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Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-03-25 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

HOSPITAL COLLECTIONS. THANKS. RE-APPEARANCE OF THE DRIVING SYSTEM.  A FEMALE PREFERS SUICIDE TO DRIVING. The Committee the Weavers' Association in reference to the late strike at Messrs. Evans and  Berry's, Walverden Shell, states :—ln issuing this our Fourteenth Weekly Report we offer once . .  more our sincere and united thanks to all who have assisted us during the unfortunate dispute that has just been settled. The weavers are being got to work as speedily as possible, and we hope that in about a fortnight all will be off our books. However, in the meantime we hope you will not forget that these who are still out will want some provision making for them, and in addition to this there is about £76 of an adverse balance,  this will be augmented to about £lOO when we have paid the weavers this week, and we would therefore impressupon you the necessity of  KEEPING UP THE WEILL COLLECTIONS or another three weeks when we hope. to have clear  books. We are very anxious on- this occasion not only to have our books clear but to have a balance in hand, and this we shall have to do if we intend to maintain the position we have taken up. A good deal has been said relative to the slate and board, and we were of opinion that both had been _ _ _ _ . .  practically abelished, but find that one firm still uses the former and about three or four the _ _ _  and surprising to say two out of .this number have only just commenced again to exhibit the wages of their weavers for no other purpose but to drive them, and we are continually being pressed to stop these firms as they are (in the opinions of the complainers) defying us to take this course, but instead of taking such action we prefer to draw their attention to the fact that only last week another of the fair sex
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-12-23 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

GOOD WORD FOR THE NEWSPAPERS. Mr. Richard Mansfield, the American actor, has ordered his manager to discontinue the use of pesters and window cards, and to confine all the advertisements of his company to the newspapers. He says A man who does not read the newspapers does not attend the theatres," and goes on to observe that if the hundreds of thousands of pounds which are spent; on making cities hideous were spent on people who could read, and who patronise the drama, it would be much better for the theatres." Somewhat similar views are held by Mr. John Hollingshead and Sir Augustus Harris.  Ray. William Law, vicar of Rotherham, died on Tuesday. He was an enthusiastic cricketer, and. played on several occasions for the Yorkshire team. THE ratepayers of Salford on being polled decided. by 13,385 votes to 3,032 votes to lend one million pounds to the Manchester Ship Canal Company. PROBATE has been granted of the will of the late Lord Tennyson, the gross value of the personal estate being sworn at £57,296, No public bequests are made. SIR Richard Owen, the eminent, scientist, who had been in failing health for several months, died on Sunday at the age of eighty-eight. AT Swindon on Saturday Frank Franklin, aged. eighteen, committed suicide by placing himself in front of a Great Western train.. Upon his body was found a written confession that he had murdered a child at Kingston eighteen months ago. ON Monday morning a railway signalman wag found dead in his cabin at Wrenthorpe, near Wakefield, on the Great Northern Railway. Ex-Alderman Lawson, of Sunderland, has been arrested in London on a charge of fraud. He was a, solicitor and secretary to a Sunderland building society. LEIGH Court, a mansion in Somerset, was entered by thieves on Sunday night, and jewellery, said to be worth £30,000, the property of Lady Miles, was stolen.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-09-23 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

