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Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-06-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE EASTERN QUESTION.  AN ARMISTICE GRANTED.  EXPECTED COLLAPSE OF TEM TRIPLE  ALLIANCE.  The Pore, it is said, has consented to grant the insurgents an armistice of six weeks, in order to have time to catry on negotiations with them. it is considered certain in well-informed quarters at St. Petersburg that no isolated steps will be taken by Russia with regard to Turkey, but that an understanding will previously be arrived at with the friendly Powers. The official Russian Invalide calls -the dethronement of Abdul Aziz an extremely serious event. The official caper proceeds to say :—Occurring simultaneously with the overthrow by England of the combination devised at Berlin, the Constantinople rebellion will possibly bring on the gravest difficulties. The insurgents are fighting for existence, and are as determined as ever to vanquieh or die. They refused an armistice, and are not likely to give in now. Recent events have plunged all Europe into a most critical situation. All journals point to England as the originator of the new 'Atha! tion ; but it was very unlikely that England had acted without a Continental ally. .  The Daily Telegraph's correspondent says :—The, postponement of the Emperor William's departure for Ems, and Prince Bismarck's premature return thiAer frem his Laueuberg• estate, characterises the gravity of the political situation. Prince Bismarck had a long audience with the Emperor immediately after his arrival, and the pessimist view of matters in financial circles here is more strongly marked than ever. The tripl3 alliance is considered to be tcttering. . . .  The Standard's correspondent, tele,s.raphiog from Berlin, on Tuesday evening, says :—The sudden return of Prince Bismarck from his Lauenburg estate, and a long and lucre he had on Saturday evening of the Emperor, have produced great uneasiness here. This uneasiness has been increased by the announcemeit that the Emperor has postponed his departure for Ems. It is rumoured that these events are connected with certain exaggerated claims made on German support by Russia on her &stern policy—claims which Prince Bismarck is said not to be inclined to grant. The Daily News says :—The step taken by Great Britain in regard to the Eastern question is much approved of at Peath li,th by the press and public. In general the feeling here is that the political situation of this country has arrived at a very critical point, and the next step that Count Andrassy will take is awaited with considerable anxiety. According to the latest news from Belgrade, the Servian army is daily expected to cross the Turkish frontier. The Kreuz Zeitung and other papers, which appeared on Tuesday morning for the first time since Saturday, sum up in two lines the news of the interval, viz., that the reform policy planned at Berlin has come to a complete standstill, and that England is drawiug nearer and wearer to Turkey with a prospect also of gaining the support of France. There is little sympathy here for Mural V., and the account of the suicide of Abdul Asiz is receivid with incredulity.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1869-10-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION OF A DOY.—A correspon. dent writes to a contemporary as follows fromTedding. ton :—" I beg you will give publicity to the fallowing fact which occurred here on Monday. One of my boys, aged 10 years and upwards, was standing at the gate of nip residence, when he was invite I by a passilig tramp to come and speak to him. The boy declined to do so, and the fellow thereat on gaged him, and, by means of threatening to kill him with a large ciasp knife, which he showed him at-vet-al times, so intimidated him that the lad was dragged by the ruffian from hence through the populous plaees of Twickingham and Richmond to Hammersmith, where the fellow ultimately went into a public house, leaving the boy outside, after enjoining him to wait for him. The boy, however, seized the opportunity thus given to escape, and was successful in eluding his vile companion, and, by means of making frequent inquiries, made his way to Richmond, where he met his brother, who brought him safely home, much to the relief ef the family eircle, which was in a sate of great anxiety, having exhausted all the sources of inrite, as to his whereabouts." The }otters and papers from Vienna are full of the sorsteruation which had been cansed, the more Ps. pecielly on the Bonrse, by the suicide of Joseph, Graf Von Wratislaw, who stabbed himself on tire morning ef the 9th, having dined the previous evening with the party given by the Emperor in honour of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Ir appear s that the deceased, who owned the estate of Wottez, in Bavaria, though principally residing in Vienna, 'rad lately been much depressed by the heavy basis which lie sustained during the recent panic. Tee amount he lost upon shares in vat ious companies with which he was connected appears not to be exactly known, though it is stated it must have been very large, and he had lately to pay differences to the extent of 200,000 florins--one account says 700,000. Arrangements had been made to cover the losses by the sae of his estates, and the necessary documents were to have been signed on the very morning of his suicide. Besides being the chairman of the Huard of Directors of tire Vienna Balk, the deceased was a director of the Fiancis Joseph Railway and other companies; but so great had been his difficulties of late that he had been comperied to pawn his jewels for the necessary expenses of his household. The Graf was 49 years of ag and was unmarried. He was a Knight of Malta, a Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, and had been decorated with the Order of the Medjidie, a first class of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Greek Order of the Re leemer.