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The Haslingden Gazette. — 1907-08-31 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

LIM ER ICK " GAMBLES.  ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD.  In the House of Commons on Monday, Mr. Ryles (L., Salford, N.), asked the Attorney-General whether he had been furnished with information showing that the newspaper competitions known as "limerick," were often too administered as to be little hotter than fraudulent lotterice, and did he now (see his way to take any steps for the protection of the large number of unsuspecting persons who were in good faith supplying the funds for these competitions. The Attorney-General: The materials furnished to me tend to show that in some cases at least the prizes for limericks are chosen haphazard. If so the so-called oompetition is undoubtedly both a lottery within the statute, and a fraud upon the competitors to whom it is represented that the discrimination will be exercised upon a basis of comparative merit. There is further the eonaideration whether the large SUMS subscribed are in fact distributed. The subject is under the consideration of the Commissioners of the Police, who are charged with the administration of the Lair, and have full authority to obtain proper legal advice. and I would suggest that all further communications upon the subject should be addressed to them.  On the railway embankment near Rochdale the body of a fully-developed male child was found on Monday. It was wrapped in canvas, and is supposed to have been thrown out of a passing train between Rochdale and Bacup.  "No one is to blame; I cannot go on, that is 11 all." So wrote Jessie Mabel Langridge, a Margate schoolmistress, who was staying for a holiday in Colinne-road, Tufnell Park, N., and who committed suicide—" while insane "—by taking potassium cyanide. Arrested on a charge of being a deserter from the Rifle Range at Sheerness, George I. Pocock, of Brentford, produced a letter stating that he was exempt from training, and he was on Monday discharged at the police court, the military authorities admitting that a mistake had been made.  Although in most Northumberland mining districts unionists have been able to put sufficient pressure on non-unionists to induce them to join the association, this has not been the ease at New Hartley, and the trade unionists have now de cided to hand in notices at the earliest possible opportunity. Lord Kenyon was fined £5 and costs at Crewe on Monday for driving a motor-car at an excessive speed, namely thirty miles an hour, between Crewe and Nantwich. Earl Poulett was fined £5 and costa at Bow-street for driving a motor-car at a greater speed than ten miles an hour in St. James' Park. "
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1907-07-13 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

BRAVERY RECOGNISED  ; CLAYTON MEN RECEIVE ROYAL HUMANE  SOCIETY'S CERTIFICATES.  Enfield met Nelson on Wednesday afternoon, on _ the Dill Hall-lane ground, but at the conclusion A pleasant interlude to the ordinary business oof the home teanes innings rain descended M took place at Church Police Court on Thursday, torrents and prevented a continuance of the game. i when Mr. Henry Dixon, of Barnes-street, and Mr. Against the trundling of Howard and Briggs, J. R. Dawson, of Whalley-road, both in Claytonthe homesters made a very poor show, only 56 M-Moors, were presented with the Royal Humane being scored. The Nelson pro bowled in a deadly i Society's certificates for rescuing a man who atmanner, his deliveries coming off the pitch very tempted to commit suicide by throwing himself Last, and being difficult to time. He secured six into the Canal on the 15th of May. The magisitickets, five being clean bowled. Briggs was trates on the Bench were Messrs. W. W. Simpalso in capital form with the ball, and at one son (in the chair). J. Peters, and A. S. Bury. time he had secured two wickets for no runs. In presenting the certificates, the Chairman Moore and Calvert were the only batsmen to at- said that in the case of Mr. Dixon it was quite tam nto double figures. The home teant, how- clear that he had no efficient means of effecting over, was weakened by the absence of Boardman a rescue, and though not able to swim himself, he and Smalley. The following are the scores:— took the very sensible precaution of obtaining a Enfield, rail to keep himself afloat, whilst he rescued the Whitehead b Briggs J. Ramsbottom b Briggs J. A. Moore c Bradshaw b Briggs W. Haworth c Hartley b Howard T. Lancaster b Howard T. Ashton c Bradshaw b Briggs R. G. Calvert lbw, b Howard E. Stephenson b Howard T. Clarke b Howard J. Clough not out J. Lancaster b Howard Extras it fell to his lot. Mr. Dawson endorsed these remrks, and added that what little he did to bring the man back to life was done in the interests of his fellow men.  Total  Fall of Wickets.  1 2 3 4 6 6 1 2 7 23 25 - 37 7 8 2 10 -42 -47 - 48 - 56  Bowling Analysis. Enfield.  Ovens. Mdrus. Rune. Ware. Howard 18 3 . 32 6 Briggs  An adder measuring Mt. long has been tut nd on Lastingham Moor, mar Barmoor Lodge. Mahon, Dr. A. MeLeod Ross, who was rominently identified with oub:ie movements in Colwyn Bay, shed on Saturday.  Going up,tairs to bed on Saturday night, Mrs. Roos Moran, 21, Normanatreot, Bla.kburn, a wicii.vr, fell backwards in a swoon. Ifer bead siruck a door, and a number of hairpins pen tested the scalp, inflicting injuries from which she &eds few hours later.  Major Long, who has completed his investigations of Australian meat-parking estabrahments on behalf of the British Army authorities-, has found the conditiena generally quite satisfactory. and the Government impartial very honestly carried out.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1907-11-09 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

