Articles http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/photographs/England/ Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:29:21 +0100 The following is the report of the directors of this company to be submitted to the annual meeting of the members to be held at the Lowther Hotel, Goole, next Thursday :- The result of the year's working is a gross profit of £18,243 5s 3d; to this amount has to be added £1,587 4s 4d, the balance brought forward from the previous year, making together £19,830 9s 7d. After deducting £1,899 11s 5d, the interim dividend paid in August last, £9,236 5s 5d for depreciation on steamers, floating plant, http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=40 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:20:59 +0100 We deeply regret to record the death of the Right Honourable Lord Beaumont, of Carlton Towers, Selby, which took place at his lordship's London residence this (Saturday) morning at ten minutes to one. As briefly mentioned in yesterday's Goole Weekly Times, Lord Beaumont was striken with influenza a few days ago, and we understand that it is to this disease he has succumbed. His lordship, who was in his 44th year, succeeded his father in 1854, the !former having also died in London at the early http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=31 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:20:59 +0100 The remains of the late Rev G Downing, of Rawcliffe (formerly minister of the Methodist Free Church at Goole), were brought to Goole this afternoon for interment at the cemetery. A service was held at two o'clock in the Free Church, St. John-street, and was largely attended by members and officials of the church. The coffin, which bore a number of wreaths sent by sympathising friends, was borne into the chapel and placed near the communion rails. The service commenced by singing the hymn "Brief http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=32 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:20:59 +0100 A mass meeting of the Goole lightermen washeld yesterday afternoon, when Mr HARRY ORBELLL, London, was the principal speaker. He stated that Mr Bartholomew, the general manager of the Aire and Calder Navigation, had refused to refer the matter of the lightermen's strike to arbitration. He admitted the justice of the men's claims, but said the trade of the port would not warrant the increase. The Executive of Federated Unions, connected with the shipping industry, had discussed the advisabi1ity o http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=33 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:20:59 +0100 A painful sensation was caused in this village last evening on its being ascertained that Mir John Dunn Thornton had died very suddenly at the residence of his brother, Mr William Thornton, of Swinfleet. It appears that the deceased, who is a young medical practitioner in Manchester, was on a visit to his brother, and during the evening was seized with a fit and expired in a few minutes. The body of the deceased was subsequently removed to the house of his mother, at Swinfleet, for whom deep sym http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=34 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:20:59 +0100 MR DE COBAIN'S legal adviser has just returned from a visit to that gentleman at Boulogne, bringing with him, it is said, several important documents bearing upon the case in which he is involved. SUGAR IMPORTS. - The following is the quantity of sugar imported into Goole during the past week: - From France, 6,000 loaves, 150 bags and 2,800 cases; Germany, 850 bags and 1,260 cases; Belgium, nil. DOYLE STREET MISSION CHURCH BAZAAR - We are informed that the name of Mrs Anderson was omitted http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=35 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:20:59 +0100 The British Steamer Glendane arrived at Bridgport (Connecticut) on Sunday flying the Union Jack in violation of the United States law, which prescribes that a foreign ensign when shown in an American port must be accompanied by the Stars and Stripes. A large crowd gathered, and a number of soldiers attempted to bond the vessel, but the crew kept them back with revolvers. http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=36 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:20:59 +0100 A verdict of manslaughter was returned by a coroner's jury, after a twelve hours' sitting, at the Plymouth Workhouse yesterday, against Alice Laura Heckley for having caused the death of an infant committed to her charge (by improper feeding and neglect). The woman has had a chequered career, being of good parentage and high education. The medical testimony showed that the infant had died from an effusion of fluid on the brain, which was caused by rickets produced by improper feeding, administer http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=37 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:20:59 +0100 On Tuesday afternoon a sale of work was opened in the Wesley Chapel, Old Goole, for the purpose of assisting to liquidate a debt of £160 which still remains on the chapel and school premises. The principal stalls, three in number, were laden with a variety of useful and ornamental articles, the result of considerable labour on the part of the ladies, and a stall was also added by the ladies connected with the Boothferry-road Wesley Chapel. The various stalls were presided over by the following l http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=38 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:20:59 +0100 TEN PERSONS DROWNED. Fifteen of the crew of the Greek steamer Emperikos, which foundered on Saturday morning after striking on the rocks of St. Martin's Island, were landed at Penzance yesterday afternoon, from the Scilly Mail steamer. They report that the weather was foggy and the sea heavy when the. vessel struck. The steamer rebounded into deep water, and as she was seen to be sinking the captain gave orders to lower the boats. One boat