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Weekly News. — 1891-10-29 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A BRIDE. A suicide of a most distressing and dramatic character took place in Paris on Saturday night. A young :lady of 17, named Pauline Menard, was married on Saturday to a M. Lecointre, 36 years of age. At the wectling breakfast and throughout the day, even, indeed, during the ball with which the festivities wound up, the young bride appeared to be perfectly happy and thoroughly enjoying herBM, not missing a single dance. At half-past 11 her mother conducted the bride to her apartment. Half an hour later, when the husband followed, he found his young wife writhing in agony on the bed. She had just strength enough left to tell him that she had poisoned herself with laudanum, as she had sworn to be faithful to another man whom she loved. A letter was found in her handwriting. which an as follows: "My dear Henry,—! beg you a thousand times to forgive me for the wrong I am about to do you. I know you love me sincerely. I know it was wrong of me to allow him to visit me. I love you also. but I love another to whom I have sworn to be faithful. In marrying you I was no longer able to carry out my promise without doing ru a grievous wrong, and this I would not entertain for a moment, because you are an honourable and a good man. I commit suicide so that I shall only belong to death. Forgive me once more, and also ask my dear parents to forgive me, for I love them with all my heart.—Pauline." M. Lecthntre was distracted with grief, and his reason seemed to have given way under this terrible misfortune. Be had to be taken home, and has since been carefully watched in order to prevent him from attempting his own life.  :nary naa a parrot tame (She killed it in her rage), Because, when Mary's fellow came, The parrot told her age. Sweet girl: "Papa, Mr. Poorchap proposed to me last night, and I told him I would marry him if you were willing." Father: "Send him about his business." Sweet girl: "He hasn't any." Stranger (in London): "These bridges are a nuisance. Why do you have them ?" London man (apologetically): "Well—er—you see, sir, the water in the river isn't always thick enough to walk on."
Weekly News. — 1891-09-24 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TEE ROUMANIAN ROYAL ROMANCE. A Paris paper on Friday published a telegram from Milan stating that Mdlle Vacaresco attempted to comet suicide on the night of the 14th inst. at Milan, where she is staying with her mother. She came to this decision in consequence of her separation from the Queen of Roumania, and that she cannot marry Prince Ferdinand. Mdlle. Vacaresco swallowed the cent( nts ot a phial supposed to be laudanum. Immediate medical assistance, however, saved her life, and she is now quite out of danger. It is also stated that Mdlle. Helene Vacaresco will write a history of the recent events. This book will throw an entirely new light on the matter, which will be shewn to be not quite so simple as is believed. The Vienna correspondent of the bait News describes the departure of the Queen of Roumania from the Venice Station for Pallanza, on the Lago di Maggiore. He describes her condition as most pitiable. She was carried from the gondola to the saloon carriage in a chair, on cushions, with her head reclining on a white pillow. Her hair, cut short, is quite grey. The pained expression of her pale face was heightened by the anxiety she seemed to feel at the mode of her departure. Her eyes had a feverish light in them, her head never moved, but one of the white hands, on which she wore no gloves, was waved in sign of adieu to the friends who had come to bid her good-bye. The Queen was lifted into the carriage by the railway guards, and before the train started a large orovision of ice was packed into the train. The Minister who is with the King, on being questioned about the Queen's illness, answered that it wa.s the King's and the physicians' secret, but he believes that her nervous system is entirely shattered. At the hotel absolute silence was maintained continually; the slightest noise brought on terrible attacks. During the last few days she would not have a person about her except the King; and her brother, to whom she was formerly much attached, was not allowed to enter her room, as the sight of him convulsed the Queen. She refused to take what was ordered her, and asked for all sorts of things that could not be refused, as the fear of exciting her was too great. Thus she ate lobster in the middle of the night.
