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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-07-31 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DEATH OF A SUICIDE IN SHEFFIELD.  A man named Pinion Cohen, 45 years of age, who ived at No. 55, Copper street, Sl.ales moor, die] in the Infirmary, on Tuesday morning, from injuries self.inflicted on June 25t1,, on which date he was a mittid to the above institution. The deceased had for some months suffered front general debility. Duri.., a fit of despondency he went into the cellar and cut his throat, Ile wee dimovered in an unoonscion. state by hie wife. anl had then a knife stained with blood lying at his side.  BROOKING DEATH OF TWO (IMRE& A shocking accident happened on Tuesday morning. on thi Soho Grinding Wheel Company's premises, Corporation street, Sheffield, by which two children of Samuel Sandford, carter, No. 21, Cotton Mill walk, met their deaths. The children, Walter Stewart Sandford, aged eix yeas* and Sarah Ellen Sandford, aged four year., were playing with Willie Beateon, aged seven years, in the grinding mill yard, and a number of other children, all of whose parents live in the nelghbournoal. Acres, the end of the yard runs about 60 feet of shafting. Thin is only a couple of feet front the ground, end is not protected in any way. The little girl was standing near the shelling, which was revolving, when her clothe, were caught. and her brother, acoording to the statement of the boy Beat. eon, was attempting to save his sister, when he too got his clothes entangled in the *hafting. Both children were twirled round with the shafting, and suetnined fearful injuries to the head anti hands. Beateon ran ecreaming for help toul a nunaber of people hastened to the plate. William Snape, who works attire grinding wheel, noticed that something interfered with the working attire band which drove his stone, and be threw it off. Hearing the cries of the children he then ran down the yard, accompanied by Charles William Henry Griroshaw, a man employed at Hill's Government Stores, and who was in the wheel at the time. Snape, taking in the situation at a glance, ran to the engine.house, a distance of 200 yards, and had the engine set down. Grim. @haw says he found the little girl lying beyond the shorting, stripped of all her clothing except one sock. She wee dreadfully injured about the head, but still breathed. The boy, who was quite dead, was so fastened by his clothes to the shafting that Snaps cut them off, ae the readiest means of releasing the body. The head was literally battered to pieces. A cab was procured and both children taken to the Infirmary, where the little girl died ininiediately after admission, and the two bodies were taken to the niortuary together. Several of the workpeople who are employed in a shop opposite when the accident occurred, state that the yard is much freimented by children, and that they have often warned them of the danger of playing near the unprotected shafting.  SERIOUS rLSODS 111
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-07-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TILE RESULT OF JEALOUSY. Rnifly Pearce, aged A,' id. no oecupationl was charged, before Mr. Bostick, at Glerkenwell Poliescourt, with attempting to commit suicide by taking a large quantity of laudanum. From the evidence it appeared that the defendant is cohabiting with a man of the name of Hurwood. Lain week Hurwood went to the Kentish-town Police-station, and mid that he had been living with the defendant, and produced an empty bottle, labelled, " Laudanum—Poison," and stated that she had taken the contents, and was then an inmate of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray'sinn-road. The sergeant went to the residence of Hurwood, and there found written, on the Cottager and Artisan, the following "My dear JaCk,—l have killed nlyeelf, and I hope God will forgive me, and you will not be punished for it, I hope. God forgive me, and Ithk over Jack. They say—" The sergeant continued his inquirim, and ascertained that the defendant had gone to different chemists, and had mocemled in purchasing five different pennyworths of laudanum. These she mixed together and swallowed, because she stated that " ehe did not wish ' he dear Jack—the only man she doted on and loved in the wide world—which was full of enemies to her— ehould get into any trouble, or that it should bethought he had given it to her, or had any hand in her taking it." At Hurwood'e interview with Sergeant Rittmsn he said the defendant but taken the poison in a fit of jealousy, and bemuse he had told her in fun that he had seen finer women than she was. He also said that she had been better than a wife to him, and that he would take the responsibility= his own bands, but how he was to do so he did not say. The defendant now