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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-12-14 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ALRORA.  On Saturday last there was a meeting of the lamp lighters of the Lighting Department of the As:on Council for the purpose of wishing "Godspeed" to one of their number. Harry Rowberry, of 11 ecurt. Pugh Road, who hat been called upon to join his r-gitneut. the lst Battalion of the 41lst Welsh Fusiliers. Mr. H. Wchardson nitsstyorrpreeieled. and apologised ,for the absence of ,Conit,illor Weltler Evan. IChairman of the Highway, Committee). whowas out of Clem. The Chairman said that all present would join with hint in hearty congratit.ations to Rowberry on having the opportunity of strving his Queen and ttiui iii Vse ,rt lsrohnle. They wou:d regret be had to have hi. wife sad Ctildreo umirovided for, and and that the Council were unlikely to do anything its the matter. They had, however. a good friend in the chairman of the committee tMr. Et mod, and the Chairman of the Council sMr. F. Smith, J.P.), who had done much out of their own pcAtets. amid he Oar. Richardson) had 'laid the ease before the Birmingham ReserAists' Fund Committee, and he had no doubt the ete, would lw taken up. and carefully considered. ICiteers.) CUlltillllllll. the C.hairman mid they wculd all join in Vidiiint Rowberry "God-meet)" in the hope that hi, departure would be fol:owed thy a v kierions return.--Mr. S. T. Calla way Wielding superintendent) then. on behalf of his elleogues, preeouted Rowberry with a handmme 'tuipe, pouch, and a good simply of to,,meco.--Mr. Rowberry, in responding, thanked his fellow work111.11 for the handsome present they had .given him. and said it ma, a ',teat comfort to feel that hi, little family would be looked after in hit phoney.. Ile hopo dto 'tee Ithem al a"atu. (Cheers.)—The National Anthem was afterward, sung. and, Indel many good .wishes, the company separated.  The Rev. (Father) Sir Brook George Bridges, Mart., S.J., has died at Ithosannil, lionibay, at the age of ninety-seven. By Sir Brook's de.ith the title becomes extinct. A telegram from Manila stales that LieutenantColonel Brereton, an °Ricer of the U.S. forces, has committed suicide In the Union Province in a At of temporary insanity.  '
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-06-22 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MELVILLE.  There i 3 a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that imitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion, though the wide universe is full of good.  I: anyone should set your body at the mercy of every passer-by, you would be indignant. When. therefore, you set your own mind at the mercy of every chance, to be troubled and perturbed when anyone may revile you, have you no shame of this P  The race of mankind would perish did they cease to help each other. We cannot exiat without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men, and no one who has the power of granting it can refuse without guilt.  There are two ways of attaining an important end —force and perseverance. Force falls to the lot only of the privileged few, but austere and sustained perseverance can be practised by the most insignificant. Its silent power grows irresistible with time.  Some music is so poor and weak it will not hold even the words of our grand old hymns; thy slip through and are lost, while other music is so noble and strong that it enfolds them in a deeper and tenderer meaning, and ifingri them back into the hea rt  liitkimpttanee is often given to those whose interest is ,I,ssels• allied t, our own. Remember the !argent animal dart tut whisper hi the lion's ear. but the tiny gnat will btu, in it. WO It it voice has the soinad of thunder in its light,st tone if Iv. gor.s far enough in.  The mind hi independent, and,. indeed, is so free and wild that it cannot be reArained even by this prison of the hotly, wherein it is confined, from following its own impulses, dealing with gigantic designs, and soaring into the infinite, weompanied by all the hosts of heaven. —
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-05-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

