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The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-11-23 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SAD SUICIDE OF A WOMAN AT STOKE. SUSPECTED MURDER OF A CHILD.  A painfully shocking case of suicide and suspected murder of a child came to light on Monday afternoon, at Stoke, upon the discovery of the body of a woman about forty years of age, in the Trent and Mersey Canal. The name of the unfortunate woman is Mary Tunniclitre, alias White, whose husband it is stated left her some years agoand went to America. She subsequently married a man named White, by whom she has had several children. White, who is a potter, em. ployed at Cauldon Place, Shelton, lived in Hanley for some time with tie deceased. At the Hanley Police Court, last week, White was summoned for the non. payment of money due to Stoke parish in respect of costs incurred consequent upon Mrs. White going to the workhouse, a separation having taken place between the two as the result of domestic unhappineas. At the hearing the fact was elicited that Mrs. White had been previously married, and it was thought that her hus. band was still alive. She, however, stated that when she went through the ceremony of marriage with White, she believed her former husband to be dead. The summons was dismissed, on the grounds that White, not being her legal husband, he could not be chargeable to the parish for her maintenance. The result of the hearing of the case, it would seem, had a most depressing influence upon the woman's mind. The last time she was seen alive was on Friday of last week, when she called in the vaults of the Copeland Arms Hotel, Stoke. At the same time she had her infant at her breast, a child of about six weeks old. After conversing about her distressed position, she loft the hotel, and nothing more was seen of her or her child until Monday afternoon, when her body was found in the canal at Stoke, by a labourer named Thomas Buckley, I the body it is supposed having been dragged along the I canal by a boat down to near the gasworks. The body I of the child was not found, though it was also supposed to be in the canal. The body of the unhappy woman was taken to the Railway Inn, to await the coroner's  inquest. The police were busty engaged on Wednesday dragging the canal, in order to see if the child's holy could be fatted, the inquest on the body of Mrs. Tannicliffe being delayed until Thursday. Whether she jumped into the canal with the child, or accidentally fell in, remains a mystery. On Thursday afternoon Mr. J. Booth, coroner, held an inquest at the Railway Inn, touching the death of Mrs. Tutinicliffe. No new facts were elicited, and but little evidence was offered. That was as to the woman being last seen alive on Friday evening, and as to the finding of the body in the canal no Monday afternoon. It appeased that the unfortunate woman was short. sighted, and the probability of her having fallen into the canal with ber child was regarded as strong. A verdict of "Found drowned " was returned.  Ku's COMPOUND ESSENCE OF LINSEED, for Colds I and coughs, cures Dine cases out of ten. Sold by all . Chemists.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-06-15 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

CORRESPONDENT—The Daily News reports the death of Mr. MacGalan, one of its special correspondents throughout the late war, and recently the Constantinople correspondent of that journaL He arrived in the Turkish capital from San Stefano a fortnight since, in ill-health. On Monday week he woo feverish, and on Thar-day symptoms of spotted typhus appeared. On Friday night he had an epileptic fit. This was repeated on Saturday. He died in an epileptic fit on Sunday evening, in the presence of two doctors. He had been delirious since Thursday. General regret is expressed by all who knew him, including men of every shade of political opinion. He was born about the year 18-15, in the State of Ohio, in America, and his first oigag, meet as a newspaper correspondent was on the staff of the iVew York Herald daring the Franco-German War. The funeral of Mr. MacGattee, took place on Huntley, at Constantinople; the correspondents of the Tinos, Daily Newt, Telegrapk, Standard, and Graphic acting as pall-bearers. Gen. era! Scobeleff, Colonel Chambers Maynard, of the American Legation, the officeru of the United States , despatch boats, the British Adietent-Judge, and a num. I her of well-known persona of position attended.  , SHOCKING SUICIDE AT APEDAtAt ThareAky, &Lout reigaiebt, ea iraw minerw-werew. deicemfing the shaft of the Hurler/ Pit, be of tbrut. named Moalten (we Cr. Wormed), when the " bowk was abeet half Inv down, deliberatelg Pkord his kgs from out of it tad then leaped down the shaft. Hta mole seeing him about to get out of the " bowk," exclaimed, "What are you about; we're not at the bottom yet;" but before be could prevent him, Moulton bad taken the fatal leap. It is said that he has been drinking bard for some time past, and INA under the influence of intoxicaate at the time.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-10-19 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

