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The Telegram. — 1893-11-14 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE ELECTION OF CORONER. DOUTOR on LAW Y lilt tke  Aln sorry- ill.; -y-i.-aT.Corresporident, Hardin," ahoold have imagined that I could have Lilltelldea to cast any reflection upon ina enciital eapacit.Y, or on that of any other of yutarcorreepondents because I happened to address you under the 110111, Of Pfuete "Common Scoot." Such, 1 can assure hum was very far front any intention. To a certain extent I must somewhat betray my igdoranee-or perhaps I should say my want of comprehension-for I cannot, for the hie of me, conceive what he means by technical sense, the dictionary meaning of the word tee/init.& being, accittlint, to Nuttall. " Pertaining to art, or me arts ; bellongitw to a particular art or profession," lind I therefore cannot see how or where it comes in in the subject under discussion. Mr. Hardin asserts, tirstly, that " If a man commits suicide by liangiug, a medical euruner will Call in a doctor and pay him WU /Millet'', (the italics are mine) for testifying that the loan n died of strangulation. ' Allow me to assert to the contrary that fie would do nothing of the kind. The doctor'r fees in such a ease would be one poineit only, for the coronae, whether a dueler or lawyei, would hardly order a posl-morten4 exoituttiotnou to he made, winch must be always a his. agreeable as well is a tiresome and long piece if kustouts, and ftrtlu,. performance of which only would the doctor be entitled to receive a double fee. htiCil V14L1E111121t11.1116 I believe ire but seldom ordered and only so when the coroner cuininiers tileill to be btrictly necessary for ascertaining the Cause of death. In the second phiee Mr. Hardin writea." A lawyer is the cheapest coroner, and to the agricultural interest that, seems to be a CollBl,lCfilgOli tUllaY." 11 your curreationdent will turn to twee 49 of the books tiettiug iorth the receipts and expenditure of the Soine.rmet County Council for the year ending March 51st, 1893, lie will find the following culla., :Coroinrs :-Payinents to jurors, medical witnesses, :.-Mr. Cr nickel, 163 inqueds, £259 151 4.1 ; Mr. Muller, 96 inquests, £2OO its 6d ; Mr. Monekton, 64 'tomcats, £94 Is 'ld. IL is a matter of simple division to ascertain the average cost per inquest in the three diVidiollS, and they work out shut: -Mr. Craddock (doctor), £1 Bid! per inquest ; Mr. Monaton (doctor), El 9a 24 per inquest ; Mr. Muller (lawyer). £2 1.2.1 per inqueet. that ia to say, that the expenses incurred by the legal coroner are, per inquest, nearly thirty per cell. more than those incurred by his medical brother. %Vila has Mr. Hardin to say to this it leave him to his musings, and remain, yours faithfully,
The Telegram. — 1893-04-25 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

CASE OF SUICIDE.  On Satinday evening, Mr. O. Chislett (coroner for the district) held an inquiry at the Horn's Inn, Long Lane, Colehin, into the circumstances attending to death of John Richmond, a widower. ô years of of Long I.:me, Cokhiil. Charles Richmond, labourer, of Long Lane, deposed that the deceased was his father. He hint saw hint alive at 6.60 that morning, when lie was apparently in his usual state of health' Ahout three weeks since deceased went into the Union Hospital at Winitorne for the purpose of undergone an operation. He told witness that the operation was performed, and he had obtained relief. Deceased had not been confined to his lied the had been in low spirits fir some time past. He had never•threateoed to take his life. He had heard deceased say at times that thn pain he suffered was more than he could bear—Duress Shiner, aged lit, the ilaughter of Freilk. Shiner, stated that at about a quarter past nine that morning she went to the cottage occupied by the deceased to see why he did not come up to his daughter',,, as was his custom on Saturday mornings. She went into the house and called him, but could not see him. Witness came out at the back gate, and &lir him hanging front an apple tree. She at once went for Mr. Barrett, a neighbour, who came directly. Witness sent to deceased's daughter and told her. W hen she first saw deceased he was swinging round and round. It might have been caused by the wind.—Wm. Barrett, a baker, said that at about a quarLer past nine that inoming he wan fetched by the last witness, who said, "Oh, Mr. Barrett, old Mr. Richmond is hanging from an apple tree." Witness ran off immediately to the spot, where he foand deceased susrmded by a rope to the apple tree. He found deceased was quite deal. Two men were passing at the time, and he called them to witness that he was quite dead. They went fur the police at once, and witness untied the rope and lowered the body. That would be about five minutes after he first saw him. He did not cut the rope immediately, as lie understood he had not a right to touch the body until he had a witness.—The coroner said that was a mistaken idea altogether. Tile first thing to do was to endeavour to save life.—Supt. Marsh said it was a prevalent idea that the body should not be touched, but it was entirely a mistaken idea, although in eases where there was a suspicion of foul play it was important that position and every little detail should be noticed.—ln summing up the coroner remarked that Or. Courteuay had told him the deceased undoubtedly endured much sudering. The jury at once returned a verdict of " Suicade whilst of unsound mind."
