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Middlesbro' & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1868-03-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MIDDLESBROUGH & STOCKTON GAZETTE.  The Telegraph says the Leadership in the House of Lords, vacated by the retirement of Lord -v, has we believe, devolved epos the Earl of , Lords,  Derby ei4oebb  . _ It has been proposed in the Missouri Legislature to fine and imprison parents who neglect to send their children to school four months in the year.  _ Visits of sympathy have been paid to Mr Sullivan and Mr Pigott by some of the must influential men of Dublin.  The Countess de Stollberg, Lady Superior of the Hospice of Belhanie, at Berlin, has just died of typhus fever caught while visiting, the provinces suffering from famine and epidemic disease. Mr Laurence Oliphant is about formally to announce his intention not to offer himself again for the representation of the Stirling Burghs —the cause of his retirement being, we are sorry to say, had health.— Scotsman.  The Empress Charlotte is said to have addressed to the Pope a touching letter, written in pure Italian. The paper is broadly bordered with black, and the whole is in the handwriting of the unfortunate princess. Its purpose is to solicit the prayers of the Holy Father for the repose of the soul of the Emperor Maximilian.  Mr F. G. Smith, secretary to the Scottish Union Fire and Life Insurance Company, committed suicide on Saturday last, at the company's offices, in Cornhill, by shooting himself through the head. It is said that family affairs led to the perpetration of the rash act.  There was considerable disturbance on Monday night at Rochdale, arising from an announcement that the first of a series of lectures on Popery and Puseyism would be delivered. The magistrates apprehended a disturbance, and therefore wisely prohibited the meeting. The lecturers arrived at the hall and were somewhat roughly treated, arid the town was in a state of great excitement.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-02-10 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

STOCKTON CHRISTIAN MISSION.—In connection with the Christian Mission, which has prospered so vigorously in Stockton during the past year, Mr G. S. /When, of London, secretary to the mission, visited the town on Sunday, and preached afternoon and evening at the Star Theatre to crowded congregations, his subjects being "Our Commission" and " the Suicide of a Soul." Advantage was taken of the presence of Mr Railton to hold a meeting in the Borough Hall on Monday evening, and though there were more than the usual number of religious meetings going on, the attendance was extremely good. Mr Robert Ward presided, and addresses were delivered by the chairman, Mr A. Lamb, the Evangelist, Mr G. Lazenby, Mr Railton, and others. It was stated, as showing the energy of the leaders of the mis-don, that ovei the twenty-eight weeks in which Mr Lamb has been in the town there have been 13 open air meetings per week, 5 indoor preaching services, 5 prayer meetings, 6 believers' meetings, and one temperance meeting, making a total of 30 meetings per week. The number of persons meeting in class in connection with the Mission is now 236, and 75 per cent, of this number are teetotallers. During the twentyeight weeks of Mr Lamb's ministry the income has been—from collections, £lBl 108 fid ; donations, £lO9 14s 9d ; amount realised by Mrs Booth's tea and lecture, £2O 183 41; total, £312 3i 7d. The expenditure includes :—Balance due treasurer, July Ist, 1875, £lO 15s 7d; gaq, coal, fuel, &o, £55 83 2d; rent of theatre and meeting room, £127 93 Od ; Evangelist's salary, 28 weeks, £5O 83; furniture for house, Sm., £39 10s 10d; printing bill posting, azo., £22 12e; cash-in hand, £6; total, £312 2s 71. It is intended to mark the close of Mr Lamb's first year by a tea festival, when a properly audited report, showing sources of income and its disposal, will be printed and sm pliid to each subscriber.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-07-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TRAGEDY AT SCARBOROUGH.  