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The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-04-07 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SANITARY COMMITTEE. _ . . . .  This ectiornitt e reported that after the frost had gone the surv-tyor bond thAt a prtiou of LIOJ I shaft of tho stuck of the de4ruetor was twisted, I which noectaitat-.l the,. stack belug' taken down to the top of the base. The eointnitt4e were ittfortnal by the Canal Company that the water would be it of the etinal at Easter, and 0a this a 0111.1 alrolll a favourable ettportrutity for ti oere%tiotlol &maining wall at. Chester -street What/ (part at t to Destructor &none), they reeommena.i th,,t tho work be. AcentLd at the se:ic:i.u;o of priee3 as 1104 subiiitlity Ilessrs. Curran and Lewis, atxl that the Clerk shettld be instructed to prepare and Vat 01' I.W 11 litittel;at C1:14,01 1 t 6.1 carrying our tn the works at might he necessary, -Mid to affix the seal of the Bond thereto. The probable eust of tho work would be about 1:200. The committee Ltd accepted the tender uf Mr. Etwarti EVand fur tlto supply of if/ bags of maize, 44 bs ni of beans and 33 ha... of Enuii.di owe Onrittg the plSt fiVe no L 111411 t VOII II lid becti tO t he :..r.oant of t. t 2 4d., Icoheclk a:h zei to the glnuunc of £42 is. 61. Tau repot:. was ..tcloptod on Vie motion of Me. i  threw himself into ths.sanal. He went down I three times, and when beams up again he heard voices. He made up his mind that no one should see him do it and he got out of the canal. He then made his way to the station, where ho gave himself up.—Police-constable Whale stated that he found a kook in his pocket, which stated that since he left South Africa he had made six attempts to commit suicide.—Prisoner said that if he was working for the same master as he was last week, he should make ail sorts of excuses, and ask for his alease. Ile was then working for the ' devil, now he was working for God, and was willinc to suffer nunishment for what he had done, and come out-, a free man to face the world again. --Prisoner was remanded for a week in order that the state of his mind might be enquired into.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-03-10 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

EILLINU THE BARBER.  Porta ha q a barber who if talking had never iSI.II would have invented it, and still he is an • ~•:lent barber with a good patronage. Since lag i;.iv e.ening. 'bout ver, he has been wearing a Hance of gleom and disappointment, and aome Irs friends think he is contemplating suicide. At o'clock in the evening mentioned a man evidently nin chit-ago Caine in. and removing his external :: ',sin:ruts, took a chair.  air " inquired the barber, getting his ~;.!t•ineids natty. erta'.nts," it,ponded the customer, fixing himIf comfortably. "I haven't hern shaved for thn. A OU111: to the fact that several days ago, in m•rs one to an ins itat ion trim a man whom I know rl, slig;ttly, basing met hint but once or twice cring his trip to ( hicago on business in which we 'A Tc limb interested. I went, over there into a back ~f Canada l, uI Si) .Mili`A from any rail- :tation, in a section of country where there any runes eseept those the hogs wore OD and I hasen't been able to slide my in against anything sharper than a Canadian Albs r Xit deg. below the ice notch, and the comeIlene,. I as I.cen that I have had a growth nf bristles •e,:a I tbink if ms wife should run her face against n in. return to toy native village, would give her -nett a Masa that she wouldn't let me come near er again for the next six months, or at least until I tail !remised Ler faithfully that I never would  !et nty«elf get into such a condition again, even if we::: into the wilds of Africa, where I suppose a wt iskers in the luxuriant climate of that latitude would grow to such a thicket of hintute •Itibbiness that there wouldn't be any way of tatting Item. unless he imported a double strength reaper and mower with reinforced knives in order .at tl,-re might mt be any mistakes in the icrompli,lnnent of t. j.ib for which it had never ten designo.l but for which. thanks to the of American manufactures, it would adapt itself in an emergency of thin kind, ororidecl it ttt re in tin I and,, t.f a competent and , ffrient person who knew exactly ita capabilities .ntl wee convemnt with the proper methods of do piolicatinn to—You ain't though, are you ? ,t.ti't want anv at ainpon, haircut, or anything else. tow much ? Vitt ern 1,I•Ilt.4 Here's your money," ,i:tl slapping on his goat and bat lw bounced out without giving the WM-, a chance to say a tingle word.