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Widnes Examiner. — 1882-07-22 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

OOO. Six hundred hands are idle.  At Bolton, on Thursday, a schoolboy named Thos. Stones was charged with housebreaking. He had broken into two houses near his own home in Holden-street, by taking panes of glass from the kitchen windows. He ransacked drawers, and stole nearly £3 in money, a cigar-holder, watch chain, and other articles. He was arrested next morning at school with some of the articles in his possession. He was sent to an industrial school.  At Middleton, on Thursday, Joseph Hussey was sentenced to three months' hard labour for violently assaulting Ann Pendergrast. The prosecutrix gave evidence against the prisoner's brother at the last Salford sessions, and because of this he set on her on Saturday night, knocking her down and kicking her about the head and body. Her face presented a dreadful appearance. A Kings Lynn correspondent telegraphed on Tuesday afternoon that a fisherman named Parke Thwaites, aged fifty, residing apart from his wife and family in Pilot-street, murdered a woman namen Harriet Fox, with whom he cohabited, by stabbing her to the heart, and afterwards committed suicide by stabbing himself in a similar manner The woman left him a few weeks ago, and was about to marry another man. Jealousy was the cause of the terrible creme. Intelligence received from Lloyds on Thursday morning states that the new iftn ship Hermes, of Glasgow, 1,464 tons register, on her first voyage, bound from the Clyde to San Francisco, has- been totally lost with her crew of forty hands. The vessel sailed from Greenock on the 3rd December last and has never been heard of since, and being now several months overdue there is no doubt she has foundered with all on board. Insurance companies will suffer heavily the vessel and cargo being worth £30,000. At Bolton, on Thursday, John Armstrong, his wife, and son were charged with wounding four constables. Rearing a fight in the defendant's house in Newton, an officer entered but was pitched out. He obtained the assistance of three other officers and re-entered. The Armstrongs then assaulted them with pokers, pots, and pans, and one constable was fearfully cut over the eye, and had to be removed to the infirmary. The other officers were also injured. The prisoners were committed for trial. On Thursday afternoon a young man named Montague Ryle D. Newby, who was articled to a firm of solicitors in Manchester, murdered a younc, woman named Howard in a house in St. Leonard's-street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, and afterwards committed suicide. Newby, who is said to be the son of a clergyman residing in Rutlandshire, has for some time been paying attention to Howard, who led an immoral life. Some disagreement was caused between them owing, it is reported, to her partiality for another of her lovers. Newby want to visit her shortly after four o'clock on Thursday afternoon, and after an angry conversation had taken place between them—latrahot her under the left ear with a revolver, death ensuingdirectly, and then killed himself in like manner.
Widnes Examiner. — 1882-03-04 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY DESIGN TO ASSASSINATE M. GAMBETTA. —At the Seine assizes, on Monday, Emile Florion' twentythree, weaver, was sentenced to twenty years' hard labour for firing at a doctor at Neuilly. His original design was to assassinate M. Gambetta as a protest against middle-class ascendancy. He set out on foot from Rhei:ns last October with a revolver, and for three days prowled about the Palais Bourbon; but M. Gambetta not being visible be resolved to shoot the first rich-looking man he met. lie accordingly fired at Dr. Meymar, whom be did not know, but who wore a foreign decoration, and then attempted suicide. Happily, Dr. Meymar's face was merely grazed. The evidence showed that the prisoner had taken part in strikes, read Socialistic papers, had been dismissed by his employers for sullenness or insubordination, and had determined to kill one of those men—M. Gambetta, M. Grevy, or M. Ferry, for instance— whom he described as fattening on the swelt of the masses'. On the sentence being delivered, the prisoner exclaimed, " I quite expected it. You (the jury) arc all bribed. rive la Revolution soeiale !"  