DOUBLE CHILD MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  On Monday evening a labourer, named George Cockin, lodging at a house in Philadelphia,treet. Bristol, cut the throats of his tam ehihlr, n—Emily and Wilham Cockin, aged five and three years respectively—the WOIIMIS proving fatal in each case. He afterwards made an ineffectual attempt to eat his own throat, and is now in custody. Cochin was, apparently, under the influence of drink at the time. It is said that he lived un. happdy with his wife, who left him about a fortnight ago. On Tuesday Cockin was bronght up before the sitting magistrates, Messrs. Charles Nash and F. J. Fry, at the Bristol Police Court, and charged with the offence. The distress of mind under which he laboured was so great that he conl.l scarcely stand. The only witness examined was Mrs. Fowler, who lodged in the same house as the accused. On being sworn it was apparent that she had not recovered from the fright she receivf don discovering the bodies of the murdered children. She gave the prisoner a good charac'er for working hard and ref a. larly, and said that ever since his wife had deserted him he had exhibited the greatest tenderness and affection towards his children. On the previous day he did not go to work, owing to his having taken a little beer in the afternoon. She Paw him leading his children by the hand from the public-house to his home, and when he passed her door heard him say to them, "COMP up stairs with daddy." In about a quarter of an hour he ran down stairs, and implored the witness to go up to his room, saying that ha had killed both his children. The witness ran up, and saw the little girl in a dying state on the landing bleeding from her throat, and the boy was lying in the bedroom with his throat cot. The pri. soner was remanded. The marks are di-tinctly visible where the unfortunate man attempted to cut his own throat, but although long gashes they are merely superficial ones. In the afternoon the inquest on the bodies of the children was formally opened, by Mr. Henry S. Wasbrough, and adjourned.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-06-08 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

FEARFUL DISASTER.—GREAT LOSS OF  1 At Portsea Police Court, on Monday, John Warrington, a pensioner, was remanded on a charge of having murdered his wife by cutting her throat. The prisoner alleged that his wife had committed suicide, but it was found that the head was nearly severed from the body. The Queen's gold medal, awarded this year by the Council of the Institute of British Architects to Mr. Waterhouse, was presented to that gentleman on Monday evening at the meeting which commenced the Conference of British Architects, to be continued during the week. A LARGE CARGO OF Lies PlGB.—The largest number of live pigs ever brought to Liverpool from ;America in a single steamer were landed on Monday by the American line steamer City of Bristol. She arrived from Boston, and had on board '2,300 pigs, as well as 28 head of American oxen. At a conference of miners' delegates, held in Manchester on Tuesday, it was resolved to form a federation of local miners unions, under the title of the General Amalgamated Association of Miners, which will differ from the National Union in having power to support its members when on ' strike or locked out. lAt the half-yearly communication of the Grand Lodge of the Mark degree of Freemasonry, on Tuesday, Lord Skeimersdale was installed as Grand . Master; Lord Donoughmore was appointed Deputy Grand Master; Lord Henniker, Grand ;Senior Warden; and Mr. Thos. F. Halsey, MP., Grand Junior Warden. A Lloyd's telegram from Ponce, P.R., received by cable, states that the Tasmanian is ashore in a bad position with a list to starboard, and making water badly. She has 18 feet of water in the after compartment. A steamer, with lighters and steam pumps, has been sent to her assistance. IPart of the cargo has been discharged, and a por. tion jettisoned. A boy ten years of age named Gibbons, alias Bose, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment and five years in a reformatory, at Ixworth, ; near Ipswich, on Monday, for placing a fish-plate on the rails of the Great Eastern Railway. He said he did so to kill people, or, rather, to throw the carriages off the Rise. Fortunately the train passed safely over the obstacle.  