shrieked out that she was sorry she had taken the poison, but it was all for the love of Tack. She hoped the magistrate would discharge her eo that she might go home with him, and she would never do the like again. The man Hurwood, who was crying, aim asked for his dear's discharge, saying it was all his fault that the dear girl had taken the poison. If she was discharged he would at once take her home, and look after her as the ought to be. Mr. Hosack essid he should do nothing of the sort. The defendant bad been guilty of a most cowardly and wicked not by attempting to destroy her life. He should remand her to the HOMO of Detention, so that she might have the good advice of the chaplain. The defendant was removed, hyeterically exclaiming. "Oh, my dear Jack, be kind to him. I would sooner be hanged than I.n ehould be hurt"
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-07-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CAUTION TO ANGLAR/S,—,MT. W. H. Oakded, late member of the Derby Board of Guardians, has died from blood poisoning. The deceased wag fishing about a week ago, when, after catching& pike, hiewriat was scratched by a ruety Sah.hook, which was in the mouth of the flail. Ro notice was taken Of the scratch, but mortification net in, and its arreat was found to be Pultataraotag To liloasc—A..party of, Lancashire Roman Catholic pilgrims will leave Mancheater for Knock; in Ireland, where mirailes are reported to bath& taken .plane, ,bay. in Aug*. It will be, in charge of the Rev, Father Walsh, of Oldham, and all the perioris kakilig•pert• ode being prepared by a remaate". • ‘‘ 'THE LIVE STOCK IOtniNAL."—FOW netspapers can boast of a career so auccessful and a peegreen istfrapiel as The Lire Stock Journal and Fowler's Goreite, which is to be enlarged a second time with its next issue, published fuly 2od. Stafed in 1874 in the fritelmats 'of Breeders and Rthibitors, it was 'Pound absolutely tircessary,withiu one year if its, publication to increase its dimensions. For the past five years the area of its infliienee be been rapidly extending, and As journal bas now long been recognised as the representative of the Live Stock interests at home and abroad, being the journal adopted by the Royal Agricultural , flocteki, the bar thoin Society, and Otbsrs, for the innertihn of authorised ,reporte of their council meeting.. With ite present enlargement, the journal will be enabled to still further widen its field of usefulness; tind einbfori* we it will all subjects of intereat to the oountiy Gentlianian, Breader,-and !Exhib i tor, every render who is concerned in Live Stook or Agricultural Eiratilti.trlll do well tit see Mt thesiffselyes the flrat number of thf.enlarged issue.  Streeloe3lAucio.—AnioqueatwnaheldatNeay. ..castleson-Tyne on the body ót Elizabeth Hodge, 65 years of age, who was found hanging from a closet door in a room of the Trinity Brume. The jury returned a verdict that deemed died from hanging herself, being at the time in &desponding state of mind. This is the seventh enicide which has occurred, four females andtlare males, in Newcastle and Gateshead within the past eight weeks, during which time there have also been four attempts at suicide, all made by females. Three deaths from excessive drinking, one male and two females, one deliberate child murder, while the dead body of another child was found under suspicious circumstances. 'There h iv- further been several eases of found drowned, where there was no evidence whatever to show how the dreamed persons got into the water.  BECKETT'S - " ~ave ortoterthed , P ani4s=glOPllliZr..l.7.l." FRUIT or the lest ten years...—snrmss sg„M.l) L., London. .1 SYLLIJra Fl s, "Sirsa ste • tdte. stet ve,th nstlilitot Ear vrgu L,v Ging, ‘. like them exrrealinalL The, • eserve Lobe mlitled,latur,sow)s
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-04-17 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SELY-MARRYING.—The United State; Can whip any other country in the world in its production of novelties. Those who know American novelties will perhaps imagine that the country has exhausted itself. But not so. ' There is yet another novelty, namely, the marriage—the mlf-marriage it might be called, just an ' we call suicide self-murder—of the Rev Henry Munson, of Worcester. Honey in a Second 'Adventist, a enreligionist of 'gr. Freeman, of Pocaseet, and, like that interesting martyr, be has a new idea or two in religion. One of his ideal was to marry himself, which he did to a poor parishioner, a few months ago, in the presence of his congregation, performing the ceremony with unction, asking arid answering the necessary questions correctly, and winding up with a fervent benediction and lobe of good advice to himself and partner. So far, so good, but envious people, who probably baven't received cards or cake, laid the