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Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1898-08-05 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

MASON'S SAD END.  the found her hothead, when eke had left aaleep in bed, sitting in the arm chair in the kitchen. • He mired her what a certain bottle in the kitchen contained, and she replied vitriol, whereupon he said he had "supped a little of it." She ; gave him acme salt and water, and afterward. I some tea, but at tine o'clock he died. The facts were reported to the Coroner, who ordered a post murtein examination to be made. run 'SWAM  was held last Saturday afternoon, at the Royal Hotel, Lowor Heysham, before Mr. Neville Holden, deputy coroner, and N jury, of whom Lr. J. Collins was the foreman. Orme Hodgson, the widow, said the deceased was her husband, and lie was a stonemason, aged 64. He had been working up to lost Saturday, but since then he had licen drinking heavily, he came home about tour o'clock on Friday afterneon, and was then not very much the won.: for Leer, lie would know what he was doing. He had his tea, and afterwards went to bed. Witness left the house about eight o'clock to see a neighbour, leaving the deceased in bed. She returned in a few minutes, and found Min sitting I in the rocking chair in the kitchen. He asked her what were the contents of the bottle on the stone (to which he pointed). and she replied, "It's vitriol." He said he had supped a little, and her statement semmil to take hold of him. hill 4000 hint soine and woltir, thinking it would make him nick, and he went to bed again.. He vomited on getting upstairs, and he did not I go to sleep. She took up some tea and he sat up on the bed and drank of it twice. He jumped up at lied and said "Oh, lass, I've dune it this time." He did not tom.plain of having any pain. Ho died very quietly just before nine o'clock in the evening in the presence of witness and Robert Cueentl. i.lhe got the vitriol before Whit-I suntide at his requeet for the purpose of cleaning the stones at the lemit doer, which were very green, but he had never done so. He placed the bottle en the stone himself. They usually had a bottle or two of hop beer on the same stone, and no doubt he thongnt he wen drinking some of this when be took the vitriol. She had never heard the deceased tay anytniug about committing suicide; Hist apparently never entered his hiail. She believed he had taken it in a mistake. . . . _  An old Ind well-known inhabitant of 'Heysham came to a and ,nd last Friday night. Abraham IMdgrion, a mason, 64 years of age, and residing with his wife at lower Cottages, had been drinking for a few days and hail neglected his work. On Friday afternoon he went home under the influence of liquor and had lila tea, idler which he went to bed. His wife left the housie about eight o'olock for the purpose of visiting reighbour, and out her return fag minutes later  show a few of the anomalies that existed. The
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-05-25 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

SUICIDE OF A RETIRED GENTLEMAN.  A SAD C.  Scarcely herr the joyous hum of the Morecambe I Whitsuntide season been hushed than a painful roam sation. created by the tragic death at lira own hands of a Morecambe gentleman, paws like a gloom over the entire neighbourhood. Early on Tuesday morning Mr. William Grundy, a retired contmetor, lsvin at a semi-deter-bed residence on the Heysham road at Cross Cop, committed suicide inn most determined , scanner. Mr. Grundy, who was well-known and re- i spected in the district, formerly lived itt Atherton, near Manchester, and at Chow Bent, near Oldham. L but on retiring from business some years ago he settled at Morecambe, eventually Imilding tho reel. I drone he occupied at the time of his death. It ia ' stated that he has recently been much depressed owing to money losses conseqnent on becoming security for a relative, which have greatly prey ed on his mind. On Monday evening his Morecambe property was offered for sale, but did not meet with a purchaser, the offers falling considerably short of the estimated value. He returned horn, after the sale, and retired to rest about ten o'clock. About half. psst five on Tuesday inorning Mrs. Grondy thought she heard him going down stairs, and following shortly after she found him sitting in a clear ill the middle kitchen. bleeding from a wound in the throat. She rained an alarm, and o labourer named Siddle, of Heysham, who happened to be passing to hit work at the time, returned with her lathe house. He at once aroused Mr. Marshall, next door, and Dr. Tidswell, who also lives in the neighbourhood. Both were quickly on the BCOlle, and Dr. Watterson summoned to attend the deceased, who, however, died about seven o'clock from the effect of the self-inflicted wound.
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-12-14 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

