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The Cotton Factory Times. — 1886-06-18 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

" Sho-Town3" i MOriCA.  Some of the cotton manufacturing towns of Massachusetts are 80 crowded with women and child operatives to the exclusion of men that they are popularly known as "she - towns." In that State, out of 61,246 operatives in cotton mills, 22,180 are males, 31.496 are women, and 7,570 are children. In some of these mills nearly all are women receiving forty cents a clay, living on the poorest of fare. This large preponderance of poorly paid women makes these towns so poor that property-owners groan under taxation and oppose all improvements. This change in the character of the inhabitants is spreading, so that in the not distant future it is predicted all the cotton inanu factoring districts will become "she-towns." The question will then arise, " What will become of the men ?" They can find nothing to do, and their wives and children cannot earn enough to support them. EXCITINO SCEXE ON THE THASIES.—A scene of RH exciting character was witnessed on Monday afternoon at the steamboat pier at Cherry garde'', Rotherhithe. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade have here a small house erect-id on the pier for the purposes of a watch-room, ands, man is placed on duty in order to attend to the telephone 9.nd electric communication in connection with the Hosting steam fire-station. About two o'clock the man on duty observed a man deliberately jump from the pier into the river, and he instantly put off in a boat and followed the would-be suicide. He came up to him, and leaned over the boat to catch hold of him, but a desperate struggle ensued, and Jackson, the fireman, bad the very greatest difficulty in getting the man into the boat. The task was not accomplished until the unfortunate man was in an almost unconscious condition, but directly Jackson commenced rowing, the man recovered from his apparent unconsciousness and again jumped overboard. Another struggle ensued, and eventually Jackson captured the man, and succeeded in h. na6,4 bint ever tg the [Mice. 

Article type: Incident
The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1880-08-21 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY NEAR BILSTON  Early on Monday morning a tragedy of an extremely painful nature occurred at Batman's Hill, near Bradley, at the junction of the buundaries of the Sedgley and Princes End parishes. A woman, Eo,out thirty years of age, named Rosannah, the wife of a labourer named Mark Gudgeon, committed suicide in an arm of the Birminglis En Canal, at the same time drowning her infant female chill, a fortnight old. The woman, who has appeared strange in her manner on several occasions recently, retired with her husband to rest on Sunday night. About half-past two he was surprised to find that she and the child were not in bed. He called out, but receiving no response, searched the house. Finding no trace of either wife or child, he became alarmed, and roused up his neighbours, who joined him in the search. As the missing ones could net be found, it was decided to drag the canal, which is a short distance from the house, and after some time the bodies of the woman and child were taken from the water, quite dead The woman was dressed, all but having her boots on, and the body of the child was close beside her. Deceased leave we sin viving children.  rhe Ointment and Pills are sold at Professor HOLLOWAY'S Establishment, 533, Oxford Street, London; also by nearly every respectable Vendor of Medicine throughout the Civilised World, in Pots and Boxes, at is. lid., is. 9d., 45. 6d., Its. 225. and 335. each. Full printed directions are affixed to each Pot and Box, and can be had in any language. NB.— Advice can be obtained, free of charge, 133 applying at the above address, daily, luAween tbs hours of 11 and 4, or by letter. No. x 7 5.  ASK FOR AND SEE YOU GET SPRATTS PATENT MEAT FIBRINE" DOG CAKES As supplied to all the Royal Kennels. BEWARE OF WORTHLESS IMITATIONS Bee that Every Cake is Stamped "SPRATT'S PATENT "  BPRATTS PATENT," BERMONDSEY, S.E. 

Article type: Incident
The Slaithwaite Guardian and Colne Valley News. — 1898-06-24 (Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, England)