Weekly News. — 1891-05-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN GENOA.  A murder took place at Genoa a few days ago, and has just come to the notice of the authorities. At a meeting of Socialists a disturbance took place. with the result that Michael Benedetti was carried to the hospital in a dying state. He had been stabbed in thipe places with a dagger. Benedetti died during the night, refusing to the last to give up the name of the assassin, whom he knew, or to say what was the cause of his being stabbed. When pressed to give his assassin up to justice, he replied that the affair was one which concerned his party and not the Courts of Justice. These were his last words. The murdered man, who was a leader of the Anarchist society of Travelli, is supposed to have failed to carry out some order of the Anarchist Committee, and that in consequence he v, as condemned to death.  There is said to exist at Namur a musical criti, who has never heard of Beethoven. A Continental paper states that this gentleman recently wrote of "a symphony in C minor by Von Beethoven, of a bizarre and rambling character, but dominatP.l by a reminiscent theme." It is possible that "Fate knocking at the door" has by this time relegated the critic in question to more congenial pursuits.  On the -arrival of the Cunard liner Cephalonia at Queenstown, on Monday, from Boston, the passengers reported that on Thursday morning a steerag. passenger named John Regan mysteriously disappeared from the ship, and was never seen afterwards, although a careful search was made for him. It is concluded that the man, who was 40 years of age, committed suicide by jumping overboard. The body of a man was found on Saturday, at lawford's Wharl, Camden Town, bearing a number of bruises about the head and body, which are supr.osed to have been caused by violence. A telegram from St. Petersburg states that, up to the present. 300 Jewish families have been expelled from that city, after suffering brutal treatment at the hands of the police and gendarmerie.  Fears are entertained in Benares that there may be disturbances on the occasion Of the Mohaninv,ta•l Id or Festival. The East Lancashire Itegunent IC confined to barracks,and the native guard andpolice have been reinforced.
Weekly News. — 1891-05-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ILLNESS  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A PARKSTONE TRAVELLER. At Southampton Police Court on Tuesday, Ws!ter Bryant, a traveller in the employ of Messrs. Perrett Co., Printers, of Parkstone, and who resides at Oxford Street, Southampton, was charged with attemptui... to commit suicide by jumping off the cc. CoriabrOokt, it the Pier, Southampton, on the previous day. The prisoner rushed on board the Carisbrooke, and ta'sMg off his hat and jacket gave it to one of the searrien, named Henry Rose, and said "I am going to imop overboard.'' "Not on this ship," replied Rose. and he held prisoner, who tried to get away, and used his teoth in the endeavour.—Captain James Short saw two men holding the prisoner, whom he recognifa,l as a man who had jumped off the Solent Qi(Pell in Stx.kes Bay two years ago. His thigh was then broken in two places, head smashed, his leg broken, he was serieesly bruised, and his watch smashed. He was tsken ashore and charged by the police, and in Septembe, he gave evidence against the prisoner, who was ;hOll discharged on account of his sufferings an.: sister undertaking the care of him. Prisoner's in: tries were caused, probably, by being struck by the r, Mlle' wheel of the Sokol Ow( n.—The prisoner stated that the evidence was perfectly right.—ln answer t., the charge, he said, "I am sorry it occurred; I don't now what led me to do this. When I went on the iprat had no intention of doing anything of the kind."—One of the prisoner's employers (Messrs. Perrett and Co., Limited. of Parkstone, Poole), stated that he could not account tor the prisoner's conduct; he presumed it was through drink. Prisoner had collected some few accounts and spent the money.—Mr. Pegler said they had nothing to do with that. He was surprised tliat the prisoner had not taken warning by his very w row escape, and lie could only tell him that the sarm boat which saved his life had saved his (Mr. Pile'-.—. Prisoner was committed for trial at the C 1,, ter Sessions.  :
