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Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1894-11-02 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

JOHN'S BURIAL G-IZoUND. —The Bishop of Manchester (Dr. Moorhouse) on Wednesday afternoon week attended St. John's Church, Great Marsden, to consecrate an addition that has been made to the burial ground there, the added portion comprising about an acre and a quarter. He was accompanied by the Revs. G. A. Fry, vicar of St. John's, H. Edwards, 11. J. Stephens and A. Wilson, Nelson, J. Studdy-Studdy, Barrowford, and E. Jobson, Briertield. The usual ceremony of presenting a petition to his lordship, at the church ! door, asking him to consecrate the ground, was ' gone through, the petition being presented by Mr. Wilson Elliott, one of the church wardens. The Bishop then, accompanied by the above clergy and members of the congregation, walked round.the ground to be consecrated, portions of the consecration service being read out on the way. The concluding portion of the consecration service was gone through, inside the church, where a large congregation were assembled, and here the bishop signed the record or consecration, and declared the additional land to be "consecrated ground of the churchyard." His Lordship then delivered an address on cremation and the burial of suicides and murderers.  Cut-out Paper Pattern • tr. t don presente.t t., y  HAVE you had a Rot Meat Pie from the Station Café, 47, Railway-street, Nelson? C2.37d HOUSE ltonamties.—A number of house robberies have recently been committed at Nelson. The first robbery was from the house of Mrs. Sutcliffe, Appleby-street, where the thief or thieves, entering by the front door, probably with a skeleton key, carried off a cash box contaming is. The next took place at the house of Alfred Scott, North-street, which was also entered by the front door. Here the drawers were ransacked, but nothing was taken beyond a few postage stamps. The thief seems to have been surprised, as the back door was found open and lie probably beat a hasty retreat when Mrs. Scott entered by the front door. The third robbery was at 31, George-street, occupied by the Misses Lousdale, who keep a small shop. Here five purses were carried off, one containinr, ,is., and two brooches and a ring. A box containing ss. was left undisturbed. The police have the cases in hand.  MATCHLEsS CLEANsER has swept aw;Q. A thousand N,orries of Washing day. C4.30i1
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1894-03-02 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

WORN FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.—In resporse to the post-cards sent out by the Corporation of Keighley, offering work at whitewashing ash-places to the seventy.seven persons whose names were still standing on the local register of the unemployed, only thirtytwo accepted, and these were eet to work on Monday morning. Arnie Pew Sticlnz.—On Monday afternoon a man named William Wood, aged over seventy years, of Long ,-'roft, who is nearly blind and has latterly been depressed, tried to commit suicide in the river Worth. A signalman on the Great Northern Railway saw the old man wandering about, and eventually throw himself into the river, which was rather high, owing to the recent raine. The sigualinan, and another man who was in the neighbourhood, went to Wood's assistance, and he was got out and taken home, where the usual restoratives were applied with good €4E-et. CREDITORS' Meirreco —The first meeting was held on Monday at the offices of the Official Receiver (Mr. J. Arthur Binne), Bradford, of the creditors of Leonard Silverwood, residing at 18, Peel Place, Keighley, and carrying on husineesett 5, Dam Side, and Market-street, in the same town as a fruiterer. The liabilities are £B2l, and the assets £453, including "good" book debts amounting to £2lB. Mr. J. R. Whitley, accountant, was appointed trustee, with a committee of inspection. The estate will be wound up by the trustee. Flee IN A Mite.—On Sunday night, a young lady, while passing down Dalton-lane, found that a fire had broken out in the store-room occupied by Messrs. ,T. and J. Craven and Co. Ste gave an alarm and the ere was promptly put out veal a vigorous application of water in buckets. A bale of tops was burnt or spoilt, the damage being estimated at £6O, which ineuranoe will cover. Spontaneous combustion is supposed to have originated the tire, which, if not thus timely checked, might have destroyed the finest block of mill premises in Keighley.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1894-09-14 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

