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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-08-21 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

FELLOW I—Tee dead body of a man has been found fetlfully mutilated on the Midland Railway. at Whittington. near Worcester. The body was identified as that of a respectably connected young man named Fletcher, who was last seen alive at a public-house at Birmingham, on Tuesday evening. After calling for a glass of beer, he was supplied with a sheet of notepaper, and wrote a note, of which the following is a copy, to a friend, at klolsover : •' the J. Carter, you have behaved well to me, wile, and family all. I shall soon he ins gravel helped to make &short time ago, little thinking I must be the first to enter therein. God bless you and keep you for ever and for ever. Oh, my poor father, Wm. Fletcher. 0, my poor mother, Ann Fletcher. 0, my poor brother, Edward Bergh Fletcher. God bless them all for ever and ever." The jury found that the deceased had committed suicide during temporary insanity. NARROW ESCAPE OF A DlVER.—Thomas Brown, a professional diver belonging to Plymouth, has been taken to the Devon and Cornwall Hospital in a shocking condition, produced while following his occupation off the coast of 1.400 e. Brown was engaged under water endeavouring to recover some gear belonging to a trawler, Vdante, and when he signalled to be raised it was found there was some defect in one of the pipes of the apparatus. Owing to this mishap. and the depth of water, he could not be raised quick enough, so that when he reached the surface be was quite insensible, his eyes protruding, and his tongue swollen. He at once received medical attendance, and soon re covered consci 111 l sness, but for some time suffered from a Pugh of blond to the neck and head, which were con. siderably swollen and black. No doubts, however, are entertained of his ultimate recovery. NITA r-
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-03-27 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

GRANTS TO MECHAM ICS INSTITUTES.—A Par- as rams will only be called into play alum an action has coinliamentary return, moved for by Mr. Baines, having menceul, when ships, of necessity, are reduced to slow rate ! reference to grants to elementary classes of Mechanics' of speed, probably their lowest. He therefore apprehuuds Institutes has been published. It contain copies of three that it wouldbe colistteabettiownithit, =ni,7raet ,g,u,s;:i::.=,s, memoriala addressed to the Lord President tif the Com- lortii:'swedrt`n'wo'gr fleet r and 'that whether the force was large or small, whether the enemy were numerically superior mittee of Council on Education, praying that the privileges and advantages possessed by the night schools and or otherwise to act as rams ; and when the action had eon,evening classes might be extended to the elementary menced, :ma noise and smoke and fire were doing their work classes of Mechanics' Institutes. The first is from the the reserve to be brought into play, to act independently, as Lancashire and Cheshire Union of Mechanics' Insti- circumstances might require. tutes, and is signed by Algernon Egerton, M.P., and A German, named Christian Lauenstine, committed forty others ; the second is from the Yorkshire Union suicide In (Imago on the ilth. after returning frovn a are, of Mechanics' Institutes, and is Feigned by H. H. hecause, as he ant, the Chicago people had no sympa• hy for emen. Sales, agent to the Union, and ninety-three others • nr and the third is from the East Lancashire Union oi The Decznfo/Lerwaintds. bchronicles the execution of two fashin i—" Suspense ,—Two Mechanics' Institutes, and is signed by Sir J. P. Kay nwaetriev es., ipnelided from a eam ion front of the City Gaol onnatives the Shuttleworth and eighteen others. morning of Saturulay last. Death ensued in the way which THE CHARITIES OF DORSETS fl
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-10-09 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

THE MUD.—On Sunday a somewhat ludiAn iron pipe was immediately run down to him, and crone incident occurred at the St. George's Basin, by this means he Was supplied with air. The rescuers Liverpool. A woman who was suffering from the worked with a will, and finally rescued him after effects of drink jumped from off the pier into the basin, thirty-eight hours' burial. A large stone had failen with the intention, it is supposed, of committing suicide on hie breast and wedged him in. The escape is re- by drowning. It was low water at the time, and garded as wonderful. instead of getting into the water she became erni e i bedded on the mud at thY bottom of the basin. THE " CHURCH OF PROGRESS "—ln London, mat. time, numbers of people were passing at the Sunday evening, a new religious