THE INQUEST. THE COOK'S EVIDENCE.  The inquest on the body of the deceased clergyman was held at the Alexandra Hotel, Rhyl, on Saturday, before Mr. Davies, coroner for Flintshire. The leading witness was Beatrice Broadbent, of prepossessing appearance, aged twenty-six. She gave her address as 2, Fulham-terrace, Leeds, and stated that she became a domestic servant to Mr. and Mrs. Weedow in November last. In March last deceased commenced to pay her atLentions, saying that he had taken a liking to her, and that he lived unhappily with his wife. After that they became more intimate, and when she went out for a walk he met her and accompanied her. It came to the ears of Mrs. Weedow that she and her husband had been seen walking together, apparently on very friendly terms, and there was unpleasantness. On the 2nd of this month she received intimation that Mr. Weodow was going on his holidays to Rhyl, and he asked her to accompany him. They accordingly met at Leeds station on the 3rd, and together they journeyed toRhyl, where they took rooms at the Westminster Hotel as Mr. and Mrs. Weedow, and lived together as husband and wife. At the beginning of the week Mr. Weedow received a communication from his mother, residing near Chester, and in reply to that he went over to see her. On his return HE APPEARED DEPRESSED, and said his mother had informed him that his wife knew of his conduct with her at Rhyl, and that his mother had further told him that Mrs. Weedow intended to take proceedings to obtain a divorce from him. In that case, she added that it was deceased's duty to marry the witness. On Friday they had arranged to leave Rhyl. In the morning the deceased appeared very depressed and went out. On his return he looked as if he had been drinking. After a brief conversation Mr. Weedow went into one of the retiring rooms, and was absent a long time. While she was awaiting his re-appearance the chambermaid spoke to her, afterwards locking the room. After she had left the room the maid heard a report, and witness went to the room and knocked at the door. Not receiving any answer, she forced open the door, and found Mr. Weedow lying down and bleeding from the mouth. It was then ascertained that Mr. Weedow had shot himself in the mouth with a revolver which lay alongside him. Mr. Yearsley, solicitor, Crewe, gave evidence as to meeting deceased •on the promenade at Rhyl and seeing him driving out in a landau in company with a lady. Statements were made by other witnesses to the effect that only a few coppers were found on the deceased, and that he bad not paid his hotel bill. It also transpired that death had been instantaneous, the deceased having severed his spinal cord. The jury, after a sitting of over three hours, returned with a verdict of "Suicide while temporarily insane." The body was biought to Cheshire on Tuesday for interment in the family vault at Dalamere churchyard.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-05-13 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

FORTY-FIVE houses are repo' ted to have been burnt down at St. John's New Brunswick. A destructive fire is also reported from Lexington (Michigan). THE monument erected at hamburg in memory of the late Emperor Fred« rick is to be unveiled on the 24th, the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birthday. Arivicas from Lagos (West Africa) state that thii British expedition against the Jebus was to assume the offensive on lhisday. IT is announced from Melbourne that the execution of Deeming has been fixed for the 23rd inst. It is again stated that he has confessed to the murder of his wife Emily at Windsor. SIR George Morrison has forwarded to the Mayor of Leeds his r•signation of the position of Town Clerk, which he has held since 1878. Efrain Victor Jaegerstrow and his younger brother, two commission agents in partnership in Berlin, have created a sensation in the city by attempting suicide— the elder brother successfully. The life of the yoonger brother is also despaired of. Tim, German Crown Prince, who is just 10 years old, has with much pomp and ceremony been formally introduced into the German army as Lieutenant in the Ist Regim« nt of Guards. PROFESSOR Hofman, the celebrated chemist, has died in Berlin.  FATHER Spencer, rector of St. Clare's Roman Catholic Church, Liverpool, died on Naturday under very sad circumstances. Alarmed by the cries of two Ip.dies that a scan was robbing the poor-box in the church, he ran after the thief, but dropped down about half a mile from the church and expired inmiediately from heart disease. The thief was caPt ured•CkS A PORTION of the roof of Messrs. Mackintosh & Co.'s incliarubber factory at Manchester fell on Saturday, ivjuring the workpeople, and it is feared that one case will end fatally. JAEGER, the absconding cashier of the Rothschild bank st Frankfort, has been arrested in Egypt. Punnio feeling in Berlin has undergone a jarring sensation from the news that at Monday's military inspection the Kaiser called from the ranks the sentry who recently shot two men in the streets for " insulting " him, shaking him by the hand and complimenting him in front of the regiment. THE two men Merdjan and Christ° have been sentenced to death for the Murder of Dr. Vulkovitch, the late Bulgarian diplomatic agent at Constantinople. A REPORT has reached Berlin from Zanzibar that Emin Pasha has become totally blind. ST. Albright's Church. Stanway, near Colchester, and Stanwey rectory and school-house, were entered by burglars on Sunday. Some missionary boxes and other property were stolen.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-05-13 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

