The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1910-11-05 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

VII. Tropical Research Fund. • it • ii .  •The. report of the Regibtrar-General for last week shows that the d•••ath rate in Birkenhead was equal to a rate of 16.2 per 1,000, in Wallaaey to 12.1, and in Liverpool. to 17.9. The deaths in Birkenhead. included those of 16 infants. and 8 aged per, sons. There were 2 inquest cases and 11 deaths in public institutions. There were no deaths from "disease' in Wallasey- - • •  • •  Mrs. Edith M. Carew, .who was sentenced in February, la 7, at Kanagawa, Japan; to penal servitude for life for murder at Yokohama, has been. released from his Majesty's • prison, Aylesbury.  * * *  The -present position regarding the plague eons rats. near Ipswich; is that it is not confined to the area- where it first it has been definitely ascertained that showed itself, but exists among rats and rabbits to the north of the Orwell. A new feature of the trouble is that a cat which was shot on suspicion by the owner in the village of Stutton has proved upon bacteriological test to have been infected with plague. Several local -authorities in the district issue warning notices urging the destruction of cats and mice.  Sir William Agnew, head of the firm of Thomas Agnew-and Co., publishers and art dealers, died in London on Monday, aged eighty-five.  S W • •  There are just now 1,600 women labouring as ordinary navvies on the construction ef the Rebakey° Schterovka Extension Railway, Russia. The contractors, whose object is, of course, economy. express themselves as perfectly satisfied with the wornen's labour, and no protest 'has- been raised locally.  • • •  Serious riots occurred in New York on Saturday •night ; and pitched ,battlea took place between the carrying company strikers and the police: I—lsentezi where the strife-hearers are put up was attacked and set on -fire.  S • • •  Tumultuous scenes were witnessed --in Berlin on Saturday night, a large body of rioters coming into conflict with the police, who made a charge with drawn swords.  Miss Florence Nightingale, in her will, the full text of which is now available, bequeathed her body to medical science, the clause being in the following terms.:—"l give my body for dissection or post-mortem examination for the purposes of medical science."  S•• • •  As the result of the polling in WalthamTuesday, Sir J. A. Simon, IC.C., the new Solieitor-General, was returned by an increased majority, the figures being— Simon 16,673. Johnson 13,907, a majority of 2,766 as againftt 2,193 at the general election early in the year.  Lord Mint% the retiring Viceroy of India, left Simla on Wednesday, the occasion being marked by a public farewell ceremony,  • • * 4  According to the Postmaiter•General's report, during the year ending. March 31 three thousand million letters were delivered, nearly a thousand million each of halfpenny packets and postcards, two hundred million newspapers, and one hundred and eighteen million parcels. This was a general increase of about l per cent.; but in London there was a decrease, probably due to the development in telephone mes'sages. In Ireland there was a decrease of over 3 per cent, all round.  Mr. Melton Prior, the well-known war artist and -correspondent of the "Illustrated- London News," died on Wednesday .nsorning.- Mr. Melton Prior was the son of the late William Henry Prior, draughtsman and landscape painter. Ile had represented the "Illustrated London News'? in over 24 eampaigno and revolutions, his first appearance on the battlefield being in the Ashanti -War of 1873.  Misa. Ethel be Neve paid a visit to Dr. Crippen on Wednesday afternoon in Pentonville Prison. Thieves/as the first time they had seen each other since they left the dock at Bow-street together about six weeks ago. Miss- Le Neve obtained an order of visitation in the usual way, and her visit to the prison was not known till after it was over, or there would have probably been a demonstrative crowd. No iron bars were placed betwE,en "prisoner and visitor. •