The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1894-07-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DOOR.  , Wit•  found anconikiese lie died trail the - widow and fit. provisionally _ Parliamentary  n'fFziesq, _ Maio/. He lam ee a Mr Tom Mann lute  !kionaaynaght w_be.re  ,etioite ot opium family. '” oonsentteti to  Mind for the secestarye;l4 of thaPar,o,. Committee of the Trades Union Congress, opposition to Mr C. Fenwick, M.P., the present secretary. Lady Burton, dm widow of the famous translator and traieller, poesesses a gruesome necklace of human bones given by the King of Dahomey to ' Sir Richard Burton when he made him BrigadierGeneral of his corpe of amazon.. A boy named Crichton (6) and John White and .Rebert Stewart (10), residing in Edinburgh. were drowned in Craiglei th quarry, near the e ty, on Monday evening. They had ventured on the w amr on an Mitovised raft, with the idea of fishing. All , it appears, rushed to the edge of the raft together, with the result that it stpsized, and they were drowned in ten feet of water. Ati the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday Jobe David was sentenced to eighteen mouths, hard labour for extensive (rands, of which compleints had been received from all parts of England. Rio mode of operating was to write la advertisers in the Exchange and ?dart and obtain money and goods on pretence of doing business, frequently changing his address to avoid being traced. One of the victims Wan Major Roy, of Asliton-under-Lyne, who sent prisoner half a  ' •• At esday s sitting of the Select Committee appointed tommuire intothe subject of the employ. inept of retired soldiers and Isadore, Mr Joyce, Third Secretary to the Post Coition, said that postmasters in rural districts had orders to apply to the regimental authorities when vacancies among postmen oocurred. The Post OfEee had as much rigard for soldiers as any other department, and in marry cases the efficiency of the Poet Office bad been sacrificed to give employment to soldiers. Very few sailors were employed iii the Post Office.  _— Watson Hope Scott, otherwise Samuel Strange, was again charged atWeatminster on Tuesday with attempting to stab Mrs Sandys wife of the public orator at Cambridge, outside tfth 11011A0 of Cornmom. A medical certificate was put in, and showed that amused was insane. The police investigation of his antecedents fully born out tlei cortili.cate. Prisoner was discharged from the army as unfit.; after sunstroke, while in China, and 'had nixie -lest situations through mental derangement. —The magistrate ordered his issmova/ to the workhouse as a lunatic. At the Mansion 110180 on Tuesday Henry Jones (tl9) was charged with stealing a gold watch and from Mr John O'Neill, an American grain merchant, on the 14th ult. Prosecutor met prisoner and a man named Coleman at the Crystal Palace, and they returned ,to London together. Coleman having trusted Jones with his watch and money, prosecutor confided his property to the prisoner. The two mini than disappeared, and prosecutor was left with only twopence halfpenny in his pocket.— Jones was committed for trial.  At Derby on Monday an inqueet was held on the body of Frederick W. Roome, an engine driver, 48 yearn of age, who had poisoned himself. The deceased bad unsuccessfully endeavoured to pay his , addressee to a !iming lady at Liston. On Satur. day last he received a letter from her in which she had no desire to marry, and urged him to mare his attentions. He was much distre,..eci on reading , the letter, and told his friends lie could not live without the young lady. Later in the day he pobioned himself with laudanum. He left a letter addressed to the object of his affections, saying ' that be did not wish to reproach her, but stir might have saved his life by a few worile—A verdict was returned of "Suicide while temporarily insane." __  In the