An inquest was held on Monday evening by the am-ruler for the Verge at the Royal Mews, Windsor Castle, upon the body of Mr. Robert Moon, clerk of her Majesty's stables, who committed suicide Past week by drowning himself in the Thames at Old Windsor. The jury, it is understood, were selected from the Queen's servants, and the inquiry was conducted with closed doors. It is not stated what verdict was given.  The Times has received a telegram from Aleppo stating that Captain Butler. of the 9th Regiment, is returning from the frontiers of Khorasan, after attaining complete success among the Turcomaus. It is just possible that Captain Butler may have had some share in the recent reconciliation between the Turconnans and the Persian Government; a reconciliation of which the motive wee not by any means clear.—Globe.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-03-30 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

RATEPAYER.  The sea lioness at the Brighton Aquarium delivered herself, at three o'eloek on Tuesday Morning, of a dead cub (a female). The body of Ralph Walsh, lately a master joiner in Darwen, was found on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, on Monday, with both legs cut off.  Mr. Win. Brunton. one of the most talentol comic artists of the day, a constant contributor to Londe', Society and Foe, died on Sunday of heart disease.  Mr. Clement, proprietor of the Satacen'a Head Hotel, Bath, was on Monday fined £lO and full coats for sellinz,, gin adulterated to the extent of 46 per cent. under proof.  _ A serious landslip olouTed on Tuesday, on the Caithneis Railway, a few miles from Thurso, by which the rails were shifted from three to four feet afar of the permanent way. The occurrence is attributed to the recent wet weather.  A man named Ingle, residing at Soinenham, shot and killed himself on Monday, having pre. 'Mundy tried to murder his wife by heating her about the head with a hammer. The woman is tot expected to recover.  During Sunday night three militiamen escaped from the county police cells at Macclesfield. They had been remanded from Saturday, charged with a diabolical outrage on a girl under 1.7 r. They have not since been heard of. At Rotherham, on Monday, a collier named Nerelif. pleaded guilty and was fined for having placed his lump in such a position that he broke it with a stroke of his pick at Carton Wood Colliery. Four hours afterward an outburst of gas occurred in the same colliery, to the extent of about 29,000 cubic feet per minute. Jewels to the value of .e 4 MO were stolen on Sunday night from the residence of Mr. Valentine Cataniaham, of Walton Heath, Surrey. The robbery occurred while the family were at dinner, the artbdcs being taken from the dressing-room of Mrs. Cunningham. No clue to the culprit* has hem obtained.  horrible attempted murder and suicide have just been committed at Plaisance, near Bordeaux, whence the details are telegraphed as follows An ex.soldier. named Courtade, had had a dispute with his landlord about some repairs in his house, and the matter was laid before a justice of the peace, who went to the house in question to examine the points at issue. lie condemned Courtade to pay, upon which the latter burst into a rage, fired a revolver at the proprietor, his own wife, the justice of the peace, the police-officers, and then at himself.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-08-10 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SINGULAR HISTORICAL GATARRING.-4 remarkable gathering took place on Wednesday, in the quiet Somersetabire village of Wedmore, a number of learned men having assembled to celebrate the thousandth anniversary of the signing, by Alfred the Great, of the peace of Wedmore. Papers were read, and speeches made ey Mt. E. A. Freeman, the historian. Professor Earle, Bishop, Clifford, and others, contending for the probability that Alfred lived at Wedmore, and signed the peace there that terminated hcstilities between him ' and his enemies. There was a sprelal service in the oarish church in the morning, the Bi Mop of Bath and Wells pa:caching the sermon. At midday therewas a meeting for the reading of papers, in the of ternoon a luncheon, and in the evening a public tea meeting, Some American bishops, who are staying with the Bishop of Bath and Wells, were present at the eel°. bration.  