... POPLAR WORKHOUSE AFFAIRS. Poplar Workhouse inquiry was resumed yesterday, when evidence was given Martineau, local secretary to the Charity Organisation Society. He said that though the Guardians had a policy which created abuses, they had reason to be ...

... SHIPOWNER DIES IN WORKHOUSE CLOSE FRIEND OF LATE KING EDWARD Titled Cousin Attends Funeral Once a wealthy Liverpool shipowner, and claiming that he was a close friend of King Edward VII., Mr Walter William Butler has died in the Luton Union Infirmary ...

... SEQUEL TO MUTINY IN WORKHOUSE. ' ate of Court on Saturday, seven -„r e . Belmont Workhouse, were UBln ff to observe the Work-|| »*• a r ) Henry Rowland, \h M. aa aulting labour , s ...

... POPLAR WORKHOUSE ONGOINGS. WHAT THE ATTENDANT SAW. The Poplar Workhouse inquiry was resumed yesterday, when Crosbie, telephone attendant, gave further evidenoe. He Btated he had seen Mr M'Carthy, a Guardian, drunk in the Workhouse supporting himself by ...

... reference to the poor law, they longed for the time when there would workhouses. Miss Florence Grove read paper wnich urged the establishment of farm colonies, instead of workhouses, the ground that they would be more helpful to the people, and give them ...

... RIOT AT A WORKHOUSE. INMATES CHRISTMAS A riot occurred at w.. , J ARB. yesterday owing to Bw ° rth Workhouse seventy able-bodied men rd,ans excluding Christmas fare in order tr, Won en frot the the house. They tll ® m to I ...

... CLERGYMAN ENTERS WORKHOUSE LARGE CROWD AT GATE. Rev. Dr Samuel Shannon, the inhibited vicar St Luke's Church, Leicester, entered Leicester Poor Law Institution last night. Accompanied by two parishioners, he walked from the vicarage to the institution ...

... FROM MANOR TO WORKHOUSE. PATHETIC MISFORTUNES OF MAN WHO WAS OWNER OF MINERAL RIGHTS. Mr Joshua Illingworth, lord of the manor of Pudsey, Yorkshire, died on Thursday night in Clayton Workhouse, Bradford, of which had been an inmate for some years. was ...

... DUEL IN A WORKHOUSE. New York, Thursday. At Bridgewator, New Jersey, two of workhouse fought duel in the presence of a crowd of their comrades. The duellists, Geo. Potts, aged 80, and Edward Riley, aged 74, fought savagely, began literal to cut. each ...

... WORKHOUSE INMATES OBJECT TO PORRIDGE FOR THEIR SUPPER. PELT POLICE WITH CROCKERY, Eighty-six arrests have been made aa the result of a serious outbreak which occurred at Belmont Overflow Workhouse, near Sutton, Surrey. The inmates refused their porridge ...

... WORKHOUSE BOY'S RETURN A STORY THAT SETTLED A QUESTION. For long time Edmonton Guardians discussed the question of sending workhou.s-j boys to Canada. Women members were it. Then Mr C. Knight told this story:— 1 was in tho Guardians' Office one day ...

... ANTS ON WORKHOUSE FOOD IMPORTED IN CASE OF RAISINS. Withington Manor (Manchester) Poor Law Institution infested with ants. They made their appearance during the war, being imported in case of raisins, and have increased such an extent that they are even ...