NTTEMPTED SUICIDE AND MURDER AT GOLCAR.  We have been requested to insert the following correspondence which has passed botween Sir James Kitson, Bart., M.P., and the several parties concerned in the above affair, details of n hich appeared in our last week's issue.  House of Common., June 14th  Sir James Kitson is proud to hear of your c urage and self-sacrifice in rescuing the two poor children from drowaing, and he encloses you n o der for to htlp to repair the damage to your c!othiug. The children owe their lives to the ready help alli:ded. To Mr. Joseph Shaw. _  Mr. Shaw, in acknowledging the receipt of Sir James' letter and postal order, did not forget to draw Sir James' attention to the part played by Roberts in the rescuing of the trio, and in order to give a clear conception he enclosed a full report of the afttir from a local paper, and also asked Sir James if he should let Roberts share in the sovereign. Mr. Shaw received a second letter on Tuesday, June 21st, which ran as follows :  Gledhow 1111. Leeth,, June ISth, IS9S.  Mr. Joseph Shaw, Slaithwaite. Dear Sir.- -I intended my donation of one p•tund to be E,r yourself, and 1 thank you for calling my attention to the newspaper paragraph. I now enclose you P. 0. for £1 for Mr. Roberts, who acted very bravely in the matter of the rescue of the aildren. Yours truly, JAMES KITSON. Mr. Shaw handed over the order to Mr. Roberts, who acknowledged it with thanks. A further tribute to the action of Mr. Raberts was the following letter front a Huddersfield tradestua'l :  42, King St., liticbterstivld. dime 130, 189 S.  Mr. Wui. 11. Roberts, Unthw ito. Dr Sir.—l sLW by last Light's paper the result of your very smart and prompt act on Saturday last, and not over thinking of your own clothes or safety. If you c •re to call at my place, I will give you a new suit as a sm 11 reco .nition of your bravery and smart act on at the moment as you d i Ymrs truly, OSWALD WINDLE.  Mr. Roberts called as requested and received a black coat and vst, a pair of fancy trousers, cuffs, also a pair of boots, of which he is justly proud. 

Article type: Incident
The Slaithwaite Guardian and Colne Valley News. — 1903-09-04 (Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, England)

HIS WORK WAS DIFFICULT.  SUICIDE AT SLAITIIWAITE.  On Sunday last the peaceful quietude of the Sabbath was disturbed by news that Henry Hirst (30), a spinner, who resided at Nursery Nook, Slaithwaite, had committed suicide by drowning. He had been seen alive at 12-15 p in. on the same day by his sister, but was afterwards found in a pond near his residence by John Lumb, a cousin of deceased, who had his attention drawn to the place by a dog, which commenced to run across a field near and bark loudly at something in the pond. When seen by his sister, Hirst appeared to be in his usual state of health, but it is said that he hail for some time been depressed about his work, which lie had complained about as being difficult. Police Co.nstable .Hebb was sent for, and the body was removed to deceased's home, having been laid in about eighteen inches of water. Deceased had not been medically attended for the depression from which he suffered.  INQUEST.  On Monday evening Mr. J. B. Kershaw, the deputy coroner, conducted an inquest, touching the death of Hirst, at the Pole Moor Baptist Chapel, when evidence of identification was given by Eliza Ann Hirst, sister of deceased, who said that she last saw him alive at 12-15 on Sunday afternoon. She did not believe that the deceased had complained about his work being difficult, but the death of his mother had greatly depressed  John Lumb, who had found the deceased in the pond, stated that he was standing near the deceased man's house, at about 12-40 on Sunday, when a dog began to run across the fields and bark loudly at something in the pond. Witness went to the place and found deceased, who was his cousin, lying in eighteen inches of water, quite dead. Information was given to Police Constable Hebb, and, with assistance, the body was removed home.  Hannah Shaw, the woman who laid out the body, also gave evidence. . .  The Jury spent considerable time in coming to their verdict, and after some "haggling " on their part the coroner left the room, saying he would leave them to it for a short time. On his return the Jury had found that deceased had committed "suicide whil,t temporarily insane." 

Article type: Incident
The Press. — 1857-11-14 (London, England)