THE TRAGEDY AM) COMEDY OF MONTE CARLO.  A vivid picture of life at Monte Carlo is given in an article which appears in the November "Pearson's Magazine." Humorous stories as well as grim ones are told of the gaming bouse of. the world. We quote a couple:— . .  "Even the subject of suicide can have its amusing side at 'Monte,' as the place is called by ita habitues. A lady whose house was within hearing of the pigeon shooting club had engaged a new parlour-maid, who came from some remote part of France. The girl had never been in Monte Carlo before, and arrived with exaggerated notions of the horrors of the place. The first time she waited at table she was exceedingly nervous, starting often, and at last dropping a plate on the floor. When her mistress asked what was the matter, the trembling maid answered:  "oh, madame, I can't help hearing those poor suicides making away with themselves." "She had mistaken the popping of the pigeon shooters' guns for suicides killing themselves, at the rate of one a minute, by full daylight somewhere outside the Casino!  "There is another comical, though rather grim, tale of a man who had lost everything, and pretended to kill himself in the gardens one moonlit midnight. His shot rat* out, and he was found lying on the ground with his revolver by his side. The police ran to tell the authorities at the Casino, sdio (it is said) caused the supposed suicide's empty pockets to be stuffed with gold and notes, so that his dea:h need not be attributed to losaes at gambling. The moment the trickster was left to himself, up he jumped and ran off with his strangely got wealth, never stopping until he had passed the Monaco frontier. But this story can be taken with a grain of salt."
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1907-12-28 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

JULY.  3.—AT-wing:on poor children's annual trip to  6.—Presentation of address and photo to Mr. J. Singleton, in recognition of long service to Spreud Eagle Mission, Oswaldtwistle. 7.—Death of Mr. John Myers, of the firm of Myers Bros., cab proprietors, aged 46 years. B.—Members of Clayton Co-op. Society decide to grant tlOO towards the .Victoria Hospital extension fund, and Accrington Co-op. Society decide to give £l,OOO for the same purpose. 10.—Poor children of Church, Oswaldtwistle, Rishton, Clayton, and Great Harwood have their annual trip to Lytham.—Marriage of Miss Amy Clayton, elder daughter of Mr. R. Clayton, J.P., the " Turrets," Rishton, to Mr. W. E. Leethem Horner M.D., son of Mr. T. Horner, Blackwater House, Isle of Wight. 12.—Rev. R. D. H. Cray, vicar of Chatburn, o.Teied the office of Rural Dean of Whalley in succession to the Rev. A. Spencer.—Accrington Weavers' Association Committee decided to snake no payment to members stopped through shortage of yarn.—Death of Mr. 'l'. Alnsworth, landlord of the Crown Hotel, aged 53 years.—Death of ex-Alderman Jas. Moorby, 329, Blackburn-road, aged 77 years.  • 13.—}oundation stones of a new Congregational Sunday school laid at Higher Antley.—Miss Belle Calvert crowned Rose Queen at Clayton-le-Moors. 14.—Sudden death of Alderman Broughton from heart failure, in his 64th year. 17.—Crippled children of Accrington taken to St. Annes in motor-ears at the instance of the Mayor. 19.—Alfred Whittaker (20), 4, Barlow-row, Oswaldtwistle, hangs himself.—Dennis Garrity, 31, Grange-street, Accrington, killed whilst shunting at Accrington goods station.—Accrington and Church decide to pool gates at Derby" matches for- two years. 20.—Thomas Duckworth (45), labourer, 4, Wadestreet, Church, commits suicide by cutting his threat.  22.—Clayton-le-Moors Weavers' Association decide to withdraw from the Accrington and District Trades and Labour Council.  24.—Accrington secondary school prise day. 23.—Death of Mrs. Fairbank Sutcliffe, of Cleveleys, and formerly of Accrington, aged 78 years. 29.—Joseph Proctor (68), 1, Edmund-street, outporter, died as the result of falling down some steps in Messrs. Moffitt Bros. shop in Churchstreet. _  &I.—First electric car journeys from Accrington to Moor End, Oswaldtwistle.—Death of Mr. Robert Ingham, of Huncoat.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1907-12-28 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

