The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-04-29 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BOAT ACCIDENT ON THE THAMES.  THE REV. W. M. KIRK, vicar of Brislington, Somerset, was found dead in his room on Good Friday morning. Death had evidently resulted from a wound in the head. and a revolver with one chamber discharged was found close by. The deceased was a young man, and his habits of late had been strange. A YOUNG man named Hopkins has just been admitted into the Kent and Canterbury Hospital suffering from a very serious peculiar accident. He was at work on the second floor of what is known the Big Mill, when a sack of flour fell from the top of the building, a distance of 50 or 60 feet. The sack, which had slipped out of a chain by which it was being drawn up, struck Hopkins on the head, knocking him down on his back and falling on him. It was at first thought that he bad been killed outright, but, under treatment, he showed signs of consciousness. FOUR little boys were at play on Good Friday in a gravel-pit at Firhill, Aberdeen, when a huge bank of sand fell into the pit, and buried the whole of them. One of the boys was got out alive, but the others—two brothers, named APKenzie, and a lad named Finlay—were killed. The ages of tia; deceased varied from three to seven years. A BOAT containing seven persons capsized on the river Soar, at wLeeirecesZorWnodi. The Friday afternoon, and party consisted of four domestic servants, two children, and a young man. The domestics were rescued. The accident occurred near the Abbey Park, where thousands of people were enjoying themselves, but little assistance could be rendered.  AT Kingston-on Thames on Friday afternoon some soldiers ventured upon the river in a boat, which overturned in consequence of "skylarking," and one of the men, Charles Addison, of the 7th Hussars, was drowned. AT Nottingham, late on Saturday night, James Walker, a middle-aged man, living in Dame Agnes. street, took his boy out of bed and cut his throat, causing instant death. Walker then cut his own throat, but after a desperate struggle he was secured and taken to the police station, only suffering from a slight wound. He complained of the conduct of his wife.  DR. FREDERICK WOOD, Attercliffe, near Sheffield, was heard by his wife on Saturday evening to be making a strange noise, and on going into the sitting-room she found him slipping from his chair. Every effort was made to rouse him, but he died before midnight. On the table was a bottle con. taming chloral, some of which he had drunk.  ---• A SHOCKING fatality has occurred at the Chorley Easter fair. A boy named Emmanuel Whitehead, aged seven ran under a swing boat, when he was struck on the head and killed. Da. DIPLOCK held an inquest at the Leamington Hotel, Acton, on Saturday, concerning the death of Charles Samworth, aged 16, who was found drowned in a tank at The Lodge, Acton, where he was employed. On the deceased was found the follow. lag letter :—" To my dearest loving mother,—Don worry about what I have done. I cannot put up with this any longer. It grieves me very much not having my Sundays, and be slaving part of the day. It worries me to see you looking so bad. Do not put a scrap of black on for me, and bury me on a dung. heap.—From your unworthy son." A verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind was returned. 1 A music teacher, named Derome Wood, of Rawlinson Street, Barrow-in-Furness, was charged before the magistrates at that place, with a criminal assault on one of his pupils, a girl under the age of thirteen. He was remanded, bail being refused. AN elderly woman, named Towle, committed suicide whilst in bed, at Little Eaton, near Derby, on Saturday morning. Her husband was awakened by feeling a pain at his neck, where he found she had inflicted a deep wound. On turning round he discovered that his wife had nearly severed her head from her body, and was covered with blood. The husband was removed to the Derby Infirmary. No cause can be assigned for the act.  AT an early hour on Saturday morning a shocking accident occurred at Broomside Colliery, Durham, whereby one man was killed and two others were seriously injured. It appears that three workmen, named Clough, Graham, and Bellas, were blur some repairs in the workings, when a heavy fall stone came away, instantaneously killing and seriously injuring the other two. Three _ elapsed before Clough's body could be recovered. _  A nitro ai from Madrid states that a Man breathing was taken from a roughly-made grave, which he had been buried alive, in the hood of Barbastro. The police have art persons, who are said to have committal the  race from motives of revenge. The man lies in critical condition.  THE twenty-second suicide since the opening u. the Clifton Suspension Bridge, 23 years ago, coccuredi there on Saturday night. Richard Gomer Taylor, 27 years of age, went on the bridge between eight and nine o'clock, took off his coat and hat, placed them neatly on the balustrade, put his pipe in his pocket, and took the fatal leap into the gorge below a distance of about 280 feet.