Widnes Examiner. — 1884-07-12 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS.-110 repart of Colonel Majendie and Colonel Ford, her Miij esty's Inspectors of Explosives, on the exp,osions at St. James'e-square and Scotland Yard On May 30th, is issued. The Inspectors trace an undoubted connection between these and previous explosions, and attribute them to the same agency. The dynamite found on the same evening in Trafalgar-square 18 identical with that discovered at the railway stations last February—Atlas Powder,—and the Inspectors are enabled to state that all the dynamite was unquestionably manufactured at Repauno Factory, Philadelphia, which factory was mainly destroyed by an explosion last March, and, that the dynamite was obtained all at one time.—. 4 anti, er Discovery. —lt having come to the knowledge of Inspectors Wall and Vicars, officers at Hanley, under the Explosives Act, that a large quantity of explosives was secreted at Bucknall a village near Hanley, search was made on Monday evening, which resulted in the discovery of a considerable quantity of one of the most dangerous compounds of nitroglycerine. The ovfner absconded, but a warrant has been issued. The Birmingham Watch Committee, on Tuesday, promoted Detective Steven s'.n from the Fourth to the Second Division, in recognition of the ability he had displayed in tracing the dynamitards. It was Stevenson who arrested Daly at Birkenhead, and the Chief Constable said he bad done hts duty remarkably well.  Twelve hundred jute workers at Barrow struck work on Thursday against a reduction of 5 per cent. The South Staffordshire miners have resolved to continue the strike until the old rate of wages is conceded. The late Duke of Albany's personal estate is sworn under £413,000. He leaves all his property to his beloved wife for her own use. • Two boyenemed Mills and Hutchings, living at Ealing. „ were drowned while bathing on Wednesday evening. in the t Grand Junction Canal, near Collets Wee.d. Hanwell. Earl Granville and Earl Sydney arrived at Windsor, on Wednesday evening, from London, and proceeded to the , Castle, where their lordships dined with Her Majesty. At Hull, on Tuesday, a Jew named Abraham Goldstein was committed for trial for wilfully setting fire to his shop. from which a large quantity of goods had been removed. HER MAJESTY has c9nb.rreci 'the honour of Knighthood upon Professor Roscoe, of Owens College, in consideration of the services rendered by him in connection with the Technical Education Commission. At Carrick-on-Shannon assizes, on Thursday, Roger Tansey, charged with the murder of William Mahone, gamekeeper, at Ballyforan. County Galway, was found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged. On Thursday morning a young man named Frank Samson, 21 years of age, was at work on some scaffolding at the New Birmingham Art Gallery when his foot slipped and he fell from a dazzling height into the street. When picked up he was dead. At °Ahem, on Thursday, a woman was committed for trial for the manslaughter of her grandchild, whose mother is a domestic servant in Liverpool. The medical evidence showed that the child, an infant 11 months old, had been neglected and had died of starvation. Mr William Liddell, a Belfast linen merchant, was shot at on Wednesday while driving from Lurgan railway station to his residence. He was not hit, but a number of pellets entered the face of his wife, who was with him. A farmer's son has been arrested on suspicion. A synod was held on Wednesday in the Roman Catholic church of St Mary's, Aberdeen. The proceedings were, of course, private, and the one fact of importance to be recorded is that until now no Roman Catholic synod has been held in the nerthern city since the Reformation. In his charge to the Grand Jury at the Lancaster Assizes on Wednesday, Mr. Justice Mathew said that in mskitig the new circuit arrangements the Judges had found themselves considerably hampered by the state of the law. The present arrangements were only provisional and temporary. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has declined to appoint the Mayer of Ashton to the magisterial bench because he is a licensed victualler. Mr. Dodson shows that he is acting according to precedent; but at a meeting of the Town Council lost evening a hops was expressed that the matt.r would not be allowed to rest as it now stands.