THE STEVENAGE MURDER.  TILE ADJOURNED INQUIRY into the death of John Starkins, one of the Herts constabulary, a young man of twenty-five years of age, who was found on November 9th, dead, with his throat cut, in a pond near Stevenage, was resumed on Monday. The medical evidence was entirely in favour of murder, and against suicide, as the cause of the man's death. "The wound was so severe," said Mr. Dunn, surgeon of Stevenage, " that I was enabled to feel the action of the spine with my finger, and, to use a common expression, the bead of the deceased was nearly off,' and the injury must have caused death within a minute after it was inflicted." Mr. Dunn was of opinion the instrument most likely to have produced the wound would be pointed hut not sharp, such as a labourer's bread-and-cheese knife. The clothes worn by the unfortunate man were produced at this inquiry, and Mr. Dunn pointed out the spot where the knife had passed through the collar of the coat, and also expressed an opinion that the clothes of the deceased had bten turned down before the wound was inflicted, and that at the time the wound was inflicted the person sho aimed it was in front of the deceased, Rho was probably upon the ground at the time. In answer to questions put by one of the jury, the witness said he had no doubt that the case was one of murder, and not of suicide ; and he added that he should have suspected that a good deal of blood would have spurted over the person who made the incision. He believed, however, that the stock of the deceased, after having been forcibly pulled down to enable the murderer to effect his object, might possibly have righted itself, and would thus prevent the blood from spurting out. A labourer named Carpenter has been arrested on suspicion, for it appears that Carpenter was in the service of a farmer named Herne, whose farm is a short distance from Stevenage, and that in consequence of a suspicion being entertained that he (Carpenter) was in the habit of robbing his master, the deceased, who had only been doing duty about five weeks at Stevenage, received directions from his superior officer to watch the prisoner ; he went out for that purpose on Friday evening, the 30th of October, and there appears to be no doubt that the deceased was on the track of the prisoner, who left his work about half-past five o'clock, and that they must have met. The supposition is, that at this time the prisoner had in his possession a quantity of corn that had been stolen from his master's premises, but what occurred is at present only matter of conjecture ; all that is known being that the unfortunate constable was found on the Monday following with his throat cut in a pond, close to the spot where the prisoner was supposed to have been stopped with the stolen property. On Wednesday the inquiry was opened before the magistrates. The prisoner Carpenter, who is a P9r3rf4l4ooki ng 0110 w 000 ihe feet *0 inches , . 

Article type: Incident
The Northern Guardian. — 1896-05-18 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

TRANSVAAL NEWS. THE REFoRAIERS' SENTENCES.  SUICIDE OF MR GREY. ['REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. j CAPE TOWN, Saturday. The Transvaal Executive Council has confirmed that portion of the sentences passed on the majority of the Johannesburg Reform Committee condemning them to three years' banishment. Mr Grey, one of the prisoners, has become insane, and has committed suicide by cutting his throat.  CAPE TOWN, Sunday. Mr Clock, advocate, is acting as British Agent at Pretoria pending the appointment of a successor to Sir Jacobus de Wet.  JOHANNE9BURG, Saturday. The news of Mr Grey's suicide in prison at Pretoria has produced the greatest regret on the Stock Exckange and in the towa. He was a promitient and sve.i:Lily taut-Libor of Lilo Reform Committee, and was much esteemed here. MR CHAMBERLAIN'S MESSAGE.  PRETORIA, Friday. In reply to Mr Chamberlain's despatch of, the 13th inst., the Transvaal Government sent the following despatch this morning :—From the State Secretary, Pretoria, to His Excellency the High Commissioner at Cape Town. May 15.—Your Excellency's telegram of yesterday received. This Government is glad to receive the assurance that a full inquiry will be made against the Chartered Company and its directors, and will follow with interest the course of this inquiry. His Honour the State President thanks Mr Chamberlain very much for his sympathy, and ia glad to be able to inform him that the condition of Mrs Kruger is improving.  Mr Gray, who is reported above to have committed suicide, the tragedy having awakened widespread feeling in Pretoria and Johannesburg, was not one of the Reform leaders sentenced to death, but was one of the 60 accused, representative of the leading business men of the Rand, who were sentenced to two years' imprisonment and a £2,000 fine, to be followed by three years' banishment. 

Article type: Incident
The Northern Guardian. — 1895-06-25 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