NOVEMBER.  I.—Accrington Municipal elections result in one Conservative gain. All the Conservative candidates returned : D. C. Dew horst, Higher Antley Ward; J. C. Lupton, South Ward; G. N. Slinger, West Ward. Messrs. J. Whittaker (Peel Park) and R. Watson (East Word) returned in the Liberal interest. Messrs. W. Eastwood, S. Woofer, and P. H. Taylor (Socialist), all badly beaten. 2.—Marriage of Miss Florence Whittaker, only daughter of Mr. John Whittaker, C.A., of Brookside House, Wilpsnire, to Mr. Alexander Samuel Doxey, of the firm of Brooks and Doxey, machinist., Manchester.  s.—John Henry Barnes (59), of 19, Dowry-street, dies whilst on his way to chapel. 9.—Alderman 'l'. E. Higham elected Maxor for tho second year in succession. Councillor R. Walker elected an alderman.—Bazaar at Church Kirk realises £930.  10.—The Mayor pays a State visit to Oak-street Congregational Church. 15.—Body of Clara Barnes (20), single woman, of 9, Law-street, recovered from the canal at Church. She had been missing a week.—Enfield Cricket Club lose £59 2s. 9d. on the season.  14. —Wan. Taylor (51), of 3, Back Church-street, Church, died suddenly. . .  18.—Death of Mr: Fielding Calvert, of 91. Burnley.road, a prominent Oddtellow, aged 72  20.—Death of Mr. Christopher Cronshaw, of Avenue-parade, aged 86 years. 22.—Death of Mr. C. Whittaker, "Thornleigh," Burnley-road. 24.—Over 600 warps cut at Providence Milt, Church, run by the Antley Manufacturing Co., causing a loss amounting to about £5OO. 25.—Re-building- of S. James' Church decided Upon at a congregational sneering.. .  26.—By.electton. in Peel Park Ward results in the return of Mr. H. Lonsdale, the Liberal nominee.—Reseita Whelan (-1), 6, Barnes-street, burned to death.  29.—Mr. H. Watson accepts Oswaldtwistlo Council's terins—£3,7so—for the purchase of Rhyddings Hall and 11 acres of land for a public park. 30.—Mr. Thomas Boothnion (421, 204, Avenueparade, commits suicide by cutting his throat.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1908-06-13 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

NEW PARABLE.  Religion slips through some people's fingers as rapidly as ill-gotten money. An old Scotch minister told hi,: congregation the truth when he said " Brethren, you are just like the duke's swans in the lake yonder. YOU come to church every sabbath, and I hive you all over with the gospel water, and I pour it upon you until you are almost drowned with it but you just gang away hame, and sit down by your fireside, gm your wings a bit 0' flap, and you are just as dry as ever again.''  THE QUEERNESS OF Tnnics. This is a sort of topsy-turvy world. No one seems to be satisfied. One man is struggling to get justice, another is flying from it. One man is saving up to buy a house, and another is trying th sell his dwelling, for less than it cost, to get rid of it. One man is spending all the money he can earn in taking a girl to the theatre and sending her flowers, in the hope that he may eventually make her his wile, and his neighbour is spending all the gold he has saved to get a separation. The labourer with ten children keeps out of debt on 15s. a week, while an unmarried 'rank official with £l5 a week can't get along without helping himself bi the bank funds. One man is ordered to eat eggs because they are nutritious, and another is cautioned to leave them alone because they produce bile. One mail keeps a pistol to protect himself against burglars, while his ueighlmur doesn't keep one tor fear of shooting some member of the family by mistake. One rich man wears poor clothes because he i.. rich, and can do anything while a poor man wears fine clothes because he is poor. and wants to produce the impression that he is not. One man is killed by accident, and another tries to commit suicide and fails. One man escapes all the diseases that flesh is heir to, and is killed on a railway another man goes through half-adozen wars without a scratch, and then dies of whooping cough. The man with a colossal fortune is usually obliged to adopt an heir, while the man without a penny generally has a sufficient number of heirs to satisfy half-a-dozen capitalists.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-08-26 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

