Widnes Examiner. — 1898-12-16 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  The Vine Spinning Mill at Oswaldtwistle was destro; fire on Tuesday, the damage being estimated at £30,00 Two men were killed and two seriously scalded by; plosion of a boiler on Saturday at Ringsend Bottle William Oldfielel, coal agent and farmer Keighl died from injuries received In a boiler explosion. T. mea were Injured, one of them seriously. Your Belgian commercial agents of the Ante Company in the Congo Irree State have been killed by natives on the Upper Übanglii. The Hartlepool steamer Chester Nes been sunk of by the Shblds steamer Galatz. The Chester's ci bering fifteen. wei e saved by the Galata. At tke Maidstone Assizes, on Saturday, Dr. V Beckenham, cherged with performing an illegal on Elizabeth Warrilow, was acquitted. Twelve of the leading British shipbuilders, correspondent states, have sent in tenders CO ' tor four battleships of the Formidable class. By the explosion of a shell while it was being It of the Cronstedt f.:rts on .Monday nine soldiers and seven badly injured. The officers were also Two French deputies. M. Antide Dozer and M fought" a duel with pistols on Tuesday Two shots were fired, and both deputies left unharmed. At Barcelona on Sunday, afternoon the large sewer in course of construction collapsed, number of workmen. Eighteen bodies have from the debris. Fire broke out on Saturday morning in the North-Western Railway Company's goods a Ravensthorpe, noir Dewsbury. and damage , over £lO,OOO was done. Thomas Daley, a labourer, was execute lat el Tuesday, for the murder of Sarah Ann renfold on June 4. The couple lived together, and aftet Daley beat the woman to death with a poker. Edmund Carmody was sentenced at Mu nster Assizes on Saturday to three years' penal servitude for Wine been a member of a large disguised and armed party wsiCh raided the house of Jeremiah Carroll, in North Kerry, 111 d carried away some arms. A shocking crime was committed on Saturday ight at St. Helens, when a six year old ch,lrt, the delights/. ‘3 a collier named Flaherty, was outraged and murdered in g let& The t ldy was discovered on Sunday morning. No trace has yet been found of the murderer. The deaths are announced of Sir William Jeer, who had been her Majesty's physician for upwards of thilty years, retiring from the position in 1893 ; and of Sir Thorns's Stare y. who contested the Lancaster Division as e leheral in lehO and a Liberal Unionist in 1892. The six days' eyeing contest at New York finished at ten o'clock on Saturday night, Miller, with 2,04 miles 4 laps te his credit, being the winner. During Saturday afternoon Miller was married, the ceremony, a Civil one, being pen. formed in a box on the track. Into which Miller had to be lifted, as he was then almost exhausted by his exertions. The deaths are announced of Mr. William Black, the Well known novelist ; and ()abate Garcia, the famous Cuban general. in Washington. of pneumonia. A Calcutta telegram announces the death from dysentery, of Mr. Stephen Jacob, an eminent ln lien Civil servant. From Cape Town is annoutieed the death of Sir Thomas Uppington, a former Premier ,nd judgo and Attorney-Cieneral in Cape Colony,  Ile exForks,  other  !rading eaten  ',werp.:,  rarwich ', num.  lace, of >peration.  Glasgow - " lty  . the  eri in oue lLe ik lied ;punded, jeroulede, p 1 morning. roe ground fc  brick.  rork of a Li rying a 'ere 11'  :reCOVI  been  ondon and ti ,Itiouse at 11, ,timated at  itclatone on Chathßm a quarrel