VISIT TO THE PITCAIRN ISLANDS —A repert has been made to the Admiralty of a visit paid in April last by H.M.S. Thetis to Pitcairn Island. This far-distant and interesting little colony, founded by the mutineers of the Bounty, was found in a flourishing condition. The whole population, now numbering about 100 souls, turned out en masse to give a welcome to our blue jackets. The only dread the islanders have is that they will be some day forgotten and left entirely cut off from all tidings of the outer world. But this is a fate that is not likely ever to befall them. Her Majesty has shown that she kindly remembers the little speck in the ocean inhabited by these interesting people, and they receive occasional visits from passing vessels. The advent of a British man-cf-war off their coast is an event for great rejoicing, and for interchange of pleasant courtesies. The islanders send off a supply of bananas and limes, for which they decline all payment. They are always glad to receive articles of clothing, prints for the women's dresses and cloth far the men. They do not produce such articles on the island, and they have therefore to trust to outside supplies to prevent them lapsing into primitive modes of attire. An American trader lately left the islanders a supply of cotton seed, and they hope to be able to cultivate the plant. EXPLOSION IN AN AUSTRIAN MINE: TERRIBLE
Widnes Examiner. — 1882-04-15 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

UNSUSPECTED POISONS.— The Pharmaceutical Journal quotes the opinion of an eminent analyst, from which it appears that decided symptoms of poisoning result more frequently than we are aware of from any considerable consumption of potatoes. Among the poorer classes, who live largely on potatoes, such symptoms are said to be common, more particularly when the tubers are very young or very old. such potatoes, we are told, contain considerable quantities of solanine. This poison was found in very unmistakable quantities in the stomach of a man who had bees for two or three days previous to his death living on nothing but raw unripe potatoes, and there seems to have been no room for doubt that this diet accounted for the presence of the poison. It is said to be found chiefly, if not entirely, is the skin of the potato, and is soluble in boiling water, and we may, we suppose, assume therefore that a very young or a very old potato boiled in its skin must be to some extent permeated by solanine, and must be unwholesome to an extent that may become serious if partaken of in large quantities. Another unsuspected source of poison is said to be maize or Indian corn. A disease as fatal in Italy as consumption is in this country is attributed entirely to the exclusive use of this cereal, which is thought to be especially dangerous if ground in a damaged condition—damaged, we suppose, by incipient decay, though that is not stated. There is said to be one remarkable fact connected with the disease which is thought to have its origin in this source— the disease known as pellagra. Sufferers from it who conamit suicide always do so by drowning, a fact explained by the pleasure afforded by the sight or touch of water, which constitutes a symptom of this disorder.—Globe.
Widnes Examiner. — 1882-04-15 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SUICIDE OF A WO\IAN AT WARRINGTON.  Under somewhat melancholy circumstances, a woman named Maria Speakman committed suicide at Warrington on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased, who was 38 yeaas of age, was the wife of a bookkeeper named John Speakman, living , at 46, Golborne-street. For some time back, according to the report of the police, the deceased and her husband have lived unhappily together, in consequence of her intemperate habits, and their relations to each other had become so unpleasant on the 4th inst., that the deceased left 11,-_T home. She never afterwards returned. On Tuesday afternoon the deceased was sitting on the river bank near the rope works, for sometime talking to Mr. Monks. Afterwards she walked along the river side in the direction of, Walton. When she arrived at the spot known as Mondock Bay, she took a seat on a large stone lying there, and for a few minutes gazed in the water. Then rising she took off her bonnet, placed it on the ground, and jumped in the river. She does not appear to have made any cry, bat a youth named Edward Jeffreys, who was standing on the bank, saw her commit the rash act, and he informed two men named Alfred Cooper and Thomas Bachhouse of the occurrence. With the aid of a rail, the men succeeded in drawing the deceased to the bank, but life wasthen extinct. The body was removed to the Higher Seven Stars, Bridge-street. The inquest on the body was:held at the Higher Seven Stars, Bridge-street, yesterday morning, before the county coroner, Mr. C, E. Driffield. John Speakman, the husband of the deceased, said on Tuesday at noon he met the deceased in Crown-street, and she asked him what he was going to "do in it." 