PARLIAMENT. I adjoined the field on two sides,. There was no proof I that the rabbits had been turned down by the de. By the bill which has just passed both Houses of t Pendant, Mr. J. Houldseorth, and the judge held that Parliament, Norwich is at present deprived of one the plaintiff had no legal claim to redress. He had of its seats, and the number of members in the take!, the farm subject to the right of the landlord to House of Commors is therefore reduced to 651. preserve and kill game, and must bear theeonsequencey There are, moreover, three vacancies to be filled up of the "natural increase "of the animals in the covers for Buckinghamshire, Donegal, and Rutland, and A nonsuit was entered. the number of sitting members is thus further re- A Poi-wawa; FOrNO- Dicowit6D.—A coroner's inquiry duced to 648. England and Wales are represented was held at Sbadwell last seek concerning the by 485 ; Scotland by 60; and Ireland by 102 mem- death of Poliee-constabte °pie, aired 48 years, a bers. Of English and Welsh members, 185 sit for married man, living in London, whose body had been counties, 295 for cities and boroughs, and 5 for found in the Th me. off King James's Stairs. Shed. universities. Of the county members 150 are Con- welt, on the previous Sunda,. An inspector of the R servatives. and 35 Liberal; the boroughs return 140 Dimon, to which Opts belonged, told the coroner Conservatives and 155 Liberals; and the universi- that on Saturday the deepased was reported fur being ties 4 Conservatives and I .Liberal. The English drunk, and had to appear before the Commissioners on representation, therefore, is made up of 294 Con- the following Monday, when no doubt be would have sercatives and 191 Liberals, giving a Conservative been fined. He bad been reduced from the rank of majority of 103. sergeant for the same offence. Titere was no direct Scotland is represented by 20 Conservative and 40 evidence, however, to prove that he bad committed Liberal members. The counties return 16 to each I suicide, and a verdict was returned of "Found political party,- the two University seats are also drowned." divided, while the cities and boroughs have 23 A ..X.
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-08-26 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

SEAVEN.—The usual annual return of Last year the gement produced 96 public statutes, large quantity of lead was found inside, and the in- the deaths of merchant seamen, so far as they are strument, a four-edged one, was of the most formidable reported to the Board of Trade, gives an account of The projected match for the rowing championship character.—ln cross-examination by Mr. Smyth, the 5,393 deaths reported in the year 1875. As many bete een Edeverd Triekett, the Australian, and William . prosecutor said he. was a gentleman. He had known Lumsden, did not take place, Lutusden having decided . . ,as 3,263, or considerably more than half' these the young lady since June 17th, and had lived with to forfeit the deposit of 1:200 already made. deaths, °counted by drowning, but two-thirds of her. He did not know that she had been engaged to ; British cruisers from Zanzibar have captured an be married to the prisoner, but since the assault he had them by drowning when vessels were wrecked. An. Arab dhow, named Euuguru, haying on board at the lent the prisoner—not given him-1:3 to marry the eighth of the whole number of deaths happened time of her seizure 94 slaves. Three other suspected woman, and the wedding was to have taken place on trom fever, yellow fever causing the majority of this , dhows are also in the hands of the consular coma at Wednesday, but he had not promised to give the bride class of deaths, one in 18 of all the deaths was from Zanzibar. away. lie did not use any violence to the prisoner on ' cholera, dfarrheeai dysentery, and diseases of that Three soldiers made a daring escape from the this occasion, nor had he used a loaded stick at that or class; one in 24 was from consumption, bronchitis, military prison, Rochester, a few days ago. The t imy other time on the prisoner or Missosi—eend.—eer, or other diseases brosfull:r lungs; one in 37 was from corporal having left them unguarded /or a moment, Arnold eemanded thee prisoner for further 'Rune—, g 9 wasiseases of t from diseases o thereeSrul' and great io^:::ci they dropped down • trench thirty feet deep and and aceepteo 'WI in £5O for tee oppearance. scaled the wall on the other side. --,--___ vessels. As many as 41 of the deaths were suicides, and there were five deaths from murder or THE Krieneev
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-07-22 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

