associate with it." "The Colonel listened attentively, smiled, and presently I found he received what I said, as proving he had then another duty to perform besides those be knew of, and that was to sho ff the humblest among his soldiers, their Colonel was indeed their father, one who wou:d show equal justice to all. That one illustration may serve for all. left Mai convinced there was but one thing to do, and that I am now on the way to London to try to accomplish. "Before you can possibly reeeive this, I shall be on the ether side of the Channel, and a few hours later I shall present myself at Harlaxton House, to take counsel with your brother. "I should not tell you this, but I fear what may be your method of escape if you see no hope in any quarter. "But no, my friend, you are made of nobler stuff than goes to the making of suicides. Bear up then. I may fail —God knows I may—but assuredly I will succeed if success be possible. Not, lam well aware by myself, lam too humble a person; no, not by myself, but by putting others on to the work, of greater, more commanding influetice. "Forgive me then my violation of your urgent—your passionate demand that I should be silent. But whether you do or do not, my duty is the same; to save you if I can; or if I cannot, prove a true friend in the hour of your worst trial—and one who will hope to mitigate consequences by his brotherly sympathy afterwards. "
Widnes Examiner. — 1883-11-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

OOO. The sub-manager, Tally, was last seen at Manchester, but it is believed that he has got out of the country. Dr. Swabey, for many years one of the leading advocates in the probate and Divorce Court, died on Friday night at his residence, Langley, near Slough. The deceased gentleman was Chancellor of the dioceses of Oxford and Ripon. The statue of the late Alexander Dumas in the Place Malesherbes, Paris, was unveiled on Saturday. Several speeches were delivered expressing admiration of the deceased and of his son, who was present at ther ceremony. The latest incident in the chequered history of St. Jude's Church, Liverpool, consists in the filing of a petition for liquidation on behalf of the Curate-in-Charge, the Rev. J. W. Wasdale Watson, whose liabilities are put down at  £B2l. During a quarrel at Pontypridd, bqween two occupants of a lodging-hose, a woman struck her adversary on the bead with a poker, fracturing his skull. The man retaliated by stabbing her in the hip. Both parties are in a critical condition abd have been apprehended. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lorne arrived in Liverpool on Monday from Canada. They were receiveny the Duke of Albany, and an address of welcame was presented at the Town Hall, where they were entertained at luncheon by the Mayor, and sasequently ',eft for London. At Sheffield, on Tuesday, Robert Glover, plate-roller, was fined £5 for ill-treating his wife. The case was a most heartless one. He struck the woman in the face, locked her in a bed-room, stripped her naked, and drenched her with dirty water. Finally she was rescued by the neighbours. A determined suicide has been committed at Hull Police Station. A marine-store dealer named Henry Bellefelt, 37 years of age, was arrested on Saturday afternoon on a charge of receiving stolen property. Shortly after he had been placed in the cell he hanged himself to a bolt in the door .• trap. lan Saturday morning several children were playing in West-street, Leek, with a quantity of gunpowder. A train ivas laid and fired, and by some means the packet ignited sad caused an explosion. Several of the lads were -scorched, and one named Mellor had the sigbt of both eyes  lestroyen. -A toll house at Banner Cross, near Sheffield, which was occupied by the tollkeeper only in the day time, was on • Tuesday morning found to have been wrecked, apparently by an explosion of gunpowder. The incident is regarded .As a "practical joke" in connection with the Gunpowder - Plot celebrations of the previous night. ALLEGED WIFE blunpza.—At Bury, on Monday, Peter Hilton, landlord of the Foresters' Arms, Whitefield, near -Manchester, was remanded, charged with-causing the death of his wife. It was alleged that prisoner, while drunk on Saturday, quarrelled with the deceased and knocked her down, she dying next morning. PLOT TO BLOW ta.