LUNE HARRIERS.—Some very good sport has lately been enjoyed by the members of this Hoyt, under the popular master, Col. Foster, ' Hornby Castle. Several very good meets have r.ently been held, including one on the 4th inst. at Iharton•in.Lonsdale, when there was a kill. A second hare was started and proved to be one of the stoutest pussies which ever ran before hounds. She gave them a three hours' run over a stiff coontry, and when she was rolled over the kill ended one of the best days known in the history of the Hunt. On Saturday last they met at Swarthdale Hall, where they breakfasted at the invite lion of Mr. Comae. Some keen sportsmen turned up, including Mr. Barton, of Warton Grange, Carnforth. looking as fresh as ever. A real good hare was found, and led the hounds a thirty • five minutes' run over a stiff country, the end seeing several empty saddles, though fortunately no one was hurt. A second hare gave them a rill, and night coming on the hounds were drawn off. Scrum sr hitustn..—On Monday morning a miner named John Bragg, aged 45, who resided in Kingatr.t. Millom, committed suicide by drowning. At two o'clock on Monday morning lie got up and told his wife he was going downstairs for a smoke. Bragg, it appears, had not been working for three weeks, and his wife, thinking he was going to makes start again OD Monday morning, had laid out his ...at," towels, Ac., for him to take at six o'clock to . work. On rising and going downstairs his wife had missed the towels, dm., and concluded he , had departed to his work. She found a piece Of I a bill written on with a pencil wishing them all good-bye, and intimating that his body would be found in the re.rvoir near the embankment. The note was taken to the police station by a son of the deceased, and on P.C. Vincent visiting the place indicated on the note tbe body was found in about tire feet of water. the shoulder, and head just being visible. Bragg was tally dressed. Full Drs. Suit 703., Bknnow's Market-street. '
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-12-14 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

JURTICE DAWKINS'S PET TERRIER. With the exception of the late Mr. Burton Barber's famous terrier - Teat el " -I believe this is his name—probably no dog of recent thries had so much public attention bestowed upon it as Mr. Justice Hawkins 's terrier " Jack: whose death has recently been announced. •' Jack "has figured in many an English Court of Justice, it is said, and was an almost inseparable companion of the great English judge. A good story is now going around concerning an adventure in which " Jack" figured prominently. The anecdote runs to the effect that upon one occasion Justice Hawkins was " discovered " ratting upon a certain Midland farmer's land. Anxious to pro. pitiate the owner of the land and preserve his identity a sovereign was offered to the irate farmer, and refused. Then the learned Judge thought it best to let the aggrieved one know who he was. tendering the advice that be should take the gold piece, and also declaring that they should •• split a bottle" at a neighbooriug hostelry. Of I course, everything was •• made up ' in the most I approved style, and a nice little finish is added to • Ithe story, to the effect that henceforth " Jack " I had free ratting on that farmer's land. The I 'jolly little Jack" will be missed by a good I many. I dare say, but by no one more than Mr. Justice Hawkins himself. ....-....-'..""""..'"..' YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE! Sufferers from Gravel, Lumbago, Piles. Pains in the back. Dropsy. Wind and Water Corn. plaints, Diseases of Kidneys, Bladder, Stone, Sciatica, Rheumatism, and Gout will find a positive cure in ISOLDROYD'a GRAVEL Plus. Try a small box, and if not satisfied your money will be returned. Price Is. lid., of all Chemists, or post free 12 stamps 'from Holdroyd's Medical Hall, Cleckheaton, Yorks. Don't be put off. If you cannot get them, write at once to the Proprietor, and a box will be sent post free. SUICIDE or a LIVERPOOL Prrucsis.—John Simpson Oswell, licensee of • public-house in Fairclongh-lane, Liverpool, committed snicide by hanging. lie has been for some time past suffering from mental depression.  _
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-03-22 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