OCULIST'S TERRIBLE DLO N DEB. with fears and doubts, part horn of her painful were not responsible for all this pain; and it was conaciousness of the bitter truth. St. Var would not a little inconsistent, perhaps, that wx rdinary mistake in surgery has been believe she could be so unreasonably and easily half regretted her acceptance—inevitatliele shethot had A ighit to mitil'tt' eranityan oculist- at one of the 'hospitals at Mflu limits Steayart, olisse left eve it was necessary to oi. The oculist operated on a man named upset—she was not one of those women who start was—of rea s• a ,hadow, or affect fear to excite a man's unhappiness when the occasion not only enabled, remove. The patient was ctherised, and the surivo•rest ; he omild think there was something nit obliged, her to give up the evening. geon removed the right eye, leaving Stewart blind. hel.ind ,• he might think evil of her : and then, she But she wrote the telegram, and took it herself • When the error was discovered the surgeon tried to tool lied to hini—that troubled Grahame sorely. to the post : commit suicide.. :CA know the man, when she knew lain only too "My sister too unwell to go to-night. Hope you ii.di ! and caught his swift, malignant glance at St. will have time to send inc .t o ...n el,o, ntre.— Isad Pearson in the Bill Chamber of the Court of Var. What ill-luck brought him across her path .o„„i,i,n.s ' Session, Edinburgh, on Saturday granted the to-night ? She would not have cared, had she been Grahame tried to write when she returned home. Liquidators authority to carry on the business of alone; but with St. Var by her side! and yet she but somehow she could not. manage it. Nor could Pattisons (Limited), Leith, until May 10th, pending at, in a way, thankful for his company—for the she read, though she took a book: she sat in the arrangements with a London Syndicate. tense of protection he gave hert window-seat, with a dull aching at her heart. , .--.--------._._ They reached Mecklenburg-sticet too soon for St. Ibaven knew, as she had said, that she was used • . %
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-05-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

GIRL'S SUICIDE AT FIFTEEN.  An inquest has been held at North Woolwich on the body of Emily Ellis, s;;ed fifteen years, who w,ts found dead, hanging Ey the neck in the pt.  home of a by she.. was engage:l as deinestic 1,4 • r of the decease.: said that her daughter had }WV!, in a minder of situations during the i‘r.,•• •!. • , lird not staved long in any of thou,. Win had tried to r‘f her lob, was beyond r control, aid 1,... in service at Fore:t • ! ! 1: .. es. Witness had Romothoos 1. ;1..1 ' -v 11, and on eOn occasion. u! •., a stick. —Mrs. iteks.-i. .:.! •!.,.•. I ! eit in her employ sin u.•••' • I. ; - I•:, ry. Witness hail to . • 11, Fir :.onsed to nit's' over her •!I a‘• • , .!... iv:-, tinder notice to leave. Wi-r. - !•...• • .!,,t Ellis hail been a grio,l •.'! • . • ''••• .—Dr. Hill  &Toned t shier infancy.- ighbourn ...ed that tilt . nt .11- dot eamed badly cloth, ind lhat h.. I I I 1,, k -yt, hut Dlr. Ellis, the girl', r, never mplain ta .Li':ll•s I, ltinent.—The jury returned a ‘..r..iet I.) ;1,1 that death was due to strangfflati. a air requegt, the coromr censte 0 r '  SCEN Al  At Cl r Church, thre, Pim:Willy, on Saturday. ;tft mewl. a a ion ass mid d to wltnet ti. arr age • f a ill- t 9 a military • r who owl his .f. T; service was • ral, and common-eel it It lir stogiog "Thine far ever. Mai ; f hoot'!" .I.t that part of th e rriee wit re II rr.v r-h k.roid fi for "any man to allege and &Are any intle.(l4l, tit w'ey they may to be coupled tom t In t ity Ihal's lau or the law of th.s lwalt.t." to nas Waal in a loud voice: 1.4.1.witt Wadter, assistant priest of St Peter's, London lf)f.ck-., do allege and d dare an imp-diment w'n• !hese per,ons may not he coupled t.gether in r .atrimony by (iod's law. This man has a eanordeal wif too; " t this por.ot the ehureltwarkag the C 1,11,71111 ''i tho .  Errs's cocnAINE. C Nib Et:tre, (Tea-like).—The choicest masted nib. (broken up beans) of the natural Cocoa, on being rehjected to powerful hydraulic pressure, give fe*th their I. It CAM of oil, leaving for use a finely flavonred p. • 'Cooositte," a product which, when prepared with boiling water. has the oonsietenek which it is now, with maay, benelPially taking the plaoa Its active principle being . gentle nerve stimulant: supplies the needed energy without unduly eseitieg the system. Sold only n labelled tins. If unable to obtain it of Fro* uadesman, a tin will be sent post free for nine stamps. James Epps and Co., Ltd, nommopathio Mendota. Lawton.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-03-09 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SOUTH AFRICAN SHARES.  