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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-06-17 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TRAGEDY NEAR CANTERBURY.  Mr. Hermann Stoer and his wife were on Saturday found shot dead in Cockering Wood, about twc miles to the westward of Canterbury. They had been residing in the Cathedral city for some weeks past, and letters left by Mr. Stoer declare that their enjoyment was complete. On Friday they disappeared, after despatching letters containing information of the deed contemplated. These were received on Saturday by Mr. Oscar Stoer, of London, a brother, and Mr. Gavazzi King, of Leeds, an intimate friend of the deceased, and telegrams from them lel the discovery on Saturday night of the dead 1 s. They were lying at a spot not far removed fr on the Chartham-road, the wife with a revoli wound on the left side of the head. In Ids hand was a six-chambered revolver. The evidence of premeditation was clear, apart from the letters. The I:ats, umbrella, and walking-stick were ;aid togethtr. and a bunch of wild flowers, tied with crape, I id upon them. In the pocket of Mr. Stoer were several letters, irrluding one apparently intended for ths coroner. The letters tend to shew that several stage plays of which he was autl or had been rejected, and that in some instances scripts were returned to him unread. Mr. Stoer was educated in Germany,where he appears to have met his young lady companion. He some time ago proposed marriage to lier,hut her family objected, and this appears to have caused the deceased a good deal of pain and disappointment. Indeed, the letters she w that he contemplated suicide quite 12 months ago. It is also apparent from some source that Stoer's female comranion was the girl to whom he had been engaged, and his marriage with whom had been forbidden. It seems that about a month ago she told her mother that Hermann was ill, she must go to England to see him. Objections were raised by the family, but mxt day the girl insisted upon going to her lover, and at last consent was given. She left her Canterbury address with her friends, and arrived in that city the day after Stoer had come down and engagod apartments. No traces of marriage between the parties can be found in the neighbourhood of Canterburv,and the police believe that they were not man and wife. The day following the tragedy was the young lady's birthday, and on the morning a letter arrived at her Canterbury lodgings from her mother, wishing her happy returns. At that time she was lying dead in the wood.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-06-17 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

BANQUET TO LORD ROBERTS.  Lord Roberts was on Monday entertained by the Lord Mayor at a banquet at the Mansion House, which was attended by the Duke of Connaught, the Duke of Cambridge, a great number of general officers, and many other distinguished guests; and, in acknowledging the toast of his health, gave a most interesting sketch of the present state of the Indian Army, the defensive position and preparations of the Indian Government, and its relations with Afghanistan and the tribes on the northwestern frontier. He expressed an unhesitating opinion that, while the troops now in India are sufficient for the performance of ordinary duties, a very considerable reinforcement of British soldiers would be needed in the event of a serious struggle with a civilised Power.  tt private teicgram mini Messina announces a shocking discovery near there. The body of a man was fouqd on Saturday close to the All River, and shortly afterwards the mutilated remains of a young woman, who by her clothing evidently belonged to the well-to-do class, were also discovered close by on the bank of the Findenusi River. The circumstances of the case point to a murder and suicide.  While engaged in their usual duties at the quarries near Taurah, Cairo, a band of 600 convicts made an attempt to escape on Saturday, although surrounded by guards. As soon as the attempt was observed by the olli(!er in charge, a volley was fired at them, and several fell, but it was not until 39 had been shot down that the main body was checked. It was afterwards discovered that 11 men had, however, succeeded in getting away across country. A despatch from Antwerp published by the Independence Belie states that a great part of the city was thrown into a state of much commotion on Sunday night by a formidable explosion outside the residence of M. Borre, the Public Prosecutor. The explosives were placed on the window-sill. For. tunately nobody was hurt, and the damage was confined to the breakage of glass, which was, however, very extensive, every window of the house being sraashed. M. Berre was absent at the time. The outrage is believed to be the work of Socialists. A Belgian glass-blower, working at Jeannette, Pennsylvania, has blown a cylinder of window glass, from which was cut a sheet clear of blemishes 59in. by 921 n. It is said to be the largest cylinder of window glass ever blown.  A sad Alpine accident is reported from the Tyrol. A bridal couple from Vienna, named Haubner, who were staying at Alzen in the Enns Thal, near Linz, started to ascend the Buchstein, a neighbouring mountain. They had climbed a considerable distance up, when, by some mischance, they lost their footing, and both fell from a height of over 900 ft. on to the snow beneath. The lady was observed turning over and over several times in her terrible descent. The bodies have not yet been found; but there is little hope of discovering the lady or her husband alive.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-07-08 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