The mystery in regard to the girl who was found drowned in Cornelian Bay, Scarborough, has been cleared up in a somewhat tra-rie Manner. It appears that the girl, who was only fifteen years of ace, and was named Mary Alice Agar, had been living with a sister at Rosedale Abbey, near Whitby. A young man named John White had for some menthe past been paying his addresses to her, and on Tuesday night last the two were seen together at a picnic in that village, and must have eloped the same night. The girl's friends strongly opposed the match, and White has been heard to say more than once if he could not have her nobody else shauld. A warrant for abduction was obtained against him, and sent on to Scarborough, to which place it was thought the missing couple had taken flight. Simultaneously with the warrant the girl's friends arrived at Scarborough, and were shown the body of the girl, which they identified, and a heartrending' scene was the result. A search ih the town was made for White, and his dead body was found washed up on the sands at noon, but within a hundred yards cf the spot where the girl's body was found. The facts of the case strongly point to murder, seeing that the girl's body mu found at about four o'clock on Thursday morning, and in the man's pocket have been found two tickets for the Scarborough Cliff Bridge, slated the same day. The man must therefore have been living after the girl was drowned, and it is thought he first threw the girl into the water, I.lld a few hours afterwards committed suicide.  On Monday an inquest was held touching the death of John White, the young man whose body was washed up by the sea at a point about a mile south of Scarborough, on Sunday last, and who on Tuesday last eloped from Rosedale Abbey with a girl, whose body was found in almost exactly the same spot two days afterwards. The Scarborough Cliffe Bridge tickets, which bore Thursday's date, and which it was thought had been issued some hours after the body of the unfortunate girl was found, it was stated at the inquest were past-da'ed, and issued on Wednesday night. This will in a measure help to dispel the idea that the man White was alive after the gal had been drowned, but that they died toge'her has not yet been proved. It was stated at the inquiry that the deceased were paseionately in love with each other, but the cause of the objection to the engagement on the part of the triends was not elicited. The iiiquest was adjourned until Saturday next, wlan it will be re-opened in regard to both deaths.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-07-27 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DETERMINED ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.— Michel Quigley was brought up in custody charged with attempting to commit suicide.—Ann Morgan, living in Cambridge-s rest, said: On Saturday last I was in the prisoner's house in Lennard-street, Portrack. The prisoner was in the kitchen, and had a razor in his hand. His wife took it from him. He afterwards went upstairs and I followed him. He had his coat and waistcoat off, and was stabbing himself with a knife about his nest. He handed the knife to his wife, and I afterwards gave it to Sergt. Thornthwaite.—D/ Butler said : On Saturday night about eight o'clock I was called to the prisoner's house. I found him lying upstairs in bed, bleeding from two incised punctured wounds on the lower portion of the left side of the chest. One wound was about one inch, and the other about 11 inches in length. The point of the knife had been prevented from entering the chest by coming in contact with the rib. I dressed the wounds. Prisoner was very drunk and violent. In consequence of prisoner threatening to finish himself, before moving I sent for Sergeant Thornthwaite.—Sergeaut Thornthwaite stated that from information he received he went to the prisoner's house on Saturday night. He found him upstairs lying on a bed. There was blood on his breast. He asked him who he had teen stabbing, when he replied "1 have done it." He then asked him what with, and he replied with a pen knife. I asked him the reason why he had done it. He said, "1 hrve a bad wif a ; I wish I was dead. I shall do it." I took possession of the prisoner's cilothes, which are saturated with blood. I received the knife I produce from the witness Mvrgan. I took the prisoner into custody. On charging him, he replied, " I did it. all the clothes I have I have on. The shirt I have on has not a button on it. I have been working regularly."—Prisoner, on being formally charged said, "I have nothing to say."—He was committed for trial.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-06-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NOVEL DELVING MACHINE.—On Thursday last there w a put to work on a cutting at Plutntree Hill, near Embleton, oa the new line of railway between Stockton and Sunderland, a new delving machine, which has been purchased by Mr T. Nelson, the contractor, from the makers, Messrs. Dunbar, Ruston, and Procter, of Lincoln. This novelty in the way of digging requires six men to work it, but it digs and fills 150 waggons per diem, so that immense saving of manual labour is effected. Numbers of people gathered round the machine to see it work, and the utmost astenishment and satisfaction was evinced at its progress. The machine under notice is the fourth of its kin i that has been issued Lona the above works.  SHOCKING AND FATAL OCCURRENCE AT PORLiACK.