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Widnes Examiner. — 1881-07-23 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. Proceedings were resumed on Thursday; the Rev. Dr. Osborne, president, in the chair. The Rev. Benjamin Hellier, at the instance of several old students present, asked the sanction of the conference for permission to raise funds to found a scholarship at Headingley College, Leeds, to perpetuate the memory of the late Rev. Samuel Coley. He had reason to believe that such a memorial would aieet with generous support from ministers and Methodist laymen in all parts of the connexion. In reply to Mr. Bond it was stated that the proposed scholarship would be confined to students at Headingley College. Sanction was accordingly given. The conference then proceeded to the further consideration of ministerial character. In this matter the utmost privacy is observed, which is equalled only by the fidelity with which the subject is investigated. A letter WAS read from the Rev. James Brooke, of Manchester, who is the oldest living Wesleyan minister, lie is in his 93rd year, and desired to express his abiding affection for his brethren. A suitable reply was sent.  Mr. Bradlaugh has been advised that payment of £2OO, and execution of indemnity bond by Mr. Newdigate to Mr. Henry Lewis Clark, renders Mr. Newdegate liable to pro ceedings for maintenance, and Mr. Bradlaugh states he intends to sue that gentleman for damages to cover the whole of the expenses to which be has been out. According to Russel on Crimes, a person is guilty of maintenance who shall provide money, or otherwise aid in the prosecution of a suit to which be is not personally a party. Punishment is fine and imprisonment, in addition to chil damages. The case of Bradlaugh v. Clarke was concluded in Queen's Bench to-day. The learned judge in summing up, poiated out that the issue was simply whether Mr. Bradlaugh had voted before the writ in the action was issued or afterwards. The jury after one hour and three quarters deliberation found for the plaintiff.  The Cabinet Council summoned for to-day will be held twt noon.  Another knife has been found on the Brighton Railway near the scene of Mr. Gold's murder. It is an ordinary desert knife, but bears no resemblance to the cutlery used at prisoner's Wallington lodgings. It is now definitely decided that the funeral of the Dean of Westminster shall take place at four o'clock on Monday next, this hour having been appointed in order to suit the convenience of the Prince of Wales. The boys of Westminster school will follow the remains of the dean to the grave, but beyond this there will be no other public demon • stration.  The fourteen days' notice given by pony drivers at Denaby Main Colliery, one of the largest in South Yorkshire, expired on Thursday, and as a consequence 1,000 men and boys are thrown out of work.  At a meeting at Oldbury, on Thursday, of nailers' delegates representing operatives in the Staffordshire and Warwickshire districts, who have for months been on strike for an advance of 30 per cent in wages, it was resolved to reduce the demand to 20 per cent., and it is now thought a settlement of the dispute may be effected.
Widnes Examiner. — 1881-01-01 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

FLOODS.—Great havoc was aused by tie floods of Wednesday. At Burnley 14 men who were' at workin a building overhanging the river had a narrow .escape from death. The foundation, of the building was undermined by the violent rush of the water, and the men, warned by the cracking of the walls, had only just reached the door when the outer walls of the workshop fell into the stream. The heavy rain brought down on to the York and Scarborough Railway near Malton part of a cliff which skirts the line, and the first .train on Thursday morning— goods and mail train—ran into the obstruction. The train was thrown oft the • line, the waggons and the 'read weree seriously daanaged, and the driver, fireman, and guards were all badly, shaken. THE !AMMER or tonp MotrwvarOnitEs.—ln another column we report the arrest at, Clonbur of three men suspected of complicity in the murder of Lord Mountmorres, and the visit of the police to the house of ibatcher there. On Thursday' Morning the:Staffordshire police, acting on a , telegram received from the Irish Constabulary, , arrested at Wednesbury a young man, named Patrick Hennelly, who was said to be the son a the hatchet mentioned, and who • came from Galway to ' work • in Staffordshire about two months atm. The Staffordshire police, who are Aletaining Hennelley pending the arrival of officers from Ireland, fancy 'thrrynee W resemblance In their prisoner to the description which has been published of the perpetrator of the mysteflow) murder at Solihull a few weeks ago; . but as yet there Is no-charge against Hennelly in repeat of this crjme. CRANGEs IN ARMY ORGAbIISATION.