CENTENARIAN COMMITS SUICIDE  THROUGH LOVE.  At Rostoff, on the Don, a few days ago, a can. tenarian named Prokap aygobionko, formerly an under-officer in the Russian army, and a veteran who had fought at Beresina and Leipzig, comrnitted suicide by hanging himself, after drinking a litre of corn brandy. The deceased, who was still hale and hearty, was close upon the completion of his hundredth year, and the townsfolk of Rostoff were preparing to mark in a very agreeable and public manner the 'veteran's attainment of his century. The curious sequel to the suicide was found in a carefully-written letter placed beneath the empty litre flask. The purport of this precious epistle was that the writer's life had become intolerable since the truest affections which were ever enkindled within man's bosom were hopelessly reposed in a neighbour's daughter aged 16.  Two pnvres of the sth Batt%iion Connaugtt Rangers were drowned whilst bathing on Saturday evening at a place called John's Hole, near Boyle. One of the men could swim, but in attempting to sive his companion he was dragged to the bottom. When recovered the bodies were locked together. General Sir William Payn, K.C.B , who has just died at the age of 70, was an elder brother of Mr. James Payn, the novelist. He became colonel of the Bedfordshire Regiment, a command which he held at the time of his death. He had had a brilliant career, commanding a regiment of the Turkish contingent in the Crimean War. In the Queen's Bench Division, before Justices Hawkins and Cave, an application was made by the petitioner in the Halifax election to be allowed to withdraw his petition on the ground that there was Dot sufficient material before tha Court. The application was dismissed with costs. Their lordshpis also refused to dismiss the petition.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-11-18 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

POOR LITTLE HERO.  In a house in the Coombe, says the Dublin Socie I?eri or, lived a family consisting of a mother and four children, who had been well-to•do people, and were well connected, but owing to the bankruptcy and suicide of the lather had been reduced to Fenury and obliged to live in one room,which three other families also occupied. They were in rage, and almost starving. A little son of 12 was so (lib. tracted at the sufferings of his mother and sister(' that, in (I( spair of being able to support them, he bought with the few shillings which he had earned some articUs of clothing and papers entitling the buyer to insurance coupons. He then went and drowned himself in order that his family might be helped cut of misery by his death. In his childisla ignorance he did not know that his doing so would be considered a fraud, and bring no benefit to his dear one. This is the letter which the poor child wrote to his mother before he went to his death: "Dear Mother,—l spent the four and sixpence halfpenny tor your benelit,and I hope the money it will bring you will help you to forgive my rash act. Tell the police to search in the harbour at Portobello, and when they have found me get them to write a description of my clothes and what I have in my pcckets. They will find a cap that cost sixpence, and will entitle you to £2OO insurance money; pair of suspenders, 40., with a coupon on thou for £.500; a belt, 61, for £100; and papers, one entitling you to £l,OOO, and the others to £5OO each—in all £3,500. Don't spend too much on my funeral, and mind the money, which will make you rich.—Your loving son, FERDINAND ne
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-05-06 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SUICIDE IN A FLEET-STREET HOTEL Dr. Lombard James Newman Tanner, brother of Dr. Tanner, M.P., kas committed suicide at Anderton's Hotel in Fleet-street. It appears that a fortnight ago Dr. Tanner engaged a room at the hotel for an inde4nite priod. On Wednesday, the fact that he neglected his meals drew him under observation. Apparently, the last meal he took was on Wednesday morning. On Thursday night he retired early. In the forenoon of Friday the chambermaid knocked at his door, when he called out, "All right! not coming down." This answer led the maid to think all was right, and as a result Dr. Tanner was not disturbed again that day. On Saturday morning the maid's knock elicited no response. Several times during the day the knock was repeated with the same result. At 5 o'c'ock in t,he evening the manager of the hotel decided that sufficient time had elapsed to justify his breaking the dour in. This was done, and Dr. Tanner was seen lying across the bed in his night-shirt, dead. On a chair by the bedside was a work on pharmacy, open at a page in which the question of the quantity of morphia necessary to cause death under various conditions of constitution was discoursed upon. Beside the book was s quantity of morphia, and lying about the room were several papers and two letters written with a perforating pencil. One of these letters contained instructions to the suicide's friends as to the disposal of certain articles ot property. The other letter contained a statement, in which were the words: "I have to present my sincere apology to the proprietor of the hotel for committing this act on his premises, and sincerely hope my doing so will not result in any injury to him. I had intended to commit suicide at Richmond or Hampton Court, but had to change my mind. I have injected 12 grains of morphia, which I know will be sufficient. When I Ns as brought into the world I was not consulted. Why, then, should I consult anyone as to how or when I shall go out of it?"  The body was removed to the City mortuary in Golden-lane, and on Tuesday an inquest was held, the deceased being identified by Dr. Charles. Tar ner, M.P., who said that he had not seen his brother for two years, when he bought him a practice in the East End of London. Deceased held different opinions from witness as to politics and religion, and he believed he took his own life deliberately and not from insanity. His brother had left a letter which said, "Dear Charlie,—Goodbye. I shall be no more trouble to you,—Lomnann." Medical evidence as to the cause of death having been given, the jury returned a verdict of suicida during temporary insanity.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-01-14 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

