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The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-08-28 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

GERMAN CITY IN TILE STATES.  San Francisco has hitherto always been cited as the instance of the rapidest growth of a modern city. The sudden advance of Milwaukee both in wealth, importance, and population, almost entitles it to be placed in rivalry. Fifty years ago it was a village , inhibited by Indiana: forty-live years ago its population when all the inhabitants were counted num. tiered 272. In four years it advanced to eight times that sum. In 1839 it had 20,000 inhabitants; in 1F.;0 43,000, and at the and of last year 120,000. 1.111;ke most of the United States capitals it passed from the influence of one nationality to that of :another. Its thunder was a Frenchmen, who in 1842 wa.s mayor of the city which he founded, and which Inc peopled with French colonists, but a Ger. man soon followed and brought in his train quite a cohort of his can patriots, and the Teutonic element has since remained prominent. Even the Irish, who are the great settb rs in America, couat for nothing in the prosperous capital of Wisconsin. According to the statistics for IsBo, of the 120,000 inhabitants Germany claims :5 per cent., Anglo-America 25, while the Irish are only 10 per cent., and ail the other Lountries of Europe together contribute but the same quota. Milwaukee thus fairly illustrates both the excellence of the 6ernians as colonists and their proverbial exclusivencs.s. In New York they have, jaded, made themselves felt, but it has been rather in ommeree than in politics or in any other department of the management of the city. But in Milwaukee they have from the brat secured and retained the lead.--E:lobe.  A duly belong:in; to a respectable Vaudois family con iz l suicide a few days ago by throwing herself from the tower of Lausanne Cathedral.  The eid wi.h church at Bala, one of the most an. kis and interesting ecclesiastical edifices in North Woks, has been reopened after full restoration. The Bishop of Ripon has instituted the Rev. Ernst Graham Ingham to the vicarage of St. Matthew. Leeds, vacant by the resignation of Dr. Laid. . . • Ete halmn ituuclad trigaUo, Rural and I'd:,sLro. which arrived at Naples from Civitt isee kit, after taking provisions, for Palermo. It is reported that their ulterior destination is Tunis.  Although the King of Sweden hos exerted his personal influence, and offered extraordinary inducements, Blarlame Sarah Bernhardt refuses to act im Stockholm. Ult ttfod 424 Utoltch
The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-10-16 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

AND SELF...M.OD ran—On Tnesday, Mr. Booth. coroner, held an inquiry at the Duke of York Inn, touching the death of Ellen Allerton. aged seven years, who resided with her parents in Cannonstreet, Fenton. Emma Wilkinson, wife of James Withinaria, slipruaker, Fenton, said that deceased lived near to her. Oa the morning of the Sill inst., she heard deceased, who had been left alone in the house, scream, and directly afterwards saw her rush out into the street a mass of flame. A man named Charles Walker came up, ant, by wrapping his coat round deceased, succeeded in extinguishing the flames. Witness did what she could for the child, who was terribly burned, and the same morning she was removed to the Longton Cottage Hospital, and there died on the night following. Theresa Allerton, mother of the deceased, who was temporarily . .  working at Wileman's Pottery. said that she had not left the deceased by herself prerisn, to the Bth net. The  other ehildren.sh, pit Wilt to nurse, when she went to work. Deceased. when in the hospital. told her that a . • . .  cinder had faller; ell her clothes, ilnd set tire to them. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."