—The Times anticipates that the changes in army organisation which Mr. Childers will propoie in the ensuing session will command the confidence of milituy reformers. The present partially associated regiments are to be effectually amalgamated, the minimum age of admission to the army is to be increased from 18 to 19 years, the period of service with the colours will be ' increased from six years to seven, and six years will be the uniform period of Service in India. To compensate for any possible falling off consequent upon an increase of the standard of age, a we have only (says the. Times) to diminish the standard of physique. The chest measurement and height of the hardy and useful soldiers of the Continent are substantially below ours, and we had plenty of sturdy gallant little fellows in the Peninsula who were not more than sft. 3in. We have hitherto excluded from the service men who are not, perhaps, well suited for the purpose of show, but who are especially constituted to stand the fatigues and hardships of war, and are not inferior in any soldier-like quality to their more stalwart comrades." The authorities will probably consider well before they adopt the suggestion that the present' 'Standard 'of • physique should be lowered. The standard is already low enough, it would seein, if a forpe cannot noW march from 'Aldershot to Windsor withobt "men" falling out of the ranks from fatigue. - 1 How TO
Widnes Examiner. — 1901-07-26 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

DRISKING. At the County Borough Police Court on Saturday, before Mr T Birchall (in the chair) and other magistrates Thomas Garrity, labourer, was charged on remand with assaulting James Buckley Mellor near the 4rple7 Cricket GrouLd on the previous Saturday evening, and with stealing 21i from bins—Defendant, who bad been remanded from Wednesday, was represented 'by Mr Browns.—The Chief Constable said the prosecutor, James Buckley Mellor, an elderly man, lived at 22. rinner's Brow. He left home On Saturday about 7 o'clock and walked round town, afterward; going to the "'Three-cornered-pit " in Arpiey to look for his son, who bad been fishing there. About ten minutes past eight he was returning home, and when opposite the bawling green of the Warrington Cricket Club he met the defendant. Tne latter then appeared to be labour.ing under excitement due to drink. He was a perfect stranger to Mellor. He rushed up to him, to®k hold of his muffler and said, " Give me some money." He butted prosecutor in the face and prosecutor then fell to the ground. Defendant got on top of lorm and put his right hand into one of prosecutor's trougers pockets. The roan on the floor shluted ... Murder" and defendant put his knee on his chest. Mellor was considerably knocked about, and bled profusely from the ears. Defendant afterwards got up and . walked away. M -Mot collected himself as best he could ,and walked towards town. He there met a young man named James Warburton, and a young lady. These two ;acted the part of the Good Samaritan to him ny brush• -bog his clothes and wiping the blood from him. Defendant was pointed cut, and Warburton and another man ; kept prisoner in sight until a policeman arrived. When IP.C. Hewitt arrived on the scene be received the complaint from Mellor. D;ifendant also looked dirty and was covered with dust. Ein was taken to the police . station, and on being charged said " I don't know whether I did it or not."—Mr Browne, after some con,sultation with his client, said that on his advice defendant pleaded guilty to common assault. He (Mr Browne) ;bad a little explanation to make. a volunteer who 'igived d'se to the defendant had recently come from the front and had had his usual month's tv-liday. The Volun54eer bad also had the usual amount of money, and had telnnetimes taken the defendant out at half-past six in the linorning and they had been drinking all the day. They 1 sbad been drinking all that week. On the day in question ,defendant had tan much drink. He remembered going 'down Arpley, but remembered nothing about the —assault. He had an exceedingly good character and this g, was his first offence. It was merely a drunken freak. —James Buckley Mellor said that the statement made by a. the Chief Constable was correct. Defendant was like a il madman when he came to him. Defendant was quite a S •string.r to hirn.—The Chairman said that defendant bad been in custody since Monday and the week seemed to ' :have done him good. It was. however, a very serious offence. He would be fined 20; and c.oats,ot in defau't, .1 one month's imprisonment. . ,
Widnes Examiner. — 1901-11-15 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE TRIUMPH OF THE TRAM. ---American Millionaires Buying  English Trams, It is found that towss a few miles apart can be con fleeted together by the electric tram at less cost than ha railways. Having satisficd himself that " that's so,'' the American millionaire sees it coming, and forthwith proceeds to buy trams and build electric light railway The great work of connecting up popular places iii England is almost a monopoly at present : only two or three companies are seriously pushing extensiocs and forming new electric tramwaN companies. The British Electric Traction Co., Limited, are doing well, and their shares are at a high price. The 'lmperial" shareS are changing hands at no less than £25 each. Once, only a few years ago, it is said they could be got for 7s Bd. What fortunes are sometimes trade! Now we are told that Mr Torn Nevins, the New York millionaire, is taking over the Electric Tramway Ccnstruction and Maintenance, Co., Limited, 34, Victoria street, S.W. This is one of the oldest, having been formed seventeen years ago. Some well-known promoters are to be bought out, and the company is to pioneer a great tramway construction scheme in the North, which is to rival the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway is public convenience and constant service. Mr Thomas Nevins, like Sir Thomas Lipton, another great Irishman, is popular in America, where be has laid thousands of miles of track, and still ranks as a railroad king. He owns forty miles of estates in Ireland, where he is retiring to finish his days, while he amuses lumseli in England by giving us new electric tramways in several towns. In Cheltenham he has built, and is CO running,several lines. What are the Electric Tram W 3 Construction shares worth now ? Are there any brglera or jobbers who know them? Mr Nevins's plans would interest a few nibblers in these parts, who are not blind to the great future of electric traction.