The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-09-22 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

SUICIDE OF PROFESSOR ROGERS' SON.  A painful suicide bas occurred at (Mord, the victim being the eldest son of Professor Rogers, a promising youth of 18, and captain of Westmlneter school, who hanged himself on the 121 h instant. No motive of the act could be adduced at the coroner's inquisition, which took place on Sept. 13th. It appeared from the evidence of a witness that deceswel played at cricket OD the Monday, the day before the sad event,and at cards at night, retiring to bed early. His brother, find. lug be did not come to breakfast on the Tuesday morning, knocked at his bedroom door, but receiving no reply, the door was with difficulty opened, when the deceased was discovered suspended from s hook behind it by a leather belt and a leather strap, the former being tied round his neck and fastened by a noose. His feet touched the ground and hie knees were bent. The deceased ha 4 written the same day to a achoolmate named J. A. Turner, son of the veer of Deddington, who said be WM not aware of anything which wan likely to have induced the young man to denloy himself—Mr. Symonds, surgeon, teatlfied that the de ceased looked delicate when he saw him on Monday; and Professor Rogers' housekeeper said deceased was very happy, and had not .anything to trouble his mind. He was, she maid, very fond of home, and WU not disappointed at not having gone away with hie father and slates—The whole evidence failed to @how the slightest more for the commission of the mini, and it is inferred it must have arisen from sudden impulse.—The jury found the following verdict.— .. The deceased hanged himself on the lab not , but there was no evidence before them to show the state of his mind at the time he hanged himself."  FOREST FIRES IN THE UNITED STATES, The New York pavers received this week state that disastrous forest fires were raging in Retailer township, St. Lawrence. county, New York; Blooming Grove township, Pike county, Pennsylvania; and In the forests near North Conway, New Hampshire. owiag to the drought, all efforts to extinguish the dames bad failed, and much valuable timber had been lost The eupervieor a Port Jervis, New York, had requested all the inhabitants of the north-western portion of that township to help to fight the formt tires i inge reward was offered for the arrest of the lame , diaries who started the Games. On the 2ff th of August . the air was so darkened by the smoke of the burning foresto that the surrounding mountainu were invisible The New York Trt bun e . referring to the eubject ink editorial columns, says: —We are again suffering free what threatens to become an annual visitation. Wilk . a temperature of only 83 deg. during the noonelsv hours, the air f 6 as dead and oppressive as during the extreme heats of July; the streets and shores seem to smoulder under a veil of dull blue haze; the sty is partially obscured, but gives birth to DO rambrioging cloud, and an unaccountable lassitude and depression are felt by all who are sensitive to atmospheric influences. From the west and northswest.ovet the intervening hills and lowlands, the smokes of horning forests drif t down upon us, stilling a portion of the ozone which remains to ueaf ter the summer drought, and rendering our atmosphere impure and suffocating.. The extent to which such conflagrations spread their influence is not generally appreciated. Sometimes., liege forest-fire in Southern New Jersey will for days obscure . the air of all Pennsylvania east of the Alleghenies Tie smoke of the great Chicago fire of 1071 reached the ,1 Atlantic coast in about sixty hours, still carrying sub ' it the strong smell of burned gado and goods. Tbe ' burning of woods in Canada is felt on the sham of 1 Chesapeake Bay. ---•---  A