Weekly News. — 1891-10-22 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CURRENT PRICES OF BRITISH GRAIN AND FLOUR IN MARK LANE. Shillings per Quarter. Wheat Red (5041 b. ... 38 to 42 New ... .•. ... 34 to 40 White ... •.. ... 40 to 44 New ... ... 36 to 43 Flour, per sack of 280 Th., town-made, nominal top-price Town-made White ... Seconds... ... Households ...  —to 39 .. 36 to 37 ... 30 to 32  Country Households ... —to Best makes ... ... 30 to 33 Norfolk, & other secondary country makes 2816t0 31 Barley Grinding New (per Imperial qr.) 25 to 32 Malting, New... ... 30 to 42 Malt, English, New ... ... 32 to 45 Scotch ... 36 to 39 Brov. n ... 31 to 33 Oats, Irish ... ... 19 to 22 English... ... •.. 18 to 24 Scotch ... ... 20 to 26 ... 31 t035;6 32 t035/6 35 t 03816 ... 36 t 04016 ... 32 to 34  Rye ... Tares, New Beans, Tick, Old Winter ...  Eng. Mazagan Peas, White ... . Maple ... . Grey ... •  The death is announced of Mr. Oliver Claude Pell, of Wilburton, Ely. Mr. Pell was educated at Rugby, under Dr. Arnold, and subsequently took his M.A. degree at Trinity College. Cambridge. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1848, and was called to the Bar in 1851. He was a member of the famous "All England" 11, together with Mynn, Pitch, and Lillywhite, and was also a member of the Inns of Court Volunteers, winning the Lord Chancellor's Prize, and shooting with the English team for three years in the International Rifle Match. Mr. Pell spent a great part of his life at Wilburton, and took an active interest in county matters. He was chairman of the Ely magistrates and of the County Council for the Isle of Ely. and was 66 years of age. Robert Derry, aged 85, a gentleman of independent means, was found dead onMlnday morning hanging by a rope attached to a bannister at his residence, Roman-mad, Colchester, having apparently committed suicide. Mr. Jackson has one distinction which is unique, says a London correspondent, who believes that Mr. Jackson is the only one of her Majesty's subjects whose head ever figured upon a stamp. It was a threepenny telephone stamp, and Mr. Jackson looked right royal upon it. The people of the Post Office, however, thought he looked disloyal upon it. So the stamp was suppressed; conies of it are retained in the collections of a few philatelists, and as Mr. Jackson rises in Ministerial rank the pretty little picture that records his most business expression will increase in value  Moses "Isiin't dat a schweet line, Jacob, vot says— 'Ciadt, goldt, vldt, li,avy to get and light o " Jacob: "Y2s' Mose, but der mos ,gsquisite of all vos dose lines vot say—'A loan, a loan, all a loan on a vide, vide sea!' I yonder cot per senent he vos got on it 2" She (falteringly): "The—there's one thing I m—must tell you before we get married, Cha— Charlie. My fa—fatber has been in pris—prison!" He (a journalist and ravenous for "copy"): "I'm delighted to hear it, darling! If I can only get him to relate his experiences to me it'll go a long way towards buying a suite of furniture for our house!"
Weekly News. — 1891-10-22 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

BALM ACEDA'S LAST MOMENTS.  The Paris Temps publishes a letter from its Buenos Ayres correspondent which contains some curious details respecting the last moments of the late President of Chili. After stating that President Balmaceda had handed over the reins of Government to General Baquedano immediately after the battle of Piacilla, the correspondent goes on to say: "On August 28th at midnight, the ex-President left the Mint and repaired to the Argentine Legation, where by the instrumentality of his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senor A. Zanartu, he gained admittance. At this moment he had no intention of committing suicide. On the contrary, he made known his intention of surrendering himself to the authorities pending the constitution of a tribunal. At his own request, the persons who were to accompany him to the prison were two officials of the Opposition, Senores Concha-y-Toro and Walker Martinez. Three days before the suicide was committed Balmae,eda told Senor Eriburu that he was busy drafting his application for imprisonment and that he hoped to finish it as soon_ as the civic fates were over.  During the night of September 18th the ex-president handed two letters to Senor Eriburu. One of these was addressed to his mother and the other to his wife. The Argentine Minister remarked at the time that Balmaceda seemed very anxious that these two letters should be sent out without delay, but he soon forgot the incident. Matters were in this position when suddenly, at 8 o'clock the following morning, Madame Eriburu heard the report of a firearm, and at once went and gave the alarm to her husband, who was in an adjoining apartment. Senor Eriburu sent at once for the ex-President's servant, who went to his master's room and returned a few minutes later with the information that a suicide had been committed. Senor Eriburu at once sent for Senor Walker Martinez, who arrived at the Legation a few minutes afterwards. They then both repaired to Balmaceda's room, where a horrible sight met their eyes. Balreaceda was dressed, and had his boots on; he was lying on his bed, his head in a large pool of blood. One of his eyes had been forced out of the socket. his death had been instantaneous, and in his right hand was loosely grasped the revolver with which he had shot h mself ."
