Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-08-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TWO BRAVE LITTLH BOYS. A heroic resat, limn drowning in the tie& Severn Wm been effected by a Shrewohury led. L4onolo boys were playing at the water side at the 1 point known as the Tau -field*, whore a little led, aged 6 yesrh, 1111111 John Pommes • of Gulden Cionv•pespage, gut i to the *atm and was quickly Monett out ol is depth by • strong °unman The little bo wal rm the point of drowning when a playfe w, Harry Prim, seed 11 years, mode a plucky twicSis, lie divested himself of his olothine and leaped _imtm the water, had, after swinuniew a long u!Rub team' reaohed the drowning lid juitt in inn* Is pip his collar with hie teeth. By Oath means the little lad's head war kept shot, the level of the water, and Ponies sueceeded in brineinw Win to idiom in • mist ezheusted condition. The model rentorative measures were resorted to, and allies tune erice conveyed the buy to lini boccie. A gallant moue front drowning has been inadi by Ilatuld Kraus, • Glutonester eight•yearald boy. Evans and others wet, playing us the quay wall at tillouompur, when an elder km deliberately pushed one a his complOsious. hotn years of age, into the water, • drop of some ten Se iifteen feet. Tbe pour little fellow knunlied Mt head against s sPone Lad rolled into compaiatifill !deep water. Going down twit* he hhrieked has Karp, and Bram coshing dime the Mips plusilnle jumped into the water. and cottoning hold of the sleeve of hie companion's mat only just in time brought him ashore. The boy who had bees pushed in was tionveyed to the infirmary, and after having his head stitched was allowiNto be taken booze.  SUICIDES & ATTEMPTED SUICIDES  William Robert Parry, clothier's assistant, hanged hinge& at Sheffield isi Sunday with • mohair bootlace. On Monday morning the Wigan polite reports that a woman named Ellen Get rard, of us, settled topsides., had been found lying in • field, and when spoken to by a constable lusted that she had ewellowed a ehilling's •orth of phosphorus. She was removed to the inhrmary, • where littlshope of her recovery was en:ertained. Thomas Barrett, a lad of 14, committed suicide in • most deliberate filehion as Bredlord on Friday. lie wao employed at the Ivy Mills, owned by Mr. W. Grapson, and shortly after noon was woeking in the cellar with another lad. On some excuse be got the other boy away, ond then, taking a spindle-band, he fastened it to the top of the door. way and deliberately etrengled hiinself in • meets at the end. No cause can be assigned for the aut. A young man of gentlemanly appearance' whore name is believed to be Erneet Clarke, shot himsell dead on Monday at Liveipool-street Station, London. On die deceased's body was found t tattooed lady's bust with • snake coiled ruuud ow of her arms. On 'Tuesday two tragedies tit place in Dublita Major John *heroines. a retir Muer the 30.1 Foot, out his throat from ear ear with • diners . knife. In the second MAIO a baker named John Liakin, 68 years of age, cut his thrust WWI a rithor. , In each oars the unturtunite suicides wine well , known and reopened, and appeared always to be , perfectly sane and happy. , A man named Walker hanged himself on Wei. neaday morning at Bei:abridge, Isle of Wight, by tying himself to a directing post at four crime roads. A shocking Maids is reported from Fintoni county Tyrone, where is madwoman, untitled Ana Muunagh, deliberately kindled a large lire iteut threw herself into the flames, her body being burned to a tinder. She stripped herself quire naked before entering the fire.