Widnes Examiner. — 1882-04-01 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SALTATION ARMY RIOT AT CHESTER. On Sunday a , serious collision occurred between a body f the Chester Salvation Army and the Irish population of the district known as Boughton, into which the Salvation Army had not previously penetrated. The officers of the Army gave intimakion to the police before marching that they were going into Boughton, the Irish quarter, in order to beat up their converts, and several constables were instructed to *serve order. The members of the Army left the Pavilion Rink, their head-quarters, at ten o'clock in the morning. In the meantime the Catholic population, having heard of their coming, turned out en masse armed with cudgels and stones, and carrying flags of various kinds. The police advised the Salvationists not to proceed in view of the threatening aspect of affairs, but they did so nevertheless. The Irish received them with shouts and a volley of rubbish, threatening them with further violence if they proceeded. The Army endeavoured to proceed, when a fierce fight ensued, and the Salvationists, who were unarmed, were roughly handled. Stones and bricks vere thrown, and sticks were freely used. The police did all that was possible to prevent the violence of the mob. Miss Captain lllconbridg,e, in command of, the Salvation Army at Chester, was struck by a stone on the temple and had to be carried into a neighbouring house, where she was attended to by Dr. Roberts. Sergeant Price, of the Chester police' received a heavy blow on the mouth with a stone. Several ether persons received severe injuries before the riot terminated. In the afternoon the Irish again congregated and were marching about a thousand strong to storm the Rink, when Mr. Fenwick, the chief constable of Chester, stopped the ringleaders, and after a brief parley happily succeeded in inducing them to return.  Two children were on Wednesday burnt to death in a house in Hampstead-road, London. The Steamer Assyrian A.l.march left the Thames on Saturday for New York with Jumbo on board.  The Right Hon. W. E. Baxter, after a tour of scveral months.in India, has resumed his place in Parliament.  A violent gale swept over the greater part of the country during Saturday and Sunday, doing much damage, hut the loss of only one life is reported.  The memorial praying .for the reprieve of Dr. Lamson on the ground of his alleged insanity was presented to the Home Secretary on Wednesday. _ . _  There was a prize fieht for 115 a side at Strawberry Hill, London, on Wednesday, of which the police knew nothing. Another, arranged for Surbiton, was watched, and could not come off.  Mr. Samuel Morley's action in the Bradlaugh case has been condemned by the Bristol Radical Association, and in consequence of their action the hon. member intends to meet his constituents for the purpose of eliciting their opinions on the subject. A man named Jackson, described as a phrenologist and minister of a sect called the Gospel Band, has been corn-1 mated for trial at Nottingham, charged with criminall3i assaulting a girl attending Ws chapel. There are several charges pending against the prisoner, all of them of a shocking character, The experiment of sixpenny books is next to be tried with two editions where the interest is artistic. There have already been so many cheap editions of Washington Irving that we may assume that Messrs. Macmillan and Co., in their promised sixpenny issues of "Old Christmas" and " Bracebridge Hall," are thinking mainly of the more than 100 original illustrations designed by Mr. Randolph Caldecott, and engraved by Mr. J. D. Cooper. THE FINCHLEY MURDER —John Baker, professional " burglar, was again brought up at Highgate Police Coart, on Thursday, on the charge of murdering Enoch Clarke, whose' body was found in a wood at Finchley. Evidence was given which clearly connected the prisoner with several burglaries in Finchley and the neighbourhood, and several of his corn-1 panions testified that he had gone out with Clarke and returned alone, and had accounted for Clarke's absence by stating that he had been apprehended by a patrol. The case was adjourned. In giving judgment at Liverpool, on Thursday, at the close of the inquiry as to the loss of the steamer Ballina, the Wreck Commissioner passed a severe censure upon Mr. C. Pollexfen, the managing owner of the vessel. Mr. Rothery found that the vessel was overladen when she started on her last voyage, and that Mr. Polloxfen was greatly to blame both for the loss of the vessel and of the lives of those on board, as he had ample warning from the first that the ship was an unsuitable one. He was ordered to pay £l5O towards the costs of the inquiry.