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-03-10 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DEATH OF A PARISIAN CELEBRITY. Another celebrity of Paris, says the Globe, has just departed—Madame Maupy, commonly called 441 IQre Maupy, landlady of the noh,rious eit Maupy, the great resort of rag•pickers. dtuated in the Rue Marcadet, in the hark  :liens of Paris. For 30 years, with the aid of er bus and, she ilaS governed this little kin,:eni of ehtffonniers—a task by no means ea,y. is can he readily understood. The Cite may he lesvribed as an agglomeration of leits rather thin “Au“.F., which she ht out at the rate of three ..r or Irate:, k alec, oi al wart E die would have found it impossible to cr Ileet tier rents, but she was not to be resisted. and, if the rent was not duly paid, die would eject her tenants bodily with her own powerful arms. To the honour of the rag-picking world, however, be it said that the rents mi the whole were punctually paid. A few weeks Ago she lost her husband, who does not is;tear to to have been in good odour with the tenants, for they got up a charivari at his funeral and rejoiced over his death till they were all drunk. This disrespectful conduct preyed on the mind of his widow, who gave all the ,enants notice to leave, and, shutting heNelf op her bedroom, committed suicide with the fames of charcoal. On the table was found a testament which she had written in the morning, and in which she leaves her fortune— said to be handsome—to an orphan girl whom she had taken under her care. She wishes to be i.urie,l without any ceremony whatever, and, to mark her anger with the rag-pickers who insulted (bn. remains of her husband, ordains that not one :hall Is. allowed to follow her to the grave.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-06-09 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE RACING AT ASCOT: WELL-KNOWN IFIGCKE.  indicated an unregenerate dispo Hon on the part of Continental countries and cities to regard the Salves th fists with a contempt which sometime, de, pens into a very positive dislike. The wicked Parisian will, probably, never be brought to regard the army , as anything but a huge and characteristically British—joke. The simple S. ho- ev r. goes farther, and will not have the army within hi gates !at all it he can help it. Not that the S ilv monist labours in ranee and Switz i.ay.. ge; her barren of fruits. The bonne bonder of the meeting. was a" Saved Dyna,111...V." wh• i was good enough to favour the company jtl his ' xperiences." He must be a fearsoin, ves-el ied,sl, to judge from hi-, own account of , or rattier wag, "a dynamiter, who ha I tp-en itcotihinied drunkard from the age of thirteen, He hat ten smuggler, had tried to kill hi;, woe, ..hd hid twice atlempte I t., commit suicide, and on the isst °cert. don he was cut down, when he was we! y niarly hanced, by a member of the Nalvatmn A.ftiv. and became saved." Saved he obvi ti-Pr was ; and it was only common decency on his tart jtj the army after what had haply ned. But his a,cession to its reeks opens up pleasing possibili•ies quasi. political nature. If a French dynamiter is susceptible to Salvationist influences, why s•i0,11,1 not his Irish-American brother be e it an equally audible way? Why sho .Icl the British Government not subsidise a sp. cal expetlituniary Cot pa for the peaceful conquest of vie twarta of the " better men." The converted liivincilows would, no doubt, be invaluable for the aragiiig of spiritual warfare by the tartling meth•als ii which th army anti all would go welt in the be-t of all possible worlds.  7-joirlif : I a. .-----G-7.--- - -%V . <;:-.• ‘-i,l‘r 1 ' 40 itit4.? 440f640 , *W7 , 'W t ' p C lit Al _ -,--';:-,
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-03-03 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

