Widnes Examiner. — 1888-12-15 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  A soldier at Faure put on a shirt hi which lurked a needle. The needle entered the heart, and he died. Just sae drop of blood trickled from the wound.  A handsome testimonial is to be presented to Cardinal Manning at his approaching silver jubilee, and the Archbishop of Cashel has contributed £5O 'towards the fund.  A hundred men have been thrown out of employment by the flooding of the Boater Nouse Colliery, Glasgow. Three persons are known to be drowned in the lower seam. .  A young man named Richard Ens was killed on Saturday. at Crotty Mine, (Nunborne, Cortmall, by falling off a stage to a depth of 80 feet lie was to have been married at Christmas.  A meeting of workmen employed at the Royal small arms factory, at Enfield, hes passed a resolution protesting against the continued purchase from Germany of swords and bayonets for the British Army, whilst Enfield workmen are in distress for waat of work.  The success of the IbeHan Exhibition was such that it has now been definitely settled to hold a Spanish Exhibition, on the same site at Earl's-court, next year, when the president will be the Duke of Wellington, grandee of Spain, and vice-president Colonel G. T. North. .  A fItITIIMOTV4 tinder the Vacoination Act was dismissed by the magistrate at Worship-strelt Police Court, London, on gaturday, on the ground that the defendant had a " reasonable excuse for refusing: vaeeination for h 8 ehlkl, severe) other children having died, as alleged, through vaccination.  John Keith Rebertson, aged 29 years, journalist and author of several successful novels, accidentally fell down a stair leading to his father's house, on Saturday, and was badly hurt. He survived the aocident only an hour. Robertson had just rot an engagement on a newspaper in the south of England. According to the most recent arragetnents the Queen, with the Empress Fredrick and her daughters, Prin. cesses Victoria, Sophie, and Margaret, and Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry of Battenberg, will leave Windsor Castle en Tuesday. the lath inst., for the Isle of Wight, where the Court will spend Christmas. A fire, which caused damage estimate.l at £25,000. occurred on nturday night on the premises of Messrs. Shelton and Sons, timber merchants, Wolverhampton. The workshops, storerooms, and sawmills were destroyed. The lire is supposed to have been caused by a spark falling among sawdust or by overheating of the machinery. SIR Moans. MACRENZIS'S Boox.—The Exchange Telegraph Company hears that the statement of claim in the action brought against the Sterne lard by Messrs. Sampson Low and Co. for the alleged premature publication of Sir Morell liackertzie's book, has been delivered. The publishers claim an injunction and damages, the amount of which is not stated.  Our home pig-breeders must be on the lookout, for the Danes are busily engaged experimenting as to the best variety of pig for bacon, and they have been prospecting among the carers on this side also. It will not be the American trade that will suffer from this competition, but our home-growers, for bh• Danish plan is to market only the best. At Derbyshire A MIMS, on Moray, Joe. !Tiger's, joiner, was indicted for the wilful murder erfJamPs Barlow. of Swaisby, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, en Anyt 4th, by stabbing him during general quarrel outside a publichouse on the lost day of a village wake. The jury found a verdict of " Mans/aughter." and Mr. Justice Cave sentenced the prisoner to 10 years' penal servitude.