'Witness replied that she must go to the workhouse. The deceased then turned round and left him, saying, "You will remember this to the day of your death." The sane afternoon he heard of her death. On the 4th inst. witness missed some articles, and at breakfast that day he said if the pawn tickets were not produced at dinner she "would have to go out." When he came home at noon the deceased was missing. On Good Friday he went to Liverpocl and in consequence of a telegram be received from his nephew, Joseph Gibbons, he returned at nine o'clock that night. The deceased was standing at the house with the door handle in her hand; he unlocked the door and entered, but kept the deceased outside, telling her that as she had gone away of her own will she must stay away. In a short time the deceased went round to the back, and smashed a pane of glass. She asked for her clothes, and he gave them to her through the broken window. The following evening she returned to the house, and asked for some lodging money. Witness told her she had some money, and she must go to the workhouse. He had made arrangements with Mr. , Shearer, the relieving officer. They had been married 17 years, and the unpleasantness had arisen through drink. She had been drinking very heavily for the past two years. He had contemplated breaking up his house and living in lodgings.—The Coroner: But you did
Widnes Examiner. — 1882-11-25 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SIIICIDI ON A WEDDING MORNING.—On Saturday a painTyldesley, Middle and Little Hulton, Farnworth, and Great ful case of suicide was notified to the police at Kensingzon, Lever. By No. 9it is contemplated to join Faruworth, London. A German gentleman, named Carl Engel, aged Middleton, Bolton-le-Moors, Radcliffe, Bury, Rochdale, 64, residing in Addison-road, Kensington, had arranged to Farnworth, Great Lever, Darcy Lever, Little Lever. Castle- be married to Miss Lawrence, the daughter of a dyer residton, end Spotland. Plateway No. 10 is to join Winwick, tog at Mitcham, at St. John's Church, Notting Hill, by the Wigan, and Chorley ; 10A comes wholly within the parish Rev. Dr. Thornton, the vicar, at ten o'clock on Saturday. On Friday night he accompanied his intended bride to her of Winwick ; and 10b within the parish of Wigan. The next plateway in point of order, commencing at Chorley by residence at Notting Hill, and returned home, being admita junction with intended plateway No. 10, is to cover the ' ted by the servant, apparently in his usual health. Miss , Lawrence went to the house of her affianced on Saturday ground between that town and the parish of Pen wortharn I (near Preston), passing through Whittle-le-Woods, Clayton- morning with the expectation of being married, when she I received a communication from the servant which induced le-Woods, Cuerden, Farrington,Walton-le-Dale, and Heapey. Commencing at Chorley, the plateway No. 12 is to terminher to send for a man to break open the door of her intended ate at Burnley, passing through Leyland, Brindle, Black. I husband's bedroom. When the door was broken open Engel ' burn, Whalley, Houghton; am, was found dead, suspended by a strap, which was fastened twietle, Church, Padit and Habergham Eaves, Darwen, Oswald- , through a hole cut in the cupboard door. He was in his Pleasington ' Another piateway, commencing at Church, is to nightdress, and had apparently been in bed, as it was found terminate at Old Accrington. In connection with all these to have been used. The father of Miss Lawrence soon lines it is intended to take the commons or reputed cornafterwards arrived, and cut down the body. In the room a mons of Lingley Green (Great Sankey), Edge Green (Golletter was found, addressed to Miss Lawrence, dated some borne), Ashton Heath (Ash ton-in-Makerfield), and Stone , days previously, in which he expressed a fear that he would I Moor (Hapton). It is proposed to ask Parliament for die suddenly from a disease of the heart, and enclosing a s special provision to cross the ship canal from the Mersey to sum of £l,OOO for her acceptance in the event of that taking Manchester, proposed to be authorised in the ensuing sea- place and leaving her unprovided for before they were sion, and the lines in and at which the respective works married. The deceased gentleman had been in a depressed shall be constructed. The promoters further desire power state of mind, and was annoyed at the non-arrival of some to be given to the company to cross, divert, alter, or stop furniture which he had ordered. ,
