The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1891-01-03 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

THE WEEK.  Tee year leyo ended tragically as far as Wangle. concerued. Tne suicide a Mr. Joseph 11.1.1.1.gt0n and the tatalities on the ice succeeded each tuner woh a clasersesa which asS gm:ll.g and shocking. The death ot Mr. Bmldiugion under auch lamentable  v. —.. ay..... circumstances Mn lied the town and district. and the sincerest sa mtmthv is being expressed tor the bereaved Matt,. There is no need to go •gain over Me details of Me private griefs which seen. to have unhinged Me 13 elding. ton, mind : but Me deepest regret may be exprmeed that • life winch began amid couch promise and spent itmlf in the dsplay of energy and tact and hard mark should have been concluded so unhappily. Mr. Boadtogi too wart not • native uf Wench, In bis youth he resided io Me netthouring city of Covent,. and in the intervals of ho work at watchinater, haled he read himself up Mr Me law. Tins Mustrahon gives a good dee at hut genedl power of •pplicatiou. He exhibited it in humors,. and in hm work for the Wei, as a tumuli, of the Corporation and in somal and I wales at 11. his good qualtties trete bald in high aPPfest•M'd and esteem. That he should have gone to but grave throtob his own ad is inexpresstbty mil and staid couip,ternsaile. Ild there seems to haws been a bitterness itt his life. 110.Vell and unknown tu the cuter word. which became uurntlttrable. anal through the door ot dedh saiusht refuee from the cares which hatl overmastered his mind. Never was there a more emphatic idiom., ut the troth of the comer: did. Mat it is the unimpeded which happens.  THE feta., on We ice au Saturday came as • Kreat ohrek to • public whom nervous equilebriain had been upset by what had already happened. MIIVI commemoration is kit hr the Memos. and there crest exert •feeling cre admiration hr those who bramly attempted to rescue the decemed ; but it is impossible tu escape the convection that ordinary caution uu the part at the reateer un that eventful atomise have prevenled the catantroplee. dhey were wane, th•t the ice vim unsale, atul even it et had hero sale on the river's course the confluence ot the two aa as mot Hie sp.st where Jaeger mual lurk. It m a thunnaini pities Mat the young men did not thent nt tke, or, if they had it in minds, that the, did ref allow it to sway their actious. As it ie. two live. haves been lust where acme need leave been. Wa are quite aware that H seems uoleeliug me, owe. calk. to Illuraliee upon • calamity uf elms keel. mid to talk id what ougOdhave•beeem ,t 4 ifs and beta. l'bere see. coaaalatton  ;;;;siVi7,.--Vie-sefirif-Wiffi.rnied—iff.6petilfiVe place,. sod with iff.MlinCllt danger. Oa the canal a few daya ago • party yonng men • 111 Ibeineelves by trying aftm could skate marest the vitae of • break in the i.. vrith the result Intl fire or six of them suffered immer. aims It is ibis spirit of daring which is meson:. i Is for many ice fatalities. The Warwick case ie. not, perhaps. so bad an instance aa the one Met mentioned. because lieems to have misees mere from want of thought than S. spirit of bravado, but it A nnAnisible no, (5 see that ordinary caution wan .1 exercised. Thomas W, died like • hero. He wee not one of the men who fell throngh the trencher°. ice ; he went to the rescue of ins hrother. who wag mime... find in saving his life be lost his own. He h. left • noble example (St self.saerifice, and ha exemplified the height and depth of human love. for ereater allan than this. that he will give his life for meether.