There are signs of an approaching mining boom In the ',hares of klatabelehmil Rhodesian Companies, filli'e the sun risiug possibilities attaching to these shares recCive.i another illustration in a cablegram jost to fund adnomicing a seuAationai di.eovery Oil one of these pitipertii.., the reef being stated to give 17i0r.. of go d to the to. The shares of klatahele Minis have risen to over £3 10A., and those of Matahele Got, ii, .fu to over £9 within the last seek. Taylors Matabele Goldfields, ,E 1 shares before the slump, whim, took place in mining shares in 1E95, were selling at over £2 5. per 51. are. OD the company's " flattery Reef" there are very extunsive old working... and on this . roperty R shalt has been sunk to the depth of 351 t., exposing a reef of more titan 41t. in width, and panning well over 2oz. of gold to the ton. These shares are now selling on the London Stock Exchange at under their par value, and as they have raised all the additional working capit.l they require, and own some of the most valuaLle gold properties in Matabeleland, close to where the latest strike of 17oz. of gold to the ton has been made, those in the -mow have I eon quietly picking up the shares at their present low prices, and say they expe•t to see the price of the shares of Taylors kis'atiele tioldnelda in the near future standing RS is many pc oils.' lb they are now shillings,  An a girt ox esventeen years ox age wag walking along the road to Parting, a StISK.'S village, to o`.taiti an onter fr on the relieving-officer, to enter the workhouse, ahi e gave birth to a child by the roadside. Sdlueone paining heard the child cry, and took it to a dortor, ly whom restoratives were applied, and the infant is now doing well. The girl was Liken to her mother's house.  M. Jean de Fourton. on of M. de Fourton. Prendi ex-Minister of the Interior, has coma i.ted suiuide at Paris. . _  -J wish boy, named Job Nathan, aft inmate of the East London Industrial Stool, LAWif•IIIIM, has committed suicide Iy hanging himself from a window rord in ono of the dormitories. The lad was oily fifteen years of age.  ror trip recent issue oi r000r•• org nail way debt Mon a no le a titan Ell 010,000 sterling was so a tit wit in London and A i sterilaw. the Naval Bill, its finally owed by the United States Congress, provides tor the construction of t ree battleships, three armoured cruisers, and six protected cruisers; hut the Senate's amendment reouci lig the price of armour-plate to 300 .01. per ton w as .1 anted.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-06-15 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ILM. Such bridges, aenaturally, are found only in the larger cities, and r usually the property of the milway Dr. Thomas held an inquest at St. Pancras,on Mn..- companies, inasmuch as they are, for the most part. day, on the body of Sidney Best, aged fifteen years. in the -yards" of the different lines. The metal an apprentice to Mr. Boabinder, a plasterer and footways tossing the "yards" of the various lines modeller, of Camden Town, who died presumably are seriously affected by the steam breath of the by his own hand.—Charles Best, carpenter, engines tint are so frequently obliged to strip father of the deceased, said he was wholly at a loss directly under the viaducts. After having vainly to explain the manner of his son's deith.—Louis essayea to render these metal bridges impervioun to Mortlemans, foreman to Mr. Bockbinder, said the , the fierce current of steam to which they are daily deceased was the only boy employed on the premises. subjected, a new device has been tried and found v. Ills conduct was satisfactory. He was a learner, and , answer the purtiose admirably. It consists simply copied models in clay. On Thursday afternoon the . of an armature of steel or iron wire, coated stint witness saw him at work on the first floor, and on Ids Portland cement, which is extended like a ie r return two hours afterwards he found him suspended beneath the bridge, and for a short distance up by the neck by means of a cord from a nail driven either side. It has been demonstrated satisfactorily in the office door. Ile was dead. The nail had that this simple envelope absolutely shields the been driven in the door that afternoon, presumably structure proper from any deleterious effects of the by the deceased himself. Best was a quiet, reticent . moaping steam. boy.—The coroner's officer, who searched the body, I stated that he discovered no paper in the deceased's I possession casting any light upon the occummce. —Dr. Fergusson, who examined the holy, said that death was due to strangulation by hanging.—The father said his son had arranged to go roller skating with another boy on Thursday evening.— The coroner: I cannot imagine anyone else hanging tin, boy. Had anyone attempted to do so he would, no doubt, have created a noise which mould have been heard below. I don't think there is any reasonable doubt that this was the boy's own act.— Mr. Boekbinder stated that Best was a morose, reticent boy.—The father: At home he was by no means morose—quite the reverse—The jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind, and expressed sympathy with the parents in their i bereavement.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-09-07 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