YEAR'S RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.  _ The Board of Trade's summary of the casualties reported during 1891 as having; occurred on the railways of the United Kingdom shows that train accidents killed five possengers and injured 875 others, while accidents from other causes killed 98 passengers and injured 737. The number of railway servants killed by accidents of all kinds was 549. and the number injured 3,161. Counting accidents on level crossings (66). trespassers (306), suicides (87), and all other casualties, the aggregate butcher's bill is 1,168 killed and 5,060 injured. The most striking feature of the return is the gratifying testimony it bears to more careful management and greater security in travelling. As the number of railway journeys for the year was over 800,000,000, it follows that only one life was lost for every 160,000,000 passengers, a rate of mortality which for lowness probably no other European country can surpass. On the other hand, the loss of life among railway employees is needlessly heavy. Perhaps it is not too much to hope that the proceedings of the Select Committee of the House of Commons which is inquiring into the hours of labour of railway servants will ultimately have the effect of diminishing this lamentable holocaust. Evidence has multiplied of late to show the close relationship which exists between railway accidents and the excessive employment of drivers, guards, signalmen. and other employees. The report which Major MARINDIN has just submitted to the Board of Trade touching the fatal accident to the goods guard Clloui,Es, on the Midland and South-Western Junction Itiiilway, will doubtless make a strong impression on the public mind. Major MARINDIN states categorically that the guard, who was killed while shunting, was a victim of long hours and over-work. He reports that the man had at the time of the accident been on duty 22.1-, hours consecutively, and that his daily average of work for 27 preceding days had been 18 hours, while the average for the three days prior to the accident was nearly 18,1 hours. Major MARINDIN adds that "there are far too many instances in which the men are habitually overworked" on the same line. It may be hoped that this timely report will accentuate the decisions of the Select Committee now sitting.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-01-29 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF. THB Dean and Chapter of Carlisle on Monday, in obedience to the Queen's cong4 &dire, elected Dr. Bardsley to the Bishopric of Carlisle. THE Grand Duke Constantine Nicolaievitch, uncle of the Czar of Rus.ia. died at midnight on 6unday, at the age of 65 He was Grand Admiral of the Russian Imperial fleet. AT Townsville, an important town in Northern Queensland, there has been the phenomenal rainfall of 191 in. in 24 hours. The whole district is under water.  A Box has been received per parcel post at the Kettering Post-office containing the dead body of a male child, with a mark round the neck as if it had been strangled.  A LANDSLIP has occurred near Dieppedalee (SeineInferieure). A laundry was demolished, and a woman and her child were killed.  MR. William Jones, Cotton broker, of Old Hallstreet, Liverpool, has e,mmitted suicide by jumping from the upper story of his residence. MR. George %V. Hastings, M.P., has been committed for trial on the charge of fraud. Two°little girls were lost in the storm last week in in tho Appagh mountain. Ccunty Tyrone. They have since been found dead, clasped in each other's arms, in a partly thawed snowdrift. OVER 50 persons have been killed or injured by the collapse of a church in the town of 61obonsteoi, in the Russian provinc. of Viatka. Tits National surgical institute in Indianapolis has been destroyed by fire. The inmates were panicstriker], and many perished. AN equPstrian statute of the Emperor Frederick is to be erected on the hills in Alsace at a cost of £12,000 THE Queen's bench on Saturday quashed the conviction of the Eastbourne salvationists. The court held there was no evidence of riotous and tumultuous disturbances on the part of the Salvationists FRANK and Fanny Newbert, aged 6 and 9 years respectively, children of a farmer, were walking on the ice on the canal at Hanby, Retford, on t3aturday, when the ice gave way. and both were drowned. Fivic persons were killed on Saturday in a railway collision on the Atlantic and Pacific railroad in New Mexico. _  Tux religious prosecution in Russia has extended to the Roman Catholics._ _  i-EvEnAL earthquake shocks occurred in Rome on Friday night. THE palace of the Duc d' Arenberg, in Brussels, was destroyed by fire on Saturday. THE French steamer Patric is supposed to have teen lost with all on board in the Mediterranean. A tug was sunk after collision in the harbour at Harve on Saturday and five lives were lost. MR. Hume Webster, a well known London company promoter and stud owner—R Liberal candidate also for south-wost Ham—committed suicide on Friday on his estate at Marden Park, Surrey. The reason for the deed is not known.  NOTHING has been heard of the barque Caller which sailed from Hull on November 30th, for Atgoa bay, an it is believed that she has been lost with all hands.  A
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-04-08 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

