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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-07-28 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

YOUR HOUSE—Lammooon's ?nom° Samna—and use no other. The only safe antidote in Fevers, Eruptive Affections, Sea or Bilious Sickness, Small-pox and Head-ache; having peculiar and exclusive merits. Use no substitute. See perpetual injunction against imitators; also the unanimous judgment before the Lords Justices Bramwell, Brett, and Cotton, 22nd Jan., 1878, in Lamplough's favour. 113, Holborn.hilL London . .  A CHILD about three years of age, named Gray, rmiding at a farmhouse on the west side of Westray bland, Orlmey, luta bean found drowned in • well a few yards from the house. It was discovered by • hawkee taming. The mother haa become Mame.  AN inquest haa been held at Oldham touching the death of a child named Clarke, who had received fatal burns. The mother, Bridget Clarke. shit. d that she was 25 years of age, had had seven children, and been married twelve years. A verdict of" Accidental death" was returned.  AT the recent Diocesan Mission Festival, Salisbury, the liishop of Blomfontein, South Africa, was one of the speakers. Cetewayo, he said, when let loose upon the Zulu people, had no alternative but to again wash his spear in blood. It was absolutely necessary for the maintenance of his prestige over Bechuanaland. A WOMAN named Ann 111'Garey has died from the effects of lead poisoning at some lead works at Ilea. bum, near Newestle-on.Tyne. At the intiu.t it was stated that provision was made on the premises for the employes to wash themselves regularly, and they were ordered to have a bath once a week.  THE exhibition of art needlework recently held at the De Vera Gardens by Mrs. Petrie, on behalf of the funds of the Kensington Branch of the House Boy Brigade, boa resulted in an addition of £75 to the funds of the society. . . . . .  Am Inquest has been held at Walsall on the body of Flenry Kentley, a saddler, who committed suicide by hanging himself. Six months ago one of his sons died In an asylum, another is about to be removed to the same institution from the workhouse, four months ago a young daughter died, and now an elder daughter is lying near sleuth. A verdict of "Temporary ieaauity " was returned
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-12-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

HOME EVENTS.  On Monday, January Ist, at Upper Church, Tipperary, some emergency men were suddenly attacked by an armed party. They, however, returned the fire, killing one man and wounding others. On the 2nd, at the Waterford Petty Session., Mr. Biggar, M.P., was committed for trial on a charge of using seditious languase in a speech delivered at a meeting held on December P-th, 18,2,in Waterford Town Hall. Ile w:w, however, admitted to bail. On the same date the man Delaney, charged with attempting to shoot Mr. Justice Lawson, was put on his tri:il in Dublin, and ultimately convicted on the following day, when he was sentenced to ten ye irs' penal servitude. Mr. McPhilpin, proprietor of the none ANC,' was also sentenced to six weeks' ! imprisonment for publishing articles in his paper of an intimidating character. At Wexford Mr. Walk, Mayor of the borough, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment for publishing in the New &et &Indard, of which he was the proprietor, remarks tending to hold up certain individuals to public scorn for holding land. About this time Mr. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary, left Dublin on a tour in the west anti north-west of Ireland, in order to ascertain the probable amount of distress, and the means required to alleviate it. On Sunday, January dth, the mail steamer City of Breese's, belonging to the Inman line, sank in the estuary of the Mersey after a collision with the new Glasgow ste.mer Kirby Hall during a thick fog, and eight of her crew and two of her passengers perished. In addition to this very unexpected calamity, the ship British Empire, bound from Shields to Bombay, Won burnt at sea off Alleppy, Malabar coast. Ten persons were ,avel and sixteen others, among whom ware the captain and chief officer, were reported miming. John Cr: nden,chsrged at the ordinary si tti ng of the Central Criminal Conn, I onclon, with sending a letter threatening to morder the Prince of Waleriand Mr. Gladstone, was acquitted, the presiding judge holding the terms of the letter lobe in:sufficient in law to support the indictment. Inn Wednesday, January 17, a man at Sheerness murdered his wife, dangerously wounded his step.son, and then unsuccessfully attempted to commit suicide. In the 'nursed( she week- mune