HOME AND ABROAD.  THic Comte de Paris died at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, on Saturday morning. rROUSSOR Helmholtz died at Charlottenhurg on Saturday. 'nig fishing boat Betsy and Helen, of Kirkcaldy, lying in the Tyne, caught fire on Sunday morning, and afterwards sank. Ons of the crew is mi-ring. A of Italian Anarchists have admitted their complicity in the bomb outrage at the Ministry of War, in Rome. in May last. A BULL FIGHT/ !fG entertainment was given by a wealthy Parisian in the vicinity of the Frei:Wl capital on Saturday. Bulls and toreadors were brought f rom Spain. MATHS from cholera were reported from various ! towns in the Netherlands on Saturday. Me. Samuel F. Morris. Nationalist, has been returned without opposition as Mr. Chance's successor in the Parliamentary representation of slouth Kilkenny. Messfis. Coutts, the bankers, have lately been ! victimised to the extent of several thousand pounds, probably by the same clover forgers who succeeded in rubbing Nfessrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, &Co Met Suggit, head-mistress of a National School t Grimsby, war run over by • light engine, on Tucslay, and killed. Her father was the first to discover her body. Tim suicide of the Duke of San Carlos, which took place on Monday in Madrid, was the outcome of religious melancholia. Mnsiz Ismert, a Frenchwoman arrested at Metz, has been formerly charged with high treason. DxsTanctivi forest fires are reported from the interior of g Aleria. . . _ _  Tim death i nnounced of John Barry, of Bally. hng.ine, near Slidletoo, county Cork, at the age of 112 years. _  Tdeath le announced of Professor Brugsch Paths, the eminent philologist and Egyptologist. AT Stamford Bridge, York, an Monday, Thomas Johnson fell from a hay-stack which he was trimming, and the knife which he held in his hand entered his neck. He ran forty yards and then fell dead. _  THE Nottingham magistrates on Tuesday fined fifteen men 40i. and costs each, for intimidating workpeople. Ala. George Cole Baker, • civil engineer, was drowned whihr boating, on Sunday, in Dingle Bay, on the smith-west coast of Ireland.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1894-07-20 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

BINGLEY. ATTIMPTED SGICIDZ.—On SatUrdlliy John Goldsborough, joiner, Edward-street, Ferncliffe, was charged at the Court-house with attempting to commit suicide the previous evening. He was remanded, and was left in the care of his friends. IMPROVIMIENT COMMISSIONERS THI MARKET Quesnott.—A meeting of this Board was held on Monday night, Mr. G. H. Aked presiding.—On the recommendation of the Gas Committee, it was decided to reduce the price of gas for lighting roirpones 2d. per thousand cubic feet, the reduction to sake effect with the half-year ending December 21st next.—lt was decided to appoint Mr. and Mrs. T. Walbank, of Biugley, curators of the Bingley Baths.—The Medical Officer (Dr. Craig) reported that in the quarter ended June 30th 40 deaths and 71 births had been registered. In the same period 16 cases of scarlatina had been reported and 2 deaths had occurred from the disease, but, with the exception of a few cases, the district waa now free from zytuotic cliresee.—lt was reported that the Highways and Sanitary Committee had been considering matters referring to the Bingley markets, and had appointed a special committee to draw up a code of bye-laws and fix a scale of tolls and atallage. he committee now recommended that the Gas Field should be set apart as a cattle market, and the land belonging to the Commissiouers in the Main-street as an ordinary market, and that the bye-laws and scale of bolts and stallage submitted should be approved and forwarded to the Local Government Board for approval—Some discussion took place on the quo'. tiou, several of the members being of opinion that it needed further consideration by the committee, and in the end the matter was referred back.—lt was decided to apply to the Yorkshire College for a comae of lecture's on sanitary questions. Miss KiENNILDY, one of the Assistant Commissioners appointed by the Royal Canmiesion on Secondary Education, and who is to report on secondary education for girls in the West Riding, visited the Bingley , Girls' Grammar School on Monday.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1894-06-08 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

