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Broken Hill & the Far West · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1898

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Obituary. Sydney

Western Grazier · Wednesday 10 August 1898 · page 3

Dr. Hollis, ex-M.P. for Goulburn, died yesterday, after a lengthy illness. Mr. Justice Manning died yesterday, from hemorrhage of the lungs…

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The Mysterious Death of Dr. W. P. Willis

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 August 1898 · page 2

Saturday's Mount Browne paper, the Sturt Recorder, published the depositions taken at the inquest on the body of Dr. W. P. Willis, who died at Tibooburra on the 2nd instant…

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Death of Mr. L. M. Trimmber

Barrier Miner · Friday 19 August 1898 · page 2

MR. L. M. TRIMMER, who died so suddenly yesterday afternoon in Bromide-street, was for many years an employee of the Proprietary mine. Mr. Trimmer was very well known…

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Sudden Death of L. M. Trimmer

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 1

AN inquest was held by the deputy-coroner (Mr. T. Hall, J.P.), at the courthouse this afternoon, on the body of L. M. Trimmer, who fell dead in Bromide-street yesterday…

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The Death of E. F. SAINT. The Inquest

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 August 1898 · page 4

THE inquest on the body of E. F. Saint, the victim of the accident at Block 10 on Saturday afternoon, was continued after the MINER went to press this morning…

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The Block 10 Railway Accident. Death of Edwin Saint

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 August 1898 · page 2

EDWIN FRANCIS SAINT, the signalman, who was run over by a train on the Block 10 siding on Saturday afternoon, died in the Hospital at ll o'clock yesterday morning…

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The Death of E. F. SAINT. The Inquest

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 August 1898 · page 4

THE inquest on the body of E. F. Saint, the victim of the accident at Block 10 on Saturday afternoon, was continued after the MINER went to press this morning…

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The Late Mr. E. F. Saint

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 24 August 1898 · page 2

THE funeral of the late Mr. E. F. Saint, held yesterday afternoon, was largely attendes; as many ot those with whom Mr. Saint had worked on the railways as could get away…

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Death of Mr James Hill. Sydney

Western Grazier · Wednesday 24 August 1898 · page 3

Mr James Hill, Director of the A.M.P. Society, died this morning…

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Death of a Celebrated Sire. Sydney

Western Grazier · Saturday 27 August 1898 · page 2

The wellknown champion s[?] Goldsbrough died at Tocal yesterday…

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Obituary. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 August 1898 · page 2

Mr. Arthur Pease, Liberal-Unionist member of the House of Commons for Darlington, is dead, aged 61 years. Mr. Pease sat for Whitby…

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The Death of Malietoa. [By Telegraph.] Auckland

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 September 1898 · page 3

A foreign board of control is to be appointed in Samoa, jointly representing Great Britain, the United States, and Germnny, pending the election of a successor to King…

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The Late Mr. Gladstone. London, Sept. 5

Western Grazier · Wednesday 7 September 1898 · page 2

The personalty of the late Mr Gladstone has been sworn at £60,000…

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Death of Archbishop Walsh

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 September 1898 · page 3

ARCUBISHOP WALSH died suddmly at Toronto on July 31 FROM failure of the heart's action. The Most Reverend William J. Walsh, Roman Catholic Archbishop of…

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Death of an Old Man

Barrier Miner · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 1

AN old man named William Edgar, a miner, who lived alone In a house in Eyre street, South Broken Hill, was yesterday found by his next-door neighbor lying ill in bed…

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Death of the Rev. J. Y. Simpson. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 12 September 1898 · page 2

The Rev. J. Young Simpson, a leading minister of the Wesleyan Church, died suddenly at Burra on Saturday. He had been under medical treatment, but death was…

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Death of Mr. E. Crossing

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 September 1898 · page 4

A TELEGRAM from the West notifies the death at Norseman of Mr. Edwin Crossing, well-known in and late of Broken Hill. Mr. George Anderson (Mr. Crossing's partner)…

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The Death of Mr. P. Mather. a Drunken Nurse

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 September 1898 · page 2

A SAD narrative (the Age reports) was related at the morgue on Saturday morning in the case of Patrick Mather, a retired pastoralist from the Wilcannia district…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] The Death of Mr. Crossing. Norseman (W.a.), Wednesday Night

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 September 1898 · page 2

Mr. E. Crossing, a member of the butchering firm of Crossing and Anderson, both well known in Broken Hill, was driving on Monday night to the Desirable mine, when…

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