150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 22 - 28 APRIL 1874
This week's many stories include the betting mania in Prescot, the violent passenger at the St Helens Station who behaved like a lunatic, the glassworker fined for arriving ten minutes late at work, the man charged with having a diseased pig in Tontine Street, the obnoxious impost of income tax, the dog at Peckers Hill that was supposedly set on a man during a row and the vandalised boring machinery in Rainford.