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The Blackpool Herald. — 1890-05-23 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

BRAD'S BRA-WATER BATHS (Swimming and Private), at Cocker-street, North Snore Itwq minuted walk fiom the North Pier), and at South Reach. Terms on application. Special Terms for Schools and Families. Inspection of the two Establishments solicited by the Proprietors. Swimming lessons given daily.  THE BLACKPOOL WIDOW AND HER RIVAL At Lancaster on Thursday last, Jane Baker, a widow, of Blackpool, was charged with stealing various articles of wearing apparel, the property of a young woman of Lancaster, named Ellen Kelly. Prisoner, it was stated, had, up to about three or four months ago, cohabited with a man who was not her husband, named James Lennon. They became separated through his conduct, and he came from Preston to Lancaster, where he appeared to have picked up with the prosecutrix. The upshot of the new acquaintance was that Lennon and prosecutrix went to a church in the town and put up the banns of marriage. This coming to the knowledge of the prisoner, she wrote to the clergyman of the church in question, and told him that the man Lennon was married already. Prosecutrix was residing at Mrs. Smith's, .ixt Cable-street, and the clergyman went to that address, and asked the landlady if she oould find the woman Jane Baker, and bring her there. That was done, the interview took place, and the clergyman went away. In the parlour where the interview had taken place was a tin box belonging to prosecutrix, and the prisoner was left alone with it for some time. After she had left prosecutrix reported to the police that several articles had been stolen from the box, and prisoner was apprehended. She declared that the property was her own, and in the face of contradictory statements made by prosecutrix, Inspector Talbot asked for prisoner to be discharged. This was accordingly done. It was reported that whilst in custody she had attempted to commit suicide.  £100,000,000 Unclaimed.—A Register 312 pages, cloth gilt, containing the names of 70,000 persons advertised for to claim property and money since 1700. Prioe Is. 6d. post free. Every man and woman in the world should buy this book, as instructions are given how to recover property from Chancery free of all charges or fees. Dougul & Co., 62, Strand, London. A fortune may exult you. Wills searched.  A AW LOCAL MAGISTR kTIL —At the Intermediate Sessions held at Preston, on Wed nesday, Mr. George Singleton, farmer, St. Michaels-on-Wyre, qualified, and took his seat on the Bench. T. DIXON, Registrar for Births, Deaths, and Marriages. 43, Coo -street, opposite Baikes Hotel, Blackpool. _  - THE FOUNTAIN ON CENTRAL BEACH —The fountain which has recently been erected at much expense on Central Beach, by the Corporation, has at last reached the finishing stages, for during the past few days, it has been coated with bright new paint, and the space surrounding it asphalted.  NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, Sod MAGAZINE ponetuelly delivered, withcmt extra obarge.—li.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1890-10-31 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

SENSATIONAL SUICIDE AT LITLIND.— John Wilson, 29, farm labourer, of Sod Hall-lane, Leyland, drowned himself before his wife's eyes on Sunday. They had been visiting his father, who resides near Midge Hall, And it is stated that as they returned in the evening they had some words respecting money matters. The man was carrying the youngest child, and, turning to his wife, said, "Hai:: take this child." The moment she did so he ran to an adjacent pit and jumped in. The wife screamed and rushed off to the nearest dwelling for assistanoe. The dead body was recovered at 10-15 the same night. Mrs. Wilson stated that they had always lived together comfortably, and never had words before. gailseav SuS.Varzs.—Englne Deteure,lNgeta• men, Porters, and others, who have tssansweg Mug Intervals of work between meals, should ddsk -ClAnsuare 0000. A., a sustaining beverage, agreeable and comforting, during long spells of work. CADBURY'S COOSA Is MAOIVIBIS PUB& • BLACKPOOL WRSLEYAN MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT Soo:arr.