CONFIDENCE IN WILD NONEHEILT. Mr. Boras in Hyde Park, March 18th.--," The Prime Minister liar, mid be JO in favour of a Second Chamber. Well, if he is, we are not." Mr. Healy at Birmingham. --" Lord Rosebery would find it better to run politics as Ile ran horses—straight." Mr. O'Brien at Newcautle. March 17th.—" To say that the voice of the people of the United , Kingdom was lobe set aside until a special Eng' lisle majority wan created, was gm or." Weetnuagter Gazette, March 13th, n 94. Rceebery's indiscretion."  IS LORD ROSEBERY A ROME RULER? Too,. Now. Speech at Paisley, 0e- Speech at the Foreign tober 15th, 18&5.--, We Office, March 2nd, 1894. —" With regard to the ontoghtentodmgomut,,lrelelagni! late for Ireland—without reference to the Irish vote. It seems to known as the Irish me that in considering question, they were gniuethis question in we hove bound to it by ties of have netphougr mifinles honour. It would be that we are no longer to affectation to deny that regard the Irish parliamentary vote; and it a speech of his in the seems to me that if we House of Lords last come to that conclusion we have gained w,me. year had raised ovine thing more, because we doubts as to his own ha ve gained the per position on the Koine eeptpiloriey.otto Irtebhi.eupd.o. o h rr;luyidr wit olae question. Those .r,,d had tbm mind there is only one policy to be pursued to- could only have read wards Ireland; and iiis that speech in a cursory to treat Irelaed esactly, manner. like peoplewho so for no may be, as you s I would treat env other read only those °ee-1 ttvh.e?neitevedrKiynog.. tendes in speeche can do it, without re- vrh.r, ended in ' gird to the language of ter' and'hood laughter.' me.aare, the lee" The policy of Rome guage of insult, or the bu,„„pe of opprobrium Rule would not be leas which you will receive definitely pursued ; and from those y. are euif they had any doubt deavouriug to bensfit whenever you can do it. on the subject in their try to treat Ireland minds, one pledge which exactly as you would • treat Scotland or Wales. the Government gave In.: not a was the continuance of //dot Mr. Johu Morley at the Ruler.' Irish office." (Cheers.)  - - - General Roberta was on Tuesday presented with the freedom of Newcastle. A proclamation has been issued by Sir Henry Loch, declaring the sovereignty of Queen Victoria over Pondoland. On Tuesday the body of Mr. J. C. Fielden. a Manchester merchant, was found in the Ship Canal at Pomona Docks. He had been missing from home for three weeks. At Garlinge. a small village near Margate. on Tuesday, a widow named Tucker cut the throat of her two children and attempted suicide by cutting her own throat. Ton Mixss (Eionv Horns) Bias.— Mr. Tomlinson has given notice of his intention ti move the rejection of this Bill when it comes up for second reading in the House of Commons. Bums To
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-11-23 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

TIDE TABLE FOR NOVEMBER.  -Te following table shows the there and height of the Tule at 31 orecambe every day during the month. The Tide resober Lancaster a Lew minutes later than the time given for MorecambeMortlireg Date ... Time ...Height_ Thee height. Thursday Friday Saturday - 16 1... 2 31 ... Sunilay Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday l2 10 21 ... 19 10 ... 10 40 ... : Tneuday l3 10 513 ... 97 6 ... 1 17 ... ...a. Friday Saturday bunday Monday l9 ... 317 ... 17 2 ... 52 ... . , Thursday , Saturday . Sunday . Monday 26 10 23 -. 20 I—lo 43 ... .• • Tue.day 27 .11 z 20 4 ... 11 n ... F. Thereto! 016.. , Friday  Mr. Dove barrister, has committed suicide in his chambers in Lincoln's Inn by shooting himself through the head. No cense is assigned for  the set. A Cowes telegram states that Lord Donraven has definitely decided to challenge for the America Cup. The challenge will shortly be sent  to America. Three store sheds belonging to the City of Dublin Steampacket Company at North Wall, Dublin, were yesterday, with a large quantity of their contents destroyed by lire. A woman named Lee was yesterday committed for trial from the Lambeth Police-court on the , charge of murdering her child by suffocating it with mattresses.  Three men named Wyeth, Goddard, and Hoare were remanded at Aldershot yesterday on a charge of attempting to wreck the Bournemouth express by placing a sleeper upon the hue. Allan Walter John Ferguson°, younger son of Sir James Fergussou, pleaded guilty at Perth yesterday, to having set fire to Trinity College. , Clenalmond, where he was a student, and was remitted to the High Court for sentence. Sentence of six years' penal servitude was, at the Old Bailey, London, yesterday, passed upon Henry Llewellyn Winter for committing perjury in divorce proceedings taken against his wife in  1881.
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-07-06 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