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-01-27 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SINGULAR CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  At the Wandsworth Police-court, London, Lucy Morris, a married woman, living in Raynes-road, Wimbledon, was charged with attempting to commit suicide on the South-Western Railway. rolice-con•table Smith said he was on duty in the Merton-road, near the level craning passing over the South-Westem Railway, when be saw a man and woman walking along the line in the direction of Clapham Junction. He watched them, and saw the woman, who left the man, sit down on the inside railer the up-line. The man ran up, and pulled her down the embankment. A minute afterwards the express train passed. She went on the has a second time, and then a platelayer caught hold of her. Witness went up, and found her in an excited state. When he charged bar, she said, "I do not care if 1 had been killed." The signalman, who was in the boa 100 yards off, said the man nulled the prisoner off the line twice. He (witness) stopped a goods train. The prisoner told the magiArate that she had no Intention of destroying herself. The husband, who was in the employ of the company, said Its was with his wife at the time. He went down the embankment to avoid the train, but his wife fell across , the rails. He pulled her off, and after the train had I passed he told her to return for her bonnet, which had I fallen off. Ile then complained of the rough treatment , which he alleged his wife received, adding that her dress was torn. The constable was recalled and denied that ' any violence was used. Mr. Hannay accepted the husband's recognisances in the sum of £5 for his wife's good behaviour for three months.  SUDDEN DEATH OF A GENTI Mr. S. F. Langham, deputy-coroner for Westminster, rteently opened an inquiry at minster Sessions House, concerning the Rath Percival, aged 57, rto independent gentleman, or  pelier-street, Brompton. Amelia Percival, clang deceased, deposed that she saw her father at a past ten in the morning, when he was leavi He then appeared to be in his usual health, 'and she heard nothing of him until the following morning, when he was Mon ht home dead. Police - constable Arthur Knight, 472 11, gave evidence to the effmt that at half-past sin in the morning he saw the deceased sitting ens doorstep in the Brompton-road. Witness spoke to him, but he made no answer, and he then took hold of his wrist and found he was dead, although the body was quite warm. He sent for Dr. Macintosh, who pronounced hint dead. On his person witnms found £1 45. 40d., a gold chain, four studs, a latch-key, and a purse. Dr. Hugh Macintosh, of Brampton-rood, stated that he was called in to see the deceased. He was quite darn!. His opinion was that death had resulted from syncope. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. PYRIIVO  HAVE rr Is
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-10-27 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DICTF.RMINED suicide has occurred at the detective office, Manchester Town Hall. A man named Frederick line, a draper, lately in business at °Mull-lane, Salford, was lately apprehended, charged with having received some calico and other property which bad been stolen. He was lodged in the cells of the detective oilices, where he complained of illness. Fle was atteialed by a medical man, and Iris cell door WAS left open, so that he could waik about the corridors. About hell-past servo o'clock the next morning be was found suspended by a cord to the top of his cell door, and life was extinct. The cord, which Vian short, and a similar piece of which Ira. taken from hint when searched, Is aupposed to have been used for mending his braces. Ile had Leon seen by the warder a few Minute% previously, and only five minutes before he was toned : dead he hail been talking too prison r :n a cell aljoins leg his. The chief constable and Mr. Poole, lamer. ! intendent of the Detective Department, were commitilicated with, and the muse was Invea.igated, but no bilitie in attached to anyone. A SINGULAtt and mysterious affair has happened at Bogside Haiiway-station, near Dunfermline. At an early hour of the morning the its nil bode of a man was found lying across the south platform of the station, the head being completely Fevered from it. and carried to the other side of the line. The circumstances under ishich the affair took place are shrouded in mysterv. The deceased has been identified no a shepherd who wes cm. ployNl in the neighbolrhood. AT Hanley, Mr. Richardson, barrister, recently Applied to Mr. Greenwood, stipendiary, for a summons against Mr. James Macarthy, wine merchant, for slander and perjury, the latter haring swain in evidence that the Hanley Conservative Club wan a bar our for itnniOrality, and that he had not been exoelloil from the club. The former statement was calculated to injure the club, and Marcarthy had leen formally expelled from the club After same tibiCulaliou the application was ref used.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-03-31 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MAW CR TAB IMIDELIST.  ------ft fresh plot avainst the life of the Czar has been recently discovered. The following are the details connected with the affair : At the beginning of February a student of line arts attempted to commit suicide in a bath, tut was discovered before he had ' ' rime to accomplish his purpose. On being questioned as to his motive f I .wt, he route sod that it was owing 'to his corm,: e - . 'i Nihilists. Ile had teen coin- . mended I- .o assassinate the Ciar, awl had talcs to do so, but at the critical moment 5 .ie foiled him, and, with the knowl, as to what woad be his fats at the hands i. the Nihilista for nothaving obeyed their injunetiow, h resolved to commit suicide. Ths attemit on the C ar's life was to have been tide at the time when the regimental f is of the Finland. Regiment was oelefwated, the Ciar having been present at the banquet that took place on that occasion. The student managed by some means to be pre-ent at this dinner in the guise of a waiter, and was armed with a pocket revolver. He had intended to wait his opportunity, and when he found himself immediately facing the Cola to tire. This opportonity duly arrived, but by this time I his courage had evapor.med, and, at the critical ' onetime, he states that he became confused and I -knurled out-of the room and can straight to the bath, .r.ere he made the attempt on his aim life. It is • Anon., from his depositions, that he was merely a tool . . . . _......  ,It the hands of the Nihilists, 84 he appears to know very the workhg., of that body. The information r police have ohmined from hint, however, has them to make several arrests in connection with  . afair. This latest discovery in said to have produced a profound impression on the Cant. M. Tolstoi seri- uteri the Czar to exercise greater precautions, and to sap 3 himself as little as possible, to which his Majesty ree 4, "It is all the same to me, and tam now prepared 1,•• .asthing. I have mealy dby the merest chance, and yea And myself were Alike ignorant al the danger 1 was
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-11-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE  BY A FARMER.  Much excitement was recently canned in MR;1101010 by the rumour of an attempt at miirder in the western part of the town. From hirpririex at the once station it tmniipired that for some time poet Mr. John To Aim, a farmer, of Yabling, had been residing in a villa Co the Loodon.road, the parties apparently being in tient circumstances. Late at night, a, Mr. Chambers, fishmonger, and a young man named Pry were pa,: ing the house they were attract"l by the screams of one of the at malts, who, rushing out of the house, stated that her mistress was being m rdered. By some means the front door Bloomed, and they were unable to enter. They heard a woman screaming Murder" from the inside, and the men at once proceeded to force the streetdloor. After some difficulty they succeeded in obtaining an entrance to the home, when they were horrified to find that Mr. Tombin' had got his wife down on the door of the drawingroom, endeavouring to out her throat with a ra or. 3he pnor woman WM dreadfully not about the face and hands in attempting to protect her throat. The men at once pulled the wooft-be murderer away from his wife, who was in an exhausted state, and ntill,t laying her on a couch, Mr. Tondtins, who still hod possession of the ra Inflicted a wound on his own throat. The wmpott was taken from him, and a medical man and the police were sent for. Mrs. Tomkin,J wounds were at once dressed, but she was in such an exhativted condition that the police were not allowed to see her. From inquiries IWlde Mrs. Tornkint: injuries ere not likely to prove fatal. Her hidband was removed to the WlWt Kent General Hospital, where limos found that althdugh he had indicted a serious wound on his throat, the windpipe was not severed. He remains at the institution in charge of the pollee, and as soon as he is sufficiently recovered, Will be taken before the borough magistrates. No reasons hate been assigned for the rash act. Toutkins, ills stated, is upwards of sixty years of age.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-06-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

WIEDER AND SUICIDE AT ROTHERHAM.  A fearful tragedy has been enacted at Rotherham. Just after seven o'clock in the morning shrieks of " Murder " were heard at the house of a moulder named Joe Barker, living in Barkees.yard, High-street. The first person who reeked into the house was a neighbour named Tomlinson, who was just in time to see the man's wife staggering downstairs, with a razor in her hand, and with blood flowing copiously from her throat. The woman fell from exhaustion on reaching the bottom of the stairs, and died alnwht immediately. At the top of the stairs, and just at the entrance of the bedroom, lay her husband, in a pool of blood, with his throat cut almost from ear to ear. He was dead. Lying on one of the beds in the same room sets a child about three years of age, with a deep gash across its chest, and the sheets were horribly besmeared. One of the children, about eleven year. of age, made the following statement to a reporter " I was awoke by screams of Murder, and on opening my eyes saw father standing over mother with a razor. She was struggling with him, and got the raoar from him, but not before he bad cut her throat, his new throat,end the throat of the baby. Ile was like a madman. He fell in a few minutes without speaking, and lay in a pool of blood. Mother staggered downstairs with the ra or in her hand, codas ehe went the blood squirted out fearfully from the wound in her throat. I followed her downstairs, and when she got to the bottom eke fell. Both father and mother died almost directly after their throats were cut. A neighbour came in just as moth, got downstairs, and when she saw what had happened eke went for a doctor. The doctor came almost directly, and stitched the baby's wounds. Father bad only been a month out of Wadsley Asylum. Mother wee much afraid of him at times, and often put knives out of his reach." The Chief Constable (Mr. Pollard) was quickly on the spot, and made a full investigation of the affairs.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-03-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TIIE MYSTERIOUS DEATH ON A RAILWAY.  