THE PISTOL STILL IN HIS HAND. A singular incident followed his removal to the policestation. A little before eight o'clock William Beardmore, the younger brother, called at the police-station and made a statement to Police-constable Pratt indicating that his brother had left home with the intention of shooting Florence. He subsequently withdrew or modified the statement. It is said that the statement went further, and indicated an idea of suicide on the part of the older brother, if he had not been stopped. On learning of the statement, Superintendent Grayson ordered that Wliliam should be detained in custody. The prisoners were on Tuesday brought up separately. Against Thomas Beardmore was brought the evidence of Jane Brooke and Police-constable Pratt. The former briefly narrated the story of the meeting in Lawkholme-lane, and stated that her sister's face and head were severely lacerated. The prisoner cross-examined her, asked her whether she heard him ask Florence who had told her that he was a militiaman. Superintendent Grayson, having put in a medical certificate showing that Florence was not fit to appear, the prisoner was remanded until to-day. The younger prisoner was then called to the front of the dock, and after formal evidence had been tendered, he also was remanded. THE YOUNG WOMAN'S CONDITION had improved somewhat in the afternoon, though her injuries are such as to leave some room for anxiety. The skull has bees bared, the wound being between one and two inches long, and it is not known yet how far the sight may be affected. Yesterday the girl's Keneral condition was favourable. Some of the powder, it is feed, has lodged in the left eye, and will have to be extracted. There is little hope that the sight of that eye will be preserved. The defiant attitude of the prisoner Thomas has considerably softened down, and be appears to realise in some measure the folly of his rash action.  FIRE Screens of Natural Grasses and Birds, and other very choice and new styles, at
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-09-09 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

DESPERADO. known as Talt Hall, was banged the other day in Wise Court-house, Virginia. No fewer than 99 murders have been laid to his charge. There appears to be no doubt as to his having deprived 20 people of their lives. A BIRMINGHAM man named Macßae has been arrested in connection with the Althorpe murder mystery. FIVE persons were injured in a fire in a crowded lodging-house in the centre of London, near the British Museum, on Monday morning. Two men were seriously hurt in a fire in a Whitechapel dwellinghouse yesterday. IN re-opening an old mine in California, the workmen came across a live rattlesnake and several flies perfectly white. MR. MOODY, the evangelist, is suffering from a sprained foot, the result of a carriage accident in Belfast on Saturday. SIR Walter Raleigh's famous residence at Yougbal was offered for sale by public auction at Cork, on Monday. but no bids were offered. THE Queen's bounty has been applied for in the case of a Belfast labourer's wife, named Dunne, who on Sunday gave birth to triplets, all girls. THE eruption of Mount Etna shows signs of abating. HALF the villoge of Dipperz, near Bebra, Germany, has been burned down. Twenty farm:, containing 50 houses, were completely burnt out. A YOUNG lady named Margaret Doig, a visitor to Dover, was found dead on the rocks at that place on Monday morning. It is supposed that she committed suicide from the cliff.  A GIANT passenger vessel, the largest save the unfortunate Great Eastern' will in a few days be turned out at a Clyde shipbuilding yard. When launched her weight will be 9,000 tons. A FARMER named Thackaberry was arrested on Sunday chaxged with shooting his servant, William Crean, during a quarrel near Blackwater, Wexford. Crean is not expected to recover. Two brothers named Pitchers were drowned on Monday night while bathing in the river Waveuey, near Lowestoft.  THE largest telephone switchboard in the world is that in the Exchange at Berlin, where 7,000 wires are connected with the main office.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-08-05 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

