The Potteries Examiner : — 1877-09-29 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

EDWARD ALLAN EVYNR. Old Mill, Barnsley, Sept. 15th, ISM  DISASTROUS Fotz.—On Thursday u fire occurred at the dyemaking works of Messrs. Milnes Brothers, near Bury, causing dsmage to the amount of £20,000. The fire broke out in a building used for making dyes. The fire brigade succeeded In Raving the revt of the works and a cotton mill belonging to the firm. The damage is partly wavered by insurance in the West of England Fire Office.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A Boy—On Tuesday evening Walter Henry Cole, aged 14, of sd, Church. street, Great Cherlenstreet, Birmingham, attempted to destroy himself by taking poison. He was found issensible in his parents' house between six and seven o'clock, and near him was folgid a email empty soap liniment bottle, theeoutents of which he had evidently swallowed, for he exhibited symptoms of pungent poisoning. He was conveyed to the General Hospital, where, the stomach pump having been applied and an ! emetic administered, he somewhat recovered, bat his condition was deemed so seriose that he wns detained in the institution. On regaining consciousnese, he looked round and asked where he wee, and on the question being put by Vie officials why he had taken the poison, he replied that "he was a bad boy, and he didn't want to trouble his father any mere." lie ia progreasis favourably.  t.--EEPING IC:. ILLICIT STILL AT  FINY  T I at the Borsiem Police Cone, Me-sr,. W. Woodall end T. Hughes, Willism 111,111 n, r, foto., z NSW,' s,tle•St rnot, flue-tern, iv:ss inro,gbt churg, it with h' "c the propel,- , ,sf a prie ite and e.,,realeil still for the making and di.tilling of lose wines and spirits at Borslem. He was o charged irdh using the still. The penalties claimed a., ier tins 23rd and 24th Vie., chap. 114, see 18, were .‘l.O. Prisoner, it will be remembered, was arrestA in A lust, sod was sentenced to three months' imprisons— !nt. cisf suit of poser £3O for being found on the I pr, noeC vri,re uu Won at work. Prisoner Wsll now brought up from Stafford Gaol an e writ of I. d.a., corp. obtained from the Court of Exchequer. T i Ecoise anthoritirs were represented by Mr. Hen. demon, supervisor, Newcastle—Mr. Nicholas Bennett, I. -Aster, Burdern. said he was the owner of the house n •fsr Martin's Hole, where the still was found, and y r was the tenant.—Mr. Henry Hutchins, officer ..• evei-e, recollected going to prisoner's hou,e on the 2rl of Angina. He found a quantity of "wash" there, a', a .inautity of whkkey, and a complete still in works; °Nit. the till was concealed in 11 room below the odlar. In order to get rid of the refill!, Bremner had opened up a connoction with the mom newer. Brammor, ruthout any equivocation, acknowledged the ownerdiip of the still.— V (Lie:lean recollected going, on the 2rd Augu.t. to Brammer'it Louse, and finding there • still DIA all the Otenloosry apparatus for distilling. Reheard L:ammer edniit tie ownership. The room was reached thlniugh a trap-door The witness described the siteston of the house.—Mr. Henderson said he did not think it was likely that mods a place coati he found in Staff,rdehire, it was no well adapted for the purpose.—The p, 'nosier was fined .2200 for the first offence, the second charge being withdrawn Prisoner WM removed in c!•