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The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-01-13 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

NINE ',MONTHS ON A DESERT ISLAND.—A romantic story of adventures upon a desert island is related by two survivors of the schooner General Siegel, who have arrived at Honolulu. The men state that the General Siegel left Honolulu on September Ist, 1886, for French Frigate Shoals, on a shark-fishing expedition. Her crew was composed of Captain Aberdine, Adolph Jorgen, the mate, the two men already mentioned, Peter Larkin, Peter Brown, Martin Neilson, and Charles Clemens. On September 23 they arrived off Medway Island. On the night of September 26th, the veseel was riding at anchor on the island, the whole of the crew being camped on shore. Towards midnight a gale of wind arose. The vessel drifted ashore and became a wreck. The crew thus found themselves cast upon a desolate island in mid-ocean, their only means of sustenance being sea birds and their eggs and fish. About ten days afterwards a painful accident happened to Peter Larkin. While engaged in killing fish with giant powder one of his hands was blown off. He died from his injuries in a few days. After this a feud appears to have arisen between the mate Jorgen and the others. William Tirnpe, one of the survivors, says that while he was alone in a hut, Jorgen crept behind him and,tried to strangle him with a rope. The lad called for help, when the mate desisted from the attempt. While the captain and Brown were after eggs Jorgen murder. ed them. When the others heard this they taxed Jorgen with it, but he said they two committed suicide. Oslen and Timpe then resolved to leave the island. They accordingly destroyed the ship's boat, and then sailed away on the 28tn of June in a scow, and left the mate alone. They headed for Marshal Island, which they reached after a voyage lasting twa months and,a half, •  SLAUGHTERING BY Etscratcrry.—Some experiments have been recently made in St. Petersburg with the idea of slaughtering cattle by electricity, the results of which have been highly satisfactory—death being in all cases instantaneous. _
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-01-20 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

ENGLISH PATENTS. - The following patents, amongst others published in the official journal of the Patent Office, were sealed (luring the week endina Jaunary 14th, 1888 :-14,570, Joseph Dug. dale and John Frost Davies, of Blackburn, for improvements in differential and slow-motion gearing for machinery; dated 18th November, 1880. 17,109, Samnel Rowbottorn, of Glossop, for improvements in diving bells; 31st December, 1886. 17,111, John Vaughan and James .Walker, of Hurst Mills, Ashton-under-Lyne, for improved clearing apparatus applicable to ring spinning and doubling frames ; 31st December, 1886. 16,000, William Wilson Hulse, of Salford, for improvements in lathes; dated 7th December, 1886. 232, John Smith, of Wigan, for an improvement in, or connected with, knitting machines; dated January 7th, 1887. 67, Knight Proctor, of Burnley, for improvements in, and relating to, the construction of wheelbarrows ; 3rd January, 1887. 17,128, William Marshall, of Bury, for improvements in rail joints for railways and tramways, and appliances connected therewith; dated 31st December, 1886. List snpplied by Mr. George Davies, C.E., Fel. Inst., P.A., Patent Solicitor, 4, St. Antes-snare, Manchester.  The dead body of a farmer named Butterworth was disoovered on Saturday lying at the bottom of a stone quarry, near his house, at High Moor, Saddleworth. The previous night he had been to Oldham, and it is supposed that when returning he took a wrong turn, and fell down the quarry. The wife of Thomas Urmston, collier, of Campbell-street, Walkden, near Bolton, has just given birth to triplets—two boys and a girl. The mother and children are doing well. The Queen's bounty will be applied for. The mother is attended by Dr. Little.  An inquest was held at Dartmouth on Monday upon the body of Sergeant Ann. an officer of police, who committed suicide by swallowing strychnine. The deceased's superior officer, Captain Yardley, complained to the Chief Constable of Devon that Allin had neglected his duty in not making an arrest in connection with a fire. For this Allin was ordered to be reduced and removed. It was pointed out that he was engaged elsewhere, and that Yardley had made no arrest himself. The jury expressed the opinion that Alliu's mind was upset by the arbitrary, cruel, and unjust manner in which his superior treated him.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-08-03 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