society under the above among them being some Spanish sailors, title, was inaugurated at St. George's Hall, I emigham. " place, by Mr. B. Langley. The object of the society, as one of whom jumped after the woman, but in place of rendering her aswistance he also stuck explained by the chairman in a rather lengthy address, feat. A second Spaniard then tried to render assist' was to provide rational Senday evenings' occupation ance to his comrade and the woman, and to avoid i and amusement for the pulilic generally, totally regardtheir fete he went down a ladder. When he got to the bottom he began to waste to the 'there, but failed I less of sectarian or priestly distinctions. histructive lectures would, he said be delivered, sacred IMISiC to reach thene and in his turn was firmly embedded. would be provided, and everything, in short would be Thia eight caused some amusement to the onlookers, done both to improve and to amuse the people. After and after coneiderable difficulty the " three miullarks" the chairman's address the secretary read letters from were rescued by means of ropes. They were taken to Lord Anihrtley, Sir John Bowriug, Mr. J. S. Mill, the receiving house, where the Yemen was found to be and one or two other persons of politicial or social distinction, all approving of the objects of the society, more seriously Mut than the men. She gave several but excusing their absence from the inaugural meeting names and addresses, so that it is not known who she on various grounds. Lord Atnberley was to have is, and she also said that she had been separated from her husband for three months. presided, but was unavoidably detained at the Social Science Congress at Bristol. After the address, a
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-07-24 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

WAS; 11111(10. A Igo a ,Leturn showing the quantity of coal returned for assessment for caeli rate, the amount assessed on the coal mines, the date of each rate, the amount per pound, and the amount collected from the coal Owners during the last twenty, live years. The motions fell to the groom! for want of a seconder, the Clerk stating it WWI bite pgiible to get snob a ret aro. Mr. P ir.feter then moved that the Clerk he instructed to furnish them with a retorn showing the rateable value of each parish in the Union dining the last five years, the amount per pound, the amount collected, and the amount lost by eom• pounding on each rate during the last five years. This was seconded and carried. Deridtmisen Suietny.—A most determined iittenipt at suicide took place on Thursday morning last, by a young man named Noah Beech. From what we ean learn it appear that Beech is ui carpenter in the employ of Me. B. Lees. He has also a sieull workshop at the hack of his house in l7nion-str, et. The previons night he had smile Wfakb: WWI his employer over some trilling math r, end en the following morning went to work in his own shop. A little girl, a niece of Beech, went to the shop, ma there loud hitti ling on his I ark, covered with bleed. She at twee gave en Maim, and a man who lodges with Hi eel& went to see what was the matter. and at once sent for Mr. Bayley, surgeon, who Maud his throat frightfally cut ;„,a bagged one. wooed Ming four inches in length, rumnletety severing the wi idpipe. Everything was done that could Ito, but the man a1.:3 a little after not the Rime night.  Ciii ag )Imot.—On Sean? ty ratarsi w 1.1.,) sat at St, ..10111f0i SOiSOUtS. Stoorbridgo, b -twee It ten chtt*pleyers of tlia Stonibritgo Chnreti of Eneland AtiNViilllloll owl tilt Of ti&O  _ EworWoiter Much of Englend Mateal Im• VLflflt Sertety. In the first match the Stottriaittgo playurs were successful, bat at the ret on n match, on Saliently, their opponents were the victors. The following was the score : EIDDEIniISSTER.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-08-07 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE.  THE REV. DR. JAMES ON "RITUALISM."  On the occasion of laying the frnindation.stone of a new wesleyan Chapel, at Horns., when several of the minister. visiting Hun, during the sitting of the Conference, were present, The Rev. Dr James (Chairmen of the Hull District) made a hdlp and able spetsb, in the course of which he ferred hi Romanism He said their Preaident had t.. 11 them on l'hunsdav that to make no distinction between truth and ern.r. and to pay public money for the support and spread of Popery, wan a thing they, as a people, always did, and he hoped always would, resist. He had the happiness in his early ministerial life of opposing the endowment of Maynooth, and he heli,vel that one of the greatest public blunders ever ma. le was ,n tile in the endowment of that college. He hoped the Methodists nev..r would depart from th. witness of a Protestant