Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1896-05-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MAY 2, 1896.  A grocer named Joseph Watson committed suicide on Sunday at Harrogte by suspending kimself by means of a blouse behind an attic door.  On Monday a shepherd named Jololjew, 60, of Staxton, near Scarborough, was kited by a train whilst crossing the ittilway to attend his sock.  At Manchester Assizes on Monday Mr Justice Collins sent a bigamist named Smith to penal servitude for seven years. He had marfour women.  John Bell, aged 24, a Carlisle football player, died on Sunday night from the result of an accident whilst playing for Cumberland County against Yorkshire.  A woman named Roberts is charged with throwing her ten-year-old daughter out of the window at Liverpool. The child lies in a precarious condition.  An ex-soldier named Walmsley was on Monday sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for stabbing the Rev. H. Henn, vicar of St. Paul's, Preston, to whom he is related.  Mr Glinistone has written a further letter to Mr Purcell on the subject of the Mannino, biography. It will probably be printed in ' the "Nineteenth Century" for June. •  Prince Christian, whom Northernem will remember seeing at the Royal Show at Darlington, wag knocked down by a cab near Paddington Station, but escaped without serious injury.  The small-pox epidemic at Gloucester is now abating, the improvement being marked. The Dean of Gloucester, Pr. 1 Spence, has repudiated the rumours that there was any panic amongst the people. .  An explosion occurred early on Thursday morning at Mickleford Colliery, near Leeds, the report being beard 3i miles away. Eighty men are enteir.bal, and great fears are entertained for then safety.  An old man named Sherlock died in Liverpool Hospital this week. When crossing a field where a donkey was grazing the animal attacked him, knocked him down, and worried him terribly about the face and head.  During field operations at Aldershot this week the breech block of a gun belonging to the P Battery, R.H.A., blew out, seriously injuring Sergeant Hammond and two gunners. One man is a precarious condition. Mr Wa(lilv, well-known on the Northern Circuit for hi: forensic powers and his doggedness in cross-examination, has been appointed to the County Court district of Sheffield. For some time he has been judge in the Chester district.  In the breach of promise action against Newton Abbot, a solicitor, heard last week before th Queen's Bench, judgment was given in favour of the defendant by the jury, who believed him to be in an umiouud mental condition when he made the contract.  On the clarge of violating the Foreign Enlistment Act Dr. Jameson and his fourteen comrades again appeared before Sir John Bridge at Bow-street Police Court on Tuesday. The Attorney-General said he hoped to be able to complete his evidtqlee by the 16th June.  Among notable persons at the private view at the New Gallery on Saturclty afternoon was Mr George Mf•redith. No monarch could have had a progre.is rnoro triumphant, measured by the homage of friondi and the interest of the gailydressed crowd that filled the gallery.  ----The continued increase in North-Eastern Railway receipts, now that the holidaya are not ttiTecting comparisons with the corresponding period last year, is most satisfactory. Over £19,000 increase was shown last week, nearly all of which is ascribable to merchandise and cattle and mineral traffic.  A woman named Louisa Hawkings at Plymouth on Tuesday was charged with starving and beating two children, and she was sentenced to six months' hard labour. The magistrates said they wished they could have ordered her to Le lashed. The father of the children, a man named Sheldon, was mobbed on leaving the court.  Mr D. J. O'Donoghue, author of the recently publi4ln " Life of William Carleton," is (says the "Daily Chronicle") collecting material for a life of that remarkable Irish genius, James Clarence Mangan, one of the most gifted and unfortunate of poets. He has just made some coveries of material.  Annie Dyer and Arthur Palmer, charged with tlie Reading murders, were again remanded on Saturday for a week. At the adjourned inquest on a child picked up in the Kennel Wm. Powey identified Dyer as the woman he had seen carrying a parcel, and a portion of it, when the body wa found, contained prisoner's address.  The Rv. F. Haydn Williams, Unitarian, Whitby. who had frequently been very prominent in movements for the vindication of public rights, summoned Superintendent Allen for ab'Fault at an outdoor demonstration. The case was diarnissed, and Mr Williams became very excited, striking the superintendent with his umbrella. The rev, gentleman was then conducted to the cells.  At the fifteenth annual Press Club dinner on Saturday night in London Mr John Morley said the Preis had never stood at a higher level than at present. Journalista fully recogniaed their responsibilities, and carefully prepared their facts in arguing questions out. Lord Weiseley, the Speaker, and Lord Charles Beresford were present.  It Is rumoured that Mr Hall Caine hi living a secluded life in the neighbourhood of the Mile End-road for the purpose of getting local life and colourine for the new story which was announced last week as being in preparation. If the rumour be true Mr Caine has precedent for this method of studying the East Ender as he is. Mr Rudyurd Kipling adopted similar tactics before he wrote his " Badalia Herodsfoot."