PILLING.  Tot WEATHER Awn ewe Citoce.—The recent fine weather has greatly improved the appearance of everything. Last week-end havaneking was in full swing. The front sometime beck did a great deal of inittry to the crepe all round, but they seem to have tally recovered after the reveres and farmers in ihe district appear to be I XpCe Ling a good average harveat. Hardeners will probably have a very good crop of potatoes Inantassiao War. OF Street—An inquest was held by the Coroner iMr. Holden), on Wedneaday, at the Gardeners' Aram Stakepool, Pilling, on the circumstances attending the death of Christopher Itillington, labourer, aged 67. It wan Mated in eve dence that deceased had lived alone in a cottage at Mosahouges. He was teat seen alive on Monday evening, when his soon called upon him, atayed with him half-no-hoar. and left him apparently quite cheerful and happy, bidding him goodnight. He was ion sick club, from which he was receiving 9s. per week; end it woo said that that allowance wan about to terminate. He wait attended by Dr. Fisher. to a club patient, and had lately been in s low and desponding state of mind.—,J.Dowthwitite, Pilling Hall, an employee of Mr. Kellet, was engaged to look after cattle. and at half.past six on Tueaday morning lie saw deceased banging from a bough lea tree close by. He called for aasiatance, went up the tree, and cot the body down. It was cold and stiff, and h macs h been dead for some time. igestlieegn,.: etreeabout tat feet from the ground, and there was nothing about the place that deceased could have stepped on to reach the bough. lie could only heals got there by climbing up the tree.—}'.C. Birks produced the rope which had been got at the atable close by. It was one of a pair of ploughing oar& which had been put into the stable and taken away during the night.—The Coroner, in summing up left the two questions for the jury to decide Did the man commit aaicide, and if so in what state of mind wee he when be did no ?—The verdict rim that the man committed suicide whilst suffering from temporary insanity.
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-11-16 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

SUICIDE OF A CONGREGATIONAL  MINISTER.  A painful se,,ntion was created in the London Road Cougro,..atitmal Church, Leicester, on Sunday, by the deacon's announcement that tho pastor. the Rev. Thom. Pear.. Trethewey, foriiierlev of Abbeyt.lsle. Sheffield, bad unexpectedly disappeared on Tuesday, and had not returned or communicated, though he should have preached that day. The correspondence left behind showed that he had been in a financial difficulty, owing to an old liability, but the conviction , was expressed that this would have been relieved if he Inset applied to the church or to friends. On , Monday morning a silk hat and umbrefis were seen floating near Lowood at the hoed of Windermere Lake, and subseqaently a body was found, which has since been identified as that of Mr. Trethewey. The reverend gentleman appears to have been at Wastdale on the 7th and Bth. and Baird&le on the 9th inst. The correspondence found on he body indicated that Mr. Trethewey bad committed suicide. Mr. Trethewev is a nephew of the Rev. Mark Guy Pearse, the eminent Wesleyan minister, and entered upon his career in 1885 as pastor of the Abboydale Church, Sheffield. Two Years ago he was unanimously elected to succeed the Rev. Thom. Simon, of Balharn, as pastor of the London Road'Church, Leicester. Re had since gained the high esteem of the congregation by the ability with which lie had discharged his duties. He attended the Coo• gregational tnion meeting at Liverpool, and afterwards spent a short holiday in Scotland. Ou Monday be presided at a meeting in the chapel, and on the following afternoon he let t Mrs. Trethowey, and was seen for the last time at the Nuneaton railway station. The inquest touching the death of the Rev. Thom. Pearse Trethewey, a LeMsster Congregational mini:iter, ems held at Ambleside, ou Tuesday, and resulted in a verdict of suicide whilst temporarlly Maine. It was stated at the inquest that Mr. Trothetvey owed £2lO, according to a statement by a Leicester correspondent, it VMS the receipt of a letter on the morning of his disappearance from a Bristol firm of money lenders demanding payment of a sum of £B5 which created a recurrence of the mental aberra. tion from which he had previously sciffered.
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-03-02 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

