The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1890-08-23 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

SUICIDE OF AN OLD MAN.—Mr. Moore, COrOttet, - - an inquest on Monday. on the of Charles Eliman cll.), who cut his. . in the weighing -machine house, of which, _.., was in charge, in West-street.—Frora the • evidence it transpired that the deceased was somewhat eccentric, and had frequently threatened to take his life. On Saturday, as he did not answer, the door of the house was forced open by Police-sergeant Webb, and deceased was discovered lying on the floor with his throat cut. On a slate he had written a message to his two daughters, who resided at Leamington, stating that life was a misery to him, and his clothing was becoming all rags and tatters, he could not sleep, was worried to death, and had become so giddy that he could hardly walk about.—A verdict of "Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity" was returned.  A fête, consisting of a military tournament an other sports, was held in the park, Dunchurch, on, Monday. The weather was beautifully fine, and there was a large attendance of visitors. The results of the sports were as follow :—Heads and posts : 1, Sergeant Green, Warwickshire Yeomanry ; 2, Trooper Bloxham, Warwickshire Yeomanry ; 3, Corporal Cartwright, Himley Troop Staffordshire Yeomanry.-12.0 yards fist race (open) : 1, F. W. Edmonds, Rugby (scratch) ; 2, J. H. Bratby, Wolston (84 yards).—Tilting at the ring: 1, Sergeant Green • 2, Corporal Bloxham ; 8, Sergeant-major Tomlinson, Warwickshire Yeomanry.—Lemon-cutting : 1, Sergeant Green; 2, Corporal Cartwright; 3, Trooper Parsons, War. wickshire Yeomanry.—Two miles bicycle race : 1, C. Middleton, Rugby Harriers (55 yards) 2, A. Tye, Coventry (230 yards); 3, G. Jenkins, Coventry (180 yards).—Tent-pegging : 1, Sergeant Green ; 2, Trooper Bloxham ; 3, Corporal Cart.. wright.—Tent-pegging competition (No. 2); 1, Corporal Cartwright ; 2, Lord Feilding ; 3, Trooper Bloxham. Lord Feilding did not take the prize, and accordingly Bloxham took second, and Sergeant Spencer third.—One mile flat race : 1, H. Dunkley, Rugby Harriers, (scratch) • 2, W. Price Hal (50 yards) ; 3, H. H. De.voile, Coventry (40 yards).  The number of visitors to Switzerland has never been so large as it is this year. The Queen's Theatre at Manthester was almost totally destroyed on Sunday afternoon by a fire which arose at the rear of the building. On Saturday Jesse Hoyle, aged twenty-one, of Connisborough,shot his landlady, Rebecca Lindley, inflicting dangerous wotypds, and afterwards shot and killed himself. The Cunard steamer Umbria, which left Liverpool for New York on Saturday, bad on board no fewer than 575 saloon passengers, being the largest number ever carried in one steamer. The ringleaders in the recent riot in an Armenian church have been tried and condemned—the principal to death and eight others to imprisonment from six to fifteen years. The recent census shows the population of the United States to be 64,000,000, which is an increase of 30 per cent, during the past ten  years. Eight workmen have been killed and eight others injured, four serimisly, owing to the fall of a scaffold, on which they were working, in St.  Petersburg. The Manchester police have arrested a carter named Arthur Corfield, whose two young children died last week from poisoning after eating some rice pudding. On his house being searched, arsenic was found in several places, but the man said he knew nothing about it. George Jackson, carpenter, was charged at the Wandsworth police-court on Monday, with assaulting his wife, who said she hqd eighteen sons. The magistrate asked where thby were. She replied that three were carpenters. The husband was ordered to find a surety for his good behaviour. The Prince of Wales is expected to arrive in Vienna about the Middle of September, and to make a stay there of several days. His Royal Highness will afterwards proceed to the Hungarian estate of Count Tassilo Festetics. Ths Prince is expected to spend altogether about a fortnight in Austria and Hungary. A daring robbery was perpetrated at Euston Station on Friday evening. The Duchess of Manchester, on arriving, had occasion to see the station-master, leaving a few articles in the saloon carriage. On returning, she found that a satchel, containing her purse and aims valuable articles, had been removed, and all enquiries have proved fruitless. A number of boys and girls were summoned, at the North London police-court on Monday, for annoying pedestrians in Mare-street and Clarenceroad, on Sunday night. The evidence showed that the defendants, and others of their class, offended respectable people by the coarseness of their language, and by hustling them from the footpath. Heavy fines, with the alternative of imprisonment, were imposed. A great fire broke out shortly before three o'clock on Saturday morning at Messrs. Thorley's cattle food works, near the Caledonian-road. It originated in the grinding mills, which were entirely consumed, and all the valuable machinery was destroyed. At onetime almost the entire available fire brigade of the metropolis was engaged at the fire. News has been received from Persia of a disturbance, on the south shore of the Caspian Sea, between the workmen of an English Company and the crew of a vessel belonging to a Persian trading company. According to this account,, the English party illegally seized upon several thousand palm trees belonging to the trading company, and a free fight ensued, in which three men were killed and several wounded. The National Co-operative Festival, at the Crystal Palace, on Saturday, was a marked success. The flower show was said to be the largest ever held anywhere, the main feature being the produce of the gardens of working men. The productive exhibition was limited to those societies which allow the workers a share in the management as well as in profit. A demonstration was held later, Mr. Greening presiding, Messrs. Holyoake, Vansittart Neal, and James Rowlands, being among the speakers. High