BARROWFORD SEWAGE SCHEME.  BARBOWFORD is in deep waters. In our columns less than two years ago we expressed the fear that a reckoning day would come. Probably it has come more quickly than most folk expected. Our business at this stage, however, is not to accentuate the difficulty, nor yet in any way to aggravate the position. Yet at the same time, in the discharge of public duty, we are bound to urge upon the Local Board of Barrowford the necessity of taking no further, much less final steps, without the full and cordial cooperation of the ratepayers. This is not a sentimental question with us, nor should it be with the men of Barrowford, neither is it a question to be lightly dealt with or disposed of. It is not a question that should be even rushed or pushed, for its issues are fraught with real moment in the weal or woeof Barrowford's future. If, as is generally suggested, a rate of more than a shilling in the pound is to be the cost of disposing of the sewage of this district surely the ratepayers may well pause before committing themselves to such a charge. We repeat what we have said on former occasions that the people who pay the piper have a right to select the tune, and an early meeting of the ratepayers should be held at which reliable information ought to be communicated as to the future sewage programme and policy of the Local Board. There should be no cant or humbug about it. If Barrowford is to be saddled with the fixed rate for the next half century we have foreshadowed, surely its prosperity will be retarded and its development checked, and under such circumstances false sentimentality must be thrown to the winds. It is simply a matter of £s. d. If Nelson can take the sewage and save the district, metaphorically speaking, from committing suicide, let the ratepayers face the position like men. Enough money has been spent in fighting for sentiment. Barrowford has done practically nothing in the shape of local government, and yet its rates to-day are a serious item. If the township is to be saved from further disaster it must be by fully ventilating the difficulty, and this cannot be done until the people have canvassed the issues amongst themselves. Besides, the Local Board is a dying body. In November next it will cease to be, and a District Council will be elected by popular vote and at the ballot boxes. In view of that fact, is it fair for the Local Board to commit themselves or do anything that would tie the hands of, or trammel in any way, the new authority? We think not.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1891-06-26 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  -+--__  A TZLEGRAm from Tiflis reports an attack by brigands on a mail coach near Saljan. Two passengers were killed and the postilion was wounded. BARON von Walther has shot himself in a Berlin dancing saloon, the one in which Princess Pignatelli's orchestra performs. The baron, wh,se wine bill amounted to 1,000 marks, which he NVM unable to pay committed suicide to avoid arrest.  ----..---- THY three editors of "El Populo,'' a weekly paper published at l2uirigua. Guatemala, have been locked up in a filthy dungeon and loaded with chains, at the instance of President llarrillas, for having criticised the Government. _ .  GENERAL Bronsart von Schellendorff, ex-Minister of War and lately Commander of the First Army Corps, East Prussia, died at Koenigsberg on Tuesday. F. D. CAMERON, a prominent Scotch athlete, is supposed to have been drowned near Leith. AT Blackburn on Tuesday, John Connolly, aged 45, a bricklayer's labourer, was committed for trial on a charge of causing the death of his wife by kieking her during a drunken quarrel. A PRIVATE in the Royal Irish Rifles was drowned on Saturday evening while bathing at Fermoy. THE funeral of the late O'Gorman Mahon, M.P., took place on Sunday at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. After the ceremony an unseemly disturbance took place, the crowd being excited by the presence of Mr. Parnell and Mr. T. M. Healy. THE Court of Appeal on Saturday refused to grant a new trial in the action brought by Miss Gladys Evelyn for a breach of promise of marriage against Mr. Huebert. . . . . .  EVEN young men lost their lives while bathing on Saturday and on Sunday,—two at Portrush, two near Glasgow, two near Burnham. Somerset, and one near Downpatrick. RIFIN Connolly, labourer, was arrested at Blackburn on Saturday night on a charge of kicking his wife to death.  Tus Earl of Clonmel died in London on Monday. DALToN and Fisher, long-distauce swimmers, started from Dover on Wednesday to swim to Ramsgate. Both failed to accomplish their purpose, Dalton giving in first.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1891-11-06 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