STORIF.9 OF CRUELTY.  , -- The sailor, who is apparently about twenty-seven or thirty years of age, state that the vessel carried twelve hands, including the captain. With the exception cf another man, also an Italian, the rest of the crew wen- all Russians. Acadrding to his story he was subjected to systematic ill-treatment. One day they put him in irons, which were screwed, up so tightly that he screamed with pain, and , begged tin captain to throw him into the re-a, and , put an en,l :o his misery. Another day they tied him to the ii . k and placed in front of bun a small loaded cannon, witch they threatened to discharge at him. Contit.uing, he said: "I was driven to despair. As e came up-Channel I watched tor the English c, not, lip ng that we should get near enough to the shore to enable me to jump overboard, swim to Is, d, awl escape from my tortures. I was standing in tr., f,,re part o the ship when we passed Dungeness 1' .1.1. abate- six miles out. As we did not appear li to approach nearer to the land, I suddenly a, rog ovet board. No one attempted to follcw me."  At the Birmingham Licensing Sessions it was stated by the chairman, Mr. Arthur Chamberlain, that the lanw.,rs na..l agreed to voluntarily surrender this year Lrty-f,Ag- licences, and they were prepared to surrender fifty-Ave others as soon as negotiations could be ,f,fmpletel. The magistrates were quite satisfied with the public-spirited action of the brewers. Tic death is ,nnounced of Mr. G. B. James, a past captani the London Bowing Club. The deceased ar,c. .. who was about forty years of age. suff.red lbtt• rly fr,m softening of the brain, and it wa, this Gitease which caused his death. Perhaps I i ewt ehert was witnessed when he stroked the Londmi k C. to victory in the race tar the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1890.  During a thunderstorm all Bandbach lightning struck a liou e in Bradwell-street. The tiles were wagered, snd the electric fluid passed through the house, sum dib.e. a window. The hod : f Frinces Margaret Smith, aged sixty, the icife o n :nigh, park-keeper to the Bishop of Winche-• has been found in a pond near the keeper's re e ice under circumstances which point to suicide
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-08-24 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MISS M. E. BRADDON,  Author of Lo.I Andley's Secret." "The Fatal Three. " "The ihtv Will Come," "Loot for Love," "The Doctor'. Wife." "WhiateWllP the Hand ? "One Life. One Love," "Thou Art the Man," "Sono of Fire." Le.  SYNOPSIS OE PREVIOUS CHAPTERS: Arnold it entworth. w 110 ISIS taklll the assumed name ot Alfrt•al M Ulmer. a man thirty years of age, is returning to England from South. Africa. Aboard the steamship Is' meets Mary Freeland, whom he had known as a child in the days before be ran away from hi home in England. Hl' has made 444444 at the diamond fields, and is returning tO !.mgl.iiil ISI a visit. She. too, has lift home, against tli.' wish of her aunt, with whom she had lived, and gone upon the stage. HST Malt has sinee died. and bequeathed to Mary Freeland her fortune. Wildover has received a letter in South Africa front a woman for WllOlll, before It•aving England. he had formed a sincere attachment. Sht• has heard of hia good fortune in tha new country, and beS1•11.111'S hsliiiif return to her. The story of their relationship I. a cml 11111`. Wlllll quite a girl Lisa Rayner had inem led astral% and desert''d by a luau limny years her senior. 'She had, however. lived through the perioal whirl. followed without falling into a life of vice. and had managed to stapport her.elf in a Four quarto. of London. Whilst living thus alw Lail made the acquaintance of Arnold Wentworth. Hl' himself, having run away from bonne. hail 11(4'1 I minced to great poverty, and it waa only the intervention of Lisa Ray nt•r which hail saved him from a suicide's grave. From this there had sprung up a sincere atfet.tion between them, and they had Hyatt together as man and wife. A life of povt•rtv. Inns ever. had SOOTi worn out Arnold*, mid at length he had given 'Lisa what monvy Is' COUld obtain, and bade her good-lye. and gone out to seek his fort • in South Africa. This he had achieved, and be was low ra.tu gto England with anything but pleasant anticipation's of locating the woman with whom he bad at one tinw imagined himself to be in love. Aboard the ship, lie falls in low with Mary Freeland, but. being CIRINCIOUS of the stain upon his last life. he refrains from telling her, and sadly bids her good-bye 011 landing, without making any appointment for a aecond meeting.  • I
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-08-24 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