people emairist the errors and usurpations, the desperate corruptions and oppressions whic'i made up Popery. Many among them mum be. dewed that the chief bulwark of Protestantism in Great Britain was the Church of thin country. He wished he could believe that now. He bad nothing to nay shout Church Estahlialimente ; that wee one of the hurled wie,tions "n oCca.jd),lB of that kind ; but h.thought they were bound as Englishmen, and as Pro. temente, and as Methodists, to do all they c.sild to es• isms arid drive away horn the Cour,ll of the nation men who were doing the work id the nation's greatest enemy. He did not believe that the Boman Catholic priests in this country were doing so much to spread Popery as some of theclergy of the Church of England. He believed the ritualistic movement was far more in. sidious and • far more dangerous movement than any direct movement
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-09-25 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

KENILWORTH CASTLE.—A considerable portion of the ruins of this inner magnificent pile having shown liars of falling, Earl Clarendon, the owner, is now repairing and strengthening the great hall, Leicester's Buildinge, and parts of the external walls on either idele. His lordship in also restoring wane nd the &orw ,ye, windows, and fireplaces. In the course of the repairs excavatinns have been made, and underground apartments, cello, and p issages revealed which had beeu hint for centuries. The great hall, 9ift. by 45;t., atill retains several nit its Sue gothic windows, and some of the towers yet rise 70 feet high. SUICIDE OF A SEpTaeaviAßlAL—An inquest haw been held at Leamington on the body of William Heading, an old marl of seventyassven. Deceased was once a farmer, but had been reduced to poverty, and was now in receipt of parish relief. Fif teen years ago he cut his threat, but recovered and was committed to gaol for three weeks. Since that time he has repeatedly attempted to destroy himself. Last week he received a letter from a eon living in London, describing hinrielf as destitute of clothing, and absolutely starving. The next night he hanged Inauselt in his bedroom. The poor old man was respectably connected, and one of his HODS is a Nonconformist minister and the iniperini• tendent of a circuit. The juri, found that the decease I hanged himself. but left the etate of his mind an open quention. PnEFARING FOR DEATH —An old man, evidently ol Engligh birth, and considerably intoxicated (say. an American paper), called at an undertaker's shop in Omaha a tent' days ago, and mad that he &aired to purffiase a coffin. What size, Sir?' said the barying m in, alw sys on the alert for hiplines& " I waut the thing for mysel "said the Englishman; " can't you take my rinsasirn I' rne on 'retake& Kneeing the condition the man was in, told him to lie down 011 a board while he eh sliced out his cliumusione. The man then offere,l the undertaker 20 dots., and ri quested that he would t. kill him easy." He mid lie hsd been blacksmithing at North Platte, but that whisky had gut the better of him, and he was tired of life. The undertaker of course refused his money, and advised him to find a bed in some hotel rattler than in the damp ground.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-09-25 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE OF A FARIMER.—A well-to-do farmer, named Peter E 'ward Bomar, residing in the parish ot St. Laurance, Jersey, has committed suicide by hanging. From the evidence tendered at the inquest it appeared that the deceased was found lying upon the floor of a bakehouse near to his dwelling, with a deeply impressed mark upon his neck. Hanging to a beam was a broken rope, and near the beam a wheelbarrow, on which it is supposed the deceased had stood for the purpose of reaching the beam. The rope bad apparently broken by the force in which the deceased hail thrown himself off, his neck being dislocated in the fall. The deceased had for some time been in a desponding state owing to the dissolute habits of his wife, whom he ',laced twice in the General Hospital (workhouse-). At the Ijue of the tolling of tee inquest the wife was lying dead chunk in the house. McstoniAr. or A LADY'S lIHROISM. A. noble act of heroism was lately rendered by Miss Ida Lewis in rescuing two men connected with the Erie Railway from drowning. In recognition if the services thus rendered, Mr. Janice Fisk, jun., has ordered a flag, which he pi-minces to preeent to Miss Ida Lewis. lt is about three feet long and one-and-a-half wile. It i made of white silk, trimmed with red. and with a gilt stripe around it. On one end is a circle with an oil. painting of Miss Lowis in the act of rescuing two men from drowning. In the foreground is the Lime R. ck home, and in the distance is a sail-boat swamped. with two men clinging to it, and a boy who is struggling in the water; while in the centre is Mine Lewis in a boat, alone, without hat or shawl, lulling to the rescue. At the other end is the rains "Re-your," in gilt lettere. The while is in an elegantly carved frame of black walnut and gilt. C )cnisisst, IlsEars lie
