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Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-06-19 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

LONGTOWN.  The annual fair for the Bale of wool was held at Longtown on Thursday. There was a considerable number of sellers, but the old buyers who used to attend this fair were conspicuous by their absence, with the exception of Mr Cooke, of Hexham. It was a bad market, and Mr Cooke himself reported that he never knew a worse at Longtown. Prices were from 141 d to 15d. The highest price in the market for a hogg clip was 14d.  Mr John McKenzie, of Stockton, has been appointed manager of Morpeth Gas Wolks. A Junior Liberal Club, with 145 members, has been established at Amble.  On Monday, the new church of St. Matthew's, Westgate Hifi, Newcastle, was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese (the Right Rev.J. B. Lightfoot, D.D.) Mr William Wookey, governor of the gaol at Morpeth and formerly deputy-chief constable of Northumberland, has been 'appointed governor of the prison at Newcastle. On Saturday night, a woman named Elizabeth Lawson, aged 49, belonging to Newcastle, attempted to commit suicide in the South Shields police cells, by hanging herself with her apron. The woman had been locked up for being drank and disorderly in the Market Place.  • On Saturday morning, a man named Edward Spence fell from a crane at Messrs Blair and Co.'s works, Stockton, and was so severely injured hi the head that he died immediately. An instance of the fluctuating state of the licensed victualling trade in the Durham district at present, lies in the fact that no lees than twenty two transfers of licensee were applied for before the Durham County magistrates on, Saturday.  The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have left their residence in Grosvenor Place for Germany, where they intend passing several weeks. At a meeting of the North Northumberland Liberal Election Committee held in Newcastle on, Tuesday, it was resolved to present Mr John 'Clay, 'the defeated condidate at the recent election, with a testimonial for his services to the Liberal cause.  The Western a France Railway Company has given a contract to Buruhope Colliery, Newcastle-on-Tyne, for 40,000 tolls at 16f. 46c, delivered at Dieppe, and 3,600 tons at 19f. 90c, at St. Halo and Honfieur.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-09-18 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

SUDDEN DEATIL-011 Tuesday, whilst a deputy I named Lam,den was at work in Sunnybrow Colliery, Willington, he suddenly fell down and expired. Deese, the youth who fired at Lord Lytton last Christmas, has beeu tried at Calcutta. Re was found to be of unsound mind, and was ordeied to be confused during HOT Majesty's pleasure. ' The Herald (St. Petersburg) states that a Russian prisoner after disclosing the names of the leaders of the Nihilist organisation, and also that of the author of I , the explosion of the Winter Palace, has committed suicide by hanging himself. It is said that Presidont-Rayes and his family will visit England at the end of his term of office. Mr Hayes, who is a Wesleyan, is in the habit of delivering lay. sermons, and will, it is understood, occupy the pulpits of several of the leading ministers of his denomination whilst in this country. Edward Hann, the American champion scalier, arrived at Queenstown in the Inman Royal Mail steamer, City of Richmond, on Tuesday morning. The champion is described as being in the best of health. , According to .a Standard telegram, reports have reached Copenhagen that the Czar is seriously ill. It is said also that the possibility of his abdicating is discussed at St. Petersburg. It is in contemplation to hold a meeting next month, under the presidency of the Dean of Durham, as warden of the University, in order to promote University extension on Teesside. ACCIDENT AT DUDLEY Pm.—Between two and three o'clock on Monday afternoon, an accident occurred at Dudley Pit, near Newcastle, by the crank pin of the winding engine breaking while a cage of tubs was being drawn up. The engine was immediately stopped before any serious damage was done, and the engineer and a number of men are engaged in repairing the engine. The men and lads at work had to return home by the Ann Pit route, a distance of about five miles.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-06-05 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