matter before the grand jury, and the result was that the honeymoon 'was rudely broken, and the blushing bridegroom hauled into court and found guilty of immoral and illegal practices. It was rough for a man who was juet settling down be his third attempt at a happy life of wedded bliss, and be naturally appealed. So the case has been mrried before the Supreme Bench, where it now lies. I fear the verdict will be sustained, and the honest attempt of the reverend sondemsii to save e penny will 'involve him in the lose of several pounds and some person liberty. Still there must be some limit in these things, or else a thrifty judge might divorce himself, a precocioue infant baptise himself, and a saving 'union run his own obsequies.—The Americas Traveller. _ . . .  MANY persons when they find themselves in danger of shipwreck in the voyage of life, throw their darling vices overboard, 118 other mariners their treasures, only to fah them up agent *hei, the storm is NVAr. THERE'S a great difference betteten honbur and honesty; the former, it is mid, exists ' among 'thieves. the latter certainly doesn't
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-04-17 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

GLADSTONE."  ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A shocking occurrence took place in Coattoridge, near Glasgow, where a man named Robert Thomas, hitherto known as a highly respectable publican, tried to murder his wife by stabbing her, and afterwards committed suicide. Some of Mr. Thomas's friends had observed a change in his demeanour for some time past, and the other morning he was in a very excited state. He was much better on the following day, and attended to his business in the ordinary way Nothing unusual occurred until about three o'clock on the morning of the third day, when he rose from his bed, and told his wife that he was dying. He got quiet again, however, until six o'clock, when he went into the kitchen and was Observed by his eldest boy, a lad of about 110 years of age, to take up something, and begin to strike at himself. Ile then went into the TOOM and attacked his wife, when the boy followed him, and tried to wrest a I knife from him, with which he wan stabbing Mrs. Thomas. In trying to disarm his father, the boy got himself severely cut about the hands. Mrs. Thomas then raised an alarm, and she was rescued by some of the neighbours, and taken out of the house, while the assistance of the police was obtained. Meanwhile Thomas locked himself up inn room downstairs, where the police only secured him after forcing the door. The prisoner was in a very excited state, and raised a hatchet to assault the police, but be was speedily overpowered, end taken into custody. When lodged in the police office it was found that the poor man was in a sadly mutilated condition, and although medical assistance was promptly obtained be only survived about half-an-hour after his apprehension. Mrs. Thomas is seriously injured. although at present no immediate fatal issue is anticipated. .
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-05-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SPAIN.—A new office, corresponding to that of our Registgar-General of births and deaths, has bsen created in Madrid. The report issued for the month of September hot is the first' detailed official sitatement of thin kind ever issued in Spain. The total number of births and deaths in September, 1870, in the whole of Spain, including the Ha!eerie and Canary Isfeed., in declared to be 44,848 and 0,210 respectively. showing a small excess of deaths over births.' Bat unfortunately, while every death is known, as no r interment is allowed without the written permission of the munithual authorities, no such cheek or control exists as regarde births, ninny of which, especially of male children, are never regietered, in the, hope that when they grow up the children will camps the military conseription, fcc. 1 The Septeintor rattan shows 24,710 deaths from symotic doenses, or nit very far from half the total mortality. There were 52 suicides, and 87 persosu died by the hands or assassins. The month's return shows an annual death-rare of 32.9 per 1000 poisons. In nearly all the provinces containing large cities , the return. show more •deathe than birth.; but in the Canary Islande three birth, were registered to every two deaths, and several other districts show a good excess of births. Of tlm whole number of children born, 5.21 per cent, were illegitimate ; in Madrid the ratio main little more than 10 per cent.  