The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1891-01-03 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

EXECUTIONS AT YORK AND LIVERPOOL.  [toning (114), gardener, was hangsd at iesday morning for the murder of ant Weedy, at lemming, near Bedale, istire; on fifth Sept. lest. Hite*. ins, when on the drop, reeled and nearly fainted, but Billington, the executioner, at once released the trap and death followed immediately; Hitching left a eonfession of his guilt. Thomas Macdonald was executed at Eirkdale Gaol, Liverpool, en Tuesday, for the murder of Miss Elizabeth An* Holt, a schoolmistremi., at Belmont, near Bolton, on Nov. 10th last. The murderer confessed the crime to his aunt, and at' the trial he interrupted his counsel's address, declaring he was guilty. Macdonald passed a restless night and Esther Pennington administered the sacrament before Berry, the executioner, carried out his list The culprit was composed and as the drop fell be was repeating the words "Lord Jesus, receive my souL" Death maimed in g minutes, the shortest time known at Kiskdale. A new appanatus for the gallows was used for the first time. The apparatus consists of a strong link chain suspended from a crossbar, to the end of which was attached a rope loop, the necessary drop being regulated by meanoof the chain. Macdonald had a final interview on Monday afternoon with his aunt and niece, b"th of whom arrived ut the gaol at about three o'clock. They were at once conducted to the usual room where, in the presence of three warders, Macdonald remained with them for fifty minutes. In the course of conversation Macdonald said, "I deserve all I am going to get in the morning." Then he began to talk about work and wages in the Blackburn district. He wasMors cheerful than previously, although he Wept much towarde the crole of the interview, and sent affectionate messages to his brother. The two women were painfully affected.  Robert ril.k on  The Queen will, it is understood, stay at Osborne House till about the third week in February, when the Court may be expected to return to Windsor Castle.  The agreement between the Austrian and Italian Governments extending the existing treaty of commerce until the end of 1891 was signed by both Governments on Saturday. Mr. T. Richardson, Liberal Unionist member for gartlepool, died suddenly on Monday morning at his residence, Kirklevington, Yorkshire, in his seventieth year. In a letter to Mr. Tom Mann, Cardinal Manning has expressed his sympathy with the scheme for the establishment of municipal workshops and the like for the benefit of the unemployed in London.  The much-talked-of conference between Mr. Parnell and Mr. O'Brien at Boulogne terminated on Wednesday, but absolute secrecy is maintained as tothe result. Mr. O'Brien returned to Paris in the afternoon, and Mr. Parnell has arrived in London. Some of the Irish members remain in Prance.  The list of New Year honours was published on Thursday. Peerages are conferred upon Sir Francis Sandford and Sir Edward Cecil Guinness, Bart. ; and baronetoies upon Sir Hercules Robinson; Major-General Sir Henry Rawlison, Mr. T. Brooks, and Mr. R. Timm, M.D. Among the knights is the name of Mr. Alfred Hickman, of Wolverhampton. A deputation of mayors and town clerks of various provincial towns waited upon Mr. Ritohie on Wednesday at the Local Government Board in reference to County Connoil eleotions. They urged that mayors should be the returning officers for boroughs, and suggested that the date of election should be altered from Nov. Ist to October 20th. Mr. Ritchie said he %am prepared to concede the first point by legislation, but could not hold out s hope of recommending the second. A deadly fight has been fought at Porcupine Creek between U.S. soldiers and Indians. The latter, unable to withstand the storm, took to flight, and then the artillery was brought into play. Gatlings and Hotchkiss guns opened a deadly fire upon the fleeing foe. On the side of the whites 27 soldiers were killed and 40 wounded. Of the Indians 92 are known to have been killed, exclusive of numbers who were shot down in the ravines and bushes.  An inquest was held at Harlesden, Middlesex, on Friday, on the body of Dr. William Lent Carpenter. who was found dead in bed on Tuesday morning, at his residence, having shot himself in the mouth.—Mr. J. E. Carpenter, lecturer at New College, Oxford, brother of the deoessed, said the latter had suffered from mental aberration since February last, and MIA subject to delusions. He went to Australia and New Zealand for the benefit of his health, but became worse, and was brought hone again in September, and continued unabr medical treatment. His improvement, however, ,a.tecame so marked recently that he was allowed to spend Christmas with his family. While abroad he showed suicide tendency. Henry Carpenter, son of demand, &posed to finding !deceased deed in bed. Witness had previously 3 seen a revolver in an attic upstairs.—Mr. J. A.. Andereon, who had been attending deceased, stated that he was called to the bedroom, and found Dr. Carpenter grasping a revolver in the right hand. He never heard declassed threaten to destroy himselL—Dr. Human also gave evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind.'  The mean daily temperature has now been below the freezing point for three weeks. Taking this test for the length of a frost, the Greenwich observations do not show a period of cold so prolonged U the present since 1813. A very severe frost commenced on December 26, 1813, which continued without a single break till January 26,1814, or just thirty-two clays. The absolutely lowest daily mean during this.frost was 19.6 deg., while the daily moan on Monday, the 22nd, was 20.6 deg., or only one degree in excess. In the frost of 1813-14 the roads were blocked in all directions by the snow, and it is said that twenty inches fell In Plymouth in six hours. The next prolonged frost since 1818 was for eighteen days—from January 9-26, 1823. In the Crimean winter, 1864.55, the daily mean was below the freezing point from, February 7 to 28, seventeen days, but :the frost had continued with but very little interruption from the 15th of January, whilst a very 'heavy fall, of snow occurred, which lay on the Wround from the 16th of January until the end of iFebruary.. Tuesday night wee wiry *old, the twin.imututemperature in London.lieing :sonth-west suburbs, 18 Fahr. (14 dogs.. of frost) ; south-east suburbs, Fahr..(l3.degs. otfrost); in the Strand, 12 Fake.. (1)3, dogs.. of frost), The Thames at Twickenham. was completaly frozen over for the full length of the backwater, and with only occasional gaps. Thin state of things extended to Teddington. Higher up. the river steam-tugs were cutting through the ice with extreme difficulty.