—" Blackpool Times." •  • The rain and gale on Tuesday caused an immens6 amount of damage to life and property throughout Vas country, particularly in the North of England Ireland. In Lancashire and Yorkshire many towns weef' Inundated, mills stopped, and railway traffic suspende(t. Numerous reports of shipwrecks are to hand. Sewral vessels have been wrecked at Sunderland. Hartlepo')l' and Whitburn, attended, unfortunately by loss of Of. Three yawls were wrecked at Dover and one sunk lt3 collision, but no lives were lost. A petition for divorce has been entered by Mr Pera Hourtenay, the husband of Miss Marie Lloyd. He cite Mr Alec Hurley as the cr-respondent, A amtence of 15 years' penal servitude was pa's lci Or/ Joseph Blunschi, a SWiE43 cook, at the MancbOter Assizes yesterday, for a murderous aßeautt on Johr! Boyle, the night porttr it the London and North-Wes,BM Hotel, Preston.  LARI MANDOLINES, GUITARS, NS, &c, Special Offer ITALIAN MANDOLINR, MAKER'S name Inside, wood. ornamented; les. 64. Carriage paid. Bast freY MOUTK ORGAN, Velvet lined Case Is• ARCHRII Alm
Widnes Examiner. — 1901-11-22 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MESSRS. CROSS & SUDELL There must have been some difficulty in allotting twenty parts, but from the material at its command the Society did well in this respect. The principal character is a dual one, that of Joseph Lesurquea, and Dubose, between whom there is a striking resemblance which forms the foundation for the drama and the events pourtrayed therein. Mr W Kilduff essayed the heavy task of wearing Irving's mantle, and, avoiding the obvious comparison, it must be admitted that he performed the doublyexacting role' exceedingly well. He contrived to keep Lesurques and Dubose separate in voice and gesture, while at the same time he maintained the resemblance between them so as to dumbfound even the audience at times. He was best, in our opinion, as the rogue and assassin, Dubose, whose drunken ecstacies over the approaching execution of Lesurques for his own crime were finely pourtrayed in the final scene. The least convincing scene was the one in Act 111., when the magisterial examination takes place into the circumstances attending the murder of the Courier of Lyons, and when damning admissions are made apparently implicating the innocent Lesurques. There was:a lack of proper consternation on the part of the guilty, Mr A Bate as Courriol excepted, and a want of righteous indignation on the part of the innocent, which detracted from the impressiveness of the act. Mr Ryan made a good innkeeper of Luisant though rather too young looking for the father of Lesurques and grandfather of Julie. In the latter part Miss Cissie Burrows acted with taste and feeling, tb.:Jugh at times rather too subdued. As Jeanne, Dubose's victim, Miss Agnes Kilduff was convincingly dramatic and bad one or two fine opportunities which she made the most of. Choppard and Fouinard were a couple of grotesque scoundrels whose eccentricities were fully brought out by Messrs G Newton and H Roylance. The other conspirator, Courriol, was cleverly represented by Mr A Bate who both looked and acted his part well throughout. Mr Eckersley made a good magistrate and praise is due to Master Kilduff for his lively pourtrayal o Joliquet, the waiter at the inn of Luisant. The other numerous characters were all well-sustained and the six scenes staged in a manner which conveyed an excellent idea of the place and period of the story. Prior to the " Courier of Lyons " the humorous sketch "Damon and Pythias" was given as a curtain-raiser, the parts being well-taken by the Misses Delia Gleeson and Fanny Hayes, and Messrs Roylance, Kilduff, S Ryan and G Newton. The adventures of the two cousins created considerable amusement and formed a fitting prelude to the sterner play which followed. selections of music were played at intervals by an orchestra under the conductorship of Mr P Walsh, while the onerous duties of stage manager were performed by Mr W F Burrows ; of property master by Mr L Burrows ; of limelight manipulator by Mr J L Kertland. The hon. secretaries, Messrs M G Hearne and E A Connor are also entitled to ' commendation for the success which has attended their indefatigable efforts.  TO