'r}ll4 GOSSIPS OF rARIB are much exercised juet now about the betrothal of one of the daughters of Alexandre Dumas. That lively author Delonge by birth to the Roman Catholic Church, but hie wife, who is a Russian Indy, belongs to the Greek Church. Alovandre, who out be original is all things. bas not allowed his children to be baptieed Into et her of these rival communities, determining that each of them upon coining of age should enjoy free choice between the two confessions. What has been done in relation to most of bit children we do not know, but Mademoiselle Colette Dumas bas been betrothed witb the consent of her parents to M. Maurice Lippmarin. The bridegroom is an Israelite, and the bode hue consequently declared that she bad better not be baptised into either the Lot= or the Greelehrench of Christendem ; and as a aonsequeore elle has dispensed with any religious esreiunniaL Those persons who have been fascinated by M.Duinaa's mystical philosophising are Sonrewhat senridalised this prectioal otitconie de it. They hoped that the 'poet," after a few more eccentric twirls, might rattle Pews into a devout Airman OathoUo..  MR. Gos,9IIEN'S
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-07-10 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DMUS. ?moo—Amongst the list of bankrupts publiblied is the London Gazette on Tuesday night was the following :—ltuwbotham Joseph, of Duk infield, Cheshire, assistant overseer of the pour, dealer and Chapman, and carrying on business as the Penybryn Slate Company at Penybryii, Glyn Ceiriog, near Llangollen, Denbighshire, elate merchant.  The Liverpool coroner held aa inquest on Tuesday oft the body of a etriker, in the employ of the Dublin Steam Packet Company, named James Calduck, who wac supposed to have committed suicide on Sunday night. It appeared from the evidence of the deceased's wife that he went home on that evening and asked hr to send for some beer. She told him that the public-houses were closed, whereupon he got into • rage, and exclaiming, "Thou here goes for myself and you and the four childrtn," rushed to • box and took out • nharp knife he used for shaving, The woman ran out of the house in terror and alarmed the neighbours, who on entering the room found the deceased lying on the floor bleeding from • slab in the • chest, and with the knife in his hand. He died in about half-an-hour. The deceased's wife stated that her husband, to whom she had been married six years, wee in the habit of giving way to fits of passion, and had attempted Ids life on three occations.—The jury returned an open verdict.  "S tO altar.  ilg uuln, 0,1 '3 Iv do  rerp7asi;—s :for. -1::e 1,40;;140/4f.:2: ,rrueperulants. .dertt.ku 6o return rejented communi•  2.ls;tiers mteuded for publio!ttioo moat be aooom.  _ Paaied by the name ;nil liddress of the writer. Persona experiencing any irregularity in the de. livery of the Examiner. or any difficulty in pre. curing it, will obli;e &.yirrfor•J, go. ToCIAIN apiiryilli YIN information 40 NO ILIENNIberi by port' cannot be attended to.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-01-24 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

WELSH AND SOMERSET JURIES.  The writer of "Yeoman's Note Book" says I thought Welsh juries were the mod perverse in their verdicts, but Somerset juries bid fair to rival them. A learned judge travelling on circuit between Haverfordwest and Pembrokeshire, seeing a party of coursers looking on at a feat brace of greyhounds sticking clo.ly to their bare, remarked that nothing could save her but a Welsh jury. "Not guilty, my lord, but he must not do it again," is a verdict which has passed into a proverb. The coroner's jury in Wales who returned the verdict of "Found Empty" on the clother of a drowned suicide, in ortse spoken of among her ancient mountains, although it has no historic authenticity. At the recent Somerset Quarter Seesions a man named Bisons was chargsd with stealing a duck and a fowl, at Shepton Mallet, on Nov. 28. A little boy deposed to seeing the prisoner go into a coach-house on the prosecutor's premises, where be was not employed, and shortly afterwards a dead duck and a dead fowl were found there. When prisoner war apprehended he mid to the polieeinan, "I hope you will forgive me, and not have me locked up." Jo the face of this direct testimony, the jury acquitted the prisoner. In discharging the priso.r.the chairman (Mr. T. B. Rogers) said that the Lord Chief Justice, in a case of fowl - stealing in, this county, expressed his astonishment that a jury should have acquitted a prisoner because nobody saw him steal the fowls. Ile supposed the jury most have thought that the fowls, like the Babes in the Wood, placed themselves side by aide and expired. "This intelligent jury must be of the same opinion, and think that this duck and chick placed themselves side by side in the coachhouse, covered themselves up, and killed one another. You Ism a lucky fellow, for the; little boy saw you go into the place from whence the duck and fowl were missed, and from there to the stable where they were found. Besides this, when charged. you admitted the offenee. The jury think you were mistaken as to your guilt, and did not steal this poultry, although no doubt at the time you thought you bad done no. You are discharged, and I advise Amu to be careful about your oonduct in the future." 