—On Saturday night, an occurrence of a shocking and fatal character occurred at Portrack. It appears that for some time a man named Hughes, living at Portrack, has been unwell. About eight o'clock on the night named the unfortunate man was left alone in the bedroom for two or three minutes, when his wife, who was downstairs, heard a crash of glass, and at once ran upstairs. She was there horrified to find her husband, who had only his night dress on, sitiing out of the window. She seized him by the shirt in order to prevent him falling, but it was not sufficiently strong, and he fell into the yard below, striking a tap in his descent. Medical sid was immediately procured, and he was removed to bed. Deceased succumbed to his injuries about 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. On Monday night an inquest was held at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Poitrack, before Mr Settle, coroner, upon the body. Nothing beyond what has already appeared transpired, and the jury, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-01-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OOO.  A satuous disagreement has taken place between the masters and men connected with the South Wales Conciliation Board. The eliding scale committee made a classification of certain collieries, and the dispute has arisen as to the proper interpretation of the clause. So determined are the men that their interpretation is correct, that they have turned out in the steam coal district of Swan. sea.  Tuz barque Water Hen, of South Shield., Wes wrecked on the 'stand of Ereekie.  YEgTrIIDAY, Mr Roddem, of the Hastings Arms, Seaton Delays', committed suicide by shooting him• self in a stable.  Tait Leonard-Edmunds case has again been before Vice Chancellor Maline. The case was not completed when the Court rose last night.  Ms MAINWARING and Mr Stanley Leiqhton are canvassing North Shropshire. The Libras are holding back, in the expectation that the 11011. Leveson Gower will come forward.  YESTERDAY Henry Stringer, cashier to Messrs Annon and Cobb, hide brokers, London, was brought up under remand, chat ged with embezzling £1,568. He oonfessed his defalcations to a member of the firm. The case was again remanded.  A man and his wife, named What!, were tonnd in bed at Norwich yesterday, with their throats cut. As the old people lived on very friendly lerms, it is supposed they have both been renrderA.  THERE has been a great decrease in the nuaLber of emigrants from the Mersey during last year. The reduction amounts to 33,903 on the year, and 7,500 for the quarter ending December. This is very significant, especially when taken in connection with the return of large numbers of Pith who had emigrated to America.  THE Aberdeenshire Con.servatives rem so highly elated at their success in the Eastern Division of the County, by the return of Colonel Gordon in place of Mr Fordyce, that tiny are desirous of having another contest. Yesterday, Mr McCombie, speaking at an agriculture meeting, said the illness he had just passed through was only slight, and he had no intention of retiring. He believed the Conservatives had been preparing to contest his seat. This is taking time by the forelock with a vengeance!
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-06-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DRUNICENNEBS.—P.U. Reay charge,l John Pellam with being drunk and riotous, and he was mulcted in the sum of 5s and costs.—Patrick McGarrick was charged by P.C. Gable with biting drunk on Saturday night. Fined 53 and costs.—Wm. Johnson walr similarly charged by Sergeant Hill. He was fined 2s 6d and 6s 6d costs.—Margaret Hanlon, on the information of P.C. Cooper, for being drunk and disorderly on Saturday night, was fined 5s and costs. —For being drunk on Saturday night James O'Neil was fined 5s and 5s 10d costs. P.C. Robinson proved the ease. REFUSING TO Qum.— Samuel Pugh was charged with refusing to quit the licensed premises of Mr Parry, landlord of the Bellringers' Arms, on Saturday afternoon. The defendant whilst in a state of intoxication went to the complainant's house, and asked to have some drink filled. Upon being refused he would not leave the premises, and had to be forcibly ejected.—He was fined 10s and costs. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A WOMAN IN TEA POLICE Cau.s.—Mary Ann Burke, alias Bride, was brought  . up in custody, charged with stealing a skirt, the propeity of Margaret Shepherd. The p,-tsoner, who , had been previously convicted for offearus of a simikr nature, having just come out of Itla rthallerton Gaol after serving 18 months' imprisonsm, ataind the prnsecutrix lodged together at the i,iodel Lodging-house. On the night of .the fttb instant they slept together, and cOi. the following morning the skirt was missed. The prisoner was sus7erited, and the article was found in her possess*. She was taken into custody by P.C. Cox, to whom eke stated she [had bought the skirt. —Mellow pleated guilty, and, being an old offender, she woe committed for trial.