— An Inquest was also held on the body of Charles Chapman, aged bite-tine. John Chapman, carter, son of the deceased, soid that he resided with his father, who was a plasterer. at Heatheote-place. His father had been drinking heavily for the last nine weeks, during five of which he had been away from home. Hu returned on Saturday iu very low spirits, evidently suffering from the effects of heavy drinking, and remarked to witness that he ,deeeaseal had drank all his senses away. He had nothing but a little ale to drink on inn lay. Shortly before midnight on Stull ay, a nese was aroused by his sister, ant on going dowastairi- he toned deceased standing by tho liroplaeo, blecaing peofusc:y from the ti Oil. lie itioneamt,ly went for the lomiee, and on his return found his father lying on the floor, in a large pool of blood, with • frightful gash in his throat, his head, in feet, being almost severed from his body. A razor tproducea) was lying on the echo, De...ea was quite steal, and previous to committing the act had taken off all his clothes with the exception of his shirt. Sarah Ann Chapmon, daughter of the deceased, do p osea that on Sunibiy night Mc ecut up lobed, leavir g the deceased sitting by the iire downs,dirs. Shortly afterwards she heard something p ntring like water on tlic tl -or of tho room beneath. She went down to see what it was, and found ;her father :bleeding from his throat. Deceased always carried & razor with him. fife had been "on the drink" for many weeks, and since his return home hod seemed very depressed. The jury found that deceased committed suicide whilst insulate of temporary insanity
The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-10-02 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

NEWCASTLE BOROUGH.—Teunsn tr.  Before J. Gallimore, Esq., Mayor, W. Cartwright, sad S. Edward., Esqrs. ATTEMPTED Sst.r.weanut.—George Lawton, sweep, Newcastle, was charged with attempted suicide, by taking poison.—Mary Lovatt, landlady of the Crown Inn, Friar.street, said that Lawton came into her house on Wednesday morning and asked for a glass of beer. He had a small parcel in his hand, and as soon as the beer was supplied he emptied the contents into she glass and then drank some .4 the liquid. She asked him what was the matter with him, bat he male no answer then, and be drank again, and then said, "I have taken poison, and it was all through my son." He afterwards asked for some salt and water. The remainder of the contents of the packet was banded to the magistrates, and Mr. Cartwright said it was flea powder, and would not have killed him even if he had taken it all—Mr. Gordan, from the shop of Mr. Turner, chemist, said that Lawton came to their shop and asked fore packet of flea poison, which was given him. As he considered that the poison was for the purpose of killing the flees, he gave it him, And asked no questions about it.—The case was adjourned. . . . .  FALI:I4 Marpole, late publican, of Newcastle, was charged with obtaining the sum of £l9 from Samuel Averill, on the 26th of April last, by means of false pretences.—Mr. James appeared to prosecute, and said that on the date named Mr. Iverill was at the Lord Nelson Inn, Higherland, Newcastle, and as defendant had a horse to sell, he offered to purchase it. Accordingly the sum of 219 was fixed upon as the price of the horse, and that sum prosecutor paid to defendant. He afterwards learned, however, that the defendant had filed his petition on the very day he sold the horse, and a short time after Mr. Bayley claimed the animal, but as he considered that he had honestly bought it, prosecutor would not give it up. Proceedings were, however, instituted against him, and he was obliged to pay for the horse over again, the whole, with costs, amounting to nearly £36.—Mr. James said that he only purposed offering sufficient evidence for defendant to be remanded, and he should communicate wills the treasurer in bankruptcy, no that proceedings would he taken under the Bankruptcy Act —Formal evidence having been given, the magistrates adjourned the case. Timm or 0001,11.—Alfred Shenton was charged with stealing a quantity of goods from the premises of Mr. Vaughan, draper, Newcastle, on Wednesday evening.—Sherwin Day, in the employ of Mr. Vaughan, said that on Wednesday night, about a quarter to ten, as he was coming in the direction of the shop, he saw prisoner coming out of the entry with a handle under his arm. He followed him, and at tho bottom of Popper-street he dropped a lady's jacket and a rag Witness still followed him, and caught him by the. paper mills, where ho detained him until assistance arrived. Oa the handle being examined it was found to contain a quantity of goodss, which were indentified as the property of the prosecutor.—The Bench remanded the prisoner.