A DKLICATIC SUlClDE.—(Chicego, July 25.)—A dramatic suicide occurred at Capron. ill., on Tuesday night. Early in May last, George W. Burleigh, who was an old resident of Ohio, came to this town ostensibly to start a barber shop. Burleigh had a fine education, and was versatile in convereatioc. Last Sunday he published a card, informing the citizens that, in order to gratify an often-expressed cariosity on the part of his townsmen to witness some such tragedy an the hanging of Sherry and Connolly in Chicago, be would, on the evening of the 23rd inst., deliver a lecture in Thornton Hall, and at its conclusion gratify his hearers by shooting himself through the forehead. The price of admission wonld be one dollar, and the amount realised should be used in his funeral exp,i.es. and the remainder be invested in the works of ihmley. Tyndall, and Darwin for the town library. His idea in ending his life was to secure eternal peace by annihilation. At the appointed time the hall was crowded, and after the delivery of an infidel lectme of wonderful power, in a manner and tone which marked him as an adept, be suddenly drew a Derringer, placed it to his forehead, and, despite attempts to prevent the rash deed, fired, and fell into the arms of two friends who were on the wings of the stage for the purpose of hindering the execution of the design. The large-sized bullet literally tore his brain to pieces. He left a request that his body be forwarded to Cincinnati friends.  AN
The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-08-07 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

DEFEAT. accidents which hare occurred on the railways of the ! United Kingdom during the year 1879 has been ! issued. It appears that the total number of persons j returned to the Board of Trade as having been killed in the working of the railways during the year was 1,032, and the number of injured 3,513. Of these, 160 persons killed and 1,307 injured were passengers. ! Of the remainder, 452 killed and 1,954 injureil were ! officers or servants of the railway companies or of contractors; and 420 killed and 255 injured were . trespassers and suicides, and other persons who met with accidents at level crossings or from 1 miscellaneous causes. Of the passengers, according to the returns made to the Board of : Trade, 75 were killed, including 73 supposed to have been lost in Vie Tay Bridge disaster, and 602 were I injured from accidents to trains. In addition to the above, the companies returned 42 persons killed and 2,314 injured from accidents which occurred on their , premises, but in which the movement of vehicles on ' railways was not concerned, and which consequently cannot be considered as railway accidents." The total number of passenger journeys, excllsire of journeys by season-ticket holders, was 562,732,090 for the year 1879, or 2,291,565 less than in the previous year. Calculated on these figures, the proporiions of passengers killed and injured in 1079, loom all causes, were in round numbers 1 in 3,516,000 killed, and lin 430,000 injured. In 1879 the proportions were 1 in 4,520,000 killed and lin 322,000 injured. The proportion of pasmngers returned as killed and injured from causes beyond their own control was in 1879 1 in 7,503,000 killed (excluding season-ticket holders) and 1 in 934,700 injured; but if the Tay Bridge disaster is excluded fmm the computation, the proportion killed would be oi.ly 1 in 281,366,500, or less than in any year on record. In 1878 the proportion was 1 in 23,540,000 killed, and lin 481,600 injured. Thus while the proportion of liassengers returned as killed from causes beyond their own control during 10'70 shows a large increase (if the Tay bridge disaster is included) when compared with that of the year 1870, the proportion of passengers injured shows a Large decrease. Excluding 10 enquiries under the head of miscellaneous, 101 train accidents on railways formed subjects of enquiry, and were reported on by the officers of the Board of Trade during the year, against , 108 for the previous year 1878.  1,200
The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-07-10 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