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-12-11 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SHOCKIEG OCCURRENCE.—A. frightful suicide ' took place on the Neath and Bream line on Monday. It appears that the train leaving Brecon at 1155 a.m. proceeded at its usual speed towards Neath, calling at the intermediate stations, when after rounding the curve near Peliwylt a man dressed in a white smock and the ordinary attire of a labourer eneerged from behind the buttress of the road bridge, and unseen by the driver, placed himself at full length sin the near rail. The whole of the train passed over his body, cutting it completely into fragmerts, part of the flesh adhering to the erg ne wheels. The frigliful mutila. tion was witnessed by the guard, who also saw parts of the body on the line move, by muscular contraction into the channel by the rails after the train had gone over thew. The driver was not aware of the terrible disaster rill after the train had arriveel at the station. The fragments of the b de were subsequently gathered up to await the coroner's inquest. A Duo's FATAL FIDELITY !—An extraordinary death by drowning occurred in the River Mersey early on Tuesday morning,. Thonsaa Bellies a young man residing at Trannuere, near Birkenhead, was hi a small boat, in company with a friend, Samuel Jon«' the mate of the Anna Copyork schooner, which wan lying in the river. They intended to row to the schooner and pass the night there, hut in eroseiug Tranmere slip, where the current is very strong, the boat captive-I Jones, who is a good swimmer, would have been able to save his frien.l, but Bellia's dog, which had accompanied them in the boat, got on his master's back, aael every time Jones stretched nut his hand to eupp ert Belles the dog flew at him savagely and bit him. The result was that Wills was drowsed. His body was iecovered some hours afterwards when the tide had receded. BEGINNING EARLY !—Baron Pigott had before him a difficult case at the Essex Ace zee. A little boy, only eight years of age, was charged with placing obstructions on the Great Eastern Railway. While employed watching birds in a field the lad amused ninaself by putting a number of iron chairs and large sternest on the rails, and when remonstrated with by a boy about his own age, threatened to break his head with a stone. Daring, the three months the little culprit has been in prison awaiting hie trial he has been guilty of several rcischevious acts, such as turning off the gas in the chapel, pulling down bell handles, tearing us his blankets), and similar acts of wautonnesa. Baron Pigott confessed he did not know what to do with the chill, and at length decided to restore him to his friends, with an intimation that he ought lobe well flogged.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-02-06 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EXPLANATION FROM PRESIDENT JOHNSON. sternation. There was wailing in Mayfair, and -The United States Senate having requested PresiBelsrravia would not be comforted. The beautiful 'dent Johnson to inform it by what authority his pro' Coronach ' of Scott, familiar to all young ladies, was climation of amnesty was issued on the 25th December in the mouths of each of them ; and it was pitiable to last, he has stated in reply that it was issued in virtue hear the melancholy refrain, ' Like the bubble on the of the power vested in him by the coestituti al. That fountain, he is gone-and for ever.' But the despair constitution, he says, is understood to be, and is reof the young is often somewhat hasty. Luckily, how- carded by the Executive, as the supreme law of the ever, it is about as transitory. So when the veterans rand. The second section of Article 2 provides that of the domestic camp began to hint that after all hope the President shall have power to grant reprieves and need not yet be abandoned, that though a Roman pardon for offencee against the United States, except Catholic in the abstract is rather a terrible thing, a i. cues of impeachment. President Johnson adds Roman Catholic husband in the concrete, and pant- that his amnesty proclamatioo is "in strict accordance cularly one who is a Marquis, and has £300,000 a-rar, 1 with the judicial expositions of the authority thus is per caps a proper object for the exercises of a little ' conferred on the Executive," and he sent papers to the Christian toleration, the young ladies began to take I Senate to show that it is in conformity, with preenconsolation, and try to see the matter in a different dente established by Washington, and followed by light." Adams, Madison, Lincoln, and the "present ExecuSUICIDE AT ST.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-09-11 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