NECESSITY OF SLEEP.—There are thousands of busy people who die every year for want of sleep. Sleeplessness becomes a disease, and is the precursor of insanity. We speak of sleep as the imago of death, and our waking ideas as the image of life. Sleep is not like death ; for it is the period in which the watse of the system ceases, or is reduced to its minimum. Sleep repairs the waste which waking hours have made. It rebuilds the system. The night is the repair shop of the body. Every part of the system is silently overhauled, and all the organs, tissues, and substances are replenished. Waking consumes and exhausts ' • sleep replaces and repairs. A man who would be a good worker must be a good sleeper. A man has as much force in him as he has provided for in sleep. The quality of mental activity depends upon the quality of sleep. Men need on an average eight hours of sleep in a day. A lymphatic temperament may require nine; a nervous temperament, six or seven. A lymphatic man is sluggish, moves and sleeps slowly. But a nervous man acts quickly in everything. He does more in an hour than a sluggish man in two hours ; and so in his sleep. Every man must sleep according to his temperament ; but eight hours is the average. Whoever by work, pleasure, sorrow, or by any other cause, is regularly diminishing his sleep, is destroying his life A man may hold out for a long time, but the crash will come, and he will die. The is a great deal of intemperence besides that of tobacco, oi6ltn, or brandy. Men are dissipated who overtax their systems all day, and undersleep every night. A man who dies Of delirium tremens is no more a drunkard and a suicide than the in the lawyer, the merchant, the editor, or the printer, that works exceseively all day, and sleeps but little all niodit.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-01-14 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

REJECTED LOVER'S SUICIDE.  Mr. Wynne E. Baxter held an inquiry at Shad. 1.01 on Tuesday, respectingithe death of Gustave Carlstrom, aged 23, a seaman, lately residing in High-street, Shadwell, who committed suicide on Saturday last.—Ricca Olsen, the wife of a ship's carpenter, deposed that the deceased had lodged with her on various occasions, and had been staying at the house lately for 15 days. Between 6 and 7 o'clock on Saturday night, the deceased was in the sitting-r3om with four men, when witness heard a noise, and on going upstairs found the deceased lying on the floor bleeding from a wound in the temple. Dr. Sargeant picked up a revolver from underneath the body. Deceased had been strange in his manner, and had had no rest. He was strange when home from his previous voyage. Deceasea was enamoured with a young woman, and for three-quarters of an hour was in the passage with her, previous to shooting himself. He was very fond of the girl.—Petar Peterson, a seaman, stated that the deceased entered the sitting-room with a quart of beer, and then sent the children out of the room. He drank a glass of beer, and calling out, "So long, boys," put a revolver to his left temple and fired. Witness asked the deceased previous to this whether there was anything wrong about the girl, and he replied, "It's no use, she's going to get married to someone else." He was a native of Stockholm.— Christina Swanson, of 11, High-street, Shadwell, a nurse, stated that she was with the deceased on Saturday last at 14.Iligh-street, he having said that he wished to speak to her. He asked if she would marry him, and she replied, "I could never think of such a thing." He replied that his life was not worth anything to him, and she said she could not help that. He again p!eaded with her, but she refused to alter her decision. At first he refused to let her go out, but as she said :he would call for assistance, he said, "If they are better men than me they will." She managed to escape, and ran away. He shewed witness a revolver, and she told him he had no rieht to have it, but he replied that it was nothing to do with her what he was going to do with it. She had known him about 17 months, but had never corresponded with him.—A verdict of temporary insanity was returned.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1879-05-31 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.  A Parliamentary paper was issued on Saturday, giving returns of the accidents and casualties daring the mouths or January, February, and March of the present year, as reported to toe Beard of Trade by She several railway companies in the United Kingdom.  Daring that period the number of persona killed and injured on railways in the United Kingdom in In the course of public traffic were—killed 219, and injured 714. In addition various accidents occurred upon the railway premises, in which, however, the movement of vehicles used exclusively upon railways was not concerned, and by these 11 persons were killed and 481 injured. Thus the total number of personal accidents during the three months resulted In 230 persons killed and 1,195 injured. These accidents are classed under various head.; 98 passengers and 28 railway servants were injured by accidents to trains, rolling stock, permanent way, dm ; 20 passengers and 105 servants were killed and 114 passengers and 433 servants were injured from ether causes. Sixteen persons were killed and eight injured while passing over railways at level crossing.; and the number of accidents to trespassers, including suicides, was 74 killed and 20 wounded.  