FAVOUR.—" Hello, Brown," said one young man to another, "I hear that you went to work for Snithinsiand Co. some time ago." " Yes, I did." "Goad firm ?" "Yes, good enough so far as solvency is concerned, but I tell you they are might close about money. Keep a man right down, and give him a chance to commit suicide by starvation whenever he gets ready." "I suppose they treat you kindly." "Oh, yes. They've just made a move that is likely to better my condition considerably." "What was that ?" "Discharged me."  LEFT Orr.—On the circus ground there were a good many coloured people, and among them a very old man, who kept a tight hold on the hand of a boy of 10. "Go easy, Julius, go easy," cautioned the old man. "Dar's a heap of oircns heah, we (loan' want to miss an inch of it Doan' git flabbergasted ober it." "But dey is all gwine inside de big tent," protested the boy. " Bartinly day is, but dat's nuffm' to us. We doan' calkerlate to lose our souls for de sake of a circus." "Day won't lose 'am." "Yes, dey will; dey is bound to let de poo wretches rush on to destruction." "Can't we lose our souls, too?" "No, Julius; dey is too precious." "Then I'm going to hey lemonade an' candy." "No, Julius." "But dat ain't wicked. We won't lose our souls for dat." "Won't we? Poor chile I doan' go fur to say we'd dun lose 'em entirely, Julius, but I declar' to goodness we'd cam so powerful nigh it dat de police would pull us in for sixty days. Look around on de ground an' find a frowed-away banana, Julius, an' doan' be temptin' de Lawd to send a cyclone to whirl us all to destruction."  There will be always this difference between a coquette and a woman of sense and modesty—that while one courts every man, every man will court the other,
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-11-30 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

THE SUICIDE AT OLDIIIII.—Vory general surprise was expressed on Tuesday evening when it became generally known that it was an old factory worker that had thus suddenly taken away his own life. In the olden times he was a piecer at Bank Mill Brow, Springhead, for his brother-in-law, Mr. John Worthington, afterwards minding and overlooking at the same mill. From there he afterwards minded a pair of mules at the Springhead Spinning Co., which situation he had to give up through being a sufferer from chronic asthma.  Ctouon SPINNING Co.—On Wednesday evening a shop meeting was held of the eardroom operatives at this mill in the Conservative Club; Lees. Mr. Silk, who attended, stated that as they were aware matters in dispute had been tediously dragging along since last July, when they were compelled to strike the mill before they could obtain fair consideration for their claims. At that time, when the hands had been oat on strike a day, the managing director approached the operatives' officials, and gave an undertaking to pay the wages and prices asked until the whole place had been gone through and thoroughly settled. This he had not been able to accomplish, as the firm, by innumerable excuses, had put the settlement off. At the time the undertakin-, was given in July and signed by one of the directors, it was agreed that the datal hands should, fur the convenience of the firm, who proposed it, commence at a then stated wage, the difference, if any, to be paid them at the time the settlement was made, dating from that time. He reported that in company with Mr. Andrew (the company having joined the Employers' Association) he had met them that morning, when he• had entirely failed to get the consent of the firm to pay the necessary prices for the tenters, while for the datal hands they had distinctly refused to pay the men any more or any back pay, notwithstanding their agreement before entering the Employers' Association. Under such circumstances he terminated the negotiations and abruptly left. the mill. Matters, he said, however, by the employers' secretary's interference had been considerably improved by the offers he had made, but not such as in his opinion juftified him in advising them to terminate their notices, which had been post dated since last July. He advised them, however, to wait until the following day, and then leave work if the question was not settled. An operative then moved that all leave work on Thursday night, unless different orders are received from the secretary. We are informed that no further upproachment has been made, and the hands therefore would strike work last night.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-04-13 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

THE SUICIDE IN A FIELD AT DIDBTHIRT.—AD in. quest was held at Didsbury, on Monday, before Mr. F. Price, district coroner, touching the death of a man named Thomas Pearson, who, on Thursday last, was found lying dead in a field off Palatine. road, Didsbury, with his throat out. The body was afterwards identified. Deceased was a mechanic, and 44 years of age. He was employed by Messrs. Edward Green and Son, St. Ann's Square, Manchester. Thirteen years ago he began to show signs of insanity, and attempted to cut his throat in one of the streets of Preston. This caused his removal to Whittingham Asylum, where he was confined for eight months. Since his discharge up to the present time nothing peculiar had ever been noticed in his manner. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased had committed suicide whilst of unsound mind.  SCENE AT A Frac. ---- A serious fire occurred on Monday night at an oil shop in Brandon-street, Walworth, London. Ths proprietor was seen to run into the street carrying a burning mat, and immediately afterwards the whole shop was wrapped in flames, which extended nearly across the road. The first floor of the house was oocupied by a widow and her family, and the second floor by a Mr. Moore, his wife, and two children. On the first alarm being given Mrs. Moore took her children in he:: arms and with some difficulty placed them in safety on an adjoining roof. This being done she wrapped a woollen comforter over her mouth and nose, and in spite of the dense masses of smoke which by this time had penetrated to the upper rooms, descended again into the burning house to warn her neighbours on the first floor of their danger. Fortunately for the latter they were all out at the time. In her plucky efforts for their welfare, Mrs. Moore was nearly suffocated, and only regained the roof with great difficulty by crawling on her hands and knees. The fire was not subdued until the building with its contents was nearly consumed.  £750
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1902-02-14 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