—The following is the programme for the ensuing session of this wackily :—Ootober 30th, Readings for Criticism, members; Nov. 6th, anonymous essays, members; 13th, essay, "An , evening with George Macdonald," Mr. F. Jackson ' 20th, ladies' evening; 27th, essay, "Some of the people we meet," Mr. R. Hall; December 4th, address, "Curiosities of words," Rev. H. H. Vowles ; 11th, essay, "Iron," Mr. J. Revill ; 18th, " The atmosphere," Mr. W. Jones; 25th, and January Ist, recess; Bth, address, "An evening with my portrait album," Rev. H. H. Vowles ; 15th, essay, "Queen Elizabeth," Mr. T. Watmough ; 22nd, essay, "Oliver Cromwell," Mr. C. J. E. Coop; 29th, public lecture, "John Wesley's peculiarities," Rev. H. H. Vowles (repeated by requeet); February sth, musical evening; 12th, essay, Mr. J. Hall; 19th, essay, "A ramble under the cliffs," Mr. W. H. Coop; 26th, "Healthy dwellings," Mr. J. H. kluttall ; March sth, public lecture, Rev. W. J. Fowell ; 12th, gentlemen's evening; 19th social gathering.  Toslooowisrs Commarica.wo. Bee Illustrated Guide, 229 pages, stamps, 'How to open respectably MO to 41100C."—Titz Tossoconurre' Omer!, TO 00ICPANT (Regd..), Chief Office and Showrooms, 116, Nuston-road, London, N.W. Largeet complete Tod'ssionista' Furnishers in London. Manages, HT,
The Blackpool Herald. — 1881-07-22 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  Ross has challenged Hanlon to row for the championship of America and a stake of 4,000 dollars. A salmon was last week exhibited in the window of a restaurant in Manchester, weighing 841 b. It was an Irish fish. On Saturday morning, a shark was caught by one of the line boats engaged in fishing off the Tyne, and was landed at North Shields. It was ten feet in length, and weighed about half a ton. At Moseley, Manchester, on Monday, a married woman named Bridget Coyne, committed suicide by pouring paraffin oil over her clothes and then setting fire to them. A railway is to be built up Mount Lafayette, of the White Mountain range. The mountain is 5,290 feet above the level of the sea, and its summit can be reached by a climbing line of three miles. Its estimated cost is 150,000 dollars. A family group of seven persons, representing five generations, was photographed in Clinton, Wis., a few days ago. The oldest will be 100 years of age August 9th, if she lives, and her great-greatgrandchild is a little girl of two years. A sad accident occurred on Saturday evening at Cove Village, a short distance from Aberdeen. A girl, aged eleven, named Catherine Edmund, whilst gathering ferns, fell over a cliff a hundred feet high, and was instantaneously killed on the rocks. What is supposed to be a murder has been discovered in South Shields. Some boys playing near a ballast hill at Lawe found a man laying dead on the grass. with his skull fractured and a large cut on the left side of the head. He has not been identified. The body of a man supposed to have been murdered in South Shields has been identified by Sarah M'lntyre, living at 39 Duke-street, Newcastle, as her husband, John M'lntyre, whe was a hawker of fruit. He was buried before she visited South Shields, but she has identified the clothing and photograph which the police had taken after death, The deceased was last seen alive by his son in Clayton-street, Newcastle, at ten o'clock on Saturday morning, when he was under the influence of drink. At Crewe, on Tuesday, John Clarke, farmer, living near Wybunbury, was charged with having unlawfully set traps for the purpose of catching winged game. The complaint was laid by the defendant's landlord (Mr. R. Hill).— Samuel Pimlett, gamekeeper, said that defendaat had a right to kill ground game, but not winced game. He saw him making little mounds in his field and place traps upon them for the purpose of catching winged game. This had been going on for some time. For the defence it was stated that there was no intention on the part of ' the defendant to trap winged game, but only to catch rabbits. The traps were set in the open, near to a field of turnips, in which ground game had done considerable damage. The defendant was under the impression that this was allowed, except in the hunting sesson.—Defendant was fined ss. and the costs.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1881-08-12 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

