Widnes Examiner. — 1887-11-26 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ELAND.  It is stated that the legality of the conviction of the Ennis nevrsven or, for selling United Ireland. will be tested, and that thousands of the same impression were sold at Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son's branch establishment in Dublin.  ..... On Monday. the Queen's Bench, Dublin, refused to change from the City of Cork the trial of Dr. Croy, for the murder of his wife by poisoning her, the Court not being satisfied that there.was reasonable ground to allege he would not get a fair trial. It is stated that Mr. O'Brien has lost eleven pounds in weight since his imprisonment. Mr. Mandeville has been on bread and water; and on Monday evening a writ was served, at his instance, on tlwi governor (Mr. Featherstonehaugh) for assault in taking away his clothes. A letter is published from Mr. Dillon, in reference to the strictures by Nationalists on the conduct of members who have evaded arrest. He says that they offered to avoid capture, if he thought they could thus •serve the cause. He considered they were actuated by the highest patriotism, and they have done excellent service since the warrants were issued.  On Monday various members of Boards of Poor-Law Guardians visited Mr. Pyne, M.P., at Lisfinny Castle, and presented him with an address congratulatory of his pluck in resisting arrest. Mr. Fyne, who was lowered by ropes from the top of the castle, thanked the Guardians for their address, and, amidst their cheering and shouting of "God save Ireland," he was again hoisted aloft to his quarters. On Sunday there was a Nationalist demonstration at Waterford to protest lining the conduct of the Government in suppres.sine the Limerick demonstration commemorative of the execution of the " Manchester martyrs." Bands paraded the principal streets, followed by thousands of person wearing mourning badges. The Mayor of Waterford presided at the meeting, which was addressed by aldermen. councillors. and Roman Catholic priests. The proceedings passed off quietly. On Monday, while the steamship Thetis was swinging from one berth to another in the Belfast Docks, a boat containing two men, named McAllister and Thompson, was caught between the vessel and a schooner, Mc.Allister being crushed to death. Thompson had a miraculous escape, diving when he saw the two vessels coming into collision.—The schooner Anne Jones, of Aberystwith, which went ashore in Belfast Lough during Sunday's gale, has become a total wreck. A deputation ot Liberal members of Parliament, headed by Mr. Illingworth, visited the Ponsonby estate on Monday, it being the anniversery of the plan of campaign being adopted by the tenants. The deputation was met at Killeagli by .Mr. Lane, M.P., and Canon Keller. After an inspection of some of the barricaded farmhouses, a meeting was held at Inchiquin, at which Mr. Illingworth and other members spoke. The party then drove to Youghal, and addressed another meeting at the Town HalL A Government reporter and a number of police were present at Inchiquin.  A convention of delegates from all the branches of the National League in Lord Dillon's Mayo estates was held on Tuesday at, Aghamore, near Ballyhaunis. The Rev. Fr. Me. Alpine presided, and amongst those present were Mr. Cully, M.P., and Mr. Conway, M.P.—The Chairman announced that Lord Dillon had consented to give all the tenants a reduction of thirty per cent on the judicial rents, and the offer was accepted unanimously amid great enthusiasm. This decision puts an end to a longstanding and acrimonious dispute. A brutal murder took place in Dublin on Sunday afternoon. Eliza Hynes, an old woman of 60, was found dead in the house in which she and a woman, named Fraser, lived, in a lane in Leeson-street. Fraser states that she left the house at seven o'clock on Saturday morning, and on returning in the evening, and, not being able to get in, she supppsed Hynes had gone out, and she went and passed the night in a neighbour's house. llynes's house was broken into on Sunday afternoon, and the old woman was found lying dead on the floor in a pool of blood, with her skull broken. It is believed that robbery was th motive of the murder, as the deceased was reported to be well off. Her trunk had been broken open.