The adjourned inquest on the body of Mrs. Kay, the wife of a retired tradesman at Radcliffe, who was recently found in a dying condition in the Heaton Park Tunnel, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, has been resumed at the Sessions Court, Manchester, before hie Smelt, the deputy coroner. Mr. Kay, the husband, who had been in the carriage with the deceased, and who was also found in an injured condition in the tunnel, was not present, it being explained that he was in the custody of the police on the charge of having caused his wife's death, and that he had been formally remmlccl. Mr. J. Chadwick, of Didsbury, stated that he was on the platform at Ducie-bridge Station. Witness went by the 2.30 train. Ile sat in the next compartment to that in which, the deceased arid her husband were travelling, but the door of the compartment was fast. There was one gentleman travelling with witness. The conmartment in which the avitn ss was travelling was immediately behind. In the Heaton-park tunnel he heard a carriage door bang. Ile thought it was his own door. Witness subsequently found that it proceeded from some other door. Radcliffe Station was the first stopping place. There was only one bang. David Law (Stacksteads) said he was in the front part of the carriage next to the compartment where Mr. and Mrs. Kay were Mid to have been. Witness noticed a lady and gentleman in the compartment, but nothing occurred to draw his attention particularly to them. There were five or six gentlemen in the compartment in which witness was travelling, and they heard no noise whatever. Henry Grant Tyler, clerk in Brooke'. Bank, and living at 24, Monton-street, New Greenheys, stated that he remembered Mr. Kay corning to the bank at twenty minutes to two. Ile merely said Good snorting,' transacted some businms, and walked out. Dr. T. H. notelet, living at Ouslehurst, Radcliffe, stated that ho knew Mrs. Kay, and am her the last time on the morning of the day she was killed. She was perfectly sane. She was anxious about the condition of her daughter's health. Ile had seen Mr. Kay very feequently since the accident. Ile considered him to be insane, with a very decided tendency to suicide. Ile had previously slightly cut his throat, and also attempted to poison himself with vermin poison. lie believed Mr.flay to be suffering from impulsive insanity. He never made , any statement about the accident, but said the last time he saw his wife wan in Victoria Market. The Coroner pointed out that this AVM all the evidence they could get. , Any more would be theory. tie thought they could only return an open verdict. The jury returned a verdict, "That Mn. Kay came to her death by falling out of the i train ; but there was no evidence to show how that took place." Mr. Kay was afterwards brought before the , magistrate, and charged with causing the death of his , wife. Human remanded.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-03-17 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SUICIDE OF AN AMERICAN TOURIST.—Mr. William Yosts, a wealthy merchant of New York, has committed suicide in the house of Colonel Myers, United States' Consul, Dumfermline. It appeared that Mr. Yens and General Spencer arrived at the house, with the view of 'laying a few days in continuance of • tour in Scotland. The three gentlemen had breakfmt together, after which Mr. Yenta retired to his bedroom to dress. Immediately thereafter the report of a pistol WAS heard, and upon Colonel Myers entering the room, he found Mr. Yenta lying dead, with a newly-discharged double-barrelled pistol beside him. General Spencer and Mr. Yosts left America last month, and deceased has left large estates. He recently raised an action for divorce against his wife, but WSW unsuccessful, and this preyed ea his mind. He was 42 years of age. _ _ . . . • .  TEE Home Secretary has declined to interfere with the sentence recently passed on Mr. Foote, who was prosecuted for blasphemy. A RriickeriX Knoon.—Douglas Jerrold, describing a very dangerous illness, from which his daughter had just recovered, said: "Alt, sir, it was a runaway knock at death's door, I can assure you." How to prevent death from disease by natural means, one "Eros Fruit Salt ;" it is the best known remedy. It removes fetid or poisonous matter (the groundwork of disease) from the blood, allays nervous excitement, depression, and restore. the nervous system to its proper condition. You cannot Overstate its great value in keeping the blood pure and free from disease. Directions in sixteen langnages How to Prevent Disease. Caution. Examine each bottle and see that the capsule is marked"L'ao's Fruit Salt." Without it you have been imposed on by a worthless imitation. Sold by all chemists. Price Is. 9,1. and 4s. Pd. Prepared only at" Eno's Fruit Salt Works." Hatcham, London, SE., by J. C. Eno's Patent, Tux Shropshire Union Itailway and Canal Company has held its73nlbalf-yearly meeting at Shrewsbury. Lord Fowls prmiding. A dividend at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum was agreed to. Lord Richard Grosvenor, M.P., and Mr. John Bateson were re-elected directors, and Mr. Edwin Waterhouse auditor. Mr. James Bland of Liverpool, having retired from the Board, it was announced that Mr. Ralph Brocklebank, of Liverpool, nes elected in his place. AT Sittingbourne Dr. Purvis, on the part of the London and Counties Liberal Union, has delivered a Retitle in the C'reacent-strcet school-room, in connection with the local Liberal Association. Owing to the unpropitious weather, the attendance was rather scanty. Dr. Purvis's subject was "The IVork of the Smsion." which Inc handled in a very masterly manna. Mr. G. H. Dean, toe of the vice-presidents of the association (in the absence of Mr. J. B. Hole, the president, through indisposition), occupied the chair MR.