was launched and rowed off with fifteen men on board ju http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=39 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:55:37 +0100 The dangers of tinned salmon was illustrated at the Birmingham coroner's court on Monday. On the 12th ult. a sixpenny tin of salmon was purchased at a grocer's, and eight persons belonging to the family of a labourer named Woodford partook of it. All except two suffered from sickness, and one child, aged between seven and eight, wno had been scraping some particles of salmon from the tin, was so bad that peritonitis supervened with fatal effect. A verdict was returned of death from eating tinned http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=16 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:10:30 +0000 The new arcade, connecting the Post Office with Victoria and Carlisle Streets, will be opened shortly. Rents from £22 to £40 per annum. - Apply, H. B. THORP, Architect and Surveyor, Goole. http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=23 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:08:20 +0000 Frederick Thomas Storey, aged 40, formerly out-door manager of Cook's Circus, Greenock, was hanged at Greenock on Monday morning for the murder of Elizabeth Stewart, widow, circus performer. Storey was of dissipated habits, and desired to pay attentions to the woman, which were rejected. In December he met her leaving the circus one night, and on her repulsing him, stabbed her fatally. Evidence of premeditation was given at the trial. At eight o'clock the Governor of the prison and other officia http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=25 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:08:20 +0000 The s.s. Richard Moxon, which arrived at Goole on Saturday morning last, reported that while lying at anchor in Hull Roads on the previous night, she was run into by the s.s. Esperauza. The stem and four plates on each bow of the Richard Moxon were broken. She now lies in Goole docks awaiting repairs. The Norwegian ship Agra, bound from Newcastle for Santos, has been towed into Cuxhaven with her bulwarks damaged. CASUALTIES AT SEA. During the gale on Sunday night the brig Lancet belonging t http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=28 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:08:20 +0000 THE secret of success is persistent Advertising. It is difficult to replace custom lost through the withdrawal of advertisements Therefore, the masses use regularly the columns of the Goole Wednesday Journal, the popular half-penny evening paper. GOOLE FOOTBALL CLUB SMOKING CONCERT. - On Tuesday evening the members of the Goole Football Club held a smoking concert at the Sydney Hotel. At the commencement of the proceedings there was not a very large attendance, but later in the evening a good http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=30 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:03:18 +0000 The opprtunities of hearing a first-class concert in Goole are, to say the least, too rare, and therefore it was with more than ordinary p1easure that lovers of the entrancing art of music availed themselves of patronising the sacred concert given in the Methodist Free Church on Monday evening last. For a number of years a concert has been given at this place of worship on Christmas Pay evening, but this year the custom was not observed owing to certain difficulties being in the way, and consequ http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=29 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:50:48 +0000 Mr Francis Weare, aged 65, his wife, aged 29, and their infant son were found dead in their house at Bowes Park, Wood Green, near London on Monday morning, having evidently been poisoned. An investigation has led to the belief that Mr Weare poisoned his wife and child and then committed suicide, pecuniary difficulties being alleged as the reason for the crime. http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=27 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:50:19 +0000 TORN BY A TIGER - On Saturday night, James Smith, one of the attendants at Bostock and Wornbwell's menagerie, at present in the Grass Market, Edinburgh, entered the cage occupied by several tigers, for the purpose of demonstrating the docility of animals. He was immediately seized by one of the brutes, who tore his arm open from the elbow. A visitor succeeded in beating the tiger off, but the man had to be removed to the Royal Infirmary, and on Monday afternoon, it was deemed necessary to amputa http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=26 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:44:53 +0000 The Press Association telegraph this morning: British steamer Namchow foundered in China seas. 414 lives lost. All European crew drowned. The Namchow (Captain Allen) belonged to Mr Chuah yn Pung, of Penang, and was 1712 tons gross register. It was built at Newcastle by Messrs Wigarn, Richardson and Co., in 1870. http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=24 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:39:37 +0000 HULL MEN DROWNED. It has now been placed. beyond doubt that the steamer which foundered off the Scilly Islands about a month ago was the Cavaler, of Newcastle. Five bodies were washed ashore at Hayle, Cornwall, yesterday morning, and four of them have been indentified as those of officers and men of the Cavalier. The steamer was commanded by a Hull captain, and several of the crew hail from Hull. The Cavalier was passed at sea abandoned, but as boats had gone, it was thought that possibly her cr http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=22 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:35:46 +0000 Stockwell, the Linthwaite murderer, was hanged in Armley gaol yesterday morning. The crime for which he suffered was the murder of Kate Dennis, a servant girl, sixteen years of age, at an inn at Linthwaite, near Huddersfield. The murder was very brutal in character, and aroused much indigo