IRACULOUS ESCAPE..  '--Clara Wentworth, forty-one, of Farleigh-mad, I Stoke Newington, has been charged, at North A telegram published by the Nem l'ork Journal states that a great fire has destroyed the business London Police-Court. with attempting to commit suicide by throwing herself in front of a moving portion of the City of Victor, Colored°. in the train at Dalston Junction.—Joseph Clark, driver of Cripple Creek eistriet. Nearly all the big business the train which arrived at Dalstott Junction at 10.44 houses we...• desioiyed. No fatalit i-s are reported. p.m., said that as he was t. kin his train into the The los: is estimated at 2,000,000d01. .ail)))) he notieed a fig...'.' jimip on to the line. Ile A horAe, with a sprMg van, bolted 110WII Merry- put on the brakes. lot the engine and two carriages street.. Blantyre. The lions. swerred on t.,1 ll.' pave- had passed over where the w. titan lay Wore the meet ni front of a „.rrocer's shop. anti a number of train was trought to a standstill. The prisoner, people were januned against the wall. it little girl, however, had fallen between th.• metals, and was four years old, was killed immediately. and her uninjured. The prisoner declared that she did not mother rece'ved fearful injuries. Four ole r l.'otl I lllefbil suicide, but that she felt giddy, and fell on were injured, ..tue so seriously that f.ital euose- to the line. When given into custody she repeated quences may yet ensue. that it was giddiness and not, deliberate.—Dr. JackAn internal machine was exploded #lll the Quai de 1111111, divisional surgeen, who was called to the la Sours. Bonet,, about ' o'clock ,s. Monday. I woman. said-tie could find no injuries beyond a Pew !people were about, and no damage was done. litt:e tenderness and bruising. His opinion was that i The bomb was composed of a large Umiak tin and if the prismier had fallen instead of jumped she I tilled with a mixture of gunpowder and old iron, newt have been killed; but, as it was, she cleared and was capable of indicting severe damage had the inetals.—A witness, o ith whom the prisoner many people been near at the time of explovion. had previously taken tea, said she was sober and 1 The outrage is tab ilf.ited to the dockers now out on Perko ly rational when she left his house—Ml. race remanded the prisoner for inquiries.  It is reported that Umtata has advocated the abolition a the monarchy in Samoa. and that lie •A ill be made Governor of the islands. 111-feeling still exists among the natives. r ,(1 it is not unlikely flat then may be a reeurre..ce of the troubles at any moment. The Emperor William's pet scheme, the Canal Bill, is irmvoZably dead, having been defeated in the Prussian Diet by a vote of 235 to 147.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-04-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LONDON HAY AND STRAW, TUJISDAY.-00e0 Saturday, writes • corre.pondent. Meld. on supplies .ffered, trade dull. Best clover, 70s. to account tat unrequited affection moot lore iM Park. looa. ; inferior, 60a. to 70e.; best hay, 655. to 824.; but Dearly all these recent cases went dee to inferior. 45e. to 60e. ; mixture, 50s. to 85i.; straw, roomy. Srhe fact that so many °manse se ti, 25e. to 365. per load. , same day is accounted for by Saturday beim*, LONDON coax, moaDay.-ausia... at Mark-lane quarteleY for an'______,all !tuts. One of tho._lwalit..ilod was quiet and isatureless. The sales of homegrown of the ariniutasu UM...SS was enac'ed wi the Rue wheat in the leading markets 01 England and %ales Versigny, at Montmartre, where • widow, Maw riming the thirty-two weeks of the season have been Legouge, thirty years of age, killed herself gad her 2,260,4994.. against 1,973,7E59r. last season, the two little boys. For • long time she had Worked average price being 263. 7d. against 345. 3d. par qr; hard trying to make • living as a dreasmaker • but, barley 3,753,695 qr., against 3,312,537 qr., at an in spate of all her efforts, had fallen behind ia average of 27a. 6d., against 275. 5.1. per tir; and paying her rent. She could pay nothing cm oats 712 690 qr., against 313,161qc , the average account, and decided to put an end teller existence. Wog 175, *pima 17a. per qr. English wheat has Similar reasons led to the suicide of • couple, aged changed binds quietly at steady prices. For foreign fifty and sixty reflectively, in the Rue Hautpoul. wheat the demand bas been inactive, but prices They had been reduced to want by the death et hays been maintained. The tour market was quiet their son. M. Henri Lelong. a chorister of the at previous curiencies. Barley was dealt in to a Optira Condom, who lost his voice !DIN time ago, mwerate extent at late rates. For oats there was • I endeavoured to commit suici e, with his wife, ban moderate inquiry, and prices were rather steadier. they were interrupted just in