'The jury were relieved from further duty.  THE Home Ruiz PAirry.—At the meeting of the Home Rule members of the House of Commons • to be held in Dublin, it will be proposed to adopt as the leading Irish proposal of the coming Se,wion bill for the establishment of fixity of tenure, to be supplemented by another extending the faeihties fog the development of a system of peasant proprielary.  s,la ‘'' 1 ' ~ mi.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-08-28 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

IRISH AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.  -81.--cT.ti7; lir- —lBB-o—are remarkable for a decrease in nearly every particular. The total acreage under all crepe haa gone down from 5,121,833 in 1879 to 5,081.224 in toe present year—A decrease of 40,609. Oats is the only cereal which shows an increase, wheat, barley, and rye declining to the extent of 57,132 acres. In green crops cabbage shows a trifling increase, against a fnliing off of 47,331 in potatoes, turnips, carrots, beet, tac. Fl.shows a pretty comider. able increnseon the v ear, something like 20 per cent., but the increase of 29.513 under this head is met by a decrease of 27,348 in the acreage devoted to meadow and clover. The total acreage under wheat, barley, rye, potatoes, turnips, mangel, beet, and carrots is smaller than at any time during the List tiro years. If we turn to the Live Stork Returns we find the same tale of decrease. Cattle lire 146,752 lees than in 1879; sheep, 456,542; pigs, 223,139; pouter., 336,106; and horn., mules, uses, and goats, 30,596; 'he total decrease for the year in all kinds of live stock being no lees than 1,213,125, the numbers being 27,005,273 in 1879, against 25,752,148 in 1880.  Tim GLASGOW Rm.—Hugh Reid waabrought up, before Bailie Laing, at the Central Police.oourt. He waa charged with having smashed a policeman's shoulder and head, and, being convicted, was sentenced tone. months' imprisonment, the highest penalty the Court could impose. The mag,strate remarked that them party processions must be put a stop to, because free tights always accompanied them. D.xon, of 43, Chester-street, Lower Kennington-lane, Lambeth, committed suicide by bangmg himself at the above address. The deceased was found soon afterwards, and out down, but he expired before medical assistance could be got. He was. carver by trade, but had been out of employment for a considerable time. He leavee • wife but no children. _ _  A
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-09-25 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MANCHRSTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL: FOUND. ATM SOHOLAHSHLPS .—The following boys from other saloon. have been elected to found. ation sliolarsliips—W. Farnsworth, Portwood Weslevau School, ; A. Kellett, Peter street, School ,S. W. Cocks, Rev, W. G. Cadman'. School, Harlinther ; C. Carr, Christ Church Board School; S. 0. Andrews, St. Joho'a National School, 10•01, j F. G. Harrop, Broom Holm School, Eccles; A. H. Duxbory, Christ. Church Upper Sob. 01, Salford ; S. Frimier„ Mancheater Jews' School, Cheatham Hill; A. E. Smith, Lower Mosley...street School; I. A.. Risque, St. Margaret's School, Whalley Range; J. Coleman, Rey. W. G. Cadman's School Hartley, Albert School, Marple; H. Lomaa, Lower MoMerstreet School. The following boys from the Grammar School have been elected to Foundation scholarships:—W. C. Grundy, .J. L. Knowles, I'. Ledward, G. D. ewton, F. L. Overend, J. Ryder, A. Sellars, (1, Sharp, J. E. Sugars, F. Summers, B. C. Thomas.  - - SHOCKING SIICIDE OF A WOVAN AT STAIXBRIDGE —At a few minutes before eight o'clock on Wedneeday morning a woman named A. 111% PSBOII 55 years of age who keeps a pork butchere shop in Melbourne street next door to the Commercial Hotel committed suicide in a shocking manner. It appears that ahe has beon parted from her hush and for a long time but she lived with her family at the shop, She came downstairs first on Wedneaday morning and when her daughter Hannah Russell mime down shortly afterwards she was horrified at seeing her mother sit on a chair in the the back kitodhen with a knife in her hand, and blood jostling from a wound in her throat. She screamed out and Mr, and Mrs. Worthington who live opposite, went in and also Mrs. Byrom and Sergeant Atherton who lives in Dearden-atreet. On. Diokimon and Roberts-Dudley were at once sent for, but the deceased died as soon as they arrived at the home. The deceased hoe bees in a desponding elate for some time, and more so ainm the the death of her aged mother a little over a week nlfo.