MLLLENNARIAN'S WILL.  There was a carious case before the Court of Exchequer Chamber, at Dublin, on Monday. It was an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Exchequer. The question turned on the oonstruo. Lion of the will of one Edward Cook. The action was one of ejectment on the little brought by the plain.' tiffs; who claimed under the will the right to evict a devise of the house end lands of Littlefield," Tipperary, given by thu t;lod will to the defendant's thus:—" I give and beque..th to my steward, Patrick Eoran, £6O sterling, and the same to his wife, Maria Doran," and also "the house and lands of Littlefield, until I am able to live there and enjoy it myself.' The testator then added—" I give and bequeath my property in the county Tipperary and county Kilkenny to Captain Benjamin Bunbury," through whom the plaintiffs now claimed. The case was tried before Mr Baron Fitzgerald at the summer assizes of 1873, for the South Riding of the County of Tipperary, when it was contended on behalf of the plaintiffs that the devise of the lands of Littlefield was altogethr r void for uncertainty, and that consequently the plaintiff took the estate under the latter clause of the will; while on behalf of the defendants it was contended the only portion of the clause that was insensible were the words, "Until I am able to live there and enjoy it myself;" and that insensible clause being subsequent to the words which vested the estate in the defendants, the devise could not be disturbed by subsequent Quin. telligible words. Evidence was also offered at the trial to show that the words may not have been insensible, inasmuch as the testator was a drm be. Hever in the millennium, and that his meaning in using these words was to give the defendants an estate until the testator would come back to the earth with Christ and His Saints during the millennium, when, he said, he intended to occupy the place in question. The judges have ruled that the words, even taking them to be insensible, do not affect or out down the preciously created estate.  The death is announced of Johann Adam Klein, the Nestor of Munich artists, at the age of 83. A domestic servant named Ellen Hunt has been arrested on a charge of °Mid murder at Bromley. The body, much decomposed, was fonhd in a water butt.  A man•servant in the Charing Cross Hotel, Straad, London, committed suicide on Saturday afternoon, by jumping from e. window in the top•most storey into the street.  The Emperor William has, it is said, presented to M. 'niers a splendid edition of the works of Frederick the Great, in 13 volumes folio, printed specially for the Emperor. The Law Times says that the law officers of. the Crown advised the prosecution of Dr Kenealy for libels published in the Englishman, but the Government were disinclined to enter upon another prosecution in any way connected with the Orton case.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-04-10 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

SAD SUICIDE OF A STOCKTON GENTLEMAN.  Au inquest was held on Saturday evening before Mr J. J. Thorney, coroner, at Hall, on the body of Henry Garthorne, aged 68 years, who had destroyed his own life by cutting his throat the same morning. The deceased had formerly been a farmer on his own estate at Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees, and having been in ili.health and depressed spirit", he went to Hull for a change of air and scene. He had been staying at the house of a relative, Mr Charles Henry Garihorne, at No. 1, Dorchester Terrace, Beverley Road, for nearly a month, and under the medical care of Dr. Craven, he had greatly improved in health and spirits. On Friday night he retired to rest about a quarter.past eleven o'clock, and it was remarked that he had been unusually lively and playful with the children. Next morning, one of Mr Garthornes -little boys went into tho bedroom where "Uncle Henry" had slept, and on seeing him lying on the floor, at once gave an alarm. When I discovered, hnwever, the poor old gentlemah was quite dead, and had been so for three or four hours. He was lying on his side, with only his night-dress on, and a razor, with which he had inffieted a terrible wound in his throat, was clenched in his right hand—Dr. Craven deposed to having daily visited the deceased, who was suffering from a kind of melancholia, and he had observed no symptoms which led him to apprehend suicide.—The jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased had committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity.  Lord Badatock has again left England for St. Petersburg to undertake another series of the religious services in that capital which excited so mach attention there a year or so ago.  A. little girl, named Mary Ann Syrdille, living in Ranters Bank, North Shields, was so severely scalded by falling into a pan of boiling water, on Saturday morning, that she died during the night.  DEATH Or Ma
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-03-27 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

NORTH SHIELDS.—A most melanoholy omurrenoe took place at North Shields on Wednesday night, when Mr G. Wheldon, solicitor, Norfolk Street, committed suicide by shooting himself. On his clerk, Mr J. Bell, going into Mr Wheldon's private offioe he found that that gentleman had shot himself by plaoing a fowling pieoe under his chin, and discharging it into his head. Dr Bates was speedily on the spot. Mr Wheldou, though not dead, was found by the doctor to be dreadfully injured. His face was nearly blown off, and his skull was injared, with part of the brain pro. trading. The ease seemed very hopeless from the first, and very shortly after he was removed to his house in Ohurchway where it was found that he was dead. It seems that Mr Bell, the clerk, was not in the offbeat the time Mr Who).'don shot himself. He had to moot him at a quarter past S o'olook, and when be got to the offioe to keep his appointment, he, to his astonishment, found the doors all open, bat no gas lighted. He went into the offioe, when 'he beard groans. He immediately proceeded to where he thought he heard the noise, and on grop• big about the dark lie found some one lying upon the floor. He asked if that TIEN Mr Wheldos, and got no answer. He then ran for Mr Wheldon' brother, and when a light was struck, the sad sight was revealed to them that Mr Wheldon and shot himself and waa apparently dying, ha- .4 nearly blown his tam away and destroyed I' features entirely. Dr Bates was called in, and be declared the case hopeless. Mr Wheldon had been in a low and despouding condition of mind for about two months, and had not been able to attend to much business during Cult time. The demased was in the prime of life, and hag left a widow and family.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-03-27 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF • SWEETHEART, AND SUICIDE OF HER ABEAM/HT.—OD Monday night, at about nine o'clock, a startling tragedy occurred at Harbone, near Birmingham, which excited intense commotion in the village. A young man named John Davis attempted to murder his sweetheart, Elizabeth Haynes, by cutting her throat, and then committed suicide, Davis who was a young man ander twenty years of age, and was employed at Elliot's metal sheathing works at Selly Oak, has for twelve months or so been courting the girl Hayes, a servant at the house of Smythe, Wellington Road, Harborne. Davis was of a jealous temperament, and there have been frequent quarrels. So serious have these baen that it is known the young man has threatened the girl's life, and has carried a razor in hi pocket. Once already, it is said, he has attempted to take his own life through some frenzy jealousy. It is known that on Sunday afternoon there was a disagreement between them' in consequence of the young woman refusing to llow him to Join her in her master's pew at Ifarborne Church. They met on Monday evening soon after eight O'clock. , The young woman went into the shop of Mr Harlow, grocer, Hig Street, Davisremained outside. When she left V 4, went of together along Moor Poor Lane. What to ik place after that time is but imperfectly known, but is is inferred there must have been a renewal of the old quarrel. Certain its it that 'Davis made a most desperate attempt to murder the girl. He drew a razor from his pocket, and made several desperate attempts to cut the girl's throat. Fortunately she was wearing a thick woollen muffler, and thus saved her throat from very serious wounds; but in guarding her life her hands were severely gashed. Believing, no doubt, that he had succeeded in his intent—for his victim had fallen helpless on the ground—Davis turned the weapon against himself, and eat his own throat so savagely that death. must have been almost instantaneous. The screams of the girl brought first upon the spot Mr Cave, who lived, near at hand. The girl was removed to the house of her master, where her wounds were dressed by Mr Strathey, surgeon. Although severe, they are not thought to be dangerous. The body of Davis was taken to his own house in the Serpentine Road. —Birmingham Post,
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-09-04 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

