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The Cotton Factory Times. — 1887-09-02 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

SAD &GUIDE OF A BOCK TM:TER.—OD Thursday afternoon week, Elizabeth Ann Wood, aged 17 years, employed as aback tenter at Messrs. William Yates and Company, Westbrooke Mill, Castleton, committed suicide by drowning in the Rochdale Canal, at Marsh Bridge, Castleton. An inquest was held upon the body, before F. N. Molesworth (the district coroner), at the Dusty Miller Inn, Sudden, on Friday night, when Edwin Stnbbs, 23, Emma-street, Castleton, foreman carder at Westbrooke Mill, was summoned to appear and give evidence. He said he saw deceased when she came to her work on Thursday morning. She worked up to dinner-time. Before she went home he had a conversation with her. She was a back tenter in the mill, and some time since she asked to be promoted and her request was complied with. She, however, was told that if she could not do the work she would be put back again to her old work. On Thursday he asked her if she could do the work that she had been set to do, and she shook her head. So he told her to go home for that day and tell her mother that she would have to go to her former work. Deceased ought to have returned to her work last Friday morning. The girl did not seem to be put out by what he had said to her, if anything slie seemed rather pleased at the idea of going back to her old work.—Stubbs, recalled, said he had never seen the girl illtreated at the mill, but he had had a complaint about her being ill-treated. Deceased's mother came to the mill about it, but instead of coming straight to him she went to one of the workpeople. However, he saw her as she was leaving the mill and she mentioned the matter to him. The girl had never complained of being ill-treated, had she done so he should have attended to the matter.—The Coroner said it seemed to him that the jury could only find an open verdict of " Found drowned." The probability of having her wages lowered evidently preyed upon her mind, and led her to commit the rash act.—The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the Coroner's sentiments.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1887-04-15 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

DISTRESSING STORY.—A suicide of a most distressing character occurred in Leeds on Monday morning. About 7 a.m. the landlady of the Beech Hotel, Wortley, noticed the three young children of her next door neighbour, Mrs. Harriet Turner, standing crying bitterly outside the house. When interrogated, they stated that their mother was hanging up dead, and on investigation this was found to be the case. The poor woman had suspended herself from a nail in the wooden ceiling by means of a towel and some tape, and when cut down was found to be quite dead. For several weeks past she had been in a low state, owing to her poverty. Three years ago her husband deserted her, and is now-believed to be living in Glasgow with another woman. The deceased, who was thirty years of age and respectably connected, has been supported by her brother, who is an hotel keeper in Stockton, but latterly he has sent the usual weekly allowanze (55.) to the deceased's eldest child, a girl of 16, who is in service in Leeds, and she has paid the rent with it. The deceased was frequently urged to go to the workhouse, but she always refused. Nearly every article of furniture and dress had been pawned or sold, and the house was quite bare with the exception of two tables, two chairs, and a box. lathe cupboard were fonnd a few dry crusts, some of winch, the children said, their mother had soaked in water for their breakfast that morning.  TEE " SLEZP/NG MAN " n LONDON: HIS AwAREN'No.—M. Chauflatt, who has been sleeping for some time at the café of M. Bougeret, 36, Greek-street, Soho, has now completely returned to consciousness. On Thursday night week the patient slept as usual, but on Friday morning M. Bougeret, on speaking to him, was surprised to see him open his eyes, look around the room, and then heartily shake his hand. Soon after he asked for his pocket-book, and wrote, stating that he was very thirsty, but not at all hnngry. Later in the morning Dr. Keser visited him, and found him quite awake but dumb, and very weak on the left side. He wrote to the effect that he had really only slept 13 days, viz., from Saturday morning, March 28th, until Good Friday morning. On the 24th and 2.5 th of March he was, he states, very drowsy, ate and drank nothing, and could tell what was going on. But of the 13 days of his sleep he remembers nothing. On Saturday morning M. Chauffat was visited, and found reading one of the French daily newspapers. He had just before finished his morning toilet, and had a healthy fresh colour on his face, and looked extremely well. He could hear all remarks addressed to him, but was unable to make any reply. A short time ago a letter was received from Chauffat's sister asking M. Bougeret to allow her brother to remain in his house if possible. But as the period of dumbness and paralysis will last some considerable time, Chanfrat is himself quite willing to be removed to the French Hospital.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1887-11-25 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

