Widnes Examiner. — 1887-09-17 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GALMIER (LOIRE), SIINDAT.—The manceuvres of the lath Army Corps, of which General Boulanger is the commander, ended yesterday in a general engagement, about four miles to the north of this place, between the 25th and 26th Divisions. To-day the troops were reviewed by 'General Boulanger, who, before the -marchpast, made a speech to the officers. , Criticising the , --operations of the day before, the General praised the dash of the men, but urged most strongly on the officers 'the necessity of giving-wider exercise to the offensive :tacticsawhich were proper to the French army. He coocluded with the following words:—" We have to-day more need than ever of the qualities of the warrior. ' ! the hour has not yet struck for the disarmament If 'the peoples of Old Europe. lt.is madness to believe it; it is a crime to say it, for it points to peace at any price as the goal to which the country should aspire; and <err -enemies, who often appraise us at ourreal value better than 'we do ourselves, know- very well that we have not gotsci fax as that. More Than ever, then, we must continue to -work. It is for France."  Orders have been issued from the War Office to the effect that all cavalry regiments are to be armed with the latest pattern of the Blordenfelt machine gun. A. brutal fight took place at Adswood, just outside the borough of Stockport, on Saturday, between a Stockport man and an individual from Poynton. The fight lasted about an hour, and was of a most feroci.ms character, the combatants, it is stated, using feet as well as fists. There were about 100 spectators present, but the affair had been kept so quiet that the police did not get wind of it till it was over.  I  ATTEMPTED_ MURDER OP A _SWEETHEART AT WOOLWICIL  ELOPEMENT AND Biramy.—At Huddersfield, on Monday, Wilson Heywood, yeast dealer, was committed for trial on a charge of bigamy. His first marriage to Elizabeth Cicely Winntook place at St. John's Church, Wakefield, in 1859, following an elopement. They. parted, and the prisoner, in 1886, went through the marriage ceremony at Ramsdemstreet Congregational Church, Huddersfield, with Sarah Jane Booker. He described himself as a widower.  . • to seven miles, but had steam on. shown.  --I;;;Te—ri-cic—Mercer, aged 19, hairdresser, on Monday, at his homa in Woolwich, fired four shots from a revolver at Hannah Robertson, his sweetheart. One of the bullets lodged in the nee and two in the breast, her injuries being cf a serious nature. Directly afterwards the young man fired into his own mouth, and big wounds were of such a nature that no hopes are entertained of his recovery. Mercer had worked for Robertson's father, who is a hairdresser at Southwark, but he left when the father objected to the e4uttship between him and his daughter. The girl had gone tO Pew her lover a visit on Monday, and he shot her as stated ihn the PreBenCe of his sister. I,le left a note, written before. and, stating he wished he could serve the father as he intended serving the daughter. He declared if ha could not eve llauush, so one else should.  EXTRAORDINARY Om/am—The wife of Joseph Baby, a farm servant. in tile service of Lord Londonderry, at „Chilton Moor, Durham, was the ether morning found on her back in front of a fire, tied hand and foot with ropes, and with a rough towel over her head. The drawers and cupboards in the house had beeu ransacked, and about ES in money stolen. The woman states that immediately after the departure of her husband for his work, a tramp, wearing blue spectacles and a slouch hat, knocked at the door and asked for a drink of water, and on her turning to procure one she vras overpowered and tied in WO manner described.  4v,-; A  7,111‘; I  ciiOL .Tti  .. . '