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1869-11-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TOUR "DAILY" PRO.IL( r.  Poor Puck is rather alarmed at the prospects before him. He is not quite sure that before next Christmas he won't be among the number of local scribes who have eitlnt banged, drowned, or shut themselves through the panic into which he has been thrown by the establishment of two daily papers, but seems to hope that he may remain alive to record the fact that for " forty days and nights it rained newspapers iu Middlesbrough." Well, I trust that he does not contemplate suicide quite so soon, for the sake of the Butchers' Forces and Church alone, to whom he renders such devoted assistance. The Church especially in these delicate times—these days of " Liberation," " Disendowuient," and " Disestablishment," —call ill afford to part with his ponderous power. If, however, your project of a Daily be so dreary, all must accord to you the possession of considerable pluck, and this ought to find a generous response in the breasts of your townsmen—and as generous a support. Emmerson, speaking of Englishmen (and if you are a Scotehman I suppose the same will apply) says," They have in themselves what they value in their horses' mettle and bottom !" On the day of my arrival at Liverpool a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say that Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock, and will fight till he dies ; and what I heard first I heard last, and the one thing the English value is pluck. The cabmen have it, the merchants have it, the bishops have it, the women have it, the journals have it, the Times newspaper they say is the pluckiest thing in England ; and, according to Piwk, you have pluck ! Nothing venture, nothing gain ! If the time has not come for establishing a daily paper why you mean to make it come that's all. When, 0 Puck, did ever the time come, in the estimation of misnamed Conservatives, for establishing anything ?
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1869-09-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

STRYCIINIA.-A case of death from poisoning by strychnia has been investigated at Cim derford, in the Forest of Dean. In November, 1864, Mrs. Jane Ann Salter, wife of the Rev. Edward Salter, of St. Jude's Church, Bristol, showed signs of insanity, and, having attempted to commit suicide as well by drowning as by poisoning she was, in Jane,l666,placed in an asylum, where she remained ten montbs,and then went to live with her mother. In November last she returned to her husband at Bristol, and since that time had given no evidence of insanity. In August Mr. and Mrs. Salter went on a visit to Dr. Whatmough, her brother, at Cinderford. On the night of the let inst., when Mrs. Salter went to bed, she appeared still contented and cheerful, as she had been during her stay at Cinder ford, but early in the morning Mr. Salter was awakened by his wife's hard breathing, and he asked her what was the matter. She asked for water, complained of cramp, and rapidly fell lute vie. lent convulsions. Mrs. Whatmongh was first called, and then Dr. Wliatmough. Mrs. Salter then exhibited all the usual symptoms of poisoning by strychuia. The doctor went tolls surgery, which is upon the pre. Eliseo, and before he could return she was dead. When a post-mortem examination was made no traces of poison could be found in the stomach; but three medical men gave it theieopinion that as Mrs. Salter had died from tetanus, caused by strychnia. No bottle or box was found in the bedroom, and Dr. What. mough stated that neither of the bottles in the surgery containing preparations of strychuia was missing.— The Jury returned a verdict stating that deceased died from tetanus, caused by stryclinia, but that under what circumstances the poison was taken, or whether taken by the act of deceased or administered by some other person, there was no evidence to show.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1873-04-10 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE AT NORTH ORMESZY.—On Monday night a most determined suicide was committed at North Orraesity. A aaan named John Baldin, ironworker, 29 years of age, residing at 55, Stovenstreet, North Ormesby, was fouud by his wife hanging. by the neck from a bed post by a strap which he had taken of his waist. He was in a  kneeling posture ; his knees almost touching the ground and his feet up. He appeared to have been dead an hour. Deceased's wife states that yesterday afternoon he went upstairs apparently to bed. About six o'clock she heard a slight noise as if he was turning over in bed, but took no notice of it, and at eight o'clock she found him as described. She immediately gave the alarm, and a man named Harvey cut down the body. Deceased had complained of a pain in his head, but there was nothing unusual in his demeanour to indicate mental derangement. He leaves three children. —On Wednesday afternoon an inquest was held at the Black Swan Inn, by Mr T. Gowerley, deputycoroner, touching the death of John Boidwin, ironworker.