Widnes Examiner. — 1883-11-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

UNITED CHESHIRE AND LANCASHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY, RUNCORN—.The annual meeting was held in Holy Trinity Schools, on Thursday evening. Mr. Timothy Simister presided, and there was a large attendance of members. The report and balance sheet was read by Mr. J. W. Lightburn, the secretary. The committee state that in presenting their twentieth annual report they have to repeat what was stated last year, viz., that nntil the withdrawal notices are either satisfied or withdrawn they can neither pay dividends nor advance moneys on mortgage. The total profits of the society for the past year amount to £1,601 7s 41, out of which £929 8s 2d has been spent on improvement and special repairs to properties in the possession of the society, with the result that these properties are now almost fully tenanted, and promise to yield a considerably increased revenue in the ensuing year. The nett profits of last year not having been paid in dividends, have been added to the reserve fund, which amounts to £4,703 14s, and as the nett balance of this year's profits amounting to £459 5s 3d will be dealt with in a Apailar manner, the total balance in favour of the society to meet any loss that may occur, or to assist in paying future dividends, amounts to £5,162 19s 3d. The com• mittee will continue to use every effort to realise the society's securities when opportunities present themselves. —The report and balance sheet were adopted. After numerous inquiries had been answered, apparently to the satisfaction of the members, a vote of thanks was passed to tha p”e.ie,nr, treesurer. committee. and secretary for th.ir cervices uuring Lae past year. Tile retiring members of the committee, Messrs. Johnson, Rhodes, and Pritchard, were re-elected, and all the officers were re-appointed.  I wonder whether we shall ever see Government undertaking fire insurance as a department. I believe in Switzerland the householder is obliged to insure his residence, but then a fire in Switzerland generally means the burning not of a chalet but of a town. Still I hear evervfhere in London the complaint so loudly repeated that sooner or later it must be listened to and txted on. Why have we not fire inquests ? Why should not the fact of a fire be a prima facie reason for an enquiry before a jury, just as a sudden death or a suicide leads to a coroner's inquest ? It is well in wa thr ar2 every yz panty of fraudulent fires in London, and the insurance office is afraid of the bad name which the disputa' of a claim is likely to
Widnes Examiner. — 1883-04-14 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

UTE EXAMINER SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1883.  Summonses have been issued against 70 bf the Glendale The deputies "ef the Protestant Dissenters, and the reprecrofters and possession of their houses and lands is de- sentatives of the Presbyterian, CongregetionA, and Baptist mended'. The police are apprehensive of disturbances, and ministers of Lendon and the neighbourhood, have passed the opinion is general that the crofters will resist every resolutions eupporting the principle of the Affirmation Bill. effort to compulsorily remove them. The Marquis of Hertington en Wednesday went down to The spire of the Rochdale Town Hall, which is at present Shorncliffe, and distributed the Egyptian medal from the in the hands of workmen, beck fire on Tuesday night, and Queen and the bronze star from the Khedive to the men of the whole of the wood wcrk was destroyed. The fall of the 7th Dragoon Guard's, at the same time paying a tribute burning material ignited that portion of the building used as to the regiment and the forces in general. the library, and serious 'damage was done here. The National Conference of Miners on Wednesday sugAt Birmingham, on Tuesday, Police-constable John Gib- gested that employers and employed should be brought tobons was highly copplimented for his gallantry. Seeing a gether to avert, if possible, a struggle on the question of rewould-be suicide eump into the canal, he leaped after, ducing output. An energetically worded resolution against without removing any of his clothing except his helmet, the employment of female labour in and about coal mines and, notwithstanding that he could not swim, rescued the was pissed. drowning person. The Corporation el Preston have succeeded in obtaining A gigantic petition in favour of the Sunday Closing of the assent of the special committee of the House of CornPublic Routes from the Wesleyans of Great Uritaio, which meets to their hill for improving the navigation of the Sir William 11PArthur presented to the House of Commons, Ribble and the construction of docks in the borough. Great on Tuesday night, measured 15 feet 6 inches in circum- importance is attached by the townspeople of Preston to ference, contained 590,000 signatures, and was so heavy this scheme. that it taxed the united efforts of four men to carry it
