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Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-04-11 (Darlington, Durham, England)

THE SANITARY STATE OD THE DISTRICT.  Dr. blAcxxx read his annual report, of which we give an abstract :—The report stated that the well water in the villages of Aycliffe, Hnrworth, and Barton was in too close proximity to the dwelling-houses, the cesspools, and the midden heaps, the consequence being that the water was rendered impure. It did not always contain a large amount of organic matter, but it always contained impurities resdlting from the oxidation of organic substances. Adverting to the sanitary deficiencies of the cottages in the rural districts, the report stated that it was not in one village alone, but in almost every village in the district, that cottages had been built without any regard to ventilation. Having enumerated his visits to the different townships, Dr. Mackie stated that the zymotic class of disease had not been prevalent during the past year. Mr CROADB reported that, in accordance with the resolution of the Authority, he had prepared plans, specifications, do., for the drain it was proposed making between Fighting Cocks Station to Middleton-one-Row. The total length was 2,888 yards, and the cost of draining would amount to 800/. An annual rate at lid. in the pound would in thirty years pay off that amount. In reference to the village of Blackwell, Mr Croade recommended the replacing of the present drain, by laying 300 yards -of 6-inch pipe from Mr Allan's cottages towards Mr Bamlet's farm. It was then proposed by Mr WOOLER, and seconded by Mr WA.Tsow, that the necessary powers be apnlied for to control the building of all buses in the district.—Carried unanimously. This concluded the business..  Professor M‘Michael,lof the 'United Presbyterian Church, died at his residence in Damferline on Friday. The election extlenses of Professor Fawcett as candidate for Brighten were 473/., and those of Xr White 514/.  The petition against the return of Mr Hopwood and Mr Pennington, members for Stockport, has been withdrawn. The Royal Commission on the Labour Laws will meet to take evidence on the 18th inst., but their sitting will not be public. The Russian Government will, according to the Times telegram, shortly begin to work the coalfields of Saghalin by convicts.  David Simpson, the last of the three brothers whose names are associated with the fine arts in Scotland, has just died at Edinburgh. The People's Monthly Journal of Select Literature is a new sixpenny periodical published by Mr John Berger. Mrs Amelia Lewis is about to issue a penny weekly paper, illustrated, called the National Food Reformer. Ur Swinburue's " Bothwell " is complete. It will be lengthy, and will exceed the limits of a stage piece. The author of "The Purgatory of Suicides," Mr Thomas Cooper, has a new volume in the press entitled " Old-Fashioned Stories."
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-06-20 (Darlington, Durham, England)

LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE NEAR NORTH SHIELDS... Shortly after six o'clock on Friday morning, a serious explosion occurred at Percy Main, North Shields. One of the locomotive engines belonging to the Blyth and Tyne Railway Company was standing at the sheds,PtrcyMain,when the fire box, which is surrounded by the boiler, exploded, and severely scalded three men. Their names are Luke Fenwick, night foreman, Robert Finlay, engine diver, and Henry Baker, stoker. The latter was the most seriously injured, being scalded about the bead, arms, and chest. His legs were also injured by being struck with pieces of coal, which were strewn about by the force of the explosion. The injured men were afterwards removed to their homes, where they were attended by medical gentlemen. SHOCKING DEATH OF A WOMAN NEAR SOUTH Samns —On Thursday morning,a woman,named Ellen Arthur, aged 62. a widow,living at the village of Preston. near North Shields, was found dead under shocking circumstances. It appeared that for some days past Mrs Arthur had been misting, and it being supposed that she was in her own house, where she lived by herself, her son proceeded thither, and on breaking the door open he discovered his mother lying on the bed with her face downwards, and quite dead, she haying apparently been suffocated in this position. She had been dead some time. It is stated that she was addicted to drinking, and the remains of liquor was standing in a pot on a table near the • bed.  