THE WATCHING 07 THE UPPER REACHES.  Mr McKelvin proposed that 30 additional watchers be employed for the upper reaches of the river from the leb of October to the Ist of January.—The Chairman: We believe we have power to do that, and we always do it. We employ additional hands. —The Clerk (Mr Gibson) : Thirty.--The Chairman: You mean to say 30 men P—Mr MoKelvin : Yes.— The Chairman: And who pays for them P—Mr Lisle (Cullerooats) :We have plenty of funds—a thousand pounds—in the bank to pay for them. My opinion in that the upper reaches are not protected as they ought to be, and it is only right that money ought to be spent for that purpose.—Mr Dodds remarked that there was a committee on the upper reaches. —The Rev. Dixon Brown said they had not yet made any agreement with the Camberland magistrates as to watching the riven—Mr McKelvin said that a meeting of the gentry living on the banks of the tributaries of the Tweed was held recently, at which it was resolved, On the motion of the Earl of Minto, that no more policemen be employed as watchers. He thought it would be well for the interests of the Board if they employed men to watch the upper reaches, beoanse his notion was that a great deal of poaching went en there. He had intended to make a motion that after the net fishing ceases the rod fishing should also cease.—The Chairman: That is the business of the Legislature. A committee had been appointed, whose duty it was to look after the upper reaches. Mr John M. Ridley, who took a very active interest in the matter, was arranging for an extra force—of coarse, thirty was out of the ques. tion—and he had no doubt that a great deal would be done. Everybody was quite alive to the neoeseity of watching the upper reaches of the Tyne.— Mr McKelvin said he was quite satisfied with what the chairman had said.—Mr Grey said he was prepared to move an amendment that the matter be referred to the Watch Committee.—The Bev Dixon Brown said he would look after the matter.—Mr Thomas I would like to call the attention of the Watch Committee to the movements of our moat excellent friend, Mr Bates. (Langhter.)—The meeting then adjourned.  A hewer, named John Short, was killed by a fall of stone at Hetton colliery on Saturday.  A new Primitive Methodist chapel has been opened near Choppington Colliery, Scotland Gate. A labourer named John Brown, aged 53 years, lodging in Gilesgate, Durham, committed suicide. by cutting his throat on Saturday. On Saturday, the fine iron-built s. s. Staff of Life, built by Messrs J. Softley and Company, had a trial trip from the Tyne, the result being highly satisfactory. Successful flower shows were held on Saturday at Seaton Burn, Morpeth, Choppington, Whitburn, and Tanfield. At the Castle Eden Petty Sessions, on Saturday, a middle-aged miner, named Christopher Tidyman, was fined £3 6s, including costs, for assaulting a married woman, named Mary Jane Ingleby, at Haswell.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-02-27 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

