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The Blackpool Herald. — 1893-05-26 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

MEM ATTACKED BY COWS.  A curious incident is reported from Sing/Mon; On Tueeday morning two game-keepers named Eastham and Knott, in the employ of Mr. T. H. Miller, while passing through some fields at Hardhorn, were fiercely attacked by a lumber of cows. They were knocked down and only rewired in the nick of time. Singular to say the two men a little time before had been engaged in killing a cow, and their clothing wee plentifully beepattered with its blood. This circumstance has given rise to the suggestion that the attacking cows scented the blood of their slaughtered sister, and were animated by a spirit of revenge.  A novel mode of summarily putting an end to one's life was brought to light on Wednesday, when at the Kirkham Polite Court Mrs. Alice Ann Woods, hailing hos Weshani, was charged before B. CalkTall easi B. Brychig. Esqrs., with attempting. the previous day, to commit suicide by banging. —Mrs. All.. Livesey, Weibel's, said she MN told that the prisoner had tried to hang herself, and upon going to the hones she saw her upstairs hanging to the knob of a beddead, to which she had attached herself by fastening her leather garter round her throat. Prisoner was unconscious, and after being released she did not recover for an hoer.—  John Thomas Collier, a son of the prisoner, said his mother told him she was going to do the same as her mother did, by which she meant she would commit suicide. She sent him to one of the mills to fetch an aunt, and when he got back he could make no one hear him, so he fetched Mrs. Livesey.—The prisoner said she did net know what came over her to do such a thing.—Her husband said she had been in bad health for some time, while Dr. Wigglesworth deposed that she was not insane.—On her husband promising to take care of her, the woman was discharged.  •eJ  , 1. I , x , . tr ' i $z ( e I , 11: ' , fr i .' . , '..' .3 t , , I i 4 $ k i • ; •• , .!.P i ;_'', 1"r • i t . 4 . . ' to ~.' .. . , I . . , 4 1/ ; , ' .1 i 1 „, • ,C• 1 i i 1* : . I I I' i i i , .. ... _ . --- 4 r . . ... , ,I. j . , 1 .....' I 1 , i t 1 it - _4, ~. yil._t 4, :•*- -4,1; ' --, .''' it ', .
The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-03-03 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

RING." ett Saturday, at the district board room of the t George's Union, London', an inquest was held on the body of Wm. Rudeon, who was °rushed to death on the Metropolitan District Railway, by a train running from the Mansion Rouse to Victoria Station. The deoeased, was the son of the late Mr. Geo. Hudson, the "Railway King," and was a native of York.—Lewis Philip Klein, Victoria grove mews. Paysweiter, said that on the 22nd Feb., between twelve and one o'clock he was at Victoria Station, and saw the deceased waiting for a train. When the train was near the tunnel the deceased advanced to the edge of the platform, and jumped 'off. He first jiirnplici upon his feet, then went on to his knees, and placed his head on the metal as the train was approaching. Deceased did nob appear giddy. Saw thestrain go over him, and thought he was struck by the front wheel, his head being in one place and his body in another. When taken away wittiest' noticed the head of deceased was severed from his body.—George Squires, enginedriver, of the Metropolitan Railway Company, said that he was driving an engine on the above date from the Mansion House to Victoria Station, and when he drove into the latter station he sew gentleman jump from the edge of the platform down Into the four-foot. After lying on the rail he put his hands over his face, which was close to He applied the break andreversed the enr as possible. Did not assist to take him up. not say whether the trunk of the deceased remained i. the four-foot.--Gorge Hudsorb, the. brother of the deceased, who lived at Kensington, was called, andsaid that he was a barrister. Deceased was his brothers', His age was 42, sad he was of no profession.: He woe' one of the last persons likely to commit suicide. There was nothing specially to excite his mind to suicidg for he was in good oirc.umstanoes. Had been lately ir bad and low spirits. Witness did -not knew 'the de: ' ceased was in the habit of taking chloral.—The coroner having addressed the jury, they returned a verdict, that... Wei deceased committed suicide whilst in a of temporary insanity.  'state  •
The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-03-24 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