SUPPoSED SHOCKING CASE OF SUICIDE OF A NORTH SHIELDS TRADESMAN --OnWeduesdaymoining the body of a MAD, apparently about forty years of age, and divested of his coat, was found lying on the rocks below the Spanish Battery, Tynemouth. The head and face presented a shocking appearance, the deceased having evidently fallen face downwards. The body was afterwards identified as that of Mr Jacob Ab• ndchien, pork butcher, Bedford-street, North Shields. He left home about seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, at which time he requested another pork butcher to purchase some pigs for him at Newcastle market. He was not afterwards seen alive, and the supposition is that he had thrown himself from the cliffs on to the rocks below. When found he dii not appear to l'ave been long dead. The police are making er qairies, and an inquest will be held, so Its to obtain farther information respecting the deceased's death. An inquest was held at North Shields on Thursday, when it was stated that since the death of one of his children be had been in a depressed state of mind, but when last seen on Monday night there was nothing particular to observe in his manner, an& no idea was entertained that he contemplated suicide. No information could be obtained as to how he had come by his death, beyond his being found on the rocks, or as to whether he had been drowned or thrown himself from the cliff, and the jury returned an open verdict of "Found dead,'
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-11-21 (Darlington, Durham, England)

TTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A LUNATIC NEAR GITISBROUGH.—& melancholy case of attemp'ed suicide was brought under the notice Of the Guishrough magistrates on Tuesday. A man about 35 years of age, who refused his name and address, and of whom there appeared to be nothing known, was stated by Superintendent Prest to have been found that morning on the Cleveland Mineral Railway, at Slapewath, lying across the line, with his head over one of the rails. Police-constable Calvert and another officer who found him, at once removed him from the pla3e, and were no doubt the means of saving his life, as a train ran past immediately afterwards at great speed. The prisoner, in answer to the charge of attempting to commit suicide, said he was on his way to heaven, and thought that nobody had any right to interfere with him. It being evident that he was suffering from mental affliction, the Bench ordered him to be taken to the Workhouse' with the view of his being afterwards removed to the County Lunatic Asylum.—This case was again investigated at the Gui4brough Police Court on Thursday. Dr. Merryweather, the medical gentleman who had ex 'mined him, now stated that he did flat consider him insane, and Superintendent Prest remarked that he was at a loss to understand what motive be could have for laying himself down on the railway.—Admiral Chaloner, the presiding magistrate, having asked him what he meant by going about the country and behaving prisoner replied that he did not like a lunatic, the know what be was doing at the time. He had had an injury to his head, and was subject to fits.— The Admiral thought that fourteen days' imprisonment was the best thing that could be done under the circumstances, and he was then sent to Northallerton gaol for that period.
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-11-21 (Darlington, Durham, England)

CASTLE EDEN DISTRICT. tiarmprintendent Percival Scott, of Castle co m mita IM' tlar Olieehithit 1-.7eliteiVer 29 tit-. In the division, with a population of over twentyfour thousand, there are seventeen policemen, including superintendent and four sergeants. The division includes Castle Eden and Colliery, Hutton Henry. Hesaleton, Sheraton, Wingate, South Wingate, Wingate Lane, Trimdon, Trirodon Colliery, Tritndon Grange, Thornley, Ludworth, Haswell, Haswell Moor, Shotton, Shotton Colliery, South Hetton, Easington, and Shadforth. The following is a text of the report :- No. of indictable offences committed, 8; persona apprehended for same, 8; committed for trial, 8; No. of known thieves in the division, 85; No. of pets us pro— ceeded against, 2,581 (against 2,594 of the previous year: a decrease cf 19); No. diseharge 1, 149; convicted, 2,433; fined, 1,798; committed to orison or reformatory sch Joie, 86; otherwise punished, 519; No. of public-houses in the division, 69; proceeded against, 8; convicted, 6; racerderl on license, 1; No of beerhowsea. 18; convicted, ; recorded on license, l; No. of publiolouse licenses can • celled, 2; No. of persons brought up for drunkenness, 1,183; convicted, 1,173; discharged, 10; No. of convicts holdirg licensee, 2; remaining on license, 2.  The Strike of the Forest of Dean colliers and miners against the reduction of wages coramoneed on Saturday. On Wednesday afternoon, a man unknown committed suicide by jumping from the second arch i of Westminster bridge. AS IT IS.  AS IT OUGHT TO BE At, the Docks, where Horniman's Teas are in bond, I took samples from original chests, which I analysed and found perfectly PURE, and free from the usual artificial facing; the quality being equally satisfactory' Feb. 19, 1871. A. 11. IlessALL, M.D.  In the Times of Jan. 7th Dr. Hessen writes : " I have made a further analysis of tea; of 18 samples all wer found to be adulterated. The were all artificially coloured with Prussiar blue, turmeric, and a mineral powder. The qubstances used in facim,i tea serve no useful pur-I use, but render practic.ble other more serious, .dulterations." ,t 248 A