—At the conclusion of the case he was co iveyed ta the cells, and whilst being looked up it Wai noticed that she had i pocket handerchiet in Jan hand, but it was not apprehended t that she would attempt to commit suicide. Shortly afterwards Sergeant McKeon looked into the cell,, when he saw that the prisoner 1..14 attempted to strangle herself by tying the poeket handkerchief round her neck. She was black in he face, and bad it not been for the timsly arrival of the sergeant she would have effected her purpose. She r% covered in the course of the afternoon, and was conveyed to Durham to await her trial.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-07-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUSPECTED SUICIDE AT SALTBURN.—Mr Robinson, deputy-corener, opened an inqaest at the Zetland Hotel, Salthurnaiy-the-Sea, on Tuesday afteinoon, on the body of a married woman named Mary Raisbeck, who is supposed to have committed suicide by drowning herself in the sea early on Tuesday morning. The deceased was separated from her husband, and earned a livelihood by keeping a lodgin: house and taking in washing, at Saltburn. On Monday evening she appeared in her usual health, and after her sou and lo.lgers retired, about eleven o'clock, she went to her bedroom. She was missed between three and four o'clock on Tuesday morning, by a Mrs Holden, who was staying with her, and ou au alarm being raised and a search made, she was found on the sands near Haz.lgr.ve, quite dead, as though she had been drowned. At the inquest on the body, on Tuesday afternoon, a young man, named John Taylor, joiner, son of deceased, gave evidence bearing out these facts, lie added: She had not previouely threatened to make away with herself, although he heard her say on Thursday last, which was her birthday, that that would be her last birthday. She was quite cheerful on Monday, and nothing tran=pired which led him to think that she would commit suicide. There being one or two suspicious features in the else, the inquest was endjotnned.—At the resumed inquest at the Zetlat d Hotel, Saltburn, on Wednesday evening, on the body of a married woman nnmed Mary Raisbeck, aged 49, it was shown that the deceased, whilst in an unsound state of mind, induced by heart disease, left her bedroom, and drowned herself in the sea. About weeks ago she made an attempt on her life by swallowing a dose of laudanum. A yerdtot in se. eordsnoelwith the lasts was returned.  lot 01 . 10, ) • I • 0 •, , • 40 , • •
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-07-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE ON THE NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.  Inquiries made on Tuesday reveal the fact that th e passenger from King's Cross to Newcastle, who killed himself with a revolver, between N thallerton and Cowton Stations, on Monday eien. was named David James Neal. This has been ascertained from a pledge-card issued by a Newc. le temperance society which was found in his pas scion, and from other circum-tances. The revel r was a sixchamhered one, and two shots hall been fired. There is reason to believe that the first shot was fired between Thirsk and Northallertun from a noise that was heard, but this was pr, baLly to try the revolver. The fatal shot was heard soon after leaving Northallerton. A pocketbook was discovered on him, on which was wrAten, " My father's address is Dr Neill 23; South Norton-place, Edinburgh." On another leaf he commenced a letter to his father, beginning "My dear father." The substance of the letter was that there was £3 in gold in his pocket, which would pay his father for his lodgings. The keys of his trunk were also in his pocket. His clothes would pay his funeral expenses. lie added, "You must forgive me for this ;" and intimated, in conclusion, that he killed himself on account of his young wife. It is th,mght thot he had lately been residing in Newcastle. The address at Edinburgh has been communicated with, 'and an answer has been received that some of his friends would arrive on Wednesday night. On Wednesday, an inquest was hell at tho Railway Station, Cawton—before Mr Coroner Walton— on the body of David James Neill, who committed suicide in a railway carriage on the North-Eastern Railway, on Monday last. The inquest was adjourned ti'l next Wednesday.  Dr Jonathan Hoarder, of Plymouth, famous for discoveries in electricity, died on Sunday. AN