IMPUDENT BEGGARS COMMITTED TO GAOL.—Fred Walker, spinner, of no fixed abode, and Thomas Walmsley, weaver, Blackburn, was summoned for begging alms.—P.s. Briley said that on Thursday night, about eight o'clock, he was on duty in Highstreet, Skipton, and there saw the prisoners stop people and ask alms. If they did not get anything they were very abusive. He followed them into the Bay Horse, and they there had a gallon of beer. He apprehended them with the assistance of P.C. Wakefield. One of the defendants went to Mrs. Phillips, who was obliged to give him a pair of boots to get rid of him. They then offered them for sale at Mr. Boothman's, butcher.—P.C. Wakefield offered corroborative evidence.—Mr. W. N. Peden and Mr. Waddington both spoke as to the abusive conduct of the prisoners.—Walmsley, who, appeared to be the greater offender of the two, was sent to the House of Correction for one calendar month, and Walker for 14 days.—Walmsley : Thank you, sir. MoNDAY.—Before Lieut.-Col. Robinson.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT EmßsAv. --Patrick McNamee, labourer, who said he hailed from Wakefield, was charged with attempting to commit suicide.—Mark Hubbard, of Bradford, who was on a visit to Embsay, said that the previous morning, about half-past six, he was going from Skipton to Embsay. He met P.C. Tindall, whb went to shelter from the rain. Just as he (witness) had gob past the prisoner he jumped over the wall, and on his going to look he saw prisoner laid full length, face downwards, in the water. There was not much water running at the time. He called the attention of the officer.—P.C. Tindall deposed to getting the man out of the water. He asked him why he had done it, and he replied to save himself from further disgrace. He said people shouted and told him to drown himself.—Questioned by the magistrate, prisoner said be had had a few days' drinking.—He was ordered to be sent to the Workhouse for a few days, pending examination by a medical man. A
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-02-05 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

CHM RTERY EX.TENSION.—The monthly meeting of the Burial Board was held on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Nathan Stell presiding. It was resolved to ask the sanction of the ratepayers to the expenditure of £l3OO for cemetery extension. I BINGLEY • ~,,fir2rE77.772,0  DETERMINED SurciDE.—On baturdai imorning an extraordinary suicide occurred at Bingley. Shortly before nine o'clock Mr. B. Moore, ironfounder, Bingley, was walking back to his works—which adjoin the river Aire -- when he noticed a woman in the stream four or five yards away from the bank. Her head was "bobbing up and down," but she did not give any alarm or even ask in any way for assistance. Mr. Moore at once shouted to his workmen for help, and they came to the bank with various implements. One RIAU jumped into the river, which was swollen and running strongly, and grasped the woman, but she would make no effort to second his endeavours to rescue her, and had it not been that the man was held by the hands of the others he would probably have been carried away by the stream. The woman deliberately released her shawl, which remained in the man's grasp, and the strong current at once washed her down the stream. A number of men followed, and opposite Myrtle Grove a man named Gould, with the assistance of others, succeeded in getting the woman's dead body out of the water. It was found that the body was that of Mrs. Lund, the wife of a woolwasher named Joseph Lund, of Goose Eye, Keighley. For some time she had been separated from her husband, and had lived with her parents at Eldwick Beck. he bad lately been of somewhat weak mind. The body was removed to the Brown Cow Inn to await the inquest, which took place on Monday, before Mr. W. Barstow. The evidence showed that both the decease'l and her husband were of rather weak intellect, and had been married for nearly a year and a-half. Their life, however, had not been a happy one. Constant quarrels took place, as a result of which the wife left her husband for weeks on several occasions. The woman bad often threatened to drown herself, as she "could not see her way through" The jury returned a verdict of "Committed suicide whilst in an unsoud state of mind."