The Telegram. — 1893-04-11 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, & DEATHS. (Received too (axe for classilicatton.) Honns.—Aord 6, M West Street, Somerton, the wife of Mr. F. 'l'. Hobbs, of a daughter—stillborn.  Lord Roberts sailed from Bombay for England on Saturday. The Commercial Bank of Australia has reopened its doors. The North-Eastern millers have advanced the price of floor lsod per sack. Mrs. Todd, a farmer's widow, died on Friday at Donaghwore, County Down, aged 110 years. A violent eartliquake was experienced in Servia on Saturday, and a number of persons were killed.  The Dundee l3leach Works were partially destroyed by the on Sunday. The damage is estimated at f.:6,000.  A Sunday•school teacher, Harriet Shaw, aged 33, dropped dead at Longwood, near Rudder&id, un Sunday, while instructing her class. Tert,s,z is very nresaleat at Oixams. lu one Guu.ent department cone 15 officials were &beetle on one day owing to this cause.  Mr. W. Widgery, the well-known Devonshire artist, who began life's work as a mason and plasterer, died at Exeter on Saturday. At Bakewell, on Friday, four men were each sentenced to a mouth's hard labour for killing trout with dynamite in the river Wye, near Chatsworth.  Mr. Lamle Sewell, a London jeweller, shot himself on Friday night at the house of a Miss Price, at Southend. It is believed that he committed suicide through jealousy. Twenty - three valuable horses, including stallions recently inported from England, has e been burnt to death in a fire at the Horse Breeders' Association stables at New York.  A tire occurred in Upper Tooting Road, London, on Sunday, and when the outbreak was extinguished the charred remains of Allan Weak, aged 70, were found amongst the ruins. A meeting was to have been held at Consett, Durham, on Saturday, to protest against the Home Rule Bill, but a number of people obtained possession of the platform and passed resolutions in favour of the bill.  T'ne Voisty, ketch, of Padstow, London for Plymouth, went down on Sunday morning, with all sails set, six miles south-east of St.Catherines. The Ventoor volunteer lifeboat rescued thecrew of four hands a minute before the vessel sank. Hundreds of spectators witnessed the occurrence from the c!iffs.  Mr. John Nieass, an old Chartist, who suffered imprisonment in his early life for his political action, and who died at North Kensington on Good Friday, was buried at Briaupton Cemetery on Saturday afternoon. Isluny political and personal friends of the deceased attended, including Sir Charles and Lady Dilke.  C +rms.,  roli-ni Wheat. BArley. OM. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Week qrs. qrs. Qr. s. d. a. (1. P. d. 1899 43,933 17,999 5,6.. 29 11 25 2 17 8 1510 52,022 12,67 6,762 .. 29 9 29 9 18 6 1991 69,896 29,488 10,600 .. 37 9 27 4 19 3 1452 48,469 22,546 6,334 .. 31 4 26 11 20 2
The Telegram. — 1893-06-20 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

ACC (DENT NEAR WARMLNSTER. CAP LAIN HELMS 3.P., KILLED ON THE LINE. On Wednesday morning, a shocking discovery was made on the Great Western Railway line at BaisOilStrOW, near Warminster. Captain Burchall Helme, who was well known in the district, and who acted as a county magistrate far the petty SSOlaiollial division of Warminster, was found cot to pieces on the line and almost unrecognisable. The deceased gentleman's grounds adjoin the line, and he was evidently knocked down by the train running front Bath to Salisbury. The deceased, whose datighter was shortly to be married, was a member of the Wilts County Council. The inquest WWI held on Thursday at Bishops. Crow House. .luseph Barkus, G.W.R. engine driver, said lie was attached to the 11.26 train from Warminster on the previous morning, and when about half-way to Heytesbury he noticed a gentleman walking on the right hand side of the liin . As the engnie drew up the deceased deliberately stepped in front of it, and the train passed over his Leidy, which was cut to pieces. He appeared to he crossing the line right in front of the engine. Witness omitted t, sound the whistle, as he thought there was no danger.—The Rev. U. 11, Attwood, rector of Eishopstrow, who had been on terms Of intimacy with the deceased for a great number of years said 01(4Mo:eased had been in indifferent health for some time, probably six months, and was frequently ow-spirited. llc had been attended by a London physician for Male disease of thin heart, of which recently he had heard a very bad account. Ho was not in pecuniary ilidicnlties, but had been pressed fur money recently. He was morally certain that deceased never contemplated suicide in any sort of way.—Mr. John Benett-:itaufurd, of Tinbury, also Spoke to his long acquaintance with ileceassd, and hi, surprise at the occurrence. His pecuniary difficelties were exceedingly trilling.— Mr. E. L. WilltON, nurvon, of Wartitimiter, said Ire knew dm:ea:a-if to be in. strong-minded man, and had no reason to auspeet that he had any suicidal ten.liniey.—A verdict of "Accidental death " was returned.