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-07-18 (Darlington, Durham, England)

SUICIDE AT MIDDLESBROUGH.  At noon on Monday, an inquest was held in the vestry of St. Luke's Iron Chapel, Middlesbrough, before Mr J. T. Belk, coroner, upon the body of Annie Spenceleigh. who committed suicide on Saturday night.—The first witness called was Charles Spenceleigh, who said he was assistant with Mr Spence. tailor and outfitter. Deceased was his wife. She was 29 years of age, and they had been married five years and a half. He last saw her alive or Saturday afternoon, when she was in a tremulous state, and, as it about to take fits. From what he knew, and from what he had been told, he thought that her condition arose from drinkieg. He went to his business, and was afterwards sent for, but not told what was the matter. He called for Dr Walker, and when he arrived et home he found she was in a dangerous state. She was unconscious and did not speak. Miss Sadler was the first person who saw the deceased. Dr. Walker and his assistant, Dr. Pearson, arrived before the deceased died.—Emily Jane Sadler said she livei with Mr Snenceleigh. Witness was in the house when Mr Speneeleieh went out to business. Deceased appeared all right, and had only had six. pennyworth, and a little brandy and water in the afternoon. She had had a good deal of drink in the early part of the week. Some time ago Dr. Walker had to be called in to the deceased, who was suffering from delirium tremens. Witness saw the deceased go upstairs about twenty minutes to nine o'clock on Saturday night. She heard the deceased "retching," and thinking she was sick witness went upstairs, and fonnd her in her bedroom lying on the bed. Witness saw a good deal of blood about the deceased, and thinking that she had broken a blood vessel, witness ran down stairs into Mrs Spenceleigh's (deceased's mother-in-law) house, but there was no one in but Mrs Onthwnite, who went and saw the deceased, hut said she could not do anything. Witness went for Mr Spenceleiah. She did not know that deceased had cut her throat until Dr Walker said so.—Ann Onthwaite and Dr Walker gave corroborative evidence. He bad no doubt whatever that the deceased had inflicted the wound. She was perfectly sensible, and talked to her husband.—The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suidide while in a state of temporary insanity.
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-11-07 (Darlington, Durham, England)

FATAL BOILER • EXPLOSION.  On Wednesday morning, a fatal boiler explosion took place in the works of Messrs Hall and Co., Skinner-lane, Leeds, by which one man was killed and five seriously injured. The boiler rose in the air about thirty feet, and was carried along about one lvindred yards over the tops of houses, doing great injury to property. It passed through one room in which were two children, both of whom escaped without injury. The explosion was heard several miles off.  M. Offenbach, it is said, has received 80,0013/. for the author's rights in three of his pieces. Dr Lankestcr, coroner for Middlesex, died on Friday morning.  . The cotton crop in the Bombay district is magnificent, and a fortnight in advance. The Graphic contains at' illustration of the Fiji islands, giving a view of " &yaks from the Anchorage.' The Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Aesociation met on Monday, and resolved tu promote the cheque payment system. Among Mr MtirraY's announcements is a work by Charles Nordhoff, giving a history of the Communistic Societies of the United States.  An inquest was opened on Saturday at Rom ford, and adjourned, on four children who died after taking powders given them for teething. The dispute between the Atlas Company and their workmen is likely to be settled. The Company require a reduction of ninepenee per ton.  At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, Charles Cullen and Henry Morton, for robbery with violence, were sentenced each to seven yearn' penal servitude and twenty-five lashes.  The Hanky borough magistrates have resolved in favour of giving power to magistrates to inflict corporal punishment upon men convicted of biting, using the knife, or wife beating. On Friday morning, the body of a respectqbly dressed man, with the head severed from it, was found o•L the line between Halifax and &ipoenholm. It is supposed that he had committed suicide.