-• .Charlotte Bob win deposed: I am dh..! wife of deceased, who was 29 years of age. On Monday afternoon, the 7th inst., about half-past four o'clock, I gave the deceased some tea. He then went into the yard, and came back directly afterwards. He then sat down and rested his nead on the tea table tor about 20 minutes, when he got up, and tNithout speaking, went up-stairs. My daughter wedt up-stairs s'a nt an hour afterwards and said the deceased was laid on the bed with his boots on. About a quatter past eight o'clock I went n::-stairs and found the deceased hanging to the bedpost. 1 thought he was dead, and called Edward Hawley, who cut him down. I heard the deceased move in the room about three quarters of an hour before I found him. The deceased has been strange in his mind for about a fortnight past. He lost his mother about a fortnight past, and he got a letter stating that his brother was ill. He appeared to feel it a great deal. He had a little drink on Saturday night. He was very poorly on Sunday and Monday, cornplaiiiing of his head.—Edward Harvey, labourer, deposed that on Monday night, about half-past eight he found the deceased hanging to the bedpost, with a strap round his neck. The deceased's knees were drawn up otherwise his fect would have touched the boards. tie cut him down, and found he was quite dead.— Dr. Henderson deposed: I examined the body of deceased to-day. I found a dark livid marx round the throat, with lividity above and below the marks. There were no otter marks. lam satisfied that the deceased died from suffocation, caused by strangulation.—By the Foreman : If he had been inclined, he could have saved himself. I don't think the neck can have been di-located, as the fall was not sufficient. Had the neck been dislocated, death would have been instantaneous. It appeared to have been a very determined act of suicide. A verdict was returned that the deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of tempi r try insanity.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1873-08-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LADY DROWNED AT PLYMOUTH. A mysterious and fatal occurrence took place at Plymouth on Wed. neaday. A lady, the wife of Captain Mundy, was seen about noon seated upon a rock under the Hoe, which is much frequented by visitors, and a quarter of an hour afterwards her body was found floating in the water. It was speedily recovered, but life was extinct. Mrs Mundy, who was of middle age, had only recently been married. Suicide is thought to be out of the question, but how she could have met her death by accident is equally mysterious, Au open verdict was returned at be incrieit.  pass _ boat, After decesStd khollted out, Mr Duncan, the master of the boat, shouted 03t that there was a boy drowning. Mr Duncan was in the aft of the boat. Ho made no attempt to rescue the deceased. George Gillespie dredgerman on beard No. 3 dredger, deposed I found the body of deceased this morning opposite the Britannia ironworks. I did not observe that either of the legs or arms of the deceased were broken, nor that there were any bruises about the head or face. Margaret Fox, residing in Acklam-street, deposed: lam 10 years of age. On Tuesday afternoon I was on board the "River Queen," which was going up the river to Stockton. I paw the deceased in the middle of the river. He was swimming up the river in front of the boat. He would be about six yards in front of the boat. I was standing on a form beside the man at the wheel. The next I saw of deceased was on the left hand side of the boat, and close to its side in front of the paddlebox. I did not see the paddlebox strike the deceased. The deceased sank and rose to the surface, and then sank again. He shouted for hell), but the man at the wheel said he could not give any help, as the deceased was too far down in the water. Ralph Lorraine, residing at Stockton, deposed: I am an engineer on board the "River Queen." I was on board that vessel on Tuesday afternoon last when she was going up to Stockton. I saw deceased in the river; he was swim_uing back from the Durham side of the river. When I first saw him he was about 100 yards ahead of the boat, and a little to the Yorkshire side. He was then nearest the Yorkshire side. I then got to the port side of the steamer. I saw the deceased swim past the boat and in front of her. He cleared the boat entirely. When we were above 100 yards past him, I heard the deceased shout. I could not have seen the paldlebox strike the deceased supposing it had done so, bat it was impossible for the paddlebox to strike the deceased. He was swimming all right when we passed him. It was impos:ibis for the paddlebox o have struck him. Vher we were about two hundred yards passed deceased, I saw him sink, as if he had been seized with cramp. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased*was "Accidentally drowned."