STRANGULATIOIC—Dr. Taylor states that "death from hanging appears to take place rapidly and without causing any suffering to the person." Prof. Tidy, also, speaks of the painless nature of &nth from hanging • while Prof. Boughton, in his paper read before the Surgical Society of Dublin. saws that the out system of taking a convicts life by suffocation is inhumanly painful, unnecessarily prolonged. and revolting to those whose duty it is to be present.- Those who speak of the painless nature of death by strangulation arrive at this conclusion from the fact that many cases of suicide are not completely suspended, and tlmt if they wished they could easily relieve the constriction by assenting the erect vesture, and in other easos of recovery from attempted suicide by hanging, there is no recollection of any suffering. It should he reineill.beret!, however that there is a great deal of difference between die 1111.11,111 itttittiole of the suiciik and one who is about to suffer the ev.treme penalty of the law. In the ftwther case lit i regardless, and perhaps also not very sensitive, of a little suffering, while in the latter every, nerve is braved up to resist the inevitable result. AII,IVIMAT, rast'S of recovery the loss of recollection if suffering does ngi a.,' a, not prove tha wa t there sni. .t one. It l well be said that, I teitesi in many ,•a•‘•. ii e1•,,1,•ry from meningitis there ua, lilt reon•o.l r.Tince oH,ny suffering, therefore there War. 11011 e. fo pllin in hanging can under no eiremit•l:lllre Itt VVry acute, yet when wt. SCe a liCtlVllig his dik'St Mill almost raising the whole body in his struggles for breath we must conclude that there is at least a considerable amount of mental torture.  •Kind words are the bright flowers of earthly existence ; use them, and especially around the fireside circle. They are jewels beyond price, and powerful to heal the wounded heart and make the weighed-down spirit glad. Cultivate consideration for the feelings of other people if you Woul.l Ii it have you "tvii injure I. Those who complain most of ill-nsag,! are those who abuse themselves and others oftenest.  It is it disputed point when houses were first numbered in England. l'arisian houses first began to be numbered in 1721  The windows in houses of the Philippine Isles are made of pellucid oyster shell!. that admit light, but cannot be beim thruugh.  Tine Coon
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-01-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE TERRORISM OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. DRIVEN TO SUICIDE.  THE Belfast —lie; —Letter reports, on the authority of its correspondent at Coagh, a sad case of suicide committed in consequence of the terrorism of the National League. About ten days ago, Samuel Whiteside, the deceased, was warned by members of the League not to pay his rent. He went, however, to Dungannon, and paid what was legally due on his father's farm. He was met on his way home by several men armed with bludgeons, who, on his admitting he had paid his rent, set upon him, and it was only owing to his own activity that he escaped being very badly injured. The National League, not content with this, sent him a threatening letter, with the usual emblems of coffin and cross bones, telling him he would meet the end which he deserved for paying his rent, in direct opposition to the mandates of the League. Whiteside asked somb friends to watch the house each night. Notwithstanding his apparent indifference to the threat, he became undoubtedly affected in his mind. He was constantly looking behind him as if he apprehended an attack by some person. On Thursday night he went into his father's bedroom and told him not to be alarmed—that any report of firearms during the night need not astonish him. The men who were sitting up with the deceased during the night left in the morning at daybreak, and about eight o'clock it was found that he had committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest.  ---.;,--%,..-->-;---„--.-,-' _,- ''' N• . ist , • •••, lit,.; 41, \ \\_, , 110, \ \ \ .f---. \ ',', 4 )1, f (r{ il' ' ! I 1 ii; ~,, # l% , kI it, , \ till\ I/ it do re. • 1'.',4 `; ..„1 1\ V',\‘'N A \ i.,• - -. \\l k;(11 I I\l ‘V4r4 -f'...f 11111'ilii, //// ; • „,,„ tf--;,, di‘A3llh, tv ~ ' of Olt, 0 -, 111111,10, • „ot i••• ~,,j , , I . ! 1 yiii ,i,/,, , -110 i ~, ' 11111110 L , 11 i'll p,' ,I, 11 ' , ~,, ._ ,„ i ~..,,,,„ ~:....:, .. i illiii ...„... g r I', ---''' ) . Ilr' '1 ' UP.lll' ' . . .. . i • I ‘-'1117.4111 '!::, ; ..: 1 , ~i /011/4 2 . ?It • • (11/4 4/ . fal lt?'" F•:1 i ..% •