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-06-27 (Darlington, Durham, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDES AT  HARTLEPOOL.  On Saturday morning, about nine o'clock, a seafaring man,named William Wilkins, aged twentythree, attempted to take his own life, under the following circumstances. He had been in the habit of staying with his parents, whose name is Brown, in St. Mary-street, Hartlepool, and at an advanced hour on Friday night he left a neighbouring colliery, where he was employed, and knocked at his parent's house door for admission, when his sister let him in. Next morning, his father seeing him in bed, exclaimed to him as he passed out, " Hulloa, Bill, are you there ? " to which he made no reply. Shortly before nine, his sister found him in her bedroom upstairs with his throat cut, the gash being about three inches in length. The wound was bleeding most profusely, and he was in a helpless condition. She screamed in fright, and rushed into the street. P.C. Coiling was passing at the time, and ascertaining what had happened, obtained Di. Green, who was then presiding on the bench. The doctor immediately sewed up the wound, and soon stopped the hemorrhage, and Wilkins is now progressing satisfactorily. Indeed, he was able to articulate distinctly in the course of the same afternoon. He had employed for his purpose a large table knife. Au educated youth, named Geo. Haswe'l, whose pirents live in the neighbourhood of Coventry, and who at ites that he himself belonged to the German brig Eugene Elise, was on Monday 'brought before the West Hartlepool County Justices, by Police-constable Alidgley, on a charge of attempting to destroy his own life. The officer stated that about font- o'clock on Satur lay afternoon be was on duty at the dock warehouses, when Haswell went up to him and assured him that he was tired of his existence, and that he meant, at the first opportunity, either to drown himself in the dock, or to throw himself in front of a passing locomotive. The same day Ike officer saw hint approach an engine travelling on a line leading towards the ferry-landing, and, as he declared that he would throw himself in front of the advancing wheels, he seized him, and was only just in time to prevent him c irrying out his announced intention. Its at that moment he rushed forward with the apparent intention of committing suicide. He was quite sober; and, when cautioned on the point, he denied that he was in the habit of taking drink. As he ba i told the same officer once or twice before that he intended to kill himself, the officer judged it advisable to take charge of him.—ln answer to the magistrates' clerk, he admitted the truth of the officer's statement, and be seemed to comprehend the meaning of every question; but his demeanour in the dock was • somewhat strange. At one time he was the subject of deep emotion, and buried his face in his hands. It was twelve months ago, he stated, since be left home.—The bench remanded bin, for a week to enable the police to make enquiries about him.—A charge of ship desertion against him was withdrawn.
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-06-27 (Darlington, Durham, England)

RIFLE COMPETITION AT BISHOP  AUCKLAND.  The twentieth competition for the Helmington Challenge Cop,. given by Mrs Spencer, of Whitworth Hall,to the 4th Durham Rifle Volunteers, took place on Saturday, at the Bishop Auckland Rifle Range. Besides the cup, which only becomes the property of any one making the highest score three titnes.in succession, a feat which is highly improbable for many years to come, there was a number of money prizes competed for. The distances were 200, 500, and 600 yards, seven shots at each ; and after shooting off the ties, the following was the result and the prizes obtained :—Corporal Riddle (G 2 cup and 11. 15s ; Private Clarke (56), 1/. lOs ; Private H. Moore (19), 1/. 5s ; Sergeant T. Robson (46.), 11.; Sergeant Smnrthwaite (46), 17s 63 ; Private Dawell (45), 15s ; Corporal Monaghan (43), lOs ; Sergeant Robinson (43), 7s 6,1; l'rivate B. Madden (41), Private J. Barker (41), Sergeant H. Greenwell (41), 5s each ; Col-Sergeant Barnard (41), Private W. Yorath (41), Private R. Arrorsmith (41), Private T. Cooke (35), Private A. Fenwick (33), Private W. Condon (32), Private Flynn (31), Corporal T. Barnard (29), 2s 6d each. Clarke being a recruit of this.year, fired under protest, and the money has been held over for the decision of the officer commanding.  A 'oily, unknown, committed suicide by hanging herself to a belpost in an hotel at Carlisle on Monday morning. She arrived there on Sunday. On Sunday night, at Kingsland,ls persons were injured by the foe wheel coming off a conveyance, in which they had been enjoying an outing. During the last three days the Great West. ern Railway Company has converted its southwestern lines from the broad to the narrow guage. The Ironfounders' Socie'y have presented Mr Plimsoll with an illwninated address and 4661., to assist him in his efforts on behalf of the seamen. The strike in the luilding trade at Leeds is ended, the Association of Master Builders having on Wednesdiy conceded the terms demanded by the men. The Liverpool Town Council on Wednesday resolved to give notice to the Tramways Company to take up their lines.
