Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 11 January 1884
Chronological Table of the Principal Occurrences in the District In 1883.
JANUARY
1.—A porter named Arthur Barber killed on the M. S. and L. Railway at Wombwell.
2.—A meeting for establishing a Miners’ National Orphanage held at Swinton.
8.—Death of Sir Joseph William Copley, of Sprotbro’ Hall.
9.—Death of Mr. Peter Wallingoo, of Mexbro’.
11.—Burial dispute at Swinton.
12.—Kilnhurst Co-operative Society quarterly report; sales, £1937 7s. 8½d.; profits realised, £166 5s. 6d.—Funeral of the late Mr. Peter Wallingoo.
18.—Brutal assault on Police-constable Kendall at Denaby.—A girl named Laxby suffocated at Parkgate.
15.—Sudden death of Allen Hawks at Parkgate.
16.—Quarterly meeting of delegates from the West and Mexboro’ District A.O.F.
16.—Burglary at Piccadilly.—Serious School Board meeting; Mr. Charles Bowens censures the amount of £175 10s. for the erection of our schools in Rotherham; outbreak of small-pox; Death of the Rev. John Booth, Wesleyan Minister, at Conisboro’.
17.—Thrybergh Cricket Club annual dinner.
18.—Claim by Mr. Lee at the Doncaster County Court for £22 against the late managers of the Mexboro’ Congregational School; case adjourned.
—Public meeting at Conisboro’; proposition that a new burial ground be provided.
19.—Funeral of the late Rev. John Booth at Mexboro’.
22.—Annual meeting of the Denaby Main cricket club.
23.—A young man named Arthur Durham killed at Wombwell Main Colliery.
25.—Annual meeting of the Committee of the Wath and District Association for the Prosecution of Felons.—A new Mechanics’ Institute decided to be erected at Wath, at a cost of £1500.—Formation of an angling club at Mexboro’.
26.—Violent gale; great damage to property in the district.
29.—Miners’ National Orphanage meeting at Kilnhurst.
30.—Strange death of a Kilnhurst girl named Ada Hamilton at the Sheffield Union Workhouse.—Kilnhurst Parish Church annual tea.
31.—Serious accident at Darfield Main Colliery to a man named Samuel Rowbottom.—An infant named James Prid died at Mexboro’.—Wath Local Board; petition from the relatives of Thomas Scott.
FEBRUARY
1.—Wath Local Board meeting; the Clerk directed to write to the Local Government Board to obtain information concerning the legality or otherwise of the action taken by some of the members in accepting terms voted by the Board.
2.—Railway accommodation at Hoyland; deputation appointed to wait on the M. S. and L. Railway Company.
2 and 3.—Opening of a new Wesleyan School-room at Swinton; cost of building, £520.
5.—Annual meeting of shareholders of Mexboro’ and District Water Company.
6.—Half-yearly rent audit dinner of Mr. A. Montagu’s tenantry at Mexboro’.—Action by C. H. Goodinson, checkweighman at the Thrybergh Hall Colliery, against the M. S. and L. Railway Company; verdict for plaintiff, £20.
7.—Mexboro’ Co-operative Association; election of Dr. Sykes as president.
9.—Annual meeting of the Wombwell, Darfield and District Liberal Association.
12.—Annual meeting of the Mexboro’ Cricket Club.—Presentation to Mr. Moby by officials of the Wath Main Colliery.—Formation of a Volunteer Corps at Wombwell.
14.—Accident to a hunter named Hindley at Mexboro’.
15.—Mr. Abraham Lee’s claim for £22 18s. 4d. against the late managers of the Mexboro’ Congregational School sustained at the Doncaster County Court.—Election of Mr. Hawksworth as assistant overseer for Conisboro’.—The cemetery question at Conisboro’; decision to enlarge the churchyard.
19.—Appointment of Mr. White, of Doncaster, as organist of Conisboro’ Parish Church.—Annual meeting of the members of the Mexboro’ Industrial Society.
19, 20, and 21.—Bazaar at Roman Terrace Primitive Methodist Chapel; total proceeds, £238 19s. 3d.
20.—Attempted suicide of a girl named Wood at Mexboro’.
21.—Election of School Board members at Balby.
22.—Lecture on “Ireland,” by Mr. Byron Reed, to members of the Conisboro’ Conservative Association.
MARCH
1.—The election of Mr. Hawksworth as assistant overseer for Conisboro’ confirmed.
2.—Liberationist lecture at Hoyland; resolution passed in favour of the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church of England.
5.—Annual church tea at Swinton.
6.—Miners’ National Orphanage meeting at Kilnhurst.