The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-09-11 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MEDICAL MAN IN A  POLICE CELL.  Mr. Humphreys has held an inquest at the London Hospital, touching the death of Dr. Robert Hughes, a medical man lately in practice at Woodbridge, in i‘ultelk, who committed swcide by cutting his throat with a penknife in one of the cells of Leman Street police Ntati..n.—Mr. Thomas 11101 es, Hill House Lodge, Ipswich, said that he was a member of the 111,11,41 1tt4,81011, Oilt of practice. lie identified the dee....5,1 as Lie brother, Robert If ughes, 40 nears of age. Ile practioed at Woodbridge, and tad been for some time addicted to habits of intemperance. Woli.,,lay wi,ilst witness was at his brother's on  o latter left home at H. 30 to go to his Lisa later in the day witness was surprised All Isis coachman that do:eased had token town. Witness came up to London the morning, and ultimately traced the deceased 6LreeL police ,tati,a and thence to the wile.; 1,, race ti ii d. ad from the effect of hcis. d wound in liie I iiroat. In witness's as out of s mind from habits of  ware of what he life.—Sergeant  slat:l-I' 8 11, said that Lo was Co duty at the et station, at five p.m. on .Veditesday hg. Sr hen the de, eased was brought in by Police k. 1::9 11, and charged with being in, :Table at High Street, Whitechapel. ;•, •,rrrl to be sufficiently sober to have given addiess ii he had chosen to have done said that he should not. lie was i tli • cell in the ordinary way.—lly the : There are no special orders about s harged with drunkenness being searched roust into the station; that is left to the oi the °dicer on duty.—The Coroner re! .!. was unfortunate, as it tinned out, 4 bad not been searched.—John 221 11, said he was on reserve duty at .t. lan deceased was brought in. Witness • t......ie it live minutes past sir, and deceased ,•.rrr. the bench. At twenty five minutes again visited the cells, and asked ire we:. all right, and he said, "Yes." At . witness was taking the description of . •'a lie hi.ald a noire in the cell occupied ,1 4, he at once went there and found him tri cell door. Witness at once called • , and ru the door being opened deceased iic.r in a pool of blood. Dr. Loane was lie attended to the deceased.— ill'llunald, chief inspector H it en opening the door of deceased's i a lying in 01,001 of blood, and witha ei in his throat. The small knife pro. on the bunch beside him.—Dr. !,- that he was called to the station, c.. . midi:ring from an incised wound I site on the right side, and had l and other. arteries, the Cause. of  I following o'n-the wound •.dll r some consultation, reI o a 1 committed suicide 5, „list dlcl.,locl loin n tie y added a rider to t to 11, tilLa ill.tt, although no blame N. I • I ....• LitLo “ing to tits ',olio) in the present . tt' inc. of opinion that persons sheuld be searched, as oH on tii ,t st it, they were most likely to no::loin, mitity upon themselves or other
The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-09-11 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE POTTERIES AND STAFFORD SPIT, . EXAMINER, SEPTEMBER 11, 1880.  Peake's employ as pianoforte tuner. The prisoner was then summoned, but he absconded, and a warrant was issued. It was stated that he tore up the summons when it was served upon him, and that he had only recently been discovered at Belfast, where he was ' following the same occupation. He stated, in reply to the bench, that he was in very respectable empleyment, art his employer was willin4 to continue Mir in his service, notwithstanding this charge. Evidence was adduced showing that the primuer had received from George Abberley (Stoke), Richard Livesley (Chesterton), and Ralph Young (reinstall). ,21 Is. each, due to the prosecator. The minor had not been accounted for, the prisouer had altogether reeeived about _en for which he had not accounted—The prisoner was committed for trial. .  R. FIERCE Doe—George Wood, a potter, 25, Mollartstreet, was summoned for keeping a ferocious dog at large.—The Chief Constable said the d og—s white lon terrier—had bitten fire or six people, and that although it was led out with a chain. It hal bitten a man named Mould, and taken a piece out of his face.—The defendant sad that this was the fault of Mould himself, for, although warned, he pat his fee. near the dog, and it snapped at him—Sergeant Bailey said complaints reached him almost daily with reference to the fierce character of the don—The Chief ConAable said hewn. told the defendant himself was willing to destroy the dog, bat his wife would not allow him—(a laugh). Sergeant Bailey added that defendant's wife had threatened to commit suicide if the dog wa., destroyed-Defendant now express: d his willingness to destroy the dog, and an oiler of the Bench was made calling upon him to do 84.
