Widnes Examiner. — 1887-10-15 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

DEATH OF THIS CHAMPION BLINDFOLD DRAUGHTS PLAYER. —We regret to record the death of Mr. William Strickland, the champion blindfold draughts player, which took place on Saturday morning after eleven days' illness. fro bronchitis. The deceased gentlemab, a Leeds man, came into prominence twenty-two years ago, when sixteen years of age. At the Thames Police Court, on Monday, Thos. Z. Barnes. aged 47, photographer, was charged with causing the death of his wife, by shooting her with a revolver, on the evening of last Saturday week, the revolver having been won in a raffle. The magistrate said he thought there was a doubt whether a jury -would convict., and he therefore discharged the prisoner.  A labourer in a state of helplcss drunkenness, while on his way from Tredegar to Dowlais, on Saturday night. laid down on the railway metals. and an engine coming up took off one of his boots and part of his foot. He told the engine-driver who came to him to mind his own business, and did not knew that he had been injured. An empty whisky bottle was found in his pocket Liverpool and district were on Monday enveloped in a dense fog, impeding railway and river traffic. Notwithstanding the use of bells and fog horns on the river, which were continuously sounded, the quarter to eight ferry boat, Claughton, collided with her consort,'the Lancashire, damaging the latter's paddle-box. Towards 11 o'clock the fog lifted, and bright sunshine followed. • •  The dead body of James Connelly. a labourer on the Forth Bridge Works, was found in Inverkeithing harbour on Sunday, having been terribly knocked about. It appears that Connelly and some fellow-labourers quarrelled on Saturday night, having been previously drinking 'heavily, and four of the labourers lave accordingly been arrested on suspicion of killing the deceased.  Joseph Morley, aged 17, was again brought up at the Stratford Sessions, on Saturday, on the charge of murdering Martha Bod,ger, at Chigwell, on Tuesday last. The court was densely crowded. When the accused reached the court, a large crowd endeavoured to get. at him. As soon as the prisoner was put in the dock, Invector Cudmore, of Woodford, asked for a remand, which was granted. —On Saturday last, the  Extvittrro:  THE Masmnaaran -- rday occasion of a grand bicycle and tricycle tournament. and the last day of the engagement of the famous band of the Royal' Artillery (Woolwich), the Exhibition was attended by the largest number which had hitherto passed the turnstiles in one day, 74,595 persons being registered, as against 70,141 on Jubilee Day. The total number of admissions, including Saturday, are 3,924,798. SERIOUS RESULT OF RwirLESS DaiviNO.—A trap accident attended with serious consequences took place at Greenwich on Saturday morning. A man named Henderson, in an intoxicated condition, was driving a light trap towards East Greenwich, when, owing to the manner in which the horse was treated, it became unmanageable, and dashed up the road at a furious speed, and before it could be pulled up ran into a brougham containing two ladies and three children. Henderson's horse was dreadfully injured, the pole of the brougham running into its chest, and the animal was instantly killed. Henderson was shockingly cut about the held, and his ribs were smashed. The driver and the brougham were uninjured, but both ladies were severely shaken. Tun Etkno