7.—A Swinton man named Henry Brownell cut to pieces by a train on the Midland Railway at Kilnhurst.—Burglary at Melton Hall.—Mexboro’ Local Board; resignation of Mr. Holmes, the collector.
17.—Fatal accident at the Denaby Main Colliery.
18.—Accidental suffocation of John Tradewell at Rawmarsh.
19.—Death by drowning of William Ambrose Lyalls at Rawmarsh.
20.—Sudden death of Mrs. Mary Rice Oxley at Conisboro’.
23.—Opening of Conisboro’ Railway Station.
APRIL
5.—A boy suffocated near Darfield Main.
9.—Sudden death of Edwd. Pearce at Swinton.
13.—Shocking death of Ada Ellen Ward at the Darfield Main Colliery.—Fatal accident to a young man at the Hoyland Silkstone Colliery.
MAY
16.—Death of Mr. Stanley Rich, of Swinton.—Suicide of a man named James, at Wigsfield.
18.—Death of Mr. Rickuss, of Wath.
19.—Funeral of the late Mr. Stanley Rich, of Swinton.
20.—A poacher, named Gill accidentally shot near Doncaster.
21.—Shocking death of Henry Normable, of Thorne, near Doncaster.
24.—Death of Thomas Hirst, at the Aldwarke Main Colliery.
25.—Meeting for the restoration of Conisboro’ Parish Church.
30.—Marriage of Miss Rogers at Mexboro’.
JUNE
18.—Laying the foundation stone of a new Congregational Chapel at Swinton.
19.—Appalling disaster at Sunderland; 200 children killed.
25.—Mexboro’ feast.
28.—Sad death of a boy from cramp whilst bathing at Mexboro’.
JULY
18.—Death of Herbert Jeffrey at Mexboro’, from a blow by a cricket ball.—A boy named Thomas Hill drowned in the Don at Rotherham.—A girl named Ada Chambers drowned at Barnsley.
AUGUST
2.—Assassination of Carey the informer.
3.—Railway accident at Mexboro’—16 persons injured.
9.—Fatal accident to a man named James Osborne, at Milton Ironworks, Elsecar.
16.—Twelve miners precipitated down a shaft at Wheal Agar Colliery.—Three men killed at Wraith Colliery.
27.—Fatal accident to a man named Allan Cutler, at the Phœnix Bessemer Steel Works, Rotherham.
SEPTEMBER
1.—Fatal accident to a boy named Ellis Rhoadhouse, of Greasboro’.
10.—Death of John Thomas Cooper by drowning at Mexboro’.
14.—Murderous assault on a detective at Doncaster.
19.—Merry festivities at Wath.
OCTOBER
15.—Fatal accident to a man named William Briggs, at the Hoyland Silkstone Colliery.
18.—Fatal accident to a man named William Darually, at Godnow Bridge.—Serious colliery explosion near Barnsley; great loss of life.
23.—Joseph Wilford killed at Aldwarke Main Colliery.
24.—Narrow escape of Mr. Chambers, manager, at Denaby Main Colliery.
29.—Fatal accident to Joseph Ashton on the Midland Railway, near Barnsley.—Alarming cage accident at Denaby Main Colliery.
31.—Completion of the new waterworks at Swinton.
NOVEMBER
2.—Fatal accident to Katherine Fitzpatrick, of Jump.
8.—Burglary at Swinton.—Opening meet of Earl Fitzwilliam’s hounds.—Threatened strike of pony drivers at Manvers Main Colliery.
9.—Alleged manslaughter by Thomas Cox at Jump.
13.—Fatal accident to a man named William Harley, at Darfield Main Colliery.
14.—Death of a miner named Joseph Holloway, at the Hoyland Silkstone Colliery.—Meeting for the enlargement of the Mexboro’ National School.
15.—An otter shot near Bolton.
17.—Sudden death of Mr. John Harrison at Mexboro’.
19.—Formation of a Good Templars’ lodge at Winterwell.—Presentation to Mr. Robson by Manvers Main employés.
20.—Foundation stone of a new Wesleyan Chapel laid at Sandhill (Rawmarsh).
29.—Sad drowning case at Kilnhurst; a labourer named Ainley found in the river Don.—Conservative demonstration at Mexboro’; speech by Mr. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy.
DECEMBER
4.—Decision of the Denaby Main miners not to strike.
10.—A man named Clarke killed at the M. S. and L. Station, Swinton.
11.—Terrible gale; great damage in the Mexboro’ district.
20.—Burial Board meeting at Mexboro’; the old members re-elected.