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-07-07 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ENGLISH NAVAL OFFICER MISSING.  A STRANGE CASE. SUSPECTED FOUL PLAY. A Paris correspondent telegraphing on Monday says : A very mysterious affair is now the object of investigation at the hands of tier Majesty's Eintessy and the French authorities. H.M.S. Surprise, the despatch boat attached to the Mediterranean Squadron, had arrived some time ago at Marseilles, to convey the Duke of Edinburgh lack to his command on his return from the Jubilee. As the Duke was due only on Friday. the officer in command. Commander Le Strange, started on Morilay last to visit A vignon and other places in the neighbourhood. He took with him only a small valise, and he had in his purse about £25. tin the arrival oF His lie; al Highness at Marseilles on Eriday the Commander was still absent, and after waiting for a few hours the Surprise had to sail without him. From the time of his leaving Marseilles, now nearly a week azia. nothing has teen seen or heard of the Commander. The Duke of Edin, burgh lost no time in telegraphing to Lord Lyons, and the Embassy has been instituting imriiss in every direction, while the French authorities have made every effort to discover traces of him, but so far withont success. A MAN OF POWERFUL Bunn. According to the Want+, be bad mentioned to the Vice• Consul at Mars:ill. s an intention of !tinning over to Paris, but as h:s many friends in this city have not heard of any such intentim on his rart, it is not supposed thst he meant to carry it out in the,edas of frequent railway murders, of coerse groat anxiety is felt by his friends, but a little rellection shows that It is improbable that he has been the victim of a railway assassin. lie is a man of powerful build, in the very prime of lice, and quite able to hold his own against any assailant, while even on tho supposition of being atticked and overpowered durin: his sleep his body, if killed, wo'ld have been found in the caror on the line. What is most to he feared is that whilst visiting some of the antiquities, either at Avignon, Nimes, or Arles. which it is known he intended to visit, he may hale.; met with some a cid:iet, 'or have hem struck down with sudden illness. As he was devoutly attached to his profession, and a titoFt successful career lay before him, the hypothesis of a 'suicide may at once be set down as absolutely groundless.  A
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-06-30 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SITENSTONE.  A N N 17.11. W E. --V le annual wake took ',lace Shenstone IVood End on Monday last. The usual sports took place at Mr. Newey's. For the girls race about a dozen competed, but the prize was won by Emily Holderoft. For the boys there were two races, the first being won by (corgi) Bear. Twenty started in the second race, and kept well together until about ten yards from home, when little Freddy Powell shot out and came in the ea4iest of . winners. Next came the race for the Coveted plum pudding, when only four faced the starter, 'ii...'. Litherlaml, Preston, 11. Creel), and W. Boa. The race was a good one, and tree!) WOll easily, Bott coming in second. Mr. John Preston :tete' as the handicapper and starter, and Messrs Powell and T. Preston were the )11(1.ge.  .% n.l!'itrlZ. Ott Sat:ll...lay, Mt. r. hal ,to !:;qoesi, at. thtt Brats tread Icn, tott4ing., the death of atnan unknown. On Wednesday morning a private in the South Staffordshire Regiment, named Thomas Spencer, was walking from IVhittington Barracks to Brownian.. and when near Shenstone he saw a man hanging from a tree close to the mad. The police were communicated with, and on searching the man they found razors, scissors, brushes, and barber's aprons on him all in a bundle, but there was nothing to give theta any imformation as to the mans indentity. A subsequent search in the field brought to light a pocket-book, which was found .itt the hedge. The book contained a number of epitaphs from gravestones in Atherstone churchyard, and an entry about a woman love. On a loose leaf was n ritten " John Finlay is my name, Sutton-street, Runcorn, Cheshire. , The Police wrote N the above address, and a reply was received from the mother of the deceased, %rho was unable to attend the inquest. The jury returned a 'verdict of "Suicide," and the Coroner ordered the police to postpone the funeral till on Monday, so as to allow the friends of the deceased an opportunity ef identifying the body.
