Posted inDaily News Railroads
50,000 Articles Lost
Taken in a Year from Railway Refreshment Rooms. When the justices on Friday made their final order authorising the opening of refreshment rooms of the new railway station at Newbury…
Daylight Spook That Shrieks And Knocks
Queer Phenomena In Woking Residence.
YESTERDAY’S DOINGS.
Mr. Gerald Balfour Among the “Ghost’s” Large Audience.
[From Our Special Correspondent.]
Woking, Saturday Night.
The town of Woking is just now excited over a ghost which in several particulars presents features of novelty. Woking, except for a neighbouring cemetery. does not suggest spectres. for most of the town is new and bright sad cheerful, and the spot which the ghost —as it may for the present be called, in the of any other explanation—haunts is one of the brightest and most salubrious districts, covered with pretty modern villas.
One of these is at present occupied by Mr. George Holroyd, whose father is a member of the firm of Friary, Holroyd and Healy, the famous Surrey brewers. It is a charming house, obviously of recent date, standing in its own grounds. Its most attractive feature inside is a large hall, with a railed gallery running round it. Above this is the roof, for the house is one of two floors. This hall is the scene of the mysterious manifestations which have begun during the last fortnight.
Posted inCulture & Society
British Museum A Hot Ticket
The British Museum has kept up its interest to visitors during the holidays; the number of visitors on Whit Monday being 16,329 ; on Tuesday, 3290; and Wednesday, 3955. The…
Posted inLocal Histories
Knocked Down By A Cyclist
OLD MAN SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES SUSTAINED NEAR HEANOR
An inquest was held at the Thorn Tree Inn, Woodlinkin, Heanor, on Saturday, touching the death of Edward Bell, a miner, which occurred on Thursday night. The evidence of the widow showed that deceased had suffered from bronchitis for twelve years, during which time he had not been at work. On Saturday evening, April 30th, he was knocked down by a cyclist near his home, and from then until his death he was attended by Dr. Holmes, of Heanor.
Posted inCulture & Society
The Court and Haut Ton (May 14, 1842)
Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived in town at half -past four o’clock on Monday afternoon in an open carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, from Claremont. The equerries in waiting, Colonel Arbuthnot and Colonel Wylde, followed in a chariot and four. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, and their attendants, occupied another carriage ; and the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, lady in waiting, and Lord Byron, lord in waiting, were in the last carriage. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at Buckingham Palace by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and Lord Colville, lord in waiting on Prince Albert.
Posted inDaily News Labor & Unions
London Dazed By Big Strike; Hikes To Work
LONDON —The largest city in the world awoke today to find itself as helpless as any little roadside hamlet.
Confident yesterday that there would be an 11th hour settlement of the general strike, London seemed really amazed today to find its transportation facilities at a standstill.
starting at 4 and 5 a. m., workers of all ages and walks of life began trudging toward their daily tasks in the city.
Posted inDaily News Local Histories
Awful Accident And Loss Of Life At Yarmouth
Upwards of 100 Lives Lost
On Friday, an accident of a most frightful nature occurred at Yarmouth, which has plunged many families into the deepest distress. It appears that the clown of the circus was about to take his benefit, and that, in order to draw the public to the circus, he adopted the same thing as the late Mr. Usher did here, in London, viz., being drawn upon the river by geese. Upon the occasion, some hundreds of people had congregated upon the suspension bridge, when suddenly an awful crash took place, and all were precipitated into the water. Up to nine o’clock on Friday night, 57 lifeless bodies had been taken up
Fatal Colliery Explosion
An explosion of fire-damp took place in a colliery at Pemberton, near Wigan, on Friday evening last, by which no less than ten lives have been sacrificed, and six other colliers have been placed on beds of suffering, with scarcely a possibility of recovery.
The colliery is that called Norley-hall, and is worked by the executors of the late Mr. Danglish, of Pemberton. The coal-bed is one of considerable extent, and belongs partly to Reece Bevan, Esq., and partly to the estate of the late Duke of Bridgwater; but Mr. Daglish had power only to take the coal to the boundaries of Mr. Bevan’s estate.
Posted inDaily News Sports
Object to Banker Clerks’ Golf Dress In Working Hours
London, Nov. 15—(AP)—Plus fours have been barred in the London banks where the executive officials objected to the custom of some of the clerks who have been coming to work…
Majestic Sails Despite Strikers
Three Other Steamers Get Crews and Leave
London, Sept. 2 (AP)—The situation in British home ports resulting from the official strike of seamen against a wage reduction was somewhat eased today by the sailing of the While Star liner Majestic from Southampton and the news that three steamers at Hull had finally obtained crews and would leave on time.
On the other hand there was little diminution in the seriousness of the situation in dominion ports as reflected in advices reaching London.