SAD CASE.  On Monday, at the Town Hall, Nelson, Mr. .1. Robinson, Coroner, conducted an inquiry relative to the death of a weaver named Israel Brown, 43 years of age, living at 18, Forest•street, Nelson, who was found drowned in the Leeds and Liverpool canal on Friday last. Mr. F. Roberts, of the firm of Messrs. Davies and Roberts, watched the case on behalf of Messrs. Reed and Dyson, and Mr. Hayden Wilosore, manager, and Mr. J. C. Wadd• ington, of Burnley, represented the family of the deceased. _ _ .  John Brown, weaver, son of deceased, said that he did not know that anything was the matter with deceased, save that he was suffering from mental depression. He continued to work until Weanes. day morning, the sth inst., when the manager found a weaver for him, and he was allowed to go home.—The Coroner: If you make any great labour about it, I shall insist on knowing what was the matter with him even if I have to have a post mortem.—Witness : He was not getting enough off his looms, and was sent for up into the warehouse, and when he got home on the Wednesday night he seemed depressed.—By Mr. Waddington : My father got off his work on the Wednesday morning. He said he was afraid of going because he might get brought up into the warehouse Ile had worked over 14 years at the firm, and hal never been fetched up before about having too little money. He had also got a dread that he would have to go to the workhouse through the manager's conduct. It was preying on his mind and had been doing ever sinoe he was fetched up.— The Coroner: The man was ill.—Mr. Waddington: Not at that time.—To witness: It was all the I it of you that were fetched up and you were earning 6s. off a loom? Yes.—ln reply to Mr. Roberts witness said he had to stop off with his father about two years ago, when ha had blood poisoning, and was afraid at that time that he would do himself an injury. He seemed quiet and moody before he was fetched up in the warehouse. That week as be was fetched in the warehouse be earned 245, but the manager told him the average was 7s. per loom. He told the manager he was doing as well as he could, and if he altered any it would be less. The manager told my father to try acid earn 7e. a loom, but be did not threaten to discharge him. • Police Sergeant Ferrer stated that on Friday morning about 10 o'clock he found some clothing on the canal bank, and there was a paper in the vest pocket which read, "Israel Brown, 18, Foreststreet, Nelson. All forgive me." The Coroner remarked that it was a sad case, and having reviwed the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1902-10-10 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

NTABLE ATTITUDE.  The extraordinary attitude assumed in conneo• tion with the present rupture will convince most fair-minded people that the employers have nO warrantable CCISILS belt, but seek an excuse for the further curtailment of production. The operatives' officials have to a man expressed a desire to avoid friction with the employers, and it seems to ms that the proposal made by Mr. James Crinion last week, at Royton, for the operatives to take 20 or 40 mills as against 20 or 40 of the employers, from which mills particulars should be obtained 111 regarded the work on the revolving flat card, spd used as the basis of a final settlement, was to which the employers might have accepted with advantage to all concerned. But to act upon this, doubtless, would impel the employers to deviate from the course they have mapped out. It is clear they are fixed upon a lockout, and the operatives appear to be equally determined to resent what they designate as the employers' "high-handed proceed. logs." The workers discern  THE Eiscunsr LHEAD, and, with their strong organisations behind thee', in the numerical as well as in the financial woe' they will lose no time, they say, if the disputes and strikes are not speedily settled, in girding 0" their armour for the fray. We are apparently in imminent peril of a great conflict between capital sod labour, and should there be a clashing of the opposing forces in the form of a lockout, events Laa'S show that the employers will have displayed grave error of judgment, bordering almoss al'hh commercial suicide. The most regrettable feature of the whole oriel" is that Mr, C. W. Macara, who, I gather, is WWI Upon as the strongest general of the emploYere' standing head and shoulders above all others s" man of tact and discretion aud fair-deatin& is, through indisposition unable to steer the Federation ship through the shoals and quicksand' into which it is drifting. Employers would dowel' to remember the unfortunate lockout of 1892-3 Oa its evil consequences, and that a industrial struggle at the similar present time be far more disastrous in its effects. For it is a well-known fact that these general clis" putes only play into the hands of foreigners, would enabling them to take English trade, which we o'ut ill afford to lose. Employers also know it gives on opportunity to the older cl asses of mills to minis into the market and make profits which will give them a new lean of life.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1901-06-21 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