TREATMENT OF NEGROES.  'The most revolting accounts," sap. the Nay York. Tribune, "reach LIB from both public and mi. vote sources of the condition, as summer advances, of the negro convicts employed upon the railways in the South. These poor wretches are let out to eon. tractors at so much a month. They are let at s very low sum indeed, much less than the contractor would have hired them for when they were slaves. Then, their owner would, have taken care that he had had the proper interest for the money he bad inveeted in them, and would have taken care toe, that they were not worked, beaten, or starved to death. Unfortunately, the State which hires them now has no money invested in them, and it is to its interest, as well as the contractors'' that the largest amount of work shall be got out of them, and that the coat of keeping them shall be pushed down ton low a notch as possible. Their sickness or death , involves no loss to anybody. The supply of convicts I for pubSc works is easily kept up. Negroes have been sentenced for life in Georgia for stealing a pair of chickens; while a sentence of years is common for any trifling theft. When the wretched darkey is once chained and at work whose interest is to remember that his sentence has expired? Not the contractor's northeState'saesuredly. Whenoneefairlyat work, too, the cruelty of his treatment surpasses anything known in the days of slavery. The gangeare kept upon starvation diet; they are housed in stockades or prison cars which in filth and foul air equal the underground pens of Andereonville and Salisbury. They died last summer by the hundreds of typhoid and cholera morbus, and nobody was the wiser. The armed guards, usually white convicts, ehoot them at their own discretion on the first sign of insubordination, and are responsible to nobody. The dead nigger —a black lump of flesh, of whom neither law nor man takes cognisance, nobody, intact, but his God —is dropped into a hole dug by the side of tha road where the gang is at work, and that is the end of it."  An arrangement has been entered into between the Porte and Mr. Goschen by which the British Ambassador waives his claim to protect the fugitive female slave to whom he recently gave asylum at the British Embassy. N. Castion, one of the judges of the city of Avignon, has committed suicide by drowning himself na the Rhone. It is stated that the cost of the first Gravesend election aiml the petition proceedings which followed was no lees than £20,000. The polling for Plymouth has resulted se follows—Edward Clarke, Q.C., (C.), 2449; Sit G. Young (L.), 2,305 : majority for the Conserm• live. 144. Representation unchanged. M1,01117111M eavoitifii 1165 rE6II9W Mr-5_21; Frederick Lehman (L.), 378; F. D. Dixon Haillat. (C.), 376; majority for the Liberal, 2. No change as the representation.  Pri.tted and Published hv W1T.1.1131 OWEV, at the Pooerits Xxawiner Office, Mlle. Rank. Rs.le, in the Connty of Raiford, where all communes:our mast be edesuant
The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-10-16 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

UTILISING A PEST.  The Indianapolis Journal of Contlarrce says that a Maryland farmer is making money out of an immense crop of potato bugs. Being opposed to purls green, he rig4cd up alarge wash-boiler in his held, and, hiring six men, coilected the bugs and soused them into boiling water. About two gallons were collected, and by accident an old piece of sheepskin leather, used for lining shoes, wont into the tuess. After the cooking had been going on for half en hour, he was astonished to find that the leather tied changed its colour to the richest dark crimson. rhis arousing his curiosity, he inserted other materials end iescertained another peculiarity of the liquid. flie material placed in it changed fleet to a dark brown, then to a greenish hue, then pure yellow, then light blue, changin4 to dark blue, then light red, terminating in the brilliant scarlet, which was the permanent colour. Consequence, formation of a stock xmpany to make dyeing mixture from potato bugs.  The death Ts announced of Sir Thomas Tanered, at the age of seventy-two.  Sin ruiners have been killed by an irruption of water in one of the pits of the Albion coal mines in Nova Scotia.  The reports circulated by some foreign newspapers of an impending prohibition against the exportation of rye from Russia, or the imposition of an export duty on that article, are wholly unfounded.  A young woman named Morris has committed suicide in Liverpool under painful circumstances. She had been for a walk with her sweetheart, and they returned to her lodgings. She went upstairs and soon afterwards called her lover, who, on entering the room, found her reeling about and detected an odour of carbolic acid. Medical assistanuo tv.ia obtained, but she only survived a abort time. A bottle of acid was found in the fire-place.