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GLASGOW HERALD
31 AUGUST 1897

BRUTAL ASSAULT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday FRANCIS HAGGERTY, marine fireman, Canal Street, Saltcoats, was charged with having on the 28th instant, assaulted Elizabeth McAlister or Brown, wife of Edward Brown, Auchenharvie Pit Cottage, by kicking her on the left side.

He pleaded not guilty.

It appeared from evidence that Haggerty had been lying in the passage of his house, and two girls who wanted through it had asked Edward Brown to assist them. He did so, and Haggerty getting up caught him by the shoulder and run him out, saying that this was his own property, and he could do what he liked.

Mrs. Brown then stepped forward to take her husband away, and Haggerty kicked her on the side. She was knocked to the ground, and was afterwards carried to a stranger’s house, where she had to remain till next day, being unable to walk home.

The Sheriff characterised the assault as “brutal, unmanly, and unprovoked,” and passed sentence of 30 days’ imprisonment.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 SEPTEMBER 1896

DISORDERLY GLASGOW EXCURSIONIST

Yesterday at Saltcoats Burgh Court, M. McKay, Glasgow, was fined 7s 6d or seven days for breach of the peace on the platform of the Glasgow & South-Western Railway Station.

He was trying to get into a carriage that was already full of passengers, and when pulled away he caused a disturbance.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 SEPTEMBER 1897

BIRTH

CURRIN: At 14 Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, on the 27th ultimo, the wife of G. F. Currin, captain of the S.S. “BURMA”; A SON.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 SEPTEMBER 1898

DEATH

ARTHUR: At 1 Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, on the 30th ultimo, J. P. Arthur, merchant, late of Greenock.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 SEPTEMBER 1893

FLOWER SHOW AT SALTCOATS

The annual exhibition was held yesterday in the Town Hall, Saltcoats.

Of greenhouse plants there was an unusually fine display. Three tables exhibited by Mr. J. Laughland, Crescent; Provost McIsaac, Parkend; and J. B. Ross, florist, attracted a great deal of attention.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 SEPTEMBER 1882

FLOWER SHOW AT SALTCOATS

The annual exhibition of this society was held yesterday in the Saltcoats Academy. The weather was most unfavourable, rain falling during the greater part of the day, which had the effect of diminishing the attendance.

The show of pot plants and cut flowers was one of the best ever held, notwithstanding the wet season has been very much against cultivators.

The floral ornaments were an attractive feature of the show, the first prize being won by Henry Ward, Stirling.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 SEPTEMBER 1891

MARRIAGE

At Holly House, Saltcoats, on the 2nd instant, by the Rev. J. B. Scott, Saltcoats, assisted by the Rev. J. L. Fyfe, Dalry, William Gardiner, manufacturer, Dalry, to Mary Henderson, third daughter of Dr. J. Ritchie Brown.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 SEPTEMBER 1892

DEATH

THOMSON: At 20 Springvale Street, Saltcoats, on the 2nd instant, in his 46th year, William Thomson, marine engineer, late of Paisley.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 SEPTEMBER 1895

CARRIAGE ACCIDENT

Yesterday afternoon Mrs Cuninghame, of Auchenharvie, Miss Agnew, and another lady were out driving in a carriage, and when returning home through Saltcoats the horse slipped and fell at the Shop-ends.

Fortunately the ladies were uninjured and after getting out of the carriage were able to walk home.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 SEPTEMBER 1896

DISTURBANCE AT SALVATION ARMY BARRACKS

Yesterday at Saltcoats Burgh Court, Mrs Jarvie was charged with breach of the peace at the Salvation Army Barracks at Kyleshill on the previous day. She was the worse of drink, and had gone to the barracks and created a disturbance, and had to be removed.

The Court fined her 15s, or 14 days. She went to prison.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 SEPTEMBER 1897

SAVAGE ASSAULT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday – before Mr. James Henderson, Hon. Sheriff-Substitute – ALEXANDER McDONALD, labourer, of no fixed residence, was convicted of having brutally assaulted Charles Mackie, labourer, Chapelwell Street, Saltcoats, within his own house on 28th ultimo.

Accused was a lodger with Mackie, and while under the influence of liquor he made an unprovoked attack upon him, striking him a severe blow on the head, knocking him to the floor, and afterwards throwing a sugar bowl at him, striking him on the shoulder with a poker, and kicking him on the right ear. Mackie was for a time unconscious.

Sentence of £2, or 20 days’ imprisonment was passed.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 SEPTEMBER 1893

FOOTBALL
SALTCOATS VICTORIA v. ARTHURLIE
At Saltcoats

Result: - Victoria, 6; Arthurlie, 3.