FEROMOUR A-MACIC ON A WIFE: ATTIMPTILTIMuRtutR asnSeicior..—On Monday morning a great sensation was created in the Stuneyholnie district, by a report that there had been an attempted wife murder and suicide. For some six years there had lived at 14, Rochester-street, a collier named James Smithson and his wife Betty, who about 20 years ago lost one of her legs. Their ages are 61 and 56 respectively, and they have a grown-up family as well as two young daughters. For some time the couple have lived unhappily together, and a fortnight or so ago the man attempted to cut his wife's throat with a knife, bus she succeeded in getting out of his way. However, since then he has not lived with her. On Monday morning, shortly after six, Smithson went to his wife's house and found her in the kitchen alone, she having just returned from knocking people up. She bad her daughter's child in her arms, and from all accounts the man, without saying a word, took the baby from her, dashed it to the floor, and bringing forth a knife from his pocket he attacks(' his wife in a rw,st fiendish fashion. The woman screamed and for several minutes there was a desperate struggle between the crippled woman and her stalwart husband; but tie at length overpowered her and inflicted two 1' three severe gashes in her throat, and cue on the left cheek. She fell, end the man, th inking he had murdered his wjfs drew th- knife across his throat for the purpose 'of taking his own life also. Whilst Smithson was carrying out his barbaric work slrs. Smithson's screams awakened two daughters who were in bed upstairs. They ran downstrirs greatty alarmed, but the father had then completed his work, and both he and his wife were lying on the floor more dead than alive. The children's screams alarmed the neighbourhood, and a Mrs. Barnes, and a Mrs. Wright, who live in the same street, went into Smithson'A house, which, to use the words of one of the women, had the appearancs3 of a slaughter house, so much bhp cl was there on the floor. Mrs. Smithson, who had not lost conciousISIERN said, "Hint," meaning her husband, "has d Ate it." The police were quickly on the scoite, and soon Urs. Harwood and Brown arrived. The man was taken into custody by Inspector Teale, and was supported out of the house, but at the bottom of the street he fell exhausted from loss of Motel, and on the ambulance being procured he was removed to the workhouse hospital. '1 he doctors chloroformed Mts. Smithson and stitOorl up her wounds, which were found to bo of a dangerous character, and she is not expected to recover. The man's throat wan also stitched up at the workhouse, and he also is in a dangerous condilion. The affair caused the greatest excitement in the locality, Mrs. Smithson being highly respected.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1891-12-24 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

FORGOT TO F.EFATEN IT.  —Tben it is pceesible that this man would not have got on the line but for your forgetfulness in not closing the gate? I could not say about that.—lt was foggy on Saturday night? It was hazy.— Seeing that it was hazy, why did you not take , greater precaution to keep the gates locked? I did; but I forgot to lock them after reopening them.—How far can you see a train coming? As soon as it leaves Nelson.—Then there is no excuse for you having the gates unfastened? No, I forgot it.—How long had ycu been on duty? Two hours. —But how long would your turn be? From 7.40 at night to 7.30 in the morning.—Have you had any experience of this kind before? Never.—When you expect a train you generally look to see if anybody wants to cross? Yes.—Did you look on that occasion? I looked, but my attention was taken oft again by another bell signal I got from Colne.—You had too many irons in the fire? No. —When is it your practice to close the gates before an approaching train? As soon as a train leaves Nelson Station, on the one side, and arrives at Colne Bridge, on the other.--Can you account, then, for the deceased getting on the line except through the gateway? I cannot.—Have you been on duty since the accident? Yes.—Have you had A REPRIMAND  from the company? No, sir. Mr. Councillor Tattersall: You said you reopened the pile to let the foreman porter, Sparrow, through. Did he go through? Witness: .No, sir, he did not go through; he went lip the line. The Coroner then stunmei up, leaving it to the jury to decide whether the deceased had come to his death by his owa act or by a misadventure, or by the negligence of anyone. The jury retired, and after about a quarter of an hour's consultation, the foreman said that they returned a verdict of "Accidental death," not being prepared to say that the deceased committed suicide or being able to blame anyone, leaving it an open verdict in that respect, but accompanying their finding with a strong recommendation to the railway company to erect a footbridge over the line at Barkerhouse-road, and a representation to the Nelson Corporation to use their influence in the same direction.  "Advertising "says Lord Macaulay, "is to business what steam is to machinery— the grand propelling power."