LONG •11,0:1111'... 017.NCY.e.  Henry Fisher pleaded grulty to a charge of brawling and collecting a crowd in Market-street on January 28th, 1833, but pleaded •• not guilty " to a ,ecrinill charge of using obscene language on January 23n1, 1833.. -The offenres were proved by P.C..a KaNall and Bradley, respoctively.--The Bench fined the En inner 10s. and costs or fourteen days for the first offence, sad 20.6. and costs or one mouth fur the second.  111t,..4.A5E Or ATTUIPTIOD SOICIDE:  Hannah .kffey, a young woman, who lives with her husband in Main-street, Skertou, was again brought up on remand, charged with attempting 1 to commit suicide on February 10th. - Chief Constable Ward stated that in cases of that kind it was not that offend.a were prosecuted to the i fullest extent, but the circumstances of that one wore such as to lead him insult the Bench to hear the evidence, anti if they thought they would be justified in sending the prisoner for trial to do no. The woman was married and had beeu addicted to drink, and her husband bad had a great deal of trouble with her. She had got into a low dissipated state, and that was the reason he wished to prosecute and have hor put somewhere where she would get round and perhaps becoine a better woman. For some time her hueband hail been suffering front a bad leg, and Dr. Dean had given him some liniment for outward application. On the 10th ult., the woman seas at home and had been drinking. Her little girl, who works at the mill, was at home doing some house work. Hearing something in the next room where her mother was, she went and saw her with a bottle in her hand, which was labelled poison. She tried to get it from her, but her mother would not let her have it, gisd she ran for her father. A neighbour went . in and took the bottle from her, and got asgistanee, after which the woman was removed to the • Infirmary. She said she wished she had taken the . lot, and would take some more if she had the chance. She was detained in the Infirmary mute I time, and then brought before the Court and re! mantled--Evidence was given by the prisoner's daughter and the neighbours who went into the honse.—Dr. Dean mid he supplied the bottle of . lotion to the woman's husband, and it was foront• ward application, and was, labelled poison. The bottle produced was the one, and the poisonous ingredient was the strongest ammonia. Two teaspoonfuls hail mused death, but recovery had taken place after much larger quantities. There were between two and three tonspoonsfnil in the bottle when it left his possession. Ile knew the prisoner and should consider her essentially a drunken woman. He had seen her drunkot eleven o'clock in the morning. That was akwat two years ago. Dr. Helme nud Dr. Croft aleo gave evidence. ; Prisoner was formarlly charged and committed to the Seesions for trial, bail being refused.
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-08-24 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

ASSUMIII. Company's  suicide.  Lancaster district had committed .. Cu- re. 'ie..... fortunately the news turned out to be only too The Clerk presented a mime which he had retrue. It seems that Mr. Barlow. who was well. ceived showing the amount of poor rate levied by known and highly rosp.ted in the town, had not the overseers, which totalled £3,680. The re.ipts been enjoying the best of health for some months, also included £583 from the County Council iu respect of salaries. and there was £3O for sanitary and this together with the worries consequent on purposes which did not appear in the account. Iris being in charge of a large and important In. The union and parochial receipts for all other pur. serail. district caused a temporary mental poses amounted to £216. the total receipts being aberration, during which he shot himself in the 4us against £4,193 for the previous year, an temple with a revolver. The lamentable occur. increase of £286. The expenditure included rence took place about nine o'clock on Saturday £1,834 for relief of poor and purposes connected morning. The deceased had complained of ill.. therewith; £2.469 for purposes unconnected with the night before, but seemed somewhat better that relief, and £340 for all other peep...total £4.643, morning and had gone to his bedroom to shave, an increase of £676. There Seaga slight increase in After he had been there a little time a pistol shot the salaries on account of a nurse who was enwas heard, and when Mos. Barlow went to the gaged. room she found her husband lying on his face nn- Mr. BAYNES observed that they were paying conscious, with a bullet wound in his right £6,000 more on the county rate than the poor rate. temple, the revolver held eon the door close by. 'rue