SUICIDE AT CON SET F.  On Saturday afternoon, Mr Coroner Graham, and a jury met e the "Duke of Wellington," Consett, to inquire into the particulars attending the death of a man named Thomas Story, who cut his throat at that place under peculiar circumstances. Jane Story said her husband, the deceased, was 69 years of age. He was a rail straightener tts trade, but had been confined to his bed for the last seven years. lie was ailing internally, but none of the doctors who had attended him knew the disease he suffered from. On the morning of the 15th inst. deceased asked for a knife, ' and witness, thinking he wanted to pare his toe nails, handed him a common table knife. She then went to the house of a neighbour, and on returning about ten minutes after, she saw blood on her husband's hands, one of which held the knife she had previously given him. Her husband subsequently told her that he had cut his throat because "People said he was able to get out of bed, but would not."—Dr Geo. Renton said he attended the deceased, and found a jagged wound two inches in length on the upper part of the throat. The knife produced was very blunt, and the deceased must have been very determined. Storey was in the habit of saying that "Something alive was inside of him," and prior to his death he requested witness to open his body. Witness had that morning made an examination of the body, and found that deceased had suffered from a malignant disease of the stomach, of long-standing, which had produced melancholia, and thus caused the deceased to exhibit a suicidal tendency.—ln answer to Mr E. Routledge, a juror, the doctor said he had not examined the viscera, having found quite sufficient in the stomach to cause death.—A verdict in accordance with the doctor's evidence was returned.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-11-06 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

MURDER OF A CAPTAIN.—The New York papers just at hand report the result of the trial at the Queen's County Circuit Court of William Delaney, for the murder of one Captain Lawrenoe, master of an American schooner. While the schooner was lying in Cow Bay, in August last, thu prisoner was seen by two boys belonging to the ve,sel in the act of strangling the captain in the cabin. Delaney afterwards came on deck with a pistol in his hand, and compelled them to row ashore. When apprehended he confessed that he had murdered the captain, and his motive Was that Lawrence was always grumbling at him, and he could never do enough for him. Delaney also told the police officer that after he had choked the captain once he put down his head and could hear the old man's heart b at, though he had no pulse. He then took a drink of whisky, and then "went back and gave the old man another squeeze." The money he got consisted of 20 dol. bills, and a five cent piece. At the trial the prisoner pleaded not guilty, and the defence get up by his counsel was that Lawrence died of apoplexy or heart disease. The jury found him guilty of" murder in the first degree, and he was sentenced to be hanged.  An ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT SUNDERLAND AND ITS RESULT —On Thursday week, a young woman of respectable appearance, named Mary Cotton, was charged before the Durham borough magistrates with stealing two dresses, 9s. in silver, and a bunch of keys, the property of Wm. Smith, eating-house keeper, Back Lane, on the 24th of March and the 3rd of April. It appears that the prisoner, who belonged to Durham, absconded in April, taking with her the above property, which she had stolen from a drawer in the prosecutor's house. Nothing further was heard of her until last week, when she was apprehended by the Sunderland police on a charge of having attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself into the Wear from Sunderland Bridge. As it was ascertained that she belonged to Durham, Head Constable Dodds was communicated with, and he at once took her into custody under the warrants he held, aud he also succeeded in recovering one of the dresses stolen, which the prisoner had disposed of. She was committed to prison for one month's hard labour.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-02-13 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A  LADY MISER.  Mr Bedford on Monday afternoon held an inquest at St. Ann's Vestry, Soho, London, touching the death of Mrs Martha Kitty Young, aged 63, a lady of wealth, residing at 48, Lisle Street, Soho. Mrs Susannah Brown, residing at the above house, said she:knew the deceased, who had lived there for the last 16 years, who seemed to be very unhappy and nervous lately at being obliged at last to leave in consequence of the house having to be pulled down in March. She was a very eccentric lady. She would shut herself up in her rooms and exclude any one from seeing her, for which purpose she had extra locks put on the door. She used to say she was possessed of great wealth. On Monday morning witness went into her room, and found her lying on the floor, her throat cut, and a table knife in her left hand.—Mr Fernandez Clark, surgeon, deposed he had known the deceased for the last thirty years and• she was the most eccentric person he ever knew. She was one of a very old and rich family of seven, , who were all remarkable for being deformed and dwarf-like and eccentric in manner. Deceased was deformed in the spine, and had one leg shorter than the other. She was most penurious, and was a veritable hermit. On examining the neck he found a most remarkable wound on the right side, which must have been inflicted with the left hand. It was not an ordinary cut, and witness had never before seen such a one, it having been done skilfully ann surgically. It was a small wound severing both arteries, and causing almost instant death. Witness thought deceased insane.—Mr Green, the coroner's officer, stated that he had found in deceased's cupboard in cash £l4l 14s. 21d, in notes £256, and other sums of money secreted in pieces of paper in various corners and in cups and saucers, and a receipt for £2,100. Mr Green had ascertained that she used to lend money, and betted upon races, cards and papers relating to races being found, apparently kept in a business-like manner. A lot of valuable jewellery was also found. The disposition of the property is not yet known. The jury returned a verdict "Suicide while in a state of unsound mind."