MILES WALK.—At the Albert Hall, Fleetwood, on Saturday, August 6th, Mdlle. Norrie commenced the novel feat of walking 300 miles in eight days, which task is to be completed on Monday evening next. The hours of walking are from 12 noon to 10 p.m. each day. On Saturday she walked the distance of 43 miles, doing 25i miles in five hours, which is the beat performance she has yet done. Monday she covered 46 miles, Tuesday 42, and Wednesday 41, making a total up to Wednesday night of 172 miles, or considerably more than half the distance. Yesterday (Thursday) she was in capital form, and walking with undiminished speed. She also goes through an entertainment each evening, singing and accompanying herself on the pianoforte. Many people have visited the hall during the week to see this celebrated female pedestrian on the track. SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A BLACKPOOL VISIToIZ. —A shocking case of suicide occurred at Salford station on Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. Booth, of Islington-street, reached Salford from Blackpool, where they had been spending a few days, by a train arriving at 3 15. At the station Mr Booth asked his wife to get some one to look after their lugguage whilst he got change in order to give the porter something. The train shortly after this began to move, and Mr. Booth was seen to jump in front of the engine, which, with the tender, passed over his head. He was killed instantly. The deceased had been in a desponding state of mind. The inquest was held at the Broughton Tavern, Salford, on Tuesday, when it was stated that Booth was a master tailor, residing in Queen's-terrace, Islington-road. Deceased had been in bad health for a considerable time, and his mind was also affected, and on Friday he went with his wife to Blackpool, with the intention of staying there for some time. On Monday deceased insisted on returning home, and he and his wife arrived at Salford Station a little after three o'clock. Mre. Booth left her husband sitting on a bench on the platform while she went to engage a cab and during her absence he deliberately threw himself in front of a train wkich was moving out of the station. He fell between the metals, and the engine and tender passed over him without hurting him ; but he was seen to change his position and lay his head on one of the metals, and the wheels of one of the carriages went over it before the train could be stopped. Death was of course instantaneous. The jury returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide  while of unsound mind. A
The Blackpool Herald. — 1881-07-08 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A FLEETWOOD FISHERMAN.  A young man named Peter Anyon, a Fleetwood fisherman, committed suicide by leaping overboard from the fishing smack " Secret " at the fishing grounds on Saturday afternoon last. The "Secret' left this port on Thursday last, with John Greenwood as master and Isaac Lloyd and Peter Anyon as crew, the regular master (Greenwood's brother) remaining at home for the week. They arrived at the fishing grounds all right, and all went well till Saturday afternoon last. About half-past three they had just pulled their net in and were engaged washing the fish. Anyon had been drawing water aboard, and was seen to suddenly throw the bucket down on deck and make a bound for the stern of the boat, evidently for the purpose of throwing himself overboard. Greenwood, seeing his action, at once made to him and was just in time to prevent him going over. They both fell on the deck together, Anyon being particularly quiet, in fact he never spoke a word. He picked himself up more quickly than Greenwood, and after taking a searching glance at the latter, threw himself over amidships. When the two men on board saw him floating in the water they heaved him an oar, but ,he appeared to hold his head beneath the water so as to avoid all sight of either them or the oar. When they saw this, they " stayed " the boat and went towards him. The sea was very calm, and they could see he was gradually floating away. When he had been in the water about a minute and a half, at which time he was some 40 yards distance from the boat, he appeared to endeavour to swim towards them or try to get hold of the oar, but his strength failed him • he could not make any headway, and was soon lost to sight—he was drowned. The two remaining men sailed round the place three times picking up their lost comrades hat, as well as the oar, but failed to see anything of him. They then set sail for Fleetwood, arriving at the screwpile lighthouse about tweh e o'clock on Saturday and in the harbour at half-past three on Sunday morning, subsequently reporting to the authorities what had happened. Anyon had been in the fishing smack "Pride Of the Lake" for six or seven weeks, this being his first trip in the "Secret." Previous to this he went voyages in foreign going ships. An hour before Anyon leapt overboard he had been up in I, the rigging splicing the topsail halyards, and to all appearance was in his right mind, though we understand he looked as if he was in the delirium tremens, and this supposition is strengthened by the fact that he had been drinking rather heavily for some days previously.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1881-11-11 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