THE BURIAL "SCENE" AT DORE.  The Daily Neu; commenting upon recent burial disputes, says:—;' Churchyards, and the burial of children, continue toil* the 'eel • and occasion of painful and discreditable- equab'iles. The disturbance at Dore, of which we published an account recently, was one of the moat distreteing that bad taste, bad faith, and bad- feeling could bring about. The person over whose tomb the in at solemn words, in the English language were read amidst all sorts of unseemly interruption was the infant child of a farm labourer, a Pritnitive Ifethodist, and in that corneal nion he had been bapti,ied. The position of the patents during this affray does not bear to be reflected on, and it was mos: natural that the mother of the child should decide to have the question ended as soon as possible, by allowing the vicar to have his own way, and to read, is own srvice. Closely following this edlfyiag ,affair comes another instant* of tad judgment from the Wage of Croft, in Leicestershire. It is stated that the wife of one of the churchwardens committed suicide, and that a verdict was brought to the effect that she had killed herself in an access of temporary insanity. The story goes on to say that when the body of tt:e poor woman was brought to the gate f the churchplrd the clergyman merely read a verse from a psalm, and after the coffin was lowered pronouncal the Benediction. These maimed rites were supplemented in a manner not usual in England, for an uncle of the deceased is said to have spoken a consolatory address to the mourners. If either the Dore affair, or this report from Leicestershire, be true, and in any case they testify to the fact that for some reason disturbances arose where only reverent quiet should prevail, they surely go to prove that it is time to settle on anew basis the whole system of churchyard burials. This is not a grievance of a mere section of the people; it is a matter that pinfully affects a natural and universal sentiment of decency at a most solemn and sacred moment. The cuiseienees of savages would be shocked at the brawls which a miserable lack of common sense and of confidence in human nature, not to say of Christian charity, perpetuated in the parish churchyards of England."
The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-05-12 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

SUICIDE OF A BLACKPOOL YOUNG MAN.  Directly after the above and at the same place .another inquest was held on the body of Thomas Parkinson, fancy bazaar keeper, Talbot-road, Blackpool, who committed suicietz by stabbing himself withpenlinifs\ in the n on Mopday everk abotit efeven'ire Ock. Mary Waddington, wife. 41.40. Waddington, of 3, Upuer Talbetratreet, Blackpool, saiclthe decedsed. was her brother; he was 29 years of .age, had a fancy bazaar at 29, Talbot-road, and lived at 'A Upper Talbot-street. He had been in bad health lately, had not been attended by any medical men, 6nt had been in a very desponding state ,cd mind for some time. He could not eat anything, and the previous day be was in a very wild way, and said he thought somebody was going to do him harm. About half-past twelve he had a fainting tit, and when he was coming round he said something was hurting him below his chest, and he could not take his breath. They got him into the yard on a chair, and he afterNards went back into the house and went to bed again. Witness went to the shop, returned at tea time, and found the deceased in a very low state of mind. At nine o'clock, when she came home, the deceased appeared to be worse. She and her sister were in the room together, and deceased said he wanted to go to the night commode. They both left the room and returned in about five or six minutes, when they saw the deceased leaning over the night chair, bleeding at the neck. When she saw the blood she at first tried to stop it, and afterwards ran off for the minister and the doctor. She had heard him say that he wished he was dead. He had not been in the habit of taking liquor, but had occasionally Lakin' a few glasses. Leslie Jones, M.D., deposed to being called to the deceased at about a quarter peat eleven o'clock at night. The deceased was quite dead, and there was a great quantity of blood lying about the night commode and on the floor. He examined t:12.0 body, and found two wounds cin the right side of the ne(3; and two on the left. The upper one at the right was about an in,ith deep, and he believed it had punctured thg main artery, and was quite sufficient 40 CAM* death. The wounds on the left side were "Irlicial OROS, one was a cut and the other a stab. suP• '" a penknife covered with blood lying beside He a& . and it fitted exactly to the punctured wdecorseducur.,9 I:4,h,ikl.n_ot the s ightest doubt but that they were self-Ndh-etea Lee waddii,gton, kiether-in•law of the deceased,
The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-04-21 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