QUESTIONS.  "E. R. ;at at present using, tallow for lubrication of loom spin,lles. Can any of your readers say whether anything better can be used, so as to properly lubricate, aud keep the dirt off the cloth?  On Tuesday night. a soldier belonging to the Dorset Peginient, while walking in the neighbourhood of Verne Barracks, Portland, fell over a cliff from a height of about 801 t. The body was discovered this morning. -  A disastrous fire occurred on Wednesday after. noon in a second-floor front room in Clarendon. street, St. Pancras, occupied by a man named Stanley and his wife and three children. The three children were burnt to death.  The baptism of the infant daughter of Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg took place on Wed. nesday, within the private chapel at Balmoral. The ceremony, which was simple in all its details, was strictly private. The names given were Victoria Eugenie Julia Eva. Dr. Cameron Lees, of Bt. Giles's. Edinburgh, officiated.  At the Old Bailey, Loudon, on Wednesday, Mr. Justice Smith sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour Joan Cook, 40, for throwing vitriol over William Ormiston. The parties had lived together as man and wife for several years, but they had separated, and the prisoner had been in the habit of annoying the prosecutor by asking him for money, which he refused to give her.  The wife of a grocer named Edward Key, of Radcliffe, committed suicide early this morning., She had been in low spirits for some time, and had been carefully watched. Unknown to her husband she got up, and proceeding to the bakehouse, filled a washing tub with water, in which she placed herself, and was drowned. She was missed, and found in the tub, feet uppermost, quite dead.  IVE your orders for the
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1887-10-07 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

SUICIDIL MANIA.—At the Liverpool Police Court, on Tuesday, a young woman named Bridget Hey was charged with attempting to commit suicide iu the cell while locked up on another charge. She had tied her apron string round her neck and fastened it to a partition. When found she was black in the face, and wheu sent to Walton Gaol she said she would commit suicide, as her sister had done before her. She had been suffering from the effects of drink, but now being fit to be released she was discharged.—On the same day the Liver. pool coroner held an inquest on a dock labourer named Alexander Moore, aged 45 years, who lodged at 53, Luther-street, and had committed suicide. He had been out of work for some time, and was low in spirits.He went to bed on Sunday night, and at noon next day he was found suspended to the bed-post by two mufflers and a piece of cord. The suicide had evidently been a most determined one, judging from the position of the body, as it was almost in a sitting position. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased had hanged himself while in a state of temporary insanity. The accounts of the recruiting for the army during the last completed official year which have just been made up at the War Office show that of the 38,953 recruits passed into the service from the home agencies 241 were from Lancashire, 21 being specially enlisted for the artillery. The number of Lancashire recruit: enlisted for general service was 1,599, and of men for particular Lancashire regiments 1,261. The greatest number of men was received at the Ashton-under-Lyne depot, where 1,171 were attested, this being also the greatest total received at any one regimental sub-die. trict depot throughout the kingdom; but of the 1,171 only 268 joined specially for the Manchester Regiment. At Preston 448 was received, of whom 302 were for the Royal North Lancashire Regiment; at Burnley 280, of whom 135 were for the East Lancashire Regiment; at Warrington 410, of %glom 146 were for the King's Liverpool Regiment and 187 for the South Lancashire Regiment, at Lancaster 265, of whom 135 were for the Royal Lancaster Regiment: and at Bury 186, of whom 88 were for the Lancashire Fusiliers. Of the 21 passed into the artillery service at Liverpool 18 stipulated to posting to the Lancashire division. The depot et the Cheshireelaepment at Chester passed 575 recruits tor the artillery, of whom 154 were for the Cheshire Reg,i. meet.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1887-03-18 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