DRAINAGE SCHEME FOR KENILWORTH.  NETHER WHITACRE.  Stricroe.—On Monday 7 evening, Mr. Dewes held an inquiry at the Dog and Jacket Inn, Bodymoor Heath, into the death of a man unknown, who was found in the canal there a few days previously. It was believed he had come from Birmingham, and the absence of any marks of violence on the body leads to the conjecture that he had committed suicide. A verdict of "Found drowned" was returned by the jury. FATAL Aeon:max.—Thomas Dewes, Esq., coroner, held an inquest on Monday last, at Host Bromwich's, the Gate Inn, Nether Whitacre, on the body of Amos Walton, aged 104 years, son of Thomas Walton, agricultural labourer, of the same village. It appeared from the evidence adduced at the inquiry, which was of short duration, that on the previous Saturday the lad was helping in a hayfield oecupied by Mr. William Silk, of Kingsbury; they were engaged carrying, and the boy was bringing the empty waggon back to the field, driving two horses, about four o'clock. It is supposed (as no person was with him at the time) that he was riding on the shafts, and the flies teasing the horses, they set off on a trot, and the boy fell. The wheels went over his right arm, and the back of his head was frightfully crushed. The workpeople and his master Raw the accident at a distan3e, and on coming up the poor boy, on being raised, only said, "Let me go to Bleep," and immediately expired. The coroner having remarked that the lad was too young to have the management of horses, the master of the parochial school showed that he had made the required number of attendances, according to the Education Act, namely 250. Alter hear.  FUNERAL or A
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-09-02 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

ROYES BELL ON ME BRAVO CASE. I  Mr. Roves Bell, a cousin cf Mr. Chartie Bravo, and one of the witnesses in the late inquiry, wri es a spin ied defence of his late relative to the limes. The following are the concluding portions —"it: is streed that he married his wife for money. This rests wholly on the evidence of Mr. Brooke, whose congratulations be looked upon as uncalled for and impertinent. Mr. Bravo's social position and prospects made niarrYing for mere money unnecessary. Moreover, be ass conspicuous among his friends for the open hand and the liberal heart, a thoroughly brave and manly character. It is attempted to charge the murdered wan with meanness because he wished to discherge Mrs. Cox, costing xnuo or .t-100 a year, and whose constant presence must have been at times irksome, and to get rid of the cobs, which on several urea-. sions had bolted with his wife, and which he thought dangerous. Now, is it not true that Mrs. Bravo's property was invested largely in stocks which were becoming daily much depreciated in value, and was Mr. Bravo doing anything more than his absolute duty by impressing upon her the necessity for retrenchment , and, moreover, does not this utterly belie the assertion that he was excitable, restless, and rollicking, except that hicheerfultemperament wasconfounded wiih his by superficial observers? Dr. Sheppard says, 'ls the credibility of this witness, though dying, to be put against that of a lady who states that he used the expression, 'I have taken poison for Dr. Gully; do not tel Florence ?' " Now, in the first place, this credible witness admitted the grossest falsehoods in her previons statements In the second place, It does not agree wit li her previous version of the same sentence. Thirdly, it is quite at variance with the evidence of IX the other far snore credible witnesses. Fourthly, the expression itself is that ot. a woman, not of a man. Had Mr. Bravo felt the sentiment, he would have expressed it In different language. Clearly the jury did not believe it for a moment. They kept their eye on the laurel water and the treatments, and the suspicious going backwards and forwards, and the crooked ways and more crooked speech, and the disgraceful antecedents. They treated it all as a lie r.nd an Invention. My object Is simply to defend the memory of a relative, whom everybody esteemed, from the most unworthy charges, and I will only allude to the ant ecedent s and evidence of one,the poor fellow so deer] y loved, and whom he would have been the last to asperse. The jury have, most fortunately for son ety, fixed a mark on the case that nothing can now remove. I say fort:unately for society, for, if this be pronounced suicide, and not murder, there is no man safe even in the basAn of his family."