SUICIDE AT FOURTEEN THROUGH GAMBLINCL—An inquest has been held at Camberwell, on the body cf Charles Russel, aged 14, of Sandford cottages, Wetworth, who drowned himself in the canal at Camberwell. The deceased had latterly got into the habit of spending the whole of his money in gambling, and on Saturday, the Bth inst., after receiving Bs., his weekly salary, lost it all at tossing. Driven to desperation by his penniless condition, and being salaamed to meet his parents, he went to the towing path Of the canal and deliberately drowned himself, in the presence of a number of horrified spectators. The jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind, and expressed a hope that the police would do their utmost to stop that tossing which is now carried on to a terrible extent in London. APPLICATION OF THE EMPLOYERS AND WORKMEN ACT . TO Seaminr.—Thef allowing is the text of the bill brought in by Mr. Burt to extend the provisions of the Employers and Workmen Act of last session to seamen whilst they are in British waters—l. This Act may be cited as the Employers and Workmen (Seamen) Extension Act, 1876. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the Ist day of September, 1876. 3. No seaman or apprentice to the sea service shall be liable to imprisonment for deserting within the United Kingdom, nor for neglecting nor for refusing without reasonable cause to join his ship, or to proceed to sea in his ship, nor for absence without leave, and without sufficient reason from his ship or from his duty, not amounting to desertion, or not treated as such by the master, within the United Ring- ' dom. 4. No seaman or apprentice neglecting or refusing to join, or deserting from, or refusing to proceed to sea in any ship in which.he is duly engaged to serve, or is found otherwise absentingisimself there., I from without leave, within the -United Kingdom, shalt be liable to apprehension, arrest, or detention, without warrant or ihstead of being committed, or after coinImittal to prison by any court, to be conveyed on board for the purpose of proceeding on the voyage, or to be &livered to the master or mate, or owner of any ship, ' or his agent to be by them so conve3ed. 5. The enactments of the Employers and Workmen Act 1875, shall apply to every dispute arising out of or incidisnt.sl to the contracts and relation between seamen and WI apprentices and ship owners, their agents or masters, as employ'ers, and the courts in the said Act mentioned shall have all necessary jurisdiction and powers for remitting, determining, or enforcing all forfeiture of clothes, effects, wages, and emoluments or shares, authorised by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, or any other Act or law now in force.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-09-29 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

THE DEFALCATIONS OF TME EXTREASURER OF HULL.  SUICIDE OP THE ASSISTANT I RUSHEE& A shocking tragedy took place on I% desday at Hull as one result of the recent discoveries made respecting the defalcations by Mr. Bolton, the et Jotown treasurer. Connected with Mr. Bolton in the zansaction of the financial business of the town was ti ie aceountant, Mr. W. Brooke, who has been in the sef ;vice of the Como. ration for about twenty-five year L Since the discovery above referred to, and the confession of Mr. Bolton that he had emir ezzled .tlO,OOO of the town's money, an account of which was published a abort time aims, the Amalgamation Committee have been investigaf log the accounts, with a view of ascertaining the ems tint that had been .unbezzled, and Mr. Brooke has ' been undergoing an en• amination before this comf nittee for two or three days. He denied all knowl edge of the defalcations, though he had virtual chary e of the office for the lad nine years, the treasurer bd tug old and infirm, and rot able to attend to the dull .es always personally. On Tuesday, last year's audits re appeared before the NM. mittee, and one of them is equested to see Mr. Br2ote. A message was sent that oe was temporarily &mem in another part of the Tow n Hall, where the Invesiiga. tion was taking place, tr at he would return in a minu.e. The oommittee waited, about an hour, and as he did not appear, search was made for him, but he could rot be found. The oemod.ttee had ordered that he should be watched, but it appeared that he had escapet from the hall, and intelligence was received that he had gone home and blown his brains out, He was about forty years of age, and leaves a widow and nine children. Be was captain in the Hull Ar•illery Voiun teer Corps; and was also an active Freemason, and highly respected. The defalcations are said to be about £ll,OOO, and the affair is causing the utmost Emetics 6 In the town.  "I never complained of my condition but oncesdd lan old man, "when my feet were bare and I had no money to buy shoes ;but I met a man without feet, sad became contented."  I man who can sit with his feet in hot water, ands yard of flannel around his throat, and not feel the sweet influence of spring, is dead to the subtle instinen . which link humanity to nature. Among the deacons ordained on Sunday last by the Bishop of Worcester were two who had formerly bees Dissenting ministers, namely, Mr. Kentish Bache, for several years minister of the Unitarian chapeL More tonhampstead, Devon, and Mr. J. Arthur Wentworth Twigging, formerly a Moravian minister.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-02-18 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