The Telegram. — 1893-08-29 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

TERRIBLE BOATING DISASTER.  A terrilite boating disaster, retuning in the lode of nine lives, principally those of Sheffield people, took place on Tuesday afternoon off the pure of Sutton Bridge in Linrailnsbire. A host containing ten persona started up the river Nene. When they had gee about three miles the party decided to return, owing to the force of the wind, and when about a mile and adielf nearer houie, the boat cap. sized, and all the oceupante were thriller] into the water. Only two of the party were got out alive, and one of them, a child, died soon afterwards. All th. bodies have liven recovered.  Fradariak fLous.a of Caatung To £lO and costa at Wo;dwicti, on Wadi:a:T:l%l Molwii(e'Sn Puljeacetsceotf kwleaane m"" "tie  The Admiralty having been informed dust QRS of their Porteniumli contractors was underpaying his labouter., have caused a letter to be written, stating that he ;mist not pay leas claim the IPioinuw current wspes,  After a Kattr dance in South Africa, 24 persons retired to sleep in a but. The ht was noticed to be on fire the nest morning, and on the door being burst open 17 persons were found burned as death. Seven were got out alive, but four subsequently died. At Bow Street, on Monday, Mabel Harrison, described as an strives, was charged with attempting to commit suicide, by juinping over Westminster Bridge. Prisoner said she did not know what the was doing owing to drink. She was nanachal.  DANGERS OF TRAVEL  - Ti. dangers incidental to travelling seem to be increasing rather than diminishing. Almost daily it is our painful duty to record appalling deaths, on land and see, and it would alinirst KeVlll as if the mogum we ore supp.wed to have made in scientific appliances, in place of minimising, enhance,. inn chances of danger. But on more careful consideration we find it is nut no much that ecience is at [Ault as that men are careless.  Ce.relesioiess is the actual CAWOOD of a great percentage of the must terrible catastrophes and deaths, and as lung as responsible persons ignore this fact the present death-rate will continue. To permit the kidneys to rut away, or to suffer limestone deposits to accumulate in the bladder, is criminal csrelessness, ehpecially when a sure cud safe cure is obtainable. Mr. 11. Collier, comedian, of Birkenhead, says :—" For the past two years I have teem troubled with pain, in the back and kidneys, which interfered greatly with my profession, and having taken different medicines without receiving the slightest relief, I was advised to try Warner's Sato Cure. After one bottle I felt much better, and, continuing it for some time, I am now perfectly restored to health." This goes to prove that the elements ui danger surround its whether at home or abroad. [5797.