Widnes Examiner. — 1882-10-07 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ATTEMPTED MATRICIDE.—The Press Association Northampton correspondent reports the attempt by a young men named Thomas Luck to murder his mother. The brother of the delinquent on returning home on Thursday found a sharp-pointed coalpicic partly buried in his mother's neck. Thomas had disappeared, and it was supposed he had committed suicide. The woman lies in a precarious condition. The missing man was of a peculiar temperament, and the theory of temporary insanity is entertained. 'Mille a heavy Caledonian goods train was proceeding, on Thursday, between Perth and Dundee it broke down near Errol. The axle of one of the wagons snapped, and before the train could be stopped 21 trucks had left the metals— tearing up the line' and doing considerable damage. The, contents of several wagons were scattered over the track. The passenger traffic is being worked on a single line. Gangs of workmen have left to clear the block and repair the way. No personal injuries are reported. At the Preaton Police Court, on Thursday morning, John Thompson, a labourer, was charged with violently assaulting Thomas Leonard on Sunday evening. Late at night prisoner went to the prosecutor's house and broke open the door, and attacked him. Prisoner was removed, but the prosecutor happened to venture out of doors afterwards, when he was again attacked by the prisoner, hurled to the ground, and kicked violently about the head. The Bench committed the prisoner to two months' hard labour. A point of some importance has been decided by the Revising Barrister for Middlesex. The Conservatives objected to the validity of the Liberal objections on the ground that they did not bear the date of the day on which they were signed, the date exhibited being the 18th August, whereas the notices bore the postmark of the 17th August. The Barrister held that it was unimportant whether the dating and the signature corresponded so long as they were both within the prescribed time.
Widnes Examiner. — 1882-07-01 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SAD STORY.—The Daily News Vienna correspondent, referring to the late painful case of suicide ness is suspended, the shops are closed, and provisions are by two young girls, observes :—" The poor girl's account of becoming scarce." Since September, 1881. the numerical and his father's fetidness of heart strength of the army has been raised from 12,000 to 20,000. Of this amount 10,000 are stationed in the barracks and might be deemed exaggerated did not subsequent cumin her lover's indifference . . f stances show them to be true to the letter. 011 Count Conforts of Alexandria, 4,000 at Cairo, and the remainder at denhoven was so shocked at the whole event that he left the Aboukir, Rosetta, Damietta, Port Said, and Surz. castle the same day on which the corpses were found. The Preparations for the despatch of an expedition to Egypt, young Count ordered a decent funeral for the girls, and or at the least for matdrially strengthening the garrisons in made the gardener cut all the flowers to found be in hot the Mediterranean, are being made in the British arsenals house and gardens to deck their coffins and their grave. and dockyards; and a considerable number of marines have The old ount, on returning to Ottenheirn, heard of this, already embarked. . and immediately gave orders the very reverse of those given A report is telegraphed from Simla that the Home 4overn- by his sons. The girls were buried outside the churchyard ment has requested the Viceroy to place at its disposal, in a•when n one knew of the ceremony, wall in the early morning, o "certain contingency" a body of troops. . - and when no friendly hand could throw earth upon them with a pitying heart!' It is within range of probability that the Army Reserves
Widnes Examiner. — 1882-12-09 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE GREAT ROBBERY OF HUMAN HAIR.