IMPORTANT LIBERA.I.) VICTWAY AT LEOMIN' spER. A Leominster correspo.v dent whew :—The paring • commenced on Tuesday • eight o'clock, at two b,.siths • at the Town Hall. The Liberals made a determined • effort to poll their men early, sending conveyan'as even to a distance of eleve a miles to fetch a sir.gle man. • Their arrangement a were superintended by Mr. Naftali, of Birca; n,barn. There were five district committee MS for eth Liberals, and • TOO only two for the Tories, who worked mainly from head-quar tom Mr. Lennox, the Cpuservative candidate, was drawn into the town by a band of men in an o carriage early in the morning; and Mr. Blake, the r ,beral candidate, busied himself amongst , the electors • half the cor during the whole day. Before nooa above stituency had been polled. The excitement increased • so that fighting took tilace in the town anti the subur' os until it was checked by a strong body of ~ police, br ought from Ludlow? Shrewsbury, and Hereford. - The rerlt was declared at six o'clock, as follows: . ,lake (Liberal) 434 Lennox (Conservative) alp  Liberal majority W .r. Blake was surrounded by his supporters and IT Medinto a shop in Broad street, from the upstairs ndow of which he address ell about a thousand P eople, stating that the victory was owing to the ' Appreciation of the principles of Liberalism in a borough for many years entirely at the mercy of the Tories. Be promised to leave Leominster for London ' the following morning to appear in the House of Commons that night. Mr. Lennox walked down Broad street accompanied by a small party of staunch friends. The Liberals are exultant, and view the reio&lt not only as a victory for Nonconformists over the Established Church, but as emancipating Leominster from the disgrace of being a pocket borough. At the last contest, In 1968, Mr. Arkwright (Conservative) beat Mr. Spinks (Liberal) by 258, the numbers being—Arkwright 432, Spins 174. One hundred and twenty-eight did not vote. The ccrntituency at present consists of 929 voters.  St:MIDI/ft-Dr. Turner, of Northampton, committed Suicide on Tuesday by taking a dose M aconite.  The Globe is authorised to contradict the statement that the Duke of Aberoorn is about to resign the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-01-07 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