Weekly News. — 1891-12-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

STRANGE DEATH OF A BA.NE-CLERK. A prolonged official inquiry has been held at Jersey into the circumstances attending the death of Robert Alexander Ashbunier, aged 20, of Lloyd's Bank, London. The deceased, it is stated, left London in his usual spirits on Wednesday week for Reigate, where he saw a lady friend. Upon leaving he announced his intention of returning to London, but appears to have stopped at Redhill and proceeded to Brighton, eventually crossing to Jersey. On Sunday he wandered about alone, and where he slept on Sunday night is unknown. On Monday he shot himself. Only a shilling was found on the body, and a watch-chain and valuable ring which he obtained in London before starting were missing. He acted strangely whilst in Jersey, driving out alone. His relatives were unable to account for his mysterious action. Nothing was wrong financially. He resided at Henley, and was temperate in his habits, but of delicate health.—A verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane was returned.  At a meeting of the National Thrift society, held on Saturday, the question of pensions was discussed, and the following resolution was adopted: "That, recognising the value of the einployes' contributory pension scheme as an aid to thrift, this society purposes using its utmost endeavours to extend the same as widely as possible, and especially in connection with municipal and Government eatablisnments."  The reports which have been persistently circulated that M. Vishnegradsti and M. Dournovo are in disfavour with the Czar and will shortly retire find no credence in well-informed circles.  The general result of Lord Wenlock's tour through the distressed districts of Madras goes to show, we are told by the Times correspondent, that the rice crop has failed in about 430 villages in the extreme south, but stocks for two months exist there, and the East Coast Railway is giving some labour to the people, who are not yet in need of State-provided labour. Throughout the remainder of the district about half the average crop is expected, and no trouble is anticipated. lt may be noted that the centre of anxiety has now been shifted from the districts immediately round Madras to the ceded districts.  It is reported that the Provincial Raids who recently returned from Tangier to their district have been ordered to reassemble at the Court at Fez at the end of March next to accompany the Sultan on a military expedition to the north of Morocco. At the dinner which was given to Lord Lansdowne in Bhopal on Saturday night the Begum, in proposing the toast of the Queen and the health of the Viceroy, said she placed the whole of the resources of the State and her own life at the disposal of hes Alsiestv.
Weekly News. — 1891-11-19 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MURDERED BY MISTAKE.  An extraordinary tragedy has just taken place at Lag,arta, a small isolated village in Texas. It was one in which a man who had deliberately made up his mind to murder a rival was the victim of a cunning scheme, by which he killed instead his most intimate friend. The assassin, says a Daily ntTreph correspondent, is Antonio Vera, a handsome and popular young ranchero, who was engaged to Chiquita Flores, a pretty Mexican girl. It was arrreed that they should marry when the cattle season ended in the autumn, and with this understanding Vera went to Mcxico with a herd of cattle, h dng absent for several months. Ile returned last week to find that the girl in the meantime had transferred her affections to another young man named Torres. Vera remonstrated with his lady love, but in vain. She was infatuated with Torres. The latter came from Mexico, had plenty of motley, and had bought and stocked a large ranche near Lagarta preparatory to his marriage. Vi ra said is thing to Torres concerning their rivalry, but kept , on frirndly firms with him. He finally invited ' Torres, with others, to pay him a visit. Torres accepted, but said he could not reach Vera's ranche tr fore 10 o'clock at night. Suspecting a plot, he induced flermaso Ventro to go to Vera's in his place. Ventio went there early, but, as Vera did not return, he went to bed about 11 o'clock. Vera was calling on the girl Flores, and after the call spent a couple cf hours at a public-hi use, and became intoxicated. He rode home, and upon arriving there went directly to the room in which he supposed Torres to be sleeping. Without any preliminaries, he crept to the bedside of the alumberiprr man, placed a Winchester rise to the latter's head, and blew his brains out. He then coolly lighted a lamp, and was horror-stricken to find that he had not killed Torres, but his intimate friend. Torres has disappeared, and Vera is under arrest, having surrendered himself to justice. The girl is still tt, her father's ranche, and Vera, unless 11,- finds mean. to commit suicide, will certainly be hanged.