—The Birmingham police have recovered £3OO worth of the human hair stolen from Messrs. Scaletter, merchants, Navigation-strett, Birmingham. The hair recovered had been disposed of to different hairdressers, at very low prices, viz., £6 worth of 132-inch flaxen for £3. Ernest Lodge, prosecutor's discharged clerk, arrested on suspicion, was on Tuesday further remanded. Philadelphia is just now excited over the capture of a band of grave robbers, who were caught with six bodies, intended for the Medical College, in their possession. An investigation shows that these ghouls had almost cleared one of our cemeteries of its occupants. The recovered corpses' have been identified. This capture was planned by some newspaper reporters attached to the Philadelphia Press, who carried it out successfully, as amateur detectives. The men captured are now in gaol, awaiting their trial. On Thursday morning, a shocking suicide was committed at Wolverhampton Police Barracks. Police-Constable Bennett, 23 years of age, has been ill some time, and attended by the police -surgeon. On Wednesday night he became worse, and early on Thursday morning jumped out of bed, ran downstairs into the kitchen, and locked the door. His father ran after him, and on bursting the door open, found his son dead on the floor, a table-kife covered with blood in his hand, and his head nearly severed from  the body. A special message, just received from Lloyds, states that during a heavy gale, on Wednesday afternoon, a large vessel was discovered ashore on the Hale Sand, off North Somercotee, on the Lincolnshire Coast, and before assistance could be rendered she went to pieces and all hands perished. A quantity of wheat and ship's planking have already washed ashore; also some papers marked ship Fiona, of Glasgow, with other wreckage. The iron ship Fiona, 1,450 tons register, laden with a cargo of wheat, from San Francisco, left Falmouth for Hull, to discharge, on Sunday last. There is no doubt but that is the vessel which has been lost. Her crew numbered 40 hands all told.
Widnes Examiner. — 1882-02-11 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SCEL LAN MT'S.  The new Eddystone Lighthouse was lighted for the first time on Friday night. _ _ _  _ Two men were killed on Saturday afternoon in a Liverpool dock by the explosion of a tank on board the flat Leander.  Lord Lyons and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs on Saturday siczned the declaration prolonging the existing commercial treaties until the Ist of March.  A floating dock, which is likely to prove of great advantage to the shipbuilding trade of the town, was on Saturday launched by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company. The failure has been announced in the London Bankruptcy Court of William Turner, of Estelle Road, Haverstock Hill, and Chelsea, builder and contractor, with liabilities to the amount of L'50,000. Sir James Ingham Las directed that a warrant should be issued against the Marquis of Huntly on a charge of obtaining by false and fraudulent pretences from William Gardner the sum of £2,000. Damages to the amount of £lOO were given on Saturday by a Liverpool jury in a Welsh breach of promise case. The defendant, J. W. Peemuller, who did not appear, was said to be a German, now in Switzerland.  On Monday a presentation of a thousand guineas, accompanied by an illuminated address, was mad to the Rev. Henry Postance, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Toxteth Park, in recognition of his educational and other work at the Southend of Liverpool. At London Bankruptcy Court, on Monday, application was made to commit The O'llonogbue, M.P., for contempt in not attending to pass his public examination. Counsel stated that the hon. member was negotiating to annul the bankruptcy. The case was adjourned. A fog of extraordinary density prevailed in London on Saturday evening, as a consequence of which traffic of all kinds was blocked, and a number of accidents occurred. In the theatres the occupants of the stage were but dimly seen by the spectators, and at one theatre the performance had to be abandoned.  At the Liverpool Assizes, on Monday, James Dickenson, a collier, was tried for the murder, at Pemberton, near Wigan, of another collier, named Middlehurst. This was a very bad case of kicking, and, the jury having found a verdict of manslaughter only, Mr. Baron Pollock passed sentence of 15 years' penal servitude. Mark Fahey Kavanagh, who was remanded by the Hammersmith police magistrate, last week, for causing the death of Helen Hawkins by administering poison, and on the charge of attempting to commit suicide at the same time, has committed suicide by hanging himself in the house of detention at Clerkenwell.  Writing to a member of the Monmouthshire Chamber of Agriculture, who had forwarded to the right hon. gentleman a copy of a resolution on the incidence of local taxation, Mr. Bright says that during the period of nearly 40 years that he has been in Parliament every increase of expenditure has been supported by the representatives of farmers, and that county members are the most eager supporters of whatever extravagance our administrators have been guilty of.