CABMEN'S SHELTER.  ( To the Editor of " The Northern Guardian.") shall feel much obliged if you will publish the following in your columns. It is the copy of a letter lam addressing to the editor of a contemporary, and has reference to some remarks upon the above subject which have appeared therein :  My attention has been drawn to a paragraph in your notes with regard to the above. As the balancesheet shows a substantial deficit in receipts as against expenditure, and which deficit I have paid myself, your readers will understand that I was not anxious to make any balance-sheet public. If I had done BO my motives might have been misunderstood, and some might have thought I was parading the generosity of my friends and myself. I use the word "friends" advisedly, as I VMS under the impression that all those who so kindly aasiated me by subscribing would have had entire confidence in my carrying out the work honestly and straightforwardly. Should your correspondent desire to see the balancesheet I will gladly show it to him if he will take the trouble to call upon ine.—Yours, &e.. June 25, 1895. WM. ROPNER.  LATEST NEWS.  [BY TELEGRAPH THIS DAY.]  MR JOHN MORLEY. -Mr John Morley has arranged to address a meeting at Manchester on 4th July.  DOUBLE SUICIDE IN PARIS. [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] PARIS, Tuesday. A well-known advocate named Carre and his wife, recently divorced, have committed suicide.  THE MACEDONIAN REVOLT. [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] COLOGNE, Tuesday. The Cologne Gmette anticipates the fall of the Bulgarian Government owing to the Macedonian outbreak.  A RACING BOAT UPSET. [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.) POUGHKEEPSIE, Monday Night. The inter-University boat race ovt.r a four mile course was won by Columbia in 21min. 25sec. Pennsylvania boat was sunk by a steamer's swell, but the crew were saved. 

Article type: Incident
The Northern Guardian. — 1895-02-16 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

THE WAR IN THE EAST.  THE SUICIDE OF ADMIRAL TING.  [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] SHANGHAI, Friday. A report has reached here that after the surrender of Liu-Kung-Tao and the Chinese Fleet, on Tuesday, Admiral Ting committed suicide rather than surrender himself to the Board of Punishment at Pekin. The Chinese General in command of the land forces had, it is stated, previously committed suicide. . .  A despa- tch from Pekin this morning, announces on authority that the Viceroy Li Hung Chang has been restored to power and reinstated in many of his former offices. He has been appointed as Envoy to proceed to Japan to discuss terms of peace. The two Chinese Envoys who recently failed in their mission to Hiroshima arrived here today from Japan. They are proceeding to Pekin.  ["DAILY CHRONICLE " TELEGRAM.] VIENNA, Frday Night. It is stated in diplomatic circles that the Powers interested will shortly intervene between China and Japan. Russia in particular is advocating diplomatic action. According to intelligence from St. Petersburg, it appears that Russia desires the war to be put an end to quickly, and considers the intervention of the Powers at the present moment. opportune. Russia is anxious to  spare Chin-a- from total prostration and to prevent further conquests on the part of Japan. The authorities at St. Petersburg intend to keep the ambition of the Japanese within bounds, and to insist upon the moderation of her demands. The Czar appears determined not to allow the Japanese to destroy the independence of Korea, or annex any portion of the Manchurian territory. All that Russia is inclined to allow the Japanese is the annexation of the Formosa Island, a fair war indemnity, and the occupation of several ports until the indemnity is paid.  THE CHARGES AGAINST FRENCH JOURNALISTS. ["DAILY NEWS" TELEGRAM.] PARIS, Friday Night. There was an impression to-day at the Law Courts that the " blackmailing " trial would end in a fizzle. Such a result would be extremely disappointing to the public, and its effect would he not to allay, but to increase, the present ' vague and wide-spread distrust of politicians ; but judges are bound to judge upon depositions, and it must be aumitted that the depositions are some of them very inconclusive. Really one wonders what M. Dopffer can have been about when he sent the defendants up for trial. Not only witnesses, but even plaintiffs, vie in making  out- Cavinet and the oChers to be innocent babes. Not only is the public beginning no longer to understand anything, but even the judge is perplexed. One of his difficulties is that half the witnesses come into court without the most elementary knowledge of the meaning of an oath. When the judge points out their startling contradictions of statements made by them before M. Dopffer, they reply that since then they have been compensated, and they consider the defendants very civil gentlemen. Indeed, the judge had to prick them on. like unwilling donkeys with such incentives as: "Come on," "Speak up," "Will you speak ?" and even threatened to commit them. 