The Telegram. — 1893-10-24 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

WICLZOO. Germany, on Tuesday by a gardener, who afterwards killed himself.  A brown trout (salmo faro) weighing 7ib. has recently been taken in a mackerel net by the crew of a Lowestoft fishing-boat, when about 25 miles out at sea.  At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Liberator Relief Fund on Thumb.) it wet announced that the total amount received M aid of the fund was £30,226.  At 13rmuley, Kent, on Monday, James Arthur Winter, head-ioaster of Foots Cray National School, was fineel 33. 6d for exisestovely beating • scholar aged 12, who had disobeyed him.  Di has beeu aacerrtained that Baron biissmileh, the law student of Dresden, who disappeared in the Spliigeu Mountaine, where he had been mak. lug a tour without a guide, wax murdered.  A South Waled daily IN reononsible for the user. *ion that, owing to the st,poage of a chapel clock, a well-known Merthyr preacher hold forth for nearly an hour-and-a-half on Monday night.  , The j jiner who struck at Queen's Island Shipbuilding Yard, Belfast, in consequence of Loudon cabinetmakers being employed on the steamship Uothie, have returned to woik on the old terms.  At a cost of about £4,300, the old monastic build. ings at Wye are to be used for an agricultural college, the maintenance of which has been under. taken by the County Councils of Kent and Sur. . . . .  --it Rochester, on Tuesday, a little boy named Bardon, aged three, was eating locust beaus, whet a piece of ones became wedged in his throat, Death resulted oon after Ins admission to tee hosoital.  A carter was killed at Fazeley on Monday. being knocked down and run over by the horse awl waggon he was inchargeof. He leaves a widow and six mall children. The wife was confined upon the day her hueband's death.  Members of the City Police Force, to the number of 127, attended at the Mansion House on Monday, when they were presented by the Lord Mayor with medallions and certificates be proficiency in ambulance work.  At Manchester City Council on Thursday, by 36 votes to 19, a resolution was carried that in any future bill for public improvements a clause should be added including the adoption of the betterment principle. It is proposed simply to transfes the London clause on the subject to Manchestee bills.  Mr. GLADSTONE having been forwarded a copy of "Lights and Shadows of an Artizan's Life," by Joseph autteridge, a country weaver, has written a letter, dated Hawarden Castle, October 17t1, saying that bit opportunities of reading are much restricted, but be has commenced the work, and has assured himself that it will repay perusal.  TR' SUFFOLK Multinca.—At Cockfield, nett Bury St. Rclmunde, on Friday. a coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against William Southern, who twice shot at Emma Crick a married neighbour, on the afternoon of the 9th inst., and afterwards committed suicide. Uppleasantness had existed between the parties for noonthe. Srmini Is A
The Telegram. — 1893-12-12 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

TUE ACCIDENT AT 11112 BRISTOL DRILL HALL-The authorities have taken very prompt actioe in the matter of the accident at the Drill Hall us Wednesday eveving, and the proprietors of the entertainment have been summoned before the magistrates and tined £25. Toe Queen of 6axoey is suffering from a cold, and is compelled to keep her bed.—Lady Not, wife of Mr. Justice North, is recovering from severe attack of influenza.—Lady Hindhp and her son, the Hun. C. Ali-iopp, are also suffering trona a severe attack of influenza.  The London and South-Western Company have come to the determination to proceed with the work of their new graving dock at Southampton, the largest in the world, in three sections, an thus, instead of it remaining in hand for two three years, it is hveci it wil, be fiuished by July or August next.  Wo learn that in consequence of the retirement, through ill-health, of the senior partner, Mr. T. G. Lloyd, of Messrs. Sales, Pollard & Co., t,.baeco cigar and snuff manufactures, of Fitrling. don Street, Lindon, E. C., this old-establighed businves has been taken over by the celehratel firm lf tobacco manufacturers, Alessrs. W. 1). & H. 0. Wills, Limited. Mesa,. Sales, Pollard & Co., have carried on their business fur over 150 years.  A NAUCAITY NlL—George Booth, 11, the child of a Worcester street musician, committed suicide on Friday afternoon, by hanging himself to the bed rails. He lras given a lot of trouble by sleep. rug out and playing truant from school. He Cal recently expelled from the Roman Catholic schools, and entered the board school last week. He played truant on Friday, and was hunted up and sport home, where he committed suicide foe fear, apparently, of being chastised.  CHICIWPMAS HAKPERII !lieinus Mazawattee Teas in Xing'. Hamper Cardboard boxes, Wither pattern. 31b. and 61b. sizes; all prices, ha 64, 6s, 7, fia 64, 11S, 12a, 14s, 17s, of special Agents, Leading Grocers, Everywhere. [6044. The dead body of a man was on Monday found on a sandbank in Oa RihlTle, near Walton 1.-Liale It was identified as that of an imbecile pauper named Robert Holt, who ecaped from Hibenester Workhouse a fortnight ago. Cholera has re•appeared in various parts of Italy. In Hone, is lady in the household of a high court officisl has died of the disease, and during the week ended Monday 14 deaths ore .eirl to have occurred as Pal.•