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-06-30 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MUNI ROSE  THE SUICIDE AT SUTTON COLDFIELD. Dr. Rae, coroner for North Warwickshire, held im enquiry on Saturday, at the Dog lon, Sutton Cohltiehl. into the death of Thomas Hodgkins (i:1), %Vheelwright, of Newhall Street, who committed suicide on Thursday by cattily, his throat with a razor. - Mrs. Hodgkins said the; had been in business and had lost a good deal of money, which caused her husband considerable anxiety of mind and loss of sleep. He had, however, never exhibited any tendency to take away his life although he had wished himself dead. He hail also suffered aeutely from rheumatism and pains in his head. On Thursday morning he rose about half past nine &chock and had a cup of tea, but refused anything to eat. Subsequently, he had a smoke, and then went upstairs again. About ten miantes iter- witness followed, aig not seeing him in his bed room went up to the second st7arev, when she found the room doer was fastened. AN she tried it she heard him groan, and she immediately descended for assistane.i. A neighbour named Mr.. ( larke went upstairs an I forced open the doer. when the deceased was seen lying on the floor with his head in a basket, and weld flawing from a gash in hi. throat. Medical assistance was promptly fetched, but her hushing expired shortly before eleven o'cloek.—Mr. :Summers, assist-ant to Mr. Evans, surgeon of Sutton Coldtield, stated that he was called in te see the demised about ten o'clock on Thursday morning. The man was alive and conscious, bu almost in syncope from loss of blood. After dressinv the wound he asked Hodgkins if he wished to make any statement in the presenca of Sergeant Smye. The man replied that he did not wish to say anything, nor to see his wife; , and as for religion he did not believe in any.-The wife, recalled, said a brother of her husband had also committed suicide by hanging himself. he jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind."
The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-08-11 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE OF A PENSIONER AT  YARDLEY.  About three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, a man while fishing in the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, near Florence's Bridge, Hay Mills, discovered the body of a man in the water. It was drawn on to the bank, and handed over to the police, who have made enquiries, and from papers found in the pockets they believe it to be that of James Firkins, who for some time has been an out-patient at the General Hospital. where he visited on Monday and was prescribed for. Deceased was formerly in the Ist Oxfordshire Regiment, and drew a pension. He was also in the first-class Army Reserve. It h.,: supposed that he has committed suicide, being depressed by the illness front which he lets I suffered for some time.  Of the value of camphor many people have been reminded by seeing the form in which it is on sale in oilshops this year. in large hollow circles, which are ostentatiously set out on the counters, so as to suggest the ordering of a. good home supply. The fall in price of camphor is much in favour of good housewives.  The last days of July were marked by several weddings in the fashionable London churches, the friends of the contracting parties having lingered in town to be present, and then taking flight for the sea, the mountains, or some wellknown health resort. St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, has had several weddings in one day, giving the impression to anyone living in the neier,hbourhood that the vicar, Mr. Montague Villiers, lived always inside his surplice, with over it the fine white and gold embroidered stole reserved for great ()vessions. One of the prettiest of the late weddint.,,a was Lady Maud Conynghato's, daughter of the late Marquis of Conyugham, who was married to Mr. Frederick W. Ram-den, of the Coldstream inards. When white satin is chosen for a bride's dress it must be rielt in quality, otherwise it is e%Veettilly 11111Welniling. !tut good satin is always :;11.1 when the lace used for trittimitLt is of a .iecp yellow colour the eorpse-like Nlaml s bridal veil was a t'so•vv,tiligly nh Brussels lave. alt.! N;.. Wor,i with .me eto tier filing ever a,. mode when the N‘e:ttlier is v  .O.E-ilia-sive. a.- tile  CM }ler 1.:111  .I,•k rc, ci‘ e (awl iy  congratuk: wa, placed beim: time%  :t 'sty t•tie.-. • of tit,. the % t•il i:t-te:ted s%ith  a  at I 11i...  ,  "  he  the tt!tt,rttoon. 1% het, the 14,-",•tor 111.44.!. 11:10 ,1` be : • :" 4 i :fa 4r4litrtry i-4,4•.• 0, 04; I,;;tey T'4l • :..Iteritowi Ttot-y !..• dr\ 1 I .1;P:_11:11A1.Ii;11,  .kk 1'0r1.1,•% 0110;1 t •-.