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1873-05-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

COLLIES& WAGES AND THE PRICE OF COAL.—A leputation of West Yorkshire coalowners met the ninera' agent, Mr Diroo, and several delegates at lie Queen Hotel, Leeds, on Saturday, in reference to he proposal of the masters to reduce the wages of he men owing to the reduction made in the price of oal. Mr Robert Tenant presided. After a In,;thened conference the following resolution was ;read to :—" That this meeting be adjourned until 'uesday, the 20th inst., at the Queen Hotel, Leeds, t 2-30, to enable the miners to have a fuller oppor;laity of considering the request of the uoslowners ore reduction of wages." - - - - •  A Bomiiica.—A few weeks since a body found in ue Thames was identified as that of Mr Robinson, rocer, Bishopgate Without, who mysteriously diglp:ural Ernie tw ) months back. The identification, waver, proves to hive been erroneous, for RobinLas b)en t ikni into custody at Southampton on chirge of at!e opting to commit suicide by dr.ownig himself in the river Bahia, while labouring under ?irilLm:remens. On Thursday, his wife, dressed as widow, identified him at the gaol, and on Friday he cos discharged, and left the court with his wife, who ad changed ha-mourning attire. Ma Simwoarn.— This gentleman arrived at his ?sidence, Moorton House, near Caistor, last week, .051 Holloway prison, and the fact of his not having )ologised to the Court for his strictures on the conact of Chief Justice Bovill appears to have met with lieral approval, at all events in his own district. aarch bells were rung long and merrily. There was antic, and triumphal arches were erected along the hits from the railway to his residence. Although Bkipworth was called to the Bar, he preferred :o , 79 on his own estate amidst his tenantry, without Ming the wig and gown. MacuasTmi
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1873-02-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CLZHATIAIN.—The determined suicide of a well-known London elergyman—the Rev. Abraham Borradaila, M.A. many years incumbent of St. Mary's Tothill-fields, I Westminster has created a painful impression. At noon on Thursday he was walking on the East Pier of the Real Harbour, in company with his two daughters. Arriving at the pier head, he jumped over into tha ow. .which was rough at the time. Three boatmen, named Lambert, Gore, and Goldsmith, were loworci ore the head as quickly as possible, one of them receivi ing very serious injury through being roughly knock( d by the heavy swell against the granite wall of the pier. Lambert succeeded in grasp ng the deceased, tut VMS tumble to retain his hold. The Crew of the harbour steam tug also put off in a boat to the testae and the body was at length grappled by a boatman:, Several medical men were a ost immediately is attendance, but life was extinet. :The deceaseClMS 60 years of age, and we said to have la-lerly Is el subject to occasional tie of mental demi anent.   . I I . , I . ( :.• I 1 I f I 1 • :I 1 , • • : I . 1 / i 1 I • : • I ',4 •, I ' 'll I , I I` i i 1 t 1. . . ~.. . . . , ~ i . il  1 1 1 s 1 'il ~ i'l 1 t, t ' , h '., :11 ' r It ~. 1 ' i'''' , i ;i :, , 0 Id '' ' i i I t 1 I 0111116. '',..PT i ' k 7., ' 1 i , .., . , '''.;?' : :, .1 1 ' ' s f'':t li i I. i 11 ! 1,111 i I:1 h I' V if/ '' illl ,1 • 11 t , 11 '. tilt'. '' ~ F' '1 ' ‘ :0 i . • 1 . ~• I .o" . '' I ' -`l,' ' ! 1 0 :, '‘il 11 1 ~ i ' 1 . •t 1 . ; . ', , • 1 1  I g fr'
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1873-09-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN 1872.  A Parliamentary return has been issued of all accidents which have been reported to the Board of Trade by the several railway companies in the United Kingdom as having occurred on their lines during the year ended 31st December, 1872. The return is the first which has been prepared for an entire period of twelve months tinder the Regulation of Railways Act, 1871. The total number of persons killed during the year, accerding to this return, was 1,145, and 3,038 were injured. The total number of passengers killed was 127: —24 " from muses beyond their own control," and 103 "from their own misconduct or want of caution." The total number of passengers injured was 1,462, of whom 1,247 received their injuries from causes beyond their own contrcl, and 215 from their own misconduct or want of caution. Ths number of railway servants returned as killed under the former head is 64, and under the latter 568; the injured in these two classes are 376 and 1,019 respectively. Seventy persons were killed and 23 injured while passing over railways at level crossings. Under the head of " trespassers and suicides," 258 are reported as killed and 107 injured; and "miscellaneous," not included in any of the preceding classes, 386 killed and 181 injured. A list is also giiNan of the number of accidents unattended with loss of life or personal injury. It extends over 32 pages of the Blue-book, but no summary is appended. It api.ears from one of the tables in the book that the total number of passengers killed on railways from causes beyond their own control from 1.862 to 1872 was 271. In an introductory note it is stated that these returns are made by the companies themselves, and "the great discrepancies between the number of accidents returned by the various companies lead to a doubt whether they all make their return with equal care and completeness."