The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1881-05-28 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT STOKE.  At the Fenton Pollee Court this morning, before the Stipendiary, H. C. Greenwood, Esq., Mary Keeling, young girl 15 years of age, was brought up on a charge of attempting to commit suicide by drowning herself the particulars of which have already appeared in on earlier editions. Hannah Ford, a friend of the defendant, stated that she left Keeling lat:the corner of the _ London•road, Stoke, at 7-35 on Thunsday evening after being with her all the earlier part of the evening' Defendant kissed her at parting, and told ber, to give her love to all. at home. She had. 110; however appeared very depressed up to that time. few minutes afterwards witness heard a splash, erol hastening to the spot she found her friend had throvill. herself into the canal. She called for assistance, sal two men who happened to be passing, palled the Or' out. On being asked by Mr. Greenwood her reason for attempting such a fearful act, the defendant said thnt she had been accused by her sister of stealing a polonaise, and after some words had passed between them the sister struck her. She then appealed to her mother who, however, sided against her. They *ere unhappy at -home, and being accused of stealing sO • annoyed her that she determined to destroy herself. . She, however, expressed great contrition, promisinq not to attempt it again. She further said," I shoal not have done so had I not Been in a temper." 31r,5,; Keeling, the mother, who was called up, said she die not know of her daughter's being unhappy at hove' She had always tried to do her duty towards her, children. Mr. Greenwood said there were differen" ideas of what a mother's duty is to liar children. some mothers appear to think it consists in being very harSib and he should think that was the case in the presens instance. He dismissed the girl, cautioning her very strongly against renewing the attempt at, any fature time.
Stretford and Urmston Examiner. — 1879-08-02 (Stretford, Greater Manchester, England)

CHILD MURDER.—Mary Dee, a domestic servant, was on .vlonday committed to the Waterford Gaol on a charge of murdering her illegitimate child, an infant, by striking it on the head with some blunt instrument. GERMAN AND ENGLISH ComPEnnoN.—Tenders have been recently sent in by English and German firms for the supply of large ship anchors and chains to the Government dockyard at Kiel. The German prices were more than double the English. From April Ist to the 26th instant the Exchequer receipts amounted to £23,884,178, as compared with £24,226,635 in the corresponding period of last year. The expenditure has been nearly twenty-nine and a half millions sterling.  ROBBIIT DALTON, a warder at Whittingham Asylum, was charged at Preston on Saturday with having inflicted grievous bodily harm on a patient named Holland. The medical evidence showed that three of Holland's ribs had been broken. The case was adjourned for a week. Speaking at a Liberal demonstration at Bath on Monday night, Mr. Adam, the Liberal whip, said that no one could tell how soon the impending dissolution would come, as the question was in the hands of one who was not apt to let out his secrets, and who would spring a mine upon them. On Tuesday, at the Leeds assizes, Mark Harlegrave, Henry Bennett, John Arundel, and IV illiam Ball were sen.tenced to five years' penal servitude each, and George Rhodes was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, for the manslaughter of Peter Hills, a gamekeeper, employed by Colonel Gascoyne.  Mrs. Harding, who with her husband attempted to commit suicide about a fortnight ago in the River Medvrav, near Maidstone, has been committed by the magistrates of Maidstone on a charge of "Wilful murder." The husband was drowned, and the woman was rescued with daculty by the police. Both had been drinkint, heavily.