Daring the three months there were reported eight collisions between passenger trains or parts of passinger trains, by will( h 18 passengers and one servant were injured; 23 oullisions between passenger trains and goods or niineral trains, engines, by wrich 69 passengers and 13 servants were injured; 10 coilisions between goods trains or parts of goods trains, by which 12 servants were injured; 22 oases of passenger trains or parts of passenger trains leaving the rails, by which four passengers were injured; two cases of trains running into stations or eliding* at too high a speed, by which five passengers were injured ; 327 failures of tires, one servant being injured; 9 failures et axles, two passengers being injured; and 1,187 broken rails, one servant being injured. Of other casualties, II:Le/hie)) no personal injury was Inflicted, there were two cases of goods trains or parts of goods trains, engines, &c., leaving the rails; one case of a passenger train travelling in the wrong direction through points, twenty-three cases of trains running over cattle or other obstructions on the line, nineteen cases of trains running through gates at level Cr Ths• big., three MIMI of failure of machinery, springs. $.1., of engine.; eleven failures of wheels, four failure* ol couplings, one failure of a bridge, six slips in cuttings or embankments, and one other accident.  The return also contains the reporta of the inspecting officers of the Railway Department to the Board of Trade upon certain accidents which were inquired into
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1879-02-01 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SATURDA Y, FEBRUARY 1, 1879.  INDEX OF THE WEEK.  The great topics of the week which have occupied the commas of the daily papers have been the trials in connection with the Glasgow Bank failure, and the approaching trial of the convict Peace. Itis now generally believed that suicide rather than escape was his purpose in leaping from the railway carriage. The excitement to see him at Leeds is very great. On Friday it was rumoured that Marshal McMahon would resign; the matter has continued under discussion during the week. On Thursday his resignation became a matter for history. M. Grevy is elected his successor. "Reciprocity" an unknown quantity, is the shuttlecock thrown up by the protectionists, with the expectation that free-traders will play with it until the principles of protection can again be established, and monopoly carefully nursed into strength. The King of Zulu has refused to comply with the demands of the British Authorities and assembled 8,000 fighting men on the frontier. In Germany, and at British ports, great care is being taken and strict watch made to prevent the introduction of the plague from Russia. A report that Cyprus had been purchased by "Benjamin the Jew, with English cash," has, naturally been found to be without foundation.  Mrs. -Fowler, wife of Dr. Fowler, the wellknown phrenologist, who lectured in very many towns in England some years ago, died on Monday. Dr. Lightfoot has been nominated by the Queen as Bishop of Durham. On Monday in the prosecution of the Glasgow Bank directors, the prosecutors closed their case, withdrawing the charges of theft and embezzlement, and preferring that of falsification of the balance sheet. The defence was entered upon on Tuesday and concluded on Thursday, the summing up commencing on Friday. The increasing distress is attracting the attention of public bodies in various towns: it is very desirable that Brighouse should not defer public action till some irretrievable event occur. Over £B,OOO has been spent in Sheffield and a large sum is still needed.  The invaders of Afghanistan still report advance.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1879-09-06 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A GIRL AT DEIGHTON. —On Monday night Mr. Barstow held an inquest at the Woolpack Inn, Deighton, touching the death of Mary Ann Hopkinson, aged 19, of Deighton, millhand, who was supposed to have committed suicide by taking a quantity of vermin powder. Evidence was given to the effect that the deceased had for some time been in a low, desponding state of mind; that the mother (a woman of simple intellect) got some vermin powder to kill vermin with which they were troubled; that on Monday morning last week, about twenty-five minutes past six, the mother caught the deceased with the bottle of vermin killer in her hand, and she charged her with having taken the poison; that at first she denied it, and then she admitted taking it; that she went to her work on the Monday and Tuesday half-days, and that afterwards she grew worse, and on Friday Mr. Stewart, surgeon, saw her and gave her some medicine, but as he was not definitely informed of her having taken the poison he treated it as a simple case of nervous irritability ; and that deceased died about one o'clock on Saturday morning. Deceased admitted to a neighbour, named France, that she had taken the poison. The jury found a verdict to the effect that deceased had died from the effects of slow poisoning, probably by a self-administration of vermin killer, which had been obtained to kill rats and mice. HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—lndigestion and Liver Complaints.—The digestion cannot be long or seriously disordered without the derangement being perceptible on the countenance. These Pills prevent both unpleasant consequences; they improve the appetite, and with the increase of desire for food, they augment the powers of digestion and assimilation in the stomach. Holloway's Pills deal most satisfactorily with deranged or diseased conditions- ' of the many organs engaged in extracting nourishment for our bodies from our various diets —as the liver, stomach, and bowels, over all of which they exercise the most salutary control. By resorting at an early stage of this malady to these purifying and laxative Pills, the dyspeptic fa speedily restored to health and strength, and his rallowaso gradually vanish*,  t. ..*A A?