DEATH FROM CHOKING WHILE AT SUPPEB.-071 Monday evening Mr. J. Ansell, deputy-coroner for Central Warwickshire, held an inquest at Aston on the body of George Hall (49), a. labourer, residing in 26 Terrace, Lichfield-road. Bridget Hall, widow of the deceased, stated that about a quarter past eleven o'clock on Friday night she had laid a supper, consisting of bread and beef, for her husband. She turned away to fetch some salt, and on returning she saw that her husband was choking. She knocked him on the back several times, but without any effect, and the deceased fell from his chair. She screamed out, and some neighbours arrived and sent for a medical man, but before one could get to the house deceased had expired. Her son informed the doctor that lie had seen his father put something into his mouth, whereupon the doctor put hie hand into the deceased's mouth and pulled out a piece of beef. Her husband was not drunk at the time of the oceurrence, but had been drinking.—Dr. S. B. Fitirley, Lichfield-road, said that when his assistant saw the deceased he found that he was dead. On hearing what he had been eating, the assistant put his hand into the deceased's mouth, and brought out a piece of stringy beef weighing about 20z., which had become stuck in the top of his windpipe. Death resulted fpom suffocation. A verdict of Leath from suffocation " was returned.  Port, Muscadine, Lent, and all British Wines, ls. Bd size for 11d., at BARLOW and Co.'s Drug Stores, Post Mace, Ashton.road, Oldham.  Self-explaining Pattern of any aingle garment sent by return on receipt of 12i stamps, and engraving.— Porrhuec Drri',r, 2;  On Tuesday morning the Dnchesse d'Otranto. widow of the Due d'Otranto, son of the celebrated Ponehe, Minister of Police under Nopoleon I, committed suicide by blowing ont her brains with a revolver. Tbe Duchesse was 40 years old, and had for some time shown signs of mental aberration.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1887-03-25 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

WEAVING SHED.- r. M .Edmund Tuesday, the jury gave a unanimous verdict ix " Suicide, to come out this week end have been carried. Mr. Whittaker, who has been in the employ of Messrs.paid for the •cloth f weaving of the a rate o wages morning, when some arrangement was come to committed during a fit of temporary insanity." The ~ Sutcliffe and Smith Britannia Mill for about 15 parish Church on winch only enabled a weaver of four looms to earn W. H. Wilkinson, the secretary of the Northern between the firm and their workpeople. The ' . ' t , remains were interred at Deane from 16s to 18 a' C •t• ' Association,dating from Ewbank s. per week, an they, as working one les : ~ years, has taken this shed, which was lass run nY Thursday morning. The whole of the mills belonging • 1 weavers at Parsonage and Riverside Sheds, belonissued stated an early start is to to the firm ceased work for the early part of the day, men, thought this was not a proper distribution of Chambers, Accrington, on March 22nd, has iss Mr. R. Roberts, and it is s . jug to the Exors. of Isaiah Smallpaee. and Church. 'wealth• handbill behalf f the association, in which he be made. The place will find work for a good and flags floated half mast from each in token of res. that their labour demanded. If they had the a ono e street Shed, belonging to Clark and Co., also cornnumber of workneople Many old Rossendale pect. Amongst the wreaths enveloping the coala was 7 per cent given to them which they were below says :-On account of the me.ny false statements menced work on Monday morning.-Another die- - • • f' I who left the district during the past one from the worepeop e. other towns, they would be receiving a fair made by persons who in reality do not know what puts of a rather more serious character lute operatives,. share of the prosperity of the trade. As a weaving is, we are bound to show you the true state •this district, critical state of the cotton trade in are
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1887-06-10 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT INJURIOUS TO PLANTS.— Some disagreeable and unexpected results have, followed the electric lighting of the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg, the intense brilliancy of the light having been found to cause dire destruction among. the ornamental plants used for the decoration oC the banqueting halls. It appears, says the Electri4 clan, that the complete illumination of the rooms' for a single night is enough to make the leaves tiara' yellow and dry up, and ultimately to fall off. The 4 damage to the celebrated collection at the palace ut especially serious. It is supposed that the injuryl is principally due to the sudden change from the" sunless days of the northern winter, and from the! subdued light of the plant houses to the blinding light of the banqueting halls. It has been showal beyond a doubt that the rapidity of the injuriout action, and its amount, are directly proportional tc, the intensity of the illumination, and plants stun& ing in niches, or other places partially shielded; from the light are found to remain ur injured„: There is no doubt that the injurious effect of the light are greatly itensited by the dry artificially.' heated atmosphere of the rooms, and that they would be minimised, if not entirely obviated, if the plants could be surroluided by a steamy atmosphere, such as that in which they are grown.  WEEKLY RETURN OF FAILGEM —The number of failures in England and Wales gazetted during the week ending Saturday, Jane 4th, was 66. The number in the corresponding week of last year was 83, showing a decrease of 17, being a net decrease in 1887, to date, of 16. The failures, says Kemp's': Mercantile Gazette, were distributed amongst thei following trades, and, for comparison, we give the; number in each iu the corresponding weeks in 1885 and 1886: i 1847. 1886. 1885.: Building trades 5 ~ . 6 Chemists and druggists .... ........ .... 1 Coal and mining trades Corn, cattle, and seed trades Drapery, silk, aud woollen trades . 7 Earthenware trades Farmers Furniture and upholstery trades . . 2 Grocery and provision trades Hardware and metal trades Iron and steel trades I Jewellery and fancy trades Leather and coach trades Merchants, brokers, and agents . 3 Printing and stationery trades 1 Wine, spirit, and beer trades 6 Miscellaneons _ . Totals for England and W 5188... 66 83 Scotland 4 Ireland 4 _ Totals for United Kingdom  THE SUICIDE or
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1887-09-30 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

