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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 13, 1870
Page
10
An inexperienced goods train driver failed to notice a lighted mail train as both trains converged near a crossing. A Board of Trade notice warned not to pass until the signal is lowered, with Saxby signals controlling main line blocks to the branch.
A child strangled by a bed chair in Dundee, nineteen bodies recovered from Silverdale Colliery, and a fatal foundry crane accident in Liverpool. Aberdovey saw two drownings during a five girl bathing party. Other reports include a poisoning inquest, a bank window cleaner’s accidental death, Lambeth child abuse probes, and a fourteen year old drowning his sister near Stourbridge.
In a Stourbridge case a man reportedly knocked his sister into a river at a deep hole and tried to grab her dress. She vanished, police searched the river without success, and the prisoner was remanded before the Stourbridge magistrates on Monday.
A large gathering of legal professionals met on Wednesday in Lingala's Inn Hall to discuss the aims of the Legal Education Association. Sir Roundel Palmer presided, the association's objects and constitution were adopted, and about 150 gentlemen were named to a council.
A late Punch reminiscence by Mark Lemon may appear posthumously. Scotland Yard distributes boxing gloves to police stations. A learned man explains the old shoe tossed at a newly married couple signals slippery happiness. Naples reports five pristine flute-like instruments found at Pompeii in silver and ivory. A Times letter from Dr Lyon Playfair notes Ireland’s smallpox record shows remarkable decline. A 125 year astronomical event, Venus transit in 1874, prompts a 300000F credit request for observation instruments.
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