The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-03-15 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SINMSI,I3 DEATH OF AN OLIS MAN.-8 61111101 I Ces, , , :, . . as £64,680,000, anti the expenditure £63380019). alias Turner 79 Years of age and n ago a mai.. liver.. r fibhc't Clong- u htll%ll7ollie7ime:, I which afte paying Da charg loranar fo the was killed in a very singular manner on Saturday last. Y r e esr ear leaves a surplus of £4oo' 00. The About one o'clock in the afternoon a waggon of coal was estimates for 1870.80 fix the revenue at running down the incline between the NO. 1 Pit and one .f. 64,620.000 and the expenditure at of the forges. when the man in charge of the brake saw L £65,050,000, including two millions for the the deceased sitting on a large piece of timber close to expenses of the Afghan war. The cotton duties the metals. The brakeman did all in his power to stop on all goods containing yarn of counts not above the truck, and shouted to the old man to keep oat of the ' thirties are admitted. The revision of the customs way : but en the waon got op tth pl osite o e ace . where Lwk ees was the oldgg p man fell hrward on his knees, I fE tE 000 The exchange is tariff causes a oss o • , . and in a moment his head wits on the other side of the , estimated to be nearly 10per cent worse thin rails, and his noel: right across them. The waggon , last year. The loss by exdhange was £3,952,000. . severed his head from his body, death being, of course, i But for this loss it is estimated that, apart from instantaueons. The old man was generally respected. the war there would have been a surplus of For some time he bad done no work, and his sanity nearly £2,000,000. The addition to the registered having been doubted, he was lota time an inmate of the debt was—in 1877, over £6,000,000; in 1878, workhouse, but medical opinion being that ho was able £2,748,000; and in the current year £3,627,500. to take care of himself lie was allowed liberty. Some ,„ .aw 4 per is suppose that be conireitttd suicide, while others believe t loan in India has been 1 . that on the approach of the waggon he became light, notified for five crores of rupees, on the condiheaded, and fell forward. with the fatal result already tions of the transfer loan of 1879. No increase stated. As inquest was held at the Bed Lion Inn, of taxation is proposed because the change in the Holdenhill. on Wednesday, before Mr. Booth, coroner, relative value of gold and silver is under the contouching the death of Samuel Turner, alias Lree, who sideration of the home Government. The rendsmet with his death ander circumstances reported above. sion of the cotton duties mentioned is in accordance The evidence went to show that on Saturday, as a wag. with the advice of a special commission of the gm was proceeding down . incline at the Clough Hall Ironwoiks, the deceased, who was iitting us a piece of Chambers of Commerce of C lutta Bomb y wood near the metals 11l forward, and was r. over, and and Manchester. The present measure, it ac, a. killed instantaneously. A verdict of' Accidental death ' is stated, will entirely remove all present was returned, direct protection and free all imported goods now subject to competition with the Indian mills. No change is made in the duty on yarns. The measure, it is stated, is politically desirable, as it is a step towards the solution of controversy between important English and Indian communities. The removal as soon as possible of all other protective duties is declared lobe' necessary to Indian interest. Further reform of the octroi duties is promised.  THE FLOODS _IN