REVIVING LOVE.—Annie Eyres, aged, 22, a flower seller, was charged at Marlborough-street Police Court, on Monday, with being drunk and disorderly in Coventry-street at 12 o'clock on Saturday night. —The prisoner was seen by a constable- to be holding a man tightly by the throat, and when the officer released him from her grasp she gave the man a blow in the face, and said that she would give him some more if be did not behave himself.— In reply to the bench, the prisoner said that the man was her husband. On Monday night he gave her a licking and then left her, and she did not see him again until she met him in Coventry street on Saturday night. Feeling her old love return, she could not resist seizing him, so that he might not go away again. She was excited when she saw him, and if she struck him she did not intend to hurt him.—Mr. Newton fined her ss.  SUICIDES IN Paessu.—The Statistuschen Correspondenz contains some statistics on suicide. In the Kingdom of Prussia during the year 1885 there ' were 6.028 cases of suicide, as compared with 5,900 cases in 1884, and '3,171 in 1883: so that while ' there had been a decrease from 1883 to 1884 of 271 persons. or 4.30 per cent, the number had risen from 1884 to 1885 by 128 cases, or 2.56 per cent. The suicides of 1885 are divided into 4,811 men and 1,257 women. In 4,928 cases the motive for suicide was known, and is catalogued as follows :-1,582 oases from insanity, 766 grief, 659 vice, 611 weariness of life, 477 physical suffering, 435 remorse, . shame, 8:c. Most of these persons—namely 3,622— ended their lives by hanging. The rest are divided thus :—Drowniug, 1,150; shooting, 636; poison, 246; cutting the throat, 123; jumping from a height, 81; under railway trains, 71; opening a , vein, 46. Suicide was relatively most frequent ' above middle age, for 21.3 per 100,000 persons were from 20 to 30 years of age; 28-1 from 30 to 40; 39.1 from 40 to 50; 52.7 from 50 to 60; 59.7 from 66 to 70; 53.7 from 70 to 80; and 55.2 above 80 years of age. EXCESSIVE PATERSkt
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1887-06-17 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