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1891-08-14 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

DARKEST AMERICA.  A strange lynching story comes from Birmingham, Alabama. On the property of a fanner, named Davis, there lived a family of negroee, consisting of Ella and Belle Williams, and their cousin, Willis Lowe, and his wife. Ella was the cook to the Davis family, and being accused of stealing food she was discharged. Two nights later the house of Mr. Davis was burned to the ground, but the occupants were saved. The negroes were arrested, and it is stated that Ella confessed, and involved the others in the act of inceniiiarism. All of them were arrested, and a constable started to convey them to the Court-house at Abbeville, 40 miles away. Arson is a capit .1 crime in Alabama. and a gang of men wreaked summary punishment on the prisoners. They over-powered the constable, and lynched three women and a man by shooting them while they threw them into a swift currant of the river, where they were all drowned.  A PASSENGER train from Si. Petersburg dashed into a train filled with soldiers near the station of Davidstadt on Saturday. Two soldiers were killed and 48 injured. A GLASGOW rivetter named Gray on Sunday shot the wife of a travelling showman in the open street in Maryhill, Glasgow, and afterwards committed suicide. The woman's condition is precarious. Tire greatest uttering exists among the Mexican papulation on the Rio Grande, on account of prolonged drought. A New York telegram says that a ten-year-old negro girl recently quarrelled with a boy near her own age. She sent another boy for a gun, and when he came with it, told him to shoot the boy with whom she was talking. The latter started to run, but the other boy at once discharged the weapon. He missed the lad, but hit the girl, killing her instantly.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1891-04-03 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  AN Oldham youth, named Alfred William Turner, on Monday murdered hia sweeheart, Mary Ellen Moran, through jealousy. A mat, aged 17, the daughter of a collier named Suhitone, living at Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, accidentally shot her sister dead on Saturday night. ON Exmoor the body has been discovered of Amon Cann, a young farmer, who rashly attempted to walk from Porlock to his home at Exford during the recent great storm. SERIOUS strike riots occurred in the Pensylvania coke region on Monday. A band of strikers tore up 500 feet of railroads, destroyed twelve coke ovens, and set fire to several buildings. A MISSIONARY schooner and sixteen lives have been lost off the coast of Tahiti.  HENRY Withers, landlord of the Fitzwilliam Hotel at Higham Ferrer', has drowned himself in the River Nfne. . .  AN Italian workman, who had intended to kill a fellow countryman sentenced to death by vendetta, mistook a Vienna merchant for the condemned man, and murdered him at the Kufstein railway station. A CONSPIRACY has been detected in the Buenos Ayres police force, and several men have been arrested. . . . .  Ma. Chaplin says that the results of the Muzzling Order in the West Riding have been very encouraging, and he hopes at a near date to be able to relax the Order in a portion, if not over the whole, of the Riding. Ir having been stated that Madame Patti had agreed to accept 150,000d01. for twenty performances in Rio de Janeiro, an American writer comments— We know of several singers right here who would I do the same thing—so Patti needn't claim any credit for it." THE total number of American citizens available for military duty in case of invasion is returned at 7,695,242. DAMAGE to the amount of £lO,OlO was done by a fire at a Cardiff provision store on Sunday, and an aviary of foreign birds was destroyed. ON Saturday a man named Cooper, re,iding at Moor's End, near Marlow, murdered his wife by cutting her throat. He afterwards attempted to commit suicide in a similar way. RICHARD Pilling, the famous Lancashire wicketkeeper, died at Manchester on Saturday. A SINGULAR case of poisoning from eating fish has happened at Kilnhurst, near Rotherham, ten persons being affected. Two actresses were shot dead by a gambler in a theatre at Spokane Falls, Washington State, on Friday evening. The man afterwards blew out his brains. OWING to the influenza epidemic in Chicago the mortality last week reached the high figure of 900, against 419 in the corresponding week last year. THE insurgent forces in Chili are rapidly spreading over the country, and have already secured the wealthiest portion of Chilian territory. A TERRIBLE cyclone has swept over Fiji and the Navigation Islands. Twelve vessels were wrecked and forty persons drowned. EIGHT persons have lost their lives through the wreck, at Norfolk, Virginia, _of the Norwegian barque Dictator, from Pensacola to Hartlepool.