Stretford and Urmston Examiner. — 1879-08-09 (Stretford, Greater Manchester, England)

SAD SUICIDE AT NORTIIWICH. —Oa 31011u,ii", noon last Mr. J. E. Garside, county coroner, hei 3,414°',4 on the body of Ellen Dainteth, aged 58, of Isfa"",. -orevii."o Witton, Northwich, who committed suicide on tuejled,h' Saturday by hanging herself.—The first witness Fanny Willis, neighbour to the deceased, wh° sttreci°l she last saw the deceased about 11 o'clock on the „I-gee Saturday morning. The deceased came into her h°;,,,slaol 10 o'clock, and went out at 11 o'clock, saying al° gate,e and have a sleep. She seemed in a despondill,li,' tbec't mind, and talked very queerly.—Richard Daintel o'c - ofl1I'll'band of the deceased, said he came home about Or on Saturday afternoon last and found all the doorstbrott, house fastened. He procured a ladder, and wens r°,4 the window, when he found his wife hangingAsgl. ,cto fastened to a hook in the ceiling, and evidently ",,` chair was on the floor as if it had been pushed avrA},:e'r deceased had told him a few days previously thnt rt was short, and that she would make away with ht; co,,riae ness had had littl for some time. fo". court summons he got rather upset his wife 3' soe The deceased had been in a desponding way for nsecr,l past through not being able to pay their way ill et,rclic"iii‘' of the slackness of work.—The jury returned 3 " Committed suicide whilst in a state of torel'" fir sanity." 140,1; 6 ROBBERY FROM A PAWNBROKER'S SI/OP wrcn.—On Monday last, before James Royds f 3• fPry) Macrae, Esqs., two married women named Mary Ai) of Lock-street, the wife of William Brown, Bentley, of Barnton, were brought up charged vr1o• rO4l a piece of cloth from the shop of Mr. WorsleY, Pn"isto; ; Witton-street, Northwich.—William Tattersall, ostbe Mr. Worsley, said he saw the two prisoners i° t. vie between two and three o'clock on the 2nd Alt,gltitiolleeti came in together and left together, as they quently. A short time before he had seen a ,"7,1y, rs:. • dress piece lying on the counter, and irnmeod,"o. ma, the prisoners had left he found that it was the gojece troll Worsley went after them, and brought backv the duced.) It was worth Ss. Another customer 1°,0014.ii missed her basket at the same time.—Mary Ann ' nbrood. wife of Thomas Malam, said she was in the shop in question on Saturday afternoon last. t were in at the time, and she (witness) put her "Thaedioto by the side of the counter. When the prisoners er she missed her basket, and learning that the prison r Dkor: lived in Leek-street, she went there, and found ri,etle3 tiotl in Brown's house; and at the same time 53,,,)0r0t'eel prisoners cutting up a dress piece. She gav° _roe na to Mr. Worsley of this, and he went and fetcheu,,,ii vpiece back.—The prisoners were remanded, P". allowed. Wed° •e6ci
The Tamworth Miners' Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1873-10-18 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

ACCIDNNT AT CHEWS STATION.— AU correspondence to be made through the Secrete:7, Shortly before eight o'clock on Tuesday morning. Yr. THOMAS RNODNA, Samuel Smith, an inspector under the London and Albert.terroce, Tonstall, North Western Heaney Company, at Crewe station, North Staffordoltins. was attempting, to pass through a good. train standing between the platforms, for the imrpoio of crossing the lisle, when the train was put in motion, and in an in• stant Smith was decapitated. The deceased was an old and respected servant at the company, and his obliging civility, combined with a most genial disposition, had won for him the esteem of many travellers. SAD SUICIDE AT PLICIdoETEL—The intemperance of his wife has driven n respectable industrious working MAN of Plymouth to destroy his life. Site was a hopeless, in corrigible drunkard, and, while resisting any agreement no separate, she harassed him literally to death. From three kituatious in suceesiim she had procured his dismissal by coming to see him while intoxicated, and cresting disturbances. Depression settled upon him, and appreheading that he was about to be again discharged because of her emaduct, he plunged off a bridge into the sea and was drowned. The wretched woman seems quite callous.  The Home Sees etary has just given an important decision as to the fees charged by magistrates' clerks on the renewal of publicans' licenses. The Newark Licensed Victualler.' Association addressed a letter to Mr. Lowe, objecting to the re.registration of licenses on renewal, and to the requiring the statement of the ownership of the premise, to be made ou oath, for both of which services fees have been required to be paid to the clerk to the justices. The Home Secretary, in his reply, soya he has intimated to the magistrates his opinion that the oath in question not being authorised by the act, the fee charged thereon is irregular, and thst the re-registration on every renewal is unnecessary end offensive.