Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-06-02 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

FATAL BOATING ACCIDENT.-FIVE LIVES LOST.  A boating catastrophe of a thstresaing character has occurred at the b,'lltpans, situate on the River Stour, about an equal distance between Ramsgate and Sandwich. The river tug wee proceeding from the lastnamed place to her moorings at the Saltpans, and eight young men, all eons of tradesmen belonging to Sandwich, went on board for an excursion down the river, with the intention of walking back. On arriving at the Salinaan the party got into the tugs boat, and were proceeding to the bank when one of them stepped on the gunwale and capsized the craft. All its occupants were thrown into the water, and only three reached the bank. The other five clung to each other, and, sinking in the mud, were suffocated. The three survivors are Warman, Chapman, and Page, and the five who lost their lives Field, Reynolds, Aden, Nash, and Bushel. The bodies of Rash, Aden, and lieynol ls were subsequently recovered. An inquest was then opened at Sandwich, and the jury returned a verdict of "Accidentally drowned..  A YOUNG MAN named Evans has been found dead in Ids bedroom at Plymouth, having taken prussic acid. In a letter which was found beside the body the deceased, who was only 17 years of age, stated that he had been driven to the act by the refusal of hia parents to allow him to correspond with a young lady. Ile stated that he had attempted suicide a fortnight previously, but the poison had not taken effect. He begged that a lock of his sweethearls hair might be placed upon his bosom, and that he should be buried with a crucifix around hLs neck and with fall ritual. At the inquest the jury returned • verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily insane..  Sr. GILES' CATHEDRAI, Edinburgh, haring been restored by the late Dr. William Chambers, has been duly opened by the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord High Commissioner to the tieneral Assembly of the Church of Scotland, as representing the Queen. A message was received by the Lord fli4h Commissioner of Edinburgh, from her Majesty, stating that she had heard with sincere regret of the death of Dr. Chambers, and cypressing satiafaction at the success which had attended the proceedings at the opening of the cathedral. Mrs. AVErrE INIELvrLut, of Bennoohy and Stratbkinness, has acceded to generally expressed wish of the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, that he should again, after an interval of 80 years, accept the captaincy of the club. Mr. Whyte Melville's former captaincy was in 1823.  As Thomas Morgan, Arthur Robins, and John Jenkins were engaged whitewashing the London and North-Western Railway goods shed, at Derby, the scaffolding fell with them, a distance of between forty and fifty feet. They were all very badly hurt, and Morgan's llfe Is Impaired of. Tux Exeter water works were, four years since, purchased by the Corporation for £120,000, and after paying inter st and sinking fond, meeting working expenses, and making various improvements, the Corporation have made an aggregate profit of close on £lOOO.  AT Glasgow, James Bennie, a miner, has been charged ender the Explosives Act, 1875, with having stored in a shop in the main street, Rutherglen, 2001 b. of blasting powder, 1501 b. in excess of what he could legally keep. He was fined £5. ' Afoxosr, of Trinity College, Cambridge, well-known in aquatic and skating circles, has been accidentilly drowned at Baitsbite, on the Cam, whilst pursuing his favourite sport. The deceased was a most genial man, and until lately was law lecturer at Trinity. He was a barrister, endear of the founders of the National Skating Asaociation. . _ _  A T the Police-court, Sunderland, George Gib.. eons and Joseph Milner Gibbons hav, been summoned for contravening the Corporation bye-laws, by erecting a house without showing on the plans the proposed drains and the intended mode of draining. The ease had previously been before the magistrates, and they decided that they had no juesdiction, but the Queen's Bench had decided since that they had. The defendants were fined 108, and costs, and it was pointed out that this mitigated penalty was only in cense ,uence of the large sum they had paid as wan in the Queen's Bench.