ISO.  10th.-Bth A. 8., L.R. V. , encamped at Cleveleys for a week. Collision in Belfast Lough between the steamship 'Royal Consort" and the brigantine "Foam steamer's paddle box and wheel much damaged, the jibboom and masts of the brigantine broken, and the latter thrown on her beam ends; damage to brigantine amounted to 100. 11th—Accident to tho steamer " Wellington" at the South Jetty, Blackpool: port paddle box damaged, and piles of jetty broken. John Mc.Veigh, sailor, killed on the railway near Roasall. 12th.—Commencement of the theatrical season at the Blackpool Theatre. 13.—Church Sunday School trip from Fleetwood to Morecambe. Frank J. Cooper, proprietor of the Virginia Female Christys, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a penknife. 14th.—Mee in" of gentlemen interested in the proposal to establish a Winter Garden, at Blackpool. Blackpool and Fylde Steam Laundry Company registered. Body of Mr. R. Battersby, of Bury, which was lost from s yacht off Fleetwood, on May 20th, was picked up by the steamer " Nel, son," when on passage from Morecambe to Blackpool. 16th.—The Privy Council agreed to advise Her Majesty to grant a Charter of Incorporation to Blackpool. QM .8. Bennett, of the 16th L.A. V., interred at Kirkham.  17th.—The small steam yacht "Effort," which left Fleetwood on May 29th, arrived at St. John's, New Brunswick.  2lst.—The now steamer "Duke of Connaught," for the North Lanci.shire Steam Navigation Company, launcLed. Interment of Miss Causton, of Poulton.  ---2-4 t-J-J—Death of the Rev. James Metcalfe, curate of South Shore.  28th —Special meeting of the Blackpool Local Board, to comas:. the draft Charter of Incorporation: the wards n wiled, and their boundaries defined. Bazaar at Hambleton to raise funds for the restoration of the Pariah Church opened. 29th.—Two workmen almost suffocated in a sewer in course of construction at Baikes Blackpool. Baziar at Hambleton to raise funds for the restoration of the Parish Church closed.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-10-13 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN FROM LYTHAM PIM. On Friday morning last a young woman, who came to Lytham by toe 10 o'clock train from Preston. with a single ticket, went on the pier about 11-30, where shl remained till about 1-15. At that time she was seen by a lady named Miss Sharpe, of Ribble House, to get on to the seat about the middle length of the pier and deliberately drop right into the water. The shrieks from several lames who saw her ittracted the attention of several parties on the beach, including some fishermen, and also of the man in charge of the pier. The tide was up at the time, and the boats were riding out at anchor, so that nothing was done to rescue her, for before any person could have got to her she had sunk. Later in the afternoon a black  ahawl, a skirt' and a purse containing 6s. MA., with a small bunch- of keys, were found on, the sands. Search was made for the body on Friday night, but without success, but on Saturday morning it was fonts l by a fisherman named Thomas Eccles, a Common-side, Lytham, some four or five •miles below  •the pier. fo*  An inquest on the body was held on Monday forenoon at the Talbot Inn, before W. Gilbertson, coroner. Miss Sharpe was the first witriess called and she deposed to seeing the deceased sitting on the pier when she and the young 'ladies of her school went on the pier about one o'clock on Friday: She stated that the deceased got up from her seat and fell down twice before she got on to the seat' and railing and threw herself into the water. As deceased fell she screamed, and looking into the water witness saw deceased hold her hand up. The attention of several fishermen on the beach was called to the woman, but they did nothing to rescue her.—Thomas Eccles deposed to finding the body, and Robert Casson stated that when on the pier about 12 o'clock be saw the deceased gazing into the water witk a very dejected look.—P.S. E. Holding said deceased appeared to be about 35 years of age, and was sft. 2in. or !ft, 3in. in height. —On account of evidence as to the state of mind of the unfortunate woman when she committed the rash act, the inquest was adjourned till Saturday, some of the jurymen expressing a hope that the body would be identified in the meantime.
The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-03-10 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

WOOLWICII ARATINAL.—A fire broke out on Monday in the brass foundry of the Royal Gun Factories, Woolwich Arsenal. It was discovered immediately and was extioguished by the arsenal hose in less than half an hour. The fire was confined to the building where it origuatesi. The Southampton c...roner held an inquest on Monday morning on the wife of James Pomeroy, surgeon, who was found to have committed suicide while of unsound mind. It is supposed she took half an ounce of prussic acid, but slae lived an hour and twenty minutes afterwards, and was sensible, from twenty minutes to half an hour.  The Queen held a levee At Buckingham Palace on Monday afternoon. The Princess Beatrice, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Christian were present. Her Majesty wore black sit k, with a train trimmed with grebe and crape, coronet of pearls and diamonds. Princess Beatrice wore cream-coloured satin, trimmed with green velvet. Mdlle. Titiens has just been offered 4000 dollars (or £BOO a week) to remain in America at,cl sing twice a week during all the weeks of the "Centennial," together with hotel and travelling expenses fur six persons, priva'e carriage, Sco. This engagement, if accepted, will deprive London of Mdlle. Titiens' ser• vices during the forthooming season.  The estimate of the sum which will be required in the year ending 31st March, 1877, to defray the expenses of Greenwich Hospfial and School is fora total of £145,752. The charge for Greenwich Hospital is eel imatedat X 6918 ; pensions, gratuities, &0., £109,000; and the school, £28,925; making a total of £145,752, as against £145,088 in the current financial year.  No 3. Captain Fell Mns Fell Master G Fell  The estiniate of the amount required by the Army Purchase Commissioners for the year ending March 31st, 1877, Was issued on Saturday last. The total amount required is £464,190, which shows a decrease of £172,370 as compared with the closing financial year, and it is estimated that there will be a further decrease of .£15,000 on account of Exchequer extra receipts. Of the total sum, £440,000 is required for compensation for sale of commissions, and £20,000 as o"tupensation to the Royal (late Indian) Artillery and Engineers.