THORNTON.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. -- PORTER BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES.—At the Fleetwood Police Court, on Friday (before R. Dunderdale, Esq.), Lawrence Porter: of Rossall Farm, was charged with attempting to commit suicide., on the 18th ult., by cutting his neck with a knife.—Nanny Smith Porter said she was the daughter of William Portor, Rossall Farm, and was the niece of Lawrence Porter, who lived with her father. About nine o'clock on the morning of the 18th of October last she was -called in his (Lawrence Porter's) bedroom. He was then in bed. As soon as she got into the room, he said "Good day. lam going to leave you." She saw blood coming from his throat, upon which she ran and called her father.—William Porter stated that abcut nine o'clock on the morning in question, he went into the room on being called. He found his brother in bed, and saw blood at his throat. He (witness) said, "'What have you been doing, Lawrence?" to which he answered—" Some one was going to cut my head off, and I have done it to • save them the trouble. If that knife had been sharp, and my whiskers out of the way, I would have done the job. The knife is there at the side of the bed." Witness searched for the knife, along with a man named John Barton, who had come into the room with him. Barton found the knife under the bed, open, and it was afterwards handed over to the police. Dr. Williams had attended his brother since that time, under whose treatment the w2und had now quite healed up. Previous to the affair happening, his brother had been drinking rather heavily, and he thought it was owing to this that he had committed the rash act.—Mr. R. F. Addle, solicitor, Fleetwood, appeared on behalf of Porter, and brought forward the plea that he had been in low spirits for some time previous to getting a little drink, and guaranteed for William Porter to look after him.—The Bench discharged Porter withlia Caution.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1881-01-14 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

TIGHT."—Newspaper people are proverbially temperate as well as virtuous. We believe one of the craft did get slightly tight a few days ago, and the following is a sample of his paper the next day :—" Yesterday morning, at 4 o'clock p.m., a small man named Jones or &nit', with a heel iii the hole of his trousers, committed arsenic by swallowing a dose of suicide. The verdict of the inquest returned a jury that the deceased came to the fact in accordance with his death. He left a child and six small wives to lament the end of his unfortunate loss. In death we are in the amidst of life."  Mr. Johnson in his Chemistry of Common Life pointed out that Cocoa had long reached th• consumer with too much of its own fat, or loaded with a variety of farinaceous suhstances, producing a soup rather than a everace. The Cocoa bean affords admirab e nutritive flesh-forming qualities, and E.-trying power. In Ca ,hury's Cocoa Essence these are retained and concentrat,d, prov dng an exhil larating infusion, not a starchy soup." Warnings to House holders.  To Tossocotners, AsD TIIOBI C IaROINNO ti.—A pamphlet can be °hurling !me on application, which gives an ins;ght into the busin, ~ and exp aim how to open respectably with everything reir...red, from El.. to £5OO. To small capitalists this book is most valuable, as it points out a way to commence a trade which many desire to but are incapacitated from want of experience.—Address, B. Mr, RS and Co., cigar and tobaco m mufacturers, importers of tobacconists' fancy goods. P 127 Euston-road,lson on, and st Birmingham.iEstabishedZ years. Who wale only.  ADVICT TO MoTHERS !—Are you I,rokPn in your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. Wise Love Soon:use
The Blackpool Herald. — 1881-05-20 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