nation at the time. An effort to obtain a reprieve was unsuccessful. The execution was carried out privately, the High Sheriff having decided that no reporters should be admitted. The chaplain went to Stockwel http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=21 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:37:04 +0000 Yester-day morning, at the Wheldale Hotel, Castleford, Major Arundel, of Pontefract, opened an enquiry concerning the deaths of the five miners at the fire which occurred in the Wheldale pit on the 8th December last. The Colliery Company, relatives of the deceased, and the Yorkshire, Lancashire, and North Staffordshire Miners Associations were represented. Evidence of identity was taken, and the inquest was adjourned till Thursday next. The Birmingham Daily Post confirms the announcement ma http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=11 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:37:04 +0000 The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company were yesterday morning acting in accordance with their determination to coat their ships entirely by Federation men, for whose accommation lodgings have been fitted up inside the London Docks. The Federation coal-porters have taken over the coaling of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers Shannon, Ganges, and Thames, and have not been molested, although the men belonging to the Coal-porters' Union evidently resent the change in this c http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=12 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:37:04 +0000 The Carnarvon schooner Catherine Richards, with six hands, was lost on Thursday in Ballyhergue Bay, County Kerry. During 1891 there were 334 launches on service by the lifeboats of the Royal National Institution, and 551 persons were saved. A telegram from Calais on Thursday announces that the schooner Spruce Bud, of Goole, has been sold for 297O francs. There was no buyer to be found for the cargo (China clay). A telegram from Great Yamouth announces that the barque Flvira (Capt. Benson), of http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=13 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:37:04 +0000 Sailed :-Jan. 1st. Cuxhaven s, 398, Eyre, Hamburg, goods. China s, 279, Foster, Boulogne, goods. Sailed :-Jan 2nd. Kirkheaton s, 313, Moore, Ostend, goods. Calder s, 323, Wake, Ghent, goods. Pioneer s, 280, Rockett, Calais, goods. Progress s, 208, Rockett, Calais, goods. Ghnnibanta s, Davis, London, coal. Offerton s, 600, Sunderland, ballast. Maitlands s, 716, Dadison, Tyne Dock, ballast. Weeland, 349. Nolandale, Grimsby, ballast. Juverdruie, 192, Witteon, Christiania, ball http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=14 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:37:04 +0000 We regret to announce that the death occurred on Monday afternoon, at his residence, The Gables, Goole, of Mr William Everatt Hind, at the age of 57, a gentleman who has practised as a solicitor in Goole for many years, and was one of the best known residents in the port. He was taken ill some three months since, suffering from an attack of typhoid fever, but a few days ago he was slowly recovering, when he had a relapse, and succumbed on Monday afternoon about one o'clock. The deceased gentlema http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=15 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:37:04 +0000 Sailed:-Jan. 3rd. Ouse s, 432, Redford, Antwerp, goods. Wharfe s, Gravell, Rotterdam, goods. Burma s, 290, Ingleby, Boulogne, goods. Richard Moxon s, 237, Ibbetson, Bruges, goods. Northwood s, 345, Cook, London, goods. Navarra s, Boulogne, coal. Dresden s, 425, Kitwood, Hamburg, goods. Nina s, 505, Settle, Sunderland, ballast. Goldcliffe s, 797, West, Tyne Dock, ballast. Arrived : Dinnington s, 234, Coates, Terneuzen, ballast. Aire s. 324, Empson, Ghent, goods. Ravensh http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=17 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:37:04 +0000 The schooner Courier, of Goole, bound from Plymouth for London with a cargo of bricks, has arrived at Cowes leaky and will discharge. On Sunday, at Greenwich, the s s. Montrose collided with the schooner Trio, of Goole and carried away her bowsprit. The Noordland steamer, which was in collision with the Childwall, has put back to Antwerp with her bows stove in. The Tuscany steamer, reported aground near Antwerp, has been assisted off, apparently un-damaged. The Delhi, British brig, from Norw http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=18 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:37:04 +0000 FIFTEEN LIVES LOST. A disastrous collision occurred on Saturday night off the Wielingen Lightship, 13 miles from Flushing, when the barque Childwell, of Liverpool, 1,286 tons register, was sunk, and 15 hands drowned. The Childwell was on a passage from Iquique to Antwerp. The following is a list of those drowned:- Two brothers named Carison, two brothers named Olsen, Romberson, Anderson, Falander, and Fieldbeg, able seamen; Voushlen, the steward; Elliott, sailmaker; Clousen, the carpenter; Ca http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=19 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:37:04 +0000 DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE. Yesterday the recovery of what is believed to be the remains of Mrs Devlin, widow, of Cadzow Hamilton, from the River Clyde, at Carmyle, has confirmed the suspicions of the police, that she had drowned two of her children, James and Catherine, aged two and four years respectively, and afterwards committed suicide. The body of James was recovered from the river, behind the Hamilton Racecourse, but that of the girl is still missing. The deceased's husband was killed o http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=20 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:08:07 +0000 A young Goole soldier - Private George Lloyd, of 40 George Street - was one of three men killed oth the firing range, near Richmond, on