... attention. Alderman Senior said he should want explanation as to why the Workhouse authorities refused to admit the old man. It was decided that shoiad be taken to the Workhouse in a cab. HOPE’S ANCIENT CHURCH. [Block : L«a*, Ltd. Mr. E. Willoughby Firth ...

... WORKHOUSE PREFERRED. Alderman F. Schonhut presided today’s fortnightly meeting of the Rotherham Board of Ciuardians. There was a fair attendance. The old ago pension was the first item on the agenda paper, and the Clerk (Mr. W. C. Harrison) made statement ...

... radium for the workhouse, Dr. Holder, medical officer to the Soulcoate* (Hull) Board of Guardians, yesterday made unusual request the board to expend £BOO in the purchase radium for the treatment cancer in paupers. . He mentioned the case of a woman in ...

... Workhouse Poultry. the half-yearly audit the Fyldc Union accounts at Kirkham yesterday Mr. R. Woods, a guardian, objected the officers the workhouse having as Christmas “extras” five docks Bd. lb. each and three chickens at lid. a lb each. He took exception ...

... WORKHOUSE AFFRAY Alleged Wounding by Unruly Visitor. The story of an attack on a workhouse porter, was told Stoke Borough Police Court yesterday,' when an Army pensioner named nenry Smith was charged with wounding Thomas Morris. Smith, presented himself ...

... DEATH IN THE WORKHOUSE. Mary Ann Starr died in Eocleeall Work houeo. Sheffield, to-day, it believed from the effects of poison. ...

... DREADED THE WORKHOUSE. Coroner; You are elderly people. What is the real reason that you did not go to the workhouse? - We were like other people, and wanted to keep out as iong as we could The Coroner's officer said he had known tho couple for about ...

... RESTFUL WORKHOUSES. A letter from a French widow, who has an income £l5O a year, was read at a meeting the Fast Ashford, Kent, Board of Guardians. She enjoys a Government pension, and expressed desire to live in an English workhouse, which she described ...

... WORKHOUSE AND PRISON, A Donrastor named Charla, appeared More the Magistrates this mornmg charged with begging. There are 13 convictions against him, and ho appears to bo spending his time in paving visit* to tiio workhouse and Wakefield gaol. ‘He has ...

... PRODUCT OF THE WORKHOUSE. Harriett Wilkins, 21. ironer, pleaded guilty yesterday at the ClerkenwelJ Sessions to having attempted to wound Charles Griffin, labour master Islington Workhouse. She concealed a knife in her bed, and on being remonstrated with ...

... BACK TO THE WORKHOUSE At the Rotherham Borough Court to-day, Catherine Knowles (72), an inmate of (he Ecclesall Workhouse, was charged with stealing two men’s shirts and quantity of ribbon valued 65., the property of Lewis I/evison, stallholder in the ...

... WORKHOUSE TRAGEDV. Nonagenarian Widow Burnt to Death at Scarborough. Mary Ann Simpson, aped 93, who for the past 18 years had been an inmate of the Scarborough Workhouse, died yesterday as the result of severe burns sustained in that institution the previous ...