THRI.:AT'EXER STRUM—A pit gate meeting of the miners working at the Monk Bretton Colliery was hold on Tuesday as the men who had been working at the mornine shift were leaving the colliery. The position of affairs at the pit, it was stated, was practically unchanged, the management having refused to meet the men with a district official of the Yorkshire Miners' Association. • A ballot of the men was taken, and a large proportion voted for giving in their notices after the question had been considered by the Council of the 'Yorkshire Miners' Association.  SUICIDE OF A CASHILit ix SlLFOAD.—Shortly  before seven o'clock, on Tuesday evening, a cashier hi the employ of Messrs. Samuel Dewhrirst and Co., Broughton Dye Works. Alephi, Salford, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. He left the office and went • into a lavatory at the works, apparently to wash before leaving for home. The report of a firearm was soon afterwards heard, and on the lavatory being entered by other persons, he was seen to fall. Police-constable Macdonald was fetched and a medical man was soon in attendance, only to discover that death must have taken place at once after the indiction of the injuries. On the floor was a iive-cluimbered revolver, of which two chambers had recently been discharged. The body was removed to the Silk-street Poiiee Station. The name of the deceased man is Arthur M'Clure, and his address Graiton•street, Charltonon-rdedloc k.  A Cotiocs Wtte.—A rather curious will has just I been contested in Paris. a M. Demoutieres lately died. leaving a fortune which was proved under e`..4,000. Not a peany was bequeathed to the direct heirs or relatives of the deceased. The eticentrie testator left one part of his money to be divided among distressed French artists, painters awl sculptors, and another to theatrical people of all classes, including even supernumeraries, male and female; while a codicil had • been added under which M. Demoutieres, in grateful rememb-srance of: the good luncheons and dinners of which he had partaken during his lifetime at a popular restaurant, left a considerable sum to the cooks, waiters, and scullions of the establishment in question. The heirs and relatives were opposed by the Society of Dramatic. 4ulhore, the Society o: Painters and Sculptors, and by the servitors of the restaurant. The court rejected the claims of the two SOCiiIDiOS, as no special names had been mentioned; but the restaurant people were victorious, their legacy being ordered to be paid by the executors. The remainder wont to the testator's relatives.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1887-08-05 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

FORBIDDING THE BANNS.—On Sunday last, at the Conisborough Parish Church, the conc,regation were startled by an unusual incident. When the vicar, the _Rev. J. G. Wood, was reading  out the names of those contemplating marriage, and had mentioned for the third time the names "Thomas Bonnett, of the Nottingham parish, to Sarah Ogley, of the Conisboro' parish," a young lady rose in the middle of the church and forbade the banns exclaiming "I have just cause," when  the clergyman put th; customary question as to any "lawful impediment." Both clergyman and congregation were taken aback by this uncommon event, and the vicar for a moment or two said nothing. But after the bewilderment had somewhat passed he asked the young lady to meet him in the vestry at the close of the service. The young lady, who turned out to be Miss Betsy Williamson, of Nottingham, and who is about 26 years of age, proceeded to the vestry as soon as the service was concluded. From what can be gathered, the story is as follows. The man Bonnett is an ex-policeman, and he is in receipt of a temporary pension of 125., he having received injuries whilst engaged in the arrest of burglars in the Metropolis. He is supposed to be 34 years of age. The ex-policeman appears to have made the acquaintance of Miss Williamson in Nottingham, and she thought his intentions were honourable, and that she would eventually be his wife. Rather suddenly, however, Bounett left Nottingham, and Miss Williamson traced him to Conisbro', arriving there a week ago. When there she learnt Bonuett had fallen in love with Miss Ogley, of that village, and that marriage arrangements were being made. She found them one day at dinner at the house of one of Bonnett's brothers, at Denaby Main, and she made herself known. Later on she was made acquainted as to the proposed place of residence, and met them there. While Bonnett and Miss Ogley were making a perambulation of the garden, the discarded lover, who was watching them from a window, drank a dose of salts of lemon, and had just swallowed the last drop when the couple returned. Dr. Hills was sent for, and by the adoption of the customary means danger was checked. Information was given to the police, and on Monday Sergeant Noble took the young lady before Mr. Rams. den at Doncaster on a charge of attempting to commit suicide. After the hearing of the evidence the justice discharged her with a caution on her promising not to repeat the act. It is stated that Miss Williamson returned to the village of Conisbro', and that she is now staying there. The occurrence has provoked a good deal of comment in the district.