Widnes Examiner. — 1885-10-24 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  Mr. W. B. Forster, M.P., is recovering from a slight relapse, but is unable to attend to business. In Palermo province, on Monday, there were 44 cholera oases and 21 deaths. In Spain there were 53 cases and 42 deaths. KAY'S COMPOWND, far Coughs and Colds, is equally serviceable for Horses and Cattle. 91d, Is lid, and 2e Dol. —lldet. Mr. Mitchell Henry, M.P., has been adopted as the Liberal candidate for the Blackfriars and Hutchesontown Division of Glasgow. The Bath Corporation are going to further develop the mineral water bath at a cost of £20,000. The new buildings will be erected on the Continental system. On Saturday evening a lad was hammering a ship's rocket in the street at Walton, Liverpool, when the rocket exploded, injuring the lad, a woman, and six boys and girls. News from Copenhagen states that serious riots have occurred there, directed against the King and Government. The garrison has been reinforced, further disturbances being feared. The British steamer Greyhound, Captain Hyden, has put back to Hong Kong to avoid capture. She had been plundered by pirates, the captain killed, and the second officer and chief engineer wounded. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in his charge to the clergy of Kent at Canterbury, on Wednesday, said it was a first duty to maintain the voluntary schools, and never, if possible, to transfer them. Three persons have been killed and five injured by a railway collision on a New Hampshire Railway. Five emigrants have also been killed and a number injured by a railway collieon near Jersey city. A man named Smith attempted Is murder his wife and another woman at Hatton Le Hole, in the county of Durham, on Monday, by cutting their throats. Both women are in a dangerous state. Smith has fled. Several of the leading farmers of East-Kent are killing their own sheep and sending the meat into the towns. They are selling prime joints of mutton at 84 per lb., while for the same quality of meat the butchers are charging 11d. The Dublin grand jury on Wedneeday ignored the bill sent up against Mr. Charles Henry James, assignee of the Court of Bankruptcy, charging him with fraudulently appropriating considerable sums of money standing to the credit of bankrupts' estates. Two colliers, named Buckley and Loftbouse, of Leigh, found a tattered old vest lying near a field-path on Sunday. One pocket was stitched up, and on opening it they found notes of £7OO value. The men retained the nctes, but informed the police of their discovery. The Roma reports the discovery of a new volcano in Sicily by an officer of police stationed at Ficuzra, in the province of Palermo. He had noticel for some evenings in euccession a fire burn, so.newhat fitfully, on a hill some miles away in the country, named Busambre. Fanny Clarke, the daughter of a labourer at High Wych, on the borders of Hertfordshire, knocked a knife off the table, and in endeavouring to catch it she overbalanced herself, and fell, alighting on the blade of the knife, which entered her side, and causing a wound so serious that she afterwards died. Feme.—Nenaow ESCAPE —A disastrous fire occurred on Tuesday morning in a public-house at North Shields. A police inspector discovered the fire, and got the water engine, and the flames were soon subdued. Two servants and three children were in bed asleep in a room filled with smoke. They were rescued and lowered to the street by means of the bedclothing.