The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1915-08-07 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  The death occurred at Laindon, on Saturday, oi krederick olden. a young boy. of Linden, kaaez, as a remit of eating mushrooms. There has been a tremendous growth of the fungus as the result of the weather, and huge quantities have been gathered in taiel. It is believed that the child may have picked up a poiaonoua growth in mistake for an eatable mushroom.  The execution of tieorge Joseph Smith. who wan sentenced to death at the Cad Palley for the murder of Miss Mundy in a bath at Herne Bay, a-ill takn piano in Maidstone Prison on Iriday morning. August 13.  Mr. William Abraham, M P., the Nationalist repreaentative of the Harbour Division et Dublin, died on Monday ~coning at his reeidenee. 26, .Ashmount-road„ Hornsey-lane, London. He was 75 years of age. At the time of the "split" in the Nationalist party in Ig9o it was he who proposed in committee room 15 "that Mr. Parnell's tenure of the chairmanship of this party is hereb! t >nninateti. Parnell, however. ruled the motion out of order.  The Cominiiaioner of l'olke has written to the Willewlen Connell regretting that at pr.nt he is unable to officially aanction 70111^:1 po:;ce in the Metropolitan area.  The Cyclists' Touring Club has recently been successful in recovering substantial damages for one of its lady members who was run down and injured by a cycle oar near Ewell. The case vs settled out of court by the payment (t .275. Earlier in the year the club recovered £2OO for another lady member she had been run down by a motorist.  A seven-year-old child had an extraordinary escape from drowning at Welihpool. While playing she fell into a brook which was running very strongly owing to heavy rains. She ails quickly carried by the stream 0 a culvert which passes underneath a road and a brewery for a distano. of 100 eard.s. On emerging at the outlet of the culvert she was snatched from the water just before entering another culvert. Though life appeared to be extinct, artificial respiration fully restored the child.  St. Helena Council on Wednesday decided llint no Corporation lunches ba provided moles., they were paid for by the members who had them. An amendment that no lnnehea at all be prorided in the Town Ball was lost._ _  It is estimated that 26 lives have been lost and damage amounting to millions of dollars has been caused by a cloudburst at Erie (Pennsylvania) on Tuesday evening. The storm caused the dams to break and large portions of the business and residential parts of the city Imre inundated. Two thonsdnd people are thought to have been rendered homeless.  Min K. Tonlmin, 4, Holland Park Mangrinnr. Kensington, London. left ALOOOnpon trust to pay the income therefrom to Stephenia Ann Webber during the liras of her bird and her dog, with remainder to St. Bombes's Church, Kensington, for the benefit of the poor.  You Can Rely On lebrke Ell Pills as • Safe and Sure Remedy. la either fox. for all Acquired or Constitutional Diecb•riles Irons Miner, Orlon. Gravel. Palos la the Back and kindred complaints Over 50 Years. Sonoran Of C a la r ke.a men itui. 4/ 4 POT bO2. Sent direct. post free. foe . _ - _ _ _  'h. 841 Pills Proorletors V Li ie ncoln end Masse Counties Dese (Prie from mercury)  Maarten Maarten, the well-known En7,lian writer of Dutch parentage, has died at Zeist, near Utrecht.  Miss Katherine Alice Page. daughter of the American Ambikeador. was married n Wednesday at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palao?, to Mr. Charles Greeby Loring, of Roston, U.S.A. On account of the war the function was a very simple one. Among those present were the Prime Minister and Mrs. Asquith, Sir Edward Grey, many of the Ambassadors and Foreign Ministers and their wives, the staff of trio American Embassy, and A few particular friends of the bride and bricks.ro2m.  Manchester City Council, at a meeting on Wednesday, resolved by 36 votes to al to call for a national declaration that cotton be declared contraband of war. As the seat of the cotton industry Manchester is peculiarly interested in this subject, but several members were of opinion that as a Council they were not called upon to give advice on the question of Imperial