Article type: Incident
The Industrial Review, Social and Political. — 1878-11-02 (London, England)

November 2, 1878.  their customers something for taking it away. In other words, they are losing seriously on their business, and are thus pursuing the road to ruin with rapid steps without the power to pull up, though the very worst consequences of such a progress lie palpably before them. So suicidal is their policy, it would be utterly inexplicable were if not that the general public begins to see that it is not any necessity connected with the trade, as a trade, that leads to the wretchedly low prices that now prevail, but the neccesities of certain employers who have current obligations to meet, and who cannot meet them, and who therefore must come to ruin if cash supplies from sales were stopped. They cannot close their pits, being compelled by their necessities to work them, and they must sell for whatever price they can get, however much their losses may be. They are moving rapidly down an inclined plane, and to pull up would be to tumble over. This is not only the position in the coal trade; it is more or less the position in all trades, and the misfortunes glaringly apparent on one hand may be seen in their growth on all hands, if men will look closely for them. The papers in the mining and manufacturing districts contain every day a formidable aray of notices of reductions of wages. Prolonged resistance on the part of the men is unnecessary; but intense anger begotten by hunger is quite possible. We think it would he well if the employers would moderate their demands, and review their position. Provoking conflicts from which no benefit can arise, but involved in which there are most dangerous contingencies, is a policy they would not enter on if they were less desperate in their situation, and more wise in their deliberations than they are. 

Article type: NotIncident
The Poole Telegram. — 1881-09-09 (Poole, Dorset, England)

CERNE ABBAS.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT FROME ST. QUINTON.  On Saturday, at the police-court, Eli ea Groves, wife of William Groves, master tailor, of Frome St. Quinton, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by poisoning herself with belladonna. From the huiband's evidence, it appeared that on the night of August 29th, about half-past ten, he was with his wife in their bedroom. She had arranged to visit some relatives in Somerset, and was going on the following morning. He remwke lit was not worth while for him to go as a fliebody would meet her on her arrival. She accused him of wanting to get rid of her, and immediately went downstairs in her night-dres.. Witness followed her and went into the sitting-room, and proceeded to light a lamp. In the meantime she had gone into the pantry, had poured Rome belladonna from a bottle into a elms., and drunk it. The belledonna had ben prescribed for him some time azo for a bad kg. She went back into the bedroom, and said " 1 have taken a class of that stuff; I shan't be here long ;" aorl han ling him some money she said, "You take these purses, they are yours, not mine." Dr Greenwood was at once soot for.—The doctor proved visiting Mrs. Groves and find• ing her suffering from narcotic poisoning. He used the usual restorative means, and after a day or two she recovered. She was always a dull and eccentric woman, but he was not led to sunp,se she was insane. —For the defence the Rev. F. Donglis How. rect ir of From° St. Quinton, sal I he had known Mrs. Groves for more than two years, and during that prriod he had frequently had conversation with her. He considered her to be of very weak mind. She was invariably depressed, and he was not surprised to hear she had attempted to commit sui ide.—The Bench, after whit the rev. gentlemin hol maid, did not feel disposed to commit her, and on her husband promising to take care of harsh° was discharged. 

Article type: Incident
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1900-03-30 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

TRAGEDY AT CLAPHAM.  SAD STORY OF MURDER AND SUICIDI:  Victoria Road, Clapham, a reepevl aide thoroughfare leadin" from Wandsworth nowt to the common, has been the scene of the latest of London tragedies. By the side of No. 77 io this road is a stable with lit ing rooms over, occupied by a man named James John Rohm ts, about 45 years of age, who at one time earned a decent living as a jobbing gardener. W ith him there lived his wife, upon whose eitertions the family were largely dependent, and daughter named Jeannette, 14 years of ago, an imbecile suffering from an inetuablediscase. Four years ago Roberts had a ell:olio of paralysis, and a little more than a year since he was the victim of a second attack, which left him incapacitated and in a very despondcnt frame of mind, lie had been heard to express suicidal intentions, and to say that if possible he would take his daughter with On Saturday evening, Mrs. Roberts being Out., the man and his daughter Ivey° left alone in the rooms. What happened can only be a matter of conjecture, but it appears that a little later some per13011d, tailing to obtain a response to their knoeks, went upstairs and found the body of the girl hanging in one part of the room, and that of the father at the tither hand. The doctor whom the police summoned pronounced life to be extinct- A letter is said to have been found in the room in which Roberts intimated that he was tired of life and intended to end it all as soon as possible. fie also apologised to the coroner for the trouble caused. There seems no reason to doubt that Roberts first succeeded hanging his daughter and then took his life by the Willie means. 

Article type: Incident