The Telegram. — 1893-10-31 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

ECCLESIASTICAL. Binserm. RAPTI'? Cottang. A well-attattrled and tative meeting on Monday &Minted the Rev. W. J. Efeutierson, of Coventry, to be en. preeident with the Rev. Dr. tmlroes at the Bristol Baptist College, it being intended he should succeed that gentleman when he severs his comiection with the institution. Dr. Colroas ha been for eleven years principal, and it is trusted now that his burden is to be shared by another, he will runsin for many years eon. near-4 with the eoliege. THIC BROM/DUCAL) FUND for the improvement or the endowinent of small livings of the Church of England in Somersetshire in the diocese of Bath and Wells, consists of securities of the value of £lO.OOO invested iu the names of the official trustees of chantable funds and is administered by ten local trustees, who are eimmwenid to spiny the income of the fund in making grants in aid of the endowment of pour benefices within Somerset and diocese of bath and Wells. The trustees have lately granted for the living of Holy Trinity, Bath, £75 : Lenthland, £5O illsurne Port, £100: and St. Andrews, liowbartorl; Taunton. £76. Applications for grants are made by way of memorial addressed to the trustees, forms of which can be obtained of Mr. H. R. Poole, South Petherton, Somerset.  Alfred Darley, 32, a Ilsoloamith, committed suicide by hanging himself to a door at Liverpool on Saturday, because he had lost a sovereign. Alexander M`Leau, secretary of the Clyde Fishermen's Association, gild two other men have been drowned by • boat accident off the Island of Bate. During • fight at Cheater on Sunday night, between • Der° named Smith and • man named Fahey, the laMar dropped dead. Smith is in custody. Besides doing a great amount of work for rations Governroent departments, the inmates of Park. burst Convict Prison last year made 6,220 mail bags for the post-ofsce. A verdict of found drowned was returned in , the cites of two young girls whose bodies wore discovered in a London mewl They had talked, I presumably as a joke, of drowning thetnielves. ! A Dover servant has committed suicide Isy taking carbolic acid. She drank about hoer, of the liquid, two or three drachms of which would be sufficient to destroy life. The girl was dreadfully disfigured. Tan R.
The Telegram. — 1893-07-18 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

BOOM. tilliouNim it. Tug Town. —A letter was road train the HOllle ladies making fir a list of the burial grounds in the town that should be closed. —The chairman and the clerk pointed oat that the board were asked by the Hume Ditiee to do somethine quite different front what they intended. The Home Office hail twee asked to send down an inspector to encinire into the condition of the burial groitirds with a view to their being closed, and now they asked for a list of the burial grounds to be elwed.—Mr. (lover said that they ought not to have any burial grounds in the town. -- Tile clerk said that all the grounds in the town could not be closed. There were some vaults in the Abbey clinrithyttril which the board ['wilt experience some ili!liculty in closing, they being privitio property. There was p:oliahly not more than one oaths in them, and that being so the owner had a right to inter in them. He rego a copy of the letter which he sent to the Home Office, in which they a-cue asked to take steps to dose the long Street and any other giaveyards in the town that might be prejudicial to health.—The board decided to again ask the Home Office to make an enquiry.  The body of Dir. Ashley H. Hasobard, aged 36, was discovered in aim home park, liscup.on Court, on Saturday. A small opium upside was lyiur nos?.  In the exhibition ground cf the Wer Fair On Monday, a fire broke out, aud reaulted in the death of 30 firemen. NO damage was done te the exhibition property. The Sydncy Mornmg bet-aid having reduced its price from tWOP:AICd 60 one penny, there is now nu daily journal published in Australia Pt a higher prier tlanviie penny.  A young laJy, ai,;,,1 29, of Fiencii nationality, after having lost £ll,OOO at the gaming tables at Monte Carl,, has enninitted suicide. Before killing herself she strangled h.r two childre,,, wh., were fire and four rspectively. Lord Justice Kay has just added £1,500 to a stun of £3,000 given by him in 1891, to Jesus College, Cambridge, to endow studentships in thenlc,gy in memory of Lady Kay, which are to be called the Lady Kay studmtalnps. On Monday, an inquest wall held at Gloucester, on the body of a middle-aged man who Was found on Sunday morning under some trucks near the cattle dock in the Gloucester gmods yard. A verdict of " Accidental dottb " was returned.