Tuesday, when an explosion occurred during a demonstration of the fireing of a two-inch mortar bomb. All three of the men killed belonged to the East yorkshire Regiment. Four other men were injured. Private Lloyd, who was 18 years of age, and the fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. N. Lloyed, joined the Army only in May Last. He was sent for training to Richmond when http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=1 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:44:58 +0000 Under the auspices of the Goole Parish Church Mutual Improvement Society, a dramatic performance was given in the Public Rooms on Thursday, before a capital audience, taking into consideration the inclement state of the weather. The programme included a farcical comedy entitled "Our Clerks," followed by the laugbable farce "More Blunders than Quo." The comedy gave excellent opportunity for the display of amateur versatility, and we may congratulate the artistes on the creditable performance they http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=10 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:39:51 +0000 A SMART CAPTURE At the Hull Police-court yesterday, Thomas Nicholson, a fireman, was charged with smuggling 209 one pound packages of compressed tobacco and two boxes of cigars. P.C. Hairsine deposed that about five o'clock on Monday morning he was on duty in Dagger-lane, when be heard someone running. The footsteps ceased suddenly, and entering Banks's-court be found a man going into a house with a sailor's bag very bulky in appearance. Hairsine asked him what the bag contained and the man b http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=8 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:39:28 +0000 ONE MAN KILLED AND SEVERAL INJURED. A serious accident occurred at the engine sheds of the Great Northern Railway at Doncaster yesterday morning. After having finished breakfast, the workmen were sitting in the workshop, when a goods engine, which had run away, dashed into the joiners shop, and ran through the coppersmith? shop, throwing one man, named Atkin, from one side of the room to the other. Thomas Drury, married, was killed, his head being smashed in, and among others who have sustain http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=9 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:38:46 +0000 THIRTEEN SAILORS FROZEN TO DEATH, St. John's (Newfoundland), Monday (Reuter). On Saturday nineteen boats, with crews numbering 68 men, were out seal fishing in Trinity Bay. A sudden blizzard drove them off the coast, and masses of drift ice collecting along the shore, finally cut them off from the land. When, after severe struggles, they had at length succeeded in making head against the biting wind, the cold was frightful, and the sufferings of the sailors were intense. Thirteen men were fro http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=6 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:07:25 +0000 A sensation was caused in Hull on Monday afternoon by a shocking discovery at a house, No. 10, Nelson Terrace, Bean-street. The occupants were John Whaley, aged 63, and Sarah, his wife, aged 60, who had not been seen since Saturday night. The house was locked-up, and as it was feared something was wrong, Inspector Dannatt and three constables forced an entrance, when they found the man lying dead on the bedroom floor, and his wife on the bed in an unconscious state. Dr Beddow was sent for, and w http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=7 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:19:06 +0000 Intelligence reached Goole on Monday of the drowning of a young man belonging to this port. It appears that on Monday morning a seaman, who was recognised as William Cockin, aged 35, son of Captain Cockin, Lower South-street, Goole, and who was engaged on board the Ouse Hopper No. 3, was found in a cistern at the Tees Iron Works of Messrs Wilson, Pease, and Co., Middlesborough. Deceased's vessel was lying at the wharf of this firm, and he was last seen alive about eleven o'clock on the previous http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=5 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:54:25 +0000 In order to show that his long abstention from food had in no way impaired his physical powers. Giovanna Succi on Thursday afternoon walked from his reception-room to the large bath in the Annexe at the Aquarium, and there, in company with the professional swimmer, Charles Beckwith, he swam a distance of about 80 yards. During the 24 hours ending at noon Succi found that he had lost 10oz. in weight, bringing up the total decrease since the commencement to 19lb. 6oz. Up to 10-45 on Thursday night http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=4 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:49:50 +0000 Yesterday, Mr Henry Green, coroner for Howdenshire, held an inquest at the Black Swan Inn, Eastrington, on the body of Maria Parker, wife of Wm. Parker, an agricultural labourer, residing at that place, who was found dead in bed the previous morning. The evidence of the husband was to the effect that deceased, who was 45 years of age, had not been in good health for some years. She retied to rest, however, on Wednesday night at about hall-past nine o'clock apparently in her usual health, but whe http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=3 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:19:21 +0000 We regret to record the death of Mr Joshua Dunn, of Howden, which took place very suddenly at his residence, Knedlington-road, yesterday morning. The deceased gentleman had got up apparently in his usual good health, but was some time afterwards found dead in his dressing-room by the servant maid, death having resulted, it is supposed, from an apopletic fit. The news of his death created quite a sensation in Howden, Mr Dunn being the last representative of one of the oldest families of the town, http://www.starlightpublishing.co.uk/thehistoryfiles/articles/England/articles.php?id=2