Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-05-25 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

NGLETON.  A PESKOKINOTI.—On Tuesday night a curious sight atm seen near the Wheat Sheaf Hotel. The drams were out inn field at the back to dry, when all at once they were whirled right no into the air almost not of sight, and were afterwards found in various places in the neighbourhood. Thin is one of the latest methods weedlt er during the past week has been of a very wintry nature. wind, frost, and mow giving it more the appearance of Febtuary or March than the end of May. Doting the latter part of last work the wind hi one a hurricane. On Sunday and Monday snow show 're with sharp frosts at night were the order. The bills on Monday night were white with :mow, and on the fells it was four or five inches deep. The sharp frosts will have spoiled a quantity of vegetation in this district, and no rather unfortunate after the very rriild spring. Tsar AcCIDE7I,-00 Tuesday afternoon, whilst • trap was proceeding down Storrs Brow. the horse took fright and threw a young they named Miss Yates into the road. The home WM stopped. and she got in again and went to the doctor, but, unfortUllateTV, he was away, and then drove back to the chemist, and lie, too, was away; but after some time he was found, and attended to her wounds tempo. rarily, she being cut about the forehead and other parts of her face. The yonng lady is staying about her, and comes from M ortwater. Site was proceeding to Barnoldswick, near Berton. When he doctor returned he dressed the rroanD, and she proceeded on ber journey. ACCIDINT TO a Ron--On Tneaday night, whilst a number of boys were playing hide and seek in the lold sawmill yard. a rather serious accidant hotel one of thent named Harold Bentham, who wan ten_ years olden the day in, quegion, and is the son of Mr. C. Bentham, organist. The boy won endearoaring to climb up some old brickwork to hid, when it gave way, and a portion of it fell on the top of hirnotimost burying him. The boys who were planing with hint removed the bricks, and nodeneoorel to carry him home. They carried him no far as the blacksmith's shop, when Christopher Hodgson relieved them of . these burden, and carried him boine. Metisrs. Tate and German, who ore members of the ambulance I class, rendered good service until Dr. Griffith. arrived, alien it was found that he had broken Mx I thigh Jost above the knee, and it wee too nitioh • swollen to set. He hsoi also cut his wrist. alneno.t to the main artery.. and his face and hands were vcry . much Inmitted. He is progressing an favourably on . can be expected.  George Bovine, a young brewery employ o; at Burton, hanged himeelf on Wednesday. The decesenl, who had locen summed of criminally asexulting a little girl, left a letter declaring that, though innocent, the charge had preyed upon hie  Snnnvioooo Brie:Ds ix A Hosri-rx,—A suicide caused much excitement at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, last Sc.turlay. One of the patients, a woman, 37 years of age, who had been an inmate of one of the wards for scene weeks, had caused anxiety to the nurses by reason of her eccentric behaviour. During the temporary absence of the nurse the woman jumped out of bed, and, to the horror of the other occupants of the ! room, mu to the surgeon's table, snatched up a bottle of nitric acid, and before anyone could prevent her swallowed the contents. Almost immediately she fell and expired. . .  Exr.:errimi or -- The Anarchist Emile Henry, convicted of murder and outrage, was guillotine.] in Paris on Monday. At the last moment he cried "{live P Anarchic!" A large crowd witneseed the execution. it is stated that, for the first time in the history of Paris executions, a "lady" reporter obtained a permit to attend, and used it. The Spanish Anarchists who were condemned for the frightful crime in the Lice° Theatre and the attempt to murder I, Marshall Campos core shot at Barceionams Monday i le pursuance of the sentence of a court-martial. It wilt be remembered that the explosion r.t the Liceo Theatre caused more than thirty ' "'A bomb use thrown into the stalls of the t and the explosion created fearful havoc. siesseeins decamped, but were tracked and tuned.