Widnes Examiner. — 1885-04-25 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT SUTTON. NEAR ST. HELENS. —About eleven o'clock on Thursday forenoon the district of Sutton was thrown into a state of great excitement by a rumour that Mrs Hamiltsn, wife of James Hamilton, labourer at Sutton Glass Works, and formerly gardener to Mr William Blinkhorn, J P., had drowned one of her four children and committed suicide in the same way, in the small but deep reservoir attached to the Sutton Glass Works. It appears that about 10-30 Mrs Hamilton was seen by a Mrs Marsh goin.; towards Brooklands Bridge with her son Thomas, aged four years. A little while afterwards Mrs Marsh returned, and saw Mrs Hamilton leaning over the railing of the bridge. She passed ?DI but immediately afterwards heard screaming, and lacking round found that Mrs Hamilton and her child had disappeared, and were strtwgling and screaming in the water. An alarm was raised, and the first person to arrive Was a rag-gatherer named Hagan, who got into the water, which was only four feet deep. Lie, however, declined to go farther than up to his knees, and scrne little time elapsed before two other men, namod lia-rlow and Redmond, arrived. Theyimmediately jumped in, and got out the poor woman and child, but life was extinct. The two bodies were removed home to Highfield-terrace, Sutton. Mrs Hamilton was 40 years of age. She has lately been in a very low state of mad, and had been heard to say she owed some money, and could not hear to face things. The family had been in better circumetancvs. BRIDAL 130O4LnET BLoon, for beautifying the complexion. It imparts exquisite beauty to the face, neck, arms, and hands. In a moment of time it gives a delicate softness and purity, with the tint and fragrance of the lily and the rose. Sold by all Chemists and Perfumers at 3s GI. Depot, 114 & 110 Southampton Row, Loudon.—.Adyt.  GENEPAL  - The lighthouse at Cape Ray, Newfoundland, Las been destroyed by fire. Dr Blakerley, Dean of Lirceln, died at his residence in Lincoln on Saturday morning. Twelve hundred miners, out on strike, paraded the streets of Sheffield on Monday, headed by a brass band, in order to excite sympathy and obtain support. It is announced that the Great Northern Railway Company are about to abolish the second-class carriages running on all but their main and metropolitian lines. During a fire which occurred on Sunday night at a farm in Perthahire fifty cattle and a number of pigs and poultry were burned to death. A large stock of grain and hay was also destroyed. The Glasgow Town Council have awarded gold medals to Chief Constable M'Call and Supts. Boyd and Donald for their clever apprehension of the ten derearnitards convicted of exploding the Glasgow gasometer. EAIBEZZLSMENT OF £9so—At the Jedburgh Circuit Court, on -Tuesday, Thomas Henderson late teller in the Bank of Scotland. pleaded guilty to embezzling £950. He was sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment. For placing stones and other dangerous obstructions on the Midland Railway line near Harpenden, and thereby endangering the safety of passengers, George Barton was sentenced at the Hereford Assizes on Wednesday to fifteen years' penal servitude. &footmen