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-05-30 (Darlington, Durham, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE NEAR  GUISBROUGH.  • A determined case of suicide has occurred at kyton, near Gnisbrongh. One of the most raspected men of that place, Mr Stephen Hunter, schoolmaster, left his residence on Saturday, and did not return; but, as he was freqaently in the habit of going from home for a day or two to look after some property for which he was a trustee, his absence did not excite, either on the part of his relatives or friends, any particular attention. Early on Monday morning, a report reached the village that he had been found haniging in a cabin at Grievson's quarries, some two miles off, in the direction of Gnisbrough, and the rumour was soon verified, as the body of the deceased was shortly afterwards brought in a cart to the Royal Oak Inn, where it awaits an inquest. The deceased was found with a rope round his neck suspended from a beam across the roof by one or the . quarrymen, who immediately cut him down, but the body was then quite rigid and stiff, and showed every appearance of having been hanging for some time. A piece of tarred rope was found on the floor near to where the body was suspended, and as there were marks of tar round the neck of the deceased, it is supposed that he had used this in the first instance, and, finding it unsuitable, had chosen another piece of rope. The deceased was spoken to by several persons on Saturday forenoon, and to none of them did he exhibit any signs of being depressed in mind, nor has he, so far as we can learn, been embarrassed in any way. The sad event has consequently caused much excitement in the neighbourhood. The deceased was 43 years of age, and has left a wife and two children. The inquest resulted in a verdict of "Temporary insanity" being returned.  It is stated that Miss Thompson's picture " Calling the Roll" has become the property of Her Majesty the Queen.
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-09-05 (Darlington, Durham, England)

HORRIBLE AFFAIR IN NEW CASTLE.  An attempted treble murder and suicide occurred in Newcastle on Friday afternoon, the perpetrator being a Jewess, named Rebecca Lewis, who resided with her husband in Gibson's Gallery, Elswick-lane, Newcastle. The husband was looking out of the window into the lane when he felt something sharp penetrate his neck, and on turning round saw his wife with a shoemaker's knife in her hand. Before he could recover from his astonishment she stabbed him again twice in the neck. He at once wrested the knife from her hand, turned her into the street, and locked the door, and then made off bleeding,it was supposed, to the Infirmary. The woman went to the house of a neighbour, and seizing a table knife cut her own throat. The neighbour, Mrs. Raven, ran in alarm to the nearest police station, leaving two of her children, Charles Raven two and a half years old, and Maria Raven three morns old, in the room with the woman Lewis. Oa ourning with a constable Mrs' Raven was horrified to find her boy, Charles, lying on his back, having a frightful gash in his throat, and the infant bleeding copiously from the mouth—the knife having apparently been thrust down its throat. The woman laid quietly looking with a stream of blood flowing from her own throat. The parish doctor happening to be passing at the time, he was called in the house, and found the eldest child's wound to be so serious that little or no hopes can be entertained of his recovery. With difficulty the doctor succeeded in bandaging the wound in the neck of the woman, who resisted much. As soon as the doctor left, she tore off the bandages, evidently determined to end hEr life. The doctor was sent for, and returned; but after he had re-dressed the woman's neck, and again left the house, she seized a fork, and with it attempted to complete her destruction by plunging it into her neck. Mrs Lewis had been living on good terms with her husband, and no cause can be assigned for the commission of such a serious crime, save that some time ago she was sent to prison by the Newcastle magistrates on a charge of stealing money and clothing from one of her two sons. It is supposed this may have preyed on her mind, and caused insanity. The infant, Charles Raven, died on Sunday from the effects of his injuries. THE PRISONER BEFORE THE MAGIS