The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-04-03 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

THE EXAMINER.  SATURDAY, APRIL 3.  Three young men were drowned in the Thames, on Monday afternoon, through the upsetting of a pleasure boat.  Richard Coates, the Purfleet murderer, was executed at Springfield gaol, near Chelmsford, on Monday morning, He displayed great firmness.  The miners of Fife and Clackmannan have accepted the 15 per cent. reduction in their wages, so that for the present a strike has been averted.  The Rev. J. Stubben. vicar of Marston Lordship, Yorkshire, committed suicide at Brighton, yesterday, by hanging himself. Deceased had been in a desponding state of mind for some time.  The Executive Committee of the Agricultural Labourers' Union at Leamington, on Monday. voted a third donation of t2O towards the relief of the locked-out miners in South Wales.  A railway-servant demonstration was held on Monday, in Manchester, when it was resolved to forward communications to the various companies, asking for pay for Sunday duty, shortening the hours of labour, and overtime allowance.  George Crow, a revival preacher. has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment, with hard labour, at Glasgow, for leaving his wife and children chargeable to the parish. He had been going about the country with a woman known as "Preaching Mary." and he impiously asserted that the Lord Jesus had married them.  A Tichborne demonstration was held in Hyde Park. on Monday afternoon. A procession was formed, and, headed by brass bands, marched with flags along the Thames Embankment to Trafalgar Square. where it was reinforced by a motley crowd, which made its way to Hyde Park. where Dr. Kenealy delivered an address. Resolutions asking for a new trial were passed. Another shocking murder is recorded. At Cardiff, on Saturday morning. a man named Richards, mate of a tug-boat. Murdered his wife by cutting her throat, and afterwards attempted to take his own life in a similar manner. Richards had been out of work for some time. in consequence of the lock-out, and it is supposed this had preyed upon his mind.  A National funeral procession in memory of the late John Mitchell, took place yesterday, at Carrick-on-Suir. and 3.000 persons. chiefly of the trades and working classes, participated in the demonstration. The national band, with muffled drums. playing the •• Dead March." headed the procession. Many of those present wore green and black rosettes and sashes. The proceedings were conducted in an orderly manner.  Mr. John Martin, M.P.. died at Newry. on Monday morning, at the residence of Mr. Hill Irvine. J.P.. where Mr. John Mitchell died last Saturday week. Mr. Martin attended his friend Mitchell's funeral, but became ill in the graveyard, and had to be assisted off the groimd. He never recovered from this attack. His death creates a vacancy in the representation of Meath. for which county he had sat since January 1871. The Registrar-General reports. during the week ending last Saturday. 3,450 births and 4.072 deaths in twenty-one large cities and towns of the United Kingdom. The average rate of mortality in these towns was twentyseven per th. ,u,sand. The rate in London was 25: Edinburgh, 27 : Glasgow 32; Dublin 33; Leicester. 29; Sheffield, 26 : Birmingham. 26; Bristol, 29; Leeds, 20; Newcastle, 23; Bradford, 34; Sunderland, 30; Liverpool, 30 Manchester. 34; Nottingham, 29; and Wolverhampton, 23.  A collier named Lackland has perpetrated a frightful outrage in the house of a neighbour at Skelmersdale. He threw a canister containing 31b. of gunpowder into the fire, and a dreadful explosion followed. None of the inmates were killed, but they were all more or less seriously injured, and the house was wrecked.  A peculiarly shocking case was heard at the Somerset Assizes on Saturday. A girl named Cross. only sixteen years of age, daughter of a labourer, was convicted for attempting to poison her father, and was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. The only motive urged for the crime was that she had been accused of falsehood. At the same Assizes a woman was charged with the wilful murder of her two children by starving them, hut was acquitted, on the ground that the negligence was not wilful. •  Mr. Alexander Macdonald, M.P., addressing a meeting of miners in Glasgow. on Monday, denounced the poorhouse system, owing to which he said, an army of locusts fed on the worbing men. • He believed most of the wretchedness, poverty, ill-feeling, and general unhappiness which existed in Ireland was due to misgovernment. Mr. Macdonald took occasion to deny that he had instigated the South Wales strike, but condemned the action of the owners there, and exorted the miners of Scotland to subscribe for the support of the locked-out men.  At the Guildhall Pohce-court, on Monday, Alderman Sir F. W Trmott granted a summons against Dr. KeneW for an alleged libel in his weekly paper upon Mr. Wright. subeditor of the Morning Advertiser. Mr. Wright was accused of being a most violent Romanist, and a tool of the Jesuit faction. He was further charged with having spared no opportunity of vilifying and slandering Dr. Kenealy, and with having conducted the journal with which he was connected in a false and disgraceful manner. Mr. Wright had laid an information denying these assertions.