TEE DEMING EVIL.  The suicide of a young woman employed as a weaver in one of the Darwen weaving sheds and the evidence adduced at the inquest, together with the remarks of the coroner in his summing up of the case, have had the effect of again bringing prominently before the public the question of driving in weaving sheds. We have on many occasions directed attention to this evil, and have repeatedly advised the weavers to entrench themselves behind their organisations, and by a strong and united effort deliver the death blow to a system which has been the cause of so much misery to thousands of young men and women in the country. The practice E,Jc4,,tedm scir' iilis of posting in a public place the wages earned by each weaver, and in individual instances the affixing of a cross in red ink to those names which the firm consider are not getting out sufficient production, is a modern way of applying the "whip" that is most pernicious and objectionable, and ought never to be allowed to exist. The practice of overlOokers going round with the slate, and being paid poundage on the earning of the weavers, is, in our opinion, part and parcel of the driving system we are now condemning. It is only when cases like that which has happened at Darwen are forced on the notice of thc public that the worst features of the evil are brought to light. Scores of instances occur every week in various parts of the county where weavers are dismissed in a callous and almost brutal manner, because they are not physically strong enough or 3ufficiently adept to earn by threepence or fourpence per loom as much as some more fortunate individual. Such a system is a distinct blot on the weaving industry. The weavers of Lancashire ought to need no further stimulus than the simple record of the Darwen tragedy to rouse them to a determination to abolish all the elements of such a cruel and heartless system. A great and beneficial change could very soon be effected if weavers unitedly applied themselves to that end, and it will be to their lasting discredit if they allow the present opportunity to pass without securing such conditions of employment as will secure them a living under more pleasant and "human " conditions than has been their lot in the past.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1901-05-31 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

SUICIDE OF A WOOLLEN WEAVER. —For some time a yonng woman named Jane Smith, of 45, Frederick-street, a weaver at Clough's woollen mill, Spring-street, Bury, has been missing. Her body was found in the Bury reservoir on Friday morning last by two boys, who gave information to the police. The facts appear to be that the deceased left home on the 16th inst. to go to her work at the mill named. She did not return at breakfast time, and her parents were informed that she had not been to the mill. A postcard was found on the kitchen dresser, in the deceased's handwriting, as follows: "Dear father and mother, sister and brother. Good-bye. You will be mach happier without me." Before leaving home the deceased had complained of pains in her head, which she thought were caused by neuralgia. A verdict of suicide whilst temporary insane was returned at the inquest on Saturday.  &mums' WAGll9.—The negotiations which have been in progroes for some time between the in aster joiners in Bury and the representatives of the operative joiners regarding the latter's application for an advance in wages, were brought to a successful conclusion at a conferenoe between representatives of bath sides, held on Thursday evening last. The employers conceded au advance of id. per hour, to commence on June Ist, and another id. per hour on September Ist, this bringing the wages rate up to 9id. per hour. It was further agreed that the periods of work should be divided into only two parts instead of three, and that during eight months of the year, from February 21st to October 19th, the men should work 53i hours per week, and during the remaining four months 41 hours per week, and that if required by the employers the men would work overtime at any part of the year, the rate for the first two hours to be 11d, per hoar. Previously the men had deolined to work overtime unliis their not doing so stopped someone else for working.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1901-02-22 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

DIRECTOR TRIES TO HANG HIMSELF. Mr. Robert Coiling°, who for some years has been a director at the Norden Manafacthring Company, made an attempt to commit suicide on Sunday afternoon, it wears that Colhuge has been somewhat strange in his manner of late, and on the day named he went to an out-building belonging to his son-in-law, where he was found hanging to a beam. He was, however, out down in time. Medical examination showed that he was of unsound mind, and he was sent to Dearnley Workhouse.  THAI= UNIOXISAL —At the usual weekly gathering of the members of the Workers' Social Club and Institute, Mr. George Chatterton, LP., the secretary of the Cardroom and Ring Spinners' Association, read a paper entitled "Stray thoughts on trades tininuisrn." Mr. Chatterton rapidly dealt with the organisation and functions of the trades unions, the best method of conducting them, and the advisability of electing suitable and efficient men on the committees and as delegates to other bodies. Messrs. C. Ellis, J. W. Ogden, J. Young, and S. J. Bardeley took up the discussion at the conclusion of Mr. Chatterton's paper. WORK AND WAGE Qmortoes.—Several matters of interest came before the last meeting of the committee of the Weavers, Winders, and Reelers' Association. A grant of two guineas was made in support of the weavers, &0., on strike at Watersheddings Mill, Oldham, making the total sum granted to this cause ten guineas. It was mentioned that negotiations were in progress between the employers and operatives' representatives regarding the prices paid for some towels, and the future prices for these goods. On this question the action of the secretary was endorsed by the committee. Reports were presented respecting the quality of the material supplied to some of the winders and weavers, and it was stated that a meeting of the operatives had been held on the subject. It was also stated that this question of material had caused more trouble at about four of the mills than anything else during the past three months. The secretary reported the admission of about 20 new members.