Widnes Examiner. — 1883-06-09 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE DYNAMITE CONSPIRACY.—The trial of the six prisoners committed to the Central Criminal Court upon charges of treason-felony in connection with the dynamite conspiracy will be commenced at the Old Bally on Monday next. The seventh prisoner, William Joseph Lynch, otherwise Norman, will be called as a witness on behalf of the prosecutian. A special court, consisting of Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, Lord Justice Brett, and Mr. Justice Greve, will be formed for the trial of these prisoners. The judges will sit in the Old Court. The Attorney-General (Sir Henry James, Q.C. M.P.), the Solicitor-General (Sir Farrer Herschell, Q.C., M.P.), Mr. Poland, and Mr. R. S. Wright will prosecute on behalf of the Crown; Mr. Edward Clarke, Q.C., M.P., Mr. J. J. Sims, and Mr. H. J. Broun will defend Dr. Thomas Gallagher; Mr. M. W. Mattinson will defend Bernard Gallagher; Mr. Bowen Rowlands, Q.C., and Mr. Keith Frith will be counsel for John Curtin; Mr. R. W. Burnie will appear for William Ansburgh ; and Mr. G. Geoghegan will defend Thomas Wilson. The prisoner Albert George Whitehead, being without funds, is at present unrepresented by counsel; hut we understand that his solicitor, Mr. W. F. Morris, has advised him to write to the Treasury, requesting either a grant of money for his defence, or that counsel may be instructed on his behalf. About 64 witnesses have been subpoenaed by the Treasury for the prosecution, and the trials will, it is expected, last about a week.  RESULT OF A LOVER'S Quannm—The Liverpool coroner on Wednesday held an inquest upon the body of a young woman named Mary Jane Wood, 19, who committed suicide on Monday evening by taking carbolic acid. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased, who was a saleswoman in a boot shop, had for the past two years been keeping company with a glazier named John Abrahams, and on Sunday night last she was told by him that he did not wish to see her any more. She was consequently much distressed in mind, and on Monday afternoon she purchased some carbolic acid and poisoned herself. Three letters were found upon tho deceased, one of them addressed to Abrahams, in which the writer said that before Abrahams received it she , , should be dead, as she could not endure the thoughts of life without him. She told him on Sunday night that she should put an end to her life, and she hoped that she had done so. She was doing a very wicked thing, but she could not help it, as the blow he bad given her on Sunday night when be told her that he did not love her had been too much for her. The other two letters, addressed to friends of the deceased, were to the same effect. Abrahams himself gave evidence, and said that be had no particular fault to find with the deceased, and the reason be told her he did not want to see her any more was because be was tired of her— that was all. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity, and at their request the Coroner censured Abrahams for his heartless anl cruel conduct towards the deceased.  THE PROSECUTION OF THE Xrnty
Widnes Examiner. — 1883-03-03 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

BILL.—The Bankruptcy Bill 'of calico weavers at Decker Mills, Oldham, have been conceded Mr. Chamberlain, issued on Friday, contains 158 clauses. A an advance of 5 per cent. The calico trade in Oldham is in leading provision is that which forbids the presentationnf a a very healthy condition, and large orders are being 'repetition in bankruptcy unless the debts of the petitioning ceived. The velvet trade, on the other band, is represented creditors amount to £5O, and unless the act of bankruptcy to be in a very indifferent state, and no application has been alleged has occurred within the previous six months. 'By , made for an advance of wages in that department. the 16th clause it is provided that no composition Of less ' On Thursday morning, at six o'clock, a married woman than 5s in the pound shall be approved by the court unless • named Foster, and the mother of six children, committed the insolvency is elearly proved to have resulted 'from mis- suicide at Vallett's Buildings, Bolton, by hanging herself fortune without any misconduct on the part of the debtor. , from a nail in the kitchen. For a long course of years she Other clauses authorise the appointment of official receivers had been drinking heavily, and had also been subject to fits. and the control of trustees by the Board of Trade. In the On Wednesday afternoon she was carried home helplessly case of small bankruptcies, where the value of the debtor's ' drunk. property is not likely to exceed £3OO, the official receiver A representative meeting of male and female operatives will become the trustee, and there will be no =committee of engaged in the nail trade was held at Sedgley on Thursday. inspection. Better arrangements are also proposed against !It was stated that a woman working seventy hours a week Improper escape from liability and against fraudulent pre- 1 at making nails would not be able to earn more than 35., and ference. The bill is to apply to England anft 'Wales only, lin consequence of female labour being so cheap men were and it is proposed that it shall come into operation on the prevented from getting a living for themselves and families. Ist of January next. It was resolved that parliament be urged to restrict female