NTIN E SMOICENB. We Saw the followfacts of the case were briefly summarised by the judge, tog advertisement in the Liverpool Mercury who said : wante i, a Smart Boy, well acquainted with a TobaccoTour victim was an old 1.17 65 years of age, friendless and tin's counter. unp d, rotecte and at the Hine a hoarder in envoi our hotels, vho . . , . was pos«esned of an estate of about 40,000 dols. You Wishing, if possible to supply the want, Mr. Punch gained her cot.ll fence to tarn to correspond with her, and I...ked ronnd at slot ef boya whom he knew, but Lund obtain from her 1.000 11018. Emboldened by your snore., . that they weul.l not do, for each of them AS are well acquainted with Tribacconlst'e counters are very far you determbed to possess her entire estate, and to effect your purpose you we a I. tter purporting to from smart, being tumidly stupid, slangy, pert cede. be the will of Maria Steinecke, and porporthi to be signel by her, In whi gh poi are ti.e sole legatee, However, having found one that he tintught might 8101 to this paper your mane and the earn° of your father preasible answer, Me. Punch dispatched him to Liverare attached an witnesses That this paper is forged and pool. He was returned by the next train. The boy false cannot he doubted, for your father, who was examined wanted 8838 for the nther side of the counter, the aide as a witness by your c 011.., was not eveu asked whether on which brains are required.—Puncla the paper was germine. But to consummate your purpose the death of Miss Stelnecke was nrcessary ; this. the jury MILITARY JURISERLIDANCn.—For trying to kill have mond by their verdict, you soon afterwards effected, by himself a non;comudePioned officer, named Fuller, hate adudniateriug to her poison limn senteeced by a C.,urt Martial to nearly two years' Sentence of death was then pronounced in the usual confinement in a military prison, and to forfeitnre of form. past claims for rewards and pensions for the term of his natural life. This seems to be a very remarkable ceuree of proceeding with s view to deter a man from abrhiging that tetra. Its only conceivable effect can be that of causing a person stout to con,mit suicide to take care to kill himself effectually. That is, to kill liiineelf effectually in the current Pence of the verb to kith Whether a man can really kill himself is a question which occurred, indeed. to Hamlet the Dane, bet is not likely to occur to a British non-cemmimioned officer. This the Hon. Guards and the Duke of Cambridge might have conaidereil before approving of a sentence., which, by way of encouraging a noidier to live, makes his life still noire wretched than it was before, when he found it unbeerable.— Punch.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-12-18 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY.— An extraordinary tragedy has just taken place in Paris on the Boulevard St. Germain. A Mdme. B--, a widow lady in easy circumstances, resided with her daughter, aged twenty, in her own house opposite the Theatre de Cluny; she had for some time past shown signs of mental derangenient and frequently complained that she heard strange noises about her head, and imagined that she was followed by soldiers or police spies. The your g woman appears also to have been of very narrow intelligonce, and completely under the influence of her mother. One evening last week, the eldt r lady resolved to commit suicide, and induced her daughter to consent to die with her; they first wrote letters announcing their determination, which were afterwards found on the table, with the will of the soother; they next lighted a nan of charcoal, but, as death did not come quickly enough, they drank some eau de Javelle (a bleaching fluid used by washerwomen), and in which they dissolved some phosphorus scraped from Inciter matches. Even this poison did not produce any immediate result, and the mother they took a curtain-rope and strangled her daughter intending to put an end to her own life afterwards. St e ighted more charcoal, but without success, and at leogth went down [dohs and told the house puter'e wife to knee up for a moment. On the latter woman ghostly after going into the room she found Mae. B-- crouching on the ground over the body of the daughter. The police were then sent for, and the mother, on being queetioned, replied without emotion, giving every detail of this horrible drama, but without assigning any motive for the attempted suicide. She is detained in coot,, y until a medical examination as to her sanity shall be made.