Weekly News. — 1891-11-19 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TRIFLE MURDER AND ATTEMFTED  SUICIDE.  A frightful tragedy took place at Titchfield, in Hampshire. on Monday morning. Alice Hinton, the wife of a harness maker living in West-street, in that village, had a short time since unlergone time months' imprisonment for neglect of the elti'dren of her husband by a former wife, and havin g been summoned by the National Society for further cruelty, she was to have appeared before the justices at Fareham on Monday. During the morning, however, the unhappy woman murdered the two stt p-children anti her own child, and then made an attempt to cut her own throat. John Hinton, the husband, went out to purchase a pair of slices for his son Frederick John, 11 years of age. During his absence screams were heard by the neighi ours, and William Hinton, the second SOIL, 9 years of age, was seen coming from the house wit h a deg) wound in his neck. He fell down, and was taken into the house of a neighbour, where he died about noon. On the police being called they found in the house of the Hinting the lifeless body of a little girl, Augusta Hudson, 8 years of age, the daughter of Mrs. Hinton by a former husband, the child's head being nearly severed from her body. Police-constable Hatfield met Mrs. Hinton dtscending the stairs with her throat cut, and, in ansuer to his inquiry as to who had done this, she replied "I did." She was at once secured, and on the police going upstairs they found the boy Frederick John Hinton lying dead with a carving knife beside him. The woman was attenfted to by '-tr. Hoare and then conveyed to Fareham, where she was taken before the justices, who, on the ovidence of Dr. Hoare that she was undonbtedly insane, directed her removal to the County Lunatic Asylum.
Weekly News. — 1891-05-21 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

POISONING.  llfadame Weis, who, acting on the advice of her lover, a young engineer named Rogues, tried to poison her husband near Tlemcen, in Algeria, will be brought up for trial before the Oran Assize julges on the nth inst. Rogues, the engineer, sent the lady poisonous preparations, which she put in her husband's tisane from time to time. One evening a letter, in which she a-' :c1 her lover for "more poison supplies," was P rcepted by the Vicomte de Guery, who holds an official appointment in Algeria under M. W is. The Vicomte had strong suspicions before he took this step, as he had rwticed that M. Vlieis became very unwell after having swallowed ,he medicaments prepared by the lady. The epistle having been handed to the magistrates, Madame Weis was arrested at once and ques committed suicide in Spain. The accused woman, says the Paris correspondent, is 24 years old. She was born at Nice, her mother being a Russian Nihilist and her father a Parisian. Under the tutelage of a Muscovite grandmother the future Madame Weis was initiated into the mysteries of Monte Carlo and other spots frequented by fast, loose people. She had several lovers, but in 1/44 she tint M. Weis, then an artillery officer in Paris. As she had no dowry M. Weis left the army, obtained a Government appointment in Algeria. and then married her. Two children were asii of the union, and all went on well unlit M. Roqins appeared on the scene. Since her incarceration Madame Weis has been preparing her "Memoirs," in which she throws all the blame of her crime on her departed lover, who, according to her own shewitig, exercised a kind of mesmeric influence over 11,T. The "Memoirs," by the way, are not only composed of mere diaries and chronicles of evems in the writer's life, but are full of ethical reflections and philosophic apophthegms, which shew that Madame Weis is a cultured, if a fliOity, person, whose trial will make as much sensation as that of the morbid moralist Chambige, who was condemned to penal servitude, in Algeria, about a y.:ar ago, for having be a concerned in the death of a married woman whom he by ' •,,,