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-07-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EXPECTED ABDICATION OF THE SULTAN. MORE TURKISH ATROCITIES.  VIENNA, Monday. Yesterday a fight occiuTed at Belgradjik, but the result was undecided.  The Montenegrins are now within one hour's march of Mostar. A Russian officer has been arrested. PARIS, Monday. Nothing new has been received from the seat of war, except accounts of outpost skirmishes on the Timok. It is reported that Youme, the Consul-General of Russia, has arrived at headquarters. The Servians appear to have abandoned all hope of victory, and are seeking to make terms.  RAGUSA, Monday. Intelligence from a Slavonic source announces that the Montenegrin army has arrived at Blagai, close to Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina, the capture of which is confidently expected today. The Time publishes the following telegram from its Berlin correspondent : "The statement that Russia endeavours to obtain an armistice for Servia is repeated. 14,000 rifles have been bought in Germany for Greece. As the Roumanian Government and people have no . wish to promote the RussoSclavonic interest in the Balkan peninsula they are determined to remain neutral in the present conflict."  The special correspondent of the Daily News sends the following : PARATJIN, Monday afternoon. The Chief of Prince Milan's staff has just shown me a telegram from General Olimpicz, at the camp near . Belina, stating that the Turkish corps are practising fearful atrocities among the Christian villages of Bosnia, burning, slaying, and mutilating in all directions. Many wounded women avd children are refugees in his camp. The Turks lacerate children with knives, fling them up in the air, and catch them on the points of their weapons. These cruelties are committed by the Bashi-Bazouks and the Redifs, or reserve, not by the Turkish regulars. From all the corps come reports that the Servian dead are found after the engagements with their heads or noses cut off—a violation of the convention which enrages the Servian troops. Nevertheless, the Servians always decently bury the Turkish dead, and many of the Turkish wounded are in their hospitals, • receiving from the doctors as much attention as their own wounded.  There is no news yet from Zaicar. CONSTANTINOPLE, Saturday. The state of the Sultan's health causes great anxiety. His enfeebled constitution has never recovered the shock given to it by the suicide of his uncle, and again by the murder of Hussein Avni, and he is utterly unfit for business. The Ministers make a show of consulting him, but he is absolutely a mew wreck of what he was three months ago. There are those who declare positively that symptoms of softening of the brain have shown themselves in him, and that his condition is one of imminent danger. I believe myself that his atdication is near at hand, and that it is unavoidable.
Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-07-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE IN A NORTH-EASTERN TRAM.  A most extraordinary occurrence took place on Monday in a train on the North-Eastern Railway. On the arrival at Cow ton of the train leaving York at 6,20, and due at Darlington at 8.24, a man was found in a third-class compartment lying on the seat in a strunge manner with his face downwards. Assistance was procured, and he was turned over, when he was found to be quite dead, and beneath him the guard found &fix-chambered revolver with some of the chambers discharged. The man's breast was open, and on examination the mark of a bullet was found on his left side opposite the heart. From the fact that his breast was open, and even his shirt torn away, it was surmised that the shot had been fired by himself. This was farther borne out by the following strange circumstances. Some commercial travellers, on their way to Darlington, who were in neighbouring compartments, heard, when some stations distant from York, a sound like a pistol shot. Thinking it was the concussion of the lamp, or something of that sort, no notice was taken of it. This, however, could not have been the fatal shot, as deceased was seen looking out of the window at Nortballerton. Soon after leaving Northallerton, however, another report was heard, and this, it is presumed, was the fatal shot, for on being taken out of the carriage at Cowton deceased was quite warm. Another circumstance which points to the conclusion of suicide is that a lady who travelled in the same compartment with deceased from King's Cross left the carriage at York on account of his strange behaviour. Deceased is a man apparently about 45 years of age, with fair complexion, fair hair, beard, and moustache. He was neatly dressed. He had a a third-class ticket from King's Cross to Newcastle, but as he was not [searched pending the arrival of the authorities, nothing to lead to his identity transpired. The body remains at Cowton, where the inquest will be held.