Widnes Examiner. — 1904-02-27 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE EXAMINER.  FEBRUARY 27th 1904.  - A message from St. METHODS OF Petersburg has inBARBARISM. formed the world that the To Deum had been sung at the Winter Palace in gratitude for the "Great Russian victory " at Port Arthur. Oatside of Russia nobody believes in great Russian victories. Admiral ALEXEIEFF is clearly not intoxicated with joy over his very modest achievements. In the face of the triumphant telegrams which announced the destruction of four Japanese battleships and two transports, the admiral does not know ho has destroyed anything except the four old merchantmen with which the Japanese tried to block the entrance of the haibour. They were sent there in order that they might be sank, and if the adventure has failed it is because they were not sunk in the right place. That is the whole extent of the "great Russian victory." Admiral ALEXEIEFF says three of his cruisers were recalled from pursuing the enemy that they might clear away the floating wreckage, and yet the: Russian telegrams talk as if the Russian fleet had steamed out and the Japanese fleet had run away. The fact is that the Japanese torpedo boats withdrew at their leisure. Even now, it is possible that the wreckage which has to be cleared away may prove to be exactly what the Japanese intended to leave behind. Admiral ALEXEIEFF says they /also left some "floating mines," and as the Russian ships have a knack of blowing themselves up with their own mines, they may be equally successful with the others. It is plain that Admiral TOGO can do nearly all he pleases at Port Arthur. For the purposes of sea power it is practically useless to Russis, and the Japanese Admiral can sail away for some little job elsewhere without any fear that the battered ships in the harbour will be fit for anything serious in his absence. The Vladivostok squadron, after sinking a Japanese merchantman, prudently returned to the shelter of the shore batteries. Whatever the Russian Army may do not a single cargo of supplies will react them by sea The coarse of events does not give us a favourable impression of Russian capacity— naval, military, or civil. Could any thing be more annoying than Admiral ALRXEIEFF'S proclamation to the Manchurians? Manchuria is a Chinese province, China is neutral in the present war. Therefore proclaims the Admiral, all Chinese officials in Manchuria, "instead of hindering, must assist the Russian Army." The people are to be held responsible for tile safety of the railway and the telegraph lines, and exterminated without mercy if they "give evidence of hatred" to the Russian troops. And this monstrous order to a population which is not legally subject to the CZAR is issued in the name of a Government, which just had the effrontery to denounce Japan for violating the laws of civilised nations. Here is a Power, which calls itself civilised, threatening to repeat the massacre of Blagovestchenck, where 12,000 Chinese men,women and children were deliberately murdered by the savage Cossacks of the peaceful
Widnes Examiner. — 1904-08-27 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MEASURE.  It raised the battle cry," Down with the foreigner— Britain for the British." Among people who never think, thisis a very papular election card to play, and the Tories have played it for all it is worth. But people who use their brains sometimes knew very well that if you begin to chivy and harass the subjects of any othercountry, you only invite foreign nations to be rude and unkind to your own people. The Aliens Bill was undoubtedly aimed at the Jews, and its chief backers and supporters were men favourable to antiSemetic agitation. The Jews have no country of their own, and no army or navy to protect them, so Jew baiting is a. safe and popular amusement. Our fathers welcomed them to this country, picked their brains, and profited by their business ability eight or nine centuries ago. But our Plantaganet kings plundered them, perFsecuted them, and murdered them for the sake of their wealth, and banished the remnant of them from the country. No Jew was allowed to set foot on our shores or carry on any trade,or possess any property after that, till the days of Cromwell. Other nations followed our evil example, and to this day Russia, Turkey, and other nations impose civil disabilities on the Jews, and persecute them with fiendish cruelties. A Russian Jew naturally tries to disguise his Hebrew origin. Instead of calling himself Abraham, or Levi, or some other Jewish name, his imitates his Russian neighbours, and calls himself Kaskowhiski or Kickern4lloff, till he settles in this country,and then he is content to be called Jones or Robinson.  The Anglicised Jew who settles in this country and prospers, becomes a naturalised citizen, ad6pts our manners and customs, and in two or three generations you would not know that his children had a -drop of Russian or Jewish blood in their veins, and they would be offended with you if you called them aliens or hinted at their foreign origin. It is from these respectable, prosperous children of men, who were aliens a few years ago, that we have the noisiest demand for the exclusion of the foreigner. They have done very well by coming to this country, and they do not want to spoil the trade by allowing too many foroign Jews to oome and compete with them: So in the East end of Londdn there are tens of thousands of electors, whose votes can be won by crying "down with 'the foreigner," and " exclude the aliens." On the other hand, thereare Jews'of enormous wealth, and social power, to be reckoned with. Bankers, merchants, and financiers, like the Rothohilds, the Goldsmiths, and Goschens, are a power in this country, and no ministry can afford to quarrel with them. These rich Jews are bitterly opposed to the exclusion of their poor countrymen, and wken I heard that Lord Rothschild had registered a protest against the Aliens Bill I said it would never become law. The Prime Minister had to choose whether he would offend the Anglicised Jews in the East End of London, or the Jewish moneylenders and bankers in the City : he took the lesser ' evil of the two.  IL-