THE OLD TRAFFORD MURDER.— Arthur Watson, (a former resident in Fleetwood) the young telegraph clerk who now lies in the prison at Kirkdale for the murder of his infant child, was visited on Wednesday by his father and mother, who are most respectable people in the tobacco business at Manchester. The interview, as might be expected, was of a painful character. The young man is very quiet, and seems resigned to his fate. He attends the daily morning service conducted by the Rev. 0. F. Pigot, the prison chaplain, and pays the utmost attention to the ministrations of the rev. gentleman. Dr. R. Manners Man, Senior Medical Officer to the Post Office, Manchester, writes in reference to Arthur Watson :—I fully endorse the statements so ably made by Dr. Morgan, both in his evidence before the court, and in his letter. In the second place I have to remark that when he presented himself to me two years ago with paralysis his manner and appearance were strange. He had very little to say, and was generally indifferent. He had no appearance whatever of intemperance. As Dr. Morgan observes, had the unsteadiness of his limbs been owing to drink it would have been general. On examining his eyes immediately after Dr. Morgan I was struck with the marked difference in the pupils, the right being much dilated, and clear evidence of a wound having been inflicted on the left side of his forehead—evidence as though the bone had been injured. Being very near to him in court, I watched him closely during the trial, and during the whole time he seemed quite indifferent to what was going on, and stared vacantly at the judge. I think it highly desirable and proper that a petition should be got up at once, and which I am sure will be quickly and freely signed by very many persons. Before concluding, I have one more observation to make. In cases of brain diseases like his, a sudden impulse is very common. Seeing 1 an instrument before him (the chisel) would have a tendency to excite him to dangerous action. There is no evidence of his having premeditated anything except suicide, for nothing of a dangerous nature was found upon him. A. London correspondent says :—I believe that memorials have reached the ' Home Office with reference to the case of Arthur Watson, who is under sentence of death, and that 1 the Home Secretary has determiged, upon consideration of them, to send a medical commission to I examine into the mental condition of the criminal, whose execution has, it appears, been fixed for a day quite at the end of the month. Thorn is therefore abundant time for full investigation, and it is I understood that those who have moved in the matter feel no doubt that Sir William Harcourt will act with every reasonable precaution and inquiry in the matter.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1882-01-27 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

REWARDING A BOY FOR BRAVERT.—On Monday the police-court at Ashton-under-Lyne was crowded to witness the presentation by the Mayor (Alderman Andrew), of the Royal Humane Society's bronze medal to Edward Wilcox, aged 15, for Saving the life of a drowning woman. On the morning of the 21st November last Wilcox was in bed, wilen he heard cry, that some one was in the canal. He at once put his trousers and clogs on, and ran along the canal bank, to the place where he saw a woman drowning in the canal, and two men standing by watching her. When he saw that the men did not attempt to rescue her he stripped off his clothes, jumped into the water, swam under the woman, who was then face downwards, turned her over on her back, and pushed her to the side of the canal, when she was pulled out of the water. When he had done this he generously offered the unfortu nate woman, who had attempted to commit suicide, the use of his warm bed which he had just left, where she was taken until she had recovered from the effects of her immersion, and was taken home by the police. There is an inscription upon the medal which says "He has obtained this reward for saving the life of a citizen." Wilcox, who is a native of Farnborough, near Bolton, is a stable boy in the employ of the Bromley Carriage Company, and is described as an honest and industrious lad.— The Mayor pinned the medal on Wilcock's left brest amid the applause of the court. His worship remarked tl.at it reflected very seriously on the men who co- stand callously by and see the woman drown, at,“ that she owed her life to a puny boy like Wilcox. The Victoria cross was one which all our soldiers hoped at one time or another to receive, but the medal of the Humane Society would, he thought, be much more highly prized than the military decoration, because every soldier did his best to obtain the cross, whereas the medal was given for spontaneous efforts. That was the first medal which had been given in the town, and he holed th- little hero would live long W wear it.